Epinions Recent Reviews for matzaballman

The boxed set that most older Genesis fans have been waiting for...

Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:52:29 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - ".....Within seconds, the entire clean, green smooth surface of the park was a mass of dusty, brown, writhing objects. Old Michael continued to rub his flesh into the ground. This time he looked even happier and whistled a little tune. Eet went like...

Judas Priest go the slaughter house!!!

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:00:33 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - When this album first came out in 1997, I immediately knew I was not going to like it just by glancing at the song titles....Jugulator, Blood Stained, Dead Meat, Death Row, Decapitate, Burn In Hell, Brain Dead, Abductors, Bullet Train,...

One of my not guilty pleasures, your Honor...

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:47:30 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - We all have our guilty pleasures and one of mine is the band Journey< b>. I was familiar with Journey < b>while growing up like most everyone else was, through hearing their hits over and over again on the radio. I didn't seriously get into this...

Rush at the height of their keyboard and synthesizer era...

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:12:51 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - As most of you who know me are aware of, I am a HUGE Rush fan...have been since the summer or fall of '77.... but I am NOT (and never was) a fan of their 1985 album Power Windows. I thought Rush got too far away from their...

This remaster was long overdue....

Fri, 1 Aug 2008 05:20:29 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - Besides being the decade of the cowbell, the 70's was also the decade of the double live album. Many groups and/or artists like Peter Frampton, Kiss, Blue Oyster Cult, Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, Hawkwind, Deep Purple, etc...released double live...

A strange case of Alice Cooper...very strange indeed...

Sun, 4 May 2008 22:21:06 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - One bad thing about hard to find albums is that most of the time you're paying the extra bucks for how rare the album is and not for the quality of the music itself. Such is the case of the debut album by Alice Cooper called Pretties For...

No Heavy Petting Zoo

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:46:48 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - A month ago, a co-worker of mine (who is as much a music geek as I am) told me that the UFO albums Phenomenon, Force It and No Heavy Petting had recently been remastered, with bonus tracks and all of that nice stuff. Even though I am...

Tony Iommi, featuring Glenn Hughes...

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:30:45 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - For many years, I outright dismissed this album after giving it a casual listen or two (or maybe three) just because I hated Tony Iommi's use of the name Black Sabbath w/o any of the other original members still in the group. After listening to...

Loud 'N' Proud indeed!!!

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:16:52 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - First of all, I want to thank HawgWyld, pyfr, starcollector and teamfreak16 for their recent reviews of albums by 70's hard rock bands that I love, like Kiss, Rush, UFO, Judas Priest and AC/DC. One 70's hard rock band that I loved when...

Steve Walsh from Kansas hits the streets......

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:55:50 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - The nicest things about cassette tapes these days...when you can find them...is how cheap they are. I bought this album on vinyl around the time that it came out back in 1983 and just yesterday, I found a copy of it for a dollar at a swap shop here in...

The last of the five star Hawkwind albums....

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:07:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - Looking back, I would have to say 1980 was a great year for hard rock/heavy metal and progressive rock, with terrific albums by Rush, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Yes, etc..., even though you are better...

Only his soul talking.....

Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:11:39 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - In late 1976/early '77, after the break up of Deep Purple, vocalist David Coverdale recorded two solo albums, White Snake and North Winds. It was after the release of the latter that he decided to get a band together to promote...

A little Ray of sunshine near the end of their career...

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:11:32 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - In November of 1991, The Kinks released a five song EP (CD) called Did Ya. At the time, I saw this as a little ray (and Dave) of sunshine, for I was very put off by The Kinks last album, the incredibly disappointing and...

Technical AGONY is more like it......

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:31:24 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - For submission #200 for epinions, I thought I'd write about one of the first hard rock albums I ever heard, Black Sabbath/Technical Ecstasy. I heard this album in 1977, that pivotal year for me when I got introduced to hard rock and heavy metal...

Anyone for croquet?

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:35:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - ~~~~"While Henry Hamilton-Smythe minor (8) was playing croquet with Cynthia Jane De Blaise-William (9), sweet-smiling Cynthia raised her mallet high and gracefully removed Henry's head. Two weeks later, in Henry's nursery, she discovered his treasured...

The Hawkwind connection.....

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:51:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - As I have probably mentioned many times before, I host (on a rotating basis with three other jocks) a Sunday afternoon radio show called ' The Vinyl Departure ' (which you can listen to on-line at wvbr.com, if thou art ever bored). It is essentially...

Who was that bespectled man?

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:36:30 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - In the year 2000, while waiting for his fellow Rush band mate Neil Peart to recover from the death of his daughter and his wife, Geddy Lee wrote some songs with his longtime buddy Ben Mink (who played electric violin on the Rush song Losing...

Waltzing in the graveyard with my baby...

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:51:31 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - Taken By Force is not one of the more talked about Scorpions albums, but it certainly does have some great songs on it. It was a bit of a transitional album for them. It was the last Scorpions studio album with guitarist Uli Jon...

Rush through the ages....

Mon, 7 May 2007 23:24:58 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - It is not too often that I will start to write a review for an album after only having it for two days, but I am feeling so damn positive about this new Rush album that I felt the need to write down my thoughts as soon as possible. I started to...

I always go back to this album...

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:05:04 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - A month ago now, in anticipation of the new Rush album Snakes and Arrows, I went to Rush's website and gave a listen to their new single Far Cry. After doing this, I did the exact same thing I did five years ago when I first...

got any gum?

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:54:37 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - Scorpions' album covers were the stuff that 'Spinal Tap: Smell The Glove' album covers were made of. The original cover for Virgin Killer shows a naked teenage girl, Animal Magnetism shows a woman (with a dog next to her) kneeling in front...

The Stone WHO????

Mon, 5 Mar 2007 20:48:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - I was so glad when this album was finally released on CD a few months ago, for it has been very difficult to track down....and to find for a reasonable price, as well. My brother John and I found this album on vinyl sometime in the early 80's for a buck...

BOOOOOO....Oyster Cult

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 00:29:04 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - My latest music purchase is the remastered version of Blue Oyster Cult/Spectres. This album was originally released in 1977, while B.O.C. were still riding high on the success of the 1976 album Agents of Fortune and Donald (Buck Dharma)...

When the singing starts...turn off the music!!

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:09:47 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - I had both of these albums on vinyl for quite a few years before I purchased them as this twofer on CD. The main reason I have been hesitant to review it is that it means I would have to listen to them again! The casual Doors fan may not know this...

Big willy rock.....

Fri, 8 Dec 2006 00:41:26 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author matzaballman - Many, many years ago, before the dawn of MTV and over 20 years before I grew my first good moustache and goatee, my brother John and I were listening to and very much enjoying the album Deep Purple/In Rock, when our oldest brother came into the...