Category: music

• Killer, by Alice Cooper: Really just listen to "Under My Wheels", "Desperado", and "Killer".
• School's Out
• Billion Dollar Babies
• Muscle of Love: End of the original band
• Welcome to My Nightmare: First of his solo act
• Goes to Hell, by Alice Cooper

Vincent Damon Furnier's journey from glam-pop Bowie-wannabe into the "Alice Cooper" character and Sabbath-style heavy metal is these transitional albums.

• Automatic, by VNV Nation
• 21st Century Boys, by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
• The Looks or the Lifestyle, by Pop Will Eat Itself
• Stranger than Fiction, by Bad Religion
• Tenebrae Vision, by Cyberaktif

And here's some happy reading material about the future we could've had, if Humans hadn't been such deranged warmongers, and instead spent our money & effort usefully:

• Usborne Book of the Future

• Out of the Blue, by Electric Light Orchestra
• Time, by Electric Light Orchestra
• Alone in the Universe, by Jeff Lynne's ELO
• The Grand Illusion, by Styx
• Boston
• Back to the Egg, by Wings

Feeling like some prog, spacey rock, á la Venture Bros.

Apple Music was no help today:

I'm really not "into" Michael Jackson, especially not twice. I assume it took him appearing on GotG Awesome Mix as support. So I just went thru and hit Dislike on every one of the little creep's albums, hopefully this never happens again. I keep suggesting to Apple Music to let us block an artist we don't like so they never reappear, and they've done no such thing. Somewhat ironic: His last few albums were Invincible and Immortal; not so much.

• City to City, by Gerry Rafferty
• Stealer's Wheel: Only two compilations on Apple Music, so Youtube it is.
• Ferguslie Park, by Stealer's Wheel
• Out of Nowhere, by Joe Egan
• Night Owl, by Gerry Rafferty
• Bread
• On the Waters, by Bread

• '90s Rock Essentials playlist: Skip all the Nirvana; as I've often said, the average quality of music in the world doubled the day Kurt solved his headache problem. While I like Santana, Smooth (featuring Rob Thomas) really doesn't fit in this list, nor does some of the electronica. Otherwise very nice.
• Nude & Rude: The Best of Iggy Pop: Iggy's best work was first done in the '70s, but his '90s comeback is when he finally burned away all soft kindness in himself and just rocked the fuck out.
• This is the Day… This is the Hour… This is This…, by Pop Will Eat Itself: The album that got me ready for a brave new world.
• Pretty Hate Machine, by Nine Inch Nails: How I felt about that world.
• Smells Like Children, by Marilyn Manson: Nihilistic response after a couple years living in that shit.

• Bat Out of Hell, by Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman
• Bad for Good, by Jim Steinman
• Bat Out of Hell II, by Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman
• Bat Out of Hell III, by Meat Loaf & Jim Steinman
• Original Sin, by Pandora's Box & Jim Steinman

• Warheads on Foreheads, by Megadeth: Greatest hits, we all have every Megadeth album, right? But nice as a playlist.

Brother will kill brother
Spilling blood across the land
Killing for religion
Something I don't understand
—"Holy Wars… The Punishment Due"

• All the Young Dudes, by Mott the Hoople
• Shock Treatment, by the Edgar Winter Group
• 1969, by the Velvet Underground
• Ian Hunter
• After the Gold Rush, by Neil Young
• The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, by David Bowie

• The Hacker/The Act, by Clock/DVA
• Buried Dreams, by Clock/DVA
• Collective, by Clock/DVA
• Post-Sign, by Clock/DVA
• Clock 2, by Clock/DVA
• Resolution, by Android Lust
• Evolution, by Android Lust
• The Dividing, by Android Lust
• Stripped & Stitched, by Android Lust

Brought on by MySpace losing all music uploads. My page was always just Clock/DVA and Android Lust rips.