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Posted: March 08 2009 at 16:39
I know all of them and actually quite like about half of them, but Hotel California is the only one of them I'm likely to choose to listen to (and then only when I'm driving). However, if any of Mac, Joel, Boston or Springsteen's classic album tracks comes on the radio I'll probably turn it up and might even sing along if there's nobody else around.
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Posted: March 08 2009 at 17:17
This was a tough one, but ultimately, I had to pick Rumours for its range of emotions from the sweet to the angry and bitter, all wrapped up in easily-accessible yet well-written songs. Runners-up were Paradise. What a kick-a.. album and Billy Joel's The Stranger...love the title track and Scenes from an Italian Restaurant (two of Joel's finest works). Hotel California would have been in the running too if I hadn't heard most of the songs on it 5 billion times + thanks to FM radio. I could sing the entire album backwards I think, but still love The Last Resort. A few other good ones in there, but those are my favs.
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Posted: March 08 2009 at 20:21
Rocktopus wrote:
Finnforest wrote:
[QUOTE=Dean]^ good question.
No,
not really. I said *sometimes* and I believe most people knew what I
meant, that occasionally these bands get some heat for being over
exposed, as the Wayne Campbell quote at the top suggests.
I think maybe Roc was just looking for something to be contrary about today.
The Billy Joel, Styx, Foreigner, Boston, RIO Speedwagon, Stevie Miller and well,
Heart albums in the poll are about as overexposed as Happy the Man or Yezda Urfa in
my country.
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Posted: March 08 2009 at 20:47
I grew up in the suburbs around then. If by "issued" you mean overexposed to, I'd agree. Not to knock the stuff or anything, but damn, it did all get overplayed.
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Posted: March 08 2009 at 21:00
Rocktopus wrote:
Finnforest wrote:
Dean wrote:
^ good question.
No, not really. I said *sometimes* and I believe most people knew what I meant, that occasionally these bands get some heat for being over exposed, as the Wayne Campbell quote at the top suggests.
I think maybe Roc was just looking for something to be contrary about today.
The Billy Joel, Styx, Foreigner, Boston, RIO Speedwagon, Stevie Miller and well, Heart albums in the poll are about as overexposed as Happy the Man or Yezda Urfa in my country.
Same is true in the UK - we've heard of them, but they were never popular or over-played on the radio. Heart got some exposure with Bad Animals and "Alone" is a perennial karaoke classic (but no one knows the words - guarantee if you mention it in in a bar some one will sing "Tonite" in an overly dramatic way), but prior to that they were essentially unknown as far as the British public were concerned.
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Posted: March 08 2009 at 21:17
Finnforest wrote:
Wow, I'd never have guessed that. I thought stuff
like Rumours and Hotel California were pretty much a worldwide phenom.
Those two titles and Born to Run are big sellers over here as well. That's why I didn't mention them. But still I can't remember ever hearing a track from Rumors on the radio. Not even once. (I was just a baby when it was released, though)
Edited by Rocktopus - March 08 2009 at 21:34
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Posted: March 08 2009 at 21:33
Rumours for me. The other large pop albums of the day (Steve Miller, Eagles) are not in the same league.
Plus I say, great for Fleetwood Mac. Fleet and Mac had been soldiering on since the early days, and had developed into a great rhythm section. The best of what is on this album is classic: Dreams, Go Your Own Way, The Chain. I saw them at the time and I can tell you, no one had finer stage presence than Lindsey Buckingham in a white suit, playing a white Les Paul.
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Posted: March 08 2009 at 21:34
Rocktopus wrote:
Finnforest wrote:
Wow, I'd never have guessed that. I thought stuff
like Rumours and Hotel California were pretty much a worldwide phenom.
Those two titles and Born to Run are big sellers over here as well. That's why I didn't mention them. But still I can't remember ever hearing a track from Rumors on the radio. Not even once. (I was just a baby when it was released, though)
Still interesting to me. I assumed that what was on American rock radio was eventually sending the tentacles everywhere. You guys are lucky then, you didn't have to hear "Keep on Lovin You" 9 times a day.
What is funny is that on many FM rock stations in most large cities, you still hear these same albums played as if it were the70s. Not all bad, sometimes it is fun to crank up Nugent or Chicago or Journey for the 8000th time. Other times, it can make one suicidal as Harry mentioned. Sorry for the erroneous assumption.
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Posted: March 08 2009 at 21:36
^We've had our own overexposed albums to deal with, believe me.
Oops: Just checked the charts for Born to Run in Norway. It peaked at no. 26 (with four weeks in the charts). And Rumours peaked at no. 17 (with only two weeks in the charts).
Hotel California was in top five for about 30 weeks and no. 1 in 7 of them, though
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Posted: March 11 2009 at 03:49
There are some real classics there, but I guess the one I'd play all the way through would be 'Rumours' - combination of good songs & Buckingham's production still makes it a great album today.
Honourable mentions though to Boston's 1st & 'Fly Like An Eagle'...
...but am I the only one never knowingly to have heard a Heart song?
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