All customer reviews by Louise J.
Fabulous short
Nice quality screen print, quite heavy duty t-shirt, feels a bit stiff at first but very comfortable to wear.
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Posted on: 2 Oct 2016
Fantastic album
Volbeat and I had no real history before, and on the first few listens I wasn't sure about this album. But then I heard the Devils Bleeding Crown a few times, and (despite/because of) sounding like Nickelback it stuck in my head, so I gave the album a few more spins and it's now stuck on my CD. Superb cover of the Georgia Satellites Battleship Chains, which could have been hideous (but isn't), and For Evigt is a beautiful song and should be a hit, if theres any justice. There really isn't a dud track on the album, and I'm looking forward to seeing them live in November!
Posted on: 29 Feb 2016
Some world beaters, some panel beaters...
If you were to pick a period for classic Deep Purple it probably would be from In Rock to WDWTWA, i.e the classic Mark 2 line-up, although that would of course be only 4 albums. This one is seven, and I'm a little mystified about the selection. Basically In Rock and Fireball are missing, and along with the rest of the 70's studio albums are the 2 80's releases, Perfect Strangers and House of Blue Light. Weird. So which others made the cut?
Machine Head - essential. 5 stars. The only track that comes close to being non-essential is, ironically, Never Before, which the record company in the UK picked as the single release that pretty much flopped. Doh! Everything else.. wonderful. Listen to the vastly underrated Pictures of Home, which would be a standout on its own on most band's albums but here is one of many, so loses out slightly. Moving on...
Who Do We Think We Are - is the last mark 2 album, for a while as it turned out. It gets unfairly maligned, and I believe it's because of what it was following. However I would say, for any other band, it would stand on its own as a classic. No singles this time, although Woman from Tokyo was released a few years later in the UK. Nothing stands out as a dud, and overall it's a consistently excellent album.
So... DPMK3. Burn & Stormbringer. Personally Coverdale does an excellent job on both, but this is the start of the drifting into loooong blues-based songs, like Mistreated. Personally they don't do a lot for me, but if that's your thing, then there's much for you on these two. Burn is amazing and there's some hidden gems on these two, but they're much more of a mixed bag than what went before.
Then.. DPMK4. When DP became effectively 2 originals and 3 others, in some people's eyes. For me Come Taste The Band is an album to be dipped into with caution, there is a lot of funk orientated stuff on here and perhaps it would have been interesting to see what would have come afterwards. Glenn Hughes as we know became successful for joining and leaving more bands than members of Whitesnake hired and fired by David Coverdale. Coverdale was a fine vocalist but some of this stuff just is weak, particularly given the band reputation.
Then the long break and surprise reformation in 1984. Who'da thought it? And.. was it worth it? Welll...
Perfect Strangers - it's not a patch on earlier Mk 2 albums. But is better than the Mk4 and 3 albums. Good to hear Gillan in fine voice and a couple of the songs stand up well - the opening track and Perfect Strangers, and none of the others are a waste of time, so it's a sound return.
Finally, House of Blue Light - I played this a lot in 1987 when it came out, and the stand out track is Mad Dog. Sadly the rest is a bit of a mish-mash, apparently it wasn't the best of times for the band personality-wise (no surprises there) and it does show, and as a climax to the box set it's a bit of a garden fireworks display rather than the full show with Pyro.
Overall I would imagine that the first 2 albums would get most plays.
Beware also - the sticker says that the albums come with MP3's, but it doesn't. They're wav files, and not very organised or labelled files at that.
Posted on: 29 Feb 2016
Solid but not their best..
The title says it all. There are some world beaters on here, Fireball being one, sounding like nothing before or since with it's sonic intro, Ian Paice's mental drums and Jon Lord's keyboard madness. Demon's Eye is another one, all dark and mysterious, and some of Blackmore's best work. Anyone's daughter is better than it should be, a throwaway mostly acoustic number made great by Gillan's vocal delivery. It sags a bit in the middle of side 2 with Fools, but mostly it's a solid second album from the classic mark 2 line-up.
Posted on: 29 Feb 2016
The best Purple album...
People will argue for days about which Purple album is the "best". It's not that important and each album has it's own merits, but this one is fantastic. From the opening cacophony that greets you with Speed King it's pretty relentless from there on and a giant leap forward from the preceding albums. The 10 minute epic that is Child in Time is a masterclass in tension building, but in truth there's not a dud on here. It also contains no singles, at all. It doesn't need any - it's perfect as it is and considering it's 46 years old, it hasn't aged a day. Some bands these days would give vital organs to sound like this!
Posted on: 21 Nov 2015
Not just a nostalgia fest..
When I saw that Maiden we're bringing out a DVD and album of concerts recorded 20 years plus ago I was more than a little sceptical. "Easy money" I thought! After a little while I became curious to have a look, especially as I was at one of the concerts on the tour (Hammersmith, not the NEC concert on this DVD). Anyone who has been a Maiden fan since the start would probably share the opinion that the first 8 albums were the "peak" Maiden period (sorry Janick!) and they're all represented here, although the concert does lean heavily towards the Seventh Son album, which presumably is why the Seventh Son track is here as the more longwinded track as opposed to Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The concert is well recorded, the sound is great considering its 25 years plus old, and the band are on fine form. With this disc you also get the original videos for the five singles from Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son, plus the 10 Wasted Years history to now documentary, which is far better than you may think. It's also revealing how different the landscape was in 1988 compared to now (no mobile phones, some Berlin Wall). Definitely worth your time and investment, especially for newer fans.