When I’m listening to your (otherwise great) Traditional Country station, I really don’t need to hear Joaquin Phoenix singing Johnny Cash tunes from the Walk the Line soundtrack. Just sayin’.
Category: Music
-
Friday metal – Tori-fied/Slaytanic edition
Here’s Tori Amos'(!) nearly unrecognizable version of Slayer’s “Raining Blood”:
Here’s the immortal original:
Share this:
- Share on X (Opens in new window) X
- Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
- Print (Opens in new window) Print
- Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
- Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
- Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
- Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
- Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
- Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
-
Anvil!
Went and saw Anvil! The Story of Anvil with some friends tonight (including Camassia). It’s a documentary about a b-list (c-list?) 80s power metal band from Canada that never quite made it big, but never quit either. The movie was terrific and surprisingly affecting.
After the movie I consulted Ian Christe’s magisterial history of heavy metal, Sound of the Beast, and found this amusing nugget:
Power metal bands like Anvil, still dressing in red leather bondage outfits and playing guitar solos with phallus-shaped vibrators, felt the chance for mass popularity slipping through their fingers. They had paid their dues and paved the way for Metallica, but were lost now in the wake of dozens of faster bands. There had been an instant years earlier when Lars Ulrich bragged that his band would someday be bigger than Anvil…. (p. 136)
Here’s “School Love” from Tokyo in 1984, at a rock festival they played with Bon Jovi and the Scorpions, among others, and which seemed to be the peak of their career:
Share this:
- Share on X (Opens in new window) X
- Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
- Print (Opens in new window) Print
- Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
- Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
- Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
- Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
- Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
- Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
-
Friday metal – shippin’ up to Boston edition
Heading to Boston for a wedding this weekend. To get in the spirit, here’s one of Beantown’s finest:
Share this:
- Share on X (Opens in new window) X
- Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
- Print (Opens in new window) Print
- Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
- Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
- Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
- Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
- Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
- Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
-
Friday metal – Chimaira, “Destroy and Dominate”
A couple of weeks ago I said I was really digging the new album “The Infection” by Chimaira. Here’s the first video off that album.
Vodpod videos no longer available.
more about "Friday metal – Chimaira, "Destroy and…", posted with vodpodShare this:
- Share on X (Opens in new window) X
- Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
- Print (Opens in new window) Print
- Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
- Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
- Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
- Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
- Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
- Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
-
Mea culpa, Radiohead
A while back I complained that I was never able to get into Radiohead’s post-OK Computer output. My beef was that they had sacrificed songwriting for noodly, experimental electronica.
Well, I decided to give ’em another shot and downloaded In Rainbows. Verdict: an amazing, surprisingly accessible synthesis of Radioheads past.
Share this:
- Share on X (Opens in new window) X
- Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
- Print (Opens in new window) Print
- Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
- Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
- Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
- Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
- Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
- Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
-
Friday metal – Metallica, “Creeping Death” (live in Moscow, 1991)
Off to Philadelphia for the weekend, so light blogging will continue for a few days.
Share this:
- Share on X (Opens in new window) X
- Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
- Print (Opens in new window) Print
- Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
- Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
- Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
- Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
- Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
- Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
-
Hymn for the day
Not the one we actually sang today, but I like this one better:
Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!
our triumphant holy day, Alleluia!
who did once upon the cross, Alleluia!
suffer to redeem our loss. Alleluia!Hymns of praise then let us sing, Alleluia!
unto Christ, our heavenly King, Alleluia!
who endured the cross and grave, Alleluia!
sinners to redeem and save. Alleluia!But the pains which he endured, Alleluia!
our salvation have procured, Alleluia!
now above the sky he’s King, Alleluia!
where the angels ever sing. Alleluia!Share this:
- Share on X (Opens in new window) X
- Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
- Print (Opens in new window) Print
- Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
- Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
- Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
- Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
- Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
- Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
-
Friday metal – Cleveland rocks edition
Chimaira is a metal/hardcore sextet from Cleveland; their new album, “The Infection” just came out and is really good. Here’s a clip from their 2003 album “The Impossibility of Reason” (a very postmodern title, don’t you think?):
Share this:
- Share on X (Opens in new window) X
- Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
- Print (Opens in new window) Print
- Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
- Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
- Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
- Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
- Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
- Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
-
Friday metal – Kylesa-fest
I’ve really been digging the new album Static Tensions by Georgia natives Kylesa. The band is an odd amalgam of doom metal, hardcore, and psychedelic rock. And they have two drummers!
Here are a couple of clips from their previous album, Time Will Fuse Its Worth:
Listen to more here.
Share this:
- Share on X (Opens in new window) X
- Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
- Print (Opens in new window) Print
- Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
- Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn
- Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
- Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
- Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
- Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky
A Thinking Reed 