#317 - Queen - Sheer Heart Attack

The killer song of this album is of course "Killer queen". A song that could not have been made by a different band, if you don't know it, listen to it, again and again. There are other good songs, the delay-showcase "Now I'm here", sad songs like "Lily of the valley" or "Dear friends", but also rather odd songs like "Bring back that Leroy Brown" as well as some songs that are just mediocre. Not a good album throughout, but what big highlights!

#316 - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson - Winter In America

An interesting blues / soul album with some very dark sounding songs, especially the first three and the last. A slightly jazzy, but also very dark instrumentation, haunting background singing, and a main voice that either sings soulful and mourningly, or it speaks, which in connection with the soul music almost sounds like hiphop. Very interesting.

#315 - Richard And Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight!

A nice melancholic folk rock album with neat harmonic singing and pleasant songs, nothing very great, but solid good material.

#314 - Supertramp - Crime Of The Century

A rock/pop album with a hint of jazz in the sax solos, the songs often seem a little lengthy and don't contain lots of strong material. Even the hit "Dreamer", timing in at 3:30, gets long since the main hook is about 10 seconds long. Not a very good album to me.

#313 - Sparks - Kimono My House

Opulent, dramatic rock pop music in this album. The falsetto singing can be strenuous at times, but the songs are diverse, interesting and good.

#312 - Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

37 minutes of sounds, divided into 4 pieces, I won't call them songs, because they aren't. They're electronic soundscapes, acoustic atmosphere. It's hard to judge this album, I'm torn between it's not even real music and nice soothing sounds. Listening with today's ears makes this sound as a relatively bland synthie sound album, but in the context of time it was pretty modern and groundbreaking I guess. So it's probably important, historically, and there are no unpleasant sounds on it, but there's just not much to really like.

#311 - Roxy Music - Country Life

A rock/pop album with rather mediocre songs that are made special by the vibrato voice of the singer which you either like or don't. I didn't. The most interesting element of this album was the cover.

#310 - Queen - Queen II *

A pompous album by the widely known supergroup. It differs from the widely known radio / stadium hits in that it is a rather dark album with a fantasy theming in the titles. It brims with creativity and very diverse songs, from the heart-wrenching ballad "Nevermore" to the complicated epic rocker "March of the black queen". There are some less magnificient songs though, and in the end they deliver the biggest shot: the fulminant whirlwind "Seven seas of rhye". Great album.

#309 - Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark

A breezy easy largely acoustic album with nice songs, some hints of slightly different styles in some songs, like jazz or rock, and a pleasant voice. Nice listen.

#308 - Van Morrisson - It's Too Late to Stop Now

A very lone live album by Van Morrisson. The captured atmosphere was good, but I didn't like the songs especially much. The instrumentation was heavy on piano and sax, and while there was a guitar for the occasional solo or fill, I really missed it in the genreral accompaniment. The style reminded me of the stadium rock of Bruce Springsteen, it was mainly what I'd call party blues. Not horrible, but totally not my thing.