After much deliberation and soul searching I decided that I cannot just discard the following albums from consideration. TEN albums was just too few to nail down ... so on any given day these would also be contenders for the top 10
- HM1 Spanish Train & Other Stories - Chris De Burgh
The title track is a story about a train carrying the souls of the dead to the Underworld. Jesus and Lucifer are playing Poker - gambling with the souls. Lucifer cheats and wins the game. The song finishes with the stanza:
And far away in some recess
The Lord and the Devil are now playing chess,
The Devil still cheats and wins more souls,
And as for the Lord, well, he's just doing his best...
Spanish Train
The song was deemed blasphemous in South Africa, and a ban was ordered. A&M records sued to get the ban overturned - the suit was eventually successful. However, while the suit was in progress, A&M released the album under the title "Lonely Sky and Other Stories" (without "Spanish Train"). This album is considered a collector's item today - copies are extremely rare. Perversely, the ban only applied to the LP record, so the cassette issue of Spanish Train was always freely available.
Just Another Poor Boy
Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
This music kept me company for years and years .... I know every word of every track!!
Bat Out of Hell
Bat Out of Hell was released by Cleveland International Records in October 1977. However, at Cleveland International Records' parent label, Epic Records, almost everyone hated it. Bat Out of Hell still sells about 200,000 copies per year and has sold an estimated 43 million copies worldwide,[52][53] including 14 million in the United States[54] and over 1.7 million albums in Australia, where it is the best-selling album in the country and even re-entered the ARIA Charts in June 2007, at number 34.
Source
It has stayed on the UK album chart for 522 weeks, making it the UK's third longest charting studio album behind Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon.
And the softer side of Meatloaf .... man, did I fantasize about 'the girl / girls' down the road to this tune...
Truly, there is not a bad track on this album!! Should be in every music lovers collection.
Heaven Can Wait
Breakfast in America - Supertramp
The Logical Song
In the 1987 edition of The World Critics List, music critic Joel Whitburn ranked Breakfast in America the fourth-greatest album of all time.[22] In the 1994 edition of The Guinness All Time Top 1000 Albums, Breakfast in America was voted No. 207 in the all-time greatest rock and pop albums,[23] and it was voted the 69th-greatest British rock album of all time in a 2006 Classic Rock industry poll.[24] Triple M listeners voted the album No. 43 in the "100 Greatest Albums of All Time".
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https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=supertramp+dreamer
Dreamer
What amazing memories and what humungous talents.... all three of these artists / bands.
I know this post is well...sort of self indulgent... but hey, this is my blog {grin}
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