Tony concludes his week long look at Def Leppard with a career retrospective aided by an study of their comprehensive greatest hits release, "Rock of Ages: The Definitive Collection"
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There might never have been a more ironic album title – outside of Poison's Greatest Hits, maybe. This is the kind of cheese Chumbawumba spun a few years ago, and it's bound to have the same effect. (2.5 stars)
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Try mixing terrible performances, quality that pisses on your senses, bare-bone extras, and over two hours of wasted time into one sh*t-filled package that'll make Kreator fans wish they never even considered coughing up money in the first place.
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Do you like Lettuce? Even if you don't like the vegetable, you should get to know and love the band. This is a band that is funk to the core, largely influenced by Parliament. You don't need to listen long to hear the influence (4.5 stars)
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Even the big Southern Rock bands in their heyday of the mid-'70's couldn't tear it up the way the North Mississippi Allstars are doing right now. Some say 'the South's gonna do it again' but I say the North Mississippi Allstars have been doing already (4 stars)
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666: Satan's Soldiers Syndicate also marks nearly two decades since Desaster emerged from Lucifer's home, and with all those years gone, they can still reload fantastic instrumentation like it was nothing.
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Tony continues his look back at Def Leppard. Today he revisits their 2003 tour for X where they played to a near sold out crowd at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago. Tony was floored that they were able to sell 11,000 plus seats for a show that had zero promotion.
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It's sad to see a band with a little bit of talent or ability in a particular style of music insist on doing a second-rate imitation of something else. Harsh words, perhaps, but I'd say it's true. (2.5 stars)
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Every time 'Delusions' penetrates my hearing orifices, I'm brought to a new world in which stellar forms of music's many backgrounds can bend, twist, tangle, and flow within each other and to the beyond. Not a perfect 10, this one goes to 11.
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When people talk about defining albums of the 80's they often mention London Calling, Purple Rain, The Joshua Tree, and Thriller- and hopefully in not too distant future, they'll mention Hysteria. (5 stars)
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This album, titled for the year Kansas (the state the band calls home) became a state, begins with a track ("Gonna Send Ya Back to Georgia") that is bound to get the old boots a-stompin'. (5 stars)
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After reaching out of the grave, this forgotten idol remembered his glory days in Dream Theater, and hobbled along in hopes of finally recapturing that same energy that gave today's progressive legends a boosting start; essentially, Dominici has done it again.
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Fans of true rock and roll, like the Rolling Stones, Kinks, and T-Rex, will no doubt enjoy this CD, despite its faults. Louis XIV have a way of deconstructing rock, distilling it down to its true ingredients, its raw power - and then building it back up and unleashing it (2.5 stars)
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The listener doesn't want to sing along because he/she has no idea what Schwandt's going on about. Morris Day once memorably told Prince in Purple Rain, "Nobody understands your music but you." And the same can be said of White Light Riot, sadly. (2 stars)
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When viewing this release from a beginning perspective, it might be easy to be lost in the crazy instrumentation, yet that's exactly the point- once you look beyond the chaos and discover the inner beauty it emits, you'll love every bombastic anthem it radiates.
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This is catchy alternative rock at its finest, and if you want a break from cookie-cutter emo, Nickelback clones, and generic indie music (a whole 'nother rant in itself), run out and pick this one up. You won't be disappointed. (4.5 stars)
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Def Leppard's 11th studio album, arriving 21 years after mammoth 'Hysteria' and a dozen years past the experimental 'Slang' finds the band not embracing either of those formulas and instead made the finest depiction of their musical philosophy. (4 stars)
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We're looking back at 10 years of antiMusic. This week we're looking back at some highlights of our live coverage through the years. Today antiGUY takes us back to the The Cult's 2001 tour that also featured Stabbing Westward, Monster Magnet and Bird3.
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This year was the fifth outing for the McDowell Mountain Music Festival, Arizona's premiere jam band event. About 10,000 people attended the two-day party, grooving to over a dozen bands including headliners Gov't Mule and the John Butler Trio.
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We're looking back at 10 years of antiMusic. This week we're looking back at some highlights of our live coverage through the years. Today Tony looks back on one of the most unforgettable shows he has ever witnessed-- courtesy of Pearl Jam.
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I'm sure this album will probably win her a Grammy for best spoken word album. We all can thank the writer's strike that led to such intense boredom that led Scarlett to pursue something that would have her reciting speeches in a different media.
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