“Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor” is often dismissed (and justifiably so) as a reflection of Black Sabbath’s late ‘70s decline, but it’s also a reflection of heavy metal’s overall shift into hard rock near decade’s end, under pressure to fit into increasingly regimented, unadventurous radio...
Butler admitted the record is "one of the few metal albums I could listen to from beginning to end. I really enjoyed listening to it. There are very few albums of any genre that I can listen to from track one to the end. It's one of those albums that I could listen to the whole...
“Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor” is often dismissed (and justifiably so) as a reflection of Black Sabbath’s late ‘70s decline, but it’s also a reflection of heavy metal’s overall shift into hard rock near decade’s end, under pressure to fit into increasingly regimented, unadventurous radio...
Black Sabbath, of course, as one of the main building blocks of heavy metal itself, have plenty of great songs to choose from. The 10 songs included in this poll — everything from the proto-doom of the titular "Black Sabbath" to the punk-minded thud of "Paranoid" — are emblematic ...
It feels crass to pigeonhole any genre with one definitive album, but if needs must then 90 would surely be it for acid house. Certainly it is an album to which British electronic music owes a huge debt, helping pave the way for musicians on these isles to reinterpret rather than ape the...
By all accounts, Warrant’s ‘Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich’ is a more formidable effort than its successor, even if it doesn’t have an genre-defining (non ballad) hit. “Sometimes She Cries” and “Heaven” are the two ballads that were certainly of no detriment to the band’s ...
A marked distaste for any kind of genre “crossover” That 1979-1985 was a bad era for music in general, particularly for artists who sought to “update” the sound that made them famous for the mirage of “New Wave” (in some cases, my reaction to these records was so violent that ...
Jackson Browne (1974):Browne was in his mid 20s when he wrote this melancholic song cycle about crumbling relationships. Songs like "Fountain of Sorrow" and the title track pretty much crowned him as the era's definitive singer-songwriter on the subject, and one of the genre's most influent...
Among them, these songs should provide you with a solid foundation on which to build and specialize in your preferred genre. Some of these songs can be played from beginning to end by an intermediate guitarist, while others have sections that you will be able to play as you progress to mor...
Jackson Browne (1974):Browne was in his mid 20s when he wrote this melancholic song cycle about crumbling relationships. Songs like "Fountain of Sorrow" and the title track pretty much crowned him as the era's definitive singer-songwriter on the subject, and one of the genre's most influent...