What Are You Listening To Right Now (Part IV)

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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!  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.

They got them a Bandcamp page, think I might just have to get their 2023 album...

[Charger]

Blaze Bayley - A Day Of Reckoning

[Vyn]

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.

[Charger]

Black Sabbath - Anno Mundi (2024 Remaster)

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The Madison Time - Ray Bryant Trio

[Vyn]

Frank Zappa's Grammy-Award winning speed metal masterpiece, Jazz from Hell. Ok, no speed metal, but it did win an award!

[Charger]

Solitude Aeturnus - Dream Of Immortality

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Saxon doin' some Hell Fire & Damnation

[Vyn]

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.

[Vyn]

I have actually never listened to Mwandishi, or Sextant for that matter, but somehow Crossings found its way into my collection.

[Vyn]

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!

[Vyn]

Cory Henry solos the ba-jeezus out of that synthesizer set.