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05-05-2014, 06:03 AM | #391 (permalink) |
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Watch this space.
I must warn you, I don't hate Nickelback in the same way I don't hate Dragonforce, so I'll be giving them a chance. You know how I am; no artiste gets put down just by rep only. You may not be happy with the results. But I'll certainly give it my best.
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05-11-2014, 11:41 AM | #393 (permalink) | |
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Update for week ending May 11 2014
Ah yes, May. Spring is here. The birds are ... sheltering in the trees from the pounding rain? Bloody Ireland! Still, at least the sun is shining down in Journaltown, even if it is a lightbulb sun! (In-joke for progheads!) So what, as they say, has been happenin' man? Come with me...
Anteater is looking at a release by one of my alltime favourite bands, Iron Maiden, in a new section entitled “Overlooked and underrated albums” in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...n-dollars.html while having dealt with the Pixies Black Francis is now looking at the solo careers of the individual members after the band split. In http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...l-journey.html he's first taking on the solo work of his namesake, Frank Black. Oh, and throwing in some skating music too! Briks and I will be unleashing Nickelback Week upon you in a fortnight (he's been beta-testing it, sort of) but until then what's happening down at http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...seur-cave.html? Well, er, Nickelback actually. Have to have a word about that with him. The albums are all great (not) and all, but surely people want to know the real man behind the music? Like how Chad won World War II? And how he reunited Italy? And surely the story of the first ever Christian Roman Emperor, Chad I, must be told? Watch this space! A new journal already gathering many fans is http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ack-sound.html, where this week Cicatrice is looking at The Meat Puppets and the hilariously-named Satan's Satyrs! Don't miss it! And a new journal begun only today comes from http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-journal.html where he's talking in his first entry about the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and also supplying Spotify links. Nice! Having not been bothered to write an update last week Goofle is making up for it this week with artistes such as Jon Connor (thought he was leading the resistance against the Terminators?), Slowdive, Nancy Elizabeth, Strikeforce Diablo and the Lightning Seeds, plus a whole lot more that come under the heading of http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ening-log.html Lots of good vibes from the 70s in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ic-memory.html as Ladyislingering listens to such artistes as The Association, Country Joe and the Fish and Argent, to name but three... ... while an old member returns and reignites his journal, as Musicphantom reopens http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...l-musings.html (after four years!) with a piece on Neutral Milk Hotel, while at the same time starting a new journal, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...p-samples.html with music from Nujabes, Gangstarr and more. Plankton has a new journal! Check out http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...listening.html where so far we have Godsmack, Winger, Clutch and more! Nickelback Week is coming! Just thought I'd warn you, er, plug it again. Until then all I have for you in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html are the two latest albums on the list of PA's top 100 prog of 2013, with Sonus Umbra and The Twenty Committee, neither of which to be honest impressed me. Don't panic! though, as we begin our coverage of Douglas Adams' classic sci-fi cult comedy show “The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy” in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html, as well as a new section, in which I take you on a trip through “The Very Worst of The Twilight Zone”! To make up for so little in the Playlist this week I've managed to squeeze an update into http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html, so go check out Edge of Thorns. I found them a bit meh though. Unknown Soldier comes close to revealing his top album of 1981 in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html but it ain't Maiden's “Killers!” That's at number 3, just above Motley Crue. So what will be number one? Keep reading to find out. After something of an extended absence, William the bloody is back! He's leaping http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ta-coffin.html (yeah I know but what can I do with a title like that?) at ya with music from Ceremony and Violent Femmes. Welcome back man! And we close on yet another new journal, from the esteemed Wpnfire, who's looking at electric guitar music in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...irtuosity.html with contributions so far from Jeff Beck, Deep Purple and Front Line Assembly. Great start man! People accuse each other and everyone else of being in cliques, and this could be true of Unknown Soldier, Anteater and I. We did after all start the Prog Rock Album Club and we can be seen discussing the same music. The two guys will also hopefully be helping m out with the new, barely-formed embryo we call The Heavy Metal Album Club. But all that aside, I feel I have to award this week's to my man Ant, for his succinct and yet bang-on review of Maiden's “No prayer for the dying”, as below... Quote:
That's it for this week; see you all next week as we draw closer to Nickelback .... okay, I get the message. I'll stop now. May the Chad be with you all. Toodles!
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09-04-2014, 12:04 PM | #394 (permalink) |
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Update for the Update (sort of)
For those of you who have missed this (yeah, both of you over there!) I just wanted to let you know I will be getting back to doing this thread but at the moment I'm a little overwhelmed with the new stuff I have to get through. It may take a few weeks before I have everything sorted, but rest assured, the Weekly Journal Update Thread will soon be active once again, and this house will ring to the welcome sound of happy little authors running up and down the stairs, while the walls shake to a mixture of death metal, experimental jazz, AOR and every other damn thing...
So bear with me. It may take a while, but I'll get this going again.
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09-04-2014, 11:10 PM | #395 (permalink) |
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Welcome back, Trollheart!
It's great to hear that this thread, one of the best on MB, will be revived soon. I am looking forward to the updates of the next weeks, but please take your time!
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09-05-2014, 02:46 PM | #396 (permalink) | |
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Thanks for the boost, and I'll get back to this as soon as I can.
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09-19-2014, 04:04 AM | #398 (permalink) | |
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I'd pretty much like to say that both Goofle and Sidewinders journals on the best albums of each year, serve as great listening lists for anybody wanting to really explore the best of rock since the 60s onwards (or be reminded) They're alike yet very different and anybody listening to both lists should cover the spectrum in some detail.
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09-28-2014, 11:03 PM | #399 (permalink) | |
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The topical theme is a must read, another well written piece by Janszoon. This issue: Capitol K—Andean Dub (2008) The Exotica of Baxter's Jungle Jazz + Downtempo = Capitol K's Folktronica.
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ml#post1489422
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09-29-2014, 07:08 AM | #400 (permalink) | |
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