Showing posts with label 1st album. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1st album. Show all posts

Monday, 21 February 2011

Killing Joke - S/T (1980)



This came out and blew me away. Post-punk/
industrial/metal war dance - whatever you want
to call it, it stayed on my record player for a year!

Fat dance bass grooves, stabbing keyboards, wall
of sound guitar that had tunes as well as power,
tribal drumming and of course vocals by Jaz C.

In a year when a lot of new bands were emerging
from the States to make me jump up and down,
the first Killing Joke album was top of my list of
things to play when I wanted to break things!

Thursday, 2 December 2010

Public Image - Album (1986)






















Lydon, Ginger Baker and Steve Vai. Even in black and
white in front of you, it seems an impossible band to
ever come together.

Well, it happened and guess what - it was great.

Huge sounding drums, a fluid shifting bass line + Vai
guitar work - not too widdly in the solo department
and harsh sounding chords which blended with the
vocals ....... Lydon employed all his vocals trademarks -
the "warble", shouting, sneering and even a bit of singing!


This is a very solid record with no filler tracks - classic
song writing is in evidence here.

Some PIL fans thought it "too rock" but I liked it.

I have stuck with Mr Lydon through some absolute
crap as well as some tracks of genius and I just wish
that he would get together with a heavy guitar sound
for a whole album.

Friday, 5 November 2010

Chickenhawk - S/T (2008)























Whilst waiting for the new album, I have been playing
the 1st one today.

Noise, shouting, riffs, electronic squalls, psych guitar
bits, pounding tunes with hardcore/stoner influences.

What's not to like!

Friday, 12 March 2010

Motorhead - Motorhead 1977























Anyone with the slightest interest in Stoner music or
who thinks that the genre began with Kyuss needs to
listen to this.

Raw rock/punk/metal, this dirty piece on sonic mayhem
set the scene for much of what followed.