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15 July 2009
Alive
Danko Jones - I'm Alive and On Fire
Danko Jones is an outstanding hard rock band from Toronto, Ontario.
Originally, they refused to release a record, opting instead to spread their live reputation by word of mouth.
Then they realized that strategy would never make them any money, so out came the records.
Originally, they refused to release a record, opting instead to spread their live reputation by word of mouth.
Then they realized that strategy would never make them any money, so out came the records.
14 July 2009
LIVE
"Well, I'll tell you this - they obviously adore Blue Cheer and they love Black Sabbath, but they play faster than both of those Spanish galleons could ever muster. Yeah, High Rise have their down-in-their-boots side but they never stay down long enough to mean it. Instead, High Rise take classic 60s and 70s riffs and do them in, and do them good. One American fanzine (and I can't remember which) brilliantly described the High Rise method as 'Spray-painting Obscenities across an Ancient Text'...their riffs ride that monochromatic rainbow arcing across the ages from the Sonics and the Troggs, via the Stooges and the Five, and up through punk rock and grunge to the present day."
-Julian Cope
13 July 2009
Oh!
Oh Astro - Champions of Wonder
Married duo Jane Dowe and Hank Hofler are both rooted firmly in experimental music, but with the Oh Astro project they continue their move towards odd interpretations of popular forms. Club music, children’s songs, and fragmented samples of pop/rock all intersect on their first full-length album, Champions of Wonder, under the Oh Astro banner.
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06 July 2009
02 July 2009
01 July 2009
No synthesizers used anywhere on this album.
My go-to record when I need a hair metal fix.
Speed demon guitar widdlings. Cavernous arena-ready drums. Wailing singer. Tunes about partying and fucking. Plenty of unsubtle innuendo.
Some of Vinnie Vincent's guitar work is almost avant-garde by accident. The sheer speed he displays on this record creates a blurry, maximum velocity smear across most of the songs. He plays so fast that it sometimes ceases to sound like rock music.
Bigtime plus: not a single ballad. No prom songs here. Seems like a strange move; most hair metal records at the time (mid-1980s) had at least one commercial radio bid in the form of a pandering slow jam. The lack of a 'radio hit' does help explain why Vinnie Vincent Invasion (or Invasion or whatever the original title was supposed to be; I guess this was originally a solo project for Vincent that became more like a full-on band, at least for a moment) barely sold Gold in an era when even Stryper had Platinum records.
If what I've read is accurate, Chrysalis signed VVI in 1985 for $4 million in exchange for an 8 (!) record commitment. Seems excessive. Sigue Sigue Sputnik was signed for a boatload of money, too. Also seems excessive. Invasion was dropped shortly after the release of follow-up All Systems Go. The band broke up soon after. Singer Mark Slaughter and bassist Dana Strum formed Slaughter and went to on solid success.
But fuck it.
The record is way better without a buzzkilling couples' skate song.
Speed demon guitar widdlings. Cavernous arena-ready drums. Wailing singer. Tunes about partying and fucking. Plenty of unsubtle innuendo.
Some of Vinnie Vincent's guitar work is almost avant-garde by accident. The sheer speed he displays on this record creates a blurry, maximum velocity smear across most of the songs. He plays so fast that it sometimes ceases to sound like rock music.
Bigtime plus: not a single ballad. No prom songs here. Seems like a strange move; most hair metal records at the time (mid-1980s) had at least one commercial radio bid in the form of a pandering slow jam. The lack of a 'radio hit' does help explain why Vinnie Vincent Invasion (or Invasion or whatever the original title was supposed to be; I guess this was originally a solo project for Vincent that became more like a full-on band, at least for a moment) barely sold Gold in an era when even Stryper had Platinum records.
If what I've read is accurate, Chrysalis signed VVI in 1985 for $4 million in exchange for an 8 (!) record commitment. Seems excessive. Sigue Sigue Sputnik was signed for a boatload of money, too. Also seems excessive. Invasion was dropped shortly after the release of follow-up All Systems Go. The band broke up soon after. Singer Mark Slaughter and bassist Dana Strum formed Slaughter and went to on solid success.
But fuck it.
The record is way better without a buzzkilling couples' skate song.
28 June 2009
26 June 2009
It's summer. Here's what you should be rocking.
you reach down—between my legs — ease the seat back
one break, comin' up
I think the clock is slow — I don't feel tardy
see, a gun is real easy
Pay close attention to the drums on 1984. They are uncommonly well recorded. And not in an over-compressed Steve Albini way. 1984 has a great drum sound. It probably has the nicest recording, I aside. I is good for it's dry directness. I sounds spartan in comparison to other hard rock records of the preceding years (1979 and backward).
Go for a night drive and blast this stuff.
one break, comin' up
I think the clock is slow — I don't feel tardy
see, a gun is real easy
Pay close attention to the drums on 1984. They are uncommonly well recorded. And not in an over-compressed Steve Albini way. 1984 has a great drum sound. It probably has the nicest recording, I aside. I is good for it's dry directness. I sounds spartan in comparison to other hard rock records of the preceding years (1979 and backward).
Go for a night drive and blast this stuff.
25 June 2009
23 June 2009
"...the world's going to come looking for it one day..."
Death - For the Whole World to See
“David came to me right before he died, and he had some master tapes of ours,” he said.
“I jokingly said to him, ‘David, I have enough of our stuff, man, I’m running out of room.’
And he said, ‘Bob, you’ve got to keep all this stuff, the world’s going to come looking for it one day, and when the world comes looking for it, I’ll know that you’ll have it."
This Band Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk by Mark Rubin
“I jokingly said to him, ‘David, I have enough of our stuff, man, I’m running out of room.’
And he said, ‘Bob, you’ve got to keep all this stuff, the world’s going to come looking for it one day, and when the world comes looking for it, I’ll know that you’ll have it."
This Band Was Punk Before Punk Was Punk by Mark Rubin
22 June 2009
doing da-doing doing doing
Bauhaus' Peter Murphey teams up with Japan's Mick Karn for some rubbery bassline workouts.
Not a fantastic record by either artists' standards.
Definately worth hearing, though.
That fretless bass sound is pretty infectious. It's easy to figure out how that became the second biggest bass sound of the 1980s (the first was slap bass).
I assume that their name, Dali's Car, is a Captain Beefheart reference.
Not a fantastic record by either artists' standards.
Definately worth hearing, though.
That fretless bass sound is pretty infectious. It's easy to figure out how that became the second biggest bass sound of the 1980s (the first was slap bass).
I assume that their name, Dali's Car, is a Captain Beefheart reference.
19 June 2009
Probably a top-five band for me
Roxy Music - early b-sides
&
Hula-Kula
Early Roxy Music b-sides left off the contemporaneous albums for whatever reasons.
I don't even see why they were never bonus tracks on reissues.
Now that I think about it, there weren't any bonuses on the Roxy Music reissues. The only difference was that fucking gold sticker that said RE-MAKE*RE-MASTER*RE-ISSUE or something like that.
Fucking bastards.
I don't even see why they were never bonus tracks on reissues.
Now that I think about it, there weren't any bonuses on the Roxy Music reissues. The only difference was that fucking gold sticker that said RE-MAKE*RE-MASTER*RE-ISSUE or something like that.
Fucking bastards.
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