What Are You Listening To?
TMats
is loaded with a lot of Alternative Rock that I listen to while
working out. Here's a bit about some of the music I've been listening
to lately:
Linkin Park. Like most boomers, I have little use for rap, but I find
the blend of rap and alternative that this band has pioneered,
entertaining. I understand that their most recent release moves away
from the rap/alternative fusion--haven't heard it yet.
Breaking Benjamin. I will readily admit that this band doesn't have
much variety in their music, but the vocals are strong and that's
lacking in quite a lot of music these days (a band that gets quite a
lot of attention that I feel has both weak vocals and writing is Red
Hot Chili Peppers). Some of the tracks I favor are "Natural Life,"
"Show Me How It Ends," "Breath," and "Break My Fall." Actually there
are quite a few more; I really like this band.
Chevelle. I think this band has only one disc out called Vena Sera.
A little uneven, but there are a few outstanding tracks on the disc.
"Well Enough Alone" goes from dead stop to nose-bleed speed so fast I
grin every time it kicks off.
Evans Blue has a couple discs out now. The lead vocalist can be
annoyingly "breathy" (listen to the first disc and you'll hear what I
mean), but they have a different sound and a handful of really, really
good tracks. Try "In a Red Dress and Alone" and "The Pursuit" from
their second disc.
Mercy Fall. This band has just one disc out called For the Taken.
They have and almost retro sound to them and have kind of nice
harmonies in their songs.
In another post I made reference to Green Day. I think most everyone
reading this if familiar with them, so I'm not passing on anything
new. I think the album American Idiot is a classic and deserves
mention along with most any list of important recorded music. As the
Bone Mama, Mary McCann, long time Phoenix DJ once said, "There ain't
a bad track on it;" it's one of the few albums released in the last 20
years or so that I can listen to start to finish.
Lately I've been getting reacquainted with Pink Floyd. I saw a
broadcast of a concert on PBS from Europe recently and it was nice to
hear "On the Turning Away" and "Comfortably Numb." I always think of
the one time I saw them. They were touring Dark Side and the venue
was DU Arena. Shows, I think, that they were largely a cult band
prior to the success of Dark Side.
bob m
I've been listening to vintage airchecks of KSHE-FM
from the 1970s and early 80s. here's a look at a
couple of things they played back then:
at around 5:00am in the morning on August 1972 , dj
Sir Ed played the whole first side of the psychedelic
lp "666" which was a musical adaptation of the
Biblical book of Revelation by the Greek band
'Aphrodites Child' whose members included Vangelis
Papathanassiou and Demis Roussos. You don't hear that
sort of thing on 'classic rock' radio anymore that's
for sure!
on an aircheck from 1982, 80 year old dj Ruth
Hutchinson, on her "klassics" show, played the 10
minute epic song "between the lines" from the 1977
debut album by the German band 'Lake'. Until I
listened to this aircheck, I hadn't heard that song in
30 years since I first heard it played on WYDD in
Pittsburgh during their freeform days in the 1970s.
Bob
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trepidation that I offer this new-found (to me) gem. I recently
stumbled across Joe Bonamassa and specifically, his cover of the Blind
Faith classic, "Had to Cry Today." Bonamassa plays in a blues-rock
style reminiscent of SRV and also like SRV, merely puts a personal
stamp on a great song from a classic album much like Stevie did with
his performance of Voodoo Chile, Slight Return at Carnegie Hall (and
the Stevie Wonder classic, "Superstition" for that matter).