lazy music update
Duh, haven’t posted in a while, and still hard to check what I have discovered since last time. I know: I talked about the red fragrance of albums.
- Chinese Democracy, Guns n’ Roses: obviously, the best, the greatest (ahem);
- Performing this week, Jeff Beck: nice take of classical titles from the Master;
- Universo Inverso, No Gravity, Kiko Loureiro: nice guitar work, close to his Angra work for the latter, totally different for the former;
- A cruel world, Bloodsimple: well, it was their first (or earlier) album, so I guess I could have expected something a bit below their current standard. Some songs/sounds feel a bit out of place;
- Bone machine, Tom Waits: a different sound (yeah I know, I’m probably too much influenced by movies);
- A Piano, Tori Amos: love her;
- Seven moons, Jack Bruce & co: great (and I mean Great) blues sound;
- Three legs of trouble, Stonerider: hard to find any information about this band since they seem to have changed their name at some point for this one. Really cool rock band; Listening to one song, I thought they had been influenced a bit too much by Nazareth (although in the same song, they almost use the same riff as Hendrix’s Stone Free), but in fact, later on the album, they cover Hair of the dog (also covered by GnR);
- The ruiner, Made out of babies: weird. Not bad, but just weird modern rock;
- Monochrome, Helmet: no what I expected (and regarding the guitar solos, this is in a bad way);
- A lullaby for the devil, Deadsoul Tribe: wind instrument, ‘nuff said. Well, that and the weird mix with the guitars (which wouldn’t sound that bad at first) drowned;
- Who killed Amanda Palmer?, Amanda Palmer: Way more interesting than the two latest Virginia Dresden Dolls albums, to me. And I need to check what’s the story with Neil Gaiman, since he’s one of my favorites authors;
- It’s not how far you fall, it’s the way you land, Soulsavers: not fully digested, but Mark Lanegan’s in;
- Lighbulbs, Fujiya & Miyagi: soft but interesting;
- Entertainment!, Gang of four: I’m not that much into 80’s, but this albums makes me change my mind somehow because it rocks, impressive;
- Zozobra, Bird of Prey: not fully digested. Heavy stuff, but?
- Hold on now, youngster, Los Campesinos!: funny stuff, really. This would be the one I could most recommend to my irish readership (yeah, you). I’m just afraid of the “you’re listening to what?!” look I may get next time we meet up.
Are there links to those? Los Campesinos!, Fujiya & Miyagi and Gang of four were at least endorsed by jwz which is (or used to be) a NiN fan. I saw Amanda Palmer live as she played as the Dresden Dolls for the first part of a NiN show. The Ruiner is also the title of a NiN song. Helmet’s guitar player and singer played for NiN. Stonerider obviously covered the same song as GnR. Tori Amos had Trent Reznor from NiN as a back singer. Jeff Beck at least rehearsed with GnR for a live show. Jack Bruce was a third of Cream, where Clapton cultivated his woman tone which was in turn a big influence on Slash, etc…
Am I predictable?