Between the passing of Klaus Schulze and Vangelis, I’ve been on a bit of an Electronica journey lately… Decided to dig into some of the Tangerine Dream stuff I hadn’t listened to before…especially the live bootlegs (which have official releases now available from TD’s website):
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The Range’s latest album “Mercury” was released today. I enjoy it.
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Just got into paledusk - god fucking damn they are good. They are a kinda prog metalcore band, but with an electronic feel and a lot of weird (but cool) twists on the genre.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5r2ctEKO9aSEudC85lqZZT?si=txmGL7KeT5-nhgSL0bHJ6A
This song slay, is probably my favourite, followed by black ice - although it is by no means their heaviest song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdbHO_KhCig
Tackling covers for my next music write up, so I’m jamming to some of my favorites. Lianne did her thing with this one. Absolutely amazing cover.
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Per my recent post;
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Nostalgia hits hard with this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRL1hGPOUTo
Still one of my favorite records.
Lyrics
Aice Cooper - Go To Hell
For criminal acts and violence on the stage
For bein’ a brat, refusin’ to act your age
For all of the decent citizens you’ve enraged
You can go to hell
For gamblin’ and drinkin’ alcohol constantly
For makin’ us doubt our parents authority
For choosin’ to be a living obscenity
You can go to hell
You’re something that never should have happened
You even make your grandma sick
You’d poison a blind man’s dog and steal his cane
You’d gift-wrap a leper and mail him to your aunt Jane
You’d even force-feed a diabetic a candy cane
You can go to hell
You’re something that never should have happened
You even make your grandma sick
For criminal acts and violence on the stage
For bein’ a brat, refusin’ to act your age
For all of the decent citizens you’ve enraged
You can go to hell
Alice Cooper is amazing.
Been on a Thin Lizzy kick. Had no idea Whiskey in the Jar is a traditional Irish ballad. Also, I will go out on a limb and say I like the Metallica version even more.
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That’s the generation bias. I didn’t know this either until a couple of years ago. My dad told me it was from thin Lizzy when I was a little kid. That burnt into my brain. And about 22 years ago I needed to explain a school buddy of mine that the song isn’t from Metallica. And I guess when I’m a grampa I’ll tell my grand kids that the song isn’t from Rhianna Beeberlake… or that YikYok artists those damn kids are bragging 'bout… on their game boys… and such…
Oh boy, reminiscences and fond memories… you beautiful time machines!
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I had this on Amiga as a kid; I honestly don’t remember liking the game itself all that much but man that theme slaps
YouTube wif ads:
MP3 from KHInsider:
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For no reason what so ever I was reminded of this song.
Also learned it was a cover of the original by World Domination Enterprises. I just remember this one from MTV’s venerable “Amp” program.
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Toto - Don’t Chain My Heart
I’d never seen the video - aesthetically the whole thing is unmistakably early 90’s, but the cap and sunglasses the key-man is wearing puts such a perfect bow on it. 10/10 would hang out in 1992 again
Dave’s occasional obligatory Aesop post incoming; 
WANING: contains gratuitous horror B-move shenanigans but also poetry somehow:
This video is fifteen years old, but posted last week since his old catalog is now on the new label. :3
Lyrics
[Chorus: Aesop Rock]
We don’t need no walkie-talkies, nope no walkie talkies
We don’t need your coughing when offing the morning coffee
No, we don’t need no walkie-talkies, nope no walkie-talkies
We just want our hermitry to stay and our coffee to go
[Verse 1: Aesop Rock]
And the last shall be
First to immerse in the pass out heat
Face in the mud where the moxie melt
'Till he woke up drowning in tchotchke hell
More in a cave with a torch on the wall
Than a window arrangement of porcelain dolls
On a brand new day, saw what he saw
Property owners who crawl to the mall
With a bad toupee and a face like he author the law
Pace like he mourning a loss
Right hand on a can of worms
Left full of gold he will trade for turf, I mean
That’s ok, you got to answer to you at the end of the volatile day
But a model of mercy and might, no way
Marionette who will clap and obey
Dude, look, all that noise
Call that flight of the water boys
Meet and greet and they all slap five
Cheek to cheek when they colonize
And a grown-ass man shall abide as he wish
Walk that path with a dime and a stick
Walk that path with a diamond and wine
Walk that path to the firing line
Just walk, pay no mind
To the new recruit with the play-doh spine
Let’s be friends from opposite ends
Wave to the kid don’t hop on the fence
Play to the radius far and away
Orbit wide don’t park in his space
One little martyr who talk in his face
Make one little Weathermen sharpen the blades
[Chorus: Aesop Rock]
We don’t need no walkie-talkies, nope no walkie talkies
We don’t need your coughing when offing the morning coffee
No, we don’t need no walkie-talkies, nope no walkie-talkies
We just want our hermitry to stay and our coffee to go
[Verse 2: Aesop Rock]
And the last shall be
First to the curb with the mad cow meat
Face in the bars of a regular cell
When he woke up high in collectible hell
Boom town kid who was taught by the binge
That a man who expire with the most shit win
That’s warpy American nonsense penned by the rich
Not a routine friend in a pinch
Still not used to the stench
How it throws off otherwise lucid events
In the case the afraid observe
I got a Pro-Keds box full of layman’s terms, it goes
Hey, peace, pray for the plagued
Major relief and capacious rains
But just cuz I don’t want to war with you
It don’t mean go warm up the barbecue
I’m like pardon you, sawed off limit
My high noon is a quick little minute
I don’t wanna spend it sitting with a critic
Who simply isn’t going to ever really get it
This HQ is alive and alone
No driveway no sign of a home
No dial tone, no line for the phone
No world’s tiniest violin song
And I might just lie to them all, lie in the morgue
With a deep breath hiding and bored
Fighting a smile, highly annoyed
When the timing is right I will rise and record
Call for the monster beats and Blockhead got
Animal drums like he’s doctor teeth
It goes red light green light 1 2 3
One large coffee, fuck you, peace
[Bridge: Aesop Rock]
T-A-K-E-N-O-P-R-I-S-O-N-E-R-S
T-A-K-E-N-O-P-R-I-S-O-N-E-R-S
T-A-K-E-N-O-P-R-I-S-O-N-E-R-S
T-A-K-E-N-O-P-R-I-S-O-N-E-R-S
T-A-K-E-N-O-P-R-I-S-O-N-E-R-S
[Outro: John Darnielle]
I crawled down to the basement
When the weather got cold
Like a lost lamb returning to the fold
And when the outside world recedes from view
It’s just a year’s supply of make-up
And memories of you
1967 Colt 45, holding back the vampires
Keeping me alive
There’s an envelope with some cash in it
Out by the front door
This is what they make you take the medication for
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Enjoying some classic funky disco (aka future funk source material):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSP-I8YZ4Qo
+1 to sass
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Their latest offerings have really left me wanting but I still consider Metric one of my favorite bands of all time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utMD5GDkLk8
Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five - Wings
First time I heard this song was on the Classic Rock satellite radio station playing at work. I didn’t know the band performing was Wings, and I definitely didn’t realize the vocalist was Paul McCartney. Having played right after Lynyrd Skynyrd, I figured this was another dixie-rock band. Got a chuckle when I looked it up later and realized who I’d been listening to.
Randomly came across this song again, haven’t heard it in 30+ years. Reminds me of the good old days.
Abominable disco fox… man, unfond childhood memories. And when the pain begins to crawl…
https://youtu.be/aahViYznVTQ
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