The Doors Strange Days Disraeli Gears Wheels Of Fire Beggars Banquet Let It Bleed Blow By Blow Wired Albert King Albert My Feeling For The Blues Freddie King Is A Blues Master Santana Abraxas Bluesbreakers A Hard Road
Todd Rundgren-A Wizard A True Star/Todd The Tubes-Completion Backward Principle/Outside-Inside Alice Cooper-Flush The Fashion/Zipper Catches Skin Journey-Escape/Frontiers
Joe Jackson: 'Look Sharp' and 'I'm The Man'. Badfinger: 'No Dice' and 'Straight Up'. The Police: 'Outlandos D'Amour' and 'Regatta de Blanc'. Buddy Holly: 'Buddy Holly' and 'The Chirping Crickets'. Dire Straits: "Making Movies' and 'Love Over Gold'. Jethro Tull: 'Songs From The Wood' and 'Heavy Horses'. P.S. I always associate 'Aqualung' and 'Thick As A Brick' as a natural pair, as well. Don't know why - I just do.
R.E.M - Murmur/Reckoning Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand/Alien Lanes Replacements - Tim/Pleased to Meet Me
Queen - A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races are definitely a pair both in title and musical content. I think Queen and Queen II are quite dissimilar.
Steve Winwood's Arc of a Diver and Talking Back to the Night Beach Boys' SMiLE and Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle Billy Joel's The Stranger and 52nd Street Gong's Angel's Egg and You Van Morrison's Avalon Sunset and Enlightenment
Vangelis' Fais Que Ton Rêve Soit Long Que La Nuit and Aphrodite's Child's 666 A heck of a pairing that one...
To my ears, there's a similar sound and vibe throughout the first two albums, but I guess everyone hears things differently.
Talking Heads-Remain In Light/Jerry Harrison - The Red and The Black Talking Heads - Little Creatures/True Stories Adrian Belew - Side 1/Side 2/Side 3/Side 4 Adrian Belew - Flux 1/Flux 2/Flux 3 Kirsty Maccoll - Kite/Electric Landlady
Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood Heavy Horses Donovan- Sunshine Superman Mellow Yellow Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak Johnny The Fox Family - A Song For Me Anyway Olivia Tremor Control - Dusk at Cubist Castle Black Foliage
Released between Skull & Roses and Europe ‘72, they could have been and may as well have been Dead albums.
A couple taking their first steps away from each other. 1970 was the first year Jefferson Airplane did not release an album since Takes Off. Spencer Dryden departed early in the year, the Kaukonen/Casady wing released Hot Tuna, the Kantner/Slick wing released Blows Against The Empire, and Marty Balin bailed out before the year ended. They kept the band together for a couple more years while releasing some of the most creative music of their careers. These were the first two:
