I'll probably be shot by someone for saying this, but when it first came out I was disappointed with CSN's Daylight Again. Just got it again with the most recent Rhino edition from a couple of years back and, well, I've really become fond of it! Great disc.

Quiet Riots: "down to the bone"....

I don't know why. Maybe because I threw it on when I heard Kevin Dubrow passed away. Maybe its a sentimental thing..
Dunno.

but......ROCKING %$%$#@! ROLLLLLL!

Side one, yes. But side two's only great song is "Any World That I'm Welcome To."
Chip

I think my initial experience of the album was colored by the fact that I first heard it when I was in the middle of a HUGE Squeeze kick. I was focusing so much on "From A Whisper To A Scream" (the duet with Glenn Tilbrook) that I never listened closely enough to the rest of the album. When the Rhino version came out a couple of years ago, I gave it another chance and really dug it. Not as much as Get Happy!!, but somewhere below Imperial Bedroom and above Punch The Clock.

WTF? I would have left off "Throw Back The Little Ones" and ended it with "Any World," but the other three songs are fantastic! Especially "Everyone's Gone To The Movies." "Chain Lightning" was good enough to wind up on the "Gold" comp, and while I like both songs called "Your Gold Teeth," the second is better than the first.

In my teen and college years I had a general prejudice against mixed genres, jazz/rock, classical/rock, etc. So with the exception of Miles and Ornette I dismissed almost all fusion. One album I came back to in later years and now love is Chick Corea's Light as a Feather. All of the Steely Dan albums after Can't Buy a Thrill seemed too slick to me when they first came out but now all of those albums have climbed near the top of the pile for me.

I read your post and listened to the second side again. Didn't work.

Btw, I like "Chain Lightning" and "Everyone's Gone." I just don't think they're great songs. As I wrote before, the two songs I dislike are "Teeth II" and "Throw Back."
Chip

P.S.--Knowing I couldn't be the only person who felt this way about Katy Lied, I found the following. I don't agree with everything the guy says, but overall he's right (scroll down to the KL review):

http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?ei= ... 1&.intl=us

Off the top of my head I can list these:
Black Sabbath-Headless Cross (1989)-I only liked the title track when it came out, but in a few years time it's become one of my all-time favorite Sabbath albums. The lyrics are the only negative-too much ghouls and goblins and Satan crap-it was a parody of what was believed to be Sabbath's lyrics in the early 70's when of course they were not worshipping the devil. Anyway, Cozy Powell's drumming and Geoff Nicholls keyboard work on top of the always brilliant guitar work by Tony Iommi make this awesome stuff. Queen's Brian May also lays down a wicked solo on "When Death Calls". Tony Martin came into his own as a singer on this one.
Asia-Astra (1985)-Now, it's my favorite Asia album aside from the debut. Although I semi-liked it when it came out, it was viewed as a disappointment. Most Asia fans now really appreciate this album and I'm one of them. Although only a few songs are progressive ("After The War" and the epic "Rock And Roll Dream"), there are some great pop tunes like "Wishing", "Hard On Me" and "Voice Of America". "Go" was a hit single and rocked pretty hard-Mandy Meyer did a great job on guitar on this album, and Geoff Downes utilized all the latest keyboard tehcnology, yet it doesn't really sound dated. In fact, the keyboard intro to "Countdown To Zero" is what is used for the infamous THX intro sound. Great Roger Dean cover too-I'm still mad they didn't tour for this album.
Chicago-Hot Streets (1978)-I hated this album as a kid except for "Alive Again" but now it's one of my absolute favorites. The title track is amazing-sounds like Santana. Donnie Dacus was really a killer guitar player. "No Tell Lover" and "Alive Again" were great hit singles and "Gone Long Gone" is a cool Country Pop tune-very different for them. "Ain't It Time" is a cool mid-tempo rocker and "Little Miss Lovin' " is a catchy pop rocker too.
Deep Purple-House Of Blue Light (1987)-I was very disappointed when this came out because it didn't have the songs that "Perfect Strangers" did, but now I realize how good it was. "Bad Attitude", "Hard Lovin' Woman", "Mad Dog" and "Dead Or Alive" are all killer and the odd, electronic sounds of "The Unwritten Law", the goofy pop of "Call Of The Wild" and the gorgeous axe-work of "The Spanish Archer" (how did I not loe this song when it came out???) are equally brilliant.

I'm sure there's plenty more but these popped into my head.

I find that I RARELY like music, any music, on the first listen.
Then, with subsequent listenings, I begin to enjoy the music more and more.
The familiarity to the music and lyrics is essential (for me at least) for enjoyment.

Once I have become familiar with a particular artist, or style, then I can buy a new
album from them, and I'll rather much enjoy it on the first listening. Even then, though,
it's in the repeated listenings that I really come to love them.

As I did not much listen to music when I was growing up in the 70s, it was only when
I went to college in 1981 that I started being exposed to music. That was MTV, which
was on in everybody's dorm room at the time, and I couldn't avoid it.

As my first exposure to a lot of music, MTV set the standard for my listening pleasure
(not the best of muscial starts, I think most here these days would agree).

I actually think MTV, during it's first few years, was a great place to start,
It's hard for many people who didn't experience it firsthand to realise how good MTV was, how it actually mattered. If you go back and check some of the stuff they were playing you'll find some very good songs, often excellent videos, and a wonderful diversity(at least after they started playing hip-hop). I think the standard for your listening pleasure is a pretty good one.

Just to check in on the 'Katy Lied" discussion, I too never cared for the second side. I'll go back and have a listen soon.

Funny, to me MTV's decline started when they started playing hip hop. I do agree that their first 5 years or so, they really mattered.

Okay, I feel better now about my MTV origins.
Thought Martha Quinn was damn cute, too.

Another thread in new releases reminded me that I completely dismissed Sheryl Crow's second album. Over the years it has grown to be a regular part of the rotation. I put 3-4 songs on my ipod shuffle.

I found Martha Quinn to be so endearingly dim, I just wanted to hug her.

Just another opinion on the whole Katy Lied thing. I love "Throw Back The Little Ones" as it brings the album to a quirky end. And what would a Steely Dan album be without a little quirkiness? (Maybe Morph The Cat? ... I keed, I keed!)

Having a large record/cd collection - the first impression is important. If it doesn't move me - it gets relegated to the almost never listen to list. The only real exception is NRBQ - At Yankee Stadium. Al Anderson is local. I was a fan of the Wildweeds BEFORE he joined. Even saw them at a local dance hall - 67, 68 ish.

All my friends and my brother loved them. Purchased At Yankee Stadium (mainly due to the title and the cover picture) didn't turn me on at first. In fact it took a few years. After Dave Edmunds covered Me and the Boys - I gave it another listen. I got it. Got everything NRBQ on vinyl and then on CD and a few DVD's too.

In a similar vein - I liked but didn'tlove Rubber Soul when it came out - now I have to count it in the top dozen releases of all time.

After Roy Estrada left Little Feat - I approached them with caution - but Feat's Don't Fail Me Now and Dixie Chicken are just as good (maybe even better) as Sailin Shoes.

And yet the reality is that MTV was very important in breaking hip-hop into the mainstream... exposing many artists that radio hadn't yet picked up on and catapaulting others into platinum superstars.

May not have been your cup of tea, but at least it was still music and not an endless stream of reality shows.

I am almost ashamed to admit this, but when Purple Rain first came out when I was in high school, I couldn't understand what the big deal was. I picked up a copy when getting some music for a party I was hosting 15 years later and absolutely fell in love with it, its in my top 10 easily.

That qualifies as the post of the week!!! LOL!

I don't know how to say this without it sounding racist, & that is not my intention.

I have always felt that Michael Jackson's Beat It video was responsible for glorifying gang violence & for it's spread from small concentrated areas to much of the USA.

No offense intended, but that argument doesn't hold much water considering West Side Story beat it (no pun intended) to the punch by about twenty years...

I'm aware it was a take off on West Side Story, but I still hold to my point.