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Post by The Ocean on Jan 17, 2021 2:30:03 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #42 - 1/15/21
Ten Years After - "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain" from Cricklewood Green
Ten Years After is known well, deservedly so, for songs like "I'd Love to Change the World" or "I'm Going Home." Truly, however, they are so supremely talented that you could just throw a dart at a list of their songs and pick a good one. One of my favorites is this, which never lets up on the momentum. It just keeps going until enough has been "said" by the music, but is never boring. You are listening to masters of their craft build a song out of layers and many moving parts, all of which are worth singling out, but which mesh so perfectly well together. Cricklewood Green was a hit album at the time, and it spawned a single "Love Like a Man," but this is the song that I look forward to the most with every listen.
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Post by sirrastus on Jan 18, 2021 3:41:58 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #42 - 1/15/21 Ten Years After - "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain" from Cricklewood Green Ten Years After is known well, deservedly so, for songs like "I'd Love to Change the World" or "I'm Going Home." Truly, however, they are so supremely talented that you could just throw a dart at a list of their songs and pick a good one. One of my favorites is this, which never lets up on the momentum. It just keeps going until enough has been "said" by the music, but is never boring. You are listening to masters of their craft build a song out of layers and many moving parts, all of which are worth singling out, but which mesh so perfectly well together. Cricklewood Green was a hit album at the time, and it spawned a single "Love Like a Man," but this is the song that I look forward to the most with every listen. Great record-great tune.Probably one of the first hard rock albums I ever had-a friend had it and I loved it.I still think Stairway To The Stars was written after B.D. heard Sugar The Road.
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 18, 2021 4:30:33 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #44 - 1/17/21 Anthrax - "Breathing Lightning" from For All Kings
Anthrax's recent For All Kings album ranks up there with Spreading the Disease and Persistence of Time for me. Breathing Lightning is by far their best track on the album. It's got a pop music chorus with a thrash metal soul.
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 18, 2021 16:12:17 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #45 - 1/18/21 Skid Row - "Here I Am" from Skid Row
Skid Row was just another 80s metal band, but their music held a lot more of a blues and rock edge than the glam metal of the day. Sure, I Remember You and 18 and Life are quintessential 80s glam metal ballads, but then you have this song, Here I Am, with a very simple 12 bar blues style verse and a more blues-rock oriented call and response guitar solo. Granted these elements are played through a glam metal filter and there is still some nasty fuzzy noise going on, but ultimately this song is a simple three-minute blues-influenced rock song with a fiery riff.
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 20, 2021 3:47:23 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #45 - 1/18/21 Phantom Elite - "Every Man for Himself" from Wasteland This is as deep as it gets. This song has a mere 368 views as of this post. This band is about to put out its second album. Their first album, Wasteland, is a progressive metal powerhouse in much the same style of Dream Theater. What I love about them is that their music is unashamedly progressive, yet avoids some of the excessive complexity addiction that some of these bands succumb to. I also appreciate any metal band with intelligible vocals. They are a band who deserve to be better known by prog metal fans, and really fans of good music in general. Note: Found out about this band thanks to subscribing to Frontiers' YouTube channel
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 21, 2021 3:53:46 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #47 - 1/20/21 The Who - "My Wife" from Who's Next
I used to cover this song at open mic nights. It's a fun little song about a man waking up away from home after a bender and realizing his wife is going to kill him because she'll think he was cheating with another woman. The lyrics are far from serious, the chord progression is an unusual blend of borrowed chords with vocals from the late John Entwistle, also known for singing Boris the Spider.
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Post by wrax on Jan 21, 2021 11:48:45 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #44 - 1/17/21 Anthrax - "Breathing Lightning" from For All Kings Anthrax's recent For All Kings album ranks up there with Spreading the Disease and Persistence of Time for me. Breathing Lightning is by far their best track on the album. It's got a pop music chorus with a thrash metal soul. I bought this album when it was first released but probably have only played it 2-3x in total. I need to give it another go. My personal favourite Anthrax album is State of Euphoria if only for the magnificent "Now It's Dark" and the translated cover of Trust's "Antisocial".
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 21, 2021 14:34:23 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #44 - 1/17/21 Anthrax - "Breathing Lightning" from For All Kings Anthrax's recent For All Kings album ranks up there with Spreading the Disease and Persistence of Time for me. Breathing Lightning is by far their best track on the album. It's got a pop music chorus with a thrash metal soul. I bought this album when it was first release but probably have only played it 2-3x in total. I need to give it another go. My personal favourite Anthrax album is State of Euphoria if only for the magnificent "Now It's Dark" and the translated cover of Trust's "Antisocial". I havent listened to State of Euphoria in a long time. I'll relisten today. At work I wear my headphones all day, so I'm always looking for something to listen to so it isn't just the same playlist all the time.
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Post by beanguy on Jan 21, 2021 23:06:07 GMT
I bought this album when it was first release but probably have only played it 2-3x in total. I need to give it another go. My personal favourite Anthrax album is State of Euphoria if only for the magnificent "Now It's Dark" and the translated cover of Trust's "Antisocial". I havent listened to State of Euphoria in a long time. I'll relisten today. At work I wear my headphones all day, so I'm always looking for something to listen to so it isn't just the same playlist all the time. No phone to answer must be heaven.
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Post by marty on Jan 22, 2021 1:14:05 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #47 - 1/20/21 The Who - "My Wife" from Who's Next I used to cover this song at open mic nights. It's a fun little song about a man waking up away from home after a bender and realizing his wife is going to kill him because she'll think he was cheating with another woman. The lyrics are far from serious, the chord progression is an unusual blend of borrowed chords with vocals from the late John Entwistle, also known for singing Boris the Spider. Love the drumming on this one.
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 22, 2021 2:57:35 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #48 - 1/21/21 Judas Priest - "One For the Road" from Rocka Rolla
First album, side one, track one. Judas Priest's first two albums are very different from the more streamlined heavy metal of later albums. I've been a super fan of Judas Priest since I was in high school, and I have all of their albums, even Demolition and Jugulator. I could have picked any number of tracks from any of their incredible albums, but in the end I am going to go with the track that introduced them to the world.
Rocka Rolla and Sad Wings of Destiny are a lot more progressive and blues-based than later offerings. Ian Hill's bass is more adventurous throughout and not locked to the main melody as in future albums. Former singer Al Atkins' fingerprints are still evident in the style throughout, before Rob Halford comes into his own. This makes for such a unique period in their discography and I enjoy these more bluesy songs and also some of the more lengthy and progressive-rock-like in structure.
The opening track is in 5|4 time for the most part although the main riff is adapted to common time during a portion of the guitar solo. You'd never imagine that this band would one day release Painkiller based on how this song sounds. It does, however, lay the foundation for their ability to create songs with strong yet simple hooks such as Breaking the Law, Living After Midnight, and You've Got Another Thing Coming. Simple riffs have a way of burrowing into your head if done right, and Judas Priest has shown from the very first moment that they can mine sensationally catchy songs from a riff of just a few notes.
I can never get tired of this band.
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Post by wrax on Jan 22, 2021 9:44:36 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #48 - 1/21/21 Judas Priest - "One For the Road" from Rocka Rolla Rocka Rolla and Sad Wings of Destiny are a lot more progressive and blues-based than later offerings. It's probably why I love Sad Wings so much, it's one of my desert island records. I must admit Rocka Rolla always sounded a little flat by comparison with what was to follow. However, it's definitely a good wine record, as it gets better over time. One For The Road is good and my favourite tracks are Dying To Meet You (blues rock a la Sabbath), Winter/Cheater and the title track.
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 23, 2021 4:51:46 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #49 - 1/22/21 Frank Zappa - "Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink" from Chunga's Revenge
With over 50 albums released before his untimely death in 1993 and nearly 70 official posthumous releases, there is no shortage of material to choose from here. I've always been a big fan of his 69-74 output for the most part, from around Hot Rats through Roxy & Elswhere.
In that period is Chunga's Revenge, which contains this goofy little number. Flo & Eddie sing the version on the studio album, but there exists a single solitary live version from Philly '76, sung by Zappa and Lady Bianca Odin, in her short stint as a singer & keyboard player for the band. The two versions are very different in arrangement as well. The fact that it only exists in one live performance that's been officially released makes it a particularly rare song, but I'm choosing the studio version for Flo & Eddie.
That said, I do recommend the Philly '76 album, because Lady Bianca provides vocals for the best versions of Dirty Love and Wind Up Working in a Gas Station that exist on record, and I also believe that album contains the best version of The Torture Never Stops.
It's hard to talk about Zappa and stick to just one song. That's what makes his work so great. Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink is a fun song, but you shouldn't stop there.
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Post by The Ocean on Jan 24, 2021 3:49:40 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #50 - 1/23/21 Guns N' Roses - "Breakdown" from Use Your Illusion II
I think we take for granted nowadays that we have Use Your Illusion I & II, when in the early 90's it was MINDBLOWING that the biggest band in the world at the time would follow up their monumental best-selling debut album (I'm not counting the EP GN'R Lies as an album) with TWO double albums. And these albums were monsters. They broke the budget with blockbuster music videos and their tours, while notorious for their troubles, were unmatched in scope. They toured for years on those albums.
What I appreciate the most was the introduction and prominence of piano in their music. It isn't just in ballads such as November Rain or the much superior, in my opinion, Estranged; the prominence of piano as played by Dizzy Reed and Axl in track after track brings an entirely new dimension to their music. It brings some old fashioned Rock & Roll vibes to the party when their debut album was more Hard Rock/Hair Metal.
Breakdown is an underrepresented highlight in these albums. It is epic in length, has multiple shifts in style, and has some of my favorite lyrics in all of Guns N' Roses discography. All parties are in top form here.
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Post by wrax on Jan 24, 2021 15:34:18 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #49 - 1/22/21 Frank Zappa - "Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink" from Chunga's Revenge It's hard to talk about Zappa and stick to just one song. That's what makes his work so great. Rudy Wants to Buy Yez a Drink is a fun song, but you shouldn't stop there. Absolutely right. Album #118 comes out next month, the soundtrack to Alex (Bill and Ted) Winter's documentary on Zappa. I haven't been more excited by the release of a documentary since....well, ever! The great thing about Zappa is that he never stuck to one style, often alienating old and attracting new audiences at the same time. If I only listened to only Zappa official releases 24/7 (1-118), from Freak Out to the new movie soundtrack, I suspect it would be a few weeks before I would need to listen to anything else.
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