2011 CD REVIEWS: click on a link to read the review
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**** very good
*** good
** fair
* poor
Robert Plant - Band of Joy (Es Paranza) ****
Brian Wilson - Reimagines Gershwin (Disney Pearl Series) ****
Spock's Beard - X (Mascot Label Group) ****1/2
Neil Young - Le Noise (Reprise) ****1/2
Santana - Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time (Arista) ***
Phil Collins - Going Back (Atlantic) ***1/2
Halford - Made of Metal (Metal God Records) ****1/2
Doobie Brothers - World Gone Crazy (HOR Records) ****1/2
Anacrusis - Hindsight: Suffering Hour & Reason Revisited (self-release) *****
Dio - At Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987 (Niji) *****
Eric Clapton - Clapton (Reprise) ***
Black Country Communion (J&R Adventures) *****
Mark Newman - Walls of Jericho (Danal Music)****
OMD - History of Modern (Blue Noise) ****
Elton John/Leon Russell - The Union (Decca) *****
Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man (Epitaph) ****
SBB - Blue Trance (Metal Mind Productions) ****
Holy Grail - Crisis In Utopia (Prosthetic) ****
Blind Guardian - At The Edge of Time (Nuclear Blast) ****1/2
Forbidden - Omega Wave (Nuclear Blast) ****
Yaz - Reconnected Live (Mute) ****
Bob Dylan - The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 (Columbia) ****
Heaven & Hell - Neon Knights - Live In Europe (Armoury Records) *****
Atheist - Jupiter (Season of Mist) *****
T.D. Clark's - Shreddtime Stories (www.tdclark.com) ****
Joe Satriani - Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards (Epic) ****
Mr Big – What If… (Frontiers Records) *****
Yngwie Malmsteen - Relentless (Rising Force Records) ****
Robin Trower - The Playful Heart (V-12 Records) ****1/2
Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent (Universal )****1/2
Blackmore's Night - Autumn Sky (Spinefarm) ***1/2
Gregg Allman - Low Country Blues (Rounder) ***1/2
Ronnie Wood - I Feel Like Playing (Eagle Records) ****1/2
Stratovarius - Elysium (Armoury Records) ****
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Live Forever (Island) *****
Motorhead - The World Is Yours (UDR) *****
Sodom - In War And Pieces (SPV) ****
Stryper - The Covering (Big 3 Records) ****1/2
Pushking - The World As We Love It (Armoury) ****
David Rock Feinstein - Bitten By The Beast (Niji Entertainment Group) ***
Marbin - Breaking The Cycle (MoonJune Records) *****
Bodyface - Bias (self-release) ****
Chase – Imbue (Revelation Interactive Recordings) ****½
Vonassi – The Battle Of Ego (Progrock Records) ****1/2
Jeff Beck - Live And Exclusive From The Grammy Museum (Atco) ****
Destruction - Day Of Reckoning (Nuclear Blast) ****1/2
Artillery - My Blood (Metal Mind Productions) ****
Marillion - Live From Cadogan Hall (Eagle Records) ****
Alphaville - Catching Rays On Giant (101 Distribution) ****1/2
Oh Land - (Epic) ****1/2
John Elefante and Mastedon - Revolution of Mind (Big 3 Records) *****
Boris Savoldelli - Biocosmopolitan (MoonJune Records) ****
Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding (Dangerbird) ****
Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now (S-Curve Records) ****1/2
Earth - Angels of Darkness Demons of Light 1 (Southern Lord) ****1/2
Evergrey – Glorious Collision (SPV/Steamhammer) *****
Whitesnake - Forevermore (Frontiers) ****
Radiohead - The King of Limbs (TBD Records) ***1/2
Klaus Schulze - Big in Japan (MIG) *****
Blancmange - Blanc Burn (Proper Records) ****
Van Der Graaf Generator - Grounding in Numbers (Esoteric) ****1/2
Duff McKagan's Loaded - The Taking (Eagle Records) ****
Robbie Robertson - How To Become A Clairvoyant (429 Records) ****1/2
Brian Robertson – Diamonds and Dirt (SPV / Steamhammer) ***1/2
Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What (Hear Music) ****1/2
Skold - Anomie (Metropolis Records) ****
Nazareth – Big Dogz (Eagle Records) ****
The Cars - Move Like This (Hear Music) ****1/2
The Sounds - Something To Die For (Arnioki Records/Sideonedummy) ****1/2
The Human League - Credo (LoveCD) ****
SAGA - Heads or Tales Live (Eagle Records) ****
Who Cares: Ian Gillan, Tony Iommi & Friends-Out of My Mind/Holy Water (Armoury Records) *****
Pallas - XXV (Music Theories Recordings) ****1/2
Black Country Communion - 2 (J & R Adventures) *****
Hot Tuna - Steady As She Goes (Red House Records) ****1/2
Mastodon - Live at The Aragon (Reprise)****
Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus (Season of Mist) **1/2
Journey - Eclipse (Namota) ****1/2
ZZ Top - Live In Germany 1980 (Eagle Records) ***
The Jeff Healey Band - Live at Grossman's -1994 (Eagle Records) ****
Foreigner - Can't Slow Down...When It's Live (101 Distribution) ****
Bad Company - Live at Wembley (Eagle Rock) ****1/2
The Waterboys - In A Special Place (EMI) ***
Yes - Fly From Here (Frontiers) ***1/2
Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare (UME) ****1/2
Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins - A Scarcity of Miracles (Discipline Records) ****1/2
Anderson/Wakeman - The Living Tree (101 Distribution) ****
Rory Gallagher - Notes From San Francisco (Eagle Records) ****
Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow (Mind Kit Records ) ****1/2
Dave Stewart - The Blackbird Diaries (Surfdog Records) ****
Primus - Green Naugahyde (ATO Records/Prawn Song) ****1/2
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events (Roadrunner Records) ****
Mastodon - The Hunter (Reprise) ****1/2
BoDeans - Indigo Dreams (Oarfin Records) ****
Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton - Play The Blues (Reprise/Jazz) ***1/2
Tori Amos - Night of Hunters (Deutsche Grammophon) ****1/2
Saxon - Call To Arms (UDR) ****1/2
Gary Moore - Live at Montreux 2010 (Eagle Records) ****1/2
Roger Glover and The Guilty Party - If Life Was Easy (Eagle Records)***1/2
Slash - Made In Stoke 24/7/11 (Armoury Records) ****1/2
Deep Purple with Orchestra - Live at Montreux 2011 (Eagle Record) ****1/2
Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu (Warner Brothers) ****
Glen Campbell - Ghost on the Canvas (Surfdog Records) *****
Peter Murphy - Ninth (Nettwerk) ****1/2
Erasure - Tomorrow's World (Mute) ***1/2
Megadeth - Th1rt3en (Roadrunner) ****
Rammstein - Made In Germany (Universal) ****
The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions (Capitol) *****
Arhch / Mateos – Sympathetic Resonance (Metal Blade Records) *****
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow (ANTI Records) ****
Whitesnake – Box ‘O’ Snakes - The Sunburst Tears 1978-1982 (Sunburst – EMI Records) ****
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