Thin Lizzy es una banda de hard rock irlandesa formada en Dublín en 1969. La banda originalmente fue liderada por el cantante, bajista y compositor Phil Lynott.

Thin Lizzy se caracterizó por ser una de las primeras bandas de hard rock en utilizar dos guitarras melódicas a la vez.

Versionazo de Metallica………………………………………………………………….

Rock God Cred Report:

Click here to check a lost classic by Thin Lizzy “Dedication”

Buy “Dedication-The Very Best Of”…a nice starting place for the un-initiated in the Thin Lizzy archives…lots o’ gems!

Os dejo un video “curioso” de una de las mejores canciones de uno de los mejores grupos de la historia (por lo menos para mí). Es el video de la canción “The Rocker” de la banda irlandesa “Thin Lizzy”. Digo que es curioso porque es el único que he encontrado con la canción entera y además es en un estudio de televisión en el que los asistentes miran con cara de pasmados al grupo como diciendo “qué coño tocan estos tíos!!!”.

“Thin Lizzy” es una de las bandas más influentes entre los grupos de hard rock y heavy metal como “Metallica”, “Judas Priest”, “Iron Maiden” o “Los Suaves”. Seguramente, muchos conoceréis temas como “The Boys Are Back In Town”, “Cowboy Song”, “Whisky in the Jar” (aunque se trata de una canción típica irlandesa que seguramente hayáis oído por “Metallica”) o “Massacre”, por citar algunos de los muchos que tienen.

El bajista y cantante “Phil Lynott” fue un virtuoso del bajo pero murió en 1986 víctima de las drogas y el alcohol, después de 17 años en la banda. Por la misma han ido pasando numerosos componentes (por ejemplo, “Gary Moore”), y ya no queda ningún miembro originario de la banda.

Que lo disfrutéis.

I bought some more vinyl last weekend at the local charity shop and here is what I got.

Styx – Crystal Ball (1976)
Never heard this album by Styx before or anything else by them for that matter, except their 1983 concept album Kilroy Was Here which I got on vinyl when I was younger. I remember really liking that album but it being kind of corny at the same time. But it did have some pretty catchy tunes and I dare you to listen to the tracks “Heavy Metal Poisoning” or “Mr Roboto” without secretly smiling and singing along to Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto?

Philip Lynott – Solo in Soho (1980)
Mr Thin Lizzy’s first solo album. I have never heard it before but have read good things about it. A lot of great guest musicians, current and former Lizzy members played on the album including Huey Lewis. Yes, it is the same man as in Huey Lewis and the News! According to the interweb he played some harmonica with Thin Lizzy.

It’s Hip to Be Square!

Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak (1976)

I have never listened much to Thin Lizzy, I bought an album a few years ago after reading a very interesting article in Sweden Rock Magazine. The album was called “Bad Reputation” and was really good. It was not your typical Thin Lizzy twin-guitar rock album but showed them in a different light with some more acoustic and folkmusic inspired songs. The album Jailbreak has to be one of the more classic Lizzy albums with both “The Boys are back in town” and the title track “Jailbreak”. Two tracks killed to death by thousands of pub rock bands. This vinyl edition was quite nice with a cartoon like cover and a cut-out in the TV.

Deep Purple – Fireball (1971)
An album with the classic Mk II lineup of Deep Purple. I am sure I have heard a couple of the tracks on this album but from just looking at the titles on the back I can not recall anything… but I do like the title “Demon’s Eye”… That sound evil enough too be cool…

Echoes In The Wind Report:

Click here to go to EITW to check Brownsville Station “Smokin’ In The Boys Room”, Mott The Hoople “One of The Boys”, Traffic “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys”, Don Henley “Boys of Summer”, Thin Lizzy “The Boys Are Back In Town”, and Mountain “Boys In The Band”

It’s a busy day today, but it’s for a good reason.

Tomorrow, my long-time pals Rick, Rob and Dan come into St. Cloud for our fourth annual Strat-O-Matic baseball tournament. From mid-morning to early evening, we’ll laugh, tell stories, listen to a wide variety of tunes and play a little tabletop baseball along the way.

Once again, Rob is the defending champion. In last year’s tournament, his two-time champ, the 1922 St. Louis Browns, were knocked off in the first round. But he took his second team – the 1995 Colorado Rockies – to the title with a remarkable combination of lots of offense, some good bullpen management and lots of luck. (Even he acknowledges that last part.)

So Rick, Dan and I will try to keep Rob from winning a fourth straight title. For those who are interested, here are the teams that are in this year’s tournament. (For those uninterested, you can skip to the next paragraph.)

Rob: The defending champion 1995 Rockies and the 1922 New York Giants
Rick: The 1976 Phillies and the 1990 Athletics
Dan: The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals and the 1927 New York Yankees
Me: The 1948 Indians and the 1961 Cincinnati Reds

Whatever happens, the day of the annual tournament is one of the best days of the year for me, a chance to share my home and some very good times with my long-time friends. The Texas Gal puts up with the noise and the disruption with an amazing amount of grace. I imagine that our two annual tournaments (baseball in the autumn and hockey in spring) leave her feeling as if she’s the housemother in a fraternity house for graying sophomores.

Each spring and fall, as we plan our menu and the required grocery and liquor store trips, she’ll remind me of something and say, “That’s for the Saturday the boys are here, so make sure we have enough.”

We’ll have plenty of everything we need tomorrow, when the boys are back in town.

A Six-Pack of Boys
“The Boys Are Back In Town” by Thin Lizzy from Jailbreak [1976]
“Smokin’ in the Boys’ Room” by Brownsville Station from Yeah! [1973]
“Boys in the Band” by Mountain from Climbing! [1970]
“The Boys of Summer” by Don Henley from Building the Perfect Beast [1984]
“One of the Boys” by Mott the Hoople from All The Young Dudes [1972]
“The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” by Traffic from The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys [1971]

The most anthemic of these is the Thin Lizzy track (though Don Henley comes close). With its almost relentless guitar riffs, “The Boys Are Back In Town” dares you not to tap your feet or bob your head or pound out a rhythm on the steering wheel. And if you’re in the car, there’s no way you’re not going to turn the radio up all the way. The single was Thin Lizzy’s only hit, peaking at No. 12 during the summer of 1976. Oh, and that line about “drivin’ all the old men crazy”? It’s a little disquieting to realize that if I were anyone in the song these days, I’d be one of those old men.

I always thought Brownsville Station’s “Smoking in the Boys’ Room” was kind of a silly song, but then, it came along a little bit after I left high school and before hardly any anti-smoking regulations came to our college campus: Smoking was definitely allowed in school. But it moves along nicely, boogies a little bit, and it does have a hell of a hook. The single went to No. 3 during the winter of 1973-74.

Mountain’s “Boys in the Band” is a subtle track, almost delicate at moments, that seems to belie the band’s reputation for guitar excess. But the elegiac tone fits perfectly for a song that has its protagonist saying goodbye to his band and life on the road:

“We play tunes today
“Leaving memory of yesterday.
“All the circles widen getting in the sun,
“All the seasons spinning all the days one by one”

The title of Don Henley’s album, Building the Perfect Beast, fits, because Henley darn near built the perfect pop song in “The Boys of Summer.” Backed on that track by a stellar quartet – Mike Campbell of the Heartbreakers, Steve Porcaro of Toto, studio pro Danny Kortchmar and bassist Larry Klein – Henley melds haunting music and literate and thoughtful lyrics into a cohesive whole. And you can tap your feet to it, too. (Or pound on the steering wheel, if you’re driving behind that Cadillac with the Grateful Dead sticker on it.) The single went to No. 5 during its fourteen weeks on in the Top 40 as 1984 turned into 1985.

Hey kids! Hear that odd sound at the beginning of Mott the Hoople’s “One of the Boys”? When we old farts talk about dialing a telephone, that’s what it sounded like. That’s an honest-to-god dial telephone. There are other positives to the song, too, of course: It’s a crunchy piece of rock,  with its chords shimmering in the glam persona of Ian Hunter and his band, and it’s another opportunity to bruise your hands on the steering wheel.

On a Saturday sometime around 1975, I was sitting in the basement rec room, reading and listening to Traffic’s The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. I’d borrowed the album from someone – maybe Rick – and was trying to decide if I should shell out some own coin for my own copy. I liked what I heard and was thinking about heading downtown later in the day to buy the record. As the languid title track played, I heard the door at the top of the basement stairs open and I recognized my dad’s tread. Steve Winwood sang:

“If you had just a minute to breathe
“And they granted you one final wish . . .”

My dad, coming into the room, sang. “Would you wish for fish?”

And from that moment on, every time I’ve heard the song, I remember my dad being silly. I miss him.

Sometimes I think about how much more content this blog would have if it was more of a collective, with multiple contributers, rather than just me but eh– you wouldn’t get “the full JP experience” (Are you experienced?) this way. Ha. Doesn’t matter now. Here’s another music/video dump: this time — stuff from October that I’ve had on lock for a bit, but haven’t gotten around to posting on here. I’m hoping that you’ll get fresh November content within this month. So here we go. This is my October Isht.

George Michael’s “Freedom ‘90″.
I remember watching this on MTV, and then later on VH1. I remember watching the Pop Up Video episode that this was on. I know every single word, and I can still do a pretty good imitation of Naomi’s dance with combat boots and headphones on.  I pretend to be Cindy Crawford when I crawl out of the shower. I still kinda want Linda Evangelista’s haircut. 4:36-5:35 is my favorite part. Clearly, I can name every single supermodel in this video– god I love this song.

Frente’s “Bizarre Love Triangle”.
It’s so simple. While this cover is a stripped down bare bones version of New Order’s single, it really works.

Earlimart’s “Unintentional Tape Manipulatoins”.
Fuzzy is sexy.

Bishop Allen’s “True or False”.
This video was selected purely on its visual elements, as it’s a little twee for me to be honest. But man do I have such a wide-on* for those fringe dresses. And I really want a lace minidress because I secretly want to be gothic version of Nancy Sinatra — so would that make me Anita Pallenberg?

The Beatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)”.
One of the few Beatles songs I actually really enjoy. Just listen to it and let the sense of yearning and urgency roll over you like waves.

The Stone’s “Sister Morphine”.

My Bloody Valentine’s “Only Shallow”.

Young Love’s “One to Ten”.
Another vid pick where the actual tunez are a little whack, but the visuals are so good. Broken glass, blood everywhere– ah! It’s like a Dario Argento softcore film, or a Skinimax snuff film.Yes, I realize I’ve got a sick sense of humor and turn ons that I’m sure only Eli Roth would enjoy. Sue me.

Marvin Gaye’s “Sunny”.
Probably another cover that I prefer over the German disco original.

Holy Ghost!’s “I Will Come Back”.

Thin Lizzy’s “Emerald”.

Pentagram’s “Sign of the Wolf”.

And that’s been it mostly. I know you’re like wait– what about the Halloween jams? I listen to that year round. And I think I posted some great stuff from last year. What? You want at least one Halloween jam? Well here you go:

KXVO’s “Pumpkin Dance”.

Enjoy.

* Wide-on’s been a term that I’ve been borrowing/trying on from Ned of Boner Party. I’m still trying to see if it sticks, and whether or not I like it.

Thin Lizzy

AC / DC

Aerosmith

I’ve had the bootleg version of this 1981 Rockpalast show for many years and am glad to see that it’s finally coming out officially.  It’s a great show.  It always made me giggle that the bootleg had Angel of Death listed as “Desaster”.  It made me giggle even more to see that the official version kept the title the same.

If you like Thin Lizzy, this is a must have.  Snowy White on guitars with Gorham.  Lots of cool tracks on here too like Memory Pain(!!!), Got To Give It Up, Hollywood, Desaster and Chinatown.  Can’t wait to get the official version in my hands.  Release date in the USA is November 10, 2009.

1. Are You Ready?
2. Genocide (The Killing Of The Buffalo)
3. Waiting For An Alibi
4. Jailbreak
5. Trouble Boys
6. Don’t Believe A Word
7. Memory Pain
8. Got To Give It Up
9. Chinatown
10. Hollywood (Down On Your Luck)
11. The Cowboy Song
12. The Boys Are Back In Town
13. Suicide
14. Black Rose (Roisin Dubh A Rock Legend)
15. Sugar Blues
16. Baby Drives Me Crazy
17. Rosalie
18. Desaster
19. Emerald

Buy it from your local indie record store or online at DeepDiscount.com.  Great prices and always free shipping.

Exciting times for Theme Park. This week marks the first show of the Summer season, our First Anniversary and it was our Melbourne Cup Special with a live cross to Melbourne for Australia’s #1 horse race. We ran a sweep for our subscribers, with great prizes, and lots of fun was had by all. But what about the music, you may well ask?  The theme this week, quite appropriately I think, was LUCK.  

We opened the show with Stevie Wonder’s  SUPERSTITION. Stevie knows that it’s easy to blame bad luck when things go pear-shaped, but he’s not up for making excuses. “When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer”, he states with no uncertain authority. Here he is in the studio, circa 1973:

People have a tendancy to limit a person’s achievements by simply limiting it to ‘luck’. But don’t be envious, things aren’t always as great as what they seem, as Britney Spears points out in her 2000 song LUCKY, which spookily foreshadows her future breakdown. Thin Lizzy have a similar problem: They can’t help thinking that the grass is always greener on the other side: Someone else, somewhere else, is luckier than them. The song is HOLLYWOOD (Down On Your Luck) from their Renegade album. Here they are performing live in 1982:

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes can even make a song about bad luck funky with a great piece of disco called, (what else?),  BAD LUCK. The JoBoxers are lucky in love and they want the world to know it. What better way than a song called JUST GOT LUCKY? Bonus: Cute dog in this video clip:

When it comes to love we all know there’s a downside and no other genre does bad luck as well as the Blues category. Memphis Minnie seems lucky in love, because she has no trouble finding a guy; the trouble is, as soon as she finds one, disaster strikes. The song is I’M A BAD LUCK WOMAN. We followed with one my favourite jazz performers,  the wonderful, melancholy voice of Chet Baker singing EVERYTHING HAPPENS TO ME.

I had to include two of my faves: The Verve with LUCKY MAN and PJ Harvey with GOOD FORTUNE - The track is from her album Stories from the City, Stories From the Sea:

Alison Krauss and Union Station sang THE LUCKY ONE right up until we crossed to to Melbourne for the Cup broadcast. Congratulations to BayFM subscriber Annette who drew the winner of the race, SHOCKING, and therefore won the sweep and the dinner for two at Utopia Restaurant with limousine transfers from Bangalow Limousines. Thanks to everyone who rang in for the sweep; filled in a record 5 minutes!- and thanks also to our sponsors.

While we recovered from all that excitement we listened to a little R&B: YOU WIN, I LOSE from Little Johnny Taylor and LUCKY LIPS from the fantastic Ruth Brown. Jason Mraz and Colbert Caillat offered up a cute bit of optimistic pop with their duet LUCKY. Matchbox Twenty aren’t so positive. Their song, SEMI-CHARMED LIFE, indicates a bit of a ‘glass-half-filled’ take on life.  

A song I’ve played before, but couldn’t resist, was LUCKY NUMBER by the amazing Lena Lovich. It’s a great piece of New Wave from 1978. If you want to check out the video clip go to the show on the Number ONE.

Remember Alan Price singing O LUCKY MAN! from the film of the same name? I’d forgotten how good that was. Starring a very young Malcolm McDowell and directed by the legendary Lindsay Anderson, here’s a clip from the film that features Alan Price singing the title song.

Another great song is FORTUNE TELLER. Originally recorded by Benny Spellman in 1962 it’s been covered many times. We played the version by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss from their Grammy Award winning album, Raising Sand. We also included two songs about how much ‘attitude’ influences luck. Lynard Skynard were crying out for sympathy with their song GOOD LUCK, BAD LUCK: “When it’s good luck you’re the last to get it, when it’s bad luck you’re the first.” Ah well, some would call that a persecution complex.  Mary Chapin Carpenter knows how to have a good time. She ignores all advice, to her benefit, with the very chirpy I FEEL LUCKY:

We closed the show with The OJays singing THEY CALL ME MR. LUCKY and then it was a perfectly pitched piece of pop – Rod Stewart’s  SOME GUYS HAVE ALL THE LUCK.

Here’s the complete playlist:

Next week: FASHION. I’d love to have your suggestions for the playlist.

Listen to Lyn McCarthy at the Theme Park on BayFM, Tuesdays 2-4pm, Sydney time.  

Also streaming on http://www.bayfm.org

Tragically also on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/maccalyn

The Vinyl District Report:

Click here to go to TVD to check Thin Lizzy “Don’t Believe a Word”, “Cowboy Song”, “Still In Love With You”, “Dancing in The Moonlight”, and “Me & The Boys”

LA. Traffic.

Just got back from Los Angeles, where I de-installed my work at Tarryn Teresa Gallery. A few notes from my mental scrapbook:

Packing up mailinvoicegetcarsmogged, 2006, plastic and ink on paper, 48 x 66 x 12 inches

Packing tools? I’ll never doubt you again, needle-nose pliers and extension cords! I should expect map pin heads to come clean off by now. I should know better than to rely on the palm sander’s cord. Thankfully, I erred on the side of caution, and it paid off.

NPR and classic rock. Apparently there’s no public radio along the I-5 in Fresno and Merced Counties, or they’re all run by evangelicals. Sans audio books, my substitute of choice was a Bakersfield-based classic rock station. If you could forgive the gratuitous misogyny, you’d discover a playlist spanning Zep, GNR, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Metallica, and Journey. Those bands once inspired repulsion in me, but I think we can all agree now that hair bands made some pretty great pop music. Last week, I heard Thin Lizzy’s “The Boys Are Back in Town” on an early morning grocery run, and it instilled a good mood that lasted hours. So I’m reclaiming this music from the heshers/burnouts/metalheads/bullies who gave it a bad name in high school, and you’re welcome to join me. For those about to rock…

Charles Burchfield, Glory of Spring, 1950, Watercolor on paper. Collection Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, 1959.6.6. Photo by Gary Mamay. Image source: Hammer Museum

“It seems to me, more than ever, imperative that I somehow get these fantasies into finished concrete form even tho there is not sale for them. How we will live, I do not know.”

Burchfield’s final paintings are really tremendous pictures. Some of them are breathtaking. The show is accompanied by extensive notes which provide welcome keys to the artist’s process, thoughts, doubts and motivations.

Nic Hess’ Hammer Project. Pretty great too. Masking tape drawings, a ton of vinyl decals. The placement of imagery in the space was cheeky and unexpected.

Robert Crumb’s Book of Genesis at the Hammer. I always feel the same way after viewing Crumb’s drawings: slightly dirty and tawdry, like I’d stayed at a cheap motel and watched Entertainment Weekly. More of my base self and less of my ideal self. It’s brilliant for Crumb to do a literal interpretation of the first book of the Bible in all its wretched, meaty drama. Of course Crumb can draw like no other, and there’s something vaguely appropriate, like Chick Tracts, to visualize this content in a sensational manner. The curators took pains to point out Crumb’s attempts at historical accuracy in regards to robes and architecture, but his comically zaftig female figures seem excepted from revision.

The historical exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum. I went for the Giant Robot Biennale, but two items from the historical exhibit were like punches to the stomach. First: a small girl’s cape. An internee mother modified a disused Navy peacoat for her daughter. It makes tangible the completely deranged skewing of context (where giving old military coats to forcibly-relocated families is like compassion; where modifying said coat is an act of love and resilience). Second, a massive diorama reified the scope of the internment camp at Manzanar. It was conceived and created by Robert Hasuike, a Mattel Toys model maker. It was effective and, by extrapolation, nightmarish.

Exhibition in Pasadena featuring some high-profile artists from the past 20 years of the institution’s programming. Ambitious show, disappointing reality. Only a few works emerged unscathed from the poor presentation and compromised spaces. I think the less said about this exhibition, the better. So I’ll pose, then, a series of questions:

1. When you’re an artist, and have identified artists you admire who embody rigor, quality, thoughtfulness and professionalism, and you see their work suffer due to poor presentation, how does that make you feel? Do you have similar experiences in your own history so that you can relate to these established artist’s possible regrets? And does this make you hopeful (that you’re not alone) or sad (that even established artists can’t avoid partnerships with presenters who don’t deliver)?

2. Is it the artist’s burden to accept the limitations of a non-commercial presenter? Or is it the artist’s responsibility to push them to expand their capacity and raise the level of exhibition installation and management towards professionalism?

3. When you’re a viewer and your expectations of an exhibition are raised by professionally-produced promotional collateral, who is at fault when the actual show’s installation reads on a lower level of quality, like student-grade?

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On Whinging. This post is a bit more critical than usual, but I do grapple with these questions and criticisms wholly. I’m invested—I drove all over LA on a beautiful holiday afternoon and selected a a few shows to focus my attention on. I don’t set out to be critical of these shows—I try to keep an open mind and hope to be surprised for the positive.

Happy Halloween!

Muchas veces hay músicas que desde muy pequeño se meten en nuestra mente y no sabemos de donde proceden. La que hoy os presento, quizás sea una de ellas.

Bajo “La Guerra de los mundos” se funden diversas imágenes y sonidos a lo largo del tiempo. Los jóvenes cinéfilos la asociarán a una película donde el binomio Steven Spielberg – Tom Cruise, intenta amedrentarnos de nuevo con una invasión extraterrestre, como ya lo hizo Byron Haskin en el año 1953, donde su película ganó el Oscar a los mejores efectos visuales.

Jeff Wayne

Los ávidos lectores nos apuntarán que ambas películas están basadas en el libro de Herbert George Wells del mismo título, que junto con La máquina del Tiempo, supusieron sus dos grandes éxitos. Tampoco hemos de olvidar la adaptación radiofónica de Orson Welles. Pero muy pocos se acordarán de una obra musical, una autentica joya creada por Jeff Wayne.

En el año 1978, el compositor Jeff Wayne decide realizar su particular versión musical de la Guerra de los Mundos, rodeado de grandes de la materia. Para la ocasión contó con Phil Lynott, cantante y bajista de los Thin Lizzy, con Justin Hayward, cantante y guitarrista de los The Moody Blues, con David Essex y  Julie Covington. La guinda a tan magnífico reparto, la puso el actor Richard Burton, que hizo las veces de narrador.

Richard Burton

Musicalmente esta obra iba contracorriente a los cánones de la época (finales de los 70). Esto no impidió que se vendiesen millones de copias de su trabajo. Bajo riffs de guitarra y teclados que nos evocan en cuanto los oímos a los primeros sintetizadores, se esconde una auténtica obra de rock sinfónico, que junto con las narraciones de Richard Burton, envuelven al oyente en una atmósfera de inquietud permanente. Se convirtió en la banda sonora más vendida en el Reino Unido, a pesar de que no fuera al uso banda sonora de ninguna película.

Fue tanto su éxito, que se realizaron versiones adaptando las narraciones al idioma de cada país y dejando inalteradas las partes cantadas. En España fue Teófilo Martínez, doblador muy conocido de la época, quien tuvo el honor de doblar a Richard Burton.

El siguiente paso que siempre quiso dar Jeff Wayne, fue el de representar su obra en directo, pero las muertes de Richard Burton, y de Phil Lynott truncaron en parte su sueño. No obstante Wayne no abandonó nunca su gran anhelo, y en el año 2006, obtuvo su recompensa.

Con un espectacular despliegue multimedia, Wayne decidió combinar para la representación de su obra, intérpretes originales con nuevas incorporaciones. Pudo contar con Justin Hayward y Chris Thompson de la formación inicial e incorporó al grupo Black Smoke Band y al  ULLAdubULLA Strings, que junto con un Richard Burton virtual, e imágenes multimedia sorprendentes, supusieron un éxito rotundo, en todas las representaciones que se dieron de la obra.

Aquí os dejo una parte de la representación de la obra musical de Jeff Wayne ( Si os da error, pinchar en HQ). Espero que os guste.

Y finalmente los más curiosos pueden descargar la obra de Jeff Wayne.

Disc 1 – The Coming of the Martians

1 The Eve of the War
2 Horsell Common and the Heat Ray
3 The Artilleryman and the Fighting Machine
4 Forever Autumn
5 Thunder Child

Disc 2 – The Earth Under the Martians

1 The Red Weed (Part 1)
2 The Spirit of Man
3 The Red Weed (Part 2)
4 Brave New World
5 Dead London
6 Epilogue (Part 1)
7 Epilogue (Part 2) NASA
The New Files 1996
8 The Spirit of Man
9 Forever Autumn (remix 96)
10 Forever Autumn (dark autumn dub)
11 The Eve of the War (mix)

http://rapidshare.com/files/27144854…sc_1.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/27147564…sc_1.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/27149429…sc_1.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/27145640…sc_1.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/27151487…sc_2.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/27159875…sc_2.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/27161370…sc_2.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/27163262…sc_2.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/27165052…sc_2.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/27149750…sc_2.part6.rar

Covers, some are good, some are bad and some are just plain terrible (Atreyu’s attempt at Bon Jovi classic “You Gave Love A Bad Name” for example), but i have compiled a list of the 10 most awesome covers ever recorded.

10.I Will Follow – Fear Factory (originally by U2)
Take an alternative rock classic, add metal… you get this. Great cover.

9.
Hurt – Johnny Cash (originally by Nine Inch Nails)
Trent Reznor’s haunting ballad about drug addiction was seen in a new light when sung by country legend Johnny Cash. made even more haunting by Cash as it was released after his sad death. Reznor said this about the cover:
“I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. I felt like I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn’t mine anymore… It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. Somehow that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure ”

8.
Remember Tomorrow – Metallica (originally by Iron Maiden)
I don’t know what to say about this one, except that finally, we see where Metallica got inspiration for songs such as Fade To Black from.

7.
Antisocial – Children Of Bodom (originally by Trust, later covered by Anthrax)
French band Trust wrote the song, Anthrax changed the lyrics, and Bodom added the tenacity.

6.
Breaking The Law – Fightstar (originally by Judas Priest)
A Heavy Metal classic, with a Hardcore tinge added by Fightstar.

5.
Holy Diver – Killswitch Engage (originally by DIO)
DIO’s classic track with pinched harmonics and double the heaviness…Er, AWESOME!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNR7dksLDks (couldn’t get one that would embed )

4.
Billie Jean – Chris Cornell (originally by Micheal Jackson)
Cornell said this about the cover: “I didn’t plan on it. It just sort of happened organically. I changed the music quite a bit, I didn’t touch the lyrics. And it’s not a joke. I took a completely different approach to it, musically.”

3.

Anarchy In The U.K. – Megadeth (originally by The Sex Pistols)
A classic punk song, metalificated (yeah thats a word) by Thrash legends Megadeth. This song makes it obvious that Mustaine’s trademark “sneer” was inspired by Johnny Rotten.

2.
New Rose – Guns N’ Roses (originally by The Damned)
Similar to the above, but with Duff Mckagan on vocals this kept a lot more of its punk vibe.

1.
Whiskey In The Jar – Metallica (an Irish folk song, made famous by Thin Lizzy)
Thin Lizzy’s version was awesome, but Metallica took this song to a whole new level, possible the best song recorded by Metallica since Master Of Puppets.

Honorable Mentions

Hit The Lights – Black Tide (Metallica)
Lookin’ Out My Backdoor – Children Of Bodom (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Don’t Stop Me Now – McFly (Queen)
Midlife Crisis – Disturbed (Faith No More)
Phantom Lord – Anthrax (Metallica)
Hallowed Be Thy Name – Machine Head (Iron Maiden)

Don’t agree with my choices, leave me a comment, any good suggestion will be added in!

(Bilde er hentet fra hjemmesiden til The Smashing Pumpkins)

Den kommende plata til The Smashing Pumpkins, Teargarden by Kaleidyscope vil bli utgitt singel etter singel, gratis, senere i oktober.
“The first four songs are speaking a new language to me, rooted in the psychedelic music I love but still sounding quite modern and like the Pumpkins I long to hear,” sier Billy Corgan til Rolling Stone.
Det er 44 låter som utgjør Teargarden by Kaleidyscope, de vil gis vekk en etter en og den første blir tilgjengelig 31. oktober. Plata vil komme ut i fysisk format men ikke som en enkel CD, den vil bli utgitt som 11 EPer med fire sanger på hver.
“I think the size and shape of the traditional album is just morphing into something much more in the moment. Four songs at a time will mean I can give my heart over to the music fully without giving away my now happy life.” sier Corgan.

Kings Of Leon kommer med live DVD. Bandet hadde tre utsolgte kvelder på O2 Arena i London. Konserten som var 30 juni, foran 18 000 fans, vil bli DVD som kommer ut 10. november og på Blu-ray 24. november,  i følge Rolling Stones Magazine. Forundrer meg ikke om det vil ta litt tid før den kommer til Norge(?).
Dette vil du få høre og se på DVDen:
“Notion”
“Be Somebody”
“Taper Jean Girl”
“My Party”
“Molly’s Chambers”
“Red Morning Light”
“Fans”
“California Waiting”
“Milk”
“Closer”
“Crawl”
“Four Kicks”
“Charmer”
“Sex on Fire”
“The Bucket”
“On Call”
“Cold Desert”
“Use Somebody”
“Slow Night, So Long”
“Knocked Up”
“Manhattan”
“Black Thumbnail”

Julian Casablancas (The Strokes) soloalbum Phrazes for the Young kommer ut senere en planlagt. Datoen er nå 2. november. Casablancas har også uttalt til NME at den kommende The Strokes plate vil høres ut som Thin Lizzy møter A-Ha. “I have my own personal wish that it would sound like Thin Lizzy, but if they could peer into the future and kind of have eighties melodies. Like a super-tight late seventies rock band but with A-Ha moments, if that makes sense.” sier han til NME.

Tom Waits live plate Glitter and Doom kommer ut 24. november.  Plata kan forhåndsbestilles på tomwaits.com. Der kan du laste ned de åtte første låtene gratis.

Det er bare tre månder siden The Dead Weather kom med sitt herlige debutalbum Horehound, men bandet avslører nå at halvparten av album nr. 2 er ferdig. Alisson Mosshart sier til Spin at hun vil reise til Whites studio i desember og gjøre ferdig plata og at den sansynligvis vil være ferdig før 2009 er omme. The Dead Weather skal spille i Norge 6. november på Sentrum Scene og da kan du sannsynligvis høre et par nye låter ettersom de har spilt nye låter på konserter tidligere.
Ny video fra The Dead Weather. Sprø sprø video.
The Dead Weather – I cut like a buffalo.

Ellers:

Storåsfestivalen har gått konkurs.

De første artistene til by:Larm er klare, Siri Nilsen, The Megaphonic Thrift og Mhoo.

Marilyn Manson har avlyst konserten i Oslo han skulle ha 8. november.

Song.sky utfordrer Spotify og andre streaming programmer, men den er bare tilgjengelig i England for øyeblikket.

Liam Gallagher joiner Liam Howlett fra The Prodigy i studio.

Depeche Mode vokalist, David Gahan takket Chile når han spilte I Peru, en typisk feil mange artister gjør når de er ute og turneer. Men fy søren å kleint.

SOUNDTRACK: DANKO JONES-Never Too Loud (2008).

Danko Jones is a hard and fast rock band, with a one track mind and a straightforward sound.  They deal in excessive cliches (album titles include: Sleep is the Enemy, We Sweat Blood, Never Too Loud, etc) and play mostly short songs.  And despite all that apparent negativity, I enjoy them beyond reason.

Their first full length was a compilation of their early EPs, and it was full of outrageously short songs about big dumb sex (a bunch of the tracks were under two minutes).  Danko’s voice sounds a but like Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy, to give a frame of reference.

Never Too Loud, despite the name, actually changes their style a little bit.  He throws in a ballad (!), and he’s got one song “Take Me Home” which reminds me an awful lot of Kid Rock.   And songs like “King of Magazines” and “Forest for the Trees” similarly slow the pace down (Forest for the Trees is even 6 minutes long!).  But despite all that, Danko still rocks hard.

And yes, I admit that lyrically the disc isn’t ground breaking (“Still in High School” tends to sum up a lot of the themes here), but I don’t care.  Sometimes it’s fun to just rock out.  And Danko rocks with the best of them.

[READ: October 14, 2009] City of Glass

Douglas Coupland is from Vancouver.  And this book (and the revised edition) is like a love letter to the city (although he describes it as a personalized guide book).

When he first published this in 2000, Coupland had been experimenting with things other than novels, but this was the first book he released that was primarily photography (not his own, mind you).  He mixes photos of Vancouver landmarks as well as stock photos to illustrate the varied and multicultural life of Vancouver.

He also includes alphabetically titled texts in which he writes about a paragraph or two or three about the topic.  Most of these are personal insights into the city.  It’s not a work of fiction or even a collection of essays.  It’s more like love notes about this city.

Topics include: Backlot North (how B.C. comes after only Hollywood and New York as a primary filming location); Cantonese (the influx of Asians to Vancouver is astonishing); Greenpeace (founded there); See-Throughs (it’s not named the city of glass for nothing); Whales (there’s a special connection with the beluga–which I got to see when I was there) and of course, Grow-Ops (Vancouver has some of the strongest pot on the continent).

I’ve had the fortune of going to Vancouver and staying with a friend for a few days.  Getting the insider treatment of this cool city was certainly wonderful. I went to a number of interesting places, all right around the time that this book first came out.  I don’t really remember the details of my trip anymore, so I’m not sure if I went to many of the places specifically mentioned (except for Grouse Mountain of course), but I like to think I got to see a lot of the excitement.

Gushing about a city you went to on vacation is kind of silly, but I feel that Coupland’s excitement is infectious.  This quote more or less says it all: He writes that he spent his “twenties scouring the globe thinking there had to be a better city out there, until it dawned on [him] that Vancouver is the best one going.”  This book may not convince you of that, but it may get a few extra people to visit.

The revised edition doesn’t really change all that much.  A few new categories are added (The Big One, The Storm, Top 100 Surnames, North Shore Mountain Biking).  But then a few categories are removed from the first book too (and a few are in the new book but in different locations or with different titles).  The pictures all look a little brighter and cleaner, which is nice.  The biggest change comes in a few of the pieces (many are left untouched) in which he either updates an issue or changes its focus somewhat.

I was a little disappointed that not every section was updated.  Not because every section should be updated, but for instance, there’s one (Wildlife) in which he said (in 2000), “Last summer a black bear cub ambled down my driveway….”  It’s the same in the 2009 book.  Surely he could have just changed that to “A few years ago,” right?

So, if you’ve got the first edition, I’m not sure that it’s worth getting the revised edition   The pictures are better, sure, but I’m not sure that’s enough to justify the purchase.  If you don’t have either, I’d suggest getting the new one (although you can get a used first version at Amazon for about $3).

Either way, if you like Coupland (the writing is fairly short, but it is full of Coupland’s wit) or if you like Vancouver, this book is definitely a keeper.

The revised edition was also useful because it clued me in to the fact that Coupland has made some films (I knew about the series JPod, but did not know he had made a documentary (Souvenir of Canada) and a feature film (Everything’s Gone Green).  So thanks for that.  Now if only I can find them down here.

Nevver Report:

Click here to go to Nevver to check Thin Lizzy “Suicide”

En este episodio visitamos de nuevo a un recopilatorio del 84. En Masters of Metal salieron todos los siguientes grupos:

Black Sabbath
Y&T
Dokken
Zebra
Dio
Krokus
Kiss
Rainbow
Rush
Iron Maiden
Triumph
Twisted Sister
Van Halen

Tambien hablamos sobre lo siguientes temas:

Deep Purple, Ian Gillan, Tony Iommi, Dave Meniketti, Lynch Mob, Randy Jackson, Vinnie Vincent, Lick It Up, Joe Lynn Turner, Hear N Aid, Peter Criss, Thin Lizzy, US Festival, Apple, Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot, Motley Crue.

El podcast se puede descargar en formato que prefiere desde aquí:

O escucha online aquí:

Peter Frampton – Breaking all the rules,
KISS - C´mon and Love ME,
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog,
Heart – Barracuda,
Thin Lizzy – The Boys are back in town,
Boston – More than a Feeling
Kansas – Play the Game Tonight
Asia – Only time will tell,
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger,
Santana – Hold on,
Christopher Cross – Ride like the wind,
Yes – Love will find a way,
The Weather Girls – It´s raining men.

The Vinyl District Report:

Click here to go to TVD to check Thin Lizzy’s cover of Bob Seger “Rosalie”, AC/DC “Gone Shootin’ “, Elton John “All The Girls Love Alice”, Cheap Trick “Surrender”, Van Halen “Dance The Night Away”

Boys are back in town es posiblemente el mejor tema (cuanto menos el más famoso: tenían tantos tan, pero que tan buenos… Cowboy song sin ir más lejos) de Thin Lizzy (Jailbreak, 1976). Cuanto más la escucho más me emociona. Una canción por la que no pasan los años. [La versión del video es de una actuación de 1983, ya con John Sykes a la guitarra].

Numerosas bandas han rendido pleitesía a Phil Lynnot y sus muchachos versionando éste u otras de sus canciones: Pearl Jam, Metallica, Molly Hatchet, Anthrax, Bon Jovi, Everclear… e incluso Huey Lewis (ignoro si Bruce Springsteen la ha llegado a tocar algun dia):

Y ojo a esta versión: The Re-Entrants