Smitty's Album Review

With 4 big songs on side one of this album, worth taking time to listen to before Styx got into the MTV Mr. Roboto phase. Album looks like it should be a double album from out side but it is a single record. Check it out!

Well it has been a while, but life happens right? I am a huge fan of Sergio Mendes and this album that I recently bought reminds me of some of the Grooviest music to come out in the Summer of Love-1967. Featuring the hits "The Look of Love" and "Look Around", it is worth a listen to for sure! Enjo!

Wow- never knew that I had something that was not what I thought it was. Created back in 1970 to showcase singles not released in Amercia. Worth a spin if you can find it and hope it is not beat up:)

The first album I bought when I got back into vinyl in 2020. Holds so many memories and worth every penny if you love Christmas as much as I do. Back to a time when music was more then MP3's and videos, just listening to this takes you back to 1970. Give it a spin!

The album that kicked off the 1980's! Its Billy Joel doing more rock then previous two albums, and has the first #1 hit for him in "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" First side is great....almost flawless, second side is not as strong, but worth listening to and giving it a spin!

What else is there to know about the album that has two of their biggest hits in "Fox on the Run" and "Ballroom Blitz" Fun album and worth a spin!

One of the biggest albums of 1974. Huge hits like "Jet", "Helen Wheels" and "Band on the Run" make this album a great listen. The song "Blue Bird" is one of my all time favorites and I would tell you to listen to it and put a smile on your face!

What can I say? This album has more plays by me then any other album I own. Loved it as a teenager and to this day it still is a killer ROCK album. "Light My Fire", "Break on Through" and the "End" are on it, but other songs like "Take it as it comes" and "Soul Kitchen" are just AWESEOME!

From the man who was the back bone for many of the greatness of Pink Floyd- comes David Gilmours second studio album. With songs like- "Out of the Blue", "Murder" and "Until we Sleep", it is a phenominal album to listen and enjoy.

Considered by many to be the best debut rock album of all time. This album hits from start to finish! Listen to it again and again- it still sounds great today as it did in 1977.

Sixth studio album from Supertramp. More sentimental to me then most- one of the last albums my brother Doug bought and we listened to before he died at 19.5 years of age. Produced 3 huge hits- Logical Song, Goodbye Stranger and Take the Long Way Home. Worth listening to for that feeling of rock that is a little softer then I remember it....

Considered by many to be one of the best albums of all time, this 1971 is a masterpiece. This is the SOUL of the early 70's and reflects the chaotic times they were, with racial injustice and the Vietnam War. Short album in time, but worth listening to over and over again.....

A truley flawless double LP that is as good today as when it was released in 1973. More then just- "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Candle in the Wind, Saturday Nights Allright for Fighting and Harmony" it Elton John/Bernie Taupin GOLD!!

A great concept album that brings classical music into progressive rock like no other....

Topal was incredible in the movie and Isaac Stern and John Williams bring this movie to life in song and score. This is an album that takes to back to when the songs of this play were on music boxes everywhere.

The first of three collaborations between Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong! It is more then just a great album, it is a moment in time when two extrordinary artists came to gether to make a great album!

Most everyone knows "The Girl from Ipanema" but this album is so much more. Listen to the review of one of the albums that kicked off the Bosa Nova movement in the 1960's.

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