Love You
Artist: The Beach Boys
Community Score: 5.33

Judging by the title and the quilted design on the cover, Love You would appear to be an album of ballads or romantic tracks, maybe '70s remakes of "Surfer Girl" or "In My Room." But from the brutal synthesizer stabs and Carl Wilson's throaty yell, "Harrahhh!" on the opening track, it's clear this is no ordinary Beach Boys LP. Besides several... Read More

The Roaring Silence
Artist: Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Community Score: 7.00

The reason that The Roaring Silence became Manfred Mann's Earth Band's best-selling album may have been because of both Bruce Springsteen-penned singles, but its instrumental makeup, by way of Mann's keyboard manipulation coupled with Chris Thompson's chiseled singing, had just as much of an affect. "Blinded By the Light" and "Spirit in the... Read More

Come & Get Your Redbone
Artist: Redbone
Daryl Hall & John Oates - BONUS TRACKS
Artist: Hall & Oates
Community Score: 7.25

Switching to RCA, Hall & Oates recorded a self-titled album that fulfilled their early promise as pop-savvy blue-eyed soul craftsmen. A few of the tracks fall flat -- including the reggae-tinged "Soldering" and the pompous "Ennui on the Mountain" -- but much of the album is lush and catchy, featuring ballads and mid-tempo numbers that are nearly... Read More

Ole' ELO
Artist: Electric Light Orchestra
Community Score: 4.50

The early hits, marred only by the unnecessary cutting of "Roll over Beethoven." ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide Read More

At the Third Stroke
Artist: Russ Ballard
Greatest Hits 1974-1978
Artist: Steve Miller Band
Community Score: 7.62

Greatest Hits 1974-1978 collects the majority of Steve Miller's biggest hits -- "The Joker," "Take the Money and Run," "Rock 'n Me," "Fly Like an Eagle," "Jet Airliner," "Jungle Love," "Swingtown" -- and seven album tracks that received a fair amount of airplay on album rock radio. The collection only covers a total of three albums -- The Joker,... Read More

ELO's Greatest Hits
Artist: Electric Light Orchestra
Community Score: 8.50

Most of ELO's biggest and best hits -- "Evil Woman," "Rockaria," "Telephone Line" -- are included on this solid but slightly skimpy collection. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read More

Face the Music
Artist: Electric Light Orchestra
Community Score: 8.77

The group's more modest follow-up to Eldorado is a very solid album, if not as bold or unified. It was also their first recorded at Musicland in Munich, which became Jeff Lynne's preferred venue for cutting records. At the time, he was also generating songs at a breakneck pace and had perfected the majestic, quasi-Beatles-type style (sort of... Read More