I saw my new favorite band, Blood Incantation, at the Fillmore in Silver Spring, MD last night. Amazing, epic show!!! I bought my first vinyl record in many, many years and a sweatshirt.
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A couple of clips from the show
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Forth Wanderers have a new album out for the first time in 7 years, and it’s pretty good! Not wall-to-wall legendary bangers like their debut, Tough Love, but that was always gonna be an impossible ask. I’m just glad they’re back.
Edit: Reading this Vice article by the lead vocalist, detailing how their struggle with panic and OCD led to their long hiatus, makes me love their work even more.
Having all this incredible opportunity fall into your lap, and not being able to seize on fucking any of it because of your mental illness, is so deeply felt.
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Times have changed and times are strange
Here I come but I ain’t the same
Mama, I’m coming home
Times go bye, seems to be
You could have been a better friend to me
Mama, I’m coming home
You took me in and you drove me out
Yeah, you had me hypnotized, yeah
Lost and found and turned around
By the fire in your eyes
You made me cry, you told me lies
But I can’t stand to say goodbye
Mama, I’m coming home
I could be right, I could be wrong
It hurts so bad it’s been so long
Mama, I’m coming home
Selfish love yeah we’re both alone
The ride before the fall, yeah
But I’m gonna take this heart of stone
I just got to have it all
I’ve seen your face a hundred times
Everyday we’ve been apart
And I don’t care about the sunshine, yeah
'Cause mama, mama, I’m coming home
I’m coming home
You took me in and you drove me out
Yeah, you had me hypnotized
Lost and found and turned around
By the fire in your eyes
I’ve seen your face a thousand times
Everyday we’ve been apart
And I don’t care about the sunshine, yeah
'Cause mama, mama, I’m coming home
I’m coming home, I’m coming home
I’m coming home
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Love me some Sabbath and Ozzy. I didn’t catch that show he did a few weeks ago but only heard about it. Amazing to think he held on just long enough for one more performance.
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I was just thinking I should check out a Sabbath album today. I’ve enjoyed Paranoid and the self-titled debut in the past. Any recommendations for others to prioritize?
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For certain Black Sabbath to hear their debut and what might be their best album, and then Master of Reality because it’s the catalyst for sludge metal.
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I have given Master of Reality a listen! Pretty solid record all the way through. I think I prefer the two previous ones but they’re all great.
It’s interesting listening to it as a precursor to sludge metal because I’ve had a pretty limited exposure to the genre I think. I really enjoyed Bongripper’s album Endless, and that’s sort of my point of reference because it really feels sludgey as hell, but there’s not a ton else that comes to mind. It feels so far removed from Master of Reality, which isn’t really surprising.
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Somewhat ironically, Heaven and Hell is one of my favorite albums, after Paranoid, of course, which is by any standard probably one of the best metal albums in history. It probably defined the entire genre.
H&H is the first one to feature Dio as singer instead of Ozzy and you can tell the difference. But if you like Rainbow and Dio, you’ll probably like this album.
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“People who don’t understand stuff- stop being so proud of it”
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Really digging the new Tyler, the Creator (His last album was a banger and is less than a year old. Crazy to have so much stellar output.) and Clipse (Pusha never misses). I’ll come back later with some thoughts but wanted to pop in to encourage others to check them out.
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We went to see Kesha last night! The lip syncing/crowd work at the beginning of the show made me fear I’d regret going, but when she actually got to performing, was incredible. Very good show!
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“Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.” - Tom Petty
Worth watching: Runnin' Down a Dream (film) - Wikipedia
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Love the production on this album! It’s so crisp and there’s a palpable space in the mix that the vocals live in. I feel like I could just listen to the beats in isolation even though they’re pretty simple.
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It’s been becoming a House-y summer for me
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She captures the 80s sound pretty well here and gives me a Running Up That Hill vibe, which is never a bad thing.
This tune really surprised me in her concert, it’s a good one.
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“Here Comes The Judge” - Pigmeat Markham (1968) Acknowledged as the first ‘rap’ song.
That’s what Wikipedia writes about it: “James Brown is credited for inventing funk music in the middle '60s. The characteristic funk drum beat is the most common rhythm used for rap music. Two of the earliest recordings which have a funk beat and lyrics which are rhymed in rhythm over this type of beat were released by comedian Pigmeat Markham, ‘Here Come the Judge’ and in 1969 another song about running numbers called ‘Who Got The Number?’.”