Tag: music

Insufficient sleep and all screwed up on Monster (Zero Ultra). Let's have some Satanic dance music, and then maybe the machines can kill us all.

(art by Darkpony)

• My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult: Nice compilation from the Wax Trax days and across the next 20 years.
• Fun With Knives, by Velvet Acid Christ
• Remix Wars Strike 4, by Funker Vogt & Velvet Acid Christ: Star Trek and Event Horizon fans should listen to Futile!
• Musik ist Krieg, by Funker Vogt
• Maschine Zeit, by Funker Vogt
• Pulse, by Front 242

• Queen
• Queen II
• A Night at the Opera, by Queen
• A Day at the Races, by Queen
• News of the World, by Queen
• Abandoned Luncheonette, by Daryl Hall & John Oates
• War Babies, by Daryl Hall & John Oates: Really enjoyed this album more than I'd expected/remembered, prog rock opera, but still bluesy. Reminds me of many Police albums.
• Daryl Hall & John Oates
• Bigger Than Both of Us, by Daryl Hall & John Oates
• Halloween '77 Live, by Frank Zappa: Zappa's albums are endless and random quality, so his live shows are the only reasonable way to hear him. Shout out to the 24:05 long vamping of Wild Love.
• Chicago '78 Live, by Frank Zappa

Gonna look thru the new blues section in Apple Music, see what's good. I don't vouch for any of these yet, will update with notes.

• Strange Angels, in Flight with Elmore James: Tribute album, so far impressed by Tom Jones (rather surprisingly) and Deborah Bonham, but a variety of covers.
• Black Coffee, by Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa: Up through title track's good blues-rock, but then their version of Lullaby of the Leaves is great, guitar wailing and girl screaming hurt out from her gut.
• Charmed & Dangerous, by Altered Five Blues Band: New but not exceptional songs, guitar's better than singing or songwriting, mostly, but On My List to Quit is a fine song.
• Californisoul, by Super Sonic Blues Machine: Kind of a mess of blues, funk, and latin. Bar-band quality, certainly wouldn't buy an album but acceptable background music.
• The Sherman Holmes Project
• Good Morning Midnight, by Scott Ellison
• Stompin' Ground, by Tommy Castro

• Om Malik asks: Has music lost that loving feeling?: Betteridge's Law gives the correct answer, as usual: No.
• MG Siegler whines a few random setlists aren't random, "it's not the same": Pseudo-random number generation is in fact very close to random with modern seeding & algorithms, MG.

If you want to listen to an album, it's right there, in Apple Music, or presumably Spotify or whatever, which is why I mostly link to albums in my semi-daily music posts. If you want things outside your usual tastes, go hit Browse and find something. Or listen to one of Apple's "radio" stations; Zane Lowe just plays intolerable disco crap for ADHD babies, but there are others.

Anyway. Here's some hostile mechanical music to replace your whiny sentimental humanity:

• Armed Audio Warfare, by Meat Beat Manifesto
• Satyricon, by Meat Beat Manifesto
• Impossible Star, by Meat Beat Manifesto
• Everybody Hates You, by Combichrist
• Machines Are Us, by Icon of Coil
• Technophoby, by Decoded Feedback
• Dark Passenger, by Decoded Feedback

• Who Made Who, by AC/DC
• The Razor's Edge, by AC/DC
• Women and Children First, by Van Halen
• 1984, by Van Halen
• Killer, by Alice Cooper
• School's Out, by Alice Cooper
• Welcome to My Nightmare, by Alice Cooper

• Def Leppard is finally available in digital! Hysteria's my favorite of their albums ("Armageddon It" in particular), but all the pre-'90s albums are fantastic, a good mix of NWOBHM blues-metal and pop, and the later ones are fine, just different without Clark. If anything, Rick Allen gets better without one arm slowing him down.

• "Humans from Earth", by T-Bone Burnett
• Hatful of Hollow, by the Smiths "I am Human and I need to be loved", claims Morrissey
• Crash, by the Human League "I was Human, too"
• Felt Mountain, by Goldfrapp "Are you Human, or do you make it up?"
• Replicas Redux, by Gary Numan "I Nearly Married a Human"
• Rock 'n Roll, by the New York Dolls "Human Being"
• Astro-Creep 2000, by White Zombie "More Human Than Human"

• Wizard Bloody Wizard, by Electric Wizard: New last year, I missed this coming out!
• Electric Wizard
• What Happens Next, by Joe Satriani: New album!
• Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards, by Joe Satriani
• Wrong Creatures, by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: New album! Much more mellow, blues/distortion rock than the last few. I still largely listen to BRMC because I miss Michael Been's band The Call, and his son sometimes does a cover or a little Call-out.
• No Cross No Crown, by Corrosion of Conformity: NEW ALBUM by original lineup!

• Pop Goes the World, by Men Without Hats
• Folk of the '80s Part I, by Men Without Hats
• Kick, by INXS
• Power, Corruption, & Lies, by New Order
• Low-Life, by New Order
• Speak & Spell, by Depeche Mode
• Construction Time Again, by Depeche Mode
• Actually, by Pet Shop Boys