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Just Do What The Man Says

Posted in 2010s, Metal, Prog, Rock, Uncategorized, tagged on January 24, 2012 | 7 Comments »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WwL5XMu7-Zc

Or I’ll tell Grinder Gibbons where you live…

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The Rocker – 25 Years Gone

Posted in 1970s, 1980s, Metal, Pop, Rock, Tributes, Uncategorized on August 20, 2011 | 23 Comments »

Happy Birthday to Phil Lynott – had he lived, it would be his 62nd birthday today. It would be very easy to grumble on about what was a sad demise and a profound waste of life of a charismatic and talented musician, but I am quite sure that Phil would have no truck with all [...]

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Post-Black Metal

Posted in Metal, Post, Shoegaze, tagged on May 21, 2011 | 7 Comments »

Now, I DO love a good sub-genre, so imagine my excitement over the last few years as i’ve slowly watched the merging of two of my favourites; Black Metal and Post-Rock into the beautiful beast of a sub-sub-genre that has finally been named Post-Black Metal. It takes the lo-fo production, dark atmospherics, and often the [...]

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Time for some Sax-driven Black Metal?

Posted in 2010s, Metal, Prog, tagged , on January 6, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Ihsahn (no, I don’t know how you’re supposed to pronounce it either) are the band I discovered too late in the year for their excellent album “After” to make my Best of 2010 list. You’d never have thought adding jazz sax to metal would work, but it does. Some definite hints of “Red”-era King Crimson [...]

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In Defence Of…………Guns’N'Roses

Posted in 1980s, 1990s, Metal, tagged on January 4, 2011 | 29 Comments »

After the reasonably successful defence of Menswe@r’s legacy, I thought i’d try another much maligned band that I love: Guns ‘n’ Roses. Now, G’n’R (as they will henceforth be known) are quite rightly pilloried for being rock’n’roll cliche, washed-up hasbeens with a self-delusional, talentless megalomaniac frontman in Axl Rose. All true, but for me, before [...]

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Blimpy wants some Choral Metal

Posted in 2010s, Metal, Prog, tagged , on December 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Or so he said in a comment against my top albums list. He’s the winner of the fan video contest for the title track of Therion’s most recent album “Sitra Ahra”. No, don’t ask me what they’re singing about.

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Tim’s Year of Live Music

Posted in Jazz, Metal, Prog, Rock, tagged , , , , , , , on December 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »

My musical year has been defined more by live music than by albums, with something like 40 gigs this year. It’s almost impossible to chose the best of these, but here are a dozen of the most memorable, in chronological order. Mostly Autumn at Leamington Assembly This gig on Good Friday was Heather Findlay’s farewell [...]

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Tim’s Albums of the Year

Posted in 2010s, Metal, Prog, Rock, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »

2010 doesn’t seem to have been quite as strong a year as 2009, when I did a top 15 on my own blog – this year I struggled to name ten, with some albums getting a lot of hype in my musical circles doing nothing much for me at all.- Iron Maiden and Pineapple Thief [...]

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Top Ten Albums Of 2010 – Part Two

Posted in 2010s, Indie, Metal, Pop, Psychedelia, Rock, Scots on December 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Here’s my seven to five! 7. “Boys Outside” – Steve Mason The former Beta Band singer’s first release under his own name, a very enjoyable collection that veers from polished pop songs to space dub reggae – all topped with the unique Mason vocal touch. 6. “Phosphene Dream” – The Black Angels My fave modern [...]

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Youn Sun Nah- Enter Sandman

Posted in Jazz, Metal, Post, tagged on November 22, 2010 | 11 Comments »

My latest post-jazz post features a French based, Korean singer whose new album is doing well in the French jazz charts (though it received a lukewarm reception in the Guardian). It’s de rigueur for post-jazz artists to cover grunge or metal hits, and I think Youn Sun Nah delivers one of the best recent efforts, [...]

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Your Loyal Subjects: “Subjection”

Posted in Funk, Metal, Rock, Scots on October 16, 2010 | 11 Comments »

Like Black Flag beating Muse to death in a back alley, while James Brown holds the coats – Your Loyal Subjects have come to pummel your ears and face into the ground before holding the whole sordid mess in front of a mirror for contemplation. “Subjection” has some of the best, most dynamic, face melting [...]

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