Metal Alert: Finally bought the album after a couple years of seeing it on here. Oddly seeing some traces of romance and [romantic] loss in the album. Feels like a first of the albums I have of them. I kinda like it. Stil full, driving rhythms sweetened by catchy riffs by the backup guitarists and keys, all to top off the harmonized vocals. Soilwork has never failed to make me feel a sense of welling emotions with how they write: Bastian is a monster at executing on the drums when they want you to feel a groove, and how they make room to bounce off the different sections of the band in a studio recording is just dandy. Another example.
Fuck yeah The Muppets. The jug band song reminds me a bit of this from The Muppet Show ... My sister had a copy when we were growing up, but lost it, After she married, her husband tried really hard to find a copy, but... no joy. A couple of years ago I managed to track down a copy of the mp3, zipped it up to Dropbox and sent her a mystery link for her birthday. And waited. I got a call a few weeks later when she'd finally bothered to see what I'd sent. She was in tears for a while. So many childhood memories listening to those tracks so here's a couple more
"Mah Nà Mah Nà" debuted as part of Umiliani's soundtrack for the Italian mondo film Svezia, inferno e paradiso (Sweden: Heaven and Hell [lit. Hell and Heaven]) (1968), an exploitation documentary film about wild sexual activity and other behaviour in Sweden. The song accompanied a scene in the film set in a sauna which gave its original title "Viva la Sauna Svedese" (Hooray for the Swedish Sauna). It was performed by a band called Marc 4 (four session musicians from the RAI orchestra) and the lead part was sung by Italian singer/composer Alessandro Alessandroni and his wife Giulia. The song also appeared on the 1968 soundtrack album released for the film.
C'mon now. Have you seen him live? He's great: he knows a percentage of the audience is there to see him play Cars so he hits it second. Then the audience is pumped and then he launches into something dark and evil and they all stick around. Dude puts on a fun show.
I saw him in Atlanta last year. But you're right, he did play Cars.
old Siriusmo new Siriusmo Sympathizin' with synthesizin'. Also, Siriusmo is German, and I'm passing through there soon. I know no German, but I'm more worried about not knowing French and spending quite a few nights there. The current plan is to continually yell "Macron et les macarons, wee wee, jeh-taimé, jay-taimeeeeeee!!" everywhere I go
Been working on my guitar chops, and I've been going back to some of my idols to get ideas. Julian Lage, god among men We're not worthy Chet Atkins, particularly this RAD fucking album, in which he put bass strings on the lowest two strings of his guitar ---------------------------------- Very much on the other side of the spectrum, I found what may be the stupidest song I've ever heard yesterday: I am... I said, by Neil Diamond.
If you can understand, and really FEEL this song in your heart and your soul, then nothing more needs to be said. If, on the other hand, it doesn't hold any meaning for you, then you might look at this way~we are mere specks of dust floating around in the huge, vast universe. This song was written and sung by Neil Diamond.
-Jan Hots
Aethek - Cleansing. Made for the upcoming game Scorn, which looks pretty intriguing (and is the first upcoming game to make me glad I bought a new gaming rig). As topical now as ever.