*NEW*
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Today's New CDs:
- "Motorhead - The Best Of"
- "Paranoid" Black Sabbath
- "Franz Ferdinand"
- "Cat Scratch Fever" - The Nuge
- "Musicology" - Prince
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I've been spending most of today listening to POISON - I'm not embarassed to say so.
When I was 6 or so, my metalhead cousin bought me "Flesh and Blood" and my brother "Look What the Cat Dragged" in. Until I started to discover my own music 6 or 7 years later, I pretty much grew up on C.C. Deville's licks and Bret Michael's lipsticked crooning. I still get a huge kick out of hearing "Ride the Wind" or "Talk Dirty to Me", and yes, I'm moved by "Cry Tough" and "Something to Believe In".
You often wonder just what you look like through other peoples' eyes, sometimes I wonder how some of my music sounds through other peoples' ears.
Some music doesn't sound good right away. I usually listen to a CD 40 or so times to ABSORB it before I come to strong conclusions about it -- and usually that's what it takes for me to love a piece of music. I know, however, that when I premier this music to someone new, they haven't heard it so many times - did I overhype it for them? Maybe I've ruined their chance of ever liking the group because I said it was great and it turned out not to be so great.
So yeah, I like Poison. I mean, I don't feel so dirty about listening to Crue or Ratt ... but something about Poison embodies the worst of the area, while at the same time being one of the most fun bands of the time.
It was kind of the peak of rock decadence, like the orgasm of rock and roll - sense didn't matter, everyone was making funny faces, and it was a lot of fun. I think the grunge era was rock's male-refractory period. It was still pretty cool, but it was much less fun.
The Darkness brings a lot of the fun back into, but not quite in the same way. The refer to Queen a lot, but I only hear so much of that in what they're doing. All their music is a kind of strange amalgamation of the mid-70s to mid-80s , which makes for a strange (but refreshing) brew;
JET on the other hand is much more specific - at least with their songs, though not with their album. Some songs are quite clearly borrow heavily from hard rock and metal roots. "Last Chance" sounds just like KISS. "Look What You've Done" isn't quite Beatles, but it's much more than Oasis in that respect. So on, so on, so forth. I like these guys.
Ooo, Iron Maiden!
:: pops it in his CD player ::
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Today's New CDs:
- "Motorhead - The Best Of"
- "Paranoid" Black Sabbath
- "Franz Ferdinand"
- "Cat Scratch Fever" - The Nuge
- "Musicology" - Prince
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I've been spending most of today listening to POISON - I'm not embarassed to say so.
When I was 6 or so, my metalhead cousin bought me "Flesh and Blood" and my brother "Look What the Cat Dragged" in. Until I started to discover my own music 6 or 7 years later, I pretty much grew up on C.C. Deville's licks and Bret Michael's lipsticked crooning. I still get a huge kick out of hearing "Ride the Wind" or "Talk Dirty to Me", and yes, I'm moved by "Cry Tough" and "Something to Believe In".
You often wonder just what you look like through other peoples' eyes, sometimes I wonder how some of my music sounds through other peoples' ears.
Some music doesn't sound good right away. I usually listen to a CD 40 or so times to ABSORB it before I come to strong conclusions about it -- and usually that's what it takes for me to love a piece of music. I know, however, that when I premier this music to someone new, they haven't heard it so many times - did I overhype it for them? Maybe I've ruined their chance of ever liking the group because I said it was great and it turned out not to be so great.
So yeah, I like Poison. I mean, I don't feel so dirty about listening to Crue or Ratt ... but something about Poison embodies the worst of the area, while at the same time being one of the most fun bands of the time.
It was kind of the peak of rock decadence, like the orgasm of rock and roll - sense didn't matter, everyone was making funny faces, and it was a lot of fun. I think the grunge era was rock's male-refractory period. It was still pretty cool, but it was much less fun.
The Darkness brings a lot of the fun back into, but not quite in the same way. The refer to Queen a lot, but I only hear so much of that in what they're doing. All their music is a kind of strange amalgamation of the mid-70s to mid-80s , which makes for a strange (but refreshing) brew;
JET on the other hand is much more specific - at least with their songs, though not with their album. Some songs are quite clearly borrow heavily from hard rock and metal roots. "Last Chance" sounds just like KISS. "Look What You've Done" isn't quite Beatles, but it's much more than Oasis in that respect. So on, so on, so forth. I like these guys.
Ooo, Iron Maiden!
:: pops it in his CD player ::
I used to like Poison a lot. In high school, I'd pretend to not like them around metal people, just to provoke them into saying mean things about them (I thought it was funny that metalheads cared; I didn't think Poison was any sillier than thrash/ satan metal... but they wore a lotta makeup, girlier makeup than Kiss or Ratt, which was very threatening to high school metal boys).
I don't think I'd like Poison as much now... but then, I don't think I'd like Onslaught, Nuclear Assault, or Slayer as much either.
The metal I never got sick of was Ozzy's Sabbath, and early Motorhead. That's pretty much my favorite. I still like a couple of Maiden and Priest things a lot.
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