Broken Hope - Loathing

Cookie Monster vocals but I like it anyway. It's got riffs and breakdowns you just can't ignore. Metal beatdown!

Kiss - Carnival Of Souls : The Final Sessions

Holy Soundgarden!
Shameless
Just on the strength of the first two songs this is one of Kiss' top ten releases.
Holy Soundgarden!
Sped up War Machine basketball game.
Gene Simmons is no Layne Staley.
Kiss journeys to the land of Evermore. Who be you strange traveler?
Starman make better Staley.
In My Hand = The Suck.
Demon and Starman combine to make Kiss Staley Man song.
Seduction of the Innocence = the suck even worse.
Things start getting pretty weak towards the end thanks mostly to Simmons. Took a turn for the odd really.
Losing steam.
The songs get progressively worse as the album progresses. By the time they get to the end they've hit...wait for it...Rock Bottom!
The first time I heard this was in 2009. What a document! Grungetastic!

This was Kiss at the crossroads. After this they decided to take Beach Boys Blvd.

Obviously doing the Grunge thing here. Again the album starts strong. I've only hear this a few times, and I'm halfway through it. I think this is what Revenge was supposed to/intended to be but this was years behind the trend (even when they recorded it 95?) This one of the more interesting KISS albums. I for one am glad they dropped the sing a long chorus anthem style like Rock and Roll all night and Shout It Out Loud. I was tired of that formula by the time they got to Love Gun.

Led Zepplelin - BBC Sessions

Once you've listen to all your other Zeppelin records for the one millionth time. You can throw this on and rediscover them all over again.
Disc 1: The first disc is really raw bluesy rock. These recordings sound great, very live sounding. Very real.

I would much rather listen to this than some of their later albums like Presence or In Through The Outdoor. This is so much better than their live double album The Song Remains the Same (recorded in 1973). That was an overbloated turd from a different era of Zeppelin. Disc one of The BBC Sessions sound like four guys in a room rockin' the fuck out. On disc two the band starts to expand a bit. Not quite as excessive as Song Remains The Same. Disc 2 Falls inbetween the two.

Disc 1 is compiled from four different 1969 BBC sessions. Disc 2 is most of the April 1 1971 concert from the Paris Theatre in London.

Disc 2: