OK let’s forget the flowery prosaic intro and just jump headfirst into this year’s crop of nominees: Nirvana KISS Yes Peter Gabriel The Meters The Replacements Hall & Oates N.W.A. Linda Ronstadt LL Cool J The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Chic Deep Purple Link Wray Cat Stevens The Zombies Whoa… I’m a HUGE Kiss fan!…
It’s just one of those things, man. I seriously can’t stand Phil Collins. Nothing personal against the guy, but his No Jacket Required album made the calendar year 1985 a living hell for me. Sussu-freakin-sudio indeed. His voice makes my skin jump clear off my body and run straight up a tree. He did the…
The haunting Scottish ballad “The Daemon Lover” ensares you with a tragic tale of a woman being visited by a past lover… who is later revealed to be The Devil. He tempts her away from her child and husband with promises of land, riches, lurid promises of dark enchantments… She kisses her child goodbye, and…
‘Cause I really always knew that my little crime Would be cold, that’s why I got a heater for your thighs And I know, I know it’s not your time But bye-bye And a word to the wise, when the fire dies You think it’s over but it’s just begun Baby, don’t cry You had…
One of these days I’m really going to have to talk about Sting’s 1985 debut album The Dream Of The Blue Turtles because not only is it one of my favorite all-time albums based on the quality of the music alone, it was one of those “Got Me Through High School” records that I ridiculously…
It’s metal. It’s Pirate metal! It’s Scottish Pirate metal!! It’s Scottish Pirate metal with a Keytar!!! Not only is Keelhauled a perfect Halloween song to get you in that dress-up-and-gut-a-deserving-swine mood, it pretty much has one of the catchiest sing-along choruses ever recorded. I know we don’t all have Sid Meier-esque daydreams about raiding towns…
In a dark and misty house Where no Christian man has been Wicked Annabella mixes a brew That no one’s ever seen… From the magnificent The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society album comes this spooky little number written by Ray Davies and sung by brother Dave. Between the thunder of Mick Avory’s percussive…
Misfits was another commercial success for The Kinks, following the same trajectory as their previous album, but this time they even managed to score a Top 40 single (and sometime AOR-radio staple) A Rock & Roll Fantasy. Their label Arista was probably moderately pleased with the results; RCA, their previous label, must have been FUMING! I…
Or yet another episode of “This Is Why I Run”… In what’s become a celebrated annual tradition for Ziggy-Piggy Foodies at Walt Disney World, Epcot presents their International Food and Wine Festival every fall. Between late September 27th and November 11th of this year, a virtual whirlwind of culinary activity takes over WDW’s second theme…
Rating: 10 / 10 (if you’re a Metallica fan) Rating: 8 / 10 (otherwise) During the opening scenes of the new concert / video montage / Anarchy-gone-berserk film Metallica: Through The Never, a young roadie named Trip (Dane DeHaan) is making his way backstage before a Metallica show. He first passes singer/guitarist James Hetfield, who glares at…