By the release of their third album, 1975's Dressed to Kill, Kiss were fast becoming America's top rock concert attraction, yet their record sales up to this point did not reflect their ticket sales. Casablanca label head Neil Bogart decided to take matters into his own hands, and produced the new record along with the band. The result is more vibrant sounding than its predecessor, 1974's sludgefest Hotter Than Hell, and the songs have more of an obvious pop edge to them. The best-known song on the album by far is the party anthem "Rock and Roll All Nite," but it was the track "C'Mon and Love Me" that became a regional hit in the Detroit area, giving the band their first taste of radio success. Since the band was on the road for a year straight, songs such as "Room Service" and "Ladies in Waiting" dealt with life on the road (i.e., groupies), and a pair of songs were reworked from Kiss' precursor band, Wicked Lester ("Love Her All I Can" and "She"). With Dressed to Kill's Top 40 showing on the Billboard charts, the stage was now set for Kiss' big commercial breakthrough with their next release.

1 Room Service
2 Two Timer
3 Ladies in Waiting
4 Getaway
5 Rock Bottom
6 C'mon and Love Me
7 Anything for My Baby
8 She
9 Love Her All I Can
10 Rock and Roll All Nite

The pressure was on Kiss for their fifth release, and the band knew it. Their breakthrough, Alive!, was going to be hard to top, so instead of trying to recreate a concert setting in the studio, they went the opposite route. Destroyer is one of Kiss' most experimental studio albums, but also one of their strongest and most interesting. Alice Cooper/Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin was on hand, and he strongly encouraged the band to experiment, there's extensive use of sound effects (the album's untitled closing track), the appearance of a boy's choir ("Great Expectations"), and an orchestra-laden, heartfelt ballad ("Beth"). But there's plenty of Kiss' heavy thunder rock to go around, such as the demonic "God of Thunder" and the sing-along anthems "Flaming Youth," "Shout It Out Loud," "King of the Night Time World," and "Detroit Rock City" (the latter a tale of a doomed concert-goer, complete with violent car-crash sound effects). But it was the aforementioned Peter Criss ballad, "Beth," that made Destroyer such a success; the song was a surprise Top Ten hit (it was originally released as a B-side to "Detroit Rock City"). Also included is a song that Nirvana would later cover ("Do You Love Me?"), as well as an ode to the pleasures of S&M, "Sweet Pain." Destroyer also marked the first time that a comic-book illustration of the band appeared on the cover, confirming that the band was transforming from hard rockers to superheroes.

1 Detroit Rock City
2 King of the Night Time World
3 God of Thunder
4 Great Expectations
5 Flaming Youth
6 Sweet Pain
7 Shout It Out Loud
8 Beth
9 Do You Love Me

Love Gun was Kiss' fifth studio album in three years (and seventh release overall, peaking at number four on Billboard), and proved to be the last release that the original lineup played on. By 1977, Kiss merchandise was flooding the marketplace (lunch boxes, makeup kits, comic books, etc.), and it would ultimately lead to a Kiss backlash in the '80s. But the band was still focused on their music for Love Gun, similar in sound and approach to their previous straight-ahead rock release, Rock and Roll Over. It included Ace Frehley's lead vocals on "Shock Me" as well as one of Kiss' best and most renowned hard rockers in the thunderous title track. The album's opener, "I Stole Your Love," also served as the opening number on Kiss' ensuing tour, while "Christine Sixteen" is one of the few Kiss tracks to contain piano prominently. "Almost Human" is an underrated rocker and features a great Jimi Hendrix-esque guitar solo from Frehley (no doubt due to ex-Hendrix producer Eddie Kramer manning the boards again), while "Plaster Caster" is a tribute to the famous groupies of the same name.


1 I Stole Your Love
2 Christine Sixteen
3 Got Love for Sale
4 Shock Me
5 Tomorrow and Tonight
6 Love Gun
7 Hooligan
8 Almost Human
9 Plaster Caster
10 Then She Kissed Me

The roots of the spinoff heavy metal band Hellyeah date back to a 2003 tour by Mudvayne and Nothingface, after which singer Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbett from the former combined with guitarist Tom Maxwell and bassist Jerry Montano from the latter in a songwriting session. Conflicting schedules kept the project on hold for several years, until, during hiatuses from their usual commitments, the musicians reconvened with former Pantera and Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul. The result is not exactly a "supergroup," but it is a collection of musicians who came in knowing what they were doing. Their album is a competent example of its genre, in which Tribbett and Maxwell combine to create crushing riffs over the pummeling rhythm section of Montano and Paul, while Gray howls typically enraged, expletive-littered lyrics to songs with titles like "Hellyeah," "Goddamn," and "Rotten to the Core." The aggressive attitude gives way on "Star," a song of romantic devotion as unfettered in its expression of gentle feelings as the other songs are of belligerent ones. Also dialed down from the usual thrash is the hard rock ballad "Thank You," a sort of musical version of the extensive acknowledgements section that occupies as much space in the CD booklet as the lyric sheet ("Thank you! Mother/Thank you! Father/Thank you! Brother," etc.). It's easy to imagine Hellyeah becoming a main occupation for the bandmembers, even though the music doesn't constitute a notable variation from their other affiliations.

1 Hellyeah
2 You Wouldn't Know
3 Matter of Time
4 Waging War
5 Alcohaulin' Ass
6 Goddamn
7 In the Mood
8 Star
9 Rotten to the Core
10 Thank You
11 Nausea H
12 One Thing

Somewhere Back in Time - The Best of: 1980 - 1989 is a best of album by the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, containing a selection of songs from the first seven Iron Maiden albums. It was released in conjunction with the band's Somewhere Back In Time World Tour to allow new fans to listen to a selection of the band's material that was played on the tour.The album cover features the Pharaoh Eddie monument from Powerslave and Cyborg Eddie from Somewhere in Time. In addition, the Iron Maiden logo is colored blue with a gold outline - the same colors used in Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.




1. (00:50) - (VBR 185 kbit/s) Churchill's Speech
2. (04:38) - (VBR 215 kbit/s) Aces High - Live
3. (06:02) - (VBR 223 kbit/s) 2 Minutes To Midnight
4. (04:12) - (VBR 203 kbit/s) The Trooper
5. (05:07) - (VBR 226 kbit/s) Wasted Years
6. (04:37) - (VBR 211 kbit/s) Children Of The Damned
7. (04:52) - (VBR 231 kbit/s) The Number Of The Beast
8. (03:54) - (VBR 237 kbit/s) Run To The Hills
9. (07:11) - (VBR 225 kbit/s) Phantom Of The Opera - Live
10. (04:35) - (VBR 218 kbit/s) The Evil That Men Do
11. (03:05) - (VBR 232 kbit/s) Wrathchild - Live
12. (03:32) - (VBR 208 kbit/s) Can I Play With Madness
13. (06:48) - (CBR 192 kbit/s) Powerslave
14. (07:14) - (VBR 219 kbit/s) Hallowed Be Thy Name
15. (04:21) - (VBR 211 kbit/s) Live

Live album from the Foo Fighters focusing on the acoustic numbers from the band's latest album "In Your Honor." Includes performances from the band with supporting performers on violin, keyboard, percussion, and more.

Track List:

1. Razor
2. Over And Out
3. Walking After You
4. Marigold
5. My Hero
6. Next Year
7. Another Round
8. Big Me
9. Cold Day In The Sun
10. Skin And Bones
11. February Stars
12. Times Like These
13. Friend Of A Friend
14. Best Of You
15. Everlong

Unlike previous collections Epic has assembled, the double-disc The Very Best of Meat Loaf draws not only from his recordings for the label, but it also licenses his '90s comeback recordings for MCA. Which means, of course, that the 20-track collection is, indeed, the "very best" of Meat Loaf. Not all of his charting hits are here ? "What You See Is What You Get," his 1971 single with Stoney, is absent, as is "I'm Gonna Love Her for the Both of Us," the only hit he had between the two Bat out of Hell albums ? but all of the key album tracks from the two blockbusters are here, along with highlights from the sequels to the sequel, which means everything that anyone but a die-hard Meat Loaf fan could want is on this collection: ("Paradise by the Dashboard Light," "Two out of Three Ain't Bad," "You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth," "Bat out of Hell," "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)," "Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through," "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are," and a remix of "Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back"). That said, it is true that either the two Bat out of Hell albums are a more cohesive listen than this set, simply because they were designed as complete albums. Consequently, casual fans may be just as happy to purchase those two discs, which will set them back about as much as The Very Best of Meat Loaf, but anyone who wants all the hits on one set should pick this up

1 Home by Now/No Matter What
2 Life Is a Lemon and I Want My Money Back [Remix]
3 You Took the Words Right out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
4 Two out of Three Ain't Bad
5 Modern Girl
6 Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through
7 Is Nothing Sacred
8 Paradise by the Dashboard Light
9 Heaven Can Wait
10 I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
11 A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
12 I'd Lie for You (And That's the Truth)
13 Not a Dry Eye in the House
14 Nocturnal Pleasure
15 Dead Ringer for Love
16 Midnight at the Lost and Found
17 Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
18 Bat out of Hell

the best of the Fighters' great catalog. Disc one features a solid set of heavy, guitar-driven tracks, while disc two explores the more introspective side of frontman Dave Grohl. While early in their career, they were - justifiably - often labeled as cashing in on former Nirvana drummer Grohl's connection to the iconic Seattle band, the Fighters have come into their own with this set, completing a growth begun in The Colour and the Shape (1998).

Disc 1 Tracks

1. In your Honor
2. No Way Back
3. Best of You
4. DOA
5. Hell
6. The Last Song
7. Free Me
8. Resolve
9. The Deepest Blues are Black
10. End Over End


Disc 2 Tracks

1. Still
2. What if I Do?
3. Miracle
4. Another Round
5. Friend of A Friend
6. Over and Out
7. On the Mend
8. Virginia Moon
9. Cold Day In the Sun
10. Razor

Elegies is a live DVD released by Machine Head, recorded at the Brixton Academy in London, England. The concert was recorded in December of 2004, but the DVD was released on October 11, 2005.
This live ''cd'' is a great example of a metal band live.
I had the pleasure of seeing them live last year and all I can say is wow

1. Intro ("Ave Satani")
2. Imperium
3. Seasons Wither
4. Old
5. Bulldozer
6. Days Turn Blue to Gray
7. The Blood, the Sweat, The Tears
8. Ten Ton Hammer
9. The Burning Red
10. In the Presence Of My Enemies
11. Take My Scars
12. Descend The Shades Of Night
13. Davidian
14. Block

The Red Hot Chili Peppers' eighth studio album finds the California foursome exploring the more melodic freeways of harmony and texture, contrasting the gritty, funky side streets of their early days. Luckily, with this more sophisticated sound, the Peppers have not sacrificed any of their trademark energy or passions for life, universal love, and (of course) lust. Although they recorded the spiky Abbey Road EP in 1988, this album actually sounds a lot closer to the Beatles' Abbey Road, with a little of Pet Sounds and elements of Phil Spector's lushest arrangements all distilled through the band's well-traveled funk-pop stylings. Harmony vocals and string arrangements have replaced some of the aggressive slap bass that the group was initially recognized for, but fans of both the gentle and the fierce Chili Peppers styles will embrace the title track and first single, "By the Way." In fact, this song on its own could almost be a brief history of everything the Red Hot Chili Peppers have recorded: fiery Hollywood funk, gentle harmonies, a little bit of singing about girls, a little bit of hanging out in the streets in the summertime, some rapid-fire raps from Anthony Kiedis, some aggro basslines from Flea ? the song plays like a three-and-a-half-minute audio version of Behind the Music. Overall, the album leans more toward the melodic end of their oeuvre, but they have grown into this kinder, gentler mode organically, progressively working toward this groove little by little, album by album. What once were snapshots of a spastic punk-funk lifestyle have grown into fully realized short stories of introspection and Californication. Though the pace of the album falters at times (particularly in the verses; the choruses are all pretty spectacular), it is refreshing to see that as the four Chili Peppers continue to grow older and more sure of themselves, their composition and performing skills are maturing along with them.

1 By the Way
2 Universally Speaking
3 This Is the Place
4 Dosed
5 Don't Forget Me
6 The Zephyr Song
7 Can't Stop
8 I Could Die for You
9 Midnight
10 Throw Away Your Television
11 Cabron
12 Tear
13 On Mercury
14 Minor Thing
15 Warm Tape
16 Venice Queen