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Gordon Lightfoot - Best of Gordon
Shure M97Xe works best on the AR XA better than any other cart in the house. The brush does wonders to keep the needle in groove on it's famously dancy platter.
Think I'll get a new Jico needle and put it back in rotation.
(You learn to walk like a ballerina here on wood floors with an AR playing)
 
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'Cheap Trick' by Cheap Trick. One of the best debut albums of all-time released in 1977. This is my Christmas present to myself. A 'Speakers Corner' pressing, yeah I couldn't wait.
How can I? Its in my favorite Top 25 albums of all-time!
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Most of the songs have a more raw sound akin to
hard rock bands of the period compared to the group's later more polished power pop style, and the song lyrics deal with more extreme subject matter than later albums. For instance, "The Ballad of T.V. Violence" is about serial killer Richard Speck, "Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School" is about an ephebophile, and "Oh, Candy" is about a photographer friend of the band, Marshall Mintz, who committed suicide.

The album was generally well-received by critics with favorable comparisons to
the Beatles and the Who, with critics likening Robin Zander's vocals to John Lennon's. Charles M. Young, writing for Rolling Stone, said the album had a "heavy emphasis on basics with a strain of demented violence" and that the lyrics "run the gamut of lust, confusion and misogyny, growing out of rejection and antiauthoritarian sentiments about school—all with an element of wit." Ira Robbins of Trouser Press noted the album's "wall-of-guitar sound" and said the band was "sarcastic, smart, nasty, powerful, tight, casual, and destined for something great."
 
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