iTunes Music Review - Chicago Transit Authority (5 out of 5)

  • Chicago Transit Authority

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    • For those of you who don't know, Chicago didn't always suck, and everyone in the band didn't always play a keyboard. When the band started off they were pioneers of rock and jazz fusion, and guitars and horns were the driving force behind the music. The Chicago Transit Authority album (the band was sued by the real CTA, and changed its name to just Chicago after this first album) packs a punch, and takes you from jazzy preludes to straight ahead rock tunes, to deep grooves that'll make your head bob.

      Favorite songs: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, Beginnings, Listen, I'm a Man (cover of the Spencer Davis Group hit), Liberation

      - Bryan Chaffin

     

    Bryan Chaffin has been a musician all his life, and enjoys both playing and listening to a variety of music. His interest in the iPod grew from covering Apple for The Mac Observer, but it's iPodObserver.com that will allow him to marry his passion for technology to his love for music.

     

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LaurieF said:

member since 15 Jun 2001 with 3545 posts, TMO Forum Mod, send him a message or view his profile

Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:37 pm

If you enjoy this era (I typed "ear", which is sort of the same thing) of Chicago, you might well like their Canadian cousins Lighthouse. On my Photiepod right now is their CD (LP as was, this is early 70s after all) One Fine Day, and the hit single Hats Off (To The Stranger). Big band, lots of brass, good singing - great stuff.

One of the band, Howard Shore, went on to do quite well...

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