Tag: Year-1980
Reviews tagged to the year 1980.
This 1980 album by British prog rockers Genesis was a way-maker in their long and distinguished career. will admit, ‘Duke’…
‘Playing For Keeps’ represents Eddie Money’s third album, caught between two excellent book-ends: 1978’s ‘Life For The Taking’ and 1982’s…
Now I fully understand why Georg Siegl over at AOR Heaven compared Hobbit to early Axe, and now I can…
Here is the debut Dakota album, the Pennsylvania duo had released the 1978 album ‘Somebody Else’s Dream’ under the moniker…
Although they were not all Boston residents, that’s where they met and formed the band – New England seems a…
This 1980 LP from Canadian trio Triumph is certainly guaranteed to polarise their longtime fans. Some don’t like it, while…
70’s jazz rock/West Coast legends Steely Dan have always been good entertainment value during my lifetime. The duo of Walter…
No need to delve too deeply into maple leaf rocker Bryan Adams past since that’s been done here and elsewhere…
The third album from Boston based band The Cars proved to be an indifferent affair. Stylistically, the band changed direction,…
Rush’s Geddy Lee produced this, Wireless’ third and final album, and indeed this does have a lot of the vibe…
We go down to about the three-quarter mark of The Outlaws discography, stopping off in the year 1980 to look…
Canadian based band Toronto (obviously!) are playing a radio-friendly brand of edgy hard rock. They placed themselves at the start…
A popular band here at GDM among the writing staff is L.A outfit Ambrosia. Starting out from Progressive beginnings, the…
If you were a record collector starting out on your back-catalogue journey of Firefall albums, then I would probably suggest…
By 1980 Jethro Tull started afresh. Long derided by fans as being an ‘A-bomination’, that is a little bit unfair…
By 1980, Zon had dropped their pomp approach in favour of radio edged songs, and it would prove to be…
By the time 1980 came around, Krokus had already released four albums. Still, despite the perceived AC/DC ‘rip-off’ notoriety, these…
How this album stacks up in the overall canon of Robin Trower’s vast legacy is dependent on which side of…
The version of Yes was relatively short-term, though it did introduce two future stars of the prog rock scene in…
Always a big favourite here at Glory Daze, Prism were at the top of their game in 1979 with the…
I follow this bloke on YouTube called Dan McClellan who is a religious scholar. He's very good, calm and to…
Based on the legendary album cover I’d been trying to track this down for years. I can see why Eric…
A mixed bag, but ‘One Good Reason’ has to be one of the best songs the band ever produced.
This is a seriousky underrated album. 'Don't Accuse Her' is simply breathtaking.
This album now has a YTM link. 31 tracks in total. 18 extras on top of the original 13. Upon…
Just listened to this via the YTM link. Pretty damn good. Some quirky synth reminded me of Donnie Iris. Will…
This is the pick of the HPB albums for me. Though I do occasionally drag the others out for a…
The original review from Geir might come across as indifferent. But much of this album is really good. 'Escape' and…
Terrific, obscure Hi-Tech AOR in my book.
Great to see this album getting some love. 💜