“Your number is one, your mind decided, your number is one, you are undivided…”
Without MTV and generally speaking, any media support and striking favorites such as “Low Self Opinion” and “Liar”, the last two albums – at least, up to date – of Rollins made no impression outside his fan base. It’s quite unfair, the 2000’s “Get Some Go Again” and the follow-up “Nice” released next year was two quality Post-Hardcore/Modern Rock albums. Released exactly ten years ago, on 21th August 2001, “Nice” perhaps it isn’t the best Rollins Band album, but it’s a… nice one. And still, I can’t figure out what the f*ck best means?! Harder, faster, bigger, stronger, louder? Whatever!
And actually good songs were plenty on it, just to mention a few: “Up for It”, “Your Number Is One”, “I Want So Much More”, “Hangin’ Around”, “Going Out Strange”, “Let That Devil Out”, etc Read more Rollins Band – Nice (2001)
blues rock
Garage Days
Today it’s a nice, smiling Sunday. And I felt like I have to smile back. 🙂 So, I dig out some tracks that were send to me by Grigore (Oedip Piaf) with one of them songs: “Detentie” (Detention) , and I cut off Serban’s guitar track, I used some parts of it and other parts were re-sampled and I write a brand new theme for them, give life to a new song. 😀
It’s always exciting to work on something and re-arrange it to become something totally different, to give birth to another thing. That’s the reason why I – still – insist on my collaboration without frontiers idea. And the doors for it are still wide open.
“Garage Dayz” is kind of dirty, dusty blues rock song, I’m not actually into blues at all, but this one feels alright. 🙂 Read more Garage Days
Steve Miller Band – Let Your Hair Down (2011)
Well, I’m really not expecting that the emo-generation remember “Abracadabra”, one quite famous hit of ’82, but my generation at least know this one. Actually, Mr. Miller had kicked off back in ’67…
Formed the Steve Miller Blues Band at Chicago, they shortened their name to the Steve Miller Band and they backed Chuck Berry at a gig at the Fillmore West which was released as a live album. In May 1968, in England, they recorded their debut album titled “Children Of The Future”. Their second album called “Sailor” appeared same year in October, and climbed the Billboard chart to #24, successes included the singles “Livin’ In The USA”, “Lucky Man”, “Overdrive” and “Dime-A-Dance Romance”.
The Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits 1974-1978 has sold over 13 million copies and Miller continues to perform successful sold-out concert performances. “Abracadabra” was the twelfth album by the band released in 1982 and it has been certified Platinum in the United States and gave the band a #1 hit with the title track. While “Abracadabra” was quite a more dance orientated song, in fact Steve Miller Band remains a classic blues rock band. The song holds the record for the biggest drop out of the Top 10/Top 40 on the Hot 100. In the fall of 1982, as the song was moving down the chart, “Abracadabra” fell 38 spots from #10 to #48 in one week, on the other hand is listed at #70 on Billboard’s Greatest Songs of all time. Read more Steve Miller Band – Let Your Hair Down (2011)
Trophy Scars – Darkness, Oh Hell (2010)
Îmi dau seama că recomandările mele în mod frecvent n-au nici o relevanţă, lumea preferă brand-urile comode, marfa corporatistă de larg consum, ciunga ulimu’ răcnet asortat iPodului, însă aceşti Trophy Scars m-au lăsat cu gura căscată. Foarte proaspătul „Darkness, Oh Hell” este un amestec ameţitor de sonorităţi de la secvenţe Post Hardcore la Jazz şi Blues Rock, de la Indie realmente Alternative la orchestraţii subtile asortate perfect cu viori sau suflători şi au nervul absolut absent noii generaţii (pseudo) Punk. Oscilează pe o gamă extrem de largă muzical, riff-urile furioase nu exclud armoniile, pianul sau trompeta se îmbină cu cele mai incisive ritmuri şi răbufniri zgomotoase.
Catalogaţi Post Hardcore experimental, Trophy Scars mi-au amintit de geniul celor din Cop Shoot Cop, experimentele avangardiste ale celor din Crass, prospeţimea şi creativitatea celor din Sonic Youth (mai ales cu sonorităţile albumul „Dirty” – 1992), au ceva din abordarea celor din Rollins Band de pe albumul „Weight” (1994), dar mi-au amintit şi de Clutch şi Helmet presărat cu ceva din şarmul lui Tom Waits. Rădăcinile The Beatles se împletesc organic cu energia unor Converge (mă bucur că şi alţii au remarcat gaşca aceasta de Metal), dar şi cu sonorităţile experimental-zgomotoase ale celor din Eels în cele mai incisive şi frământate momente ale lor.
Muzica lor este o invitaţie de a explora lumea dincolo de aparenţe şi evidenţe, o lume ascunsă, vibrantă, uneori întunecată şi îmbibată de misticism şi magie. O magie pierdută, uitată, izolată în subconştient şi abandonată. Read more Trophy Scars – Darkness, Oh Hell (2010)
