Love/Hate

Remember Love/Hate?
I was never a big fan though I absolutely loved Black Out In The Red Room and Wasted In America, both of which I have on vinyl but would not bother to buy on cd just for two songs, but hey, you can download the whole lot of love/hate for free on their website plus they have great stories.

I always saw them as a sort of pregrunge anti-glam, as sort of scuzzy Motley Crue, another band my friends thought was a complete waste of time, but my tastes always seemed slightly out of tune.

go punk

Every body and I mean everybody must go to this site.
It should be law
punk-o-matic

play list

My current stack of cd’s by my stereo is:
Little of the past-little angels (newest purchase so obviously it’s going to be there)
Down fall all the good guys-wolfsbane (oldest cd in the pile)
Black holes and revelations-muse (brilliant (actually my daughters but im bigger than her))
Costello music- the fratellis (when my daughter hasn’t stolen it)
Edward the great-iron maiden
The very best of Nina simone-nina Simone (sooo cool)
Mix cd-inc. quireboys, dogs d’amour, black crows and the almighty (and to my shame some g’n’r)

What you up to?

a little of the present

All hail eBay!
I have just received (and listened too) Little Of The Past by Little Angels, fantastic.
Released on the 11th April 1994, it covers most of the stuff they did (as far as I know) though I was disappointed to see DoYouWanna Riot was not on the CD (though I downloaded this from kazaa a few years ago so that doesn’t matter too much).
I also read that their first headline at Hammersmith sold out on 25th may 1991 so I checked my old ticket stub, and hey guess what? Rick and I must have bought a couple of the last few tickets if not the last. I remember hanging around the box office until it opened and being told that they only had tickets left with a restricted view, when we asked what this meant we were told there was probably a pillar or something in the way, turned out it was front row next to a stack of speakers. I still have problems hearing people to this day but that may have more to do with a short attention span and a don’t really give a fuck attitude.

Still a good listen, not sure how I got from this to Rammstein though.

name the year

when was this picture taken?

Wow, Bruce Dickinson does a radio show for BBC 6, I was searching for The Almighty (the band not THE ALMIGHTY) when I found it, and I am listening to it as I type.
This almost started as a piece about Sarah Jane Honeywell from tikkabilla (I am watching far too much cbeebies at the moment, its hard having a stroppy two year old).
Back to The Almighty, according to kerrang they are about to release a sort of greatest hits cd covering the last god knows how many years, I don’t think I’ll buy it, I would rather try and get the original albums. Thank god for eBay.

I will soon be able to give you views on Trivium as my daughter has decided that this is the latest band she is into, from what I’ve heard so far they sound a bit like Metallica or Helloween with screaming. Her birthday is soon and she has put an album on her prezzy list.

Back to Q magazine, I bought this for my wife because it had a 28 page article on U2, it contains an interview on the band from none other than chief toss pot Tony Blair (wanker), and I think that says it all for Bono.

voice of rock

I have stumbled across(ok I got the web address from q magazine) a John Peel blogsite that gives loads of downloads for sessions by all sorts of artists, the site in turn links to shit loads of others dedicated to the late prince of alternative and obscure music. With John Peel and Tommy Vance now both gone, who do we have left as the voice of rock?

Well Lauren Laverne works for me.

the next generation

So the next bunch of rock fans is with us. Last weekend was my mums 60th birthday, it involved a small gathering of family who though all live locally rarely see each other (we are very close). To my amusement it seems all the kids between 12 and 16 are EMO . My daughter, my cousins two kids and my youngest cousin were all dressed the part, converse shoes, fall out boy wrist bands, skulls and whatnot every where. What’s really funny is that none of them talked to each other, all related , all into the same music and each to their own misery bubble, one for each corner of the room so to speak.

I discovered my cousin(of the two kids) was also not so square as I had believed, I thought his closest relationship to rock was listening to queen or dire straits but he surprised me by gloating he is of to see muse later this year and saw green day last year. Bastard.

I like muse, or at least I like their latest album, it’s like the bastard lovechild of black Sabbath and queen doing the sound track to a spaghetti western set on mars. In fact I would say it’s my most listened to CD at the moment.

Just before Christmas I managed to get hold of another Wolfsbane CD, massive noise injection is one fucking funny live album, as a rule I don’t normally do live albums but Blaze Bailey’s dialogue with the crowd is just brilliant, who else can threaten to kill members of the audience if they don’t start dancing?

Getting back to my daughter, almost 13 and developing into quite the rock fan, she came down stairs on Christmas day in a Nirvana t-shirt, black converse and a tatty pair of jeans; it was like 1992 all over again. This week she has been trying to dye her hair purple or red, instead she just managed to make a mess of the bathroom, she has also started to buy kerrang (which saves me from having to do it) and is now stealing some of my more contempory CD’s (funny enough not the Wolfsbane though).

list 1

So it’s almost Christmas and I think it’s the first time I have had enough alcohol in the house to drink myself into a coma, well since I was about twelve that is.

So now to the first of my lists

Things I get anal about

1.twisted telephone wires(grrrr)
2.dead matches in the box (why? Just throw the fucking things)
3.toilet paper the wrong way on the holder
4.cd’s in the wrong case( I know somebody who is worse, he likes to line up the graphic on the cd with the background in the case, he then moans about the designer not tacking in to account the difference in perspective caused by the distance the cd is protruding from the background-fucking art students)
5.sweet wrappers in the quality street tin (see 2)
6.Broken cd clips in the case (who fucking does that? Is there a fairy or something that specializes in breaking the things? what a bastard)
7.having to ask for my change (I’m not made of money)
8.talking when I’m on the toilet (I don’t care if the house is on fire, leave me the hell alone)
Only eight, I was hoping for ten.
If I think of any more I’ll add them later

end of year lists

I have noticed all the other blogs have started to do lists, it must be a seasonal thing so I will have to conform and do a list or two of my own. Watch this space.