Friday Night Album Rock - Kansas - Masque - 1975

It is not the overplayed Kansas albums we all know and love, but this third album was, in my opinion, the opening shot for the band. Reaching gold status in 1977 (probably due to people discovering it after hearing Leftoverture and Point of no Return), Masque, for me, is my favorite Kansas Album. To this day, I have fond memories of the many J's rolled on this cover as the platter spun...and yes, I still have that cover. Rock on.

Happy Weekend DU, I love you all!

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It Takes a Woman's Love (To Make a Man)

Dream on Betty, Dream on...

Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
It went by like dusk to dawn

Isn't that the way?
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay

Yeah, I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know
How to win

Half my life's in books' written pages
Live and learn from fools and from sages
You know it's true
All the things come back to you

Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away

Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away

Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream until your dream come true
Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream until your dream come true

Dream on, dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on, ah

Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
Sing with me if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

I put a spell on you - Samantha Fish - Live - Kansas City - 12/16/21

Friday Night Album Rock - Dire Straits - Love Over Gold - 1982

My Friday night listening pleasure, enjoy my DU friends.

New Year's Eve Rock Party! - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers New Years Eve 1978

To my DU Family, Happy New Year! May your 2022 bring new smiles and good times your way.

I love you all.

Friday Night Christmas Eve Album Rock - The Moody Blues - December

Merry Christmas, DU. Happy Holiday, Season and may you all have a wonderful New Year! Stay safe, be well and love those around you with all you have. Cherish each day for we are all truly fortunate to be here, to be able to love each other.

I love you all, my friends.

Feliz Navidad, prospero ano y felicidad!

Merry Christmas DU...wishing it now as I have to work, so enjoy your loved ones and 'Feliz Navidad!'

Friday Night Album Rock - Queensryche - Empire - 1990

Empire is the fourth full-length studio album by the American heavy metal band Queensrÿche, released on August 20, 1990. The album stands as Queensrÿche's most commercially successful release, reaching triple-platinum status.[10] The primary single, the power ballad "Silent Lucidity", reached number 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.[11] "Silent Lucidity" was also nominated in 1992 for the Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.[12] The album won a 1991 Northwest Area Music Award for Best Metal Recording.

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Saturday Night Album Rock - Angel Dust - Faith No More

Angel Dust is the fourth studio album by American rock band Faith No More, released on June 8, 1992, by Slash and Reprise Records. It is the follow-up to 1989's highly successful The Real Thing, and was the band's final album to feature guitarist Jim Martin. It was also the first album where vocalist Mike Patton had any substantial influence on the band's music,[4][5] having been hired after the other band members had written and recorded everything for The Real Thing except vocals and most of the lyrics.[6][7][8] The band stated that they wanted to move away from the funk metal style of their prior releases, towards a more "theatrical" sound.[9]

Angel Dust is Faith No More's best-selling album to date, having sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. It also debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, making it the band's only top-ten album in the United States.

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Friday Night Classic Album Rock - Welcome to the Canteen - Traffic - 1971

Welcome to the Canteen is the first live album by English rock band Traffic. It was recorded live at Fairfield Halls, Croydon and the Oz Benefit Concert, London, July 1971 and released in September of that year. It was recorded during Dave Mason's third stint with the band, which lasted only six performances.

The track list includes one song each from the first three Traffic albums; two songs from Mason's first solo album, Alone Together; and "Gimme Some Lovin'" from Steve Winwood's former band, the Spencer Davis Group. (Winwood's organ and Mason's rhythm guitar are conspicuously out of sync for part of "Gimme Some Lovin'".)

In the band's native United Kingdom, the album was a surprise flop, the first in a series of albums by the group that would fail to make an appearance in the charts.[2] In the USA, however, it was a solid success, hitting number 26 in the charts and yielding the single "Gimme Some Lovin' (live)", which reached number 68 in the Billboard Hot 100.[3]

Although regarded as a Traffic album, it was originally released without the name "Traffic" anywhere on it; credited instead to the seven individual musicians. Nonetheless the Traffic logo appeared on the cover (on the back, in this case) as on all of their albums. Most later issues retain the original front cover with its individual crediting, but credit the album to Traffic on the spine.[4]

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