CD-Charts Position 161
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Siamese Dream

CD-Charts > Music > Hard Rock and Metal
by: Smashing Pumpkins

Release Date July 27, 1993
It's good to hear some more music from the early 90's that was able to escape grunge's tentacles. There are a few elements in there that make it comparable to that genre, but it's really closer to alternative rock that got more popular later on. I feel like the album might be a little longer than it needs to, and some of the songs are a little similar, but nothing in particular felt like it needed to be changed or cut. A lot of the songs sounded similar to stuff that came out later, which points to it being pretty influential to modern rock. A song like "Today" for example, sounds like something I've heard fifty times before, but might be the first time it was made. Sort of like Nevermind, I respect it more than I liked it, but I did like it ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 162
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The Best of Kansas

CD-Charts > Music > Hard Rock and Metal
by: Kansas

Release Date February 23, 1999
The best songs Kansas did, plus a few extra cuts. What more could you ask?

CD-Charts Position 163
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Cross Road

CD-Charts > Music > Hard Rock and Metal
by: Bon Jovi

Release Date October 18, 1994
I am very happy with my recent purchase. Bon Jovi is the greatest band.
Thank you for sending me this so quickly.

CD-Charts Position 164
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Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd

CD-Charts > Music > Hard Rock and Metal
by: Pink Floyd

Release Date November 06, 2001
this is a good CD if you're a casual listener looking for Pink Floyd's best songs. less expensive and less cumbersome than buying their complete set and not bogged down by lesser songs. if you're a hard core fan you will probably find this CD lacking in continuity. Pink Floyd albums were not simply a collection of singles they were a coherent continuous package. that continuity is lost when compiling a greatest hits album.

CD-Charts Position 165
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Pretty Hate Machine

CD-Charts > Music > Hard Rock and Metal
by: Nine Inch Nails

Release Date October 04, 2005
The first time I heard Trent Reznor and NIN, he was still opening for other bands. All I can say is: WOW. This was LIVE industrial music, so good that it didn't need a studio to clean it up. What others have written about this being the most "pop-like" album is true, but that's only in relative terms. It's definitely not top-40 material. The subject matter is classic for this kind of music (heartbreak, bitterness, anger), but different from the old-school industrial 80's sound. I felt a lot of other (pre-NIN) bands were somewhat alientating upon first-listen: once I knew the songs, I liked them, but they had to grow on me. Not so with NIN. They're instantly likeable, I'd even say loveable, if that weren't the most inappropriate word for this ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 166
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1996-2006 The Singles

CD-Charts > Music > Hard Rock and Metal
by: Staind

Release Date November 14, 2006
I can't say much more than what's already been said by everyone - fantastic piece of work, indeed. But after downloading, I was disappointed to find that "It's Been Awhile" was not the explicit version, like the album advertises. I wrote in and it was explained to me that they don't have the explicit version of this song for download - just the radio friendly version. I got a credit, and that's fine, but wanted to give everyone a heads up on this.

CD-Charts Position 167
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Tres Hombres

CD-Charts > Music > Hard Rock and Metal
by: ZZ Top

Release Date February 28, 2006
Back in the very early days of what was the called Rock & Roll, guys like Elvis and Bill Haley and the Comets, "Rock" was kind of a big band boogie kind of affair. For me at least it wasn't really Rock until a little trio from Texas came along called Buddy Holly and the Crickets. Rock was pared down to its bones, a bass, a guitar and drums, with edgy lyrics that people didn't know exactly what to do with.

In that fine tradition came this little band from Texas, and a new generation of Tex Rock was born. After its release, Tres Hombres was the one album that always got played at any party I went to in High School, and all the guys thought of themselves as Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers. At one dance at my school, the band was playing "La ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 168
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The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself (CD/DVD)

CD-Charts > Music > Hard Rock and Metal
by: Billy Idol

Release Date June 24, 2008
There is 13 video clips on this CD/DVD. For example Hot in the City, Rebel yell, Dancing with myself and so on. The video quality on a few of the clips could be better. But I put this down to time when they were recorded back in the early 1980s.
The DVD format is NTSC not PAL, this may or may not be a problem. Other then that there is a good number of his songs on this best of collection.

CD-Charts Position 169
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Use Your Illusion II

CD-Charts > Music > Hard Rock and Metal
by: Guns N' Roses

Release Date September 17, 1991
Coming out at the same time as Use Your Illusion I in one of the biggest days in metal history this album contains a swathe of hard rock and metallic styles. For my mind part one is the more metallic and this the more maudlin of the dynamic duo. But as I said it has a range of styles like Civil War which is the sort of thing that a band with expanding horizons would do, numbers like the visceral Get In The Ring, the bouncy though metallic Shotgun Blues and Breakdown (a personal fave) and sicker more cerebral stuff like the sneering disdain in Pretty Tied Up. We also get an industrial sicko in the brief My World which speaks to a certain doom obsessed juvenile brain wave but is certainly no less valid for that.

My reasons for giving this album only ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 170
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The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust

CD-Charts > Music > Hard Rock and Metal
by: David Bowie

Release Date September 28, 1999
I listen to "Starman", then I listen to it again, then I get addicted to that song, then I can't stop listening to it. I will listen to it 10 or 15 times in a row. "Starman" is indeed waiting in the sky, I believe.