dmdr's record deck
Oct 3, 2019 6:25:17 GMT -5
Post by dmdr on Oct 3, 2019 6:25:17 GMT -5
I like the idea of these threads where somebody just posts youtube vids to themselves, so here's mine. I'm also gonna type a lot because I love listening to myself type
gonna restrict myself to stuff I've recently bought on vinyl as opposed to 'what I'm listening to at the moment' so as to avoid having nothing but metal in the thread (I'll violate this 'rule' occassionally so DON'T CRY ABOUT IT)
I bought quite a few LPs this weekend and one more today so here's some songs off of them
First up is Bo Hansson, swedish keyboard progster. I got his entire 70s discog (four albums... he released one in the 80s too but apparently it sucks. I would have bought it anyway tbh) for about $50 which isn't bad considering how much of a fuckin ripoff vinyl is.
It's maybe a little twee in parts but nice relaxing listening. certainly the most 70s thing you could ever listen to, with the probable exception of Focus:
(this track's a little heavier than usual)
I've recently decided to get into Thin Lizzy despite only being familiar with 'The Boys are Back in Town' -- which tbh is only an OK song -- due to the fact I've been listening to a lot of The Lord Weird Slough Feg recently, and TL are usually listed as a big influence. I listened to some deeper cuts on youtube and was intrigued so when I spotted a copy of Live and Dangerous I picked it up. The copy was mint and I don't think ever played (I had to slide another lp under the first record in order to lever it off my table... the centre hole being clearly unused and way too tight for my spindle *beavis and butthead chuckling*).
Anyway I'm definitely keen on this good shit, especially this fuckin song! damn what a beast (that solo could easily slot into any Slough Feg album; the influence here is really blatant, and I love it!):
(feel free to laugh at me for my hard rock ignance)
then there's Horslips, another band who I'm getting into because of Slough Feg; in this case the sick cover TLWSF did of Dearg Doom made me wanna check out the OG shit. These guys are a bit more obscure than Thin Lizzy (outside of Ireland) but are another oirish hard rock band, but where TL are oirish HARD ROCK these dudes are BAJASUS OIRISH hard rock with a real folk/prog sensibility. Weird but good shit, not really what I was expecting (Dearg Doom being the most straightforward rocker on the album, by far), I've only listened a couple of times so far (+spinning it again right this second) but it's growing on me; I keep getting the urge to spin it at work where I don't have access which generally means I like something. Whatever, here's the original of the above:
Since I've talked about TLWSF a bit it'd be remiss of me not to post a couple tracks, in spite of what I said above. If you don't like this BOMBASS SHIT you are an evolutionary dead end, so please get down among the dead men (preferably by chopping off your own head):
alright last band and songs! I'm violating the rules AGAIN in quick succession but fuck you I do what I want! It's less egregious this time though.
Right now I am honestly obsessed with Manilla Road so I've been filling the holes in my collection, which til now has only encompassed their classic 80s period (Crystal Logic - Out of the Abyss, for those with taste good enough for that to be meaningful) on CD so I can listen to rips at work (and the shit I already had on vinyl, although I'm not gonna post a track from any of those albums).
Please be warned, if you're gonna listen to this, that the vocals might be best characterised as 'divisive', ie. only weirdos like me like them. I'd describe them like a 'good singer doing an impression of a bad one'; you won't find him missing his notes or singing off-key, but man, dat cadence. And pronounciation. HAUNTED PALARRRRRRRRRRRRRRSE
Anyway, whatever, I got their two 90s albums and both are completely not what I was expecting! When I chucked on The Courts of Chaos (1990) I was expecting more straight thrashy blasting like in Out of the Abyss but it incorporates fuckin keyboards and so is the missing link between MR and Mark 'The Shark' Shelton's, he being the mastermind, vocalist and lead guitarist of MR, later side project 'Hellwell', which is a slightly doomier/cheesier version of same, and that I fuckin love (being the best comeback iteration of MR).
what I was expecting (and sometimes got):
what most of the album was like:
(I'm not complaining!)
Then there's The Circus Maximus, actually not a Manilla Road album -- their label at the time slapped the name on in an attempt to drum up extra sales a la Tony Iommi's Seventh Star (an inexplicable decision, given the Road was never really accepted outside of a relatively small but obsessive fanbase, which is to say, me and some other guys). Completely new lineup and far proggier and more accessible, with new vocalists; although Mark the Shark still sings on a few tracks (including the first one) which would immediately scupper any potential commercial interest.
Anyway I was sort of expecting the accessibility given the album's reputation but I wasn't expecting it to be good, which it is!, or so completely schizophrenic. It alternates between AOR, proto-nu metal and more metallic material that would fit quite comfortably on MR's first two, more relaxed, albums. The overall effect is a bit like listening to Judas Priest's Jugulator (I wanna go on record and say that the problem with that album isn't Ripper, who does a very credible Halford impersonation, it's everybody else), but better. And weirder. Very much weirder. Here's some representative tracks:
AOR with mint solo:
Rapping (the main riff in this is cool as fuck btw):
This track just plain rules:
if you could guess that was all by the same band without knowing in advance you've got a much better ear than me.
ok that's it. Thanks to anyone who actually read all that. More longwinded posts later
gonna restrict myself to stuff I've recently bought on vinyl as opposed to 'what I'm listening to at the moment' so as to avoid having nothing but metal in the thread (I'll violate this 'rule' occassionally so DON'T CRY ABOUT IT)
I bought quite a few LPs this weekend and one more today so here's some songs off of them
First up is Bo Hansson, swedish keyboard progster. I got his entire 70s discog (four albums... he released one in the 80s too but apparently it sucks. I would have bought it anyway tbh) for about $50 which isn't bad considering how much of a fuckin ripoff vinyl is.
It's maybe a little twee in parts but nice relaxing listening. certainly the most 70s thing you could ever listen to, with the probable exception of Focus:
(this track's a little heavier than usual)
I've recently decided to get into Thin Lizzy despite only being familiar with 'The Boys are Back in Town' -- which tbh is only an OK song -- due to the fact I've been listening to a lot of The Lord Weird Slough Feg recently, and TL are usually listed as a big influence. I listened to some deeper cuts on youtube and was intrigued so when I spotted a copy of Live and Dangerous I picked it up. The copy was mint and I don't think ever played (I had to slide another lp under the first record in order to lever it off my table... the centre hole being clearly unused and way too tight for my spindle *beavis and butthead chuckling*).
Anyway I'm definitely keen on this good shit, especially this fuckin song! damn what a beast (that solo could easily slot into any Slough Feg album; the influence here is really blatant, and I love it!):
(feel free to laugh at me for my hard rock ignance)
then there's Horslips, another band who I'm getting into because of Slough Feg; in this case the sick cover TLWSF did of Dearg Doom made me wanna check out the OG shit. These guys are a bit more obscure than Thin Lizzy (outside of Ireland) but are another oirish hard rock band, but where TL are oirish HARD ROCK these dudes are BAJASUS OIRISH hard rock with a real folk/prog sensibility. Weird but good shit, not really what I was expecting (Dearg Doom being the most straightforward rocker on the album, by far), I've only listened a couple of times so far (+spinning it again right this second) but it's growing on me; I keep getting the urge to spin it at work where I don't have access which generally means I like something. Whatever, here's the original of the above:
Since I've talked about TLWSF a bit it'd be remiss of me not to post a couple tracks, in spite of what I said above. If you don't like this BOMBASS SHIT you are an evolutionary dead end, so please get down among the dead men (preferably by chopping off your own head):
alright last band and songs! I'm violating the rules AGAIN in quick succession but fuck you I do what I want! It's less egregious this time though.
Right now I am honestly obsessed with Manilla Road so I've been filling the holes in my collection, which til now has only encompassed their classic 80s period (Crystal Logic - Out of the Abyss, for those with taste good enough for that to be meaningful) on CD so I can listen to rips at work (and the shit I already had on vinyl, although I'm not gonna post a track from any of those albums).
Please be warned, if you're gonna listen to this, that the vocals might be best characterised as 'divisive', ie. only weirdos like me like them. I'd describe them like a 'good singer doing an impression of a bad one'; you won't find him missing his notes or singing off-key, but man, dat cadence. And pronounciation. HAUNTED PALARRRRRRRRRRRRRRSE
Anyway, whatever, I got their two 90s albums and both are completely not what I was expecting! When I chucked on The Courts of Chaos (1990) I was expecting more straight thrashy blasting like in Out of the Abyss but it incorporates fuckin keyboards and so is the missing link between MR and Mark 'The Shark' Shelton's, he being the mastermind, vocalist and lead guitarist of MR, later side project 'Hellwell', which is a slightly doomier/cheesier version of same, and that I fuckin love (being the best comeback iteration of MR).
what I was expecting (and sometimes got):
what most of the album was like:
(I'm not complaining!)
Then there's The Circus Maximus, actually not a Manilla Road album -- their label at the time slapped the name on in an attempt to drum up extra sales a la Tony Iommi's Seventh Star (an inexplicable decision, given the Road was never really accepted outside of a relatively small but obsessive fanbase, which is to say, me and some other guys). Completely new lineup and far proggier and more accessible, with new vocalists; although Mark the Shark still sings on a few tracks (including the first one) which would immediately scupper any potential commercial interest.
Anyway I was sort of expecting the accessibility given the album's reputation but I wasn't expecting it to be good, which it is!, or so completely schizophrenic. It alternates between AOR, proto-nu metal and more metallic material that would fit quite comfortably on MR's first two, more relaxed, albums. The overall effect is a bit like listening to Judas Priest's Jugulator (I wanna go on record and say that the problem with that album isn't Ripper, who does a very credible Halford impersonation, it's everybody else), but better. And weirder. Very much weirder. Here's some representative tracks:
AOR with mint solo:
Rapping (the main riff in this is cool as fuck btw):
This track just plain rules:
if you could guess that was all by the same band without knowing in advance you've got a much better ear than me.
ok that's it. Thanks to anyone who actually read all that. More longwinded posts later
