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Post by The Ocean on Feb 21, 2021 20:47:49 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #68 - 2/21/21 Oasis - "Cum On Feel The Noize" from Don't Look Back in Anger (Single)
Oasis has a treasure trove of non-album tracks and B-sides. The first four years of their career has these collected in the compilation The Masterplan, but there are also a number of songs absent from that compilation, including their cover of Slade's Cum on Feel the Noize. This cover also name drops a few other Slade songs during the fade-in and fade-out.
There is quite a lot of gold from Oasis out there that never made it onto any of their albums, and I suggest seeking it out if you are a fan.
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 22, 2021 5:16:06 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #69 - 2/22/21 Yes - "Magnification" from Magnification
I've loved every era of Yes, to varying degrees. I even love Drama. Their final studio album with Jon Anderson has several great tracks, but Magnification is the best on the album, and quite honestly my favorite song they have ever produced.
From the opening guitar to that final orchestral crescendo of an ending that can't help but remind you of The Beatles' A Day in the Life. The lyrics are delightful, optimistic, hopeful, and outstandingly beautiful, and the orchestrations elevate the music. The days of mix CDs are long gone, but back when we still made them, this is a song I'd put on many of them. It's as near to perfect as a song can get.
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 23, 2021 4:58:44 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #70 - 2/23/21
Izzy Stradlin - "117º" from 117º
I was torn between this and the opening track, Ain't that a Bitch, from this album, but I think 117º as a track hits all the right marks for something like this. Izzy has been pretty prolific since leaving Guns N' Roses, not that the charts would know it. His project Izzy Stradlin and the Ju-Ju Hounds was a bit more low-key, but this debut solo record hits the ground running and brings a style that reminds me very much of Southwestern Rock, much more in common with the Arizona bands Gin Blossoms and The Refreshments than the southern rock typically associated with such liberal use of slide guitar. No, it isn't because the cover art depicts a Southwestern Desert, though that certainly helps. It's just that listening to it you can practically feel the sun scorch you as you try to say to yourself "at least it's a dry heat."
There is a lot of talent in Guns N' Roses, and Izzy was probably about half of it. That isn't to denigrate the remaining members who are very talented people, it's just that Izzy is a writer extraordinaire, and I don't think it's a coincidence that the band ground to a creative halt once he left. Sure, Axl wrote a fair number of songs, but I think he clearly needed a filter to run them through (without that filter you get crap like My World, which nobody in the band knew about until it came out on the album, and which, like the ninth season of Scrubs, we all collectively pretend doesn't exist).
This album by Izzy is a can't miss for any Guns N' Roses fan even if it doesn't sound like much of their output. You can't really mistake Izzy's writing despite the different style, and you definitely cannot mistake his uniquely gravelly rock rasp, as heard on GN'R's Dust N' Bones, 14 Years, and You Ain't the First
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 25, 2021 4:18:13 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #71 - 2/24/21 Velvet Revolver- "Loving the Alien" from Contraband
Why not go with more GN'R-related music. I used to play this album incessantly when it first was released. I commuted to college at the time and back then we didn't have streaming services that could play directly to your car's sound system. I would have a rotation of maybe 20 CDs in the car with me, and for a solid month I was listening to this a few trips per week.
Scott Weiland's unique harmonic layering, lyrics, and vocals lent themselves well to the musical instincts of Slash, Duff, Matt, and Dave Kushner from Wasted Youth. The result was a rare supergroup offering that lived up to the hype and delivered what it promised.
Loving the Alien is the perfect denouement for such a hard-rocking album. It's melodic, wistful, and overall very pretty. The other softer track on this album, You Got No Right, still amps up the rock by the end. This one stays mellow and smooth, ending an incredible hard-rocking album with a note of reserved grace, yet doesn't at all feel out of place.
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 26, 2021 4:50:23 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #72 - 2/25/21 AC/DC - "What's Next to the Moon" from Powerage
I've made no secret of the fact that I haven't been impressed with an AC/DC since The Razor's Edge, and that even that was their first good album since For Those About to Rock. Brian Johnson was an inspired choice, but after a while there are diminishing returns to a formula, no matter how good that formula is.
But I go back to an album like Powerage and I hear a band that is having fun and being as creative as they can be with the formula. I love the storytelling and journey in Sin City, the syncopation of Riff Raff, and the chugging sleaziness of What's Next to the Moon. The riff is a knockout, the solo always top notch, and the chorus/refrain of "it's your love that I want/it's your love that I need/it's your love gotta have/it's your love guaranteed" sung in such a way to make such facially positive lyrics sound positively sinister in the context they are sung.
Bon Scott wasn't just a singer, but a PERFORMER! You won't hear me argue that he had a classically beautiful voice or anything, but it was exactly the voice hard rock needs to SELL it!
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 27, 2021 4:35:33 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #73 - 2/26/21 Queens of the Stone Age - "In the Fade" from Rated R
Before the SENSATION that was Songs for the Deaf, Queens of the Stone Age released an album which was no less impressive but didn't become a phenomenon like its successor. Rated R is a post-grunge masterpiece of fuzzy guitar, sometimes derisively referred to as stoner rock.
In the Fade contains a lovely and hypnotizing progression, dynamite bass, and mellow vocals singing haunting lyrics. Missing from this version is the crossfade into a reprise of the album's best known track, The Feel Good Hit of the Summer. I seriously recommend this album as a whole. More than any individual song, I think it is a rare modern album that is more about the whole than the tracks.
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 28, 2021 4:40:41 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #74 - 2/27/21 Steve Vai - "Melissa's Garden" from The 7th Song: Enchanting Guitar Melodies - Archives Vol. 1
I bought this album as a new release over 20 years ago, and to this day I will listen to it once or twice a year. I actually became a fan of Steve Vai by accident: I saw an album of his with amazing cover art when I was browsing CDs at Barnes & Noble, so I brought it up to a listening station they had back in those days where you could scan an album's UPC code and it would play 30 second clips of certain tracks. I was FLOORED by what I heard and bought this and another of his albums that day.
Melissa's Garden is a track original to this compilation, and it is gorgeous. I can't describe this in a way that makes sense. To me this song just sounds like a magical spell. It's so melodically beautiful and unforgettable. I will never tire of the beauty of this album, especially this track.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 1, 2021 4:11:55 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #75 - 2/28/21 Joe Satriani - "If I Could Fly" from Is There Love In Space?
I was torn between choosing this or the ten minute epic Searching, but in the end this song's beautiful melodicism won out. That gorgeous almost Santana-like tone against the sea of suspended chords and 7th chords. I close my eyes and I can see the beauty of sandy beaches, green grass, blue skies, and fluffy clouds.
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Post by zenman on Mar 1, 2021 4:48:25 GMT
Don't forget happy little trees:
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 2, 2021 1:54:13 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #76 - 3/1/21 Genesis - "The Lamb Lies Dies on Broadway" from The Lamb Lies Dies on Broadway
Okay, so, this is probably a bad track to choose because this album was poorly received when it was first released, but I've always loved it. Being a concept album, it is difficult to choose a track from the thick of it and have it be appreciated on its own merits without the context of the rest of the album. So, I've chosen the opening track with its swift piano arpeggios, and thick fuzzy bass. What a song, and what a great (in my opinion) album!
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Post by sirrastus on Mar 2, 2021 14:26:17 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #76 - 3/1/21 Genesis - "The Lamb Lies Dies on Broadway" from The Lamb Lies Dies on Broadway Okay, so, this is probably a bad track to choose because this album was poorly received when it was first released, but I've always loved it. Being a concept album, it is difficult to choose a track from the thick of it and have it be appreciated on its own merits without the context of the rest of the album. So, I've chosen the opening track with its swift piano arpeggios, and thick fuzzy bass. What a song, and what a great (in my opinion) album! Not sure I'd consider this a deep track but it's a damn good song.Lamb got a ton of radioplay back in the day.
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Post by sirrastus on Mar 2, 2021 14:27:39 GMT
Darlene Love had lots of hit songs this great soul tune never hit big but to me it was as good as almost anything they did:
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 2, 2021 16:00:56 GMT
Deep Track of the Day #76 - 3/1/21 Genesis - "The Lamb Lies Dies on Broadway" from The Lamb Lies Dies on Broadway Okay, so, this is probably a bad track to choose because this album was poorly received when it was first released, but I've always loved it. Being a concept album, it is difficult to choose a track from the thick of it and have it be appreciated on its own merits without the context of the rest of the album. So, I've chosen the opening track with its swift piano arpeggios, and thick fuzzy bass. What a song, and what a great (in my opinion) album! Not sure I'd consider this a deep track but it's a damn good song.Lamb got a ton of radioplay back in the day. I suppose this illustrates my generational bias then. I just never hear it on the radio and even my friends who are Genesis mega fans prefer stuff before this album. It's hard because much like Fleetwood Mac you run into people with favorite eras of the band. Maybe this isn't deep per se, and in that case I've kind of missed the mark, but I do think it gets little attention in the mainstream anymore, even if it uses to.
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Post by mary on Mar 2, 2021 16:01:08 GMT
Here's one of my favorite deep tracks. "I'm a Cadillac / El Camino Dolo Roso" from Mott the Hoople. Mick Ralphs wrote it, sang it, and played guitar on it. I don't think I ever heard this on the radio back in the day. I remember when I got the album, when this song would finish, I kept picking up the needle to play it again over and over.
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Post by The Ocean on Mar 2, 2021 16:07:56 GMT
Darlene Love had lots of hit songs this great soul tune never hit big but to me it was as good as almost anything they did: I Darlene Love her. The Blossoms were so good!
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