The Who – Live At Leeds Audio Cassette

Whether or not this is “the best live rock album of all time”, it’s certainly had a phenomenal impact on the world of music, and since not even Wikipedia mentions the availability of a compact cassette version, I’ve done my good deed for the day and added this rather interesting specimen to the Internet.

You know the basics: recorded at Leeds Uni in

Emerson Lake & Palmer – Works Volume II Cassette

I suspect that there aren’t many ‘Top Ten Worst Bands of the 1970s‘ lists which don’t include Emerson Lake & Palmer. It seems that no matter how many clips surface of Keith Emerson histrionically stabbing his organ with a knife, the group just can’t find their way to the right side of the credibility line these days.

Led Zeppelin ‘1’ – Audio Cassette

I made a post about the Jimi Hendrix Experience the other day, taking a glance at their defining role in the birth of rock music. But Hendrix didn’t single-handedly invent heavy rock. He was a supreme innovator, but when it came to setting the musical paramaters of what we now refer to as hard rock, there was a much more direct instigating force. That force, was Led Zeppelin.