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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Charger on October 01, 2022, 10:41:22 AM
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So what's playin' doc?
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P-Funk (Wats to Get Funked Up) - Parliaments
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Stumbo by Wiseblood
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I need something to enhance my energy drink for this morning. This never fails :guitar: :metal1:
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Followed by THIS!!
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:rockon:
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:rhythm:
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Chris Caffery - Warped
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Just chillin to disco house jams from random artists.
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"Long Live the King" - The Detroit Emeralds
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Love Fats Domino's version of this Beatles tune.
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Savage Master - The Mystifying Oracle
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The Power of Goa Trance - "Various Artists"
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:headbanger:
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^^^
I'm missing that one still...is it good? Well...it's Death Angel so the odds are that it is! ;D
Savage Master - Mask Of The Devil
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It is actually my favorite from them. Great riffs with some catchy breakdowns, I highly recommend it.
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Single from Poison Boys' upcoming new album:
https://poisonboys.bandcamp.com/track/rubber-band
Good 1977-style glam punk kind of track, looking ahead to the rest of the album.
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Savage Master - Altar Of Lust
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Mamie Galore - No Right to Cry
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5x6pbJMyU
Fela Kuti, "Zombie"
Played this yesterday as I put together my Halloween show for my Funk/Soul radio show and it was in my dreams last night, as I dreamed I was sitting outside in an open-air market and someone handed me a vinyl record and I began rubbing a stick with a nub of a needle on the inner label... and it played this song as I did my work. It was like cargo cult magic coming to life... so I had to listen to it again today.
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KK's Priest - Metal Through And Through
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This was an unexpected pleasant surprise... more for the fantasy role players among us.
Wind Rose - Diggy Diggy Hole
There's supposed be a youtube video here, but I'm not seeing it! Here's the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=34CZjsEI1yU&fbclid=IwAR0phH_b0g3HFReH5vJky32QD9bs25NOF6-HqqeXdmclRJZP-8JVcjInweA&ab_channel=NapalmRecords
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Years before I met the lady whom I married, I was in an on-again/off-again relationship with a woman for about four years. Her immediate family (mother, an older sister and a younger brother) were incredibly dysfunctional. All of them very personable and kind, but they all repeatedly made poor choices, including her. Which is why our relationship never really went anywhere - she was fantastic in so many ways, and so broken in others. In any event, her brother contracted AIDS and died during that four year time frame. While he was on his death bed, he gave me a record.
He had been given that record by Keith Emerson, and was ELP's first record. It wasn't signed or anything, but it was entirely plausible that Mr. Emerson had given it to the guy, because they all used to run in the same circles as a lot of musicians. So, he gave me that record and I listened to it a few times. I was never an ELP fan - knew the hits, but that was it. The music on that record never really caught on with me, so one evening while going through my collection I threw it away. I'm real good at tossing stuff out lol. There were a few reasons I did that, but mostly it came down to symbolically burying memories associated with that time of my life.
Right now, for the first time since then, I'm listening to the entire record:
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^^^
I quite like ELP although I think they're a little inconsistent. I was listening to their 3rd album today "Trilogy".
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The Col. Bogey March - also known as the Theme for The Bridge on the River Kwai.
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Kicks in at 2:07
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^The introduction to Flag of Hate never gets old :headbanger:
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Hell - James Brown
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Bark at the Moon (full album) - Ozzy
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Hardcore Jollies (Full album) - Funkadelic
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Tony Martin - Book Of Shadows
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Going through my 2022 purchases, on Black Sky Giant's End of Days Pilgrimage.
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Savage Master - Rain Of Tears
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Listening to the Bob Welch-era Fleetwood Mac albums. Haven't done that before, but they're free on the YouTube, so why not give 'em a spin? Enjoying Heroes Are Hard to Find, will do Mystery to Me next.
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Up The Irons :rockon:
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Candlemass - Wizard Of The Vortex
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Hell - James Brown
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Savage Master - High Priestess
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Talking Book - Stevie Wonder
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Sing We the Virgin Mary - The Clancy Brothers
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Merry Humbug day for those who have one:
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Santa - Lightnin' Hopkins
A grim, grim song about hard times this time of year. Makes me want to go find the people in the song that I know and send some hope and warmth their way.
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Playing through my 2022 albums, starting with Time // Wounds by Mos Generator.
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Tim "Ripper" Owens - The Night (Take It Back)
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I Don't Wanna Hear It - Betty Harris
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Death Angel - Hatred United / United Hate
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Long Live the King - Detroit Emeralds
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Death Angel - Lost
This is a SUBERB song!
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Death Angel - Truce
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Still in the middle of some calls, but I plan to fire up the latest Black Sky Giant once I'm done with my calls for the day.
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Metal Church - Reset
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Betty Davis' eponymous first album
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I'm speechless....
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Saw it a day or so ago somewhere. I was never a Wham fan so it's a shame they couldn't mash up COTG with a good song, but I suppose they have to go with whatever fits!
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Haha - Van Halen solo! They did a good job putting that together.
Not a Wham! fan either. I will say that the still image made me think that Ozzy had actually done a collab with Wham back in the day, and that this was some unearthed footage of the event lol.
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Fun how they worked in the Megadeth solos... and the Judas Priest one... :smug:
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Gotta say this song makes Lux Aeterna seem like a masterpiece...
Wow this is pretty bland...even for Metallica...
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Ran across this on Tidal - it's a song called "Celestial Echo" performed by Malia and Boris Blank. She's a jazz vocalist from Malawi, and he's a Swedish electro-weirdo.
It's very chill, very atmospheric. It was released in 2014 and is the first cut from the album "Convergence". Pretty good stuff if you're in the mood for that kind of thing.
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Doing some gospel this morning...
Lou Rawls and the Pilgrim Travelers is a great entry point for the genre, which had *so* much influence on the development of rock and roll, back in the day.
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Candlemass - Scandinavian Gods (while working out)
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Death Angel - Discontinued
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Kansas City Hey Hey Hey - Little Richard
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Goth rock... it's that kind of weather out there.
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The disco version of Zep's Stairway to Heaven is so much fun! :smug: :lol: :ninja: :drama:
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Gene Parsons isn't Bill Ward, and Skip Battin is no Geezer Butler, but a cool jam all the same...
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I like the original, but I love this cover.
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To celebrate Mark Osegueda's birthday today's workout is accompanied by
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https://thebronx.bandcamp.com/album/bronx-vi
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Kinda like Motorhead meets Motley Crue and the dots over the vowels fall off when they start moshing.
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Blaze Bayley - The Dream Of Alan Turing
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Shining Star - Earth Wind & Fire
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Motörhead - Overkill (Live from 25 & Alive)
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Loads of Motown-era tracks for a themed radio show I'll put out on Monday.
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Black Sabbath - self titled on Vertigo. It sounds great, but one thing my new setup has done is shown me that I need a new turntable.
I hate that. But the hum coming out of it is super-evident now and it's making me crazy. It becomes audible just a bit before half-volume.
Ahhhhhhhh....
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oooooooooooh turntable hum is a curse and a scourge!
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Album just dropped today, enjoying some of it in between meetings. Truly epic live set in its entirety.
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Death Penalty - She Is A Witch
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I had to listen to some of the Animalympics album because of that video Vyn posted.
Nicest thing I can say about it is that it captures the essence of early 80s movie soundtracks. :-\
Playing some Curtis Mayfield to clear out my speakers...
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Savage Master - The Ripper In Black
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Isaac Hayes - Type Thang
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I've always loved this song, it's perfect for the rainy Sunday afternoon I'm having right now.
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Because everyone has a voice in their heart that needs to sing its beauty to the world. And reminds us that some of them should simply shut the fuck up.
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That's in a Beijing Opera style... I've been able to get into high-pitched Bollywood vocals, but never did I cotton to Beijing Opera. Always sounds like tortured cats to me.
Much better is Mongolian throat singing.
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Death Angel- The Evil Divide :metal1: :guitar: :rhythm: :headbanger:
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Dio. Missing the voice.
:diohorns:
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DIO - Stand Up And Shout (Live King Biscuit Flower Hour) Holy Diver Deluxe Edition
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:rockon: :headbanger: :yes:
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Heard a part of it on Better Call Saul (going through that again) and I had to hear the whole of it. Haunting, beautiful, autumnal.
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The so-called Blue Album. Not bad for a first release!
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Dam I nearly sent you some Midnight Oil albums that time but was really unsure you’d dig them.
Nice placement of the Eddie Killers neca figure :)
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Dam I nearly sent you some Midnight Oil albums that time but was really unsure you’d dig them.
Yeah, I can crank some Oils when necessary :)
Nice placement of the Eddie Killers neca figure :)
Thanks :) That's kind of a weird spot and with Eddie and his backdrop down there it makes it seem like a dark ally lol
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Think! It ain't illegal yet!
Some great hard rock mixed in with a funk basic rhythm.
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Death Angel - The Moth
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Jethro Tull's 4th long-player: 1971's Aqualung. One of the first records I bought with my own money. When I was 9 I wanted it because he sang, "got him by the balls". It took many years before I was old enough to appreciate what Mr. Anderson was trying to accomplish with this set of songs.
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Jethro Tull is one of the greatest bands ever
Probably my second favorite band after Black Sabbath.
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^ I remember getting it for Locomotive Breath and staying for My God.
This era of Tull is a special one for me, as well, as they plunge head-first into progressive rock.
But right now I'm spinning Edwin Starr's "Agent Double-O Soul" :D
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Funkentelechy vs The Placebo Syndrome - Parliament
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Work is done, so I can crank it up!!!
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Metal Church - Children Of The Lie
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Into the Lungs of Hell seems apropos for the news out of Russia. (this disk still has a faint smell of the Great Barrier Reef to it :)) )
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Thinking about doing Made in Japan and Live Evil (Remixes) back-to-back today. Or mixing them in a Black-and-Purple arrangement...
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Eight Miles High as interpreted by The Golden Earring
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Haven't listened to this one in a long, long time.
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Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh priestess of my heart
Tellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll me that we won't part
:rockon:
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The Years to Remember - this disk came to me the other day via Harry Weisfeld (the guy who founded VPI). Nothing special about it, really, it's not even in that great of shape.
But it's really cool to hear the voices from back in the way-back associated with some historic events.
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Here's the track list:
A1a The King George Ⅴ Funeral
A1b King Edward Ⅷ Abdication
A1c King George Ⅵ Coronation
A1d The Munich Conference
A1e Prime Minister Chamberlain Reports To The World
A1f Hitler Declares War On Poland
A1g Chamberlain Announces War With Germany
A1h FDR "America Hates War"
A1i Winston Churchill "Give Us The Tools"
A2a The Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney Fight
A2b Schmeling Defeats Joe Louis
A2c Max Baer, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey Comment As Louis Defeats Schmeling In The Re-Match
A2d Jesse Owens In 1936 Olympics
A2e Ted Husing Reports
A2f 1937 Davis Cup Tennis Match, Budge Vs. Kramm
A2g Whirlaway Wins The Kentucky Derby With Clem McCarthy
B1a Pearl Harbor To Corregidor
B1b Pearl Harbor Bulletin
B1c Eyewitness Report Manila Bombing
B1d FDR "Day Of Infamy"
B1e The Last Broadcast From Corregidor
B1f "D" Day To Final Victory
B1g Dwight D. Eisenhower Announces "D" Day Landings
B1h FDR Prays On "D" Day
B1i "Live" Report From Landing Ship
B1j Iwo Jima Invaded; Eye-Witness Account
B1k President Truman's Congressional Tribute
B1l Winston Churchill On VE Day
B1m President Truman Announces Hiroshima "A" Bomb Attack
B1n General MacArthur At Signing Of Peace Treaty With Japan
B2a Babe Ruth's Final Message
B2b Lou Gehrig Says "Goodbye" At Yankee Stadium
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That Lou Gehrig "Goodbye" always gets me.
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That Lou Gehrig "Goodbye" always gets me.
It carries a lot of weight, that's for sure.
The "Last Broadcast from Corregidor" is something I had never heard. I had heard -of it- but didn't realize it's just a Morse code message. Thankfully they have a guy translating it!
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More Dutch music. Generally when I'm spinning disks I have very few lights on. This picture is dark AF because I thought I'd post one in my natural environment lol.
However, it isn't as dark as that picture makes it seem, or I'm just used to it.
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Blaze Bayley - Fortunes Of War (Live)
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Free Ride - Edgar Winter Group
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QR - MH
Slick Black Cadillac is still my favorite off of this record!
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They simply knocked it right out of the park with this record. After a one-two crotch kick from the first two songs, it just doesn't let up.
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very good one !
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Surprising and fantastic work of Mark Tremonti from Alterbrige with some musicians whose played with Sinatra himself during his last tour.
the main reason and motivation why Mak made this special album is moving too. "Mark has teamed up with the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) to release an album of Frank Sinatra covers titled "Tremonti Sings Sinatra". Frank Sinatra's catalog selections album is being released as part of a new charity initiative created by Tremonti called Take A Chance For Charity. Proceeds from the album – due out May 27 – will go to support NDSS and the work they do to advocate and support people with Down syndrome and their families. Mark and his family were lucky enough to welcome their first daughter Stella last March - and she was born with Down syndrome - and the idea for the project was born. "
Enjoy !
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One of the best album of the year
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Mystic Ian Astbury
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A Dark SynthWave with the gorgeous Heike Langhans (ex-Draconian) and Mike Lamb from Sojourner , an australian atmospheric Black Metal band.
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That's a new one to me - will take a listen to Remina.
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Wasn't fully sold on the first single One More Shot At Glory but this one seriously rocks and Tim sounds absolutely amazing yet again...his voice doesn't age! Crazy
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Starts out like a Freewheel Burning rip then turns into something generic and cheesy. Ripper’s voice is nails on a chalkboard to me and his vocal melodies are bland as hell. I dig the solo section but that’s it.
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I haven't listened to this for a long time; those guys sure did have a lot of fun playing music that is barely listenable lol
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I'm playing space rock in the background as I endure interactive computer-based training that makes me do all. the. clicks.
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a great album !
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Spinning the latest Metal Church album of late. :headbanger:
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the side-project of Ian Paice , Purpendicular. Awesome band !
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Dare I say it's better than the last Deep Purple ? Certainly !
The whole album is so pleasant to listen to. The musicians are simply very talented.
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I remember holding this CD in my hands in a store when it was released in 2000. I had never listened to it until a few days ago: magnificent!
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John Sykes : Guitars/Vocals
Scott Gorham : Guitars
Marco Mendoza - Bass Guitar
Tommy Aldridge : Drums
Darren Wharton : Keyboards
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I call myself a Thin Lizzy fan - and I've never heard of that release! (smacks myself in the head)
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the side-project of Ian Paice , Purpendicular. Awesome band !
Dare I say it's better than the last Deep Purple ? Certainly !
The whole album is so pleasant to listen to. The musicians are simply very talented.
Did not know it was out there, I'll have to look into it! Thanks for the reference to it!
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Vampire theater!
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This record continues to grow on me.
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This record continues to grow on me.
What makes it grow for you?
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I'm not sure exactly but I can say that with each listen the musicality of each song becomes more evident to my ears.
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I have to honestly say I've never really enjoyed that album as much as the ones that came before it. To me this was the clear beginning of the decline for Maiden...Lots of mid tempo bland songs and ofcourse it also includes one of the worst (if not even THE worst!) songs Maiden has ever done in Can I Play With Madness...
That being said the title track is an absolute monster and The Evil That Men Do and The Clairvoyant are good tracks...the rest just fall flat on their faces in the meh category.
I'm now enjoying the new Alice Cooper album the ROAD which seems to be rather BRILLIANT in fact!
Alice Cooper - The Big Goodbye
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I've got two business road trips coming up in September, so it looks like I need to get about 20 hours of slammers ready for the necessary playlist. I think I'll open with Fu Manchu's "King of the Road" and "Desert Cruiser" from Truckfighters...
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Alice Cooper - Road Rats Forever
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About to make my funk-soul show for next week... I love a good groove, don't I? :smug:
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Alice Cooper - Dead Don't Dance
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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^ Uh, what's with the bird? :)
Isaac Hayes - Good Love 6-9969
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haha, that bird was snuck into my office by a grandchild - it's made out of wood and I'm told it is a "house bird". Had never heard of such a thing, but while I was listening to Metal Church I happened to look down and there was that thing staring up at me with its beady glass eyes.
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hahaha that's cute! :D
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Right now, I'm working on the Funk-Soul yearbook for 1972. That was a strong and heavy year for the funk.
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32 songs from a few gigs back in 2012 - nothing spectacular but the sound is good, 180g vinyl is quiet, great balance between audience noise and the actual music, and overall a solid piece of retrospection across a long career.
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Working on oldies for my Saturday show, Bull Moose Jackson beckons me. :D
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KK's Priest - Hellfire Thunderbolt
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Tom Moulton mixes of some great 70s dance classics.
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A bit of metal from Japan.
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Shabadabadia shabadabadia babababa! :D :headbanger:
Makes me want to crank up this one from Yuzo Kayama and the Launchers:
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Waiting for the new album to arrive revisiting the first one
KK's PRIEST - Return Of The Sentinel
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Road trip for business, drove from Dallas to Austin. Playlist features Wo Fat, Sasquatch, Mos Generator, and Sky Valley Mistress. Good times.
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KK's Priest - The Sinner Rides Again
This album is an absolute beast. If the first one was good this is suberb. KK found got his mojo back fully here with writing some blistering classic heavy metal tunes and Tim manages to forge out his best vocal performance since The Glorious Burden...it is amazing how this man's voice just doesn't give up...but that's why he is one of the best singers of all time.
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Side two of this platter is a pretty decent trip. A different vibe than The Sinner Rides Again, to be sure :)
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^^^Hahah I have no doubt!
I am still rocking with the Sinner...this album is seriously bad ASS as Phil Anselmo would say...
It's also great to see so many positive reviews everywhere online and especially from the fans.
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Death Angel - Son Of The Morning
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All of this thinking and typing about death and destruction made me realize I was missing something.
Thankfully, I found it. We all know how long ago this slab of metal was unleashed to the world.
And the message remains timeless.
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New DORO video!
The Metal Queen sure knows how to do these Heavy Metal Anthems! Love it!
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Playing some old Isley Brothers, as Rudolph Isley passed away earlier this week.
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Fela Kuti's epic "Zombie".
Fela's band consistently delivers at an impeccable level of musicianship.
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A diverse set featuring David Crosby, Deep Purple (the one post-PS release I have), and sraight outta Finland: Pekka Pohjola.
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Pekka Pohjola...Northen Pekka....hmm...never EVER have I heard of him....so had to google. He was the bass player for legendary Finnish prog rock band Wigwam in the 70s...
Heh...never did I think I'd learn new things about Finnish rock at the Community! Thanks for proving me wrong on that department...as well! :D
Death Angel - Execution / Don't Save Me
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The James Bond Theme. Because This or That. :smug:
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Funny thing about Pekka's record - I acquired that in the mid 1990's as part of about a thousand records I bought for $100 from the WROC radio station in Rochester, NY. Hold on, that's not the funny part. Here's the funny part: When I took that picture was the first time I ever played it!
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So you're working through your pile, then?
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Archon Angel - Avenging The Dragon
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Millie Jackson's version of "Feel Like Making Love", great soul version of the Bad Co track.
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Alice Cooper - I Know Where You Live
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Recent discussion about bands "losing the magic", etc. made me realize that I haven't listened to this record in years!
One thing I do recall, though, is the cover. I still do not understand what dot-matrix printer paper rolled out across what is presumably a desert has to do with anything lol
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That is a pretty bad album indeed. Heading Out To The Highway and Desert Plains are the only good tracks on it...Solar Angels is half way decent but the rest...yikes...bad bad bad BAD!
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That is a pretty bad album indeed. Heading Out To The Highway and Desert Plains are the only good tracks on it...Solar Angels is half way decent but the rest...yikes...bad bad bad BAD!
British Steel: :headbanger:
Point of Entry: :think:
Screaming for Vengeance: :headbanger:
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Solitude Aeturnus - The 8th Day: Mourning
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More JP! The red document is a flyer from Columbia records welcoming the band to their new label.
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^ That's why I love those initial releases, even with record station stickers on the front indicating what to play and how to play it, such as you seem to have there. Getting the artifacts of the time makes the vinyl even more magical. Inserts, posters, readable lyrics sheets, promotional giveaways, 3-D glasses for the cover, 16-page newspapers, label advertising, all that stuff is cool to discover and play with.
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The Metal Queen and The Metal God came together in a rather unexpected way:
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The range of Mr. Halford's singing voice never ceases to amaze me!
This morning, I spun a 10 incher from Yellowman titled, "Operation Radication". He was gaining traction on the international scene, as evidenced by the fact this was released on the Pama label out of England, but hadn't broken through yet. Island vibes on a cold-ass rainy day!
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It's cold outside and there was a hymn in church yesterday based on a theme of Sibelius' from Finlandia. So I went for Finlandia.
Some absolutely stunning wildlife filming in this video.
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And now, to keep that cold weather vibe going, David Gilmour's first solo album. Part of my welcome to fall ritual, as it were. But as we draw closer to the end of November, I seek out music about being thankful and take stock of the good of the past year.
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An example of a ballad that works - Beyond the Realms of Death - hiding out on side two of this dark slab of metal.
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I've never really been able to categorize that as a ballad eventhough it is a sad song and has that soft intro...But regardless it is a killer song. But I'm not sure I could list it in my Top 10 ballads because I just don't see it as one...
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The Judas Priest spin-fest continues. Up today is the two-disk release, "Firepower".
It's such a slammin' set of tunes, office decorations were getting into it!
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WTF!
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Even Eddie had to show props!
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Black Sabbath - The Sign Of The Southern Cross
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Back in the U.S.A. - MC5 doing a great version of the Chuck Berry classic.
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Inspired by the Solo albums thread
Tony Iommi featuring Ian Astbury - Flame On
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Solo albums, here, as well.
Sly Stone - High on You
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Grief Collector - Voodoo / Die Young Medley
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Classic Northern Soul tracks...
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Inspired by the best albums of 23 reflection thread
DiGelsomina w/ Robert Lowe - Otherworldly
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Funky Street by Arthur Conley
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Inspired by the solo albums thread background music for my workout tonight is by Tony Martin's Thorns!
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Pretty good live version
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2023 Albums and there be some stinkers... lolz!
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Inspired by Zzz's nostalgia trip. Note the female hand inside of his jacket on the inner sleeve. The man had women in his pocket, literally! Probably have to click on the picture to get a larger view.
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Lol, yeah, I remember that picture. :) Good times in the 80s.
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Triplets-o-rama, lean, mean, quick and clean!
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A playlist I made for my oldies show, all songs covered by The Rolling Stones!
Bo Diddley - Mona (02:22)
Rufus Thomas - Walking the Dog (02:29)
Marvin Gaye - Can I Get A Witness (Single Version / Mono) (02:47)
Gene Allison - You Can Make It if You Try (02:08)
Buddy Holly & The Crickets - Not Fade Away (02:25)
Arthur Alexander - You Better Move On (02:44)
The Coasters - Poison Ivy (02:45)
The Blind Boys Of Alabama - You Got To Move (02:17)
Wynonie Harris - Confessin' the Blues (02:47)
The Drifters - Under the Boardwalk (02:45)
Solomon Burke - If You Need Me (02:34)
Alvin Robinson - Down Home Girl - Original (03:02)
Otis Redding - Pain in My Heart (02:26)
Barbara Lynn - Oh! Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin') (02:05)
Don Covay - Mercy Mercy (02:26)
O.V. Wright - That's How Strong My Love Is (03:00)
Chuck Berry - Carol (02:48)
Valentinos - It's All Over Now (02:51)
Eddie Cochran - Twenty Flight Rock (01:47)
Slim Harpo - Shake Your Hips (02:28)
The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud To Beg (02:31)
The 5 Royales - Think (02:34)
Jesse Fuller - Key To The Highway (03:16)
Sam Cooke - Good Times (02:27)
Bob & Earl - Harlem Shuffle (03:00)
Martha & The Vandellas - Dancing In The Street (Single Version / Stereo) (02:39)
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Working on a controlled vocabulary specific to a certain dept. at my work while being pelted by the psychedelic sounds of the Airplane's love song to LSD:
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Ah yes, Jefferson Airplane! Four vocalists in search of a band! :D
I'm right now listening to the Bills-Jets game, Jets just had a fumble on the opening kickoff return.
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For tonight's workout session background noise is provided by EXODUS - Persona Non Grata which conveniently turns two years old today!
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Playing that new album from the Stones again... what a finish on it!
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Playing it for the first time!
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Oh yeah, I picked up the big ten inch, too:
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Exodus - Antiseed
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Zzz was talking about Saxon in the best albums thread and I have to say I have never really listened to them and know very little about them but this new song popped up and I thought I'd give it a listen and I have to say it's actually pretty good! And Biff is sounding good here as well...certainly better than on some of those covers they did!
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:headbanger: oh yeah, that's miles better than the vocals on the covers album. I am excited for this one!
https://blabbermouth.net/news/saxon-announces-new-album-hell-fire-and-damnation had more info, including that he got Brian Tatler (ex-Diamond Head) on guitar for the album, and I'm a fan of his work. Production is strong, great main riff, I'm stoked for it!
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Oh yeah, I picked up the big ten inch, too:
... record of the band that plays the blues! :D
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Time for another workout session and I think it's time to give the new Metal Church album another spin again!
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Good choice. You might also like the new Uriah Heep for workouts.
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Bill Haley y sus Cometas - The Spanish Collection (all the tracks he recorded in Mexico - Bill Haley was fluent in Spanish, as it so happened...)
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Doing a little try before I buy. The first album from Girlschool, and wow the similarities with a certain other punk-metal band are amazing... Both Motorhead and Girlschool have a similar instrumental sound, difference being primarily that Lemmy sounds like Lemmy and Girlschool sing differently. :D
Really liking this one, I think I'll pick it up and maybe more of their back catalog. It's a fun exploration, this one.
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The first, unleashed upon the unsuspecting citizens of the United Kingdom on Friday, February 13th, 1970. No one has been the same since.
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The first, unleashed upon the unsuspecting citizens of the United Kingdom on Friday, February 13th, 1970. No one has been the same since.
Except for people born after that date, as this album would be part of their existing frame of reference. Or did its release have a ripple effect through the time-space continuum?
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It is, will be, and always has been a musical tesseract wrapped inside of a moebius strip that's been folded inside of a klein bottle. The result being your well-spotted ripple; eternal and vibrating at a frequency that excites the micro-tubules in the brain structures of everyone...now, then, and hereafter!
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Explains why I felt a disturbance in the force yesterday around 5PM, US Central Time.
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Eventhough it was bloody freezing yesterday I guess the reason I felt a slight warmth in my innards was Vyn cranking that album up to 11!
For workout music tonight:
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Famous for having bad sound, it actually doesn't sound bad to me - of course I'm not a big SD fan, but sometimes the mood strikes and this Japanese pressing does a good job.
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Sound issues were from problems with early noise reduction technology. Mostly recovered, but the band never wanted to listen to the final pressing. I still enjoy it, especially Black Friday and Bad Sneakers.
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...Bad Sneakers.
I've never enjoyed pina coladas, but that's a good song!
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It's like Steely Dan took it as a personal challenge to make lyrics with the oddest elements...
Guadalajara won't do
Your technicolor motorhome
Fly down to Muswellbrook
Drink Kirschwasser from a shell
Bad sneakers and a pina colada
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Their calculated lyricism certainly threw out a lot of dichotomies; they also did a lot of narrative frame switching to accompany that. Note the very specific "named" items in their songs, contrasted with nebulous concepts - which of course leads the listener to try and find some hidden meaning. Doctor Wu? Who tha fuq is Wu? Drug dealer? Nickname for someone's dog? Code for marijuana?
Speaking of which, on tonight's menu a slightly older, and significantly less adept at that kind of lyric, band. Displaying why they never took off, on their 1969 release:
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Giving that a try via YouTube... opening track sounds a LOT like Captain Beyond. A LOT.
Second track sounds a LOT like The Doors. A LOT.
Interesting platter...
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Fever Tree had several superb musicians, and I think if they hadn't been sucked into the vacuous hole of psychedelia they might have eventually gained some traction. They made it, "big," with their first album, which hits all of the (then) current hip topics: San Fransisco, getting high, females with mystical auras, flowers, etc.
Rather than pivot away from the psych stuff - which I get why they didn't to a degree, it's what made them known beyond their locale, they doubled down on it. And not in a great way. The tunes are "OK", but the Blues Magoos they were not. And, lol, their singer could read the telephone book and make it sound like he was giving a sermon. The guy had a striking and readily identifiable delivery. Which, combined with their insistence on cranking out weirder and weirder shit, relegated them to footnote status in the book of rock.
I've always had a tinge of regret about them - I think they could have been a lot more popular, and delivered some envelope-pushing music. Instead, their "producers" (Keith and Donna Godchaux they were not) led them down the path of delivering music that lacked that one critical component: authenticity. And that killed their chances for greatness. I really believe they could have dismantled King Crimson if they had done things a little differently.
Anyway, cool that you checked them out. For as negative as my commentary about them seems, I enjoy their tunes every so often, and the negativity stems from my disappointment with what could have been, more than anything else.
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Ultimately, they're like the 13th Floor Elevators - an Austin-based psych band from around the same time that did some amazing stuff on like a third of their tracks and the rest was like, OK, where's the rest of the revolution?
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Bit of a workout going on and music for that this time comes from DELAIN:
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Drove a lot today, road music included Deep Purple, Billy Squier, Fastway, and Dio. Also Van Halen.
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Scary John Bonham for a grey Monday
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Whoa, your house has gone grayscale negative! Have you called a repairman?
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That always happens when I pull out the Bonham record. Weird voodoo shit.
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Working out to some EXCELLENT DOOM METAL from Portland!
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Going to have to check that out, never heard of Witch Mountain.
MOR with the poster I never wanted to put tack holes in so have unfolded it maybe three times.
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This one came out of nowhere!!
Some new TONY IOMMI music featuring Serj Tankian!!
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I will need to get to it once I've done finished with a spin I'm giving to Delerious Nomad...
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This one came out of nowhere!!
Some new TONY IOMMI music featuring Serj Tankian!!
Iommi sounds great on this. And Gibson is doing a great job of advertising its relevance to a continuous audience, something Fender failed to do.
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That Iommi tune was a great find!
I'm hitting the Youtube this evening, and it's currently playing a randomly selected tune called, "Atomic Cocktail". I'd never heard of it - mid-40's pop tunes not being my thing and all, but from what I looked up it was something of a hit back in the day...not too long after the US served a couple of those things up for Japan:
P.S. - I can't help but think that the record label was created expressly to release this song on, heh.
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^ One of my faves, and actually, no, Atomic Cocktail was a tune that came along a few months after the label was formed. Lots of swing jazz, jump blues, and cool roots of rock and roll on that label. The flipside of Atomic Cocktail is Yep Roc Heresay, which is Slim Gaillard reading an Arabic restaurant's menu. The cat knew like 6 languages fluently and invented his own language, Vout, for his vocal lines.
The song got banned on two LA radio stations because program managers had no idea what Slim was singing and panicked that it could be some rather rude or blue language or that he was doing crimes in his music or SOMETHING that would get him on Santa's Naughty List. Of course, a mild ban like that helped to boost sales a tad. :)
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Awesome info, thanks! Nothing scares broadcasters more than possibly losing ad revenue - I mean, if the guy is singing "Mwabalaka" it might actually mean "the owner of this radio station takes it in the ass while smoking the devil's cabbage and reading The Communist manifesto." Seems like a reasonable assumption to me!
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LOTS of tunes from this era were banned for including gibberish. "The Monster Mash" was banned by the BBC for being "too morbid". Ohhhhhhhhhhhh kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy...
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For workout music today the latest Megadeth album The Sick, The Dying...And The Dead!
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Surf-rock Christmas Songs. It's a thing. :smug:
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Found two more albums from smaller bands that were released in 2023 that are worth further exploring. Putting some time into this one right now:
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Opening track is fast-paced, has a great engine in it, vocals not bad. Some quality desert metal rock and roll. Second track is just as firey and metally, good stuff thus far.
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In contrast to Z's desert metal selection, the centerpiece of this evening's playlist is not new, not desert, and not metal:
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Have not heard that one, so I pulled it up on the YouTube - and the drum/bass rhythm in the opening track is decidedly what desert tries to emulate. Not so much the harmonica, though. :)
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Magic Dick <> desert :)
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Magic Dick <> desert :)
We are in agreement. :)
Meanwhile, I was going through The Staple Singers' 1962 Christmas album that was released into total obscurity, but was able to get a digital copy of. Simple arrangements, beautiful harmonies. One of the best Christmas albums I've heard.
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I love the Staple Singers!
"They say I worship the devil, they must be stupid or blind..."
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So the story goes for the Rock and Roll Rebel...
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A lovely Christmas treat for where it don't snow on December 25th. :)
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Had our oldest daughter, her husband and all the grandkids over today - youngest daughter & her husband are sick with the covid. Had breakfast, my wife felt good and cooked, which made her feel even better because that is becoming more and more of a rarity. Everyone had a good time, hung around long enough to watch the Chiefs shit all over themselves.
Inspired by that, and reading the "sophomore album" thread wherein everyone was extolling the virtues of Mob Rules - what else could I play this evening now that everyone is gone, wife is watching TV, dogs are trying to sleep :)
"Don't live for pleasure, make life your treasure."
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Oh yeah, I used that as an excuse to spin a certain platter, albeit digitally. :smug:
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Spending the evening with Ozzy!
I don't know the specifics, but that record had been the victim of water damage at some point. I picked it up fifteen/twenty years ago online. It's a promo, which is why I bought it, but the seller claimed one thing and reality claimed another regarding its condition lol. The vinyl itself is in great shape, but the cover looks like it had been peeled off of another one (stuck, no doubt, due to water damage) and the inner sleeve and promo flyer both have evident "waviness".
I thought I found a great replacement for the copy I bought on release, that had suffered way more than water damage - and I got half-way there. Maybe one day I'll do something about that.
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The fact that you secured the Yellowman album indicates to me that you are likely up to the task of acquiring the Ozzy album.
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The final Circle II Circle album Reign Of Darkness...and what an album it is!
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Oldies for my show playlist tomorrow... including:
John Lee Hooker - Crawling King Snake
BB King - Hully Gully Boogie
Big Mama Thornton - Mischievous Boogie
Kim Weston - Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While)
Fats Domino - Going to the River
Ray Charles - Early in the Morning
The Cadets - Dancing Dan
... and for Rock and Roll Football, I have Little Richard going head-to-head with MC5 over Tutti Frutti. Gonna be a great matchup, that one! I also have Muddy Waters vs The Rolling Stones in I Just Want to Make Love to You.
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Going on a trip but not leaving the house!
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Mr. Peter Frampton
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Made it a point to watch The Midnight Special whenever I could, and enjoy hitting up their videos now and again currently. Same with Austin City Limits.
I'm trying to think of current/recent television shows that carry their torch. Not simply, "musicians playing songs live on TV," but the seemingly free-reign the performers had to play stuff. Of course their notable songs were played, but also stuff that was brand new or only for those "in the know". And they were actual, live performances. I can think of two from The Midnight Special that blow every other version away - Linda Ronstadt's "You're No Good" and The Ohio Player's "Fire". Freaking fantastic efforts.
Unlike American Bandstand that for the most part was mimed. That Crabby Appleton reel I posted is clearly a sing-along to the studio recording. Not so on TMS or ACL.
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Don Kirshner's Rock Concert was another one that ran alongside TMS. In Germany, there was Rockpalast that had some awesome shows.
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In Germany, there IS Rockpalast that had some awesome shows.
There fixed it for ya bub... ;)
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A little Ozzy EP. Always thought it was funny how much "You Said It All" carries "No Bone Movies" but with a better break (at least I think so). And I gotta say, the live version of "Suicide Solution" on this release is one hard-rocking tune.
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Live in '75!
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Live in '75!
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Now I'mma listen to Live Evil (Remastered)...
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Live in '70!
Compliments of JtS, wherever he may roam!
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Made in Japan for me now
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Now I'mma listen to Live Evil (Remastered)...
Well, rat hockey, I don't have that, so I listened to this sad, old, crap produced version. At least I know what to expect from it lol!
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Got some easy soul on right now with "Too Late To Turn Back Now" by The Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose. Getting ready for getting my Funk-Soul show playlist ready for next week.
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That is a song that can stay in a person's head all day.
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Spinning the 1969 album from The Impressions, The Young Mods' Forgotten Story.
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Hellraiser - interesting job they did mixing Lemmy's version with Ozzy's. It is amazingly seamless. And since they included both full versions on the flip side, is cool to compare directly.
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Got my show together, now to play it back while I work from home some more. This week will be a mix of funky disco and Northern Soul, it works nice together.
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BLAZE BAYLEY just dropped the first video from his upcoming album CIRCLE OF STONE!!
What a killer tune once again!
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That was one clean rocker there!
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Blaze showed up? Time to call...THE POLICE!
Just noticed how the color in the band's name ties right in with the color of my zerostat lol
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Some new progressive metal from Ron & Derek
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That is a new one to me!
Some early '70s tunage from a band that coulda been a contender, but...wasn't lol
Oh, and this is NOT the album with their bizarro cover of House of the Rising Sun.
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Wikipedia says the album is less blues-based rock and more heavy prog like Uriah Heep... would you concur with that observation?
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It has Uriah Heep baked into it, for sure. Heavy on the keys, with the requisite woo-woo lyrics. It's an interesting album to listen to, because it is so easy to hear just how not good they are, but in a way that shows they really are trying. If they'd just get it together a...little...bit...more.
It's like someone is watching them record, and has a stopwatch. At the correct time, they say, "ok, guitar solo," and weedle-weedle-weedle. Then, "ok, keyboard noodling," and there it is. Next up, "fancy drum fill, please," and bada-bip.
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I gave it a spin and, yeah, it was like, "kids, you'll never make the big time, but that doesn't mean you can't have a rewarding career playing lots of bars and small dancehalls."
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I gave it a spin and, yeah, it was like, "kids, you'll never make the big time, but that doesn't mean you can't have a rewarding career playing lots of bars and small dancehalls."
Perfect description. Listening to it reminds me of when I used to go out to clubs to see the local bands.
Speaking of which, it's carbohydrate Wednesday. A couple of decent pop offerings on this one:
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Hey! That one has their hit on it!
Meanwhile, I'm cruising through some great glam punk, and this one has a helluva chorus: "Must be the co-/Must be the co-/Must be the coooooooooooocaine!"
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Alice Cooper - Rules Of the Road
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Saxon - Hell, Fire and Damnation
Songs up at their YT channel in no particular order, it's 4/4 so far with the tracks I've spun from it.
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I listened to the Saxon's newest earlier today - absolutely a return to 1983, and Biff sounds fantastic!
That was courtesy of Tidal. From the vinyl side, this evening is another great singer:
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Saw some other reviews of Saxon's latest, it's a monster of an album.
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Dave Edmunds - for a brief time he caught a trend and rode it. This platter is an artifact from those days.
It's a decent set of tunes, contains the hit for which he is famous, but there are better on here.
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I posted this record a week or two ago - a white label promo on A&M. I thought I had a different version, and after digging around I found it!
So, this is the first pressing on the band's label, Pyramid, came out about a year before the A&M version.
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Oh wow, that's cool. Is there a difference in the sound of the pressings?
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Sound-wise, the Pyramid pressing sounds just ever-so-slightly brighter. To my ear it gives the recording a more dynamic feel. But it's very slight.
The back cover of the A&M pressing has a picture of the band eating pancakes at the counter of a diner. The Pyramid pressing has two pictures, both in black and white. One of a flat landscape captioned, "Flat as a pancake," and the other of the band loitering by some trees and an old wooden fence. Two of the band members are holding shotguns. LOL
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Yeah, it's THAT GOOD
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Yes it is! And now whenever I hear of the last track, I think of a Finnish superhero that controls lightning... SUPER CHARGER!!!
Not a bad mental image, really. :)
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Okay I think I need to buy that album too...would be my first Saxon album!
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Okay I think I need to buy that album too...would be my first Saxon album!
It's a great one to start with, would not advise you start with a different one. Their classic period is pretty much Wheels of Steel, Denim and Leather, The Eagle Has Landed (Live), The Power & The Glory, and Crusader. Crusader is where there's a bit of a faltering in sound and then I got burned on the next few releases. Hell, Fire and Damnation is every bit as good as their best from the early-mid 80s.
Lyrics are similar to those of Iron Maiden's: pick a historical or sci-fi subject and tell a story about the thing/event. Like "Dallas 1 PM" is about the JFK assassination. Some titles tell you right out what's going to be in the song, like 1066 or Kublai Khan and The Merchant of Venice. Then you see "Fire and Steel" and wonder is this about fighting or racing and no, it's about steel manufacturing in Colchester. And that's totally cool, these guys are proud of the hard-working men that built Britain and all that.
But absolutely, this is a great place to start on a band with a long and proud legacy. This album made me want to reach back to 2004 to see if their Lionheart album was as good and that's what I'm playing now. "Witchfinder General" has a really heavy start to that album, I think I'm in for the ride and will be buying an album later to-day...
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Power and the Glory. Their new release sounds like the follow up to this one.
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Absolutely it does.
Me, I just found a recording by Erma Franklin, absolutely loved it, and now I come to find that that's Aretha's older sister and that she had a limited recording career. I'm on a hunt, now...
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Finally we get a taster of Kerry Kings solo material!
And holy shit does it sound good! And he got one of the best singers in Thrash MARK OSEGUEDA on board! Did not see that coming!
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Playing some Ohio Players after Heaven and Hell. I'm feeling quite diverse to-day! :D
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Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal has another band as well and now they got a new singer and it's non other than JEFF SCOTT SOTO so Ron has now two bands with his former Sons Of Apollo band mates! And this track is bit more traditional heavy metal with some prog influences and it's really really really GOOD!
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Spinning Shinin' On by Grand Funk (the tracks I like from it) because album covers thread.
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Playing this while lifting some iron
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Holy macrel!
This is fantastic! How in the hell haven't I gotten into Saxon before! Or is this album just something that special?
I'm calling it....This is Album Of The Year material right here!
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It's a band playing at its prime, for sure. Very much like their early-mid 80s output before they made a play for pop. Welcome to the Saxon club, Charger!
Or should we start calling you now...
SUPER CHARGER??? :smug:
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Spinning Saxon's 2011 album, Call to Arms - one of the albums I missed that I'm going back to.
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Gonna need to buy this one.
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Nothing Super about me sadly... :/
But here goes another spin of Hell Fire and Damnation!
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Having listened the album now few times I can say that the Title track, There's Something In Roswell (for the subject matter alone) and Madame Guillotine (the lyrics are awesome! I mean come on! Just let me introduce you to Madame Guillotine, She'll be pleased to meet you but please don't lose your head! That's gold Jerry! That's GOLD!) are my absolute favourites! Super Charger ain't bad either!
This album is total killer and no filler!
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I do think it's the one to beat for album of the year, and it came out in January!
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Agreed for sure!
But there are a LOT of possibly great albums coming out this year so...but it is a very very strong contender for sure!
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Great to see you enjoying Saxon, Charger! I always enjoyed their early stuff, then the late 80s hit and they lost it for me. This new release of theirs is a stunning return to form, and if Z hadn't posted about it I doubt I would be digging it at this point.
For sure, at -some- point I would have listened to a Youtube video from it, but no telling when because their suckage became ingrained in my psyche so I would figure this new one was more of the same crap. And I would have been wrong-o lol.
As for RIGHT THIS SECOND, I'm spinning Glitch Black's newest slab of darksynth called, "Mechanical Perfection". It pairs nicely when I'm posting images on message boards while waiting for Core Impact to process a scenario report!
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Getting my Oldies show ready to go, spinning Fats Domino, Elvis, Little Richard, Ray Charles, and cool stuff like that.
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Great to see you enjoying Saxon, Charger! I always enjoyed their early stuff, then the late 80s hit and they lost it for me. This new release of theirs is a stunning return to form, and if Z hadn't posted about it I doubt I would be digging it at this point.
Yeah Z's post about the album was what made me get it...and very thankful that I did.
Now I just need to check out some of those earlier albums. I think I'll be doind a Saxon thread where we can talk about what to get.
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12" promo EP with Kinder Words and Chocolate Pudding. Was supposed to have Pirate Ship on it, but they screwed up the pressing and rather than redoing it, they printed a sticker calling attention to the fact lol.
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Lol, that's the punk ethic in action! I really like "Kinder Words", but haven't heard the other two tracks you mentioned.
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Saxon - This Town Rocks
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Saxon - This Town Rocks
Saxon's answer is in the affirmative. :smug:
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Saxon - 20000 ft
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Saxon - Unleash the Beast
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From the bowels of my collection comes - The Fugs! As stated in the title of this first pressing on Broadside, they are performing Ballads of Contemporary Protest, Point of Views and General Dissatisfaction.
It is not a gatefold cover, but it has a cardboard divider that separates the vinyl from the inserts. There are two inserts included with the LP: a four-page paper that documents details of the songs and their lyrics as well as a print of the "Pyramid of Capitalist System", originally on the cover of the 1911 issue of The International Worker.
If one had any doubts as to the nature of the aural material contained on the disk, that insert alone should remove them.
As music, it doesn't appeal to me. Although it is clear they do not take themselves too seriously and that aspect makes it interesting. As a collectible item, it's super rare because it is a first pressing with both inserts and at the time was only available for purchase from Ed Sanders's bookstore in the lower east side of NYC. And this one made it through the cultural revolution in damn near mint condition. Unlike most all of those types of records, and many of the people, for that matter :)
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Indeed... that's an interesting piece of history you got there.
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Saxon - And The Bands Played On
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Saxon - Motorcycle Man
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^ I feel like I've unleashed a monster! :lol:
Playing "Double Crossing Blues" by Esther Phillips with The Johnny Otis Orchestra, comparing it to "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis, and reading how Johnny Otis got sued by the writer of the first tune as well as a history of US copyright law. Planning to make a video on this for my music channel.
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Saxon - There's Something In Roswell
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Saxon - Hammer of the Gods
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Anybody been listening to any Saxon lately?
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Why yes, yes I have. :D
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But right now it's funk and soul for my show Monday, including Rhythm Heritage doing "Theme From S.W.A.T." :)
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Anybody been listening to any Saxon lately?
I have actually! And doing so right now...again.
Saxon - Madame Guillotine
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Jesus Christ Muscle Car is the band and Cain Enable is the song.
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Overkill - Killbox 13
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Working out to this one today!
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Haven't played this one nearly enough!
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New track from Seven Spires
That intro! Hotdamn! The verse riff is bit on the boring side but Adrienne's vocals are suberb once again!
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The first Ska song:
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Found a song by Neil Sedaka from 1960, titled "Stairway to Heaven". Had to play it, like it better than the Zeppelin song by the same name. :D
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Alexander Borodin and Johann Strauss II; chamber music and symphonies from the Russian, waltzes and marches from the Austrian. :)
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Bought this double LP on orange vinyl when it came out back in 1994 from Phantasmagoria Records in Wheaton, Maryland. One of the things I have always missed about living in DC was the music scene and the record stores. So this evening, I'm headed for the bottom, but I'm ridin' the nostalgia train all the way. Apologies to Chris Cornell's lyrics :)
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Hold on... that's a Stax label on the album... what's going on there, did Soundgarden go back in time and do songs written by Isaac Hayes with The Memphis Horns in the background?
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That's the ultra-rare orange vinyl Stax tribute that includes Green Onions as a bonus surprise track!
Actually, it's a Stax record mat with a -clear- orange vinyl Soundgarden disk spinning on top of it. Although the band did do a cover of the Ohio Players' "Fopp", so something from a decade prior to THAT wouldn't be too outlandish of a story :)
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh okay, it's *clear vinyl*... I thought I had another Kate Middleton photo edit on my hands. Glad there's a reasonable, sound explanation that matches the data and trusted local observers' testimony. :)
Meanwhile, it's the Groß-Wien Waltz from Strauss II over here. Stanislav Gorkovenko conducting the St. Petersburg Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra.
Pretty sure that's St. Petersburg Russia, not St. Petersburg Florida...
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Blaze Bayley - Tears In Rain
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Blaze Bayley - Tears In Rain
Me too!
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Solid orange vinyl - Sonny & The Sunsets dishing out some far out funk soul fusion with a decidedly modern feel! And an insert that strikes me as being ridiculously gratuitous, but what do I know. I recall some folks thinking a crucifix floating in a jar of urine was the apex of the then current art scene.
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^ Tried that album out just now. *Quirky* be the word for that platter! :) They are having fun, and that's a good thing.
Myself, I'm going to go head-first into some action rock on Bandcamp once this call is over. I'll try out stuff that's popular, then stuff that's recent, see if there's anything good.
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https://lux-noise.bandcamp.com/album/the-hip-priests-scumbag-millionaire-split
Truth in advertising. What you see on the cover is what you get, two Elvis covers done in a high-energy wall of noise punk style that just drips with peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Gonna have a good day today.
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https://thestripp.bandcamp.com/album/aint-no-crime-to-rock-n-roll
Clicked a link, started the opening track and DAMN it has grabbed me by the short and curlies and is not lettin' go! :guitar: :guitar: :guitar: :guitar: :guitar: Very very Motorhead in sound, got a lady singing, they're from Australia, the drummer is hopped up on Jimson Weed, and yes, that's Rodney Dangerfield in the top right corner of the album art. Gonna buy this one, that's for sure.
Edited link to point to their own store, that's in AUS$ instead of CHF, big savings!
Edited the edit to report on how the rest of the album is - let's just say that this is the only album of theirs I can find on Bandcamp, and they have 2 other EPs. This is a rare commodity, I'm stocking up on this great stuff.
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Stumbled across this, started rocking it and then looked at that photo again... half of The Chats are in this band, which is also a punk band, but more in the trash glam style than The Chats. Also the guitar player does lead vocals here, so maybe these guys turn up when The Chats' lead singer has laryngitis. :D
They got them a Bandcamp page, think I might just have to get their 2023 album...
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Blaze Bayley - A Day Of Reckoning
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Arrived at my home today. Invincible Shield from Judas Priest. Giving it a first listen, so far seems to have a Turbo-era vibe to it, with Dream Theater guitars mixed in with the more trad tone. Will see how the whole thing plays out, so far it definitely rocks.
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Working through Balakirev's piano works. Nice adventure, that.
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Black Sabbath - Anno Mundi (2024 Remaster)
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The Madison Time - Ray Bryant Trio
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Frank Zappa's Grammy-Award winning speed metal masterpiece, Jazz from Hell. Ok, no speed metal, but it did win an award!
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Solitude Aeturnus - Dream Of Immortality
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Saxon doin' some Hell Fire & Damnation
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Herbie Hancock's 1972 release, "Crossings". Wherein the question is posed: Can three songs be considered an, "album"? And the answer is - for sure!
Produced in that period of time between leaving Miles Davis's second quintet and releasing the landscape-changing, "Head Hunters," this album is a musical picture in time of jazz running headlong into electronic music experimentation. Side one is a five-part, 25 minute long composition called, "Sleeping Giant," and it offers up the funk, some modal jazz, and some free-form polyrhythmic bits all underpinned by Hancock's Rhode's electric piano.
Side two gives us two songs: "Quasar," and "Water Torture". Patrick Gleeson fires up a Moog on Quasar, the song itself driving heavily into experimental electronic sounds. Water Torture pulls out all of the normal stops and doesn't seem to even consist of MUSIC - it's the sonic atmospheric equivalent to walking into a room full of computers learning how to play musical instruments that were designed to be played by hedgehogs.
Of the three, Sleeping Giant is my favorite - the other two are simply too far out there for my tastes. But interesting to listen to every now and then just to keep things in balance :)
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Ah! Herbie Hancock! And, yes, Crossings and Mwandishi both get exploratory. I find the R&B grounding of Fat Albert Rotunda more to my liking, and it's that first album he did with Warner Brothers that points most strongly towards Head Hunters.
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I have actually never listened to Mwandishi, or Sextant for that matter, but somehow Crossings found its way into my collection.
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A couple of new songs from Accept on Tidal:
Hahaha, so, Humanoid finished as I was about to post this, and Tidal's randomizer picked the next tune...Holy Diver...awesome!
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Cory Henry solos the ba-jeezus out of that synthesizer set.
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Been a while since I spun this platter and that don't make no sense! A blues rocker in his prime at the Armadillo Ballroom in Austin, TX back in 1978... some truly smoooooooooooth playing from Bugs Henderson and The Shuffle Kings.
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Going through old Cashbox mags again for my show, getting intrigued by ads in the magazine. In the 8 April 1972 magazine, there was an ad for Billy Joel's debut album, Cold Spring Harbor with the single "Tomorrow Is Today."
It's soft, sure, just Billy and his piano, but it also showcases the young genius he had at the piano and is quite touching. Thought I'd share it.
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Next to catch my eye was an ad for John Kay's solo album, Forgotten Songs & Unsung Heroes. Has a bluesy, heavy single with it, "I'm Movin On". Metal it is not, but heavy rock for sure. Steams along nicely and tastily. That Hammond he's got in the band is doin' it rite. :yes:
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Saxon - Madame Guillotine
Almost managed to go two weeks without listening to this album...that was enough!
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I was blaring that one and The Stripp's Ain't No Crime to Rock and Roll the other day. Great for driving!
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Bruch's violin concertos. On No. 3 in D minor, Op. 58. Previously listened to Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26, No. 2 in D minor, Op. 44, and Serenade for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 75.
Ahead of me is Scottish Fantasy (Op. 46), all 4 movements! :headbanger:
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Candlemass - Lucifer Rising
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So, I'm working from my home office today.
I'm also tripping back in time with some Slayer!
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I'm going further back in time! 1958, to be exact - Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry.
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That's awesome! Well, the song is awesome but what makes it even better is that after I finished Slayer I dropped on Waysted's The Good, The Bad, and The Waysted, which finishes up side two with a Chuck Berry tune.
Coincidence? I think not! I think it is clear evidence that there are powers at work in the universe that are hidden from most people. But if a person listens carefully, their ears might bear witness to the reverberating tone of universal love...
...played across the multitudinous lines of creation...
...just like a-ringin' a bell.
I know where the door is, I'll just let myself out now.
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It's all interleaved, good man, it's all interleaved.
Had The Marcels' "Friendly Loans" at the top of my show today and finished with "Keep a-Knockin'" by Little Richard. Much fun was had!
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Funk from this week in 1972...
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That's very cool! Details aside, but when I was a kid I'd go work out with two Mexican dudes who were probably in their late twenties and both built like Arnold. The first time I heard Mandrill was in their workout "shed" - they had three 8-tracks of their albums and would always play at least one.
It's been a long, long time since I've heard anything from Mandrill!
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Cool, glad it got a memory there. :)
Now I'm on Sun Ra doing jazz-funk in 1978:
The album was recorded in one night, after they'd been a musical guest on Saturday Night Live. That cat Sun Ra could wail, man... and if you didn't wear the right color for a recording or performance, he'd send you back to wardrobe to get the right color because those colors give you an energy, man...
Yeah, man, Sun Ra...
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Sun Ra. He was...a man...with a plan...and a band...<modal jazz sounds begin>
In the heart of Alabama, 'neath the southern sky so grand,
Lived a man named Sun Ra, with a cosmic band in hand.
Not just a musician, but a voyager of the night,
His melodies and rhythms were stars, shining bright.
Sun Ra, oh, Sun Ra, with a mind so vast and wide,
He claimed he came from Saturn, in the cosmos to reside.
With a band that played the universe, in suits of sparkling hue,
Their music wasn't just a sound, but a journey, bold and new.
His family found it hard to grasp, this path he chose to tread,
For when the call of duty came, he sought the stars instead.
"I won't serve war," he firmly said, "My battle's with my art,"
And so he alienated kin, but followed his own heart.
His music, like a comet, blazed a trail both strange and rare,
Alien to some, but to others, a breath of fresh air.
Sun Ra, the man who lived his life as if a dream,
Creating worlds with every note, in his cosmic stream.
So here's to Sun Ra, a man beyond his time,
Who taught us that the universe can be a rhyme.
With every note, he reached for stars, and in his quest so bold,
He showed us there are wonders vast, in the music of the soul.
Never could get into that dude's cosmology. Or music.
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Oh crap, I was just going over some cryptic messages I found years ago, hidden behind a plaster wall in what was once an old bar. What if...
What if I told you that Sun Ra never actually existed in the conventional sense? Yes, imagine a scenario so outlandish, it might just tickle your intellect: Sun Ra was, in fact, a figment of Marshall Allen's vivid imagination, a musical hallucination so potent it managed to fool the world.
Marshall Allen, the long-time collaborator and eventual leader of Sun Ra's Arkestra, was not just a mere saxophonist. He was, unbeknownst to many, a master of mental manifestation, a wizard of the mind capable of conjuring beings from the ether of his imagination. And so, in a burst of creative genius and perhaps a touch of cosmic loneliness, Allen imagined Sun Ra, a being not of this Earth, destined to change the jazz scene forever.
This theory suggests that during rehearsals, when Allen would close his eyes and sway to the rhythms of the unseen, he wasn't just feeling the music; he was channeling Sun Ra into existence. Every note played, every cosmic philosophy uttered, was Allen projecting his imaginary friend into the minds and hearts of those around him. Sun Ra's elaborate mythology, his claim of being from Saturn, his eclectic mix of jazz, was so convincing that even those closest to the Arkestra never questioned his physical presence.
The band members, audiences, and even critics were so caught up in the spectacle, the music, and the persona that they never realized Sun Ra was merely a projection, a shared hallucination orchestrated by Marshall Allen's formidable mind. The Arkestra's performances were not just concerts; they were séances, channeling the essence of Sun Ra from the collective unconscious of the band and audience alike.
And the greatest trick of all? Even after Allen would supposedly 'summon' Sun Ra to the stage, nobody questioned the tangibility of his existence. They saw him play, they heard him speak, but were they witnessing reality, or were they under the spell of Allen's extraordinary psychic talents?
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I think it was a collaboration. Sun Ra was getting Allen to channel him so he could eventually go back to Saturn.
But before Sun Ra was Sun Ra and before he was sure he'd been to Saturn, he played an amazing piano solo on Wynonie Harris' 1946 tune, "Dig This Boogie".
No question in my mind of the cat's talent. That recording is Sun Ra's first recorded piano solo, and it's a gem.
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A little Youtoobin' this evening. Randy Holden in Population II by way of Blue Cheer - proto-doom metal from back in the day.
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Yep. That be some doom, right there.
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Yep. That be some doom, right there.
Same song on Blue Cheer's 3rd LP - when Randy was a member of Blue Cheer, but I like Population II's rendition a lot better. I've got the Blue Cheer release, do not have Population II. In fact, have never even held it in my hand, although did see one for sale at a record show decades ago - up on a wall for $500.
Here's BC:
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Type O Negative - Dead Again
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Back to Bruch today - Violin Concerto No. 1 and Scottish Fantasy. I might delve into French composers later on, we'll see...
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The times, they be ripe for some old thrash.
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Wound up going with more Bruch after Amazon showed me a collection of his symphonies and Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra. 2 piano studies thrown in on top of all that for good measure.
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Burning Witches - Holy Diver
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Australian punk rock from The Unknowns.
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And it's...Warfare on the turntable today!
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I was going through old Barry White... My rap is now that much stronger. :smug:
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It's a funk album with Jerry Garcia playing lead guitar. Cooks along nicely.
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Fucking AI has the robots playing their own tunes now.
The take-over is beginning!
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All in all, not a bad choice for robot music's first platter. I'm cool with that.
On guitar, we see Alex Weir, who did work with The Brothers Johnson and on keyboards is none other than the genius Bernie Worrell, late of the P-Funk collective.
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The Shadows of Knight on a late Sunday morning. Gloria, of course, is the classic rock station fave, but the entire album is a solid showing for those guys. Even their three originals are decent tunes.
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I see your Shadows of Knight and raise you some Flamin' Groovies:
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And now it is the heavy heavy heavy groove of early early early Funkadelic:
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Working out with Saxon! Right now it's To Hell And Back Again!
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Don Covay & The Goodtimers... 40 Days 40 Nights
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Loudness - Disillusion. Most of these songs are sung in Japanese, with the occasional English tossed in, but it simply doesn't matter. The music is strikingly powerful, even as they are rather mundane metal tunes. Although "Butterfly" has some interesting Rush-like twists. Takasaki is really the star though, he lifts up everything he is involved with.
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Because we got Mothers' Day coming up and I love my mom and this track slams. Pure seventies sunshine with a hard rock twist, all for mama.
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Saxon - Denim & Leather
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A new addition to my vinyl horde: "The Birthday Eve," by Loudness. After listening to Disillusion the other day, I got to looking around and caught this one for cheap so bought it. I'm really digging this early Loudness.
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath because my meeting just ended and I was writing about how it was a song from me youth.
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An absolutely KILLER show by KK's PRIEST headlining the Rock Hard Festival in Germany on May 18th!
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Mariska Veres and Co., aka The Shocking Blue.
While reviewing the song writing credits on the album, the back cover states, "All songs written by Robby Van Leeuwen unless otherwise noted." Not an uncommon thing to find on albums. Looking at the labels, and the rest of the album cover, there is no "otherwise noted" anywhere, so clearly Robby wrote everything on the release. But, uh, no. Because there is a song, track three, side two, titled, "Bool Weevil."
And yeah, it's the same lyrics as the trad song Boll Weevil. You know, he's just looking for a home and all that. Woody Guthrie needs to crawl outta the ground and sue the living shit out of Robby. I mean, come on, what a complete rip off. RIP OFF. The guy thieved that shit faster than Jimmy Page in a sheet music store.
I mean, imagine the massive revenue stream that Bool Weevil brought (and STILL BRINGS) in for Robby Van Leeuwen, when it should have partially went to Guthrie's family. Maybe Arlo could have afforded some nice dentures or at least a toothbrush. Money FLYING INTO Robby's bank account DAILY, so much of it the bank had to hire two extra full time staff just to run the adding machines!
Oh...wait...nevermind.
I do really enjoy this version of "Love Buzz". And I bet Robby really does get some nice royalties for Nirvana's rendition!
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Cheap Trick at Budokan. The Japanese first pressing, with a 12 page booklet of pics and lyrics and a nice message from Rick to the entire country of Japan. I've always found it hilarious that the record is "Live at Budokan" and the opening words are "Hello Tokyo!" hahaha
This pressing, in all seriousness, sounds a mile away better than the version they released in the USA.
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^That's the album that put Cheap Trick on the map in the late 70s. Made us all Surrender to their musicianship.
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I'm playing Crossings by Herbie Hancock now because it was released in 1972, and that's where I am in working the playlist for my funk show on the 10th. Pop That Thang by The Isley Bros. is next...
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To-day, it has been a Mussorgsky day. Pictures at an Exhibition got things kicked off.
Boris Godunov will round out the day...
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Black Sabbath live in Montreaux, a band from England that attained some popularity in the early 1970s. You may have heard of them.
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Spinning a few 45s today.
First up is a brand new, lathe-cut bit of experimental music. Side A is put together by Small Cruel Party, and is titled, "Plutôt Vibratile Que Remuant". Side B is by called, "Kdi Dctb 340 (Maupas)" by Ingeos. This is number 8 out of 40 that are going to be made. I would be surprised if he sells 15 of them lol. He's been at it for decades, but it's a VERY niche market.
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Taking a step towards normalcy with Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, performing, "Pachuko Cadaver," backed with the thoughtful, "Wild Life."
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All the way back to what most would consider to be music: Black Sabbath's, "Devil and Daughter," in nifty promo box set 45rpm single.
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Ahhh, 45s! And the time to play B sides...
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For sure - play a stack on A, then turn them over, reload the arm and play the B sides. Unless there's no time for that.
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For sure - play a stack on A, then turn them over, reload the arm and play the B sides. Unless there's no time for that.
Or if it's the wrong mood for the party/event/time of day/whatever. From the early days, A and B sides often had a fast/slow thing where the plug side would be one tempo and the flip would go the other way. I'm finding out that there were tons of mushy ballads that were big hits with some snappy stompers on their flip sides that are way more fun to listen to.
That being said, there's also some singles like the one done by The Soul Clan in 1968. Solomon Burke, Don Covay, Arthur Conley, Ben E. King, and Joe Tex all five showing up and trading vocal parts. First side's a stomper, second's a tasty heartfelt ballad. Both sides are amazing and I don't think either one ever got much upper-echelon chart action because the label lacked distribution and stuff like that. But I got magazine archives and YouTube uploads that help me find the gold:
Here's the fast dance track:
And here's the one you want to slow dance to:
I spent a long time trying to figure out which side to play on my funk/soul show and... I just used both to close out the show, they're so strong. Much love for this bit of gold that I found.
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The Crypt - Into The Crypt
Great groovy doom metal!
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This record has not been out of its sleeve in more years than I can remember. And even then, I can promise you that I did not listen to the entire thing.
So, for the first time in living memory, my Sgt. Pepper's record in its entirety caused sound vibrations to enter our universe.
And I have to say, jaded by the music that has been produced in the years intervening since this disk's creation in 1967 and today - much of which was directly influenced by what the Beatles did all those years ago...this collection of tunes is genuinely monumental.
What's the basic, fundamental point of pop music? So listeners can enjoy listening.
I'm enjoying it.
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Thinking a bit more about it - looking at the 45s posted earlier, Charger's The Crypt record, then Sgt. Peppers - there is so much clear distinction between songs written in and of themselves and songs written to be included as part of an album. For as much as the Beatles grew over time (holy shit) they were always at their tip-top best when they kept the length of their songs shorter. I think that has a lot to do with them having come up in a world dominated by singles. It was the paradigm - an album was just that: a collection of singles. Concept records were not a thing. Or a thought. So despite the complete pwnage of something like "A Day in the Life," it was about as long a song as they would create. By today's standards it's middling.
I mean, Sleep's Dopesmoker? Unthinkably long. But as these things go, even in the late 60's, once FM radio started being a thing, and airplay could happen for longer pieces, everyone jumped on board. And you ended up with bullshit like "American Pie" coming out as a 45 but so long it had to be split across both sides.
Anyway, just random thoughts on this hot-ass Thursday as Biden and Trump prepare to debate on the TV tonight. God help us all.
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About those long 45s... the Parts 1&2 were a thing even back in the late 40s with jump blues tunes either doing 2.30 or going for it at 4:50, very little in-between. Classical recordings on 45s had a similar situation.
But, it would be either part 1 *or* 2 as the plug side that the DJs would spin. Most radio singles stayed in the 2-3 minute range and the studio musicians like The Wrecking Crew would knock out single after single in one take and bang out 10 albums' worth in a day's work. All genres.
So what changed was Richard Harris doing Jimmy Webb's MacArthur Park in 1968. 7:21 in length, no radio edit. DJs that wanted to smoke AND have a piss jumped on it and opened the door for "album rock", where they'd pick tracks off of albums and could break the 3-minute barrier, as it were. It also meant that meandering rambles of songs (like American friggin' Pie) were more in demand. This was also when groups would insist on playing their own instruments in the studio, so session players got to have some time off, as it were. Even if the session system stayed intact, the sheer length of pop tracks meant they'd do at best half the number of tunes in a day as before. Also, with longer songs, there were fewer songs in a day that DJs would spin, those album cuts went further.
I see it in the singles reviews in Cashbox. What used to cover multiple pages in the 50s and 60s get summed up on one page by the early 70s. Album reviews, by contrast, take over more and more pages. And the advertising definitely shifted from singles to albums in the 60s so that by the end of the decade, most of the ads were for albums that happened to have a single and not the other way 'round. Heck, at the start of the 60s, albums were like you said, a collection of singles. Get 6 A and B sides, push out an album. So there'd be no need to review albums beyond what people already knew about the singles that were on them. Having album-only tracks slowly crept into the biz.
One of the big influences in album-only tracks was Elvis' Christmas Album in the late 50s, where he did original recordings that hadn't been released on singles. It pretty much invented the Christmas album as a concept and, well, that's not too far away from being able to adapt other concepts to an album. The Beatles' popularity opened the door for lots more concepts and lots more longer songs - how many years after Sgt. Pepper until we had Tommy, Prog Rock, and Concerto for Group and Orchestra?
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Fantastic - love the Cashbox and studio musician tie-ins. It all makes sense.
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Death Anglel - The Ultra Violence
Best trash metal instrumental song of all time?
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7 and 7 Is - Love
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Some Youtubin' for a tune that used to get some airwave action:
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Made me look up what was #1 this week in 1967.
It's this track.
Got half way through it before I cried "enough!"
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Cleaning up the speakers with something much more exciting:
https://killerkin.bandcamp.com/album/killer-kin
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The chick with the chains is the rhythm guitar player and wrote the songs. :headbanger:
It's a sound like Motorhead meets Motorhead with an influence from Motorhead. But in a punk rock way, you understand.
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There are a few songs that I have heard of over the years that I actively refuse to listen to. Jim Jone's wife made some that I have never heard nor will I. Same with Charles Manson. Windy would fit as well, except I have heard it already.
Unlike Killer Kin, whom I had never heard of before.
Their tune MÖTORBANGER:
Kickstart My Heart meets Bomber with the production quality of Welcome to Hell and the bass-tone from any Talas song. As punk music.
Cool find, thanks!
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Yeah, all right! I'd like to make them honorary 2024 releases since this one dropped in August 2023, so I'll mention them but not rank them. But if I was to rank them, they'd be up there in the rankings, all right.
I was about to put them on then remembered my wife's still sleeping and this kind of stuff really messes with her REM sleep. To this day, I can't play Motorhead's "I'll Be Your Sister" without her yelling at me to shut that damned "nightmare song" off, on account it gave her nightmares.
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There's Something in Roswell - Saxon
On account of this being 77 years since July of 1947. I tie that in with my oldies show because I have a running gag that it was early, early rock and roll that got the aliens to check out earth. And the big R&B hit of the week was "Jack, You're Dead" by Louis Jordan, so I'm playing that next. :D
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I think I've gone a whole month without listening to Hell, Fire And Damnation...that's waaaay tooooooo long so I think I'll crank it up tonight!
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Played the whole album today, yeah, it's still a banger! :headbanger:
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First song I learned to dance more than a slow dance to:
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^ I really enjoy that song, as well as the original version by The Drifters and the cover Donald Fagen did on The Nightfly. It's one of those songs that deserves different treatments.
Speaking of which, check out "Send Me Some Lovin" by Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Stevie Wonder, and Otis Redding, in that order. Once you hear Otis Redding's version, you'll know why I specified that order. But they're four different versions, each with their own life and spirit to them.
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Just got this in for a trade - interesting timing. WLP on red vinyl - I bet Z has one in the stacks at the radio station!
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It sounds hella better than the Youtube experience!
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Speaking of which, check out "Send Me Some Lovin" by Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Stevie Wonder, and Otis Redding, in that order. Once you hear Otis Redding's version, you'll know why I specified that order. But they're four different versions, each with their own life and spirit to them.
So, I followed the trail you described, in order. Pretty cool progression, especially noting how each performer imprinted their style on it beyond a shadow of a doubt. And even listening to, "the same song," four times, it didn't feel like it at all.
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This for today! Perfect!
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Speaking of which, check out "Send Me Some Lovin" by Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Stevie Wonder, and Otis Redding, in that order. Once you hear Otis Redding's version, you'll know why I specified that order. But they're four different versions, each with their own life and spirit to them.
So, I followed the trail you described, in order. Pretty cool progression, especially noting how each performer imprinted their style on it beyond a shadow of a doubt. And even listening to, "the same song," four times, it didn't feel like it at all.
That's what great singers do with their material. Make it their own. In a good way. I go through so many cases of bands doing a version of a song that was a hit back in the day and just falling flat. But then there's one that comes along and it's like WOW that made a huge difference and I like it.
Referring to Mr. Dio, pictured above, there's a certain song Deep Purple did called "Mistreated." I love it. Coverdale does an outstanding job with that song, both in Purple and Whitesnake.
HOWEVER...
Ronnie James Dio ran away with it and made it one of his signature songs. Even without Blackmore on guitar, Dio's versions are golden.
Rainbow with Dio did the same thing with "Still I'm Sad". Took the Yardbirds' chant and gave it a great edge. Transformed it.
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Black Sabbath - Shaking Off The Chains (Remix)
Goddamn..I mean GODDAMN!!!!
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Sons of Arrakis - Volume II
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Goddamn..I mean GODDAMN!!!!
It is like an entirely new song!
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It is! It was one of my favourites already but now it's on a whole new level!
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Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
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Forbidden 2024, took less than 5 seconds to hear a dramatic difference.
:wtf:
"Illusion of Power" used to be a song I'd kinda cringe along with... this time around, it's much cleaner, it's *decent*! So what the hell was going on in the 90s that messed it all up?
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Black Sabbath - Anno Mundi
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"I'm Bugging Your Phone" - Smith Connection
Song from 1973, when bugging was something of a topic in the USA...
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Black Sabbath - Get A Grip
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Deep Purple - =1
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Deep Purple - Show Me
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Killer Kin - Mötorbanger (dude, this is a killer track!)
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Deep Purple - If I Were You
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Some Black Sabbath on this hot evening:
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Surprise surprise..
DEEP PURPLE =1!
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Working on my radio show, so...
Juiced - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats
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Bit of a break from Purple
The Crypt - Mistress Of Fire
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Are we working in shifts?
Deep Purple - =1
:D
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Crow Music, by Crow!
If I had to come up with one word to describe this album, it would be, "dated". It was dated in 1973, lol.
The entirety of side two is like a half-drunk bar band with some goofiness tossed in. If I live for another fifty years, I might listen to the whole thing again.
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Set a reminder for July 2074, then.
Do like in Citizen Kane and make it your cryptic final word.
"Crow...."
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Set a reminder for July 2074, then.
Do like in Citizen Kane and make it your cryptic final word.
"Crow...."
lol
This afternoon, it's Black Sabbath most well known album amongst folks who don't know anything about Black Sabbath:
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Ah yes, War Pigs, excellent album. :smug:
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Something a little different on this Sunday evening:
The Batman Theme by The Marketts
It isn't the original theme rendition played on the TV shows, it is The Markett's version of it. This was actually rather popular in late 1966 when it came out!
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There were LOTS of versions of the Batman theme.
LaVern Baker, who famously had a hit with "Jim Dandy to the Rescue" did a combination of that oldie with the nanananananana Batman theme for a fun little track.
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This was giving me some chills with the vocals and the guitar work from Eddie Hazel is brain-melting good.
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That's pretty cool - had not heard that before.
On the table this afternoon is Undisputed Attitude from Slayer. A mid 1990s release on two 10" disks, limited to 2000 copies. According to Discogs, there are a bunch that have the "Limited Edition" placeholder on the back cover, but no number. I suspect there were a lot more than 2000 pressed and they simply stopped numbering them at 2000 and left the cover art unchanged as they continued making them. Mine is stamped with 939.
This set has some of the fastest, most raucous performances ever cut to vinyl. Hardcore punk played by Slayer? Holy quadruple bass drums, Batman!
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Had a bit of a bummer day at work, so I deal with it with Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention.
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Inspired by ZZz:
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Lol yes ^ :smug:
And now, because I'm getting bothered about something on the line of missing coversheets on my TPS reports as I help to get our paperwork in to bid on a potentially huge sale...
I'm doing my work, and they have no idea how glad they should be that I'm doing it remotely. I'd be the definition of "clubhouse poison" if I had to be made to drive in to take crap like that that's totally out of step with the urgency of the moment. I'm only doing this because I'm waiting for someone else to finish a section so I can review it.
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Thinking of Z:
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With Flo & Eddie doing backup vocals, even! :smug:
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And a fun Austin country song about dealing with work hassles. I got to hang out with these guys a lot when I was working at The Daily Texan. The guitar player still has my Uncle Floyd record that I lent him, for all I know. :D
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There's 24 hours of Happy, feels good to listen to at least one of them. :D
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Deep Purple - Pictures Of You
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Forget You - CeeLo Green
(Got quite a lot of breakup music on my playlist... I use it when I'm dealing with garbage at work that makes me want to switch jobs.)
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So that means I should play Cascades (I'm Not Your Lover) by DP next... :smug:
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Wednesday afternoon in the middle of the USA, enjoying Black Sabbath's third long-player. So are my neighbors.
Acquiring a picture without glare all over the album cover was a chore, and still picked some up despite the weird angle, etc.
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I bet they loved it so much, they threw a brick through your window so they could hear it better! :smug:
My current tune is a bit of afro-funk from 1976...
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I bet they loved it so much, they threw a brick through your window so they could hear it better! :smug:
Haha, my copy of that script ends after the brick, not sure what comes after :)
My current tune is a bit of afro-funk from 1976...
I am familiar with Big Blow! I don't have that record, but an old friend of mine did and used to play it every chance he got. Although I don't think he actually enjoyed it, he just enjoyed annoying the hell out of his friends who, for the most part did not dig it. And in the late '70's, I certainly did NOT enjoy it either right along with them lol
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Good times, good times... or at least pretty much OK times... :D
Started my day with a shower and a shave, which I can't do without water. So I had to play Fela Kuti, "Water No Get Enemy."
Might listen to the A-side of that album, "Expensive Shit", after my morning meetings with vendors. :smug:
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^^^
Hey now that's a racist and sexist and all kinds of offensive artwork there! Goddamn!
Me likes!
Slayer - Exile
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^^^
Hey now that's a racist and sexist and all kinds of offensive artwork there! Goddamn!
Me likes!
Slayer - Exile
Lol, Fela Kuti is the guy in the middle and I think those would be his wives in the photo.
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Lol, Fela Kuti is the guy in the middle and I think those would be his wives in the photo.
I believe you are correct! Didn't Ginger Baker spend a bunch of time down at Fela's place, at one time?
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That he did do.
And this song by The Metallics caught my eye... it's from 1962, counts as a good break-up song, even if they are not truly a metal band.... but that is a good guitar player they got working in the background.
^ My current listening
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The Metallics are a new one to me, thanks!
Saturday has me spinning Sabbath's first long-player - Rhino's redux and it sounds fantastic!
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Has elements of "New Orleans" musically with "The Hully Gully" (or "Peanut Butter") in the vocal track. A mash-up from 1962 with hilarious lyrics. Bet it was a true story.
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It's a YouTube Day. Or, rather, a Tidal Day. But I can't link Oh, Happy Day from Tidal, so here ya go:
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One more before I buzz off to other things:
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It's a YouTube Day. Or, rather, a Tidal Day. But I can't link Oh, Happy Day from Tidal, so here ya go:
That one and the Nina Simone are two of my favorite songs.
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That one and the Nina Simone are two of my favorite songs.
The (seemingly) unbridled sledgehammer of emotive force they unleash reaches out of the tiniest speakers to smack a person upside the head. I can only imagine standing in front of The Edwin Hawkins Singers as they belted out Oh Happy Day. Talk about getting blown away!
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Homefry metal!
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New BLACK LABEL SOCIETY!!
That riff! Holy moses! Could do without the damn cow bell though... :naughty:
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That tune cranks!
I was listening to it and thinking, "I don't hear any cowbell."
Then the cowbell appeared lol
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Doing my funk show for next week, so the playlist has got all kinds of goodies, ending with Funkadelic "One Nation Under a Groove." Get it on the one!
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Metal Church - In Mourning (The Final Sermon - Live In Japan)
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The new Tyr is on the rig this afternoon. Still loving the remaster work they did, man, great job. One thing that I find odd, is that they did not include a reproduction of the original inner sleeve. I've actually got my og copy of Tyr on eBay as I type this, but kept the original inner sleeve because it's pretty cool, and has all the lyrics and such.
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Tyr has been going for biiiig bucks on ebay but I do ponder if the remaster set has brought the prices of the originals down...but either way I think you're still up for a rather good pay day...more than I could ever afford to pay that's for sure! :D
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The remasters probably cut into the price some, we'll see what this goes for. I have a handful I tossed up there that I can't trade out, if they sell for $20 a pop, I'll be happy.
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Cesar Cui's etudes for Piano and Violin.
Nice and smooth for a Sunday morning.
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Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
(Haven't listened to it in years, not as good as I remembered!)
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Nothing as high-brow as Z's selection from the belyayev circle, and lacking the social agitation of "The Only Band That Matters". But a beautifully sunny late Sunday morning in the midwestern United States finds me spinning the decidedly low-brow and self-centered musical stylings of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac:
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^^^
While the Clash had the social message, looking back they were quite patchy song writers. One thing I noticed in playing the debut and Give 'Em Enough Rope is how muffled and indistinct the vocals are... not great if you're trying to get a message across! I do think London Calling is where they got things right... one album of decent songs, sadly spread over two albums!
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I've always felt that The Clash could have been...more. Early on I think they were overhyped, and then later on overrated. That's not to say they were bad, London Calling is a genius piece of work. But like you mentioned KDC, that's when they finally got it all together, and while their following releases had some good songs, none matched London Calling. Yet the band seemed to have a reserve of musical genius hiding just under the surface that was never tapped into.
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For me, it's The Damned that delivered most on UK Punk's promise.
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To me (and I love The Damned) true, actual "punk music" was a flash in the pan. As it should have been - youthful consternation at the state of the world expressed through music regardless of affinity or skill. Obviously, most any "rebellious" music flows from that same font: old enough to now know more than a person has ever known, young enough to not have much wisdom, and emotionally ravaged through hormonal disruption enough to think they have all the answers.
But punk music had something special, it was more than the music, it was a zeitgeist of time and place. An aggressive, chaotic reaction to peace and love, sparked off by the more plainly evident commercialism of rock music. Punks liked early Black Sabbath because they were working stiffs trying to live their collective dream, while at the same time hating the likes of Led Zeppelin.
By the mid-1970s, Led Zeppelin, along with other major rock acts like Pink Floyd, The Eagles, and Yes, had become symbols of the massive, arena-filling, and often heavily-produced rock scene that dominated the music industry.
These bands, while musically innovative and respected, were seen by punks as being part of a bloated, self-indulgent, and highly commercialized system. The long, complex compositions, elaborate stage productions, and superstar personas of these rock bands were a sharp contrast to the DIY, raw, and straightforward nature of punk music. The music and ethos of punk bands like The Ramones, Sex Pistols, and The Damned sought to tear down this perceived rock aristocracy and return music to a more immediate and rebellious state.
While many of these classic rock bands were technically skilled and successful, they represented everything punk sought to challenge: commercialization, excess, and distance from the everyday struggles of the working class.
Once the punks made their musical statement, well, it was done. Of course the genre grew over time, and a lot of great tunes were made - some of the og punks managed to get some sense and while they may have "sold out" they moved society forward, if just a little, by continuing to be involved. But that first salvo of discordant guitars that blasted out of New York and London was magic. And in a flash, it was gone.
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Now I gotta play more punk rock
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Saturday - rainy all day (which we desperately need). Indoor chores being done tag team style with my wife, current musical accompaniment supplied by the green-splash vinyl version of The Raconteurs' 2019 release Help Us Stranger.
I've always found the various incarnations of Jack White and his bands to be, "sort of," interesting.
Despite his undeniable skill and having a song here and there that I think is pretty good, he/they just have never made it any higher in my esteem.
I believe that has to do with the calculated nature of his output. His, "garage-like," sound is a strategy rather than the result of necessity.
It's all INAUTHENTIC.
And that's what my problemo is with Jacko and his musico.
Come on Jackie, give us something REAL!
In the meantime, this here is good enough to fold laundry to:
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Last night, I was at a KNON benefit concert that featured The Drop-Top Rockets, Marti Brom, and my faves - The Go-Go Rillas.
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Surf rock NEEDS to be played by dudes in gorilla heads with fezzes!
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The Crypt - Halos
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Action Packed - Ronnie Dawson
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Black Sabbath - Neon Knights (Live Evil Remix)
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Black Sabbath - Neon Knights (Live Evil Remix)
:YES:
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Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (Live Evil remix)
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Sigh - "Prelude to the Oracle"
Japanese extreme metal at 0500 on a Saturday morning...wakey, wakey!
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Fats Domino. This week in 1957 saw him being saluted and toasted for having sold 25 million records.
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Saxon - Stand Up And Be Counted
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I'm Ready for Love - Martha & The Vandellas
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Some brand new DREAM THEATER
Their best track since Constant Motion! Rocking tune.
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Sounds way WAY better than the online training I have to sit through!
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Sounds way WAY better than the online training I have to sit through!
HAHA
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Was looking to see what YouTube would suggest in the way of music today.
Popped up a track that released 7 days ago:
EXCELLENT version of the Maiden classic!
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Ok, that was cool. I did not have, "hear descendants of Attila the Hun perform Iron Maiden's 'The Trooper' in Mongolian," on my todo list for today.
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Going through the Guintini Projects for my new Tony Martin car playlist and had actually forgotten just how AMAZING these albums were!
Like this one from III
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That has a lot of Sabbath-ness in it. Of course, could be because The Cat is singing on it :)
Today is the first actual "fall-like" day we've had around these parts. To celebrate, I thought I'd listen to Accept's breakthough LP.
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^My first reaction was thinking all the text was about the album pictured... "Uhhh, pretty sure Tony Martin wasn't the singer on Balls to the Wall..."
Then I re-read it and figured out the first line was about the album Charger mentioned. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ok now I get it. :D
What am *I* listening to? New stuff from The Jackets:
The Pretenders meets Siouxsie and the Banshees, album drops this Friday. https://chaputarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intuition-lp
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Monday w/Suede...1973 through a 1999 lens. This would have made the under 3 list except it's over 3 :):
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I dunno... sounds more 1974 to me... :smug:
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Late '73?
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Late '73?
Fair enough, let's shake on that.
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Please note: When a person's biceps exceed 50cm in diameter, they no longer shake hands like a normal person.
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Sugar Chile Robinson doing his spin on Louis Jordan's "Caldonia", from some movie in the 40s. The kid was self-taught and was playing piano at a year and a half. One of my faves from the Boogie Woogie era.
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Dream Theater - Constant Motion
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Had to go get a Link Wray collection, working my way through the tracks...
Fun fact, when he sings he sounds like someone Mick Jagger is trying to copy.
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Telly Savalas doing his Shaft impersonation...
From this week in 1975... doing research for my funk show and came across this.
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Cold weather always gets me to want to listen to Stormwatch by Jethro Tull.
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:partay: :wootwoot:
Damn I love that Jethro Tull album
Currently listening to AC/DC Flick of the Switch
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https://chaputarecords.bandcamp.com/album/intuition-lp
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New album from The Jackets, but I'll have to get it on Amazon if I want it digital-only. Lots of good garage echo, pared-back sound, more goth-y than their previous efforts... I really like their direction on this album. It's a fun listen and will be one of the albums I buy in 2024.
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Loving how this instrumental incorporates "I'm So Glad" into its themes.
Yes, I'm taking things easy after being fired. I need to process this shit before I go to an interview and put out the funk of rage.
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I need to process this shit before I go to an interview and put out the funk of rage.
No doubt about that! On a related note, we are considering acquiring a company in The Netherlands. It's a very small organization. As part of the lead up, we're talking to attorneys specialized in employment law over yonder, and the differences from the USA are striking. Among many things, if a person has worked for a company for three years, they basically become "tenured". In order to fire someone, it has to go before a court. And you cannot remove someone from a job simply because they suck at it. Poor performance is not a viable reason. It would have to be egregious and intentional, and then the court might OK the dismissal. Prior to the three year mark, though, all bets are off.
So, on the one hand you have the USA, where everything favors the employer, and the Netherlands where things favor the employee. According to the lawyers we are talking to, anyway. Whether I get any first-hand experience remains to be seen!
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Remembered this "breakup" song about litigation with one's former partner. :smug: Been a fave of mine for about 30 years, now. :)
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Metallica - The Outlaw Torn
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Bee Bee Queen - I Wanna Be Loved All Night Long
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The entirety of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd. On Tidal, so no pic. Oh yeah, it's the UK version, so has Astronomy Domine rather than See Emily Play.
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168 songs in the Elvis Presley catalogue that I have on my PC, not including his gospel recordings.
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The Sword - Apocryphon
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The Ceyleib People with their 1967 release, Tanyet. The only record I have kept the shrink wrap on, and that is due to the sticker indicating a sale - 3 records for 1 dollar. That's cheap!
This platter is in excellent condition and the pressing was well made. Mike Deasy's six year old son was involved with the recording, and the way the stereo panning was done I sometimes wonder if they let the kid twist the knobs. But it actually adds to the atmosphere - it's an instrumental recording featuring Ry Cooder and they ginned up the whole package with woo-woo verbiage and psychedelic images. Even the song names are all far-out. Man.
But, it's quite the cool listen for something different that still has some guardrails.
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Little Willie - "Drinkin' Hadacol"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1jhz0dD6qg
Hadacol was a patent medicine that was popular in dry counties due to its 12% alcohol content...
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And now I find that Hadacol was mentioned as a reason for Rudolph's red nose by Bing Crosby and Judy Garland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXhHIhU535Q
(They also have him smoking Chesterfields...)
Very interesting story behind Hadacol, there was was also a pyramid scam going behind it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadacol
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Released by Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs in July of 1979, this copy of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon is obviously a re-issue. But, the master lacquers were cut at half-speed (MoFi's shtick) and the vinyl itself is supposedly, "100% virgin vinyl sourced from JVC" (MoFi's supplementary shtick).
A few thoughts:
1. This record does sound fantastic. I bought it sealed in 1984 or thereabouts and for the first ten years of owning it I played it at least once a week. It still sounds fantastic. Compared to an OG copy and a 2021 SACD copy, it beats them both in terms of depth and clarity.
2. When MoFi first came on the scene, they really did use brand new vinyl from JVC. At the time, JVC was renowned for having the best vinyl products, and is the genesis of the long-held belief that Japanese pressings of records were superior than others. And for a time, there was truth to that. JVC wouldn't sell their vinyl to other manufacturers, so Mobile Fidelity scored big when they cut that deal.
But, once competition started cropping up (Nautilus, CBS Mastersound, etc.) prices started going down. In a bid to hold on to their massive share of a very niche market, MoFi cut their prices and beat the JVC vinyl drum even louder than before. All the other guys had was the 1/2 speed mastering angle. As time went on, an investigative journalist did a deep dive into the whole 1/2 speed mastered market, and discovered that while MoFi used to get virgin vinyl from JVC, their contract had lapsed a few years prior. How now, MoFi? When questioned, they admitted to it but pointed out that they still used virgin vinyl, but in the interest of trade secrets they couldn't reveal their source. I guess getting quality vinyl for pressing records is a tough row to hoe.
Anyway, the journalist went one step further and had a lab test the vinyl from MoFi, their competition, as well as regular records. Turns out MoFi actually wasn't using virgin vinyl.
Oops.
All that to say, that if you have a MoFi recording of any group made prior to 1981, it is worth the extra spend and will sound great. After that, it's not much better than a stock copy, because that's about the time they started using normal vinyl. Which brings me to thought number three:
3. Whereas it is true that cutting a disk at half speed gives the cutting head more time to transfer more of the sound wave's waveform into the acetate, the audible benefit to the end-listener is minimal, at best. Un-noticeable most of the time. What really makes the difference is the high quality vinyl combined with quality plating processes and overall handling. Without the 1/2 speed aspect, you'd still end up with a superior-sounding recording. Take away the good vinyl and good manufacturing processes, but keep the 1/2 speed and you'll end up with nothing to write home about.
And despite the mythology at the time, people eventually started hearing these facts and the market dried up.
If Mobile Fidelity could have made their covers stouter, that would have been cool. haha! This one started looking like that about one month after buying it!
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Way cool history, there!
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Savage Master - Creature Of The Flames
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Damn Right I Am Somebody - Fred Wesley and the J.B.'s
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Hey Big Brother - The Rare Earth
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Coffin for Head of State by Fela Kuti.
Zombie is up next.
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Coffin for Head of State by Fela Kuti.
Zombie is up next.
Looks like ya gots ta watch it on the YT on your own if ya wants it...
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Saxon - Unleash The Beast
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Really heavy track from 1971, liking the heavy bass in it.
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Saxon - Ministry Of Fools
Weakest song on the album and it's still pretty good!
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Inspired by another thread...
And as a fun fact, this was THE very first MP3 song I ever had on my computer!
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:haha1:
^ Me when I saw this after the word association thread
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First pressing on Island Records - comes with a replica 7" of their single on DB Records. Definitely a group on the "dance" side of the post-punk scene.
It has been so long since I've listened to it, when I first put it on it was playing at 45rpm and I didn't realize it until the vocals kicked in haha. I had forgotten to change the speed from some 45s I listened to earlier. Not sure what that says about their music/my brain/climate change, but it was funny. And actually, Planet Claire sounded pretty good at high speed :)
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Epic album, love that Rock Lobster!
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Yeah, that song is brilliant. "Bikini whale!"
If they hadn't released any other material besides Rock Lobster they would still be in the musical history books. I do note that it looks like they had their farewell tour last year, are starting a Vegas residency next year (Las Vegas, where ageing performance artists go to spin down their career, it seems), BUT, they just did a concert in Athens, GA and had Keith Strickland walk-on as part of their finale. With discussion of other dates in the future.
If the Rolling Stones can do it, these guys have another twenty years of solid gigging ahead of them!
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There's also corporate gigs, I remember they did a Microsoft event a few years back that my friends were at.
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Kicking the year off with the best album of last year!
HELL FIRE AAAAAAAAAAAAND DAAAAMNATION!!
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I just finished that one and am playing the Black Crowes' latest. Good year, 2024.
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Tha Bros in all of their 1976 glory:
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the stillness of snowfall
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GZR - Box Of Six
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Saxon - Unleash the Beast
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Who Cares - Out Of My Mind
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New track from SAVAGE MASTER!!
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Black Label Society - Forsaken
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Rosetta Stone's album of goth reworkings - "Don't Fear the Reaper" is spinning now.
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Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen... their album Let's Rock! Just finished "Rockin' Over China", good stuff.
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Dead Of Night - Gillan
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Gillan - Unchain Your Brain
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Gillan - Life Goes On
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HOLD MUSIC
SUCH CRUELTIES STILL EXIST
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Castle - Cold Grave
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Tim Maia - Rational Culture
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And now it's Flip Flop Stevens & The Famous Pop Tops Orchestra doing (Come On) Let's Do That Thing (Parts 1&2)
You KNOW it's gonna be a slamming dance track when the artist has a name like "Flip Flop Stevens" and the title of the track includes a parenthetical prefix or suffix AND a "Parts 1&2" as well.
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NEW CANDLEMASS
It's like three songs in one...not sure it works in its favor though...and sounds like Johan's voice is starting to go bit too low already.
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New Don Airey... hot damn!
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Savage Master - I Never Wanna Fall In Love
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This was laid down by JPJ and others a few years ago:
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Witchburn - Call To Arms
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This one brought tears in my eyes...
They incorporated Jon perfectly into the show...knowing that he couldn't preform with the band due to health issues.
I have to say I never thought I'd see brand new Savatage live footage ever again so this is SUPER special!
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Lionel Hampton - "Turkey Hop" from 1950. About as metal as you could get back then.
Don't worry about the "Turkey in the Straw" line that plays at the start, these guys are WAILIN'!
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Kerry King Band rockin' out some IRON MAIDEN!!
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BLACK SABBATH - MEGALOMANIA
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The Rolling Stones' latest album, Hackney Diamonds
Damn this is a great album
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Saxon - Unleash The Beast
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Saxon - Unleash The Beast
I think I will, too! :headbanger:
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Sky Valley Mistress - Punk Song
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Sky Valley Mistress - Too Many Ghosts
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I'm digging this!
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Hey cool!
Try this one next:
:headbanger: :headbanger: :headbanger:
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The current lineup of Pentagram re-recorded I Spoke To Death, given Tony and Scooter play with Pentagram now.
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^^^
#Metoo!
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Saxon - Lady In Gray
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Cloud security CBT videos.
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Saxon - Ballad Of The Working Man
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Customer support call with a customer and one of our engineers.
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Saxon - Let Me Feel Your Power
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Did I mention the new SVM?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSpZJQlcGss
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If you didn't I will.
Sky Valley Mistress - Thundertaker
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If you didn't I will.
Sky Valley Mistress - Thundertaker
I hear it's quite good. :smug:
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Saxon - Supernova
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Deep Purple - We're All the Same in the Dark
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Alice Cooper - Black Mamba
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Deep Purple - Drifter
Playing CTTB again :smug:
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The Damned - Grave Disorder
Specifically W and Beauty of the Beast
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James Brown - Stone to the Bone
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Some Brand New BLACK LABEL SOCIETY!
Pretty nice groovy heavy rocker this tune...
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And today it's time for some new ROB ZOMBIE!!!
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^^^^^^
Warning: Could be a sign of excessive heavy metals in poster's tissues.
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:haha4:
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^^^^^^
Warning: Could be a sign of excessive heavy metals in poster's tissues.
Haha, good one!
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Cathedral - Society's Pact With Satan
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Bunny Sigler - I'm the Bunny (From the Other Side of the Ocean)
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Mount Salem - The End
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Avatarium - Rubicon
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D.R.I. - Shut Up
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Megadeth - We'll Be Back
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Dave Mustaine - talking about including Ride the Lightning on Megadeth's next album
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^^
I am excited to hear that version!
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Many moons ago, there was strife in the Metallica camp. After kicking Dave Mustaine out of the band (frankly the best thing that could have happened to him), many thought that the turmoil was over.
It wasn't. It just didn't get played out in Hit Parader,, but the man who I always have felt was the core of Metallica, Cliff Burton, was concerned.
He was concerned that their drummer was going to always be a dead weight the band would have to carry around rather than an engine that helped rev them up. As those thoughts coalesced into a plan, the unthinkable happened.
After the accident that claimed Cliff's life, the rest of the band soldiered on. And it seems to me that their output over the years has been somehow less than it could have been. Hetfield can project rage with the best of them, Kirk can drive the riff, their bass players over the years have been serviceable, and Lars continues to be a pro-groupie who can't believe the band let him bang on the drums. To me, he's never grown out of that. I think Cliff was right.
Meanwhile, Megadeth has consistently tore ass over the years. Despite Dave's nitroglycerine-like temperament, he's always gotten the best out of himself and those around him, and sales numbers aside I think they are the better band when compared to Metallica.
And I can't wait to hear their rendition of Ride the Lightning!
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^Agreement with Vyn, 100%
Meanwhile, I listen to Fela Kuti to start my day, his 1969 album Fela Fela Fela.
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Quite well said there Vyn! I find myself agreeing with everything you say.
I too have always preferred Megadeth over Metallica. The first three Metallica albums are great and Justice has it's moments but they went downhill fast after that...becoming more interested in radio friendly garbage than making actual heavy metal music.
Megadeth eventhough they went bit more commercial they never went over the top and stayed more true to their roots...and ofcourse they have been much more prolific hammering out solid albums every few years where as Metallica has just been happy doing their greatest hits live shows for most of the 2000s.
And yes Lars is THE WORST drummer in thrash metal...but I guess he made it up by his song writing skills...don't know...
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Makes me miss Cliff Burton...
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The Boys - The Boys
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:whistling:
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^That's a lovely song for the fall season, I think I'll listen to it, as well!
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Well that got me in the mood for another cool-weather tune. Not yet cold here, so I'm holding off on my David Gilmour ritual, but summer's definitely turned in for the year and it's time for that fall vibe.
Grand Funk Railroad - "Feelin' Alright"
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Funny thing about that GFR album cover, I always pictured Mark Farner as actually living like that when he wasn't playing in the band. I mean, I think that's an actual picture of his living room.
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Times was hard in the early 70s for three young rockers from Flint, Michigan. While they lived in squalor, barely able to rub two sticks together for a fire, their manager had all their money and joked about how managing GFR was like printing money.
After making the E Pluribus Funk album actually *look* like money, Mark Don & Mel took matters into their own hands and sued Terry Knight to terminate his management contract. They may have made plenty coin for Terry Knight with their first 6 albums, but they hit gold with this tune...
One can see from the footage that the band were now successful enough to buy trousers and Mel Schachter could even buy a shirt and coat! Happy days, indeed!
The transformation was memorialized in Michael Palin's invocation on Motorhead's Rock 'n' Roll, at the end of Side One:
“Oh Lord, who art on high, who hast made the blades of grass, and the little tiny things that creep therein, that hath made the cricket bats, who has made hankies, who has made… [long pause] …all things, bless thou these people from Motörhead, that they may so verily endow the people of this planet with pleasure and enjoyment that yea, they may verily increase fourfold their already large sums of loot and enable them here in this life to purchase maybe one other pair of trousers each. Oh Lord, thou who hast seen the trouserless and had compassion, look down upon them. Thank you.”
All bands go through a "trouserless" phase, more or less, none more vividly recorded in the public zeitgeist than Grand Funk (+Railroad every other album or so)
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“It was great to meet a hero who didn’t turn out to be a cunt.” -- Lemmy on meeting and working with Michael Palin, who was an owner of one of the studios Rock 'n' Roll was recorded in, hence his appearance on the LP. :smug:
https://norselandsrock.com/when-michael-palin-appeared-on-a-motorhead-album/
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I really love those first three Metallica albums and Justice is some fantastic thrashing metal music
Then the black album came out and though I love it they lost that power that the previous albums had.
I also was a Megadeth fanatic and those first four albums stand toe to toe with the previously mentioned Metallica albums
Then Countdown came out and I was much more impressed by it than the black album and it was that period when I began to prefer Megadeth
When load and reload where released I was horrified at the state of the once great Metallica
It took years for Metallica to get their shit together but finally Death Magnetic began their redemption
Meanwhile Megadeth was releasing some great albums and only really faltering on Risk
I love both bands deeply and have been a fan of both since I was a kid
Megadeth has more great albums but Metallica has the first three records that can stand up with any triad of greatness
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...Metallica has the first three records that can stand up with any triad of greatness
Metallica came out swinging hard. I saw Kill 'Em All in a record store before I had heard of the band or any of their songs. I looked at it and almost bought it (I should have, it was early in the game and it was probably the original MegaForce pressing). I passed because I thought the name was ridiculously stupid. I laughed, "Metallica? I'm sure this will be the last time I ever see anything by those dorks again."
Haha, clearly at the time my ability to prognosticate was...poor.
I think it was just a few days on and a friend of mine played it and I was blown away (his copy was probably the same one I passed on in the record store :))
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My show this morning will include a track from the Kansas City Tomcats, playing this now and thinking of Vyn-land.
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It took years for Metallica to get their shit together but finally Death Magnetic began their redemption
Well it began and ended it. :D
I think DM is a pretty good album (horrible artwork but a good album) but pretty much everything they've released since has been same reload-style garbage with the occational good song thrown in...although on the previous album I don't think there's a single good song on it!
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My show this morning will include a track from the Kansas City Tomcats, playing this now and thinking of Vyn-land.
The 18th & Vine area is the historic jazz center of Kansas City. For decades it was non-descript, any clubs and such from back in its heyday long since demolished or sitting in ruins. The area overrun with drug addicts, weeds, and hookers. Then, the KC city council decided to build it up and market it; now there's some restaurants, clubs, jazz museum, etc. and the riff-raff have been swept to other areas of town.
I go down there and eat every so often. They now call it, "The 18th & Vine District," and it's pretty nice. But it has never been the tourist draw they had hoped for, and despite a lot of investment (and some world-class, excellent music), it remains small-time. It can't pay for itself and the businesses there continue to operate with assistance from the city. Some folks aren't happy about that.
So, if anyone wants to experience the music, food, and general ambiance of that era...in modern times....without worrying about getting propositioned, stepping on a used needle, or getting shot, I'd say the sooner you check it out the better. Because if the city stops funding stuff, the only thing that will be left is a nifty museum in the middle of blight.
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It took years for Metallica to get their shit together but finally Death Magnetic began their redemption
Well it began and ended it. :D
I think DM is a pretty good album (horrible artwork but a good album) but pretty much everything they've released since has been same reload-style garbage with the occational good song thrown in...although on the previous album I don't think there's a single good song on it!
I like Hardwired but the last album they did 72 is enjoyable yet I can't remember any of it after it ends
So I guess I am partially agreeing with you Charger
I often wonder what happened to the band following the black album. I don't think that they were prepared for just how huge that record became
I know it surprised the hell out of me
People who had always given me a hard time for liking heavy metal were asking me to borrow the black album
The 90s was a great and crazy time for music
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...Metallica has the first three records that can stand up with any triad of greatness
Metallica came out swinging hard. I saw Kill 'Em All in a record store before I had heard of the band or any of their songs. I looked at it and almost bought it (I should have, it was early in the game and it was probably the original MegaForce pressing). I passed because I thought the name was ridiculously stupid. I laughed, "Metallica? I'm sure this will be the last time I ever see anything by those dorks again."
Haha, clearly at the time my ability to prognosticate was...poor.
I think it was just a few days on and a friend of mine played it and I was blown away (his copy was probably the same one I passed on in the record store :))
My first Metallica album was ride the lightning when it released and then master came out and I was hooked 👌
I still think that Kill is one of the greatest debut album ever
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It's cold enough for the album.
David Gilmour - David Gilmour
It'll be too warm for it by Wednesday, so best to enjoy it now with the cold in the air that goes so well with it.
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From the late 1960s, a song I always liked, probably before Community member's time.
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Pyramid - Validity
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From the late 1960s, a song I always liked, probably before Community member's time.
Bananarama's version hit the airwaves in the early 80s and I endured it. Shocking Blue's original is better, for sure.
Right now, I'm spinning The Bar-Kays' album from 1974, Cold Blooded.
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Pyramid - Magic
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My Classic Funk-Soul Grooves show. Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Hope I Don't Get My Heart Broke
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Dream Theater - Act I Scene 3 II : Fatal Tragedy
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Christmas in Jail - The Youngsters
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Dream Theater - Act II Scene 7 I : The Dance Of Eternity
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Melvin by The Belles (sort of an answer song to "Gloria" by Them)