CK reviews no one will care about. 3 albums I love...
RUSH - Moving Pictures
Easily their strongest album top to bottom. It totally deserves to be here and I had it on my list, but just couldn't pull the trigger. Quite possibly one of the best side 1's ever, when that was a thing. Tom Sawyer and YYZ on the same side, super powerful. I remember listening to the radio show Rockline sometime in the late 80's and the band was on as guests. The host asked them why they had never released a greatest hits album and without skipping a beat, Neil pipes in and says, Greatest Hits...plural? It would be the worst album ever...Tom Sawyer side 1 and Tom Sawyer side 2. That's about as humble as you can get. My favorite song by them is The Spirit of Radio, which is on the previous album, but is equally as amazing as Tom Sawyer or any of their hits.
Pixies - Surfer Rosa and Doolittle
The Boston legends, one of the most influential college/alternative bands ever. Without them there's no Nirvana...I don't think that's really true, but they invented the sonic blueprint. Surfer Rosa is my favorite out of the two, but Doolittle is the better album. I just like the songs on Surfer a little better...Bone Machine, Where is my Mind? are great...been in movies, etc. Gigantic is such a naughty song, but is well hidden unless you know. Vamos is my favorite song, because it's just bonkers...crazy guitar, nonsense lyrics and the drumbeat is intense...Doolittle is their crowning jewel. Wave of Mutilation is brilliant, with other songs like Debaser, Hey, Here Comes Your Man and Monkey Gone to Heaven...this should've been their major label debut...They released 4 albums in 4 years and then fell apart. Their shows were legendary, glad I got to see them before the breakup and during their reunion.
