http://cheevyjames.com Album Reviews, Concert Reviews and Other Great Stuff! Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:06:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Released: 1990 Tracks: [Disc 1] Running Free; Burning Ambition; Sanctuary; Drifter (live); I’ve Got the Fire (live); [Disc 2] Women in Uniform; Invasion; Phantom of the Opera (live); Twilight Zone; Wrathchild; [Disc 3] Purgatory; Genghis Khan; Running Free (live); Remember Tomorrow (live); Killers (live); Innocent Exile (live); [Disc 4] Run to ... http://cheevyjames.com/album_reviews/maiden-first10years Released: 1969 Tracks: Yellow Submarine; Only a Northern Song; All Together Now; Hey Bulldog; It’s All Too Much; All You Need is Love; Pepperland; Sea of Time; Sea of Holes; Sea of Monsters; March of the Meanies; Pepperland Laid Waste; Yellow Submarine in Pepperland Best track: It’s All Too Much Track to skip: ... http://cheevyjames.com/album_reviews/beatles-yellowsub I’m a few days late with this, big deal.  Just like the list of Top Historical/Archival albums for the decade I wanted to put together a list of my favorite new albums from the past decade.  Live albums can count in here, but only if they’re released right after the ... http://cheevyjames.com/other/top20_2000-2009 It’s time for everyone’s best _____ of the decade/year to come out so I thought I’d contribute a bit. I decided to split up the “best albums of the decade” because I think that the accomplishments in NEW albums should be singled out from the archival stuff. We’ll get to ... http://cheevyjames.com/other/top10archival_2000-2009 Released: 1988 Tracks: Moonchild; Infinite Dreams; Can I Play With Madness; The Evil That Men Do; Seventh Son of a Seventh Son; The Prophecy; The Clairvoyant; Only the Good Die Young Best track: The Clairvoyant Track to skip: Can I Play With Madness (yuck) Can I Play With Madness absolutely ruins the flow of ... http://cheevyjames.com/album_reviews/maiden-seventhson Released: 1969 Tracks: Come Together; Something; Maxwell’s Silver Hammer; Oh! Darling; Octopus’s Garden; I Want You (She’s So Heavy); Here Comes the Sun; Because; You Never Give Me Your Money; Sun King; Mean Mr. Mustard; Polythene Pam; She Came in Through the Bathroom Window; Golden Slumbers; Carry That Weight; The End; ... http://cheevyjames.com/album_reviews/beatles-abbeyroad The Beatles are releasing newly-remastered versions of their catalog on September 9th (09/09/09…number 9, number 9…geddit?) and I’m seriously disappointed that they’ve chosen to continue this absurd notion of the “Past Masters”.  When The Beatles’ albums were finally released on CD in 1988 they decided to release 2 additional CDs ... http://cheevyjames.com/blog/why-do-we-need-the-past-masters Released: 1973 Tracks: The Song Remains the Same; The Rain Song; Over the Hills and Far Away; The Crunge; Dancing Days; D’yer Mak’er; No Quarter; The Ocean Best track: The Rain Song Track to skip: D’yer Mak’er It was bound to happen sometime – Led Zeppelin’s first (slight) misstep.  In comparing Houses of the ... http://cheevyjames.com/album_reviews/ledzep-houses Released: 1991 Tracks: [Disc 1 – 1969-1971] 21st Century Schizoid Man; I Talk to the Wind; Epitaph; Moonchild (edit); In the Court of the Crimson King; Peace – A Theme; Cat Food (single edit); Groon; Cadence and Cascade (remix); The Sailor’s Tale (abridged); Ladies of the Road; Bolero (remix); [Disc 2 ... http://cheevyjames.com/album_reviews/crimson-framebyframe The Mongol Beach Party – w/ The Afterparty (19th) & The Last Call Girls (20th) 12/19-20/08 - The Record Bar, Kansas City, MO Setlist for the 20th: Set 1: Scrumptious, Big Game, M – For Show, Plans & Ideas, Red Shift, Strange, Remiss, What I Find, Drive, The Grind, The Grind (Away) Set 2: ... http://cheevyjames.com/concert-reviews/12-19_20-08