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[Trollheart]

Sunday rolls around again (isn't it funny how that ALWAYS happens?) and the pickings are once more a little thin on the ground in the world of music journals. Here's what we have for you this week:

Mr Dave is going through something, it would seem, of a personal epiphany, telling himself his journal is going nowhere, or has gone as far as it can. I would hope he would rethink this, as his deep and often conflicting but always interesting thoughts on everything from music to life to religion to politics is always a good read. Don't lose heart, Dave! We want more! Show him you care by hitting this link http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-jam-room.html

Poor Old Po has a video from O Emperor and asks if it could be seen as psychedelic music? Give your opinions here http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ychedelia.html

Man! That brings us around to me, already! Things are getting bad when I'm so far up in the update. Anyway, I've tried to keep busy this week, so in my main journal, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html you'll find reviews of the soundtrack to the new movie “Lawless”, featuring Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Tony Banks's 1979 debut “A curious feeling”, Alicia Keys's album “As I am” and a weird collaboration between David Gilmour and The Orb... While in my other journal, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html we have reviews of albums from, well, Nanci Griffith and Ivyrise. Hey, I'm doing my best!

Someone else doing his best is Unknown Soldier, powering through 1970 in his http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html with albums from Free, Sabbath, Deep Purple and, er, Sir Lord Baltimore? Check it out!

That, once again, is the sum total for this month. A few journals had posts but no actual specific entries, so I've ignored them. Hopefully next week there'll be more to report. Until then, don't you want to know what the 70s were like, especially if you weren't born by then? You know where to head! Toodles!

[surfhard]

BongoJazz here i am sorry about me being cocky here I hope my apology gets accepted

If it is no good i will leave you all in peace....and love

[Burning Down]

Originally Posted by surfhard

BongoJazz here i am sorry about me being cocky here I hope my apology gets accepted

If it is no good i will leave you all in peace....and love

You know that multiple accounts aren't allowed here, right. Besides you were only banned for like a week or something, you couldn't wait that long to come back and apologize then?

[Unknown Soldier]

Have now added/adding a 10 album taster for my journal of albums from the 1967 and 1968 time period, to add greater depth to the journal.

[Trollheart]

Well, seems this week there are only three of us flyin' the flag for members' journals, and that's Unknown Soldier, Anteater and yours truly. Makes life easier for me, doing this update, but kind of restricts what new posts you guys can read. Oh well, such is life, so here is what's new in the world of music journals this week.

Anteater has a review of Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes' 1975 album “Visions of a new world”. Never heard of it? Me neither, but Ant will explain all if you step this way. http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ed-masses.html

Hey! Nearly at the top of the tree! So, in my main journal, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html we have a review of the new Threshold album, five years in the making, The Alan Parsons Project's 1977 less-than-opus “I robot”, plus the return of “The Secret Life of the Album Cover”, featuring Maiden's “Fear of the dark”, and a new section I call “The Plague Ship”, which will feature the worst of the worst. Setting sail on our maiden voyage with an album by 19 ADD, which I feel is truly awful and deserves to be here.

Meanwhile, back at http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html we have a new album by Hudson, plus reviews of the first album by metal band The Gate as well as one from North Atlantic Oscillation. How's that for eclectic?

Finally, you can always rely on Unknown Soldier. His http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html is well into 1970 now, with reviews of albums by Sabbath, more Zep and indeed, Trapeze. Plus he now has YouTubes, so you can sample some of the tracks from these fine albums. What are you waiting for? He's over there!

And that, rather rapidly, concludes the updates on journals for this week. See you again next week, when hopefully we'll have more to tell you about.

[Lisnaholic]

^ After you`ve taken a look at the journals, why not nominate an album for the FAIR album club ? A new poll will be opening later today, so it`s a good time to go public with that world music album that you`ve been secretly enjoying ...

Just click the link below and post the details :-

[Trollheart]

Another weekend, another update, another town. Oh, no wait: same town. But definitely another update, and a few interesting things to tell you about, including a brand spanking new journal that's already being talked about!

And it's there indeed that we start, as we welcome the perhaps-unkindly named Big Ears to the fold, where his journal http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...s-journal.html has already biographies of ELP, Budgie and Golden Earring, as well as reviews of albums by Paris, Simon and Garfunkel and Joe Walsh! Can you spell eclectic? This guy is working hard, so much so that Unknown Soldier and myself had better pull our collective socks up or we'll be left behind!

As for me, (yeah, I'm second again --- come on, you people with names beginning with C-S!) I've a few little updates of my own, in my main journal http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html where we have reviews of albums from Motorhead, Carbon Based Lifeforms and the new one from Men Without Hats (STOP singing “We can dance, we can dance, everybody look at your hands” this INSTANT! Humph!) There's also a return for “Velvet Fist”, where once again we look at some metal ballads and slower songs from the genre. Meanwhile, in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html there are review of albums from Nick Cave, the late Dan Fogelberg (look for a full feature on him very soon) and the pride of Ireland, Mary Black.

Finally, you can always rely on Unknown Soldier. His http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html is in the process of wrapping up his look at 1970, with albums from the iconic, er, Flower Travellin' Band (they're from Japan, does that help? No?), Grand Funk (a live album this time), The Stooges (at the request of his Batlordship), and Atomic Rooster. There are also mentions for bands who missed the cut, as he puts it, for that year, and some cool pictures. It's all there, waiting for you!

And once again, that's sort of it. I believe Janszoon is away, so hopefully we can expect some updates from him soon, but I must give a hearty slap on the wrist to Unrelenting: it's nine days to Halloween! Wherehttp://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ween.htmlWhere are the updates you promised? Tsk tsk! Well, maybe this time next week. But you've got a lot of ground to cover....

Toodles!

[Unknown Soldier]

Trollheart gotta say I love reading your weekly diary updates, it's like an MB newspaper

[Plankton]

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Trollheart gotta say I love reading your weekly diary updates, it's like an MB newspaper

Same here, although I actually JUST saw this now.

...man, I gotta get back to it.

[Unknown Soldier]

Originally Posted by Plankton

Same here, although I actually JUST saw this now.

...man, I gotta get back to it.

I had a quick look at your journal. there's some good stuff on there, so you should get back on it.