| Classic Albums I recently got the making of A Night At The Opera (by Queen) in the classic album DVD series. It’s a BBC programme which analyses classic albums with interviews with band members, other musicians and music experts. There’s often some acoustic performances of some of the songs. It’s a great DVD and inside the case there was a booklet with the other DVDs in this series. Which of these DVDs are you interested in and which classic albums would you like to see a DVD about? Here’s the list: The Band - The Band Phil Collins - Face Value Cream - Disraeli Gears Deep Purple - Machine Head Def Leppard - Hysteria Fleetwood Mac - Rumours The Grateful Dead - Anthem To Beauty Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Judas Priest - British Steel Bob Marley and the Wailers - Catch a Fire Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell Metallica - Metallica Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley Lou Reed - Transformer Motorhead - Ace of Spades Nirvana - Nevermind Queen - A Night at the Opera Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks Paul Simon - Graceland Simply Red - Stars Steely Dan - Aja U2 - The Joshua Tree The Who - Who’s Next Of these albums I’ve only heard Nevermind and ANATO in their entirety. I’m thinking of getting the Nevermind DVD in the near future. Other DVDs (and albums) I’m interested in are Machine Head and Dark Side of the Moon. I would love to see a classic albums DVD about an Alan Parsons Project album. I think there are two that could be considered classics: their debut album Tales of Mystery and Imagination, which was the first producer album, one of the first concept albums and is really interesting musically and lyrically (based on the tales and poems of Poe). The other is Eye In The Sky, which was commercially the most successful, and has a wide range of different songs. Alan Parsons has already cooperated with the programme once before as he was the producer of Dark Side of the Moon. Another I would love to see is one on Supertramp. In this case there are also two candidates for classic albums, their breakthrough Crime of the Century and their commercial peak Breakfast in America (which I also think is very interesting musically). Both albums show the wide range of songwriting capabilities of both writers. |