What Are You Listening To Right Now (Part IV)

[Charger]

Time for another workout session and I think it's time to give the new Metal Church album another spin again!

[Zzzptm]

Good choice. You might also like the new Uriah Heep for workouts.

[Zzzptm]

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...)

[Zzzptm]

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.

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.

[Vyn]

The first, unleashed upon the unsuspecting citizens of the United Kingdom on Friday, February 13th, 1970. No one has been the same since.

[Zzzptm]

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?

[Vyn]

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!

[Zzzptm]

Explains why I felt a disturbance in the force yesterday around 5PM, US Central Time.

[Charger]

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:

[Vyn]

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.

[Zzzptm]

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.

[Vyn]

...Bad Sneakers.

I've never enjoyed pina coladas, but that's a good song!

[Zzzptm]

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

[Vyn]

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:

[Zzzptm]

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...