After another listen. Would have loved this album as an instrumental - really good music. My initial comment still stands. Don't like the vocals. Also would have liked if they pulled the bass up in the mix. A little too far down in the mix for me.
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Fair points. I like the variation that having 3 vocalists each with different styles (4 if you go back to their earlier releases) brings to their music, but I get that it is not for everyone. Like Gojira, they have moved away from growling to mostly clean vocals, which has alienated some fans, but found plenty of new ones. I just love the experimentation - I am so impressed with bands that evolve, even when not everything "works". Thanks for giving it a second listen.
Can't get into Mastodon either. Can't really explain why, other then the music just does not move me. It's inexplicable considering they check a lot of boxes for me.
I imagine it is a vocal thing with you as well as you said in an earlier thread that you were not a fan of guttural vocals. As I mentioned to @RUevolution36 there is much less of that on this album, but I get it that their vocals are not everyone's cup of tea. Have you listened to the new Jerry Cantrell solo album yet? For the most part not as intense as AIC, but entertaining none the less. Looking forward to seeing him this April.
I have not, and I have to. Currently listening to a band out of Belgium called Cowboys and Aliens, which is classified as stoner rock. Much of my favorite old (and new to me) music is what is deemed "stoner rock." Weird thing is I am not, nor have I ever been a stoner.
Saw Jerry Cantrell solo tour (think it was Degradation Trip tour). For some reason, he was opening for Nickelback. I hung out for less than 1/2 of a Nickelback song and when running for the exit.
Way back in the 1970s and into the 1980s, I was and still am a fan of the Grateful Dead. For whatever reasons, it seems people make assumptions of who or what you are. In my opinion, The Grateful Dead made some great music. However, people make assumptions and assume certain things. I often had to convince people that I didn’t smoke pot and was not into drugs at all because I enjoyed their music. The labeling of musical groups and also those who enjoy their music has become ridiculous. The ironic thing is that most musicians and musical groups despise labels.
Yes. Lemmy used to come on stage with Motorhead and say something like, "we are Motorhead, and we play rock and roll." Same sentiment. Love them or hate them, for some reason, I know a lot of people who like them that are not "metal-heads," wear denim or leather jackets, and just enjoy the music for what it is. I had the pleasure of seeing Motorhead live in a small nightclub back in 1992, and it was fantastic. Perhaps it is the energy of the band and the reaction of the crowd at metal, hard rock and punk shows that I find interesting and enjoyable. Many have asked "what is wrong with you?" for listening to "that kind of music." LOL. My brother is a huge and stereotypical Deadhead. I like some of their music and recognize them as a band of great musicians.
I just saw Clutch last week at Starland, they put on a great show. I only got into them somewhat recently. About a year ago I was plowing snow around 3am and Spacegrass was played on the radio. The feeling of that song was perfect for the setting, just slowly driving around in circles by myself in the middle of the night with nobody else on the road, and I had just recently become an astronomy nerd so I loved all the space references. I did a Google search to figure out what that song was, and then played it continuously for like the next half hour.
Ha, same here. Are you familiar with the website www.doomcharts.com? If not, it might be something worth checking out. Every month they come out with a list of their top 25 new albums. There's always a mix of some heavy stuff, some psychadelic type stuff, and a lot in between.
Thanks for the tip. Will check that site out.
How was the show?-- I see you saw great. What a setlist!
During Superstorm Sandy, I ran into Dave Wydorff in the Fair Haven Acme, and I don't get starstruck, but I was like Cousin Eddie in Vegas Vacation when he met Wayne Newton. Not exactly, but I just said something like thanks for all the great music, man.
Gotta ask about Clutch and Spacegrass- Did you have Jesus on the dashboard? 😉 That's a go to song.
Neil Fallon's lyrics are all over the place. Even the other guys in the band will say they have no idea what the word soup means if anything. I recently got into Pitchforks and Lost Needles album, and my favorite track is Juggernaut. The album is very heavy. But back to the lyrics, I swore it was some anti George W Bush song with the lyrics
American dream
Turns to dust
....
Points of light
Quickly fade
.....
This is it,
We've reached the border
This is it,
The New World Order.
Before reading the lyrics, thought he was singing Georgie-porgy, but the chorus is actually a song from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World:
Orgy-Porgy, Ford and fun
Kiss the girls and make them One.
Boys at one with girls at peace;
Orgy-Porgy gives release.
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Great tunes for riding through the woods alone on my mountain bike. Life is good.
Band of Cats? Looks like half the avatars on this site!
I listen to the Dead more than any other band and probably more than anyone on this thread but I never considered myself a Deadhead. That's a whole lifestyle thing, I just like the music. I listen to punk, metal, jazz, funk. I just like good music and different styles for different times/moods. That's what I like most about the Dead, they mix it up a lot. Every show was different and I went to about 25 of them.
Real deadheads only listen to the Dead and don't really know much about other music. I know a lot of them, It's kind of crazy talking to them sometimes because it's like they don't even know other bands exist.
The show was great, and so were the openers. Stoner is a new band with one of the guys from Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age. I thought their album was boring but they put on a good show. The other opener was a local band that I believe is somewhat well known around the country in the stoner rock genre--The Atomic Bitchwax. Someone else was supposed to open the show and wasn't able to, so The Atomic Bitchwax was called only a few hours before the show but they got it together and put on a good set.
Fittingly, I won free tickets to the show from WSOU, same radio station that introduced me to Spacegrass. But nah there was no Jesus on my dashboard and I wasn't in a Dodge Swinger either haha.
I haven't checked out that album yet but that Juggernaut song is cool, I'll have to check it out.
As John Winger said in Stripes:
QOTSA were never the same after Josh Homme kicked Oliveri out. Brant Bjork also played on a bunch of Fu Manchu's albums.
The Atomic Bitchwax has been on my radar screen for a while--listening to their new album (2020) now, and it is good. It was tracked 2 miles from my office at a small studio in Edison!
WSOU! Don't listen as much any more, but that station was a staple in the early 1990's, and I won more tickets than I can remember from them. When my son was considering colleges that have Physician Assistant degree programs, Seton Hall was on the list, and on the visit I asked our tour guide to take us by the station.
I posted about this station before, but give Crucial Velocity radio a listen out of Canada- I listen on the TuneIn app. Think you will like what they play--a lot of Clutch, and a lot of more obscure stuff from classic bands like Judas Priest and Black Sabbath.
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Ha yeah I grew up in Iselin just off Oak Tree Road by the Edison border, also very close to that studio.As John Winger said in Stripes:
QOTSA were never the same after Josh Homme kicked Oliveri out. Brant Bjork also played on a bunch of Fu Manchu's albums.
The Atomic Bitchwax has been on my radar screen for a while--listening to their new album (2020) now, and it is good. It was tracked 2 miles from my office at a small studio in Edison!
WSOU! Don't listen as much any more, but that station was a staple in the early 1990's, and I won more tickets than I can remember from them. When my son was considering colleges that have Physician Assistant degree programs, Seton Hall was on the list, and on the visit I asked our tour guide to take us by the station.
I posted about this station before, but give Crucial Velocity radio a listen out of Canada- I listen on the TuneIn app. Think you will like what they play--a lot of Clutch, and a lot of more obscure stuff from classic bands like Judas Priest and Black Sabbath.
Crucial Velocity Radio | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn
Crucial Velocity Radio - Serving up killer tunes since 2013, Crucial Velocity Radio airs the best Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Thrash and Hardcore from yesterday and today. Located in beautiful Milverton, Ontario, Canada, this station attracts listeners from around the world who...tunein.com
I really only listen to the radio when I'm at work, normally I'm either going through the latest doom charts list or listening to my ipod plugged into my car. Just happened to be listening when they did one of those "caller ____ wins a pair of free tickets to see Clutch" contests. I did check out that station you mentioned last time and I have it bookmarked now, thanks!
Dinosaur Jr.'s new album Sweep It Into Space didn't disappoint.
I'm enjoying it right now.
J Mascis is god.
I love horn-infused R&B/Rock. IMO, the horns need to be more prominent in the mix. His vocal affect here is not great (again, IMO).
Like this one much better for the singing and the horns in the mix.
Thanks for posting this. Huge fan of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, and always looking for similar bands with horns.
New release by Coldxman, aka, Coleman Hughes. Video is provocative and gory, but well done. Coleman Hughes is primarily a writer and podcast host, who graduated from Columbia University.
Been checking out more of their music. Here is an excellent live performance-lead singer is flamboyant. Coming to Asbury Park Summer Stage June 11, 2022!
Yes, they have a very good sound. Paul Janeway is the singer and he has a great voice , very much in that Stax, Fame label Soul/R&B stuff from way back when. That kind of retro classic R&B, Soul sound is popular these days . Many groups are providing a fresh, updated take on that style , which is great in my opinion. They were going to tour last summer with one of my favorite contemporary bands, The Tedeschi Trucks Band, but that fell through…might have been COVID related. Tedeschi Trucks is fronted by soul/blues singer Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks (one of the top players in the business). They are wife & husband. They are a big 11 piece band with horns, backup singers, keyboards, etc. They are one of the best live musical acts out there in my opinion. Kind of Delaney & Bonny meets The Allman Bros meets Southside Johnny /Jukes.
I'm a bit biased, as a diehard Rush fan, but this is a great new single from guitarist Alex Lifeson's new project. A band called Envy Of None. "Liar". Don't expect Rush-like prog/hard rock. Full album out April 8.
I like the song, but for hard core Rush fans, it's not Spirit of the Radio. Where's the guitar? 😜
Also, not a very good cover of the original Liar!
Agree about Tedeschi/Trucks. First time I really paid attention to them was one of the Crossroads concerts when they did "Midnight in Harlem" - been hooked ever since. Plans to see them live have been Covid-ed lately. Also a fan of St Paul and the Broken Bones.
LOL. No politics!!!
He also did a part I. A lot of thoughts packed into those 2 songs.
From his Wikipedia page:
Marlon Craft was born in Hell's Kitchen in Manhattan. His father is a jazz drummer and his mother a producer for an Off-Broadway theater company. He grew up in Manhattan Plaza, a Mitchell-Lama residential complex in Hell's Kitchen. He attended The Beacon School, a selective college-preparatory high school also in Hell's Kitchen. He also played AAU basketball in the South Bronx.[1] After high school, Craft attended American University in Washington, D.C. where he designed his own major, Urban Education and Social Justice
I'm fully aware of his background. Been a fan of his for several years now. He's a bright kid and a great lyricist.
