Infinity with Journey

a fully grown album which seems more
and more to be on my Top 100 of whole Universe

their first record with Steve Perry
who 1978 brought the missing
golden pieces to this band
by both singing and composing mastership

although I appear to like same skills in keyboardist Gregg Rolie

Produced by Roy Thomas Baker
which must have sharpened the sweet tunes
into even more creative
progressive hard pop?!


as my Snow Record # 180
by chakra:ish evaluation


most Soulful song : FEELING THAT WAY

most Imaginative song : OPENED THE DOOR

most Amusing song : LÃ DO DÃ

most Beautiful song : ("here we stand so") PATIENTLY

most Strong song : WINDS OF MARCH ("you are my child")

most Sexy song : LIGHTS

most Rooted song : WHEEL IN THE SKY ("don't know where I'll be...")



Reminds me most of : Queen, Smokie, Scorpions, Europe, Uriah Heep, Alice Cooper, Toto, 10cc, Genesis


Whole Album

(6) compositions

(6) instrumentations

(7) singin' /playin' feelin'

(3) lyrics (incl titles)

(6) variation

(6) synchronization

(4) cover /concept

(7) historical importance

= 45


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 8 x 7 = 56 never exist(?)


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Christmas Christmas with Cheap Trick

could be the most exciting christmas album of this year!?!
[well, haven't heard any other yet]

very well-loaded with exploding rock covers
and three own [which I thought were covers too]


as my Snow Record # 179
by chakra:ish evaluation

most Soulful song : (CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS) OUR FATHER OF LIFE
by Cheap Trick themselves

most Imaginative song : FATHER CHRISTMAS
based on Kinks *

most Amusing song : MERRY CHRISTMAS, I DON'T WANNA FIGHT TONIGHT
based on Ramones

most Beautiful song : REMEMBER CHRISTMAS
based on Harry Nilsson

most Strong song : MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY
based on Slade

most Sexy song : I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY
based on Roy Wood

most Rooted song : PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
based on Charles Brown



Whole Album

(7) compositions

(3) instrumentations

(6) singin' /playin' feelin'

(5) lyrics (incl titles)

(4) variation

(3) synchronization

(5) cover /concept

(7) historical importance

= 40


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 8 x 7 = 56 never exist(?)




* from original Kinks lyrics :

"Father Christmas, give us some money!
We got no time for your silly toys...
...Give my daddy a job, cause he needs one -
He's got lots of mouths to feed."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPPCPqDINEk


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Hard Rock Ballads I must have Heard Most

times during my life...
in order of how often
rather than how good


1. WIND OF CHANGE
Scorpions -90

even though I'd rather say SEND ME AN ANGEL from same album


2. PRISONERS IN PARADISE
Europe -91


3. WILD WILD ANGELS
Smokie -76

and/or WHAT CAN I DO from same album


4. WISE MAN
Uriah Heep -77

which could've been replaced by CIRCLE OF HANDS


5. THE PRICE
Twisted Sister -84


6. WOMAN
Scorpions -93

and/or UNDER THE SAME SUN from same album


7. NEVER SAY GOODBYE
Bon Jovi -86


8. CARRIE
Europe -86

even though I'd rather say TIME HAS COME from same album

 


9. BLIND
"It started to Snow in the middle of July"
Deep Purple -69


10. AFTERGLOW
Genesis -77

[maybe not exactly hard rock, but suits here anyway]


11. HELL IS LIVING WITHOUT YOU
Alice Cooper -89

if you don't call POISON a ballad(?) - otherwise would come higher
 

12. HOW DOES IT FEEL?!?
Slade -72


13. STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
Led Zeppelin -71

or maybe even more times THE RAIN SONG


14. FEELING THAT WAY
Journey -78


15. IN THE LAP OF THE GODS
Queen -74


16. MEGALOMANIA
Black Sabbath -75




17. LADY STARLIGHT
Scorpions -80


18. ANGIE
Rolling Stones -73


19. JULY MORNING
Uriah Heep -71

which could've been replaced by ECHOES IN THE DARK


20. DESPERADO
Eagles -73


21. WILD ONE
Thin Lizzy -75


22. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
Mott The Hoople -74

[partly a completely other genre, but suits here anyway]


as my recent attempt to catch
which tunes the genre consists of
one criterion is they should be performed by bands




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Face The Heat with Scorpions

Released in -93
Still don't know
wheter the record feels really good or quite bad
only sure it has potential to shine far more powerful
than it's reputation as a bleak shadow

When I was 18
during early -94 in my wildest winter ever
as I walked home from my friend cross a snowy graveyard
listened to some tracks here many times
(even more than Crazy World from three years before)
feeling like the "scorpion I am"
caught between control and fear
contempt and longing love

as my Autumn Album # 181
by kinda chakra based evaluation


most Soulful song : WOMAN ("I cannot live, I cannot die")

most Imaginative song : DESTIN [bonus track]

most Amusing song : NIGHTMARE AVENUE

most Beautiful song : UNDER THE SAME SUN

most Strong song : ALIEN NATION ("in the garden of Eden time is running out")

most Sexy song : HATE TO BE NICE

most Rooted song : LONELY NIGHTS ("I go back to the places we've been")


in my opinion (and many others?) they should've put in one more ballad
plus one more extremely hard in style of the opening track
and passed a pair of faster middle rockers to bonus material

though I often skipped half of the tunes
so now finally get a full impression
of the twelveth album by these german Scorpions

though I'm still like a stranger in the heavy metal world
I've felt more related to Scorpions than most other bands


Whole Album

(4) compositions

(4) instrumentations

(7) singin' /playin' feelin'

(4) lyrics (incl titles)

(5) variation

(2) synchronization

(5) cover /concept

(3) historical importance

= 34


I now give 1-7 for each cathegory
where 3 is good and total possible 8 x 7 = 56 never exist(?)


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BURGOS Big Buildings in Spanish Streets

including the Cathedral 3:rd biggest in Spain