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DVD Review: Classic Albums Series - Bob Marley And The Wailers - Catch A Fire
While Bob Marley's Catch A Fire didn't break reggae music wide open in America in the way intended, it clearly laid the groundwork.
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DVD Review: Classic Albums Series: U2 - The Joshua Tree
With The Joshua Tree, U2 entered a very unique part of the rock and roll stratosphere. They became important.
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DVD Review: Classic Albums Series - The Who: Who's Next
For The Who, the question as to how to follow Tommy was not so much "Who" as "What's Next?"
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Music Review: Jeff Beck - Truth, and The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola Enhanced Editions
Somewhere in another life, the original Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood could have well turned out to be Led Zeppelin.
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Music Review: The US vs John Lennon Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD)
Are there better career retrospectives of John Lennon out there? Sure. But none capture Lennon the "national threat" like this Soundtrack does.
With the most effective use of music in its stories since Miami Vice, Cold Case is as smart as TV cop dramas get.
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Music Review: The Black Crowes Who Killed That Bird Out On Your Window Sill... The Movie(DVD); Freak 'N' Roll.. Into The Fog-All Join Hands The Fillmore, San Francisco (CD)
I always knew the Black Crowes were probably this good, but I have honestly never heard them sound as good as they do on Freak 'N' Roll.
Bob Seger has always had it exactly right. Hit 'em where they live. But don't hammer 'em over the head.
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Music Review: Electric Light Orchestra - On The Third Day, Face The Music, A New World Record (Remastered Versions)
Nobody quite mixed the ambitious reach of seventies symphonic rock, with the ear for a great pop hook the way Jeff Lynne's ELO did.
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Music DVD Review: The Old Grey Whistle Test Vol. 3
Old and grey, my fifty-something ass! Here's a collection of rare performances that were the true "whistle test" of classic rock.
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