TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Chicago
Chicago
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.0968
Chicago Album Rankings
1
An exciting comeback or a lifeless sellout? Call it whatever you want;Chicago 17still remains a well-written, well-produced and well-performed album.Released in 1984,17followed-up the successful16.
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2
At the moment, everyone is talking about Chicago. Chicago this, Chicago that -- Chicago is everywhere. The situation was the same in 1977. Everyone talked about Chicago.
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3
Track listing: 1) Introduction; 2) Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is; 3) Beginnings ; 4) Questions 67 & 68 ; 5) Listen; 6) Poem 58 ; 7) Free Form Guitar ; 8) South California Purples ; 9) I
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4
Weighing in at four discs and 63 songs,Group Portraitoffers an excellent, comprehensive overview of Chicago's prime period.
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5
Chicago returned from a career dip in 1982 with "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" and continued to hit with power ballads, among them "Hard Habit to Break" and "You're the Inspiration," all sung byPeter Cetera.
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6
This is probably one of those reviews that I shouldn't write.
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7
Memo to Jann Wenner: pull your head out of your ass and allow Chicago in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.There is no question that Chicago is one of the most underrated groups in rock history.
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8
One of the interesting things about Chicago from 1969-1974 was that their albums always contained a combination of material that sounded great on AM radio alongside very long album rock tracks that di
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9
Rhino began its elaborate Chicago reissue series in 2002 withChicago's Complete Greatest Hits: Only the Beginning, a double-disc set that covers 39 hits from all of Chicago's eras -- from the early ja
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10
By 1982, there was little indication that Chicago would ever be a viable musical entity again. Chicago XIV had bombed, Peter Cetera had one foot out the door and the group was drifting.
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11
Ladies and gentlemen….I present to you the forgotten Chicago albumHot Streets!I mean that in all seriousness.
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12
Before we get into the heart of this review, let's clear up one major misconception: this album is not namedChicago II.
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13
It was in 8th grade that I started to appreciate and listen to rock. The band that brought that out of me was Chicago, not coincidentally one of my dad's favorite bands.
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14
Does anyone need another Chicago album besides this one? For the casual fan, the answer is definitely no. The 1975 blockbuster includes all the band's hits from its prime.
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16
Chicago is probably the only band in history to begin their career with three double albums and a quadruple-album live set.
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17
About a year ago,my reviewforChicago XIVwent up. Needless to say, it wasn't pretty, because it was a terrible album, not just by Chicago's standards but in general.
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18
Recorded in 1993, Stone of Sisyphus didn't appear as scheduled in 1994 due to Chicago's record label, Warner, believing the album to be too uncommercial.
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19
Picture yourself in Chicago's shoes in 1980: Your last two albums haven't been up your usual standard of quality, and also did not meet sales expectations.
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20
It's fair to say that most of Chicago's hit singles were love songs, which makes compiling an album like Rhino's 2005 collection Love Songs a bit of an easy task.
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24
This double-CD set, not the "legendary" triple-CD (four-LP) Carnegie Hall concert, is the one to get to hear what Chicago sounded like in their classic early period.
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38
In the beginning were the big bands: Basie, Ellington, Ferguson, et al. provided a vital form of American popular music that was great for listening and dancing.
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44
If Blood, Sweat and Tears was the Hertz of big band jazz-rock in 1969, then Chicago was most assuredly Avis.
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47
What do you want? I'm giving everything I have,I'm even trying to see if there's more.Locked deep inside, I've tried.Can't you see this is me.
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50
While it's difficult to picture anyone failing to be amused by the intentional ludicrousness of, say, dedicating an album to the revolution or making the first addition to a lineup in eight years a co
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56
The music onXscarcely departs from the formulas that have made Chicago synonymous with mass-market rock. More than any other band, Chicago mirrors and affirms the American technological ideal.
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59
Consisting of their biggest jazz-rock hits from the first stage of their career, Chicago's In Concert is a good (if muddy) live album that shows the band at their creative peak.
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