#853 Mariah Carey – Butterfly

I was a fan of Mariah Carey from day one of hearing her eponymous 1990 debut album. Her voice was so effortlessly beautiful, but she was needed to improve on her songwriting skills. The album was mostly ballads with a few dance tunes. Carey continued to grow lyrically and musically on each album. I remained […]

#289 Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Bernie Taupin and Elton John were the perfect team of lyricist and musician. John would never have been as famous without Taupin. That can be proved by the brief period in the late 70s and early 80s until Too Low for Zero when he worked with other writers and his album sales slumped. I did not […]

#221 Elton John – Madman Across The Water

Madman Across The Water is Elton John‘s fourth studio album. His first album was considered terrible, but things turned around with his self-titled second album. “Your Song” was the B-side to “Take Me to the Pilot” that DJs preferred and it became a hit. The other gem is “The Greatest Discovery“. Madman Across The Water gave his […]

#145 The Who – Tommy

The Who is not a band I am looking forward to listening to again. Before I listen to the album Tommy I will say that Pete Townshend is the talented member of the band. He wrote almost the whole rock opera that tells the story about a “deaf, dumb and blind” boy. Like The Beatles, The […]

1001 Albums #78

The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is not an album I was looking forward to listening to even though the previous album Revolver showed some potential. Hopefully, the trend of featuring one of the members on a song continues. I hated their voices as one on the previous albums. The title of the album is great. It sounds depressing. I have heard the first song “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” […]

1001 Albums #56

Bert Jansch self-titled album Bert Jansch is one I have never heard of. I have never heard of Bert Jansch either. Perhaps it has to do with him singing folk music and being from Scotland. I really do not know a lot about folk music, except that they all go to festivals and where old clothing from 500 A.D. England. I think they […]

1001 Albums #8

The “Chirping” Crickets by The Crickets is not something I had ever heard of, at least I thought so until I heard the first song “Oh Boy!” The reason many of us would not know this band is because its lead singer, writer and talent had died in a plane crash. The plane crash was […]