The Definitive Thousand Foot Krutch album.
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Three afters their 6th offering, the practically perfect Welcome To The Masquerade, Trevor and co returned for 2012 release The End Is Where We Begin. Is it as moving, flawlessly crafted and heavy as Masquerade?

That's up to opinion of course. Music is subjective and every one has their own tastes. The End is is a heavy release that delves into a little bit of everything that's made TFK themselves. There is is a mix of hard rock, nu-metal infused tracks with Trevor rapping in segments again, soft ballads akin to Breath You In and Already Home.... there's honestly everything for everyone in this album. Which to me makes it a perfect entry point for anyone looking to get into these great guys' music, lyrics and message.

Masquerade will probably always be my favorite Thousand Foot Krutch album for its heavy riffs, song variety and just fantastic choruses and song structures. I just love it so much. But The End Is Where We Begin is right up there with it in quality, anyone who enjoys rock or nu-metal needs to check these boys and their music out, as well as the reason they do all this, the redemption and love of Jesus to a dark, chaotic world. We really need more people and musicians like them.

In the end, I couldn't recommend this album more. Give it some listens, at least. You won't be regret a second. Hope I was helpful and steered you toward some songs you enjoy.
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This album represents the culmination of the musical talents of Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, and John Paul Jones. To date, this album has sold over 25 million copies. Black Dog has one of the most recognizable intros in rock history. The song was a perfect introduction to the rest of the albums well-crafted and thought provoking tunes. Rock & Roll is THE rock and roll song that encapsulates everything that rock is and should be, a fast-paced, fun-loving, and joyous compilation of everything rock represents. Misty Mountain Hop features what is arguably the best drum sound of John Bonham's storied career. The bass drum is hard-hitting and driving, as well as being highly precise and nuanced. Four Sticks is a departure from Bonham's usual technique, he employs four woods on this composition giving a sense of extreme urgency to the sound of the song. Going To California is Jimmy Page's stand alone track. He uses arpeggios, sweep picking, and alternate picking to give tonal variation. The song also has a decidedly country and folksy feel to it. Stairway To Heaven, the most requested song in radio airplay history, is a all-encompassing track that goes on for over eight minutes. The song starts slow, but builds in intensity throughout the track with a grand finale, Page, Bonham, and Jones playing at their best. The album closes with When The Levee Breaks, a song that gives the impression to the listener that you are on a long and compelling journey, much like being on a slow moving frieght train. The monotonous drumming of Bonham adds to this effect. This album is undoubtedly a MUST HAVE for ANY rock collection, your musical library is incomplete without it.
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Honky Tonk Heroes is undoubtedly a massive part of Waylon's legacy. It was arguably his most revolutionary album, and the quality of the music is simply unbelievable. It holds up to this day as well as it did when it first hit the shelves. An album that belongs in everybody's home.
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It's hard to believe that 22 years have passed since the original release of this classic album. For me, it's a bit difficult not to be slightly opinionated about "Off The Wall" since I've worn out several vinyl copies(and a couple of CD's too!!) of it playing it at home and on DJ gigs over the years. In spite of hearing these songs countless times, this album has managed to transcend the time in which it was created. Everything from the strength of the songs, to the excellent musicianship and production, "Off The Wall" is a perfect album. At the center of it all is the man himself. Never before or since has Michael sang with that sense of joy and exuberance as he does on this record. Every cut is a standout from "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" to "Burn This Disco Out". While I was hoping for a little more in site from the interviews on the CD, the demos of "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" and "Working Day And Night" alone made the album worth purchasing again. I was very surprised at how fully realized these songs were at this early stage. At long last this album sounds the way it always should have on CD. The new remaster is stunning with all of the ambience and clarity that was missing from the previous CD issue. It was literally like hearing it for the first time. The packaging is nice, although I would have liked to have seen them use the original cover art with Michael's face on the front. An first rate reissue and highly recommended.
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this is without a doubt the best live classic rock album of all time. one reviewer declared " nice to be with you" must be the $ 175.00 song as you can get all the other songs elsewhere. he stands corrected. the 23 minute plus live version of "get ready" is the grand prize on this disc.it stands alone at the summit of great live recorded songs. searched for years for this disc and it is well worth all the searching and the price
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When I have discussions with people about the greatest album in rock history, this is the album I always pick. When you are talking about picking the best from tens of thousands of releases, it can be a huge task. Physical Graffiti is simply a true masterpiece! If you don't own this or if (God forbid) you have never heard this before, you are missing out on the finest moment in classic rock history. It's truly hard to put into words...just buy it!
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This album would not only reconnect Country Music with it's Western Roots, but recreate Marty Robbins' career for many years to come. The majesty of the talented sound of Tompall and the Glaser Brothers, who created the musical imagery with Marty, and the talented acoustic guitar swells that molded the imagery of Marty's music, and symbolism of our Southwestern culture created the perfect stepping stone for Country Music for many years after the release of this album.
These are not merely songs of the old west, but photo-musical imagery created in the fast-moving mind of the author himself. These were video images conjured up by the musical tales created by an extremely talented musician, which the world will long remember and truly miss.
The hero of the piece, "El Paso", is one of the longest single pieces of music ever to become a hit, in any genre, up to the long later intro of Queen, in the genre of rock, many years later. But the length of the piece, not only does not subtract from it's meaning, but helps to add to the imagery created within it's entity.
All of the music in this album contributes to history of Country Music and to the greater history of the Western Genre. No student of Country Music or lover of the same could possibly exist without a copy of this marvelous collection of images and sounds of the old west.
To finish the album by adding, "The Hanging Tree", the theme song from a movie which demonstrated the expansion of our country to the west, was indeed, a measure of divine ingenuity.
No lover of Country Music should be without this album.
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I love this album. I have been listening to their music for countless years, and never tire of it. All the songs here are true classics. Everyone here contributes in their own way. I would place this album as my favourite Fleetwood Mac album (of the Nicks/Buckingham era). This is the album that contains most of Fleetwood Mac's best songs. There is "Rhiannon" that features Stevie Nicks on lead vocals. Go Your Own Way, Dreams,The Chain, Don't Stop and most of their best music. Beside defining 70's hit radio, they were highly influential. You can hear how the next generation of people were influenced by their songwriting style. Just listen to 10,000 Maniacs, Jewel, REM, Smoke Ring Days, Sheryl Crow and dozens of others who were consciously or unconsciously hearing this music. The music of Fleetwood Mac is simply great. their voices, the lyrics, the melodies, the instrumentation, everything.
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The album is an excellent re-construction of the best "classic symphonic rock" album of KAYAK: "Merlin". After 20 years, the band sounds like never before, the orchestra performance is in line with the perfect vocals and musical composition in each track of the album.
This album is definitely in the top 10 progressive, symphonic and classical rock expressions of my collection.
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For those who write Ms. Benatar off, pick up this classic from 1980 and see what you'll say NOW.
Every song on here is magical.
Treat Me Right kicks off the mood for this album and you know from the first line  "You want me to leave, you want me to stay", that you're in for a  killer album.
You Better Run remakes an old 60's song and gives it  headbanging treatment.
Never Wanna Leave You is more in the vein of her  Get Nervous sound, and it's great too.  You see a more playful Pat on this  track that usually lurks behind on the rest.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot  -- who hasn't heard this song?  It's 2:51 of pure perfection.  The song  launched Pat into the superstar stratospeare and has a very nice double  entendre.
Hell Is For Children is one of the most haunting songs ever  recorded.  And it is possibly the greatest record Pat recorded.
Little  Paradise is filler, but it's got a very intresting beat.
Prisoner Of Love  is one of the most melodic tracks on this album. Try to get this song out  of your head.
Wuthering Heights is a remake of a classic Kate Bush  record.  Pat's lounge roots show through on this, she sings like you've  never heard her before.
I'm Gonna Follow You is the most underrated song  of her career.  She even did a video for this song.  Another one of her  highlights.
Out-A-Touch ends the album with a bang.  She proves she's  still a "tough cookie"
DO NOT MISS THIS ALBUM!  It's 20 years  old and it still rocks.
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I love the classic rock sound of the album, impeccable keyboard and organ playing by Don Airey and a great musician line-up on the album. Throughout the record you can hear how several decades of Don's career influence its sound, from his earlier work with various musicians to his last 12 years with Deep Purple. One of my favorite parts of the album is the rock arrangements of some great classical music pieces. And of course, having the late Gary Moore on the record is priceless.
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This is the best Captain Beefheart compliation out there.  It's surprisingly thorough, containing material from almost every album he did, and giving us the "popular" songs along with obscure ones.  It has seven songs from his masterpiece Trout Mask Replica album (though not The Dust Blows Forward, the Dust Blows Back, the title of this compliation), and it has songs from every album he did (except Mirror Man), including the severely underrated Lick My Decals Off, Baby and Clear Spot.  It has some excellent obscurities like Hard Workin' Man from the Blue Collar soundtrack (I didn't even know the Captain did a song from any soundtrack), and a couple of extraordinary tracks from Bongo Fury, a Zappa album where the Captain was a vocalist.  The two songs, Sam with the Showing Scalp Flat Top and Debra Kadabra, are quite extraordinary.  There is, mercifully, only two songs from the Captain's awful "commerical" period (the albums Bluejeans and Moonbeams and Unconditionally Guaranteed), but the two songs they picked aren't bad.  It has some of my personal favorites of the Captain, like Bat Chain Puller (from the album of the same name), Hot Head (from Doc at the Radar Station), and the title track from Ice Cream for Crow.  The album also has excellent liner notes as well.  This is a much more well rounded greatest hits compliation than the ridiculously overpriced, poor quality set Grow Fins (which I regret buying), and it's much cheaper.
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Originally released in 1982, as this was the obscure krautrock band's sole proper lp release - but they do have a later CD release 'Odiszee Parck' (see my review). Didn't realize it at first but Radio Noisz Ensemble consisted of three former members of Emma Myldenberger. Album initially had six tunes total but this well-duplicated (faithfully) CD reissue gives us six added bonus tracks - as some of those are honestly as good as the actual album. Tracks here that I found to be most astounding were the awesome "Space Fasching", the beautifully-played "Der Schafer Von Rotterdam" (with some stunning oboe and flute), the fifteen-minute epic "Der Chrybische Printz / Prettie Fiona" and "Yniverse" (with Mani Neumeier on congas and table). As for the bonus cuts, I enjoyed "Alina" and the well-received "Green Bananas" the most. Overall, a fine obscure title to have.
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A personal favorite of mine since the 1970's, nowadays it still stands high not least because it was initially compiled and sequenced by both Eddie Kramer and Mitch Mitchell - two of Hendrix's closest collaborators. Also, just like on "The Cry of Love", his compositional gifts just kept growing. "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)" has always been the most natural of album-set closers. And his truly superb rock improvisation, the live "Hear My Train A Comin'", has never sounded more punchy. Sound engineer Bernie Grundman has done yeoman's work in detailing the care on this remaster and it's up to the standards of Eddie Kramer's and John Jansen's original 1971 master. All that's missing are the crackles and pops on my U.S. and German vinyl pressings, which have their own character. Still, there's no better excuse for the invention of the electric guitar than the music that made its way here. By the way, there are no special liner notes to this reissue, but the cover art is faithfully redone.
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You'd have to travel "A Good Country Mile" to find a better overall piece of work as a complete album in this day and time.

This is by far some of the best work Kevn Kinney has put out over the course his illustrious career.

"Bird" and "In the Land (of Things That Used to Be)",  are outstanding.

Highly Recommended.
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Finally, this albums get the release it deserves.  Considered to be the last album of Hawkwind's Golden Era and the last to feature Lemmy, this is an incredible follow-up to their masterpiece "Hall of the Mountain Grill".  This was also their first album where they went into the studio cold without any material that had been tested in a live setting.  The results are a bit different; the arrangements were as a whole more solid and not as "free-form" as some of the others had been.  With a load of input from Simon House (who's presence greatly dominates the album in the best way possible), writer/author Michael Moorcock and bandleader David Brock helped lead to tracks such as "Assault and Battery", "Standing at the Edge" and the foreshadowing "Motorhead" (written by bassist/vocalist/icon Lemmy), this is without question a classic record and a stunning testament as to how talented and diverse this band was at the time.  Other tracks such as "Warriors", "Kings of Speed" and Nik Turner's "Dying Seas" are fine examples of just how many cool and different ideas were coming together at the time and the dynamic sounds that it produced.  It's such a shame that this incarnation of the band fell apart during the infamous 1975 U.S. Tour which resulted in the arrest of Lemmy at the Canadian border.  Sadly, this would kill the momentum built up by the band in the States and the band never did recover, but they did continue to make incredible music in the aftermath while Lemmy went on to form the mighty Motorhead.  The bonus cuts on here are spectacular with alternate versions of several tracks such as "The Wizard Blew His Horn" and "Soldiers at the Edge of Time" with different vocals and three live tracks from the Watchfield Free Festival in August of '75.  This is one of the essentials in the saga of Hawkwind.  Get it and love it for life and beyond.
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90 people have bothered to review this album and it still maintains its 5 star rating, despite the fact that the album is radically not to everybody's taste. That should be your first hint that there is something  very special about this CD. My family nearly left me because I became  practically addicted to this album for years, playing it once a day for  months, maybe years, on end. After nearly five decades of listening to  rock, I think this is the most astonishingly original and beautiful album  in rock history. I say this even though after 500 listens, I still do not  know the titles of most of the tracks. The experience of listening to it  more closely approximates classical music than rock, in the sense that  "Loveless" is all of a piece--there is nothing to cut out or  skip. To me the music remains always fresh and challenging not to mention  drop dead gorgeous, though many of my friends think it is the ultimate in  cacophony. No wonder Kevin Shields has never been able to follow this album  up with a new release. How does any artist follow a work of perfection.