Videos Of The Week - Classic Rock Bottom2024-03-28T16:01:15Zhttp://classic-rock-bottom.ning.com/forum/categories/videos-of-the-week/listForCategory?categoryId=6060463%3ACategory%3A44330&feed=yes&xn_auth=noVIDEO'S OF THE WEEK: RUSHtag:classic-rock-bottom.ning.com,2016-11-09:6060463:Topic:1401792016-11-09T15:04:28.845ZNiels (Mod)http://classic-rock-bottom.ning.com/profile/Niels
<p>VOTW - RUSH</p>
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<p>Yeah, I know you've probably seen all the RUSH-video's before, and know the songs, but it's my VOTW and I felt like having a RUSH-VOTW, so there. But what can I tell you about the band, that you already don't know? Probably nothing at all. Man, I wish I had gone to the RUSH-concert in Malmö, Sweden a few years back, instead…</p>
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<p>Yeah, I know you've probably seen all the RUSH-video's before, and know the songs, but it's my VOTW and I felt like having a RUSH-VOTW, so there. But what can I tell you about the band, that you already don't know? Probably nothing at all. Man, I wish I had gone to the RUSH-concert in Malmö, Sweden a few years back, instead of going to my youngest nephew's confermation. Noe it looks like I won't get a second chance. Bummer!! Let's look at some video's then:</p>
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<p>CLOSER TO THE HEART</p>
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<p>One of my absolute favorites by RUSH. "Closer to the Heart" is a single by Rush, released in 1977, from the album A Farewell to Kings. It was the first Rush song to feature a non-member as a songwriter in Peter Talbot, a friend of drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. It was issued as a single for Christmas 1977 and was Rush's first hit single in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 36 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1978. "Closer to the Heart" was one of five Rush songs inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame on March 28, 2010."Closer to the Heart" is one of Rush's most popular songs, and has been performed live regularly since its release. It was not played for the bulk of the Vapor Trails Tour (2002), the R30 Tour (2004), and the Snakes & Arrows Tour (2007–08) because, according to Peart, "we got sick of it."[citation needed] The song returned to Rush's setlists during the 2010-11 Time Machine Tour. After not being performed on the 2012-13 Clockwork Angels Tour, it was brought back for the 2015 R40 Live Tour.</p>
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<p>A FAREWELL TO KINGS</p>
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<p>From the same album, but nevertheless a fine video, and that's what counts. A Farewell to Kings is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1977. It was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales, and mixed at Advision Studios in London. A Farewell to Kings would become Rush's first US gold-selling album, receiving the certification within two months of its release, and was eventually certified platinum</p>
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<p>Probably THE favorite song by RUSH, mine of course. This live-version is in fact better than the studio-version imo. One of my biggest regrets is, that I never saw RUSH live. I doubt there ever will be another chance. "Red Sector A" is a song by Rush that provides a first-person account of a nameless protagonist living in an unspecified prison camp setting. "Red Sector A" first appeared on the band's 1984 album Grace Under Pressure.Lyricist Neil Peart has stated that the detailed imagery in the song intentionally evokes concentration camps of the Holocaust, although he left the lyrics ambiguous enough that they could deal with any similar prison camp scenario. The song was inspired in part by Geddy Lee's mother's accounts of the Holocaust.</p>
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<p>From the first RUSH-album I bought, "Hold Your Fire" in 1987. Still I really, really like this album. You always treassure the first RUSH-album you buy, I've heard. It's true in my case. "Lock and Key" is a song written, produced and performed by Canadian rock band Rush. It is a promotional single from their twelfth studio album, Hold Your Fire. The song focuses on keeping a "killer instinct", meaning to kill somebody for no reason, under control. Critics gave the song liking reviews, with some saying it had quality of a hit single, and would make it on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song's music video was originally released in 1987, and was produced by Bob Jason and directed by T. Vanden Ende.</p>
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<p>It wasn't until I "met" you guys, that I started to listen to RUSH-albums released after 1989 (Presto was imo a lousy album, that's what I though, when I bought it in 1989, anyway). This is a nice video. They seem like funny guys (except Peart, maybe). "Driven" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush from their 1996 album Test For Echo. It was the third of five singles released from the album, and reached #3 on the US mainstream rock chart. When played live, the song often includes a bass solo by Geddy Lee, as heard on the live albums Different Stages and Rush in Rio.</p>
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<p>From Snakes And Arrows, the first "new" RUSH-album I bought in 20 years (I bought it in 2010, as far as I recall). What made me a fan again, was the live-tour DVD, released also in 2010. What an awesome DVD!! Talking to you guys about RUSH and buying seeing that DVD made me buy mot of the RUSH-albums, I hadn't bought back in the day. Snakes & Arrows is the nineteenth studio album, and the eighteenth of all-original material, by the Canadian rock band Rush. Released on May 1, 2007, it was their first studio outing since 2004's Feedback, and their last studio album officially with Atlantic Records (at least in the US, where they changed distributors to Roadrunner Records as of August 31, 2011). The album was recorded in five weeks between November and December 2006 at Allaire Studios in New York’s Catskill Mountains and mixed and mastered at Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles, California. Snakes & Arrows was released on CD on May 1, 2007, as a double LP album on June 19 (limited to 5,000 copies), as well as the new MVI (Music Video Interactive) format (limited to 25,000 copies) on June 26. Snakes & Arrows debuted at #3 on the The Billboard 200 chart where it remained for 14 weeks. It was certified gold in Canada in September 2007. The track "Malignant Narcissism" was nominated for a Grammy Award under the category Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The album was named as one of Classic Rock‘s 10 essential progressive rock albums of the decade. It was reissued and remastered in 2013 as a part of the box set The Studio Albums 1989–2007.</p>
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<p>t's Halloween tonight, even in Denmark, so this is a little Halloween-special, but no classic rock, only theme's from some of my favorite scary movies. But first we start with probably my favorite theme from a film of all time:</p>
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<p>t's Halloween tonight, even in Denmark, so this is a little Halloween-special, but no classic rock, only theme's from some of my favorite scary movies. But first we start with probably my favorite theme from a film of all time:</p>
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<p>THEME FROM "ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK"</p>
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<p>I've always loved this theme, from when I saw the movie in the cinema back in....what was it..1981? At the time, I became aware that John Carpenter also wrote music (I was aware back then, that Carpenter was the mastermind behind Halloween and The Fog, and later my favorite The Thing)), as well as creating some of the best horror-movies around 1980, but also Escape From New York, which wasn't really a horror movie, but an action-movie, but being 15 years old, it was kind of a horror-actionmovie, I guess. Never the less, an awesome theme, here played live by the master himself.</p>
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<p>I saw Halloween in 1978-79, and I became a fan. I didn't know at the time, that Carpenter himself wrote the theme, which probably is THE best Horror-them of all. For a few years back, I wanted it as my ring-tone, but my wife wouldn't let me, because she thought it was too scary. None of these movies are scary nowadays, but back then it was scary in a cool way. It didn't frightend me at all.</p>
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<p>But holy shit, was I scared by The Excorsist!! I saw it in late 1980, and for years I wouldn't see any horrormovies. I had until then been a fan of hooror-movies and horror-comics like The Tomb Of Dracula, Frankenstein, Ghost Rider and Werewolf By Night (all Marvel), but The Excorsist scared me so much, that I didn't enjoy reading those magazines for some years. I don't know what it was, Probably becuase it was such a dark movie. If I want to be just a bit scared tonight, I ought to put on this movie once again. I'm probably not as scarfed, but I still have those memories.</p>
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<p>This was probably the first horror-movie I saw after seeing The Excorsist (nah, come to think of it, that was The Thing, which I saw in 1982, but that theme isn't very good, even though it's by Morricone). I saw it at a friends house, so I couldn't chicken out. I guess it was 1982-83?! Hearing this intro, I thought it was yet another totally evil movie, but even though it's scary, and probably my favorite scary movie of them all, I loved it, and I started seeing horromovies yet again, only not The Excorsist, until years after. This theme is probably one of the darkest themes to a horror-movie. Very cool.</p>
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<p>THEME FROM PSYCHO (SHOWER SCENE)</p>
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<p>I've never really been a fan of this movie, but it is probably this movie, that started it all. I don't think at that time, a movie had scared people that much. And this music also started something, I think. From then on, there should be scary themes to those movies.</p>
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<p>Let's end with one og my favorite scenes from one of my favorite Halloween-movies. I almost always see it around Halloween. "They float down here...the FLOOATT.."!!!!</p> VIDEO'S OF THE WEEK: TOOLtag:classic-rock-bottom.ning.com,2016-10-24:6060463:Topic:1400002016-10-24T09:37:08.646ZNiels (Mod)http://classic-rock-bottom.ning.com/profile/Niels
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<p>Tool have made one of my favorite albums in this millennium, Lateralus. But even though, I've bought further 2 of their 4 albums, I haven't been that impressed by those, especially not their latest album, 10,000 Days from 2006. That's 10 (!!) years ago. They have only relased 4 albums in 23 years! Still, Lateralus is a…</p>
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<p>Tool have made one of my favorite albums in this millennium, Lateralus. But even though, I've bought further 2 of their 4 albums, I haven't been that impressed by those, especially not their latest album, 10,000 Days from 2006. That's 10 (!!) years ago. They have only relased 4 albums in 23 years! Still, Lateralus is a master-piece imo, and if you don't own it, run out and buy it. Here's some information and some video's:From Wiki:Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up includes drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Since 1995, Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour. Tool has won three Grammy Awards, performed worldwide tours, and produced albums topping the charts in several countries.The band emerged with a heavy metal sound on their first studio album, Undertow (1993), and later became a dominant act in the alternative metal movement, with the release of their second album, Ænima in 1996. Their efforts to unify musical experimentation, visual arts, and a message of personal evolution continued, with Lateralus (2001) and the most recent album, 10,000 Days (2006), gaining the band critical acclaim, and commercial success around the world.Due to Tool's incorporation of visual arts and very long and complex releases, the band is generally described as a style-transcending act and part of progressive rock, psychedelic rock, and art rock. The relationship between the band and today's music industry is ambivalent, at times marked by censorship, and the band's insistence on privacy.</p>
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<p>Sober is a song by US rock band, Tool. The song was released as the debut single from their debut album, Undertow.Tool guitarist Adam Jones has stated in an interview that the song is about a friend of the band whose artistic expression only comes out when he is under the influence. "A lot of people give him shit for that," Jones explains. "If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault.</p>
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<p>Ænima (/ˈɒnɪmə/[3]) is the second full-length studio album by American rock band Tool. It was released in vinyl format on September 17, 1996, and in compact disc format on October 1, 1996, through Zoo Entertainment. The album was recorded and cut at Ocean Way, Hollywood and The Hook, North Hollywood from 1995 to 1996. The album was produced by David Bottrill.The album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart upon its initial release, and was certified triple platinum by the RIAA on March 4, 2003. The album appeared on several lists of the best albums of 1996, including that of Kerrang! and Terrorizer. The title track won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1998. In 2003, Ænima was ranked the sixth most influential album of all time by Kerrang!</p>
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<p>Lateralus (/ˌlætəˈræləs/) is the third full-length studio album by American rock band Tool. It was released on May 15, 2001 through Volcano Entertainment. The album was recorded at Cello Studios in Hollywood and The Hook, Big Empty Space, and The Lodge, in North Hollywood, between October 2000 and January 2001. David Bottrill, who had produced the band's two previous releases Ænima and Salival, produced the album along with the band. On August 23, 2005, Lateralus was released as a limited edition two-picture-disc vinyl LP in a holographic gatefold package.The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and was certified double platinum by the RIAA on August 5, 2003. On August 30, 2004, the album was certified silver by the BPI. It was also certified platinum in Australia, and double platinum in Canada. The band won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for the song "Schism" in 2002. Lateralus was ranked No. 123 on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "Definitive 200" list.</p>
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<p>"Vicarious" is a song by American rock band Tool. The song is the first single released from their fourth full-length studio album 10,000 Days. Debuting on Maynard's 42nd birthday, April 17, 2006 on commercial radio, the seven-minute song entered the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts both at number 2. It received a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards.</p> VIDEOS OF THE WEEK: BOB DYLANtag:classic-rock-bottom.ning.com,2016-10-17:6060463:Topic:1400142016-10-17T11:41:01.743ZNiels (Mod)http://classic-rock-bottom.ning.com/profile/Niels
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In 1997, Bob Dylan released his thirtieth studio album, Grammy Album of the Year award winning Time Out of My Mind - watch the official music video of 'Love Sick' now, taped live at the 1998 Grammy's. Dylan on lead-guitar. He is/was a great musician, on both piano and guitar, especial accustic. Don't mention the Harmonica, because I'm definitely not a fan of that instrument either.</p> VIDEO'S OF THE WEEK: NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLIATIONtag:classic-rock-bottom.ning.com,2016-10-10:6060463:Topic:1396722016-10-10T06:58:33.556ZNiels (Mod)http://classic-rock-bottom.ning.com/profile/Niels
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<p>Another european electronic "Neo-Prog" (isn't it called that?)-band (especially for Scott), that I've become a fan of in the recent years. I don't espect them to get many fans around here (Scott?), though. Wiki: North Atlantic Oscillation is a post-progressive rock ( aha!) and electronica band from…</p>
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<p>Another european electronic "Neo-Prog" (isn't it called that?)-band (especially for Scott), that I've become a fan of in the recent years. I don't espect them to get many fans around here (Scott?), though. Wiki: North Atlantic Oscillation is a post-progressive rock ( aha!) and electronica band from Edinburgh, Scotland. They are signed to the Kscope record label and released their debut album Grappling Hooks on 22 March 2010. The band currently consists of Sam Healy (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards), Ben Martin (drums, programming) and Chris Howard (bass, bass synth, backing vocals). The band was initially formed in 2005 by Healy, who had played in several bands previously, and Martin, who had moved from the English Midlands to Edinburgh to study. The duo later expanded to a three piece when they added Bill Walsh to the live line-up. After Walsh left at the end of 2009 he was replaced by Howard, although Walsh still appears on-stage with the band from time to time on guitars and additional keyboards, and has produced several remixes for the band.The band are named after the North Atlantic Oscillation, a fluctuating change in the atmospheric pressure differential that exists between the Icelandic Low and Azores High.In November 2009 the band released an EP titled Callsigns EP. As well as containing their own song "Cell Count", it also featured a remix by Engineers (also signed to Kscope) and a cover of "I Only Have Eyes For You", a song made popular by the American doo-wop group The Flamingos during the 1950s. During 2008, financed by Healy, the band recorded and mixed their debut album Grappling Hooks which was released on 22 March 2010 on the Kscope record label. It has received largely positive reviews from critics including the NME and Uncut magazine. Clash described the album as, "a near-criminal stockpile of beeps, buzzes and glitches generously sprayed over a spacious psychedelic rock canvas". However, some critics offered negative views. This included Drowned in Sound who criticised the record for failing to, "hit the heights it aims for". Nevertheless, during the week of its release it was featured as 'Album of the Week' on Zane Lowe's popular BBC Radio 1 evening show. Lowe himself described the music as, "super exciting new Rock n Roll for a new decade".Their music has been compared to contemporary American bands such as Grandaddy and The Flaming Lips, Scottish bands such as The Beta Band, and 70s prog-rock band Pink Floyd. Their music combines elements of electronic beats with alt-rock guitars and "hazy vocals".In 2013 Healy released a solo album under the name 'Sand', also on Kscope Music. In August 2014, North Atlantic Oscillation announced their third studio album 'The Third Day'. The album was released on 6 October 2014 via Kscope.</p>
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<p>Drawing Maps from Memory, taken from debut album, Grappling Hooks, on Kscope.After a busy and exciting 2009, releasing their debut EP and playing shows with the likes of Porcupine Tree, Explosions in the Sky and Cymbals Eat Guitars, North Atlantic Oscillations debut album, Grappling Hooks, is released on March 22nd on Kscope.The band have been described as prog-pop and electro-rock, but really they just make music. The music has soaring harmonies and loud guitars and dreamy synths and heavy drums and strange effects and unexpected changes-of-mind.NAO are the Scottish based trio of Sam Healy (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, synths, sax, percussion), Ben Martin (drums, percussion, programming) and Bill Walsh (bass, synth bass, vocals). They describe themselves as playing their instruments within a computerised wall of sound.Grappling Hooks is a subtle yet powerful kaleidoscope of purring electronics, atmospheric layers and hook-laden melodies. Preceded by single Drawing Maps from Memory, out on March 8th, the album proves that the praise that was heaped upon Callsigns EP was entirely justified.It sounds nothing like you expect it to. But then thats exactly what makes North Atlantic Oscillation so beguiling, intriguing and fascinating theres a surprise around every corner. </p>
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<p>Live @ De Pul, Uden, The Netherlands on 28-9-2012. This is from their second (and my first) album from 2012, "Fog Electric", one of my favorite songs from the band.</p>
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<p>From their latest album from 2014. Actually the best track on the album was an instrumental track. But this is my second-favorite. I hope, there's a new album on the way.</p>
<p>Sam Healy has another band, or perhaps it's mostly solo, called "Sand" that have just released a new album called "A Sleeper, Just Awake". That could easily had been a new NAO-album, because it sounds almost like them. Another album, that might just enter my top 10 of the year. I've heard it twice now, but I need a few more times.</p> VIDEO'S OF THE WEEK: SIMPLE MINDStag:classic-rock-bottom.ning.com,2016-10-03:6060463:Topic:1395542016-10-03T07:25:51.642ZNiels (Mod)http://classic-rock-bottom.ning.com/profile/Niels
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<p>As I've said before, around 1985 I was a fan of the british New Wave-sound, like U2, The Alarm and....Simple Minds among others. Simple Minds probably started out like a "New Romantic-band" as english bands were called, that sounded and looked like....whatever they looked like in 1980, like Duran Duran, but…</p>
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<p>As I've said before, around 1985 I was a fan of the british New Wave-sound, like U2, The Alarm and....Simple Minds among others. Simple Minds probably started out like a "New Romantic-band" as english bands were called, that sounded and looked like....whatever they looked like in 1980, like Duran Duran, but they developed into a rock-band probably around 1983-85. I knew SM from around 1982, but I thought, that they were too much POP-sounding for my taste at that time, but there was something in their sound, that made them sound better to me than Yazoo or whatever my sister was listening to at that time, probably the guitars. I had taped "Glittering Prize" in 1982 on a BetaMax-tape from the TV, and liked it, but it wasn't until I heard "Don't You Forget About Me" on a vacation in Spain in 1985, that I really noticed SM as a band, I should buy some music....by. In the fall, they released "Once Upon A Time", and looking at that album in a recordstore, I realized that DYFAM wasn't to be found on the album, but I bought it anyway, and I'm very glad I did, because that album is awesome, even to this day!! Just like Joshua Tree, it's one of the very best albums from the 80's. Not one bad track on the album, and I love the sound of the electric piano and the drums. To me, it's THE sound of the mid-eighties.I then became a fan, and bought the double-live album they released in 1987, but I only listened to that one, a couple of times. The next album they made, I didn't buy, because I didn't like the single from it, that was being played on the radio, but in 1991 they made a new album/single that I DID like, but it was to be the last Simple Minds-album I ever bought.</p>
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<p>Empires and Dance is the third studio album by Scottish new wave band Simple Minds. It was recorded in Wales, on the Rolling Stones mobile, and released on 12 September 1980, through record label Arista.</p>
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<p>"Someone Somewhere In Summertime" is a song by Simple Minds released as the third single from the album New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) in November 1982. Its performance in the UK Singles Chart was significantly poorer than the band's two previous hits, peaking at no. 36 and charting for 5 weeks. Nonetheless, it has become a live favourite and acclaimed as one of the album's most popular tracks.The song also charted in Ireland, peaking at number 19.Mel Gaynor was the drummer for the song, with Kenny Hyslop and Mike Ogletree being the other session drummers for New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84). No promotional video was made for the song's release, as the band were preparing for a forthcoming tour of the UK.</p>
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<p>"Waterfront" is a 1983 single from Simple Minds, the first release from the album Sparkle in the Rain.Featuring a new, rockier sound, "Waterfront" scaled the charts in various countries around the world, including hitting #1 for two weeks in New Zealand. It also reached #13 on the UK Singles Charts. Today, it is a live favorite and is regarded as a Simple Minds signature song.It features a bass line consisting of a single note (D) throughout.The version as released on 7" vinyl single (and on the original Now That's What I Call Music compilation) differs from versions available on CD. The original single didn't feature the repetitive bass-line that leads into the main body of the song, but had a "one, two....one, two, three, four.." drumstick count-in by drummer Mel Gaynor.It has been used for many years as the song Sheffield Wednesday football club come out to before home matches. The version originally played was a live version, however it has since been changed to the studio recording.</p>
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<p>All the Things She Said is a song by Scottish rock group Simple Minds released as the third single from their seventh studio album, Once Upon a Time. The song reached number 9 on the UK Singles Chart and number 28 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song was featured in the 2013 best-selling video game, Grand Theft Auto V, on the fictional radio station Los Santos Rock Radio.</p>
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<p>"Let There Be Love" is a song by Scottish rock band Simple Minds and first single from their 1991 album Real Life.The song was written by Charlie Burchill and Jim Kerr and released by Virgin Records; it became an international hit, reaching the Top 10 in Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Switzerland, it also reached #1 in Italy.Australian band Icehouse covered the song for their album The Berlin Tapes in 1995.</p> VIDEO'S OF THE WEEK: STEVE WINWOODtag:classic-rock-bottom.ning.com,2016-09-26:6060463:Topic:1390982016-09-26T09:50:50.104ZNiels (Mod)http://classic-rock-bottom.ning.com/profile/Niels
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<p>In 1988, I became aware of Steve Winwood, not until then. I've probably heard him on the radio, but I didn't notice his name until 1988, when a radiostation I was listening to each day, played several songs from his album "Roll With It" almost everyday in a periode. I actually though, he was…</p>
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<p>In 1988, I became aware of Steve Winwood, not until then. I've probably heard him on the radio, but I didn't notice his name until 1988, when a radiostation I was listening to each day, played several songs from his album "Roll With It" almost everyday in a periode. I actually though, he was african-american/english, so I was in for a surprise, when I eventually saw a picture of him. I got "Roll with It" as a Christmas-present in 1988, and I liked it a lot. But it's not an album I've listened to the last couple of decades. Wiki: Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician whose genres include rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz. Though primarily a vocalist and keyboardist, Winwood also plays bass guitar, drums, guitar, mandolin, violin, and other strings.Winwood was a key member of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and Go. He also had a successful solo career with hits including "While You See a Chance", "Valerie", "Back in the High Life Again" and two US Billboard Hot 100 number ones: "Higher Love" and "Roll with It". He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Traffic in 2004.In 2005, Winwood was honoured as a BMI Icon at the annual BMI London Awards for his "enduring influence on generations of music makers." In 2008, Rolling Stone ranked Winwood #33 in its 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Winwood has won two Grammy Awards. He was nominated twice for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist: 1988 and 1989.</p>
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<p>"Keep on Running" was written by Jamaican singer-songwriter Jackie Edwards, who as well as having a successful singing career, was working in the UK for Island Records as a songwriter. The song was recorded by Edwards for his 1965 album Come on Home, and he recorded it again in the mid-1970s for his Do You Believe In Love album.The song was most successfully recorded by The Spencer Davis Group and released as a single in November 1965 on Fontana Records, backed with "High Time Baby". At the time, Chris Blackwell, who produced the recording, was trying to get his Island label established in the UK and was managing the Spencer Davis Group. He was lent funding from Scala Brown Associates for the single by offering a sizable share of his label as security; The success of the single meant that he was quickly able to repay the loan. It was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart in January 1966. In the United States it reached number 76.This version was included in the soundtrack of the 1988 film Buster and was used during the film's opening sequence that saw "Buster Edwards" (Phil Collins) steal a suit from a shop window for a friend's funeral. The song was included on the cassette and vinyl formats of the soundtrack, but omitted from the CD version for 'legal reasons'.</p>
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<p>"Dear Mr. Fantasy" is a rock song by Traffic from their 1967 album, Mr. Fantasy. An extended live version (10:57) of the song also appears on the 1971 Traffic album Welcome to the Canteen. The lyrics were written by Jim Capaldi, while the music was written by Steve Winwood and Chris Wood.</p>
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<p>Blind Faith is the self-titled and only studio album by the English supergroup Blind Faith, originally released in 1969 on Polydor Records in the United Kingdom and Europe and on Atlantic Records in the United States. It topped the album charts in the UK and Canada as well as the Billboard 200, even peaking at No. 40 on the Billboard Soul Albums chart, an unusual achievement for an English rock quartet. It has been certified platinum by the RIAA. In addition, Rolling Stone published three reviews of the album in their 6 September 1969 issue, which were written by Ed Leimbacher, Lester Bangs, and John Morthland.</p>
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<p>"While You See a Chance" is a song performed by Steve Winwood in 1980,[1] who also wrote it alongside Will Jennings. It was released on his album Arc of a Diver[2] and peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1981, and also reached #68 on the Billboard Top 100 for the year 1981; however, it only reached #45 in the UK.The song's keyboard introduction was not originally intended to be part of the song. The track was thrown together fairly quickly after Winwood discovered that he had accidentally deleted his intended drum track introduction while preparing for vocals. He wrote a new introduction on the spot as a replacement.Many radio stations, when the song was released, played the version of the single used in the video, which cut the song's length from 5:15 to 3:55. The edit occurs in the middle of the song, immediately following the lyric "Don't you wonder how you keep on moving? One more day, your way." In the full version, Winwood follows this line by repeating the words "Oh, your way," while in the short version, an instrumental passage follows immediately.</p>
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<p>"Roll with It" is a song recorded by Steve Winwood for his album, Roll with It, released on Virgin Records. It was written by Winwood and songwriter Will Jennings. Publishing rights organization BMI later had Motown songwriters Holland-Dozier-Holland credited with co-writing the song due to its resemblance to the Junior Walker hit "(I'm a) Roadrunner".The single spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the summer of 1988. It topped the Billboard adult contemporary chart for two weeks, and also spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard mainstream rock chart. In addition, the song reached No. 30 on the R&B chart. In the United Kingdom, the song reached No. 53 on the UK Singles Chart.The song "Roll with It" was nominated for two Grammy Awards in 1989, Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal performance. The album Roll with It was also nominated as Album of the Year.</p> VIDEO'S OF THE WEEK: ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGENtag:classic-rock-bottom.ning.com,2016-09-19:6060463:Topic:1394542016-09-19T09:51:40.381ZNiels (Mod)http://classic-rock-bottom.ning.com/profile/Niels
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<p>Anna Maria van Giersbergen (born March 8, 1973, Sint Michielsgestel), known artistically as Anneke van Giersbergen, is a Dutch singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist who became known worldwide as the lead singer and songwriter for the Dutch progressive/alternative rock band, The Gathering, between 1995 and 2007.…</p>
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<p>Anna Maria van Giersbergen (born March 8, 1973, Sint Michielsgestel), known artistically as Anneke van Giersbergen, is a Dutch singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist who became known worldwide as the lead singer and songwriter for the Dutch progressive/alternative rock band, The Gathering, between 1995 and 2007. Currently she has a solo career. The project was originally called Agua de Annique, but now goes by her own name.A frequent collaborator of Arjen Anthony Lucassen, she portrayed main characters in the albums Into the Electric Castle, 01011001 and The Theater Equation by his project Ayreon. In 2014 they created a new band together, The Gentle Storm, with a first album titled The Diary released in 2015.Van Giersbergen has also worked with Devin Townsend, Within Temptation, Anathema, Lawn, Farmer Boys, Napalm Death, Moonspell, Novembers Doom, Globus, Giant Squid, and many other artists and projects.</p>
<p>IMO, Anneke has one of the absolute most sexy voices in rock (and is also nice to look at). I really only listen to her through the Devin Townsend-albums, I listen to, and sometimes she gets to sings lead on more than one track on the albums (DTP). On the new DTP-album, she almost only sings backing-vocals, and in a way, I think that was good thinking by Townsend. Something has to be different from album to album.</p>
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<p>The Gathering is a Dutch alternative rock band, founded in 1989 by brothers Hans and René Rutten and vocalist Bart Smits in the small city of Oss, North Brabant.The Gathering earliest releases were categorized as atmospheric death/doom metal, inspired by such underground acts like Celtic Frost and Hellhammer. In 1998 with the release of their 5th studio album, How to measure a planet?, they had a major shift in musical style, with the group acknowledging the growing influence of shoegaze, post rock, experimental rock and the more ethereal sounds of 4AD bands, such as Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, as well as Pink Floyd and Massive Attack; they expanded their sound, which acquired characteristics of progressive, alternative, and trip rock and gained success and recognition beyond the European borders. The group continue to expand upon the experimental nature of their music.In August 2007 Anneke van Giersbergen left the group to focus on her solo project Agua de Annique. On 12 March 2009, The Gathering announced that their replacement vocalist was Silje Wergeland (Octavia Sperati). Their most recent album, Disclosure, was released on 12 September 2012.On 17 January 2014, the band announced on their Facebook page that they decided to take a break from recording and touring, and also that Marjolein Kooijman left the band. To celebrate the band's 25th anniversary, a show featuring all the current and past members in the band's history took place on 9 November 2014.</p>
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<p>Official music video for Wonder. This track is taken from Anneke van Giersbergen & Agua de Annique's latest album In Your Room (2009 Jammm / Agua Recordings).<br/> Directed by Erwin Arkema, IQ-Media</p>
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<p>Addicted is the second of six albums in the Devin Townsend Project series, each featuring a different lineup and theme. Addicted was written and produced by Townsend. The album features vocals by Townsend along with Anneke van Giersbergen, a former member of Dutch band The Gathering. Brian Waddell and Ryan Van Poederooyen of the former Devin Townsend Band play bass and drums, respectively, while Mark Cimino plays guitar alongside Townsend. Recording for the album began May 6, 2009. The next album in the series is Deconstruction, which was released on June 20, 2011. This is my favorite DT-song.Unfortunally the video was removed, so this has to do, becuase I need this song to be here, my absolute favorite Townsend/Giersbergen-song. (You have the oportunity to see the video here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLgXOz1om4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLgXOz1om4</a></p>
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<p>Another song from the "Addicted-album", and from a concert in London, just recorede a week before I saw the band in Copenhagen, unfortunally without Giersbergen.</p>
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<p>Everything is Changing is the fourth studio album by the Anneke van Giersbergen band and the first released under Anneke van Giersbergen's name, instead of "Agua de Annique" or "Anneke van Giersbergen and Agua de Annique".</p>
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<p>The Diary is the first album by symphonic metal/folk rock band The Gentle Storm, consisting of composer and guitarist Arjen Anthony Lucassen and singer and lyricist Anneke van Giersbergen. It was released on March 23, 2015 in Europe, and the following day in the US.A concept album about a love story set in the 17th century, The Diary consists of two discs, each with the same track list: the "Gentle" side of the album consists of acoustic, softer songs, while the "Storm" side of the album is made of heavy metal versions of the songs with symphonic and progressive elements.</p> VIDEO'S OF THE WEEK: QUEEN SOLOtag:classic-rock-bottom.ning.com,2016-09-12:6060463:Topic:1392562016-09-12T08:17:52.548ZNiels (Mod)http://classic-rock-bottom.ning.com/profile/Niels
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<p>I'm not at all a fan of "Queen-solo". I AM a fan of Queen, but only up until 1980. From then on, it went too much disco/pop-crap and weaker songs/albums imo., with a few exceptions. I DID like (and saw them on the tour) A Kind Of Magic, but some of the magic was by then long gone...imo. Listening to these solo-video's, it went…</p>
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<p>I'm not at all a fan of "Queen-solo". I AM a fan of Queen, but only up until 1980. From then on, it went too much disco/pop-crap and weaker songs/albums imo., with a few exceptions. I DID like (and saw them on the tour) A Kind Of Magic, but some of the magic was by then long gone...imo. Listening to these solo-video's, it went even worse, when they were solo (an exception is the Taylor-song, but that's the only one from before 1981, so there). What do YOU think of "Queen-solo"? Oh, and I had to post my favorite song of alltime, with a little personal story, that I might have shared before, not an important one, except to me, off course:</p>
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<p>"I Was Born to Love You" is a 1985 song by Freddie Mercury, and was released as a single and on the Mr. Bad Guy album. After Mercury's death, Queen re-worked this song for their album Made in Heaven in 1995, by having the other members play their instrumental parts over the original track transforming the song from a disco number to a hard rocker.The song received its live debut on the 2005 Queen + Paul Rodgers tour of Japan. Brian May and Roger Taylor performed the song acoustically. The song was also performed during Queen + Adam Lambert's concerts in South Korea and Japan, which was the first time that a full live band was used for the performance.The Queen version from the Made In Heaven album also includes samples of Mercury's ad-lib vocals taken from "A Kind of Magic" from the 1986 album of the same name and from "Living On My Own" from his Mr. Bad Guy album.I remember this one from 1985, and I liked it, but I was still dissapointed in the Disco-sound, and that Queen didn't really produce great albums anymore. Still a great time.</p>
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<p>"Driven by You" is a song by Queen's lead guitarist Brian May. It was written as part of his 1992 solo album, Back to the Light. It was released as a single in late 1991, peaking at #6 on the UK Singles Chart and #9 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart.Besides the original album/single version, there are three other known studio versions of the song. One was used in a Ford commercial. The second is an instrumental remix of the song, called Driven by You Too. The other known version of this song has a new drum track from Cozy Powell as a bonus track on the US release of Back to the Light.Shortly before releasing it as single, May played it on the Guitar Legends concert in October 1991, having a super-group backing him: Cozy Powell on drums, Neil Murray on bass, Steve Vai on rhythm guitar, Rick Wakeman and Mike Moran on keyboards, Maggie Ryder, Miriam Stockley and Chris Thompson on backing vocals. Many fans think this song is dedicated to Freddie Mercury because of the lyrics and the song title Driven by You.It was released on 6 November 1991, just 18 days before the death of May's bandmate Freddie Mercury.It was used by the Ford Motor Company in an advert for the Ford Escort RS Cosworth, in which Miki Biasion (a ford rally driver at the time) compared his rally car to the road-going version.</p>
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<p>Can't find much to say about this one, other than it's the first single by Roger Taylor, and it was released in 1977, and it's definitely my favorite among these solo-songs (with Mercury's on second place). Taylor didn't release an album until 1981 (Fun In Space), and this song wasn't included.</p>
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<p>This is from a soundtrack to a movie called "Biggles" from 1986: "Biggles is a 1986 British sci-fi adventure film directed by John Hough and later released in 1988 in the United States as Biggles: Adventures in Time[3]). The plot involves a time traveller from the 1980s who is inserted into World War I to help the character Biggles from the series of novels by W. E. Johns and where Biggles also travels to the 1980s to fight time-travelling World War I Germans. The film stars Neil Dickson, Alex Hyde-White and Peter Cushing in his final feature film role."The song "No Turning Back" ny The Immortals featuring John Deacon is his only non-Queen recording.</p>
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<p>Everybody have seen and heard this song/video a million times, but it IS a very important song/video to me. My favorite song of all time, and the first "video" I really noticed on TV. I probably saw it around 1976, because at the very start of 1977, I had became a KISS-fan without knowing, what they sounded like. I had several KISS-posters on my wall for 3 months or so, without knowing the music, untill I at long last got "Destroyer" for my 12th year old birthday, in April. But if I imagined, what KISS sounded like, looking af those posters in the beginng of 1977, I thought about this video, where the song gets HEAVY and smokebombs gets fired of. Well, eventually I found out, that KISS didn't exactly sound like that at all, but that's another story.</p>
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<p>.</p> VIDEO'S OF THE WEEK: IAN GILLANtag:classic-rock-bottom.ning.com,2016-09-05:6060463:Topic:1390352016-09-05T10:51:05.615ZNiels (Mod)http://classic-rock-bottom.ning.com/profile/Niels
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<p>Continuing the VERY populare VOTW-series (<img src="http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad93/ucsycybersmiley/29.gif"></img> ), we've come to the great Ian Gillan. Ian Gillan is indeed an important figure in the classic rock scene. He was "in front" of two of the most important CR-bands, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, and had his own band for a while, and have also made some solo-albums. Well, here's some…</p>
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<p>Continuing the VERY populare VOTW-series (<img src="http://i925.photobucket.com/albums/ad93/ucsycybersmiley/29.gif"/>), we've come to the great Ian Gillan. Ian Gillan is indeed an important figure in the classic rock scene. He was "in front" of two of the most important CR-bands, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, and had his own band for a while, and have also made some solo-albums. Well, here's some video's featuring mr.Ian Gillan:</p>
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<p>Machine Head is the sixth studio album released by the English hard rock band Deep Purple. It was recorded through December 1971 in Montreux, Switzerland, and released in March 1972.Machine Head is often cited as a major influence in the early development of the heavy metal music genre. Commercially, it was Deep Purple's most successful album, topping the charts in several countries following its release. The album reached number 1 in the United Kingdom and stayed in the top 40 for 20 weeks. It reached number 7 in the United States, remaining on the Billboard 200 for 118 weeks.</p>
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<p>Mr. Universe is the second album by the British rock band Gillan, and the first with the classic line-up with Gillan, Towns, McCoy, Tormé and Underwood. Released in October 1979. The album reached No. 11 in the UK album charts.</p>
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<p>Born Again is the eleventh studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, released in August 1983. It is the only album the group recorded with lead vocalist Ian Gillan, best known for his work with Deep Purple. The album has received mixed reviews from critics, but it was a commercial success upon its 1983 release, reaching No. 4 in the UK charts. The album as well hit the top 40 in the United States. Following the departure of vocalist Ronnie James Dio and drummer Vinny Appice in 1982, Black Sabbath's future was very much in doubt. The band switched management to Don Arden (Sharon Osbourne's father) and it was he who suggested Ian Gillan as the band's new vocalist. "That band was put together on paper," guitarist Tony Iommi revealed in the 1992 documentary Black Sabbath: 1978–1992. "We'd never rehearsed." Initially, the project which became Born Again was intended to be a new supergroup; they did not intend to bill themselves as Black Sabbath but Arden insisted on the group using the recognisable Black Sabbath name. The band considered many possible vocalists such as Robert Plant and David Coverdale before settling on Gillan. The band even received an audition tape from a then-unknown Michael Bolton. Iommi told Hit Parader magazine in 1983 that Gillan was the best available candidate, saying "His shriek is legendary." Gillan was at first reluctant to work on the project, but his manager later convinced him to meet with Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler at The Bear public house in Oxford and, after a night of heavy drinking, Gillan officially committed to the project in February 1983. Born Again also featured the return of founding member Bill Ward on drums, who had left the band in 1980 and was now newly sober. Ward has said that he enjoyed making the album.</p>
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<p>Naked Thunder is a 1990 solo album by Ian Gillan, released soon after his departure from Deep Purple in 1989. It features a varied selection of songs, with one of Gillan's most passionate and impressive performances in "Loving on Borrowed Time" and "No More Cane on the Brazos", a traditional tune. The album was produced by Leif Mases and features a number of guest musicians.The album was available only as an import in the USA until 1997 when it was re-released for American market by Eagle.</p>
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<p>WhoCares, full title Ian Gillan & Tony Iommi: WhoCares is a music project by Deep Purple frontman Ian Gillan and Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi and a charity release by the supergroup WhoCares they had formed with the help of other musicians, to raise money to rebuild a music school in Gyumri, Armenia after the destruction of the city in the 1988 earthquake in Armenia.In addition to Ian Gillan and Tony Iommi (who were Black Sabbath bandmates from 1983-1984), many artists took part in the charity music project including Jon Lord (Ian Gillan's then-Deep Purple bandmate), ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain, and HIM guitarist Mikko "Linde" Lindström.In addition to the 2-track single "Out of My Mind / Holy Water" released in 2011, the 2-CD album contains in addition to previously recorded songs from various bands, rarities and unreleased material as well. The album was released on 13 July 2012 in Europe and in North America on 28 August 2012</p>