Album: Sheer Heart Attack (EMI, 1974) Chart pos:N/A
A few years ago I was watching live at Wembley on DVD with my parents when midway though the show there was a yawn-a-thon solo by Brian May which lasted nearly ten minutes, the song was listed as Brighton Rock solo, which is odd because the song Brighton Rock from Queen's third album is one of their most underrated songs. While the song begins and ends with Freddie Mercury's castrato vocals singing a song about a courting couple on a seaside holiday. The middle section consists of a long guitar solo,which surprisingly works quite well in the confines of the five minute song.
Here's the shamefully masturbatory guitar solo from their Wembley 86 concert.
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Monday, 30 August 2010
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
Album: Bad Reputation (Boardwalk,1981) Chart pos:N/A
Say what you want about the Shrek films the first two had quite an impressive soundtrack, the films led me to discover Nick Cave, John Cale and Leonard Cohen. One of the songs I loved on the soundtrack was Bad Reputation by Joan Jett. To be honest before listening to it i thought she was a throwaway one-hit wonder but when i heard this song I was blown away. The song sounds a lot like the Ramones in the way that its loud and fast no frills rock n roll which is possibly the reason why i like it. It made me realise her music was allot more edgier than I originally thought.
www.megaupload.com/?d=EC6U5NAL
Say what you want about the Shrek films the first two had quite an impressive soundtrack, the films led me to discover Nick Cave, John Cale and Leonard Cohen. One of the songs I loved on the soundtrack was Bad Reputation by Joan Jett. To be honest before listening to it i thought she was a throwaway one-hit wonder but when i heard this song I was blown away. The song sounds a lot like the Ramones in the way that its loud and fast no frills rock n roll which is possibly the reason why i like it. It made me realise her music was allot more edgier than I originally thought.
www.megaupload.com/?d=EC6U5NAL
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina
Album: Os Mutentes (Polydor,1968) Chart pos:N/A
Like Syd gone bossanova.
Os Mutentes (The Mutants) were Brazil's answer to the psychedelic bands that emerged both sides of the Atlantic. Their early music sounded something akin to Pink Floyd circa Piper at the Gates of Dawn goes Bossanova. A Minha Menina is one of the stand out tracks from the album but is at the same time the most conventional, as other songs have a more experimental edge was the band experimented with some rather offbeat sounds. The band recorded an English version titled She's My Shoo Shoo in 1970 that languished in the vaults for 30 years before being released in 2000.
www.megaupload.com/?d=ZQK4B3UL
Like Syd gone bossanova.
Os Mutentes (The Mutants) were Brazil's answer to the psychedelic bands that emerged both sides of the Atlantic. Their early music sounded something akin to Pink Floyd circa Piper at the Gates of Dawn goes Bossanova. A Minha Menina is one of the stand out tracks from the album but is at the same time the most conventional, as other songs have a more experimental edge was the band experimented with some rather offbeat sounds. The band recorded an English version titled She's My Shoo Shoo in 1970 that languished in the vaults for 30 years before being released in 2000.
www.megaupload.com/?d=ZQK4B3UL
Saturday, 28 August 2010
Patti Smith - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Album: Twelve (Columbia,2007) Chart Pos: N/A
Patti Smith reminds me a bit Iggy Pop in the fact that she one of those artists whose appearance seem to be frozen in time. I saw a recent interview where she appeared to be dressed in the same attire she wore on the cover of her debut album Horses. In 2007 Patti Smith released a covers album called Twelve, anyone who listened to her wonderfully reinterpret classics such as Gloria and Land of a 1000 Dances were faced with a rather dull lifeless album which sounded more conservative than idiosyncratic. But despite this i actually liked her version of Tears for Fears Everybody Wants to Rule the World even though as covers go its not whats she's truly capable of, its still a solid cover version.
Patti Smith reminds me a bit Iggy Pop in the fact that she one of those artists whose appearance seem to be frozen in time. I saw a recent interview where she appeared to be dressed in the same attire she wore on the cover of her debut album Horses. In 2007 Patti Smith released a covers album called Twelve, anyone who listened to her wonderfully reinterpret classics such as Gloria and Land of a 1000 Dances were faced with a rather dull lifeless album which sounded more conservative than idiosyncratic. But despite this i actually liked her version of Tears for Fears Everybody Wants to Rule the World even though as covers go its not whats she's truly capable of, its still a solid cover version.
Friday, 27 August 2010
Deep Purple - Child in Time
Album: In Rock (Harvest,1970) Chart pos:N/A
Thieving bastards of the world unite.
I was looking at this article on the top five thieving bastards on pop music and amongst dross like Black Eyed Peas and (obviously) Andrew Lloyd Webber there were seminal bands like Led Zepplin and Deep Purple. For one of Deep Purple's many live staples in the early 70's Child in Time they half- inched the main organ riff from psych-poppers It's a Beautiful Day's Bombay Calling even blatantly admitting it in later years. Still bearing in mind the stolen organ riff the song is still a classic.
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Oh and here's the song where they stole the riff.
Thieving bastards of the world unite.
I was looking at this article on the top five thieving bastards on pop music and amongst dross like Black Eyed Peas and (obviously) Andrew Lloyd Webber there were seminal bands like Led Zepplin and Deep Purple. For one of Deep Purple's many live staples in the early 70's Child in Time they half- inched the main organ riff from psych-poppers It's a Beautiful Day's Bombay Calling even blatantly admitting it in later years. Still bearing in mind the stolen organ riff the song is still a classic.
www.megaupload.com/?d=KCRNKAOH
Oh and here's the song where they stole the riff.
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
George Harrison - Wah Wah
Album: All Things Must Pass (Apple,1970) Chart Pos: N/A
Despite never being a massive Beatles fan I still occasionally listed to the odd album and some of the John, Paul and Georges solo stuff. An album that i totally forgot about until just a minute was George Harrison's first post-Beatles album which is generally regarded as a classic. The phrase 'flawed classic' is far closer to the truth due to its third disc of George and a few famous friends fucking around in the studio. Apart from that the first two discs (in vinyl terms) are pretty solid songwriting wise. My favourite song (and one of the most overlooked) is Wah Wah possibly because its the song which has the most amount of Phil Spector's production trademarks.
Despite never being a massive Beatles fan I still occasionally listed to the odd album and some of the John, Paul and Georges solo stuff. An album that i totally forgot about until just a minute was George Harrison's first post-Beatles album which is generally regarded as a classic. The phrase 'flawed classic' is far closer to the truth due to its third disc of George and a few famous friends fucking around in the studio. Apart from that the first two discs (in vinyl terms) are pretty solid songwriting wise. My favourite song (and one of the most overlooked) is Wah Wah possibly because its the song which has the most amount of Phil Spector's production trademarks.
Monday, 23 August 2010
Frank Zappa - Flakes
Album: Shiek Yerbouti (Zappa, 1979) Chart pos:N/A
Shiek Yerbouti is the better of his later rock albums. Flakes is a standout track on an album brimming with standout tracks. In this track Zappa mocks lazy manual workers while guitarist Adrian Belew does an impressive impersonation of Bob Dylan.
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Shiek Yerbouti is the better of his later rock albums. Flakes is a standout track on an album brimming with standout tracks. In this track Zappa mocks lazy manual workers while guitarist Adrian Belew does an impressive impersonation of Bob Dylan.
www.megaupload.com/?d=HJX2R7KW
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