The Darkness: Hot Cakes (2012)
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esta claro que con una sola escucha no se puede opinar sobre un disco, pero lo que si tengo claro es que con una escucha puedo intuir por donde irán los tiros, .. ¿que me puedo equivocar? pues claro, pero es que si no tomara ese riesgo no llegaría a escuchar toda la música quiero ...... ahora mismo estoy escuchando una banda que me recomendaron hace tiempo y con una primera escucha ya se me han caido los huevos al suelo, ........ que pedazo de banda, ........... increibles, ........ a eso me refiero, ... todos sabemos lo que realmente nos gusta
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jackinthebox escribió:R'as Kal Bhul escribió:jackinthebox escribió:BillyPilgrim escribió:HankIV escribió:BillyPilgrim escribió:Yo doy gracias a Dio cada mañana por vivir en estos tiempos de música en streaming, piratería y pillaje. Sin mis dos descargas al día no soy nada.
¿y te da tiempo a apreciar realmente la música?
Definitivamente sí. Entre las descargas están las cosas que no vuelvo a escuchar jamás, pero que siempre mola conocer, y los discos que escuchas una y otra vez y acabo comprando.
Otra cosa es que ya no de tantas oportunidades a música que a lo mejor me acabaría moland. Está claro que no hay tiempo para todo pero es un mal menor. Antes descartaba discos por una mala reseña, acertada o no, y ahora al menos les pego una escucha.
Es que vamos a ver, parece que escuchar música sea una obligación.
Yo me bajo mucha música y la dejo guardada en una carpeta. Y de ahí voy sacando discos poco a poco, y cuando tengo uno escuchado lo suficiente paso al siguiente. Estos días, por ejemplo, estoy muy enganchado al de Bowie. Pues probablemente de aquí a una semana estaré escuchando el último de White Buffalo al que todavía no he hincado el diente. Y así...
No me puedo creer que os quejéis de tener demasiado acceso a demasiada música.
Yo no es que me queje, pero he renunciado a bajarme discos desde hace ya un par de años. Prefiero escuchar lo que me compro (que ya es bastante) de manera más relajada. Reconozco que no se quién son los Alberta Cross esos, pero realmente me la suda.
Claro, yo hay muchos grupos que se mencionan por este foro que podrían gustarme y nunca sabré quienes son porque es evidente que no se puede escuchar todo. Pero como dice Billy, hay discos que con una escucha se van a la basura, otros que te acabas comprando en original y otros que se quedan en mp3 y se disfrutan así. Yo no veo nada de malo. Te aseguro que disfruto lo que escucho, y no me agobio ni un segundo pensando que me queda mucho por escuchar. Pero ni un segundo, vaya.
Yo Spotify y compro porque es lo que mejor me va a mí para disfrutar de los discos, con las descargas me llegué a saturar, sé que Jack es más ordenado que yo con el tema y a él le va bien, yo simplemente no sabía decir ni una canción del disco porque se convertían en tracks number. El que disfrute de las descargas, genial para él, además se ahorra una pasta.
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Por cierto Jack, ya tardas con el de White Buffalo.
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R'as Kal Bhul escribió:Godofredo escribió:R'as Kal Bhul escribió:HankIV escribió:uffff, el disco no me pareció nada malo, ....... pero no he vuelto a escucharlo ni una sola vez, ...... antes, los buenos discos duraban meses y meses en nuestras pletinas, ahora eso es bastante difícil, aunque sean buenos
Pues yo este lo estoy quemando...
Lo que no está escrito. Me alegra muchas mañanas.
Ahora me acuerdo de una conversación en este mismo topic con el Fary.... Creo que me apetece más ponerme este disco que los dos anteriores. Y no tengo ya tan claro que sea peor que One Way Ticket.
Yo creo que es su mejor disco, aunque soy consciente que no todo el mundo comparte mi opinión.
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Old Logan escribió:R'as Kal Bhul escribió:Godofredo escribió:R'as Kal Bhul escribió:HankIV escribió:uffff, el disco no me pareció nada malo, ....... pero no he vuelto a escucharlo ni una sola vez, ...... antes, los buenos discos duraban meses y meses en nuestras pletinas, ahora eso es bastante difícil, aunque sean buenos
Pues yo este lo estoy quemando...
Lo que no está escrito. Me alegra muchas mañanas.
Ahora me acuerdo de una conversación en este mismo topic con el Fary.... Creo que me apetece más ponerme este disco que los dos anteriores. Y no tengo ya tan claro que sea peor que One Way Ticket.
Yo creo que es su mejor disco, aunque soy consciente que no todo el mundo comparte mi opinión.
Estoy contigo Old Logan, es su mejor disco. Lo que ocurre es que es el que peor singles tiene pero en su cojunto creo que gana (por poco) a los otros tres (sí, tres, el de Hot Leg también lo considero como un disco de The Darkness)
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Quizá no tenga singles clarísimos como en los dos anteriores, pero tiene un puñado de canciones super resultonas: "Keep Me Hanging' On", "Everybody Have a Good Time", "She Just a Girl Eddie" (demoledora) o "Forbidden Love". Yo en conjunto lo veo en disco más consistente que los dos primeros.Itlotg escribió:Old Logan escribió:R'as Kal Bhul escribió:Godofredo escribió:R'as Kal Bhul escribió:HankIV escribió:uffff, el disco no me pareció nada malo, ....... pero no he vuelto a escucharlo ni una sola vez, ...... antes, los buenos discos duraban meses y meses en nuestras pletinas, ahora eso es bastante difícil, aunque sean buenos
Pues yo este lo estoy quemando...
Lo que no está escrito. Me alegra muchas mañanas.
Ahora me acuerdo de una conversación en este mismo topic con el Fary.... Creo que me apetece más ponerme este disco que los dos anteriores. Y no tengo ya tan claro que sea peor que One Way Ticket.
Yo creo que es su mejor disco, aunque soy consciente que no todo el mundo comparte mi opinión.
Estoy contigo Old Logan, es su mejor disco. Lo que ocurre es que es el que peor singles tiene pero en su cojunto creo que gana (por poco) a los otros tres (sí, tres, el de Hot Leg también lo considero como un disco de The Darkness)
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En resumen, vaya discografía la de estos pájaros, sublime
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Katxorro escribió:En resumen, vaya discografía la de estos pájaros, sublime
Sí, aunque su directo es mejorable.
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Pues sí, en tres discos (o cuatro) han reunido un montón de canciones memorables.Katxorro escribió:En resumen, vaya discografía la de estos pájaros, sublime
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Old Logan escribió:Pues sí, en tres discos (o cuatro) han reunido un montón de canciones memorables.Katxorro escribió:En resumen, vaya discografía la de estos pájaros, sublime
y las caras b de los singles, muchas de ellas eran mejores canciones que las que entraron en los discos. Justin tiene un talento descomunal pero es verdad que en directo son un poco paquetes o al menos esa fue la sensación que me dieron a mi cuando los vi en su primera gira.
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Sí, eso tenía entendido yo hasta que los vi en el Azkena, estuvieron descomunales.Itlotg escribió:Old Logan escribió:Pues sí, en tres discos (o cuatro) han reunido un montón de canciones memorables.Katxorro escribió:En resumen, vaya discografía la de estos pájaros, sublime
y las caras b de los singles, muchas de ellas eran mejores canciones que las que entraron en los discos. Justin tiene un talento descomunal pero es verdad que en directo son un poco paquetes o al menos esa fue la sensación que me dieron a mi cuando los vi en su primera gira.
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Error.elway escribió:Katxorro escribió:En resumen, vaya discografía la de estos pájaros, sublime
Sí, aunque su directo es mejorable.
Su directo es de lo mejor que se haya visto. Los pude ver justo cuando se reunieron y arrasaron con todo. De los mejores conciertos que pude ver el medio año que estuve en Londres (y fueron muchos). Su directo es tan potente como el de los grandes en su mejor momento. Están en el mejor momento de su carrera, son jóvenes, están en una forma física brutal, tienen ganas de comerse el mundo, han aprendido de los errores del pasado y además tienen repertorio para elegir entre sus 3 discarrales. Son ya una banda clásica, y en directo es donde más se disfruta de ellos.
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Yo los vi en madrid en otoño y se salieron., pero sin duda.
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Perry go round escribió:Error.elway escribió:Katxorro escribió:En resumen, vaya discografía la de estos pájaros, sublime
Sí, aunque su directo es mejorable.
Su directo es de lo mejor que se haya visto. Los pude ver justo cuando se reunieron y arrasaron con todo. De los mejores conciertos que pude ver el medio año que estuve en Londres (y fueron muchos). Su directo es tan potente como el de los grandes en su mejor momento. Están en el mejor momento de su carrera, son jóvenes, están en una forma física brutal, tienen ganas de comerse el mundo, han aprendido de los errores del pasado y además tienen repertorio para elegir entre sus 3 discarrales. Son ya una banda clásica, y en directo es donde más se disfruta de ellos.
Lo del pasado Azkena fué de auténtica categoría!!!
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BillyPilgrim escribió:Durrutazo?
que gran final
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su mejor disco es el primero, se mire como se mire, ... su directo ?? en Palma se merendaron a GNR
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Katxorro escribió:Yo los vi en madrid en otoño y se salieron., pero sin duda.
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Es que decir que The Darkness tiene mal directo es algo realmente tremendo!! Quizás en la época pre-ruptura, pero desde que se han vuelto a reunir les he podido ver 3 veces y cada vez ha sido mejor que la anterior, pero todas ellas a un nivel altísimo.
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danitoledo escribió:Es que decir que The Darkness tiene mal directo es algo realmente tremendo!! Quizás en la época pre-ruptura, pero desde que se han vuelto a reunir les he podido ver 3 veces y cada vez ha sido mejor que la anterior, pero todas ellas a un nivel altísimo.
Lo del mal directo es un sambenito que arrastran de su etapa anterior, pero no tiene sentido viendo el pepinazo que son hoy en el escenario.
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A ver, he dicho mejorable que no malo.
Y digo mejorable porque son jóvenes, están en forma, tienen una colección de canciones de la hostia, pero les veo ciertas pausas y clichés que deberían mejorar. Para mi gusto, hacen conciertos de 7,5 teniendo potencial para el 9 sobraos.
Y digo mejorable porque son jóvenes, están en forma, tienen una colección de canciones de la hostia, pero les veo ciertas pausas y clichés que deberían mejorar. Para mi gusto, hacen conciertos de 7,5 teniendo potencial para el 9 sobraos.
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Hot Cakes me parece un gran disco. De vez en cuando lo recupero y siempre me pone una sonrisa en la cara. Enough for me!
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Yo este fin de semana me voy a verlos a París.
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Lo recuperé esta mañana y sí, es un muy buen disco. Tal vez le falta un tema estrella como eran "Growing on Me", "I Believe in a thing called love" y "Is it just me?", pero el nivel global es alto.Rockenberg escribió:Hot Cakes me parece un gran disco. De vez en cuando lo recupero y siempre me pone una sonrisa en la cara. Enough for me!
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Perry go round escribió:Lo recuperé esta mañana y sí, es un muy buen disco. Tal vez le falta un tema estrella como eran "Growing on Me", "I Believe in a thing called love" y "Is it just me?", pero el nivel global es alto.Rockenberg escribió:Hot Cakes me parece un gran disco. De vez en cuando lo recupero y siempre me pone una sonrisa en la cara. Enough for me!
She just a girl Eddie,Forbidden Love o With A Woman me parecen temas estrella a la altura,otra cosa es que la eleccion de singles no haya sido la mejor...
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mikel erecto escribió:Perry go round escribió:Lo recuperé esta mañana y sí, es un muy buen disco. Tal vez le falta un tema estrella como eran "Growing on Me", "I Believe in a thing called love" y "Is it just me?", pero el nivel global es alto.Rockenberg escribió:Hot Cakes me parece un gran disco. De vez en cuando lo recupero y siempre me pone una sonrisa en la cara. Enough for me!
She just a girl Eddie,Forbidden Love o With A Woman me parecen temas estrella a la altura,otra cosa es que la eleccion de singles no haya sido la mejor...
Nothing's gonna stop us o concrete me parecen tremebundos también... forbidden love en cambio no me acaba de llenar el ojo y sí "love is not the answer".
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Tendrían que haber sacado With A Woman como single bastante antes. Es muy superior a los 3 anteriores.
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Godofredo escribió:mikel erecto escribió:Perry go round escribió:Lo recuperé esta mañana y sí, es un muy buen disco. Tal vez le falta un tema estrella como eran "Growing on Me", "I Believe in a thing called love" y "Is it just me?", pero el nivel global es alto.Rockenberg escribió:Hot Cakes me parece un gran disco. De vez en cuando lo recupero y siempre me pone una sonrisa en la cara. Enough for me!
She just a girl Eddie,Forbidden Love o With A Woman me parecen temas estrella a la altura,otra cosa es que la eleccion de singles no haya sido la mejor...
Nothing's gonna stop us o concrete me parecen tremebundos también... forbidden love en cambio no me acaba de llenar el ojo y sí "love is not the answer".
Para mí las dos mejores (que además me parecen de sus mejores temas ever) son "She's Just A Girl, Eddie" y "Living Each Day Blind". Pero no veo ningún tema flojo.
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Si más o menos coincido con vosotros, hay varias canciones excelentes: "Keep Me hangin' On", "She's Just a Girl, Eddie" y "Love is not the Answer" (para mí estas 3 están un escalón por encima de todas las demás) o muy buenas: "Living Each Blind", "Nothing Gonna Stop Us Now" o "Forbidden Love". Pero le falta ese tema "Estrella", ese single que se quede clavado en el cerebro, sea reconocible al instante, que tenga ese "algo" más que sí tenían las 3 que decía al principio. No tanto por falta de calidad de esas canciones, sino por un toque que las llevase al nivel de "Growing on Me", que para mí sigue siendo la mejor canción que han hecho.R'as Kal Bhul escribió:Godofredo escribió:mikel erecto escribió:Perry go round escribió:Lo recuperé esta mañana y sí, es un muy buen disco. Tal vez le falta un tema estrella como eran "Growing on Me", "I Believe in a thing called love" y "Is it just me?", pero el nivel global es alto.Rockenberg escribió:Hot Cakes me parece un gran disco. De vez en cuando lo recupero y siempre me pone una sonrisa en la cara. Enough for me!
She just a girl Eddie,Forbidden Love o With A Woman me parecen temas estrella a la altura,otra cosa es que la eleccion de singles no haya sido la mejor...
Nothing's gonna stop us o concrete me parecen tremebundos también... forbidden love en cambio no me acaba de llenar el ojo y sí "love is not the answer".
Para mí las dos mejores (que además me parecen de sus mejores temas ever) son "She's Just A Girl, Eddie" y "Living Each Day Blind". Pero no veo ningún tema flojo.
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Godofredo escribió:mikel erecto escribió:Perry go round escribió:Lo recuperé esta mañana y sí, es un muy buen disco. Tal vez le falta un tema estrella como eran "Growing on Me", "I Believe in a thing called love" y "Is it just me?", pero el nivel global es alto.Rockenberg escribió:Hot Cakes me parece un gran disco. De vez en cuando lo recupero y siempre me pone una sonrisa en la cara. Enough for me!
She just a girl Eddie,Forbidden Love o With A Woman me parecen temas estrella a la altura,otra cosa es que la eleccion de singles no haya sido la mejor...
Nothing's gonna stop us o concrete me parecen tremebundos también... forbidden love en cambio no me acaba de llenar el ojo y sí "love is not the answer".
Forbidden Love roza por momentos... lo que no debe. Pero lo que de verdad me pone de muy mala hostia es que en la edición en vinilo no venga Love is not the answer" Joder, mecagüen todo!!
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Perry go round escribió:Si más o menos coincido con vosotros, hay varias canciones excelentes: "Keep Me hangin' On", "She's Just a Girl, Eddie" y "Love is not the Answer" (para mí estas 3 están un escalón por encima de todas las demás) o muy buenas: "Living Each Blind", "Nothing Gonna Stop Us Now" o "Forbidden Love". Pero le falta ese tema "Estrella", ese single que se quede clavado en el cerebro, sea reconocible al instante, que tenga ese "algo" más que sí tenían las 3 que decía al principio. No tanto por falta de calidad de esas canciones, sino por un toque que las llevase al nivel de "Growing on Me", que para mí sigue siendo la mejor canción que han hecho.R'as Kal Bhul escribió:Godofredo escribió:mikel erecto escribió:Perry go round escribió:Lo recuperé esta mañana y sí, es un muy buen disco. Tal vez le falta un tema estrella como eran "Growing on Me", "I Believe in a thing called love" y "Is it just me?", pero el nivel global es alto.Rockenberg escribió:Hot Cakes me parece un gran disco. De vez en cuando lo recupero y siempre me pone una sonrisa en la cara. Enough for me!
She just a girl Eddie,Forbidden Love o With A Woman me parecen temas estrella a la altura,otra cosa es que la eleccion de singles no haya sido la mejor...
Nothing's gonna stop us o concrete me parecen tremebundos también... forbidden love en cambio no me acaba de llenar el ojo y sí "love is not the answer".
Para mí las dos mejores (que además me parecen de sus mejores temas ever) son "She's Just A Girl, Eddie" y "Living Each Day Blind". Pero no veo ningún tema flojo.
Sobre esto ya hemos debatido antes, pero no me importa volver a hacerlo. Para mí, Hot Cakes es su mejor disco. Mejor que el primero. No porque tenga mejores canciones (que las tiene mejores que One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back) sino porque Justin Hawkins canta mejor (o más concretamente porque no abusa de los falsetes, el grave error del primer disco). Ahora, de lo de llegar al nivel de Growing on Me olvídate. Eso es imposible.
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Pues a eso iba.
Ese nivel no lo han alcanzado con "Hot Cakes" y sí lo habían alcanzado antes. Eso sí, en conjunto tal vez sea el disco más uniforme... pero hay un par de temas que creo que bajan un poco el nivel, sobre todo "Street Spirit".
Ese nivel no lo han alcanzado con "Hot Cakes" y sí lo habían alcanzado antes. Eso sí, en conjunto tal vez sea el disco más uniforme... pero hay un par de temas que creo que bajan un poco el nivel, sobre todo "Street Spirit".
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Para mi Hot cakes es un clásico ya a la altura del segundo, de hecho me molan mas estos dos que el primero.
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Éste sábado vi a The Darkness en París y fue un gran concierto, en la línea de lo que se vio en el Azkena, aunque con un Justin Hawkins más showman, si cabe. Tocaron cinco canciones del último; el grueso del setlist lo constituye el primer disco, del que tocan todos los temas menos uno. Del segundo, sólo "One way ticket" (el segundo disco está, a mi modo de ver, injustamente infravalorado).
Como curiosidad, había un tío desde el principio del concierto con un cartel que ponía "Dejadme tocar con vosotros I believe in a thing called love". Total, que al final del concierto, lo subieron al escenario, le dieron una guitarra y repitieron el tema, que ya habían tocado antes de los bises. Los técnicos y los músicos se descojonaban, sorprendidos de que el espontáneo lo hiciera bien y se pusiera a ir de lado a lado del escenario como si fuera del grupo.
Por cierto, cómo son los franceses: a las 19:30 empezaron los teloneros; The Darkness, a las 20:45 y a las 22:15, todos para casa.
Como curiosidad, había un tío desde el principio del concierto con un cartel que ponía "Dejadme tocar con vosotros I believe in a thing called love". Total, que al final del concierto, lo subieron al escenario, le dieron una guitarra y repitieron el tema, que ya habían tocado antes de los bises. Los técnicos y los músicos se descojonaban, sorprendidos de que el espontáneo lo hiciera bien y se pusiera a ir de lado a lado del escenario como si fuera del grupo.
Por cierto, cómo son los franceses: a las 19:30 empezaron los teloneros; The Darkness, a las 20:45 y a las 22:15, todos para casa.
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AladdinSane escribió:Éste sábado vi a The Darkness en París y fue un gran concierto, en la línea de lo que se vio en el Azkena, aunque con un Justin Hawkins más showman, si cabe. Tocaron cinco canciones del último; el grueso del setlist lo constituye el primer disco, del que tocan todos los temas menos uno. Del segundo, sólo "One way ticket" (el segundo disco está, a mi modo de ver, injustamente infravalorado).
Como curiosidad, había un tío desde el principio del concierto con un cartel que ponía "Dejadme tocar con vosotros I believe in a thing called love". Total, que al final del concierto, lo subieron al escenario, le dieron una guitarra y repitieron el tema, que ya habían tocado antes de los bises. Los técnicos y los músicos se descojonaban, sorprendidos de que el espontáneo lo hiciera bien y se pusiera a ir de lado a lado del escenario como si fuera del grupo.
Por cierto, cómo son los franceses: a las 19:30 empezaron los teloneros; The Darkness, a las 20:45 y a las 22:15, todos para casa.
De telonero iba Ginger Wildheart?
ion- Mensajes : 11916
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ion escribió:
De telonero iba Ginger Wildheart?
Sí. Y por cierto, con el look actual se parece un huevo a Tino Casal.
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Este vídeo muestra el momento en que invitaron a subir al espontáneo a tocar "I believe in a thing called love".
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AladdinSane escribió:Este vídeo muestra el momento en que invitaron a subir al espontáneo a tocar "I believe in a thing called love".
El tío no es sólo que la toque bien, sino que se motiva un huevo
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AladdinSane escribió:Este vídeo muestra el momento en que invitaron a subir al espontáneo a tocar "I believe in a thing called love".
Joder pues no sé si estaría preparado o qué, pero el chaval no desentona en absoluto.
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No creo que estuviera preparado. Sólo había que ver los caretos de la banda y de los técnicos que se descojonaban y flipaban a partes iguales. Fue un momentazo, este chaval no lo olvidará en su vida.
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No me extraña, menudo desparpajo el tío, se sabía toda la puta canción, hasta el más mínimo punteo...AladdinSane escribió:No creo que estuviera preparado. Sólo había que ver los caretos de la banda y de los técnicos que se descojonaban y flipaban a partes iguales. Fue un momentazo, este chaval no lo olvidará en su vida.
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Estaba en primera fila y llevaba el cartelito de "dejadme tocar con vosotros I believe..." desde el principio del concierto.
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Qué tío más grande!! Y qué detallazo de la banda el dejarle subir al escenario!
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No se le da mal al tío crack, se la sabe y sobre todo de presencia escénica va sobrao... pero tampoco es que se salga. En todo caso ole sus huevos, yo no me atrevo ni en cien vidas
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Old Logan escribió:AladdinSane escribió:Este vídeo muestra el momento en que invitaron a subir al espontáneo a tocar "I believe in a thing called love".
Joder pues no sé si estaría preparado o qué, pero el chaval no desentona en absoluto.
Hace poco vi algo parecido con Steel Panther
Sube un tio, le dejan tocar guitarra y empieza a tocar como un campeon
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Zulander escribió:Old Logan escribió:AladdinSane escribió:Este vídeo muestra el momento en que invitaron a subir al espontáneo a tocar "I believe in a thing called love".
Joder pues no sé si estaría preparado o qué, pero el chaval no desentona en absoluto.
Hace poco vi algo parecido con Steel Panther
Sube un tio, le dejan tocar guitarra y empieza a tocar como un campeon
Este me ha gustao aún más (aunque se mueva menos), ambos pa la saca!
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Mola cuando al principo Justin para al chaval y enseña la primera lección cuando estás en una banda: Marcarle el inicio al batería
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Por mucho que lo intento, me parece inferior a los dos primeros, aún así, muy buen disco.
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elway escribió:Por mucho que lo intento, me parece inferior a los dos primeros, aún así, muy buen disco.
A mí también me gusta menos que los otros dos. Me da la sensación de que han cortado la evolución para recuperar el sonido del primero y, en cierta manera, empezar desde cero tras la reunificación. De todas formas hay cinco y sois canciones muy buenas.
Y tienen muy buen directo. En París nos llamó la atención que había bastante público joven, chavalines muy jóvenes. A ver si se garantiza el relevo generacional rockero.
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los 13 discos preferidos de Justin Hawkings:
http://thequietus.com/articles/11766-justin-hawkins-the-darkness-favourite-albums?page=1
http://thequietus.com/articles/11766-justin-hawkins-the-darkness-favourite-albums?page=1
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- Aerosmith – Pump
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This came out when I was 14 and had just started learning how to play guitar, so that’s kind of the album that coincided with me wanting to go into music. No coincidence. The first album I ever bought was Run DMC’s Raising Hell and that had Aerosmith on it, so I was always interested in Aerosmith. I think Pump sounds really special, it’s my favourite Aerosmith album – and I like a lot of Aerosmith. There must be a technical thing about it, because it doesn’t sound like other rock albums. You know how a lot of metal albums have scoops of the lower-middle absent, but there’s a lot of bass and a lot of trebly stuff so it’s like an assault? Well, it seems like the Pump album has got some lower-mid presence, so it sounds like it contains a real drum kit – it sounds like you’re in the room with them. I love the ballad ‘What It Takes’ at the end. It’s just awesome. I loved the way Aerosmith would arrange their albums. You would have about 10 songs and it’s all innuendo and riffs and sex music, and then the last song is the cuddle. I think that’s brilliant. I thought it was timing at first. Kevin Shirley produced Nine Lives for them, and I thought that was a brilliant album too, and I love Permanent Vacation, but I was a bit young for that. I think it’s just a really concise record and even when it has the interval bits between certain songs… you just can’t listen to one track, you have to listen to the whole thing to get the vibe.
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I think that most people got into AC/DC because of Back In Black and that happened to me as well, but I really wanted to explore the Bon years because Highway To Hell was a great album too. So I wanted to go back from there. I loved all of it actually. I was completely obsessed with AC/DC for a long time in fact, but the one album that really for me was head and shoulders above the rest was Powerage. It’s got songs like ‘Down Payment Blues’ and songs that people would say, ”Oh that’s my favourite AC/DC song”, because they’re trying to be cool and try and talk about their poverty and their roots and that sort of stuff, but it shows that it has a deeper poetry to it – the fact that people want to think of Powerage that way. For me it’s also got the best Angus solo of all of them. It’s on ‘Up To My Neck In You’. It goes on for ages and it’s essentially the same solo twice, but played a bit harder the second time around. It’s really good: him using proper dynamics. He has a lot of phrases that he often goes to, but it’s just the way he uses them on that solo that makes it really special.
I’m definitely a Bon enthusiast. I went to Fremantle near Perth in Australia to visit his grave. I’d never been to visit any famous graves before, and we only did it because we were in Australia and had the day off, but you have an expectation of what you’re going to see tribute-wise from other people that had gone to visit it. And there was one guy had written something that had really stayed with me. You can imagine that it’s sort of like a pilgrimage out of town – there’s nothing really around the graveyard. And there’s a bench on the concrete and you can just imagine this guy there with a Sharpie going, “hmmm, now what can I say that really sums up my feelings at this point?” And he had just put: “Love your work Bon.” Ha ha, it was really powerful.
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I think when we were kids it was all about Sgt. Pepper’s. There were a few albums that my dad had that we played a lot and that was one of them; we didn’t get far beyond that. And then when I eventually started listening to the old, old stuff, I didn’t like it so much. I realise that the innovations that they made composition-wise coloured all of pop music and a lot of rock as well – it coloured all of music really! But I wasn’t into it, not into listening to it. But then I decided to educate myself on The White Album, and I used it for everything: walking, working out etc. And I love it. I actually saw some footage of Paul McCartney doing ‘Helter Skelter’ recently and thought he really nailed it – I think he still does that song really well. I just love The White Album and I prefer it to all the other Beatles stuff. I can’t explain it though. I don’t even especially like any of the songs, it’s just that as a listening experience you can find yourself immersed in it while running on a treadmill as much as you can laying in your bed. It’s really versatile. I love all the Beatles’ stuff and it’s all eclectic, but I think this album is even more so.
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This one is the opposite of eclectic! I was a Cult fan anyway. A lot of people at school were into goth and I wasn’t so popular because I was into rock, but I felt like the Cult fell right between the cracks of those two scenes. And then there was the Manor Sessions and the stuff that they recorded for Electric that was recorded in the more traditional cult style. And I love the story of Rick Rubin telling them to throw all that stuff away and to use Les Pauls and simple sounds – basically trying to make them sound like AC/DC. A lot of bands tried to sound like AC/DC, but the Cult doing AD/DC is its own thing, and it’s really brilliant I think. The first band I was ever in played ‘Lil’ Devil’ and that’s a pub classic, and if you’re writing pub classics then you’re doing something right I think. ‘Wild Flower’ is definitely the one for me, I love that song. The way the drummer [Les Warner] approaches it... it’s like, you know exactly what’s coming, there’s only one fill in it that’s unexpected and then you listen to it twice and you know when it’s coming. But every time the chord changes, he pushes so that he comes in slightly before the bar. And that’s actually brilliant. That’s how all rock drummers should approach rock drumming. It’s a masterclass.
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I found out about the Cardiacs and discovered A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window and On Land And In The Sea simultaneously. They’re very hard to find now, the CDs are going for upwards of 60 or 70 quid on eBay. It’s progressive music, but done in a really mental way. It sounds like one guy’s mind being acted out by some willing and accomplished musicians. It’s really insane. There are loads of tempo changes. I think Tim Smith’s voice sounds a little like Robert Smith, but in a much more manic way. I think that’s what really speaks to me [laughs]. It’s almost like what progressive rock is made for. You expect progressive rock to be manic. The production sounds a little bit more like a real band on On Land And In The Sea, but on A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window there’s a song on it called ‘R.E.S.’ which is just seven minutes of strange music. It’s like 60s easy listening music but it’s still definitely prog. I was criticised once actually. We did a trip into the rain forest in Costa Rica last year and I DJed it, and afterwards everyone was like, “yeah that was great… maybe too much Cardiacs though.” It’s a floor filler, but a floor emptier as well – and it’s hard to know where the threshold is! On those albums there are a lot of people called Smith, and I’m not sure whether they’re brothers or cousins or aunties or whatever, but there’s a saxophonist, bassist, guitarist, keys, and it’s all very symphonic. More symphonic than you’d expect.
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This is Aaron Bruno’s solo proect. I put this on the list because I’ve been listening to it recently. I tend to find an album that is eclectic enough to keep me interested and I listen to it over and over again, obsessing over it… and then I stop. And I just stopped with this! Ha ha! Well, I’ll probably give it a bit of space and then come back to it. I try and listen to new music as much as I can, but that’s probably the first genuinely eclectic new album that I’ve enjoyed in years. The story goes that somebody in Texas played one of the album tracks and it’s caught on and everybody’s playing it now on their radio stations. And it’s become a sort of mega hit. To me there is some stuff on it that sounds like the Pixies and some stuff that sounds like The Beatles, but it’s all slightly electronic and his voice is great. There’s loads of obviously ad-libbed stuff that they’ve kept in and it’s very cool. Rough round the edges in the right way. It’s not guitar heavy, but there is some really great live drumming happening in it. I think he’s a surfing man who’s influenced by hardcore and stuff like that, but some of it’s very poppy. I think it’s just a guy who is not afraid to explore songs and take them where they feel like they should go, rather than worry about what it’s supposed to sound like. It’s the best new album I’ve heard in years.
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Well, it’s got ‘Wuthering Heights’ on it, that’s the big song… But it’s one of those albums that made me realise that there is more than one way to skin a cat, you know, because I always used to feel slightly inadequate about my voice. I always wanted to sound like Steven Tyler or Bon Scott or someone like that... but actually I sound more like Kate Bush! I didn’t really acknowledge that before and then when I was listening to that stuff I thought that she makes a lot of the same choices I would make, melodically and stuff – and possibly presentation-wise! I discovered this around 2003. We’d already made our album by the way – we didn’t copy hers [laughs]. But it made me feel better about everything really. It’s hard to go and record stuff or go out and perform when you’re having a confidence crisis. But listening to that made me feel a million times better. There are beautiful songs on this. She’s a beautiful songwriter. I actually heard a rumour that at 18 she had that record ready to go but the record label wouldn’t let her because they thought it would destroy her, because it was so powerful it would engulf her and she would drown in her own success… [laughs] but I don’t know how true it is. So I’ve bought everything that she’s ever released now and I’m still researching it, but that’s where you start isn’t it?
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I love that album because it’s in two parts. The first part is mostly him recording everything himself and doing like a print thing where he’s exploring the studio. He’s a great producer – he did Bat Out Of Hell and loads of other stuff as well – he knows studios and studio techniques and trickery. He’s a multi-instrumentalist, and I always enjoy listening to people who are like that because they often approach their second and third instruments totally differently to an accomplished drummer or bass player. But the second part is with his band, who are also great. It ticks both boxes really! I think of these as classic rock songs even though English people never know who I’m talking about. So I feel like I’m part of some little exclusive club, even though everyone in America knows everything about Todd Rundgren [laughs].
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Well I was always a Sticky Fingers and Goat’s Head Soup guy. But I never really understood Exile…. Well it was more that everyone was going on about it and I didn’t understand why. And I just thought there were too many songs on it, and too many unfinished ideas. And you kept seeing all these editions of it. I hate it when you’ve got a band like the Rolling Stones who have millions of brilliant songs and loads of great albums and someone goes: “But THIS is the definitive, mega album.” I just don’t like being told that, so I was always quite resistant. But then last year I just said: “Enough is enough, I’m going to stop fighting it.” I read something amazing about that period of their touring and how mental it was, and I thought, “Fuck it, I’ll listen to it again.” And I listened to it, and haven’t stopped listening to it! I love it now. It’s got loads of brilliant songs on it, but they aren’t like mega hit songs, if you look through the list you don’t see what you would consider to be one of the all-time golden classic Rolling Stones songs. But when you listen to the album it just makes sense.
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I could have chosen I, II, III, IV, Houses Of The Holy or Physical Graffiti. Not totally sure why I chose this one, but it starts with ‘The Song Remains The Same’ and ends with ‘The Ocean’, so it almost doesn’t matter what’s in the middle! With those bookends, it was always going to be a classic. But of course there are things I like in the middle, or else it would be a shit sandwich. Every time I get on guitar I play ‘Over The Hills And Far Away’. I’m not a fan of ‘The Crunge’. ‘Dancing Days’ is like an early version of ‘Kashmir’ and the album’s got some reggae on there. ‘No Quarter’ is a great thing to wake up in the morning to because it sort of builds and builds and builds and then sort of scares you out of bed. And ‘The Ocean’ is what I always play on the drum kit - I think if anything Led Zeppelin is defining what rock drums are supposed to be. And Jimmy is a god – a golden god! And hands down my favourite guitar player of all time. I could just turn off the sound and watch his fingers I’m that obsessed. He never seems to play the same thing twice when you’re looking at live footage. He’s always raucous and doing battle with his guitar, instead of just commanding it. I like to watch people that don’t have amps that do the work for them.
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I was brought up on this album. It had a poster in it of naked women on bikes which, you know, in certain parts of Europe I think that’s pretty normal, but in England that’s not quite the case and that was super outrageous. We hung it on our wall. Roy Thomas Baker produced that album so there are loads and loads of dynamics. It’s too quiet in bits and then so loud it takes your face off. From when ‘Mustapha’ starts it lets you believe that the album is going to be a certain way and then halfway through that song it completely changes. It keeps you on your toes. I think all their great albums are like that to some degree, but I think that one is the most Queen of the Queen albums. Or at least the most Roy Thomas Baker of the Queen albums. It’s got ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’ on it, which is a real favourite. I particularly used to like the more playful Queen tracks, and there’s one called ‘Dreamers Ball’ which sounds like swing music, but instead of the big band being all brassy, it’s just Brian May’s guitars.
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I know a lot of people aren’t into Tango In The Night, but I think that’s because the production is really of-the-time, it’s very 80s sounding and I think it’s a CD-aware album. It’s not mastered in the same way that they used to do when cutting for vinyl. But there are some really amazing songs on it and I think that if it had been made in the 70s it would have been as big as Rumours. The 70s is all warm snares, and just duller and warmer in general. And there’s a lot more synthesizer work on Tango..., and I just think the songs are what count and they are easily up there. I think the synths are part of what has poisoned people’s minds to this particular album. Obviously Rumours is an all-time golden classic as well.
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Well Mutt Lange produced that one and obviously he produced Back In Black and Highway To Hell and loads of other albums that I really love. But Foreigner 4… well it’s wrong to like it, but it’s just so good! It’s really synthy and really poppy. It’s got ‘Waiting For A Girl Like You’ and ‘Urgent’ and loads of really big songs which all sound just like Mutt Lange. I love Mutt Lange and I love Foreigner, so really it’s my ultimate album. The way Lou Gramm sings is just so earnest, as if his life depends on it, but when you actually listen to what he’s saying, it’s really trite. So singing that like his life depends on it makes things kind of uncomfortable to actually analyse what you’re listening to, but it feels really good in the moment. Out of all the Foreigner albums, this and Double Vision are the ones I always come back to a lot. I once bought an Agent Provocateur t-shirt ironically and then worked my way back from there (laughs). Got the t-shirt, THEN bought the album and bought the one before that, and loved it!
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No tiene mal gusto el amigo Justin, no. Por cierto, a los únicos a los que no controlo es a los Cardiacs, alguien los conoce? He visto un par de videos en Youtube y son una banda realmente peculiar, llevan un rollo Music Hall bastante extraño.Perry go round escribió:los 13 discos preferidos de Justin Hawkings:
http://thequietus.com/articles/11766-justin-hawkins-the-darkness-favourite-albums?page=1
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Aerosmith – PumpAC/DC - Powerage
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This came out when I was 14 and had just started learning how to play guitar, so that’s kind of the album that coincided with me wanting to go into music. No coincidence. The first album I ever bought was Run DMC’s Raising Hell and that had Aerosmith on it, so I was always interested in Aerosmith. I think Pump sounds really special, it’s my favourite Aerosmith album – and I like a lot of Aerosmith. There must be a technical thing about it, because it doesn’t sound like other rock albums. You know how a lot of metal albums have scoops of the lower-middle absent, but there’s a lot of bass and a lot of trebly stuff so it’s like an assault? Well, it seems like the Pump album has got some lower-mid presence, so it sounds like it contains a real drum kit – it sounds like you’re in the room with them. I love the ballad ‘What It Takes’ at the end. It’s just awesome. I loved the way Aerosmith would arrange their albums. You would have about 10 songs and it’s all innuendo and riffs and sex music, and then the last song is the cuddle. I think that’s brilliant. I thought it was timing at first. Kevin Shirley produced Nine Lives for them, and I thought that was a brilliant album too, and I love Permanent Vacation, but I was a bit young for that. I think it’s just a really concise record and even when it has the interval bits between certain songs… you just can’t listen to one track, you have to listen to the whole thing to get the vibe.The Beatles – The Beatles
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I think that most people got into AC/DC because of Back In Black and that happened to me as well, but I really wanted to explore the Bon years because Highway To Hell was a great album too. So I wanted to go back from there. I loved all of it actually. I was completely obsessed with AC/DC for a long time in fact, but the one album that really for me was head and shoulders above the rest was Powerage. It’s got songs like ‘Down Payment Blues’ and songs that people would say, ”Oh that’s my favourite AC/DC song”, because they’re trying to be cool and try and talk about their poverty and their roots and that sort of stuff, but it shows that it has a deeper poetry to it – the fact that people want to think of Powerage that way. For me it’s also got the best Angus solo of all of them. It’s on ‘Up To My Neck In You’. It goes on for ages and it’s essentially the same solo twice, but played a bit harder the second time around. It’s really good: him using proper dynamics. He has a lot of phrases that he often goes to, but it’s just the way he uses them on that solo that makes it really special.
I’m definitely a Bon enthusiast. I went to Fremantle near Perth in Australia to visit his grave. I’d never been to visit any famous graves before, and we only did it because we were in Australia and had the day off, but you have an expectation of what you’re going to see tribute-wise from other people that had gone to visit it. And there was one guy had written something that had really stayed with me. You can imagine that it’s sort of like a pilgrimage out of town – there’s nothing really around the graveyard. And there’s a bench on the concrete and you can just imagine this guy there with a Sharpie going, “hmmm, now what can I say that really sums up my feelings at this point?” And he had just put: “Love your work Bon.” Ha ha, it was really powerful.The Cult – Electric
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I think when we were kids it was all about Sgt. Pepper’s. There were a few albums that my dad had that we played a lot and that was one of them; we didn’t get far beyond that. And then when I eventually started listening to the old, old stuff, I didn’t like it so much. I realise that the innovations that they made composition-wise coloured all of pop music and a lot of rock as well – it coloured all of music really! But I wasn’t into it, not into listening to it. But then I decided to educate myself on The White Album, and I used it for everything: walking, working out etc. And I love it. I actually saw some footage of Paul McCartney doing ‘Helter Skelter’ recently and thought he really nailed it – I think he still does that song really well. I just love The White Album and I prefer it to all the other Beatles stuff. I can’t explain it though. I don’t even especially like any of the songs, it’s just that as a listening experience you can find yourself immersed in it while running on a treadmill as much as you can laying in your bed. It’s really versatile. I love all the Beatles’ stuff and it’s all eclectic, but I think this album is even more so.Cardiacs – A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window
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This one is the opposite of eclectic! I was a Cult fan anyway. A lot of people at school were into goth and I wasn’t so popular because I was into rock, but I felt like the Cult fell right between the cracks of those two scenes. And then there was the Manor Sessions and the stuff that they recorded for Electric that was recorded in the more traditional cult style. And I love the story of Rick Rubin telling them to throw all that stuff away and to use Les Pauls and simple sounds – basically trying to make them sound like AC/DC. A lot of bands tried to sound like AC/DC, but the Cult doing AD/DC is its own thing, and it’s really brilliant I think. The first band I was ever in played ‘Lil’ Devil’ and that’s a pub classic, and if you’re writing pub classics then you’re doing something right I think. ‘Wild Flower’ is definitely the one for me, I love that song. The way the drummer [Les Warner] approaches it... it’s like, you know exactly what’s coming, there’s only one fill in it that’s unexpected and then you listen to it twice and you know when it’s coming. But every time the chord changes, he pushes so that he comes in slightly before the bar. And that’s actually brilliant. That’s how all rock drummers should approach rock drumming. It’s a masterclass.AWOLNATION – Megalithic Symphony
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I found out about the Cardiacs and discovered A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window and On Land And In The Sea simultaneously. They’re very hard to find now, the CDs are going for upwards of 60 or 70 quid on eBay. It’s progressive music, but done in a really mental way. It sounds like one guy’s mind being acted out by some willing and accomplished musicians. It’s really insane. There are loads of tempo changes. I think Tim Smith’s voice sounds a little like Robert Smith, but in a much more manic way. I think that’s what really speaks to me [laughs]. It’s almost like what progressive rock is made for. You expect progressive rock to be manic. The production sounds a little bit more like a real band on On Land And In The Sea, but on A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window there’s a song on it called ‘R.E.S.’ which is just seven minutes of strange music. It’s like 60s easy listening music but it’s still definitely prog. I was criticised once actually. We did a trip into the rain forest in Costa Rica last year and I DJed it, and afterwards everyone was like, “yeah that was great… maybe too much Cardiacs though.” It’s a floor filler, but a floor emptier as well – and it’s hard to know where the threshold is! On those albums there are a lot of people called Smith, and I’m not sure whether they’re brothers or cousins or aunties or whatever, but there’s a saxophonist, bassist, guitarist, keys, and it’s all very symphonic. More symphonic than you’d expect.Kate Bush – The Kick Inside
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This is Aaron Bruno’s solo proect. I put this on the list because I’ve been listening to it recently. I tend to find an album that is eclectic enough to keep me interested and I listen to it over and over again, obsessing over it… and then I stop. And I just stopped with this! Ha ha! Well, I’ll probably give it a bit of space and then come back to it. I try and listen to new music as much as I can, but that’s probably the first genuinely eclectic new album that I’ve enjoyed in years. The story goes that somebody in Texas played one of the album tracks and it’s caught on and everybody’s playing it now on their radio stations. And it’s become a sort of mega hit. To me there is some stuff on it that sounds like the Pixies and some stuff that sounds like The Beatles, but it’s all slightly electronic and his voice is great. There’s loads of obviously ad-libbed stuff that they’ve kept in and it’s very cool. Rough round the edges in the right way. It’s not guitar heavy, but there is some really great live drumming happening in it. I think he’s a surfing man who’s influenced by hardcore and stuff like that, but some of it’s very poppy. I think it’s just a guy who is not afraid to explore songs and take them where they feel like they should go, rather than worry about what it’s supposed to sound like. It’s the best new album I’ve heard in years.Todd Rundgren – Something/Anything
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Well, it’s got ‘Wuthering Heights’ on it, that’s the big song… But it’s one of those albums that made me realise that there is more than one way to skin a cat, you know, because I always used to feel slightly inadequate about my voice. I always wanted to sound like Steven Tyler or Bon Scott or someone like that... but actually I sound more like Kate Bush! I didn’t really acknowledge that before and then when I was listening to that stuff I thought that she makes a lot of the same choices I would make, melodically and stuff – and possibly presentation-wise! I discovered this around 2003. We’d already made our album by the way – we didn’t copy hers [laughs]. But it made me feel better about everything really. It’s hard to go and record stuff or go out and perform when you’re having a confidence crisis. But listening to that made me feel a million times better. There are beautiful songs on this. She’s a beautiful songwriter. I actually heard a rumour that at 18 she had that record ready to go but the record label wouldn’t let her because they thought it would destroy her, because it was so powerful it would engulf her and she would drown in her own success… [laughs] but I don’t know how true it is. So I’ve bought everything that she’s ever released now and I’m still researching it, but that’s where you start isn’t it?Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street
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I love that album because it’s in two parts. The first part is mostly him recording everything himself and doing like a print thing where he’s exploring the studio. He’s a great producer – he did Bat Out Of Hell and loads of other stuff as well – he knows studios and studio techniques and trickery. He’s a multi-instrumentalist, and I always enjoy listening to people who are like that because they often approach their second and third instruments totally differently to an accomplished drummer or bass player. But the second part is with his band, who are also great. It ticks both boxes really! I think of these as classic rock songs even though English people never know who I’m talking about. So I feel like I’m part of some little exclusive club, even though everyone in America knows everything about Todd Rundgren [laughs].Led Zeppelin – Houses Of The Holy
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Well I was always a Sticky Fingers and Goat’s Head Soup guy. But I never really understood Exile…. Well it was more that everyone was going on about it and I didn’t understand why. And I just thought there were too many songs on it, and too many unfinished ideas. And you kept seeing all these editions of it. I hate it when you’ve got a band like the Rolling Stones who have millions of brilliant songs and loads of great albums and someone goes: “But THIS is the definitive, mega album.” I just don’t like being told that, so I was always quite resistant. But then last year I just said: “Enough is enough, I’m going to stop fighting it.” I read something amazing about that period of their touring and how mental it was, and I thought, “Fuck it, I’ll listen to it again.” And I listened to it, and haven’t stopped listening to it! I love it now. It’s got loads of brilliant songs on it, but they aren’t like mega hit songs, if you look through the list you don’t see what you would consider to be one of the all-time golden classic Rolling Stones songs. But when you listen to the album it just makes sense.Queen – Jazz
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I could have chosen I, II, III, IV, Houses Of The Holy or Physical Graffiti. Not totally sure why I chose this one, but it starts with ‘The Song Remains The Same’ and ends with ‘The Ocean’, so it almost doesn’t matter what’s in the middle! With those bookends, it was always going to be a classic. But of course there are things I like in the middle, or else it would be a shit sandwich. Every time I get on guitar I play ‘Over The Hills And Far Away’. I’m not a fan of ‘The Crunge’. ‘Dancing Days’ is like an early version of ‘Kashmir’ and the album’s got some reggae on there. ‘No Quarter’ is a great thing to wake up in the morning to because it sort of builds and builds and builds and then sort of scares you out of bed. And ‘The Ocean’ is what I always play on the drum kit - I think if anything Led Zeppelin is defining what rock drums are supposed to be. And Jimmy is a god – a golden god! And hands down my favourite guitar player of all time. I could just turn off the sound and watch his fingers I’m that obsessed. He never seems to play the same thing twice when you’re looking at live footage. He’s always raucous and doing battle with his guitar, instead of just commanding it. I like to watch people that don’t have amps that do the work for them.Fleetwood Mac – Tango In The Night
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I was brought up on this album. It had a poster in it of naked women on bikes which, you know, in certain parts of Europe I think that’s pretty normal, but in England that’s not quite the case and that was super outrageous. We hung it on our wall. Roy Thomas Baker produced that album so there are loads and loads of dynamics. It’s too quiet in bits and then so loud it takes your face off. From when ‘Mustapha’ starts it lets you believe that the album is going to be a certain way and then halfway through that song it completely changes. It keeps you on your toes. I think all their great albums are like that to some degree, but I think that one is the most Queen of the Queen albums. Or at least the most Roy Thomas Baker of the Queen albums. It’s got ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’ on it, which is a real favourite. I particularly used to like the more playful Queen tracks, and there’s one called ‘Dreamers Ball’ which sounds like swing music, but instead of the big band being all brassy, it’s just Brian May’s guitars.Foreigner – Foreigner 4
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I know a lot of people aren’t into Tango In The Night, but I think that’s because the production is really of-the-time, it’s very 80s sounding and I think it’s a CD-aware album. It’s not mastered in the same way that they used to do when cutting for vinyl. But there are some really amazing songs on it and I think that if it had been made in the 70s it would have been as big as Rumours. The 70s is all warm snares, and just duller and warmer in general. And there’s a lot more synthesizer work on Tango..., and I just think the songs are what count and they are easily up there. I think the synths are part of what has poisoned people’s minds to this particular album. Obviously Rumours is an all-time golden classic as well.
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Well Mutt Lange produced that one and obviously he produced Back In Black and Highway To Hell and loads of other albums that I really love. But Foreigner 4… well it’s wrong to like it, but it’s just so good! It’s really synthy and really poppy. It’s got ‘Waiting For A Girl Like You’ and ‘Urgent’ and loads of really big songs which all sound just like Mutt Lange. I love Mutt Lange and I love Foreigner, so really it’s my ultimate album. The way Lou Gramm sings is just so earnest, as if his life depends on it, but when you actually listen to what he’s saying, it’s really trite. So singing that like his life depends on it makes things kind of uncomfortable to actually analyse what you’re listening to, but it feels really good in the moment. Out of all the Foreigner albums, this and Double Vision are the ones I always come back to a lot. I once bought an Agent Provocateur t-shirt ironically and then worked my way back from there (laughs). Got the t-shirt, THEN bought the album and bought the one before that, and loved it!
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