On the Third Day
Artist: Electric Light Orchestra
Community Score: 10.00

The group's third album showed a marked advancement, with a fuller, more cohesive sound from the band as a whole and major improvements in Jeff Lynne's singing and songwriting. This is where Electric Light Orchestra took on its familiar sound, Lynne's voice suddenly showing an attractive expressiveness reminiscent of John Lennon in his early... Read More

See My Baby Jive
Artist: Roy Wood
Lifeboat
Artist: The Sutherland Brothers

This album should have been the big breakthrough disc for the Sutherland Brothers & Quiver, chock-full of catchy adult pop songs like the fantastic leadoff single, "(I Don't Want to Love You But) You Got Me Anyway," followed by what became a minor hit for Rod Stewart, the second track, "Sailing." With Peter Noone also covering "You Got Me... Read More

Split Ends
Artist: The Move

Basically an improved version of Message From the Country, replacing that album's weakest tracks with some fine British singles, especially "Tonight," "Chinatown, " and "Do Ya." With the release of all of these tracks and the entire Message From the Country album on the 1994 reissue Great Move!, fans no longer have to seek out this package. ~... Read More

The Night the Lights Went On (In Long Beach)
Artist: Electric Light Orchestra

This album, recorded at Long Beach Auditorium on May 12, 1974, appeared as a limited release in a handful of countries in the mid-1970s, and showed up as a remastered, somewhat improved LP in 1985. But this marks its debut as a compact disc, made from the upgraded 1980s master. The resulting CD is, for starters, really, really loud, a far cry... Read More

10cc/Sheet Music
Artist: 10cc

10cc's first two albums, recorded under the sponsorship of entrepreneur and one-time pop star Jonathan King, are combined on one disc for this CD reissue. 1973's 10cc shows that from the start, the group had an uncommon command of recording studio technique; the performances are polished, the harmonies superb, and the production flawless and... Read More

Crime of the Century
Artist: Supertramp
Community Score: 7.73

With Crime of the Century, Supertramp established themselves as one of the handful of progressive rock acts that could sell albums and have hit singles. Stripping away the long-winded excesses of their first two albums, Crime of the Century featured tighter, more melodic songs, as evidenced by the singles "Bloody Well Right" and "Dreamer." ~... Read More

Country Life
Artist: Roxy Music
Community Score: 7.93

Continuing with the stylistic developments of Stranded, Country Life finds Roxy Music at the peak of their powers, alternating between majestic, unsettling art rock and glamorous, elegant pop/rock. At their best, Roxy combine these two extremes, like on the exhilarating opener "The Thrill of It All," but Country Life benefits considerably from... Read More

Message from the Country
Artist: The Move
Community Score: 7.00

By 1971, it was clear that changes were in the offing for the Move. Message from the Country shows them carrying their sound, within the context of who they were, about as far as they could. One can hear them hit the limits of what guitars, bass, drums, and keyboards, with lots of harmony overdubs and ornate singing, could do. Indeed, parts of... Read More

Closer to It!
Artist: Brian Auger's Oblivion Express
Community Score: 6.50

The strongest studio recording by the Oblivion Express, Closer to It is Brian Auger's classic. Featuring his best-known composition, "Happiness is Just Around the Bend," this album soars on the strength of Auger's multiple keyboard attack. Auger himself takes the lead vocal slot for the first time on this recording, and though he relies on... Read More