What have you been listening to?

[Psycho Circus]

Stunning modern thrash/metal album for Dave & co. Somehow betters "Endgame" and I cannot stop listening to it!! "New World Order" and "Who's Life Is It Anyway" are stone cold classics.

[FatFreddysCat]

Stunning modern thrash/metal album for Dave & co. Somehow betters "Endgame" and I cannot stop listening to it!! "New World Order" and "Who's Life Is It Anyway" are stone cold classics.

I just picked this CD up yesterday and I'm diggin' it too (though I think I liked the previous disc, ENDGAME, just a smidge more).

Also in today's pile:
Anthrax - WORSHIP MUSIC
Kiss - SONIC BOOM
Crashdiet - GENERATION WILD

[Rev. Powell]

"Trout Mask Replica" by Captain Beefheart

And how well are you liking that? 

I was afraid you would ask that.  I've listened the hell out of it, but... it doesn't click with me.  A mix of beat poetry, blues, and absurd humor, with lyrics and vocals that are an obvious influence on my favorite, Tom Waits.  I should love it... but I don't. 

[Psycho Circus]

[diamondwaspvenom]

Ghost-Opus Eponymus



Posibly the best new band of the decade. It's refreshing to hear a group like this find inspiration from the occult rock of ye olden days instead of taking the tired and now insipid "br00tal" path that so many bands lately have taken. The songs are incredibly infectious and have a spooky, 70s satanic vibe going with it aswell. It's great that Ghost has chosen to utilize clean vocals with the occasional rasp instead doing the full out growling and screaming (don't get me wrong, I love bands that growl and whatnot, but we have too many bands like that already).

Check these guys out. The music is well worth your time.

[Psycho Circus]

Really bad death metal, their follow up album The Erosion Of Sanity is a million times better.



Rubbish Ted Nugent album, has never been able to better his late 70s classics IMO.

[Rev. Powell]

"Cartola" by Cartola

[Psycho Circus]

[Allhallowsday]

"Trout Mask Replica" by Captain Beefheart

And how well are you liking that? 

I was afraid you would ask that.  I've listened the hell out of it, but... it doesn't click with me.  A mix of beat poetry, blues, and absurd humor, with lyrics and vocals that are an obvious influence on my favorite, Tom Waits.  I should love it... but I don't. 

It's true.  There's not much to love there, despite raves it's received; coming from a strictly musical standpoint, I find it grating more often than listenable.  I do like "Moonlight In Vermont" and "China Pig" quite a lot, though. 

[FatFreddysCat]

Today's stack thus far:
Megadeth - TH1RT3EN
Monster Magnet - POWERTRIP
Anvil - JUGGERNAUT OF JUSTICE
Overkill - RELIXIV
Scatterbrain - HERE COMES TROUBLE

[Rev. Powell]

"Trout Mask Replica" by Captain Beefheart

And how well are you liking that? 

I was afraid you would ask that.  I've listened the hell out of it, but... it doesn't click with me.  A mix of beat poetry, blues, and absurd humor, with lyrics and vocals that are an obvious influence on my favorite, Tom Waits.  I should love it... but I don't. 

It's true.  There's not much to love there, despite raves it's received; coming from a strictly musical standpoint, I find it grating more often than listenable.  I do like "Moonlight In Vermont" and "China Pig" quite a lot, though. 

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's underwhelmed.  Since it consistently turns up in critic's "top 100" lists I feel like I'm missing something.

This one turns up in no one's "top 100" list:


"Gord's Gold, Vol. 2" by Gordon Lightfoot

Gord put out a "Gord's Gold, Vol. 1" with most of his hits, but without the tune that was arguably his greatest hit ("The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald").  He then released this "Vol. 2" with the song everyone wanted to hear accompanied by a bunch of second-rate material.

[HappyGilmore]

Bad Hair Day by "Weird Al" Yankovic


Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads


Something for Everybody by DEVO

[Psycho Circus]

[Rev. Powell]

"Greatest Hits" by The Kinks

[Psycho Circus]