I am excited to announce after a long hiatus that a big 2 part video is coming to Awesome Albums to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Part one I plan to have uploaded sometime this month and will focus on the history leading up to the album […]
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I’m celebrating a second artist who got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year by honoring Electric Light Orchestra and their 1974 album Eldorado. This album takes you into a dream world, playing out different characters in each song. Such a great album to get immersed in. I do not own the […]
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Last time, I talked about the artists who got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For this video I picked an album by one of the artists who got inducted this year. I picked Yes and their 1971 album Fragile (or 1972 for the American release). A great album which almost has […]
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Awesome Albums would like to congratulate all these artists for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. For fun, I’m going to pick an artist from this list and talk about one of their albums for the next episode of Awesome Albums. Who will I pick? Find out next time! […]
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Awesome Albums continues the story of Tommy and the events that happens in life, told in this 1969 Rock Opera by the Who. As the old saying goes, it gets worse before it gets better. Tommy has had a lot of unfortunate events happen in his life but that is about to change! I do […]
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This video is where I like to say thank you and farewell to the artists no longer with us, who we lost in the year 2016. Unlike last year, there were a few in the entertainment industry I wanted to talk about as well before jumping in to talk about the artists and musicians we […]
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A Christmas gift to all of you, a video so massive that it had to be split into 2 episodes, The Who’s Rock Opera Tommy. The whole album tells the story about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy and his struggles through life. I do not own the rights to any of the music or […]
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A very short video about Atlanta Rhythm Section. It’s not necessarily about the album Champagne Jam itself but an event involving Atlanta Rhythm Section around the same time period in either 1978 or 1979, where they got to play at the White House! Just think about how awesome that would be! I do not […]
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This episode of Awesome Albums Extras goes back to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer’s 1973 album Brain Salad Surgery. I talk in a little bit more detail about the song “Jerusalem” and the song’s origins as well as some of the classical references ELP made on the album in “Toccata” and “Karn Evil 9” I do […]
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This Awesome Albums Extras episode, we return to Jethro Tull’s Aqualung. There are a few lyrics on the title track that I wanted to share as well as a song from the CD release that I didn’t cover in the original video. I do not own the rights to any of the music or images. […]
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