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Randy Terry

I'm all about what is my most listened to album, my second most and so on, the proof is in the # of plays! in 1997 I started tracking my plays over 24 years, 76,000 plays total, with 10,000 titles in my collection it's not easy getting played! I don't need a review about what Led Zep 2 sounds like, we all know what it sounds like. How does it rate against other records? I did not see reviews like that so I'm doing reviews based on plays, most played first! Thanks for the likes, enjoy!

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Randy Terry's Album Reviews

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!
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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.
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My most played album # 56. Rush - A Farewell To Kings. The fifth studio album was released in September 1977. An amazing 8 piece band from Wollongong, Australia! They were going to be a 9 piece but the cowbell player could not kick his addiction to green M&M's so he was finally dropped from the band, so no cowbell on this one. They got a hit off this one, Closer to the heart a second single was released "Cinderella Man". You have to check out Cygnus X-1 and Xanadu. Some guy tried to tell me a 3 piece from Canada. Yea right. First of all, 3 people could not make all those noises and people in Canada have frozen hands so they can't play guitar, I call fake news! Anyway a killer album! #11 in Canada, no gold? Amazing!
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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!
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My most played album # 35. Van Halen - Women and Children First. “And The cradle will Rock”, “Everybody wants some”, “Fools” and “Romeo's Delight”. One of the best album sides ever! Love this record, this was a must play at every party from 1980-1985! Have you seen Jr’s Grades? I was a Senior in High school when this came out, that hit home so did “Take Your Whiskey Home” as in don’t do it better drink it at the party so your mom does not catch you! This is my second most played Van Halen because #1 and 1984 got played to death; this one is still pretty fresh! “Could This Be Magic?” Another great song! “Romeo's Delight” is just beautiful it’s amazing it got so little airplay!
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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.
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Album of the day #32. The Sweet - Give Us A Wink. The whole album rocks! All the bands love to cover the song “Action”, that song has been covered by Def Leppard, Vince Neil, Black n Blue, The Scorpions and Raven. Yesterday's Rain is the most watched song from the album on youtube. "Healer" just mesmerizes me every time I hear it! Look out "Lady Starlight" is missing from the RCA release!
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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.
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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?
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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.
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