Funny enough though I never heard of it until 1980 
It was played at a party and I just fell in love with it and got my first copy of it the following morning
My original copy got scratched when someone fell over the record player so I went and replaced it, and they had changed the playing order, really hated that version, think they had added Dead Ringer For Love???
Took me a while to find the original
Don’t get me wrong, I love Dead Ringer but not on that Album 
They tagged Dead Ringer For Love on at the end of Bat Out Of Hell after that single was a hit to sell more copies of ‘Bat Out Of Hell’. I never understood why though because you’d think they might have pushed the Dead Ringer album instead as it’s a very good record too.
Time for two or three today:
No.30: “Hotel California” by The Eagles (1977)
The big one, but will it be The Eagles’ final entry in here?
Hotel California was a monster. With Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner having quit/left the band during the previous two albums (Leadon citing his distaste for rock music as his reason, Meisner having arguments with Frey and Henley (what’s new?), the band had the masterstroke of adding legendary rocker Joe Walsh to the line-up. This brought some much needed guts to the band’s music and the result was firstly on one of the best known guitar interplay duets ever recorded, the title song on here. But there were other superb moments too: Country song ‘New Kid In Town’, evergreen rocker ‘Life In The Fast Lane’ and ‘The Last Resort’’s glorious finale.
As usual with Eagles videos, they are patchy, but I’ll do my best:
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Side one
No.29: “Abbey Road” by The Beatles (1969)
The Beatles final recorded album (I say ‘recorded’ as Let It Be was recorded around the same time but released later with its Phil Spector production).
Abbey Road is timeless, from the conspiracy-inducing sleeve to its beautifully-produced songs. It’s a masterpiece and a real showcase of what a band can do in just seven short years since their first album Please Please Me; like a different band altogether. I see this as a George Harrison album in the most part, his songs shining through like beacons: ‘Something’, ‘Here Comes The Sun’. But Lennon’s ‘Come Together’ and the medley on side two are both awesome as well. The conceptual design of the track running order and these wonderful songs ensured The Beatles went out on a high note musically if not personally as a band, which was a bit of a mess. As always, Beatles videos are heavily copywrited but these should be a taster for the album:
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http://members.quicknet.nl/h.splinter/pages/muziek/b/beatles/images/AbbeyRoadBackCover.jpg
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Just returned from a week in sunny (sometimes) Scotland. I took my laptop with me in order to keep up with this thread but was unable to connect all week, so I have a lot of catching up to do.
So far, glad to see Journey at 53.
No.28: “Rumours” by Fleetwood Mac (1977)
I’m putting you out of your misery, Ffosse. You are uncanny in your prediction qualities…
Rumours was the second album by the Buckingham-Nicks addition to the band, joining Mick Fleetwood, John & Christine McVie to form the “classic” line-up and this mega million selling magnum opus of a record.
From start to finish it’s a California album through and through with its sun drenched melodies and incredibly catchy songs, a million miles away from their blues roots, great as the band were then.
Let’s let the music do the talking – and as this is the final one for today, I’ll spend some time and do what I did with R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People recently – all twelve songs in order of appearance on video through the years and a documentary over the next three posts, the track list to start with. No shortage of videos available for this band…why can’t The Eagles behave like this! Enjoy!
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Hi buddy!
Great to see you again, hope you enjoyed a good holiday (despite the weather!).
Yeah, we’ve had some good stuff on here - I don’t know where you left off actually?
Go back anyway and catch up if you can mate, ignoring my frequent rants!
Rumours is another must have for the car
Ive a really old car with a 6 cd changer, Bat Out of Hell stays but the other slots get mixed up a bit. Rumours often has a spot
Wow! I used to have one of those and it was connected from the boot.
Now I’ll play from a USB stick mainly in the car or the odd CD occasionally. In fact, good call on that - Rumours would sound great during the summer, along with my favourite summer album: Boston’s ‘Third Stage’.
My old Beetle has all the original parts, down to a cassette player lol. So no USB. Not even an AUX point so cant use the iPhone
Yes its definitely a summer album, and one for nice empty roads
I have a tendency to go heavy on the right foot when the music is just right
Octopus’s Garden and then" I want you."
Epitomizes (I think that’s right) the Beatles for me.
Three brilliant (and Ringo) song writers and all very different.
As you say they left the best to last ,if you don’t count Let it Be.
Very true mate, but I didn’t like the White Album much, although everybody else in the world thinks it was great
At least 8 of the tracks I don’t want to hear ever again.
Yes, Piggies springs to mind, and Revolution 9, Rocky Raccoon, Bungalow Bill(!) I don’t even like Helter Skelter that much either.
Should have been a single album.
No.27: “The Stranger” by Billy Joel (1977)
Animals, Bat Out Of Hell, Hotel California, Rumours…all albums from 1977 and featured in my last few posts. And there’s another two coming up now, starting with this classic – Billy Joel’s masterpiece (or one of them).
The Stranger was a sort of culmination of years of increasingly good albums appearing from this top end, superior songwriter from Long island, New York. It contains at least two songs which have become so famous that they are part of popular culture, recorded so many times by others: the standards ‘Just The Way You Are’ and ‘She’s Always A Woman’. But it doesn’t end there with the amount of classic songs on this great album: ‘Movin’ Out’, ‘Only The Good Die Young’ and the terrific story about “Brenda & Eddie” and their tale all about their Italian Restaurant (see below).
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No.26: “Low” by David Bowie (1977)
The first album in David Bowie’s so-called “Berlin Trilogy” is the best in my opinion. Bowie was heading towards another change with the excellent Station To Station album of 1976, taking parts of soul, glam and future rumblings of electronic music into its style, but his hook-up with Brian Eno, Tony Visconti and Iggy Pop provided this excursion into a new form of Krautrock (Nom would explain this album better than myself!). Containing the great single ‘Sound And Vision’ and with half the album being filled with some marvellous instrumentals, Low virtually ties for my favourite Bowie album.
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Personnel:
• David Bowie – vocals (2–6, 8, 10–12, 14), saxophones (4, 11), guitar (6, 9–11), pump bass (6), harmonica (7), vibraphone (9–10), xylophone (10), pre-arranged percussion(10), keyboards: ARP synthesiser (1, 10–11), Chamberlin: Credited on the album sleeve notes as “tape horn and brass” (1), “synthetic strings” (1, 4, 9–10), “tape cellos” (5) and “tape sax section” (7), piano (7, 9–11), “instruments” (13)
• Brian Eno – keyboards: Minimoog (2, 8–9), ARP (3, 11), EMS Synthi AKS (listed as “E.M.I.”) (3, 5), piano (7–9, 11), Chamberlin (8–9), other synthesisers, vocals (4, 14), guitar treatments (5), synthetics (7), “instruments” (12–13)
• Carlos Alomar – rhythm guitars (1, 3–7, 14), guitar (2)
• Dennis Davis – percussion (1–7, 14)
• George Murray – bass (1–7, 11, 14)
• Ricky Gardiner – rhythm guitar (2), guitar (3–7, 14)
• Roy Young – pianos (1, 3–7, 14), Farfisa organ (3, 5)
• Iggy Pop – backing vocals (3)
• Mary Visconti – backing vocals (4, 14)
• Eduard Meyer – cellos (9)
Produced by Tony Visconti
And here’s Ziggy…
No.25: “(The Rise And Fall Of) Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars” by David Bowie (1972)
The biggest and best album, depending on one’s mood, is the Ziggy Stardust record. This is glam rock at its peak, the record the movement quotes when talking about that colourful and lively genre which lasted all of five years. Giving rise to the Spiders From Mars, a band from Hull featuring Mick Ronson, Woody Woodmansey and Trevor Bolder and spawning a documentary motion picture, this album was fortunate in that it took off due to the recent success of the single ‘Starman’ on Top Of The Pops. Otherwise it was looking like David Bowie was a one-hit wonder with just the novelty hit ‘Space Oddity’ to his name and two excellent previous albums which only resurfaced after the success of Ziggy Stardust. A landmark alum of the era.
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