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To stay on topic, Bonamassa's 'You and Me' album was a fave of mine but now it leaves me feeling cold.
I've been buying a few of those Original Album box sets through Amazon lately. I listened to Weather Report's I Sing the Body Electric the other day. Hated it.
Hasn't stood the test of time for me. I still rate Definitely Maybe, but as much as I loved Morning Glory at the time, I couldn't listen to it now, it is of its time and needs to be left there.
In all fairness, the blues is a fairly narrow remit. I was a massive SRV fan, but I'm less into blues generally than I was in the 80s/90s so I don't listen so much now. I still think he's the best of the genre so many years after his death.
I feel much the same. I loved SRV but I've really gone off blues and blues-rock in recent years (could it be the Guitarist magazine effect??) and I haven't listened to him for some time. I'm a bit afraid to after reading this thread, I don't want to go off him.
That said, I was never any kind of authority on blues, I always favoured the rock side of the blues-rock equation. Even when I bought straight blues albums I always wanted to hear the fiery stuff. And SRV always had as much Hendrix as Albert King in his playing, as did Eric Gales.
Its an interesting side side point but who has written great songs but within the blues structure? Perhaps this is where John Mayers Continuum and some of Cream's stuff and maybe Free's music will stand up versus some of the other blues guys. The quality of songs and playing.
I put on Prodigy album recently - jilted generation and I thought for an electronic album it still sounded brilliant.
I found my tape of Def Leppard's Pyromania the other day, so in a fit of nostalgia I bought a download of it.
Its brilliant. I probably stopped listening to it when I discovered Slayer.
I still love the first Annihilator album though.
One that surprised me - Satch's Flying in a Blue Dream was my favourite CD for about a decade. It really made me practice my chops. I tried to listen to it in the car last week and it left me cold (apart from the wonderfully OTT solo in Big Bad Moon). It almost feels like I've betrayed my guitar childhood.
I might have to dig other stuff out to revisit it.
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I think it was just a top time for guitar rock - Appetite, Hysteria, Skid Row, the hair metal bands. Just quality. Some of the solos on Skid Row were really good.... don't know why they didn't achieve more really.
The Vinnie Vincent Invasion.
I can't tell you how much I loved that album in 1986. Bought it on vinyl and soon after on the then-fledgling CD format and played it to death. I thought Vinnie Vincent was a genius. In retrospect, he was an OK songwriter but his "guitar hero" persona was pure smoke and mirrors. His solos are just a squalling racket of utterly meaningless whammy bar abuse and random notes played very very fast. Like Kerry King in drag.
As for albums I can't really listen to now, Def Leppard's Hysteria ticks that particular box. I listened to it a lot when it came out, I hadn't long started high school when it was released and at it's peak. I think I've grown tired of the ultra slick production and radio stations have played the big hits to death over the years.