Classic Rock Magazine

Extreme's third album, the three-part III Sides To Every Story, was the sound of a band over-reaching themselves

Stick a pin in Eric Clapton’s late-period work and you’re liable to hit a stinker, but for sheer lack of invention, Pilgrim is routinely held up as his lowest ebb

For their second album, The Band relocated from upstate New York to California and turned Sammy Davis Jr.’s poolhouse into a makeshift studio

The trousers were tight, the guitars were wielded like weapons, but The Datsuns' second album hasn't aged well

Two decades on and people still can't decide whether Permission To Land is parody, pastiche or perfection

The final entry into Black Sabbath's original golden run, Sabotage is often hailed as the band's heaviest and most fearless album. But is it really?

Made between the much-derided Burnin' Sky and the much-derided Rough Diamonds, Desolation Angels was heralded as a return to form - but was it?

Dixie Chicken solidified Little Feat's reputation before later albums saw them drifting towards a jazzier sound

After being let go by Whitesnake, John Sykes returned with supergroup Blue Murder and a debut album that failed at the box office

Arriving after a difficult gestation, Dust found Mark Lanegan tweaking the Screaming Trees blueprint

In which former Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore attempts to forge a new career in the post-NWOBHM rock landscape and also writes some ballads

Released in between Pink Floyd's Animals and The Wall, David Gilmour's self-titled solo album laid the groundwork for future releases

Blonde On Blonde is the album that saw Bob Dylan complete the transition from folk to rock artist

In which Talking Heads seamlessly merged funk, afrobeat and early hip-hop rhythms with their more abrasive art-rock ideas

Featuring members of Yes, ELP and King Crimson, Asia were billed as a prog rock supergroup but kept it concise, to enormous success

A Deeper Cut was the last album The Temperance Movement made before parting ways with now-returned frontman Phil Campbell

With Gene Simmons in the production chair, Keel conjure up a small batch of decent headbangers and not much else

Released between two major metal milestones, Somewhere In Time is something of an underrated fan favourite

Michael Des Barres leads Detective through an album that owes much to their Led Zeppelin paymasters

Rooted in tragedy, Temple Of The Dog's 10 original tracks are a kind of catharsis through music