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Machine Head was the culmination of everything Deep Purple had worked for since reinventing themselves on Deep Purple in Rock.  The 1972 album spawned a hit single in "Smoke on the Water" and became a...

24 Mar 20237min

After is work with conductor and orchestral arranger was a success on Eldorado, Jeff Lynne decided to build on his hit single "Can't Get It Out of My Head", but simplify the music.  The result was Fac...

17 Mar 20238min

Afte the success of Rio the pressure was on to keep Duran Duran a hitmaking machine.  Despite going to exotic locations to film videos, wearing the latest fashions and being featured on the cover of a...

10 Mar 20238min

Five years after their album Metallica made them the biggest heavy metal band in the world, Metallica returned with a new album, Load.  Though the lyrical content was more personal and still quite dar...

3 Mar 20239min

After giving up on their reel-to-reel video movie Vileness Fats and spending a good portion of the 1970s working on the album Eskimo, the Residents had found some critical and cult acclaim.  During th...

31 Des 20229min

After Welcome to My Nightmare, and especially a hit single with "Only Women Bleed", Alice Cooper as a solo artist was continuing the same success as he had with the band called Alice Cooper.  The prob...

17 Des 20228min

While Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables was definitely the album that solidified Dead Kennedys' spot in hardcore punk, I have always felt their sophomore effort, Plastic Surgery Disasters, was the st...

10 Des 202211min

After the release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles released a series of singles with a related sound to the album throughout 1967, without releasing any songs from the album as ac...

2 Des 202210min