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The last days of Deep Purple
"Towards the end it was not pretty. I scraped myself off the walls of insanity. I was barking like a dog"
As a #bassist, I love this line from @pitchfork’s just-published retrospective review of #CocteauTwins’ 1983 album ‘Head Over Heels’:
“Rather than locking with the beats to form a conventional rhythm section, the #bass is like a brocade stitched along the song’s hem, decorative and harmonic rather than propulsive and bolstering.”
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PER WIBERG Releases “Dead Sky Lullaby” Single
Swedish multi-instrumentalist Per Wiberg will release his new solo album, The Serpent’s Here...
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PHIL COLLINS' Son And GENESIS Drummer NIC COLLINS Learns How To Play AVENGED SEVENFOLD's "Almost Easy" As Fast As Possible (Video)
Which sounds exactly like some other song but I can't think of it for the life of me.
I'm pretty sure it's a song by Brian Jonestown Massacre or Dandy Warhols or something in that #NeoPsychedelic#Rock genre.
Of course, BJM cranks out so much music that it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Perhaps someone with a better mental catalog of music can help.
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A lot of people think I came out of the womb playing guitar. Ive been around it forever because of my dad: Meet Amber Wild, the twin-guitar rock supernova featuring Evan Stanley
Growing up with Paul Stanley as a father, it was little wonder Evan would pursue a career in rock but hes got to admit that it was Nirvana not Kiss who first lit his guitar fire
#PickOfTheWeek - #Magnum – Here Comes the Rain (2024). This new release by the stalwart English rock band finds them in hyperdrive on the bracing opener, "Run into the Shadows" and string-embellished "Some Kind of Treachery." Brethren like Styx and Marillion echo in Magnum's supersized arrangements, with tight harmonies and huge choruses.
Sadly, the album is a swan song for songwriter-guitarist Tony Clarkin, who died January 7, five days before the release date.
#GreatAlbums1980s - #ThePretenders – Learning to Crawl (1984). After the deaths of original Pretenders Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott, Chrissie Hynde carried on with drummer Martin Chambers and newcomer Robbie McIntosh, who added Bakersfield twang in place of Honeyman-Scott's rockabilly. "Middle of the Road," "Back on the Chain Gang" and "Show Me" reaffirmed the Pretenders as perhaps the most traditional of the post-punk firebrands chewing up the airwaves.
#GreatAlbums1980s - #REM – Lifes Rich Pageant (1986). Lacing their trademark jangle rock with harder-edged guitar and drums, the now roadworn REM begin their ascendance to mainstream popularity on "Begin the Begin," "Cuyahoga" and the concise, haunting "Fall on Me." Social justice and historical injustice are themes implicit in Michael Stipe's lyrics, as bassist Mike Mills asserts his keening tenor on the bridge to "Fall on Me" and soaring cover of "Superman."
Hit Me with Your Best Shot b/w
Prisoner Of Love by Pat Benatar (1980)
The second single released off of her second album Crimes Of Passion and written by Eddie Schwartz, Hit Me With Your Best Shot reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the States, and became a Top 10 track in Canada. Selling over a million copies, it was certified Gold by the RIAA in the States and Silver in the U.K.
Schwartz commented that he wrote it after attending a pillow punching therapy session in Toronto. Benatar no longer performs the song, as a protest against the gun violence epidemic in the United States.
So. Here we go. In no order, just listing off what I loved. With so much more to discover.
Ericka's Favorite #Music of 2023.
We will start with #RockMusic first.
ROCK (all formats):
ALL THINGS BOYGENIUS: THE RECORD AND THE REST
Paramore: This Is Why
Yo La Tengo: This Stupid World
Dolly Parton: Rock Star
PJ Harvey: I Inside the Old Year Dying
Julia Zivic: Live At Guava EP
Meet Me @ The Altar: Past Present Future
Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS
Arlo Parks: My Soft Machine (& anything else she wants to do)
(Favorite #RockMusic of 2023 cont'd)
Bakar: Halo
Yves Tumor: Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (etc)
Blondshell: Blondshell
The National: First Two Pages of Frankenstein
Foo Fighter: But Here We Are
YES: Mirror To The Sky
Iggy Pop: EVERY LOSER
Peter Gabriel: i/o
The Murder Capital: Gigi's Recovery
Blur: The Ballad of Darren
Manchester Orchestra: The Valley of Vision
Mutoid Man: Mutants
The Ocean: Holocene
Blonde Redhead: Sit Down for Dinner
Solstice: Light Up
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KERRY KING Says His New Band Picks Up Where SLAYER Left Off
"So yes, I think it's an extension of Slayer, and I think a lot of people will think it might have been the next record."
For the inaugural post of a new hashtag series, Great Albums of the 1980s, I review the bracing debut album by #Bauhaus from 1980. Visit @Great_Albums for more.
Reviews will be drawn from a long, dynamic list of albums. Add your recommendations in the comments here or below any other post.