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McCoy Freemind
After Gillan disbanded John McCoy teamed up with Samson main man Paul Samson to make this euro-rock jem. -
Armageddon Paths and Planes and Future Gains
The most ‘rocking’ track on this supergroups sole album. -
Warrior Soul Ghetto Nation
The last great album by Kory Clarke’s politically charged group. -
The Sound Heartland
Post-punk on the more pop end of the scale. -
Arcturus Nightmare Heaven
Black metal goes prog. -
Blue Oyster Cult Astronomy
My favorite BöC song. -
Robert Fripp Breathless
This could have been off of King Crimson’s Red. -
Iron Virgin Rebels Rule
A great ‘Junk Shop Glam’ song. -
Océan Attention Contrôle
Another AC/DC worshiping French band. -
Gary Numan I Die You Die
Telekon’s best song that’s not on Telekon. -
Wire Short Elevated Period
Wire continues to make good music well into the new millennium. -
Jesu Star
As close to a pop song as a band that revels in dirges. -
Heavy Load Saturday Night
An all time favorite Heavy Metal band. -
Thin Lizzy Thunder And Lightning
First thunderstorm of the year brought this on. -
D.I. Falling Out
Just wanted to hear this one. Always seems these guys are forgotten. -
The Dirty Nil No Weaknesses
From my favorite album of last year, 90’s worshiping rock.
Playlist for the week of March 12, 2017
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Girl “Hollywood Tease”
Phil Lewis of LA Guns and Phil Collen of Def Leppard’s early NWOBHM band. -
Donovan “Cosmic Wheels”
From his “glam” album. -
Uriah Heep “High Priestess”
Still on a Heep binge. -
The Knack “Sweet Dreams”
Beatleish song off of their third album “Round Trip”. -
Raven “Don’t Need Your Money”
Classic NWOBHM, Raven was a frantic force of nature on their first three records. -
Alejandro Jodorowsky “Psychedelic Weapons”
60’s psych meets Morricone song from the “Holy Mountain” soundtrack. -
Godplow “Mesmerized”
The US Swervedriver. Don’t get excited it’s good but not that level. -
Heavy Tiger “I Go for the Cheap Ones”
Yeah, this had it’s own post. Swedish rock power. -
Bee Gees “I Laugh in Your Face”
A fantastic bitter dirge. -
Basil Poledouris “Anvil of Crom”
Over the top ManOwaR level epic from the first Conan movie. -
Terry Reid “Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace”
Came to the almost Led Zeppelin singer through Cheap Trick’s cover of this song. -
Powermad “Nice Dreams”
I prefer the version on the “Combat Bootcamp EP”. Late 80’s thrash although this song isn’t thrash more a spidery slow boil.
This Week’s Links: Mötley Crüe, Conscious Universe, Lemmy, Kraftwerk…
- Did Mötley Crüe replace Nikki Sixx with a teenaged alcoholic satanist clone in 1983?
- Sheet music to play Kraftwerk’s ‘Pocket Calculator’ on a pocket calculator.
- “The Universe Exists Because We Are Here”.
- Boy Howdy! Killer merch for Creem magazine documentary.
- ‘Eat The Rich’: Cult rock and roll comedy with Lemmy, Shane Macgowan, Paul Mccartney, Angela Bowie.
- Amtrak vs snow, in slow-mo.
- The man in the Godzilla suit.
- The science backed ways music affects your brain and productivity.
New Heavy Tiger delivers. Swedish rock superiority.
Along the lines of later Hellacopeters. Hard rocking with lot of hooks. I also dig that they change their image with each record.
The new album “Glitter” is out March 31. It’s a bit pricy as an import.
Also available at your usual digital suspects.
New Afghan Whigs album coming, here’s a new song.
The reunion shows I saw at the Metro in Chicago (2012?) were fantastic, as good as I had ever seen them. The band was white-hot and Greg Duli commanded the stage as few seem able to do.
The record was not as successful. “Do to the Beast” was good but I haven’t returned to it much. This new song is also good but it’s lacking something, maybe it’s former guitarist Rick McCollum’s playing.
Here’s the first track released off of the new album “In Spades”