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My 2nd most played album! Van Halen Fair Warning! The first Van Halen is my favorite but we burned that one out so these days I grab Fair Warning the most! Mean Street and Dirty Movies two of the greatest songs ever! So This Is Love? Should have been the huge radio hit but got overlooked! Named guitar players magazine's #4 albums of all time! Rating albums from 1-10 I gave this album a 9.878 making it the 122th best album ever made! 48 plays on my ipod. Always fresh!

My 1,369th most played album. ZZ Top - El Loco. The seventh studio album was released in 1981. Sold 500,000 peaked at # 17 on the charts. A groovy little blues album it’s tons of fun! "Tube Snake Boogie" went to #4. "Pearl Necklace" peaked at # 28. Two great hits but more great music, "I Wanna Drive You Home", "Ten Foot Pole" and "Party on the Patio" all should have been hits! "Leila" was the first single that did not chart and in my opinion was about the 7th best song on the album and slowed the record down being the first single.

My most played album #69. U2 - Rattle and Hum. The Cd was a massive success! The CD sold 14 million copies worldwide, topped the charts at #1 in 9 countries! "Desire" the first single topped the charts at #1 in 6 countries including the U.S.! "Angel of Harlem" topped the charts at #1 in 3 countries including the U.S.! "God Part II" the third single topped the charts at #8 in the U.S.! "When Love Comes to Town" went to #1 in Ireland and #2 in the U.S. an amazing performance from BB King. "All I Want Is You" the fifth single from the CD peaked at #1 in Ireland and #13 in the U.S.! More great songs; The most powerful version of "Bullet the Blue Sky" ever! "Love Rescue Me", "Angel of Harlem", U2 talks about Africa in "Silver and Gold" talks about injustice and calls on the religious leaders to make it better, U2 one of the greatest bands of all time.

My 1,414th most played album. Coverdale–Page - Self Titled. Was released on 15 March 1993. Sold a million peaked at # 5 on the charts. A collaborative studio album by English singer David Coverdale and guitarist Jimmy Page. I was hoping for more in 1993 yet now it sounds great. Every song is great, it just sounds great now. Best songs are; "Pride and Joy", "Shake My Tree", "Take Me for a Little While", "Take a Look at Yourself" and "Over Now". Give this one a spin it might surprise you.

My 206th most played album. The Beatles - 67-70. The 12th best selling album of all time at 17 million, perhaps the greatest collection of songs ever?

My 185th most played album. Kansas - 1st self titled 1974. Such a familiar story music genius practices in the garage for years, puts the most amazing music ever made on their first album but nobody knows them so they don’t listen, years later these geniuses release a song that blows everybody away and yet the early stuff, the best stuff goes unnoticed! “Journey from Mariabronn” A masterpiece their best song ever? "Death of Mother Nature Suite" Another song best ever? "Can I Tell You" A song that a band would work on for years and use as the first song ever! "Lonely Wind" that should have been a hit. "Bringing It Back" their only cover, just magic! The album cover depicts abolitionist John Brown in a scene from Tragic Prelude, a mural by Kansas native John Steuart Curry. The original mural is painted on a wall at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.

My 1053rd most played album. Supertramp - ...Famous Last Words... The seventh album was released in October 1982. I remember putting this on my gift list October 82, my mom bought it for me, I remember I couldn't wait to play it. I loved it from the first play, the song "It's Raining Again" was getting airplay already went to #5. A follow up to Breakfast in America. I really loved the song "C'est le bon" crazy about the lyrics that describe my life at the time, I was working in a factory but wanted to be a musician. “I took a tip from the man in the ministry, He said, "My son, better work in the factory" Well there were days I can tell you quite honestly I saw myself winding up in the military So lucky to have all this music A-coming to me“ "My Kind of Lady" was the second single from the record did pretty good peaked at #31 billboard #16 Billboard Adult Contemporary. "Crazy" another big favorite of mine went to #10. "Don't Leave Me Now" peaked at #32. "Waiting So Long" the fifth single peaked at #30. The album did go gold and almost sold 2 million worldwide. This is one of my lifetime favorites!

My 98th most played album. Rainbow - Rising. Ronnie James Dio at it’s finest! Let’s throw in Ritchie Blackmore on guitar! Tony Carey on keys, Cozy Powell on drums and Jimmy Bain on bass this was a super super group! Yet you may have never heard even one song from this fine album! I have never heard a single track on the radio from this album! In issue 4 of Kerrang magazine Rising was voted the greatest heavy metal album of all time, In 2017, it was ranked 48th at Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". Yet the radio missed it completely! In my opinion "Tarot Woman" is one of the greatest songs ever produced! Also the songs you never heard. "Run with the Wolf", "Starstruck", "Do You Close Your Eyes", "Stargazer" and "A Light in the Black". Spin it you will thank me later.

My 103rd most played album. Jethro Tull - Aqualung. The fourth studio album was released on 19 March 1971. Sold 3 million in the U.S. peaked at #7 on the charts. Aqualung has widely been regarded as a concept album, featuring a central theme of "the distinction between religion and God". 3 million sold putting Jethro on the top of the rock heap in 1971! Ian's wife wrote the lyrics to Aqualung, amazing crazy lyrics I did not think a lady could think that way. Rolling Stone’s 337th greatest albums of all time on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. "Locomotive Breath", "Aqualung" and "Cross-Eyed Mary" Three of the greatest rock songs in history never released as singles and never charted yet dominated my radio for 15 years. "Hymn 43", "Mother Goose" and "Wind-Up" also had lots of airtime back in the day.

Album of the day # 1,130. Wings - At the Speed of Sound. The fifth album was released on 25 March 1976. Sold 3.5 million worldwide, platinum in America peaked at #1. Two huge singles "Silly Love Songs" a great answer to his critics and a wonderful love song on an album filled with love songs. "Let 'Em In" a song that got played to death on the radio in the day but sounds great now. "Beware My Love" was never released, yet was also played constantly in 76. "Time to Hide" another great song that was sung and written by guitarist Denny Laine. "Must Do Something About It" another great song that got played and sung by drummer Joe English. "She's My Baby" turned Linda to gravy, how sweet, another great song.