What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

listened online

Lita Ford - Wicked Wonderland - 2009



Not my thing but I guess there's a fan or two out there somewhere. Former Runaways guitarist, with her 7th solo effort, and the first since 1997, pushing some punky death metal. She must have got bored. Hubby Jim Gillette from former hair band Nitro helps out on most tracks. All are self penned so I gotta give her that. Sex seems to be the over riding theme, but it is metal. Not many clips available so seek 'em out if you dare.

Favorite Track - Sacred

Till death do us part ain’t long enough
But the hallmark cards say all that stuff
I just wanted to say you’re so special
So sacred to me
Loves not a big enough word
To tell you how I feel
I’ll spend eternity
Showing you what you mean to me
You so sacred you’re so sacred to me
When I look in your eyes I see so much
I feel your heart beat when we touch
You are my best friend my angel
So sacred to me
Loves not a big enough word
So I wrote this song for you
I’ll spend eternity
Loving you faithfully
You’re so sacred you’re so sacred to me
Sacred Sacred
You’re so sacred to me
Sacred Sacred
You’re so sacred to me
The answer to my prayers
My every fantasy
My soul is yours eternity
My love matched only by my loyalty
My Love I live for you
God knows I’d die for you
Loves not a big enough word
So I wrote this song for you
I’ll spend eternity
Loving you faithfully
Sacred Sacred
You’re so sacred to me
Sacred Sacred
You’re so sacred to me
Sacred Sacred
You’re so sacred to me


1) Crave - * - video
YouTube - Lita Ford :- Crave (2009 Music Video)
2) Piece (Hell Yeah) - *
3) Patriotic S.O.B. - **
4) Scream 4 Me - *
5) Inside - *
6) Wicked Wonderland - **
7) Indulge - *
8) Love - **
9) Betrayal - * - audio
YouTube - Lita Ford - Betrayal
10) Sacred - **
11) Truth - *
12) Everything Is Under Control - *
13) Bed - **

3's - 0
2's - 5
1's - 8

Rating - 1.4

[Music Head]

listened online



2005 Solo project for Aaron Gillespie, who is lead singer for metalcore outfit Underoath has turned into a full blown band for his second release. The metalcore has been dropped for more of a rock feel. Hands is the first single.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Want To

Best Track - Hand Grenade

Oh, to be young
It sounds like so much fun
Oh, the long wait
For things to happen, expectancy
And you, just waiting on me
I wanna know what's in your plans

If you're an ocean
Then I wanna jump right in
If you're a hand grenade
Then I'll pull the pin
I'll wait right here, all night for you
To let me in and I'll run run run run
Run right back to you, I'll run

Life's moving faster now
I'm older here
But younger somehow
Head full of fear
And it makes me break
Please let me find you
Please let me know
Just what you want
Please let me see
What you need me to be

Oh, if you could see in me
You might be kinda scared
Oh, if I could just believe
You'll take me anywhere


1) Monster Monster - ** - audio
YouTube - The Almost - Monster Monster
2) Lonely Wheel - ** - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPaaI2R7sYc
3) No I Don't - ** - audio
YouTube - The Almost - No I Don't [with lyrics]
4) Hands - ** - audio
YouTube - Hands (Lyrics Video)
5) Young Again - * - audio
YouTube - The Almost - Young Again [with lyrics]
6) Summer Summer - ** - audio
YouTube - The Almost - Summer, Summer [with lyrics]
7) Hand Grenade - *** - audio
YouTube - The Almost - Hand Grenade
8) Books & Books - * - audio
YouTube - The Almost - Books & Books [with lyrics]
9) Souls On Ten - ** - audio
YouTube - The Almost - Souls on Ten
10) Want To - * - audio
YouTube - The Almost - Want To [with lyrics]
11) Get Through - * - audio
YouTube - The Almost - Get Through [with lyrics]
12) Monster - *** - audio
YouTube - The Almost - Monster

3's - 2
2's - 6
1's - 4

Rating - 1.9

[Music Head]

from my library



Aussie rockers back with their ninth album. Although not as successful as the previous 3 efforts, it did reach #4 in the U.K. and #15 in the U.S. with the tile track reaching #26 and Guns For Hire #37 on thr Mainstream Rock U.S. Billboard chart. I agree that those prior albums were superior to this but I do like this album. I've always had to struggle past both Scott and Johnson's screaching. Don't that hurt? They always sounded the same to me. Nothing great here for me but it holds up. Some real nice live footage to watch crazy Angus work out, and Brian has worked out quite a bit it seems. This group proves you don't need a 5 minute guitar jam to produce good rock 'n' roll.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Landslide

Best Track - Badlands

I'm a pistol packin' man
With a gun in my hand
Lookin' for a woman that'll understand
You like to roll and I like to ride
I'll stop at nothing never take me alive
I'm a man with a fast hand
Lovin' on a last stand
Outlaw quick draw
Evil talkin' bandit man

In the badlands
In the badlands

I got a .45 that'll make you fry
Burn your chassis lassie like the 4th of July
I ride it hard I ride it high
Make love to you till you reach for the sky
I'm a man with a fast hand
Got it on a last stand
Outlaw, quick draw
Evil talkin' bandit man

In the badlands
In the badlands
In the badlands
In the badlands

Well I'm guilty
Saddle up my six pack
Ain't gonna back track
My shooter loaded
Come on girl I'm gonna give you a thrill

In the badlands
In the badlands
In the badlands
In the badlands
In the badlands, looking for a woman
In the badlands, as bad as me
In the badlands, gonna take her with me
In the badlands
Yeah


1) Rising Power - ** - audio
YouTube - AC/DC - Rising Power
2) This House Is On Fire - ** - audio
YouTube - AC/DC - This House Is On Fire
3) Flick Of The Switch - ** - live
YouTube - AC/DC - Flick of the switch
4) Nervous Shakedown - ** - live
YouTube - AC/DC - Nervous Shakedown
5) Landslide - * - audio
YouTube - AC/DC - Landslide
6) Guns For Hire - ** - live
YouTube - 1983 - AC/DC - Guns for Hire Rehearsals
7) Deep In The Hole - ** - audio
YouTube - AC/DC - Deep In The Hole
8) Bedlam In Belgium - ** - live
YouTube - AC/DC - Bedlam In Belgium (live)
9) Badlands - ** - audio
YouTube - AC/DC - Badlands
10) Brain Shake - ** - audio
YouTube - AC/DC - Brain Shake

3's - 0
2's - 9
1's - 1

Rating - 1.9

[Music Head]

from my library



Thrash metal before it was thrashed. Metallicas Dave Mustaine was the founding member and the only one to remain throughout. His drug problems were well known and reportedly led to the constant lineup changes. This 4th album was slightly more subdued than previous efforts and reached #23 on the U.S. charts. It was to be Daves first "sobered up" album. Still a little too metal for me.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Five Magics

Best Track - Dawn Patrol

Thermal count is rising
In perpetual writhing
The primordial ooze
And the sanity they lose

Awakened in the morning
To more air pollution warnings
Still we sleepwalk off to work
While our nervous systems jerk

Pretending not to notice
How history had forebode us
With the green house in effect
Our environment was wrecked

Now I can only laugh
As I read our epitaph
We end our lives as moles
In the dark of dawn patrol


1) Holy Wars...The Punishment Due - ** - video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d4ui9q7eDM
2) Hangar 18 - ** - video
YouTube - Megadeth -- Hangar 18
3) Take No Prisoners - * - live
YouTube - MegadetH - Take No Prisoners ( Live - San Diego )
4) Five Magics - * - audio
YouTube - Megadeth Five Magics
5) Poison Was The Cure - * - audio
YouTube - Megadeth - Poison was the Cure
6) Lucretia - * - live
YouTube - Megadeth-Lucretia
7) Tornado Of Souls - * - live
YouTube - Megadeth - Tornado of souls (Live)
8) Dawn Patrol - ** - audio
YouTube - Megadeth-Dawn Patrol
9) Rust In Peace...Polaris - * - audio
YouTube - Megadeth - Rust in Peace... Polaris (studio version)

3's - 0
2's - 3
1's - 6

Rating - 1.3

[Fretup]

One of my favs 'Wasted Sunsets' by Deep Purple.

[Fretup]

Am listenin' to Sammy Hagar's 'Mexico'.

[Music Head]

listened online



Haven't heard these guys in a long time. Don't own anything by them but I have heard a few. This is their 14th studio album so they must be doing something right. Formed in L.A. in 1982, only 1 remaining member from the original lineup, frontman Blackie Lawless. The band name acronym stands for We Are Sexual Perverts, although that was later denied. This album is themed around the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It contains two covers of Deep Purples Burn and Chuck Berrys Promised Land. Shouldn't have touched that one. The band has called it quits twice only to rise from the dead. Never noticed before but Blackie sounds just like Meat Loaf.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Promised Land

Best Track - Babylon's Burning

Listen close to hooves you hear
Are thunders coming dread
John the Revelator's dream
Had seen a terror vision
Of the spirit led
With wrath to reign
And with slaves to flame
They kneeled and sealed a kiss
Plagues and pain and fiery rain
And blaspheme on his lips

Babylon's a-burning, Babylon's a-burning
Six hundred 6, 6 and 7 seals
A pale rider and his horses sing
Babylon's a-burning, Babylon's a-burning
Six hundred 6, 6 the rising beast
Bears the mark of Babylon to be

Arising with the beast a sea of men
A bloody moon of red
A whore of Babylon to bleed the seed
And make 'em take the mark upon their heads

They bowed and kneeled a mark to seal
Their souls unto a kiss
With fire and flames and with
Souls to claim
And rise from the abyss

And I stood upon the sand of the sea
And saw a beast rise out of the sea
Having ten horns and seven heads
Ten crowns upon his head
Who is like unto the beast?
Given his mouth great things to speak
If any man has an ear
Let him hear, let him hear


1) Crazy - ** - live
YouTube - W.A.S.P. - Crazy Stockholm 2009
2) Live To Die Another Day - ** - audio
YouTube - W.A.S.P. - Live To Die Another Day
3) Babylon's Burning - *** - audio
YouTube - W.A.S.P. - Babylon's Burning
4) Burn - * - audio
YouTube - W.A.S.P. - Burn
5) Into The Fire - ** - audio
YouTube - W.A.S.P. - Into the Fire
6) Thunder Red - * - audio
YouTube - W.A.S.P. - Thunder Red
7) Seas Of Fire - ** - audio
YouTube - W.A.S.P. - Seas of Fire
8) Godless Run - ** - audio
YouTube - W.A.S.P. - Godless Run
9) Promised Land - * - audio
YouTube - W.A.S.P. - Promise Land

3's - 1
2's - 5
1's - 3

Rating - 1.8

[Adkins771]

Guns N' Roses - You Could Be Mine.

[CMB1888]

Rush - Spirit of Radio

[kvincent5555]

Slayer - World Painted Blood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFw9l_TFokU