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Post by kds on Jun 24, 2022 12:41:30 GMT
Today is Jeff Beck's birthday, and he just happens to appear on the latest track released by Ozzy Osbourne ultimateclassicrock.com/ozzy-osbourne-jeff-beck-patient-number-9/Beck appears on the title track of Ozzy's upcoming solo album Patient Number 9. Other guests on the album include Eric Clapton, Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi, Zakk Wylde, former Ozzy bassist and current Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, Duff McKagen, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready, Queens of the Stone Age Josh Homme, and the late Taylor Hawkins. In a twist that's sure to delight Ozzy and heavy metal bands alike, Sharon Osbourne is credited as a cowriter of the new song. I listened to the song, it's decent. It's a little over seven minutes long, which is pretty long for an Ozzy solo song.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 1, 2022 13:29:53 GMT
Great news, everyone: musical genius Cardi B has a new song.
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Post by kds on Jul 1, 2022 13:40:50 GMT
Great news, everyone: musical genius Cardi B has a new song.
Between Cardi B, Meghan Thee Stallion, Nicki Manaj, and Doja Cat, I don't know how anyone keeps this stuff straight.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 18, 2022 14:27:33 GMT
Here is some music that is most certainly not new--it was recorded in the first half of 1965--but it is newly released, in advance of the upcoming Reed early rarities set scheduled for August. This is the earliest known recording of Lou Reed's classic "Heroin," eventually released in 1967 on the debut Velvet Underground album.
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Post by kds on Jul 20, 2022 14:45:33 GMT
I just listened to Journey's first studio album in over a decade - Freedom, which was released this past Friday.
While I credit Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain for still putting out new music, I feel like every Journey album since the band reformed in 1996 (including the one they did with Steve Perry) has the same issues.
1. Too long. Journey are an AOR / FM radio band. Typically AOR / FM radio bands are not suited for long albums. Every album that they've released since their 1996 reformation has ranged from 66-73 minutes. This one is just over 73 minutes. Too much fat on these albums, and that makes it hard to listen multiple times to try to find the gems. Especially when they're.....
2. Too samey - There's a lot of "paint by numbers" Journey on this album, and I feel like they're still chasing ghosts from Escape / Frontiers. And, the "samey' quality mixed with being overly long is not a good combination.
That said, it's a pleasant enough listen. Should Journey do a follow up, I'd really like to see them aim for something in the 45 minute range.
Fun fact, this is Journey's 16th studio album, and eighth not including Steve Perry. So, for all the "there's no Journey without Steve Perry" stuff you hear, half of their studio albums do not feature him, and one of those albums - Dream After Dream - is an instrumental heavy soundtrack.
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Post by kds on Jul 22, 2022 12:39:51 GMT
Ozzy Osbourne has released his second "single" from his upcoming album today, Degradation Rule, this one featuring Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, who makes his first appearance on an Ozzy solo album.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 22, 2022 14:32:53 GMT
kds, I think I'm going to say something in this thread that will mess with your mind a little. But I've got a meeting here in a second and so it'll have to wait. This is just a teaser... I know you'll be on the edge of your seat.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 22, 2022 19:16:04 GMT
OK, so while there are a few new releases today that I really like, there is also a two-song single from somebody I vocally don't like ... that I almost, kind-of like. Or at least could say are an improvement (as far as my tastes go). And that's what I was hinting at earlier.
You see, kds, Billie Eilish released Guitar Songs today, and both of them--get ready for this!--feature actual melodies sung over actual (acoustic) guitar playing actual chord changes. One, TV, is very much by-numbers musically: I can imagine it being a power ballad in another era, and its changes are found in a billion pop and rock songs. The other, The 30th, isn't quite so obvious, and even has a couple of modestly surprising turns.
In both cases, she sings. With notes. She's still a bit whispery, especially in her higher register on "The 30th," but it's still a far cry for most of the earlier material I've heard of hers. I believe there was one other song from hers I'd noticed being more traditionally musical, but regardless, here are a couple more.
Now, I'm not joining the Billie Eilish fan club or anything. But I will at least say good for her for moving away from close-mic whispering over entirely laptop-generated music.
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Post by kds on Jul 23, 2022 0:07:36 GMT
I have to wonder how that music would be received. I can imagine some fans might not like her getting away from what made her "unique."
But, as I mentioned when I brought up Lizzo's new disco esque song, maybe mainstream pop is finally moving away from that laptop/EDM shit.
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Post by kds on Jul 28, 2022 18:52:21 GMT
ultimateclassicrock.com/best-rock-albums-2022/We're a little past the halfway point of 2022, so UCR ranks what they think are the Top 20 rock albums of the year so far. I'm still posting the list Even though they made a huge oversight by failing to include Ghost's fifth album Impera.
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Post by kds on Jul 29, 2022 15:33:40 GMT
David Lee Roth has released a new single - Nothing Could Have Stopped Us Back Then ultimateclassicrock.com/david-lee-roth-nothing-could-have-stopped-us/According to this article, the song dates back to 2016 and Roth wrote it with one time guitarist John 5 (the article states Mr. 5 was part of Roth's 80s band, which would be very impressive if it were true since John 5 was born in 1971). Roth is no stranger to autobiographical songs, but this territory was visited much better on Damn Good (from his 1988 solo album Skyscaper) and Blood and Fire (from the 2012 Van Halen album A Different Kind of Truth).
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 29, 2022 15:41:22 GMT
According to this article, the song dates back to 2016 and Roth wrote it with one time guitarist John 5 (the article states Mr. 5 was part of Roth's 80s band, which would be very impressive if it were true since John 5 was born in 1971). I believe that would be 90s band: I think not quite right after Jason Becker had to bow out for health reasons, but maybe relatively shortly after that. Mid-late 90s, I would guess.
John 5 is one of those ubiquitous guys in hard rock, seemingly just as at home with Marilyn Manson as David Lee Roth, or geeking out over KISS.
I just looked at some of his credits for fun, and we're talking about everything from Wilson Phillips to k.d. lang to Meat Loaf to Rob Zombie.
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Post by kds on Jul 29, 2022 15:59:12 GMT
According to this article, the song dates back to 2016 and Roth wrote it with one time guitarist John 5 (the article states Mr. 5 was part of Roth's 80s band, which would be very impressive if it were true since John 5 was born in 1971). I believe that would be 90s band: I think not quite right after Jason Becker had to bow out for health reasons, but maybe relatively shortly after that. Mid-late 90s, I would guess.
John 5 is one of those ubiquitous guys in hard rock, seemingly just as at home with Marilyn Manson as David Lee Roth, or geeking out over KISS.
I just looked at some of his credits for fun, and we're talking about everything from Wilson Phillips to k.d. lang to Meat Loaf to Rob Zombie.
Yeah, I think John 5 was on the album Dave did after the first failed attempt at a VH reunion. I remember seeing John 5 in Rob Zombie's band, opening for Ozzy Osbourne in 2008. I remember thinking 5 is too talented a guitarist for Zombie. That's not really meant as a slight to Rob, but his somewhat industrial comic horror brand of music doesn't exactly lend itself to stellar guitar work.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 10, 2022 13:49:15 GMT
Broken Bells, the occasional collaboration between singer-songwriter James Mercer (of the Shins, one of the better voices in modern rock music in my opinion) and producer Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse), announced a new album and released their first song from it. It's pretty cool, if a bit unremarkable for a kickoff single.
I'm happy that I've realized a couple new albums are coming in the next two weeks that I'll be checking out. Kiwi Jr, a Canadian rock band who came out of nowhere for me to release several very catchy albums in recent years; and then the Mountain Goats, one of my old standards, with their action movie-themed album. (Their themes are always so bizarre: Bible verses; celebrities; pro wrestling; goth music; etc.)
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 12, 2022 12:52:16 GMT
After what has been a pretty slow year, I actually got three new albums this morning.
One, I mentioned Wednesday when I saw it was coming out: Kiwi Jr's Chopper. They are very much a straight-ahead, no-frills rock band with pretty tight and melodic songs. Good hooks, good lyrics, nothing fancy.
Then there were two I didn't know were coming, one of which I'd never heard of and the other I didn't know I'd heard of.
Sally Seltmann is someone I hadn't heard of ... until I read that she released music as New Buffalo. She wrote "1 2 3 4," which Feist (OK, and also Apple or Target or whoever used it in an ad) made famous. I was sampling Seltmann's new songs and really impressed with them.
And the one I'd really never heard of at all, Kamikaze Palm Tree, and their album Mint Chip. It is strange in a good way, reminding me of the hyperactive, early Of Montreal meets a softer Captain Beefheart.
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