Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
One of Paul's best deep cuts. I could listen to it all day.
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The 100 Greatest Classic Rock Albums of All Time: #11. Let It Bleed (2 Viewers)
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I think the first BadCo album is pretty strong all the way through. Otherwise, yeah.
timschochet
Footballguy
I already wrote it was on some 80s show I watched. So sue me.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Nor is it on the Spotify "standard version". It is on the Spotify "archive collection" version, but after Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Five instead of in the middle of side 2 like the US edition.
I believe in krista's solo Beatles thread she said that Paul disagreed with the label's decision to drop Helen Wheels into the middle of BOTR.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
ReactionI already wrote it was on some 80s show I watched. So sue me.
FairWarning
Footballguy
Can’t believe Bad Co 1st wouldn’t be in this list.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
I just know it was on the album I got for Xmas in 1976 and 10 year old me loved it
northern exposure
Footballguy
Much later.
Ghost Rider
Footballguy
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five actually got played a lot on classic rock radio back in the day here in STL. That and the title track are outstanding bookends to an album that is otherwise just okay. RAM is his best work post-Beatles, and even that isn't a record that is super strong from start to finish.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Great show. He’s playing bass.Also, anybody else enjoy the show “Love” on Netflix? There’s a scene where Paul Rust plays “Jet” on guitar at a party. Very funny.
Love - Jet cover scene
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
It’s his opinions.
zamboni
Footballguy
I didn't know about this show. Just on that scene alone, I may have to check it out.Great show. He’s playing bass.Also, anybody else enjoy the show “Love” on Netflix? There’s a scene where Paul Rust plays “Jet” on guitar at a party. Very funny.
Love - Jet cover scene
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
It’s a comedy but very quirky and the two leads have great chemistry. It was one of the better Netflix shows imo.I didn't know about this show. Just on that scene alone, I may have to check it out.Great show. He’s playing bass.Also, anybody else enjoy the show “Love” on Netflix? There’s a scene where Paul Rust plays “Jet” on guitar at a party. Very funny.
Love - Jet cover scene
zamboni
Footballguy
I see that it was a Judd Apatow show. If it's even 75% of what Freaks & Geeks was, I'm in.It’s a comedy but very quirky and the two leads have great chemistry. It was one of the better Netflix shows imo.I didn't know about this show. Just on that scene alone, I may have to check it out.Great show. He’s playing bass.Also, anybody else enjoy the show “Love” on Netflix? There’s a scene where Paul Rust plays “Jet” on guitar at a party. Very funny.
Love - Jet cover scene
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I'm actually currently re-watching Freaks and Geeks for the third time - I would love to rank it in my Top 5 shows of all time (it is that quality) but only 18 episodes makes that tough. The talent that came out of the show is so remarkable.I see that it was a Judd Apatow show. If it's even 75% of what Freaks & Geeks was, I'm in.It’s a comedy but very quirky and the two leads have great chemistry. It was one of the better Netflix shows imo.I didn't know about this show. Just on that scene alone, I may have to check it out.Great show. He’s playing bass.Also, anybody else enjoy the show “Love” on Netflix? There’s a scene where Paul Rust plays “Jet” on guitar at a party. Very funny.
Love - Jet cover scene
zamboni
Footballguy
That show was amazing and spot-on as a period piece, but yeah, was cut off way too short. At that time, network TV shows still reigned supreme and it got such a bad night (Friday nights, I believe) that it never caught on beyond a cult following.I'm actually currently re-watching Freaks and Geeks for the third time - I would love to rank it in my Top 5 shows of all time (it is that quality) but only 18 episodes makes that tough. The talent that came out of the show is so remarkable.I see that it was a Judd Apatow show. If it's even 75% of what Freaks & Geeks was, I'm in.It’s a comedy but very quirky and the two leads have great chemistry. It was one of the better Netflix shows imo.I didn't know about this show. Just on that scene alone, I may have to check it out.Great show. He’s playing bass.Also, anybody else enjoy the show “Love” on Netflix? There’s a scene where Paul Rust plays “Jet” on guitar at a party. Very funny.
Love - Jet cover scene
timschochet
Footballguy
65. Creedence Clearwater Revival- Green River (1969)
Classic Rock Radio Hits: Bad Moon Rising, Green River, Commotion, Lodi
Of the three great CCR albums on this list, I rank this one the highest. It’s a collection of one stellar blues rock song after another, without any let up. John Fogerty at his absolute best.
Green River
The best of CCR’s “swampy” tunes, IMO. The guitar riff is awesome.
Commotion
One of their lesser played hits but I still heard it often enough. Excellent rock and roll.
Tombstone Shadow
Straight up country blues, very well done.
Wrote A Song For Everyone
The closest CCR comes to sounding like The Band (though both groups represent the heart of Americana).
Bad Moon Rising
Quite simply one of the greatest classic rock songs of all time. Love when he sings “all right” after the 2nd verse.
Lodi
Time for a story: my uncle was a hippie who dropped out of Berkeley in the late 60s in order to travel the world. After a sojourn in Nepal he lived in Mendocino (northern Cal) where he painted art and grew marijuana. Every once in a while he’d come down to visit us, often with a different hippie chick each time. My dad couldn’t stand him “why doesn’t that bum get a job” but my mom loved her little brother.
Anyhow it’s 1980. I’m 15 and my folks are on some trip for the weekend and Uncle is down to stay with us, no girlfriend this time. My buddies and I approach him to see if he’ll share some pot with us. None of us have ever tried it before. My uncle is willing so long as my parents never find out. So he puts on some music he likes (Dylan, Grateful Dead, CCR) and rolls a joint in my bedroom and we pass it around. Pretty soon I’m feeling kind of dizzy but good. Then the song “Lodi” comes on and my uncle says in a low voice “I’ve been to Lodi. Yeah, Lodi.” And we all crack up. Don’t know why but that memory has stuck with me all these years whenever I hear this. Anyhow, great song.
Cross-Tie Walker
More really good blues here.
Sinister Purpose
Simple rock and roll actually quite similar to mid 60s Beatles.
The Night Time Is The Right Time
More classic rock and roll- I always used to think they were singing “Watergate”.
Classic Rock Radio Hits: Bad Moon Rising, Green River, Commotion, Lodi
Of the three great CCR albums on this list, I rank this one the highest. It’s a collection of one stellar blues rock song after another, without any let up. John Fogerty at his absolute best.
Green River
The best of CCR’s “swampy” tunes, IMO. The guitar riff is awesome.
Commotion
One of their lesser played hits but I still heard it often enough. Excellent rock and roll.
Tombstone Shadow
Straight up country blues, very well done.
Wrote A Song For Everyone
The closest CCR comes to sounding like The Band (though both groups represent the heart of Americana).
Bad Moon Rising
Quite simply one of the greatest classic rock songs of all time. Love when he sings “all right” after the 2nd verse.
Lodi
Time for a story: my uncle was a hippie who dropped out of Berkeley in the late 60s in order to travel the world. After a sojourn in Nepal he lived in Mendocino (northern Cal) where he painted art and grew marijuana. Every once in a while he’d come down to visit us, often with a different hippie chick each time. My dad couldn’t stand him “why doesn’t that bum get a job” but my mom loved her little brother.
Anyhow it’s 1980. I’m 15 and my folks are on some trip for the weekend and Uncle is down to stay with us, no girlfriend this time. My buddies and I approach him to see if he’ll share some pot with us. None of us have ever tried it before. My uncle is willing so long as my parents never find out. So he puts on some music he likes (Dylan, Grateful Dead, CCR) and rolls a joint in my bedroom and we pass it around. Pretty soon I’m feeling kind of dizzy but good. Then the song “Lodi” comes on and my uncle says in a low voice “I’ve been to Lodi. Yeah, Lodi.” And we all crack up. Don’t know why but that memory has stuck with me all these years whenever I hear this. Anyhow, great song.
Cross-Tie Walker
More really good blues here.
Sinister Purpose
Simple rock and roll actually quite similar to mid 60s Beatles.
The Night Time Is The Right Time
More classic rock and roll- I always used to think they were singing “Watergate”.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Would something like the rest of us listing our Top 25 (or even 100 for the ambitious) after your list is done be something people were interested in - or is this one of those threads where some one is planning to do the “next 100” or something?
zamboni
Footballguy
It's no "there's a bathroom on the right", but I can see it a bit.
zamboni
Footballguy
I'd be into that - more discussion is always good.
Stoneworker
Footballguy
Had this on a 45. Fricking awesome
timschochet
Footballguy
I’d love it.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
You've pasted over the original first post - what years range were the parameters?
I'll try and do 50 (likely without your level of commentary, and possibly push it up to 100.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
I was considering making a list of potential omissions. It would probably make sense if there was one list rather than several people doing the same thing. But I've never made a next 100 list or anything like that, so not sure how best to go about it.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Why would that make more sense?
Anarchy99
Footballguy
Let's say there are 3 people that want to make a Next 100 list and the same 50 albums appear on each one. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a Next 150 albums by combining the three lists?
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
No - I made a suggestion that we all just supply our own lists because I’m curious. Any “omissions” can appear in our own lists if that’s where we would rank them.
I’m not interested in “next 100”, I’m more interested what would be on everyone’s list if they had everything available to them.
That’s what I’m doing and tim gave the ok.
Hopefully others do as well. You can do whatever you want but I’m not sure why your way “makes more sense.”
timschochet
Footballguy
Anarchy99
Footballguy
Whatever. I was discussing making a list of the albums that didn't make Tim's list . . . you are talking about making your own list.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Yes, I was taking about people making their own lists at the end and you responded to me with your idea that makes more sense.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Yeah, sorry but I’ve lost interest now. The people with better ideas can take over when you’re done - and I’ll drop off then.
Doug B
Footballguy
Here as well.
EDIT: "Let Me Roll With It" was never played around here. Not sure why.
Anarchy99
Footballguy
I saw your question (which mentioned the Next 100 as part of the question) and thought you were referring making your own list of the Top 25 or Top 100 ADDITIONAL albums. You even ask if someone was going to do a "next 100." Tim said he'd love it.
I took all that to mean that you were making a list of 25-100 additional albums that Tim didn't rank, not that you planned on making your own list of all options. It's all good. I misunderstood what you meant.
northern exposure
Footballguy
Gillian Jacobs is great in this show and much different from her Britta Perry character on "Community".It’s a comedy but very quirky and the two leads have great chemistry. It was one of the better Netflix shows imo.I didn't know about this show. Just on that scene alone, I may have to check it out.Great show. He’s playing bass.Also, anybody else enjoy the show “Love” on Netflix? There’s a scene where Paul Rust plays “Jet” on guitar at a party. Very funny.
Love - Jet cover scene
timschochet
Footballguy
64. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- Hard Promises (1981)
Classic rock radio hits: The Waiting, A Woman In Love (It’s Not Me)
The Heartbreakers followed up their breakthrough album (which we will get to later) with Hard Promises, a record featuring two of their greatest hits and filled with one really good song after another. The title of the album comes from lyrics in the Stevie Nicks duet, “Insider”.
The Waiting
As I mentioned in my review of the 100 greatest songs of 1981, I regard this as Tom Petty’s finest effort. Like a few of his other best works, this tune has the jingle jangle feel of the greatest songs of that band that Petty spent his whole career trying to imitate, The Byrds, including the 12 string Rickenbacker guitar. (Though it’s also worth noting that the Byrds’ finest achievements of this sort of folk rock were almost all covers- of Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger folk ballads- rather than original compositions like The Waiting).
A Woman In Love (It’s Not Me)
Petty’s other hit on this record is about as different from The Waiting as possible. It’s a classic hard rock masterpiece of the era, and like the earlier “Refugee” relies heavily on the solid guitar work of Mike Campbell. Petty’s vocals are bitter and yearning and he may have never sounded better than this.
Nightwatchman
The first of several good deep cuts on this record. Love the drum intro here by Stan Lynch.
Something Big
More good rock and roll. I wouldn’t call any of these deep cuts great but they’re all solid, much like the band playing them. There’s no weak material here.
Kings Road
See above. Just really good rock music.
Letting You Go
This was an MTV hit. The video was played on the new TV station far more than the two classic rock hits that lead off the album. But conversely classic rock radio did not play this song. Not sure why; it’s really catchy.
A Thing About You
This fine tune was later covered by the Emmylou Harris band, Southern Pacific. Their version made the country charts.
Insider
The Heartbreakers and Stevie Nicks had recorded “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” for her solo debut; this duet was a return of the favor. It’s a splendid, achingly beautiful ballad and Petty and Nicks really sound amazing together. Stevie was a frequent guest star whenever Petty toured California and we lucky members of the audience got to hear both songs. I attended 7 Tom Petty concerts over the years and saw Nicks do this twice.
The Criminal Kind
And yet another really solid deep cut.
You Can Still Change Your Mind
The album closes with a second ballad, this one nearly as pretty as Insider. The bridge here is especially strong.
Classic rock radio hits: The Waiting, A Woman In Love (It’s Not Me)
The Heartbreakers followed up their breakthrough album (which we will get to later) with Hard Promises, a record featuring two of their greatest hits and filled with one really good song after another. The title of the album comes from lyrics in the Stevie Nicks duet, “Insider”.
The Waiting
As I mentioned in my review of the 100 greatest songs of 1981, I regard this as Tom Petty’s finest effort. Like a few of his other best works, this tune has the jingle jangle feel of the greatest songs of that band that Petty spent his whole career trying to imitate, The Byrds, including the 12 string Rickenbacker guitar. (Though it’s also worth noting that the Byrds’ finest achievements of this sort of folk rock were almost all covers- of Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger folk ballads- rather than original compositions like The Waiting).
A Woman In Love (It’s Not Me)
Petty’s other hit on this record is about as different from The Waiting as possible. It’s a classic hard rock masterpiece of the era, and like the earlier “Refugee” relies heavily on the solid guitar work of Mike Campbell. Petty’s vocals are bitter and yearning and he may have never sounded better than this.
Nightwatchman
The first of several good deep cuts on this record. Love the drum intro here by Stan Lynch.
Something Big
More good rock and roll. I wouldn’t call any of these deep cuts great but they’re all solid, much like the band playing them. There’s no weak material here.
Kings Road
See above. Just really good rock music.
Letting You Go
This was an MTV hit. The video was played on the new TV station far more than the two classic rock hits that lead off the album. But conversely classic rock radio did not play this song. Not sure why; it’s really catchy.
A Thing About You
This fine tune was later covered by the Emmylou Harris band, Southern Pacific. Their version made the country charts.
Insider
The Heartbreakers and Stevie Nicks had recorded “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” for her solo debut; this duet was a return of the favor. It’s a splendid, achingly beautiful ballad and Petty and Nicks really sound amazing together. Stevie was a frequent guest star whenever Petty toured California and we lucky members of the audience got to hear both songs. I attended 7 Tom Petty concerts over the years and saw Nicks do this twice.
The Criminal Kind
And yet another really solid deep cut.
You Can Still Change Your Mind
The album closes with a second ballad, this one nearly as pretty as Insider. The bridge here is especially strong.
timschochet
Footballguy
63. Aerosmith- Toys In The Attic (1975)
Classic rock radio hits: Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion
This band has never sounded better than here, their breakthrough album. A rock and roll primer for the 1970s.
Toys In the Attic
According to Apple Music I should be listing the title song among the radio hits. But although I am well familiar with it (having owned this record in my youth and played it to death) I don’t recall hearing it on radio dependent of the album. Anyhow great tune that reminds me a little of late 60s Who.
Uncle Salty
An Aerosmith fan favorite. And why not? Really catchy. A little bit like “Rag Doll”.
Adam’s Apple
So good. Probably my favorite Aerosmith deep cut ever. Love the guitar work by Perry, the vocals. Chorus is great.
Walk This Way
I get that the later collaboration with RunDMC has great importance in the history of popular music, but I prefer the original. Joe Perry in particular gives his best ever performance IMO.
Big Ten Inch Record
A old time blues cover, faithfully done, which shows off both Aerosmith’s skills as musicians and their sense of humor.
Sweet Emotion
This might be the best song opening in the history of classic rock. Obviously one of their best known and greatest songs. Used to great effect in the film Dazed and Confused.
No More No More
Another good deep cut. Really solid rock and roll.
Round and Round
Probably the heaviest sounding tune on the record. Aerosmith was categorized as “hard rock” but they were closer to the earlier blues rock of The Rolling Stones. This song, however, qualifies as hard rock.
You See Me Crying
An excellent keyboard based ballad. Another of my favorites by them.
Classic rock radio hits: Walk This Way, Sweet Emotion
This band has never sounded better than here, their breakthrough album. A rock and roll primer for the 1970s.
Toys In the Attic
According to Apple Music I should be listing the title song among the radio hits. But although I am well familiar with it (having owned this record in my youth and played it to death) I don’t recall hearing it on radio dependent of the album. Anyhow great tune that reminds me a little of late 60s Who.
Uncle Salty
An Aerosmith fan favorite. And why not? Really catchy. A little bit like “Rag Doll”.
Adam’s Apple
So good. Probably my favorite Aerosmith deep cut ever. Love the guitar work by Perry, the vocals. Chorus is great.
Walk This Way
I get that the later collaboration with RunDMC has great importance in the history of popular music, but I prefer the original. Joe Perry in particular gives his best ever performance IMO.
Big Ten Inch Record
A old time blues cover, faithfully done, which shows off both Aerosmith’s skills as musicians and their sense of humor.
Sweet Emotion
This might be the best song opening in the history of classic rock. Obviously one of their best known and greatest songs. Used to great effect in the film Dazed and Confused.
No More No More
Another good deep cut. Really solid rock and roll.
Round and Round
Probably the heaviest sounding tune on the record. Aerosmith was categorized as “hard rock” but they were closer to the earlier blues rock of The Rolling Stones. This song, however, qualifies as hard rock.
You See Me Crying
An excellent keyboard based ballad. Another of my favorites by them.
Doug B
Footballguy
The title cut and "Big Ten Inch Record" on some stations, as well. Not spun anywhere near as much as "Walk This Way" and "Sweet Emotion", granted.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
It’s funny how they took so much flack for 80s ballads like Crying, Amazing and Crazy when they we’re basically just different versions of this song. This song is considerably better than those of course, but the concept is the same.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Yep. And it could be argued that this was derivative of Dream On, which makes the 80s and 90s ballads derivative of a derivative.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Good point.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
And for the record I love Toys in the Attic. Not only would it be Top 100 for me in this classic rock list - but likely Top 100 overall for me. I’d need a lot more time and thought to know for sure - but it’s in my fairly steady rotation.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
timschochet
Footballguy
62. ZZ Top- Tres Hombres (1973)
Classic rock radio hits: La Grange, Waitin’ for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago, Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
ZZ Top’s third album, their breakthrough, is an explosion of awesome boogie woogie Texas blues. Featuring the immortal Billy Gibbons, one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time.
Waitin’ for the Bus
The guitar riff that begins this is legendary and timeless. Classic blues. Radio would always play the first two songs together.
Jesus Just Left Chicago
The only word that fits for me to describe this is sublime. It’s an achingly beautiful blues song, and I would rank it, alongside “Just Got Paid” as the best this band has ever done. Apparently Phish loves to cover this tune as well.
Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
Fun boogie woogie. Needs to be played very loud. Motörhead scored a hit with their cover.
Master of Sparks
Based on a true incident where Gibbons constructed some kind of metal ball with a person inside and set off down the highway at a high speed. Sounds pretty scary. Anyhow he turned it into really good blues.
Hot, Blue and Righteous
Gospel sounding ballad. Really pretty.
Move Me On Down the Line
Sounds a lot like the Stones from Exile. And what’s wrong with that?
Precious and Grace
Great deep cut with guitar goodness.
La Grange
The band’s signature tune. One of the great guitar openings in all of rock music. Never gets old.
Sheik
More great blues, more great guitar.
Have You Heard
And more excellent gospel. They’re so good at this.
Classic rock radio hits: La Grange, Waitin’ for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago, Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
ZZ Top’s third album, their breakthrough, is an explosion of awesome boogie woogie Texas blues. Featuring the immortal Billy Gibbons, one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time.
Waitin’ for the Bus
The guitar riff that begins this is legendary and timeless. Classic blues. Radio would always play the first two songs together.
Jesus Just Left Chicago
The only word that fits for me to describe this is sublime. It’s an achingly beautiful blues song, and I would rank it, alongside “Just Got Paid” as the best this band has ever done. Apparently Phish loves to cover this tune as well.
Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers
Fun boogie woogie. Needs to be played very loud. Motörhead scored a hit with their cover.
Master of Sparks
Based on a true incident where Gibbons constructed some kind of metal ball with a person inside and set off down the highway at a high speed. Sounds pretty scary. Anyhow he turned it into really good blues.
Hot, Blue and Righteous
Gospel sounding ballad. Really pretty.
Move Me On Down the Line
Sounds a lot like the Stones from Exile. And what’s wrong with that?
Precious and Grace
Great deep cut with guitar goodness.
La Grange
The band’s signature tune. One of the great guitar openings in all of rock music. Never gets old.
Sheik
More great blues, more great guitar.
Have You Heard
And more excellent gospel. They’re so good at this.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I love love love this song - it's such a powerful churner. Smacks you right in the face. I really like the album a lot as well, perhaps not as highly as you.
Stoneworker
Footballguy
timschochet
Footballguy
If any of you, like me, love the early music of ZZ Top, I would highly recommend the last couple Black Keys albums. In addition to that, there is a band out of Chicago called GA-20. Both of these have the hard blues sound down for the 21st century.
I don't care how many times I hear this song, even if it's every hour, it gets me going. I consider ZZ Top the precursor to SRV (I'm not a musician, just someone who enjoys music), and this song is just IT. Thanks for finding a spot on your list for the album.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
The wall right in front of me here at work has Billy Gibbons autograph on it. He did it in the early 80's while waiting for Frank Beard to finish his NA meeting nextdoor. Is very faded at this point but can still kind of see it.
Eta- tried linking a pic of it but can't get it to work
Eta- tried linking a pic of it but can't get it to work
timschochet
Footballguy
61. Yes- Fragile (1971)
Classic rock radio hits: Roundabout, Long Distance Runaround
The names are an all-star list of incredible musicians: Jon Anderson on vocals, Steve Howe on guitar, Chris Squire on bass, Rick Wakeman on keyboards, Bill Bruford on drums. Seldom in rock history has there been this much talent in one band. Of course given that this was progressive rock and the group’s heyday was the early 70s, it was almost inevitable that success would lead to bombast, excess, and a clash of egos. But on Fragile, their 4th album, they were still tight and at the height of their powers.
Roundabout
Howe’s distinctive guitar leads into one of the greatest songs in classic rock history. Yes at their most accessible is also Yes at their best.
Cans and Brahms
Wakeman shows off his skills here. Most of this would fit right in on any good classical music record.
We Have Heaven
Weird Anderson tune. I don’t really get it but OK.
South Side of the Sky
One of my favorite deep cuts. I love the interplay between keyboard, guitar and bass.
Five Percent for Nothing
35 seconds of jazz composed by Bruford. The title refers to one of their managers who they fired.
Long Distance Runaround
According to Wiki an attack against religious Christianity. News to me; the lyrics by Anderson are way too obscure to decipher that or anything else. In any event a great rock tune and one of their biggest hits.
The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)
Solo by Chris Squire. For the title they needed a prehistoric fish with 8 syllables, so…
Mood for a Day
Acoustic solo by Steve Howe. I enjoy this a lot but Howe, one of the ultimate perfectionist types to ever be a star lead guitarist, regards this recording as substandard and has spent decades attempting to improve it in live recordings.
Heart of the Sunrise
Hard rock love song, with a great guitar lead by Howe. But it closes with more of “We Have Heaven” which is really strange.
Classic rock radio hits: Roundabout, Long Distance Runaround
The names are an all-star list of incredible musicians: Jon Anderson on vocals, Steve Howe on guitar, Chris Squire on bass, Rick Wakeman on keyboards, Bill Bruford on drums. Seldom in rock history has there been this much talent in one band. Of course given that this was progressive rock and the group’s heyday was the early 70s, it was almost inevitable that success would lead to bombast, excess, and a clash of egos. But on Fragile, their 4th album, they were still tight and at the height of their powers.
Roundabout
Howe’s distinctive guitar leads into one of the greatest songs in classic rock history. Yes at their most accessible is also Yes at their best.
Cans and Brahms
Wakeman shows off his skills here. Most of this would fit right in on any good classical music record.
We Have Heaven
Weird Anderson tune. I don’t really get it but OK.
South Side of the Sky
One of my favorite deep cuts. I love the interplay between keyboard, guitar and bass.
Five Percent for Nothing
35 seconds of jazz composed by Bruford. The title refers to one of their managers who they fired.
Long Distance Runaround
According to Wiki an attack against religious Christianity. News to me; the lyrics by Anderson are way too obscure to decipher that or anything else. In any event a great rock tune and one of their biggest hits.
The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)
Solo by Chris Squire. For the title they needed a prehistoric fish with 8 syllables, so…
Mood for a Day
Acoustic solo by Steve Howe. I enjoy this a lot but Howe, one of the ultimate perfectionist types to ever be a star lead guitarist, regards this recording as substandard and has spent decades attempting to improve it in live recordings.
Heart of the Sunrise
Hard rock love song, with a great guitar lead by Howe. But it closes with more of “We Have Heaven” which is really strange.
timschochet
Footballguy
The 2003 release includes a 10 minute cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “America” which is really quite good.
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