PopTodd Wrote:
Roach Wrote:
Aside from the MC5, I don't think that I know any of these albums. Please enlighten me.
The first one is
Jim Sullivan - U.F.O. which is a bit of lost classic, really pretty singer-songwriter/beer on the back porch vibe. He disappeared in the desert somewhere and was never seen again which created a bit of mystique. I forgot the wrecking crew were involved as well.
A few places say this was 1969 but I just go by RYM dates.
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Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come is some fantastic hard rock bordering on heavy metal, kick ass riffs and some wonderful vocals.
Julian Cope explains a lot better- "
The trio was Sir Lord Baltimore and they'd just recorded a flawed but fantastic first album, called Kingdom Come, which combined thee most histrionic proto-Kiss, proto-David Lee Roth vocal acrobatics ever with enough Stooged-out proto-metal to last any sane band a lifetime. Did you ever wish that 'Speed King', 'Highway Star' and 'Fireball' were the only songs Deep Purple had ever recorded? Did you ever feel that everything Blue Cheer recorded after side one of OutsideInside was unnecessary, including side two of that very LP? Did you ever lament that telling people just how much you love 'I'm on Fire' and 'Atomic Punk' from Van Halen 1 inevitably made them think you secretly loved later sub-Genesis detritus such as 'Jump' as well? Well, search out this album and you've got everything you need in one record.
What does it sound like? Well, I'll tell y'all. The music gets 10 out of 10, but the vocals get 100 out of 10. From the opening notes of 'Master Heartache', it's clear that Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons AND Patti Smith were at every Long Island gig they ever played. From the mouth of John Garner, such simple lyrics as 'I know' become more spiritually uplifting than Handel's Messiah (I'd actually be scared to hear John Garner sing 'I know that my redeemer liveth' - I'd probably be in church within the hour)."
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Cactus - S/t
Jim McCarty.