Roy Thomas Baker Albums
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Topic: Roy Thomas Baker Albums
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Subject: Roy Thomas Baker Albums
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 15:48
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With his recent passing, I've looked back at the long list of albums he participated in as either producer or engineer. The 7 albums to choose from are among my personal favorites, but I know there are many others that have popular followings, so I've also included the ever-popular "Other" option. RTB trivia: the final album he produced (unless someone can show me otherwise) was Heaven and Earth (2014) by Yes. |
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 16:42
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From the list my fave is The Cars' self-titled, but I did vote other for The Cars' Candy-O. I have a sentimental attachment to that album. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 18:25
| Queen - AN@tO is my favorite album all round. But regardless, all of the albums listed have excellent production. |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: April 24 2025 at 22:48
Free - Fire & Water 
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 01:14
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Hi, I might want to see if Paul is willing to post a complete list, so the choices and ideas are better represented. I think Queen's album deserves the mention, but I'm not sure it is the only one! Other albums that we know well and appreciate! (Not complete btw) Nazareth - Nazareth Black Widow - Sacrifice Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill Man - Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics Be-Bop Deluxe - Futurama Ian Hunter - Overnight Angels The Cars - The Cars Journey - Infinity (and then Evolution the next year) Foreigner - Head Games Cheap Trick - One on One Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love East of Eden - East of Eden He also worked with many others not listed here like Guns N'Roses, Alice Cooper, Pilot, Ozzy Osborne, Devo, The Stranglers, Dusty Springfield and others. Hawkwind's album is fantastic and side 1 of that LP was a massive treat and plays well all the way through. Man's album is already the decline of the band. They could not get enough appreciation for their playing in the USA ... and it continued as a band under the radar until the end, but all of the albums prior to this one, are excellent and worth having! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 04:47
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Head Games was rather a disappointment after the first two albums.... but still much better than that horrendous (but ultra-successful) 4 coming up. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 10:17
While there is some great stuff on the first two Foreigner albums, I've always thought Head Games was their all-around best. The performances and RTB's production are flawless, and there's no filler. Fully agree that the band fell off a cliff with 4, and they've never been the same since. The 1980s strike again! |
Sean Trane wrote:Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 25 2025 at 12:23
Hi, I think the death of the independent FM stations in America really hurt the bands that had a lot of originality in their work, and all of a sudden it seemed like they had to copy themselves in order for the public to buy the albums, specially as the ability to have it heard anew was not there anymore. The corporatization of the FM stations in America by 1980, was one of the saddest events, but it specified that Corporate America did not want individuals and liberals with IDEAS on the air ... and all of them became classic rock which they still are today or some type of progrock stations like the one in Portland that you could easily say is all AI and copy of a copy of a copy and MOS play lists ... you can tell it is owned by a corporation that owns a lot of music! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 26 2025 at 22:59
| ''Other''. Be Bop Deluxe - Futurama is a good one (thanks Pedro!) but I also like Lone Star's debut album. There were a good early example of 'Heavy Prog' but were a bit misunderstood perhaps and admittedly do sound like a Led Zep rip off band at times (although so did Rush in the early days!). Pity they didn't carry on a bit longer. |