So what are you listening to right now? Any genre is cool.
For me:
Scott's Hidden Treasure
Depeche Mode - Wrong (courtesy of Niels)
Kim Mitchell - Akimbo Alogo (courtesy of Jon)
Next week's Album of the Week (hint: think orchestra)
Shinedown - The Sound of Madness
Tags:
I bought the Ozzy album but haven't listened to it yet.
I have the Huey Lewis album.
How is that Richie Kotzen album? He's supposed to play a show near me soon but I don't know if it is still going to happen or not.
And I have the Cheap Trick album. It was given to me by a friend of mine who is a HUGE fan of the band. The band knows him a bit too. Tom recorded a video birthday greeting for the guy's son a few weeks back.
Nice mix of songs on the Kotzen album. But 50 songs over three discs will not lead to a bunch of repeated listens. It’s too long to listen in one or even two sittings. It would have been cool for him to release it as three separately titled CDs.
That's kind of what I thought. I had the chance to do the review of the album for KNAC but passed on it because I figured it would take forever to write a comprehensive review of 50 songs.
Too ambitious.
I don't think Artists realize that just because they can write/record/release a whole bunch of songs at once, they should.
Personally I'm for
10 songs /album (or even 8 is great)
40 minutes length
and at least 1 Instrumental obligation
And for Instrumental albums
3-minute songs (or less)
28-35 minutes album lengths
Exception for Prog Rock, but also restraint should be practiced.
And if they don't have enough material for a "GREAT" album... Then keep writing. I'm sick and tired of albums aimed at today's (I listen to my music while I'm on my smartphone) generation, where every song has to sound exactly the same because people are like zombies. So, the repetitious tone has to flow continuously for them to register. Bands that have variety in their material stand no chance against this mentality. To a droned out costumers they sound like brief Morse-codes.
I agree, 8-10 songs, 40 minutes. That is perfect!
Alice Cooper—Alice Cooper Goes To Hell
Roger Daltrey—As Long As I Have You
Gotthard—Dial Hard
Linda Ronstadt—Hasten Down The Wind
Cinderella—Live Bonus Tracks/Train To Heartbreak Station EP, Live In Japan
Cheap Trick—The Very Best Of Cheap Trick (Scott)
Styx—Rockers
Cream—Wheels Of Fire
Stevie Wonder—Fulfillingness' First Finale
Gentle Giant—Interview
Chic—C'est Chic
Carpenters—Singles 1969-1981
Dio—The Very Beast Of Dio
The Animals—Retrospective
Mountain—Nantucket Sleighride
Triumph—Thunder Seven
Klaatu--Hope
Avantasia—Lost In Space (Part 1 & 2)
James Taylor—Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon
Queensryche—Sign Of The Times: The Best Of Queensryche
(291)
AOR/HARD/HEAVY
1481. Skylark – After The Storm ℗1997 (5)
1482. Skylark – Dragon's Secrets ℗1997 (7)
1483. Skylark – Divine Gates Part II: Gate Of Heaven ℗2000 (12)
1484. Slam – Kapuk Előtt ℗1996 (0)
1485. Slam St. Joan – Saved By Grace ℗1994 (0)
1486. Slash's Snakepit – Ain't Life Grand ℗2000 (20)
1487. Slash Puppet – No Strings Attached ℗2007 (0)
1488. Slaughter – Stick It To Ya ℗1990 (30)
1489. Slaughter – Fear No Evil ℗1995 (25)
1490. Slaughter – Revolution ℗1997 (16)
1491. Slaughter – Back To Reality ℗1999 (19)
1492. Slave Raider – Take The World By Storm ℗1986/©1988 (1)
1493. Slave Raider – Bigger, Badder & Bolder ℗1990 (15)
1494. Sleeze Beez – Screwed Blued & Tattooed ℗1989/©1990 (1)
1495. Slik Toxik – Doin' The Nasty ℗1991/©1992 (5)
1496. Smirnov, Andrey – Тонкая Грань ℗2013 (0)
1497. Smith, Stuart – Heaven And Earth ℗1998/©1999 (8)
1498. Smolski, Victor & The Whiterussian Symphony Orchestra – The Heretic ℗2000 (17)
1499. Snake Charmer – Smoke And Mirrors ℗1993 (1)
1500. Snakegod – Invitation ℗2001 (10)
($1252.73 - $1767.72)
I have the Sleeze Beez album and I think I have the Stick It You Ya album from Slaughter.
162. Buck Owens - All-Time Greatest Hits Volume 1
163. Buck Owens - All-Time Greatest Hits Volume 2
164. Styx - The Mission
165. George Strait - Chill Of An Early Fall
166. Stone Sour - Get Inside CD Single
167. Chris Rea - The Road To Hell
168. The Jason Bonham Band - In The Name Of My Father - The Zepset
169. Carly Simon - Anticipation
170. Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
171. A-Ha - Memorial Beach
172. Soil Work - Stabbing The Drama
173. The Human League - Romantic?
174. Waylon Jennings - The Lost Nashville Sessions
Wow, we have nothing in common at all this week except for the fact that we both had eclectic listening weeks.
This is what I was listening to last week:
Journey - Raised On Radio
Mike Tramp - Museum
The Irish Rovers - The Best of the Irish Rovers
The Irish Rovers - Upon A Shamrock Shore - Songs of Ireland and the Irish
Various Artists - Pub Songs of Ireland - A Collection of Irish Drinking Ballads
Halford - Made of Metal
Kenny Rogers - 20th Century Masters - The Best of Kenny Rogers: The Millenium Collection
Kenny Rogers - 20 Great Years
Hayley Mills - Let's Get Together With Hayley Mills
Blind Guardian - Live
I've already listened to a lot of music this week so I figured I'd put in this portion of the listing now.
Warren Zevon - The Wind
Joe Satriani - Is There Love In Space?
Joe Satriani - Strange Beautiful Music
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind
The Statler Brothers - The Best of The Statler Brothers
Metal Church - XI
Dio - Magica
Styx - Kilroy Was Here
Savatage - Edge of Thorns
Savatage - Handful of Rain
Savatage - The Wake of Magellan
Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
Savatage - Poets & Madmen
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Beethoven's Last Night
There are no birthdays today
Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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