Silvertide – Show and Tell (2004, J Records)

1. “Ain’t Comin’ Home” – 4:04
2. “Devil’s Daughter” – 3:51
3. “S.F.C.” – 4:04
4. “California Rain” – 3:52
5. “Blue Jeans” – 3:09
6. “Mary Jayne” – 3:53
7. “Heartstrong” – 4:17
8. “To See Where I Hide” – 3:54
9. “You Want It All” – 3:26
10. “Nothing Stays” – 5:00
11. “Foxhole J.C.” – 5:23

Band:
Walt Lafty – Lead Vocals
Nick Perri – Guitar, Backing Vocals
Mark Melchiorre, Jr. – Guitar, Piano, Organ, Backing Vocals
Brian Weaver – Bass, Backing Vocals
Kevin Frank – Drums, Backing Vocals

Produced by: Dave Ivory & Oliver Leiber

Ugh. Hey, I have no problem against bluesy southern hard rock, it’s not my favorite sub genre, but I can deal. But this album just isn’t very good. It’s generic. In one ear and out the other.

One of my dislikes for this band stems from the fact that the local radio station where I was living at the time played “Ain’t Comin’ Home” NONSTOP. You’d swear the song went platinum based on 99 Rock airplay alone and the DJs wouldn’t shut up about them and about how it was a “real” rock record and “the best in years” and blah blah blah. I think 99 Rock practically had a collective orgasm when Silvertide came to play a show in the area.

Based on all of that hype, I bought the album for $9.99 at FYE and felt robbed!

Highlights: “Ain’t Comin’ Home” (despite hearing it a million times), “Devil’s Daughter”, “Blue Jeans”

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Silvertide – “Ain’t Comin’ home”

Silvertide heter gruppen och bildades i Philadelphia 2001 och debutskivan “Show & Tell” släpptes 2004. Här kan du lyssna på hela albumet på Spotify.

World governments the churches and now even the United Nations want to ban punk, sleaze and glam metal

This site will take a stand ….so fight for our right to swear, spit, smoke, swagger, strut, shag, sip, sup, shine, shout, sniff and be SENSATIONAL

This is what ‘the man’ is complaining about…

‘He’ says:

·  platform heels and stilettoes are a vertiginous health and safety risk
·  Wearing a feather boa and a bipperty-bopperty hat to a works barbecue is considered to be a fire risk
·  All those tattoos can cause anxiety and jealousy – especially amongst your less-well inked and less worthy colleagues
·  Loud music can make the delicate bones in your ears vibrate uncontrollably until they explode
·  Wearing make up can can cause serious esteem problems to those who live in a hall of mirrors
·  Parading around in androgynous clothes can cause unwelcome gender mix-ups
·  Wearing tight pants can cause infertility problems- unless the beast is frequently unleashed
·  Hanging about in bars for excessively long periods can cause drowsiness and lethargy and even, eventually, unemployment
·  Wearing cowboy boots to the office is fine but the spurs, bull-whips and bandoliers are now generally considered to be    ‘offensive’
·  Illegal sequin mine workers get a raw deal and are being exploited by glam gang-masters
·  Wearing a black top hat in church is fine for Slash (when he is playing at a November wedding in the rain,) but it causes    great offence at funerals

Et cetera  Et Cetera Et cetera….

Don’t let the world governments get you down

Don’t worry about the churches having a right old moan. Ignore your boss, your ex, the nosy neighbour, your uppity older sister and all the folk down the Salvation Army hall …cos no one can stop you STOP YOU HAVING A GOO-OOD TIME!!!

Because we are the children of the revolution and we were born to boogie.
In the rock and roll year of our lord we came dancin’ right outta the womb… this is our time… homo-sapiens have outgrown their use…. better make way for the Homo Superior

This is our punk sleaze and glam metal manifesto designed to save the world:

‘We’ say:

·  Never mind the bo££ocks
·  Look hot
·  Be cool
·  Its all about the music
·  Paa-arrty
·  Party, Party
·  Loud

THIS SITE will be give you the PUNK, SLEAZE & GLAM METAL news HOT OFF THE PRESS (or a few days afterwards- depending on the size of our hangovers) so LOG IN, BLOG IN and BLOCK OUT the cruel world

See her stroll by

Fading quickly she doesn’t realise

She always looks away

With awkwardeness Its so hard to say

Why wont the world let me be

The one who doesn’t see

yet they don’t understand

When left alone I can self destruct by my own hands

She looked away

Since then we’ve never been the same

Why won’t the world understand

She makes me who I am

She makes me who I am

You think I’m selfish

And I guess you think you see

But the world got in your way so please leave me be

I only need those brown eyes

in my dreams cuz I don’t wanna make her cry for real

And God, why do you steal

When it was taught that you’d heal

She looked away

Since then we’ve never been the same

…

these words are not my own

these are the words that have run through my mind

through my day and through my dreams

Silvertide – She Looked Away

though stone, i still dream

Forgive me if I sound like a complete and utter amateur to the whole music scene in this entry. I’ve only been recently introduced to good music the past year and I can’t believe how much I’ve missed out during my high school years. I would credit my recent obsession to Deegs (especially Deegs!), Ming, Rocky, Wenning, Jack, Jose, Mike etc. etc. There are only a few things in the world that interest me and I tend to give a half-hearted effort to things that don’t particularly catch my attention (for example… school! ahahaha). But music… what can I say…

I’m an obsessive addict and I haven’t felt this good in years.

Listening to Tool gets my heart racing and pumping like never before. I fall asleep with a smile on my face listening to The Smiths, Ride, and Silvertide. I dream of rocking out with Alice in Chains with my air guitar (ahahaha)! Hell, I might even walk to the local liquor store and get some cigarettes and chocolate milk and chill to Rufus Wainwright.

I wouldn’t mind telling Miley Cyrus the seven things I hate about her either (though it would be rude of me of course). Damn teenie boppers.

But after all things considered (my increasing 100gb+ external hard drive filled with mp3s and the recent disappearance of blank CDs around the house), Radiohead is, by far, the greatest rock band to grace my virgin ears.

I can’t really pin point why Radiohead is my favorite band. There are so many things about Radiohead I love so much. I admit I didn’t like Radiohead as much as I do now the first time I heard ‘Creep‘ but this summer, after listening to ‘2 + 2 = 5′ for the fifth time in the same hour, something just clicked and I can’t stop listening to them. Maybe it’s the lyrics (any song that references Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel ‘Notes from Underground‘ automatically wins in my book) or the perfect combination of electronic music, jazz, and rock makes me melt in joy.

But their is one thing I won’t do and probably can’t do. I can’t really compare Radiohead to anything I’ve ever heard before. I know how some people say that Radiohead was influenced by like The Beatles or whatever but they sound nothing alike. There is something about the melodic and ominous voice of Thom and the virtuoso performances of Johnny, Ed, Colin, and Phil which transcends mere thought and into something more.

But this could just be me being overly crazy about random things. You should of seen me when I was eight. I was a crazy Pokemon and Power Rangers fanboy.

Then again, Radiohead does have a bit more substance than Pokemon and Power Rangers.

Bea me pasa una noticia muy apetecible.

El dia 24 de Junio de 2008, una de las bandas con más proyección dentro del Rock Alternativo sacará su nuevo trabajo bajo el nombre The Sound Of Madness. Me refiero por supuesto a Shinedown.

Aunque este lanzamiento no está exento de polémica. Un cambio de formación ha hecho que, a la par de dividir a la banda como tal, se divida otra banda muy amada por los seguidores del Rock de todo el mundo. Y es que Nick Perri no ha pasado desapercibido para nadie en estos (pocos) años con Silvertide. Brent (lider y vocalista) ha decidido reclutar a este joven guitarrista de la vieja escuela (es casi ironico) para ofrecer mucha más calidad guitarristica en este nuevo trabajo. Un cambio de bajista reune todos los ingredientes para que Shinedown sean una banda practicamente nueva.

The Sound Of Madness presume de ser un trabajo mucho más elaborado y con un sonido a caballo entre los antiguos Shinedown, Rock de siempre y un toque (sutíl) de comercialidad que podemos apreciar en su corte de presentación: Devour. Teniendo en cuenta que es su tercer albúm solo pueden triunfar definitivamente o caer en el olvido para siempre. El tercer disco suele ser fatídico para muchas bandas. Me vienen a la memoria grupos que triunfaron mundialmente con su tercer disco (Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, KISS, GUN, Alice In Chains, Whitesnake o Nickelback por citar alguno más actual), que normalmente suele ser un disco dirigido a más público; por lo tanto suele ser más comercial.

Os dejo con su sencillo de presentación, Devour.

Ok, so it’s been a while. I promise to be better about this thing and maybe in the not-so-distant future I will even do a WEEKELY update! Yeah, I know, keep talkin’!!!!

Anyways, I have been REALLY diggin’ two new groups these days. Both of these groups have released two of the most ass kickin’ rockin’ albums of 2005 in my opinion.

First up:

SILVERTIDE

These guys have put out an album called “Show & Tell” and I was absolutely floored when I heard this album. The opening track “I Ain’t Comin’ Home” has all the elements of a classic rock song. Attitude, volume, tongue in cheek lyrics, it’s fucking AWESOME! If I had to describe them, just take everything that’s GOOD about classic Aerosmith, The Black Crowes, Bon Scott era AC/DC, subtract about 30 years off those guys, and you have Silvertide.Go buy this album. My fave tracks off of this one are “I Ain’t Comin’ Home”, “California Rain”, and “Blue Jeans”. Trust me, if you like to rock out every now and then, or all the time for that matter, this is the album to do it to!

This album makes me wanna drink Budweiser and smoke Marlboro Reds again!!!!

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Next up:

AMERICAN MINOR

Much like my boys Silvertide, these cats are a bunch of youngens who have been chosen by the almighty God of Rock to bring the rock to the masses. These dudes are a bit more subdued than Silvertide. While I would call Silvertide a “party drinkin’ band”, I would call American Minor a “stoner thinkin’ band”!I found these guys to be a bit more mature than their age in their songwriting and execution of the songs. These guys are a bit harder to describe but it’s just really good solid rock and roll. Their opening song “Walk On” is a straight ahead delivery of rock if you could “Get Your Wings” era Aerosmith. Matter of fact, if Aerosmith would’ve smoked more weed instead of snorting coke, this is probably what they could’ve sounded like. And to be honest, I probably would’ve liked them better.

The songs on their self-titled album are the same ones that were present on their debut “Buffalo Creek” E.P with an additional number of tracks. There is absolutely no filler on this album. My choice tracks off of this one are “Walk On”, “Cheaters and Non Believers”, “Buffalo Creek” and “Sleepwalking”.

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There ya go. Two REALLY solid albums that I feel no rock and roll lover should be without. You can thank me now but just go out and buy these damned albums. They’ll rip your face off!