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01-07-2015, 04:54 PM | #542 (permalink) | |
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I don't even remember writing reviews for Thor, Sorcery and Molly Hatchet, seems like an age ago now.
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01-11-2015, 01:44 PM | #543 (permalink) |
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Um since this is sort of an update for journals as well as Trollheart's amazing weekly update I just thought I'd share that in the coming weeks with all the midterms I have coming and the cooldown from that, I'm going to be taking breaks on all of my journals temporally.
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01-11-2015, 03:41 PM | #544 (permalink) | |
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The Music Banter Members Journals Update Thread --- Week Ending January 11 2015
It's getting bloody chilly here: snow forecast for tomorrow and I have to take my cat to the vet. Ah, Mondays! How I love you!
What's been happening down Journaltown way, you ask? Well, I did just originally pop in here to tell you about my cat, but as you ask... And the big story in Journaltown this week is that some serious health and safety issues have forced the closure of "The Devil's Dancefloor", most of those issues related I think to Justin's sanity! I've taken on some big projects in my time but this one sounded like something even I wouldn't undertake, and he's decided, probably rightly, to pull out now before it gets too heavy. Read all about it below. And don't give him a hard time: he really tried. There are new journals starting this week from Deadchannel and Oriphiel --- think they'd be busy enough with their first journals but no. I'd never do that. Um. More details below. We also have the return of Wpnfire and WhateverDude, both missed, and Moss comes back to us also, so there are some tearful (yeah) reunions this week. I'm getting all choked up here. Let's get on with the update. Go to commercial! Go to commercial! http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-oblivion.html and see him speak of the evolution of Deadpool, with his Issue of the Week starting up too. Yeah, it's Deadpool ... Isn't he just a ripoff of Spiderman? Showing us that his new journal isn't going to just be devoted to explanations and essays on album sleeves, blackdragon123 shows us that http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ackdragon.html you can also find a list of his favourite tracks by Supertramp. Nice one! Then he returns to album covers, this time comparing Ozzy to Lennon? Down at http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...seur-cave.html there are unnerving sounds as the Hellion sweeps overhead! Yes, Briks is reviewing “Screaming for vengeance” by Judas Priest, also some more haiku reviews coming your way. He's not too impressed with “London calling” though. Neither was I. Chula's back! And he's brought Yes with him. “Close to the edge” is the latest album to feature in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...rly-years.html In http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...sentation.html, Deadchannel presents a review of “True romance”, while in his other journal, started only this week, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ear-music.html, there's music from Sleep and Zach Hill. http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...63-2013-a.html reaches 1999, with albums from SPAZZ, Polaris and Blur among his list. Following on from our big news story this week, as you've all read by now http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ancefloor.html has closed, or rather, been streamlined and changed. Like Bewley's here (Irish interest only) it's changing its focus and many people will lose their job --- no, wait: nobody will, not even Justin, who's going to use it to continue to post metal reviews, just not on a daily basis as he had intended. I did warn him he needed to be certain he was able to take on such a massive undertaking,. He's pressing ahead with the Iron Maiden reviews though, with what might seem a bt of a rush as he ploughs through “Piece of mind”, “Seventh son of a seventh son”, “No prayer for the dying” and “Fear of the dark”, bringing the First Age of Dickinson to a close. Oh, and there's another live review from me. A welcome return for LadyisLingering, in the absence of her husband woops boyfriend (!) and she's plundering her http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ic-memory.html for The Alan Parsons Project, The Cars and Lynsey de Paul. Machine tells us that Mac DeMarco, Tantifaxath, The Microphones and Sleep (now where did I hear that before?) are some of http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-song-day.html, while there's another Flaming Lips review in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...l-madness.html, this time it's “Oh my gawd! It's The Flaming Lips!” http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...a-yas-out.html and talks about Guided By Voices in Boulder, Colorado. Back to being http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ck-garage.html, Oriphiel is kicking 2015 off the way he ended 2014, with a host of entries including the Rezillos, Les Hell on Heels and Sir Psycho. Also a compilation called “Back from the grave”. And as if all that work wasn't enough, he's starting, as I mentioned, a new journal, http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...rgy-story.html, devoted to ... disco! He's also writing a story about it, first three chapters up now. Another of Pet_Sounds' favourite Beatles tracks is “Hey bulldog”, and you'll find it on http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...crap-heap.html this week. Do Sidewinder and Goofle swap notes, I wonder? They seem to post very soon after each other. Anyway, it's 1999 in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ar-1965-a.html too, and he's looking at offerings from Pinback, Mr. Bungle and Beck, among others. My new journals are doing quite well, thank you, with http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...e-you-die.html taking a look at MIA and Kings of Leon, The Killers, The Zutons, Rufus Wainwright and The Streets, while http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ive-metal.html begins properly, with a look at the barest beginnings of prog rock and a review of The Beach Boys' “Pet Sounds” and then The Mothers of Invention's “Freak out!” My main journals are not slacking either though and in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html you'll find a review of Supertamp's debut album, while a little out of season now, the Scrooge Showdown continues in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html. I've even kicked http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html back into life this week, with reviews of albums by The Donkeys and Lights and Motion. More to come next week as I try to get this long-neglected journal back on track. More NWOBHM compilations in http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html as Unknown Soldier looks into “Metal Massacre”. All four volumes. Also Batlord's favourite musical wanking material, Warlord's “Deliver us”. http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...e-radness.html is back to turn us on to Angel Olsen, while http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...s-journal.html has a review of the video computer game “Dead Space”. This week's pick for comes from my good friend Briks, who has about the same reaction to this classic album as I did... Quote:
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And now it's time for
As Unknown Soldier reviewed the final decade in the seventies, it seems appropriate to reproduce his synopsis of it. And here it is. Quote:
Kiss were in the section you should “Also check this out” with “Dynasty”, while albums not to make the cut this year came from Riot, Trust and Helix among others. The Live Album section then had Judas Priest's “Unleashed in the East” and UFO's “Strangers in the night” while “Hard, Heavy and a Classic” came from Triumph, with “Just a game”. On the other hand, Blackfoot took the “Hard, heavy and Worth a Mention” slot with “Strikes”. As we reached the end of the seventies then US decided to change the format, and rather than trying to explain it, sure I'll let him do it: Quote:
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Judas Priest were back with a stone-cold classic at 5 with “British Steel”, and another classic at 4 came from Black Sabbath with “Heaven and Hell”, and from then in it was pretty much classics all the way, with Maiden's debut at 3, AC/DC's “Back in black” at 2 and the top slot taken by ... Diamond Head? Um, yeah. “Lightning to the nations” took precedence over both AC/DC and Iron Maiden, it would seem. Hmm. So after all that it was time to dissect another dubious album as we went “Down on the slab” with Ozzy's “Blizzard of Ozz”, perhaps a downbeat way to end 1980, but 1981 was up next! Which brings to a close another update. Remember to wear your winter woollies, and if you're somewhere where the sun is shining, I officially hate you and hope that something slightly unpleasant happens to you, like an onion falling on your head. Till next week, Toodles!
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01-11-2015, 05:57 PM | #547 (permalink) |
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I didn't see that review till now. And whilst I kind of agree that it's "overrated" (in some circles at least) I think it has more than three good tracks. Train in Vain is wonderful.
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01-12-2015, 08:23 AM | #549 (permalink) |
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What's with the posting huge amounts of US's journal every week?
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01-12-2015, 08:26 AM | #550 (permalink) | |
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He's doing it with a lot of journals and just started with mine first.
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