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RE: What Are You Listening To? - Ruby - 12-03-2019
^Must get out my copy and listen again. Thanks for the reminder!
ASYLUM KIDS – Fight It With Your Mind
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South Africa’s premier punk rock band – not a lot of those around in the early 80’s and this is actually quite tame by comparison to many international acts under the label of punk! Listening today because I just acquired the album on vinyl and haven’t lent them my ear for a VERY long time - longer than bears mentioning!! Might have heard all this many more times live than any other way, which is an even scarier thought!
These guys were positively subversive and had a lot to say about the apparent societal norms back in the day. They were protesting and questioning on all of our behalf and they were faced with serious conservatism, on every level. To put it in perspective, TV had made an appearance a mere five years earlier and there was little to no exposure to what was going on in the rest of the world, generally, as well as musically speaking. Scant information, no internet, no mobile phones, a controlled and regulated press and international sanctions. Around this time, Chris de Burgh’s Spanish Train was banned, for goodness’ sake, and it was around that time that Rodriguez started to take hold – also subject to bans.
Three years after Fight It With Your Mind was released, Queen and Rod Stewart, among a few others got severely lambasted by their peers for performing at Sun City and breaking the silence that had been imposed on us – up to then there were virtually no international artists coming here, certainly not in the world of rock anyway, and even that was only possible as Sun City wasn’t officially in SA – it was in Bophutatswana – a supposed separate ‘state’, which it was, in name only, pretty much. We had access to records and tapes, but no live acts – no tours. There have, and continue to be, waves of other protest bands since, in all sorts of genres – these were forerunners (in my experience), as was Johnny Clegg and his cohorts – just doing it a bit differently.
Looking back and listening more critically than I did then, I can see how courageous these guys were, and how important it was for what they were saying to be voiced by someone – anyone – and preferably loud enough for others to notice – and that they put themselves across in enough of a serious and accomplished manner to earn that notice. Very topical and relevant to the SA situation at the time; and 38 years later, I’m sorry to say, not altogether irrelevant. This was pacifist punk, I think, if there is such a thing – and they really rocked! Not my usual cuppa but nostalgia goes an awfully long way and I think they deserve their place in the annals. Also not sure where they all are today, although I think Robbi Rob is in the USA, and is still involved in music.
The whole album - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_oP5d6c4mI
"We Are The Ones" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YytZV_uZF88 - so true
"Girl Gone Solo" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3cc5ait8JI
Title track …
RE: What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 13-03-2019
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JACK WHITE "Lazaretto" cd, 2014:
Jack's second solo set...
I know he's not everybody's cup of musical tea but hey that's Jack White...
some alt rock, some blues rock, some country, well, country Jack White style anyway...
a weird yet wonderful album like no one but he could manage...
all up, probably comes close to being my favourite of his...
I LOVE THIS ALBUM
from the album, the Rolling Stones sounding one...
RE: What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 19-03-2019
![[Image: 220px-Blackstar_%28Front_Cover%29.png]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blackstar_(Front_Cover).png)
DAVID BOWIE "
![[Image: 15px-BlackStar.PNG]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/BlackStar.PNG/15px-BlackStar.PNG)
" aka "blackstar" cd, 2016career stats:
studio albums..................27
singles...........................121
this album.........................#1 UK.....#1 AU...#1 US...#1 CAN
singles:
"blackstar"..............................#61 UK...............#78 US
"lazerus".................................#45 UK...#78 AU...40 US
"i cant give everything away"...#141 UK
first time ive played this since the end of '16 or early '17 giving the emotion and hype
surrounding his death to subside...
a couple of loves, likes and dislikes last time I posted it...
album contains a lot of jazz sounds, traditional, progressive and slightly avant-garde in places...
my favourite track could almost have fitted nicely onto my favourite album "lodger" (allbeit without the f-bombs he
drops on it)…
Im sold on it containing the best lyrics of his career, with the majority being about death and the acceptance
of death, he is a man letting the world know he is about to die and no one, not one reviewer picked up on it at
the time (such is the genius of Davie Bowie), I guess the critics thought the chameleon of rock was once again
shedding his image once again...
and the videos for the title track and Lazerus are possibly two of the greatest music videos of all time!
not sure if ironic is the right word but its ironic that whilst the ink was still wet from the pens of the reviews of the
album his obituary was being penned by the same people...
I know Bowie mapped out his career every inch of the way but surely he couldn't have planned this release and his death
to a 48hr period....or could he???
I love half the tracks on this album, like two others and dislike the remaining two so I guess...
I LIKE THIS ALBUM
favourite track:
are the lyrics in this song nonsense or avant-garde? (oops sorry, avant-garde and nonsense are the same thing to me!)
RE: What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 25-03-2019
(25-03-2018, 11:16)CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:
MARILYN MANSON " heaven upside down" cd, 2017:
the band's tenth....
I own at least half of them....
not quite as much of the guitar driven metal of their early albums on this one....
album has grown on me considerably since I first heard it back last year...
the subject matter of his/their lyrics hasn't mellowed at all over the years,
but with the repetitive use of it the shock value has subsided...
all up, another good album from MM.
second single and my favourite off the album:
![[Image: 220px-Marilyn_Manson_-_Heaven_Upside_Down.png]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3a/Marilyn_Manson_-_Heaven_Upside_Down.png/220px-Marilyn_Manson_-_Heaven_Upside_Down.png)
pretty much the same thoughts as last time I played it, favourite track still the same also
RE: What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 29-03-2019
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MY MORNING JACKET "circuital" cd, 2011
the band's sixth of seven, I own them all...
early albums had lots of guitar driven solos aka Neil's Crazy Horse..
this one, lacks the guitar solos, in fact theres very little to even suggest
this is the same band who recorded the likes of "evil urges", "at dawn"
and "it still moves"...
sounds more like a cross between vocalist Jim James solo material and
Father John Misty...
superb album, my favourite of theirs by far
fave for me is the acoustic Wonderful, which is indeed wonderful IMO...
RE: What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 03-04-2019
![[Image: 220px-Eddy_Grant_Killer_On_The_Rampage.jpg]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eddy_Grant_Killer_On_The_Rampage.jpg)
EDDY GRANT "killer on the rampage" vinyl, 1982
his seventh of fifteen solo album....
had no idea he was a founding member of UK band The Equals, they had a
big hit in the '60s with "baby, come back"....
anyway.,
lots of crossover reggae on here, but at least it sounds more authentic
than the crap UB-40 put out after their debut album Signing Off (which was brilliant IMO)…
a couple of huge hits off this one, "I don't wanna dance" and one that MH hates with a passion
in Electric Avenue....
nothing great on here but nothing I dislike neither so I guess
I LIKE THIS ALBUM:
favourite track:
RE: What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 04-04-2019
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PETER TOSH "bush doctor" vinyl, 1978
Pete's third solo album...
I own his debut and this one...
love just about everything on this one, just like the debut...
he'd signed to Rolling Stone Records on his second album and
Mick and Keith appear on the album...
im sure Pete and Keith had some interesting sessions together before,
during and after recording...
I LOVE THIS ALBUM
from the album, something a little different:
next up: The Maytals "from the roots"
RE: What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 08-04-2019
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THE MAYTALS "from the roots" vinyl, 1970:
the band's fourth...
lyrically, its a bit more simplistic and less serious than the lyrics
you get from Tosh's albums...
musically, it is loose, easy and more uptempo also...
its probably the Reggae equivalent of disco...LOL...
but then again, that is what differentiates Reggae from Ska, and this is Ska,
its the stuff that influenced the likes of Madness, Specials, and The Beat (UK Beat)
good stuff,
I LOVE IT:
from the album:
RE: What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 09-04-2019
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DAVID BOWIE "tonight" vinyl.cd, 1984:
Bowie's sixteenth studio set...
in hindsight, the '80s weren't good for Bowie overall,
the exception being the "scary monsters" album...
five covers on here including a God awful cover of "God only knows"...
two duets also, one with Tina, the other with Iggy (and I don't mean Azalea!)…
way too much of an overload of those terrible drum sounds and synths...
not much in the way of imagination from him neither...
I like two of the songs and love one (Blue Jean), the latter rates in my top ten
Bowie tracks of all time...
overall, I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM
love the full 20 minute short film for the song:
RE: What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 12-04-2019
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LORDE "the love club" - ep cd, 2013
her debut release,
a five track 'ep',
nine times platinum here in Australia...
Royals was the lead off track off it...
love every song on this short set...
favourite: