Daily Playlists 2007

WARRIOR - Code of Life

MERCYFUL FATE - m.f.e.p. (3 song cdr)

LAAZ ROCKIT - Prelude to Death (demo)
LAAZ ROCKIT - City's Gonna Burn
LAAZ ROCKIT - No Stranger to Danger

Nice pic of the King..!

Judah AriYah wrote:

Nice pic of the King..!

Yeah, I thought so!

I wish more of MF's music didn't have lyrics that make my stomach turn...

They had such a great sound.

I agree. Mercyful Fates guitar tone was awesome! Especially on the
Nuns Have No Fun e.p. and Melissa..

Although, King IS wearing a leg-warmer on his arm in the above photo!

Judah AriYah wrote:

Although, King IS wearing a leg-warmer on his arm in the above photo!

I know.

Oh well, what do you expect from a man whose real name is "Kim"?

Hey, I oughtta do a parody of Johnny Cash's song "A Boy Named Sue" and write it about King! "A Man Named Kim"

GUIDED BY VOICES - Alien Lanes
GUIDED BY VOICES - Bee Thousand
ROBERT POLLARD - Normal Happiness

RUBEN GONZALEZ - Introducing..
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN - Greatest Hits 2

MASADA - Live In Jerusalem
CRACOW KLEZMER BAND - De Profundis

Weeriness... slumber.... cd's in travel case...

The Chieftains - The Long Black Veil
Curve - Cuckoo
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Jefferson Airplane/Starship - Behind the Music (VH1)
Warren Zevon - The Wind
Kansas - Leftoverture (remaster)
Vigilantes of Love - Welcome to Struggleville
Saigon Kick - S/T
Saigon Kick - Water
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Sinead O'Connor - Universal Mother
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Lost Trident Sessions
The Violet Burning - Chosen

And afterwards there is only sleep...

Now Playing:

SLAYER - Seasons... (cdr comp)


Wow, I'm really digging into the satanical stuff this week, eh? Slayer, Mercyful Fate, Venom...
(typical fundie knee-jerk reactionary reactivistics)

Nah, not really. I custom made these comps with songs that don't contain these bands' usual and typical deviled green eggs & ham lyrical fare.

So, I'm groovin' on their cool sounds without all of the additives! It's like "organic-satanic" with no evil preservatives added and the bones removed! (a.k.a. "castratin' satan")



...oh yeah...he's gone...

JESU - Conqueror

I am so thankful for them streaming their album until I can buy a copy
of this. It rules!

Judah AriYah wrote:

Nice pic of the King..!

Didn't see this earlier, or I would have replied. I'm a huge Darkthrone fan dude!

Those two albums are awesome.

What?!? No replies to my painstakingly crafted previous post?!?

BUGGER OFF _then, all of you!

Now Playing:

SAVATAGE - Before the Doors of the Night: The Best of Early Savatage (cdr comp)

JUDAS PRIEST - Sin After Sin (remaster)
JUDAS PRIEST - Stained Class (remaster)

ACCEPT - Restless and Wild
ARMORED SAINT - Symbol of Salvation (demos)
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT - Cultösaurus Erectus

TrogDawn wrote:

What?!? No replies to my painstakingly crafted previous post?!?

BUGGER OFF _then, all of you!

Yessss. Let your hate flow! Come join the darkside of the force Trog!

TrogDawn wrote:

What?!? No replies to my painstakingly crafted previous post?!?

BUGGER OFF _then, all of you!

I was too busy praying for your lost, misguided soul

Huh? You're telling me to "bugger off" and praying for me?

Now playing? I hate to admit it, but one of my favorite metal albums of all time.
Truly an album that defined a new era of metal..

No I was quoting Trog!

The reason I didn't reply was that I was praying for his misguided soul

Actually I was just kidding!

Ok, I now see the context !

That's what I get for just reading the messages and not paying attention
to who's posting..

Judah AriYah wrote:

Huh? You're telling me to "bugger off" and praying for me?

Now playing? I hate to admit it, but one of my favorite metal albums of all time.
Truly an album that defined a new era of metal..

LOVE this album



Ever heard this one?

Monday, headache, stomach ache, work...

The Alarm - Eye of the Hurricane (Reissue with bonus tracks)
Out of Phase - Animals 2001 (electronic Pink Floyd Tribute)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Ty Tabor - Safety
10,000 Maniacs - Love Among the Ruins
Fleming and John - Delusions of Grandeur
Bif Naked - I Bificus
Enigma - The Screen Behind the Mirror
Jason Becker - The Blackberry Jams
Fates Warning - Disconnected
Fates Warning - Still Life
Rivulets and Violets - Promise
Rivulets and Violets - S/T
Michael Hedges - Aerial Boundaries
Michael Hedges - Live on the Double Planet


And so the forest has the trees. What do you have?

DOOM/GLOOM -

Yeah, that's probably the only SAMAEL that I like..

Never took a listen to Samael........dey skered meh!

Today:

The Ghastly Ones A Haunting We Will Go Go
Beat At Cinecitta' Volume 3
Profondo Rosso Goblin
Shock! Fear! Terror! Frank N Stein and the Ghouls
Ghoul Music Frank N Stein and the Ghouls
Ghoul A Rama Various Artists

Judah AriYah wrote:

DOOM/GLOOM -

Yeah, that's probably the only SAMAEL that I like..

Me too. The second one is not bad, but the first one is the only one I really listen to. Awesome album and ahead of it's time.

Sombrant wrote:

Michael Hedges - Live on the Double Planet

Recorded live at the University of Maine at Orono! My home state!

STRYPER - The Yellow and Black Attack (orig. mix!)

Troggy did you ever get to see Michael Hedges live? I saw him play with Leo Kotke and it was utterly amazing!!

On to the basket of fish and loaves...

David T Chastain - Instrumental Variations
The Passion of Covers - Cleopatra Tribute to Bauhaus
Deep Forest - Music Detected
Cusco - Ancient Journeys, A Vision of the New World
Cusco - 2002
Jim Matheos - First Impressions
Toni Braxton - Secrets
Deliverance - Live at Cornerstone (2001)
Prong - Rude Awakening
Prong - Rude Awakening (Remixes)
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
After the Fire - Der Kommissar
2nd Chapter of Acts - Rejoice/Singer Sower
Original Music from the Jesus Movement (3 CD Set)

Diversity... it's a maiden in waiting...

Sombrant wrote:

On to the basket of fish and loaves...

2nd Chapter of Acts - Rejoice/Singer Sower
Original Music from the Jesus Movement (3 CD Set)

Diversity... it's a maiden in waiting...

These tickle me considering where you work....

Sombrant wrote:

Troggy did you ever get to see Michael Hedges live? I saw him play with Leo Kotke and it was utterly amazing!!

No, I didn't. Bummer, since it's too late now.

Sombrant wrote:

Original Music from the Jesus Movement (3 CD Set)

Ooh! This sounds cool! Who's on it?

Joe Satriani - Crystal Planet, Surfing with the Alien, Engines of Creation, etc

& some others

Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness

Nattefrost - Blood & Vomit

Now Playing:



STRYPER - The Yellow and Black Attack (orig. mix)
1. Loud 'n' Clear
2. From Wrong to Right
3. You Know What to Do
4. Co'mon Rock
5. You Won't Be Lonely
6. Loving You




STRYPER - The Yellow and Black Attack (corporate mix)
1. Loud 'n' Clear
2. From Wrong to Right
3. My Love I'll Always Show*
4. You Know What to Do
5. Co'mon Rock
6. You Won't Be Lonely
7. Loving You
8. Reason for the Season*

OK, this is my first hearing of the original mix of this Stryper classic (sorry in advance, ghosts - I know you hate them ) and all I can say is WOW! The original mix is so much heavier and GUITAR driven! I've never cared for this album until now. The corporate version is SO watered down compared to this original mix! The only benefit the corporate version has is the addition of two songs* not contained on the original, but I think I'd take this original mix even if it meant losing the two extra songs!

I guess I never realized just how much Stryper got castrated once they got big. I know the record companies are notorious for ruining bands, but I also wonder how much the Church had to do with them getting watered down. I mean, even look at the difference in the covers above. The original cover is SO much cooler than the re-issue cover. Same thing happened with the To Hell With the Devil artwork:

(original cover)

(censored cover)

I mean, the original cover was practically a masterpiece! It's definitely in my Top 25 favorite album covers of all time. I bought that album unheard, based solely on the cover art because I loved it so much - and I wasn't even a Christian at the time! (remember the glory days of metal when you could actually get away with that once in awhile without getting burned?) Why would these two excellent covers get changed? My guess is fear and judgment from the Church and perhaps even from the secular record companies.

Anyway, that's my rant for today.

Getting ready to listen to GHOSTS Seeqpod playlists..

no need to say sorry

I actually loved Yellow and Black and Against The Law

Y&B is the band's best album IMO You can actually hear the bass and when they wrote as a group those are the strongest songs. Oz shines in whatever he writes

I loathe them because Michael Sweet dominated. He is all treble and no low end. There is no balls to his songs or the mixes of Soldiers etc. Like watch Live in Japan and the songs are 100 times better because he doesn't manage to bury everyone else. His voice was too one dimensional, and repeitive for me. Yes I like Styxx but there is a point....

I always liked the guts and stronger masculinity of bands like Barren Cross (sans the glam shots) Vengeance, etc. I was more of an Ozzy, DIO, Maiden guy than Poison, Warrant type. So there it is.

I think if Oz could have had at least equal power the band could have been a million times better

Hope you like the seeqpod

It was an amateurish entrance I confess...

Yep the original mix of YABA was what my ears first heard back inna day. My brother and I heard "Loud N Clear" on a metal show on the radio and our mouths dropped! That album was then ordered via Enigma mail order in mucho haste! My brother still has the vinyl. Ghosts you and Trog are pretty spot on about how balless Stryper became after their debut although I still like the crunchy high end of SUC.

Yeah, I hear you ghosts. Totally understandable. It's also a VERY RARE occurance that I even want to hear these guys, but getting a cdr copy of that original mix sparked me to pull out their stuff. SUC _was the first album I heard and I have always liked it in addition to THWTD (minus the sicky sweet ballads! ) and after a while I even grew to like IGWT. I'm still not familiar enough with ATL to really give a good opinion on it, but I'll pop it in now and start to remedy that. Last night, I actually replaced all of my original Enigma cd versions of their stuff with the updated Hollywood re-issues. The YABA version on Enigma not only had the crappy mix, but the volume level was WAY low making it even more of a drag to listen to. Now I have the new ones and the kick ass mix of YABA, so I might hang out in Stryperland for a few days - we'll see.

I still don't own Reborn yet, though. That might take a little longer for me to explore. I recently got rid of my Michael Sweet solo stuff because it NEVER got played, and I hear this latest Stryper is not all that different from a Sweet (Michael, that is ) solo album. Opinions?

Oh, but I *promise* I won't start a thread about them over at CMR!

Now Playing:

STRYPER - Against the Law (remaster)

Yeah Reborn is okay and Im not really familiar with Sweet's solo stuff so I cant really compare. It is an okay album but it just aint touching the older stuff. My fav track off the new album is their reduex of In God We Trust.

Sombrant wrote:

On to the basket of fish and loaves...

Original Music from the Jesus Movement (3 CD Set)

What bands are on that comp??

Have you seen this blog ..

http://heavenly-grooves.blogspot.com/

This guy has been postin' all these old obscure Jesus Movement albums..
Some of them are pretty killer. Others, not so killer..

STRYPER - Soldiers Under Command (remaster)

ghosts of athanasius wrote:

I always liked the guts and stronger masculinity of bands like Barren Cross (sans the glam shots) Vengeance, etc. I was more of an Ozzy, DIO, Maiden guy than Poison, Warrant type.

Same here, bro. Classic metal like those you mentioned were and are still my faves. I hated most of the hair bands of the day, I guess I just never really put Stryper in the category of Poison and Warrant. Stryper at least had a bit of complexity in their playing - they just happened to LOOK like sissy boys while they were doing it!

But let's face it, the Christianity of the band was pretty much the only reason I checked them out in the first place and the nostalgia is the main reason I still listen to them today.

MARC BOLAN & T. REX - 20th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection

Wow, that's quite the collection! Mo' Jesus Movement than tha Law allows!

STRYPER - To Hell With the Devil (remaster)

STRYPER - In God We Trust (remaster)

MINOR THREAT - Complete Discography :punk2:
OVERKILL - Coverkill

MERCYFUL FATE - m.f.e.p.

BLUE ÖYSTER CULT - Heaven Forbid

Sombrant, I didn't mean you had to post every song!! I was just curious about
some of the bands / songwriters. I never heard ARTHUR BLESSIT sing!
But he's one of the real ones, for sure..


Now Playing..

THE AVETT BROTHERS - Mignonette

I went to see the band BR549 and they opened up. I WAS BLOWN AWAY!
They destroyed BR549! They are a three piece and they play so hard that their tech
has to replace strings on either the banjo or guitar between EACH song!!
I mean, I didn't even know the songs, and by the middle of the songs I was singin along.
They sing with so much passion that it's contagious and everyone is singing along,
I love shows like that, instead of everyone standing around with their arms crossed..

I can't wait to see them again in a week. It's been about a year or more since I saw them last.
They are definitely one the BEST live bands going right now..





http://myspace.com/theavettbrothers

They have a couple of videos on their myspace page..