tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46714169596645371712024-03-13T03:23:03.130-07:00Wrasman - On RockAndy Wrasman, high school theology teacher, writes on rock. All posts are about rock 'n' roll and usually contain music videos. If you want something cool to listen to regularly, check in often and hear the latest songs posted. Finally, God is good and I do my best to always rock on The Rock, Jesus Christ.Andy Wrasmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09404901729530244690noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671416959664537171.post-8157167477786215732011-03-30T08:04:00.000-07:002011-03-30T08:05:09.855-07:00Jimi Hendrix - In From the Storm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I'm too lazy to look up right now which studio album this would have been on or if it even was on an album. I first heard this Jimi song studying Hebrew flash cards in college while watching the Isle of Wight DVD. I used to go out and buy music DVDs before having to stay up studying for tests. It helped.<br />
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I absolutely love the riff on this one. I wish they stuck with the riff more instead of getting so improvisational. "In from the Storm"...<br />
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I can't fully endorse their first self-titled album, but it's got some OK stuff on it. Not as good as System in my opinion, but different, so it sounds new.<br />
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Here's a video with the song played backwards with no lyrics. Watch it and see if you hear a Satanic message. By the way, you might have to listen to the whole song, since some of the people who claim there is a hidden message don't have it matching with every line of the song being played forwards. Let me know if you hear anything?<br />
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In closing, I think this song is actually pro-Chrisitian and anti-Satan. The song the way I interpret it is about a lady who has it all, beauty, riches, and fame, and she thinks she on her own abilities can buy her salvation. However, she finds that salvation can't be bought. The store to do so is closed. There's still time for everyone who is on her path to get on to the other path. But then again, who can tell with this song? It could mean anything? There's even a line about when all is one and one is all. That certainly sounds like new-age mysticism. Here is what I do know. In Genesis 28 Jacob has a dream of a stairway that connects heaven and earth and in John 1:51 Jesus references this dream and essentially says, "I am the Stairway to Heaven." When you look at Christianity and what the Bible teaches, it is the only religion which says the way to salvation can't be bought. It's the only free religion in the world. It's the only religion in which God has stepped down and has done it all for your salvation. The Stairway has come down to us and Jesus is that Stairway and He is a Rock that doesn't roll. </div>Andy Wrasmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09404901729530244690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671416959664537171.post-67934702545761899512011-03-17T19:00:00.000-07:002011-03-17T19:00:50.336-07:00Zephyr<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
I recently discovered the band Zephyr.<br />
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They are from Boulder of Colorado, the place a majority of the hippies eventually landed. I've only heard tales of Boulder - it sounds like it's still the 60's there.<br />
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Zephyr only released three albums from what I can tell. Their first two albums featured Tommy Bolin of Deep Purple fame. He's the guy who came after Ritchie Blackmore. So you know there's some really good guitar in this band.<br />
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They are fronted by a female named Candie Givens. She sounds as good as Grace Slick and Janis Joplin.<br />
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I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this band earlier. They sound as good as what I've heard from Jefferson Airplane, if not better. Their jamming seems way better, and I mean why shouldn't it; their guitarist was good enough to replace Ritchie Blackmore. Just good old classic late 60's sound, although they were an early 70's band. I don't think there is a better era for rock. <br />
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Read more about the band here: <a href="http://last.fm/">http://Last.fm</a>.<br />
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I think this is one of the dark sides of rock; suicide. Is the rigors of being in a band that bad?<br />
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</tbody></table>Anyways, I was surfing youtube looking for Blue Cheer songs and I stumbled across Dust. <br />
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I had never heard of this band before, but their album cover for the second album, <i>Hard Attack</i>, features three vikings in the midst of battle. Pretty cool image if you are into fantasy album covers.<br />
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The song I found by Dust is "Suicide". I'm by no means pleased with the name's song and I haven't even paid attention to the lyrics, but the music is great! It's very fresh. They sound like early, early metal, and they weren't British, like Sabbath, they were American!!!<br />
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Their drummer later joined The Ramones.<br />
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Here is the band's bio, copied straight from wikipedia: <br />
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</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><blockquote>Dust was formed in the late 1960s by Richie Wise and two teenagers, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Aaronson">Kenny Aaronson</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marky_Ramone" title="Marky Ramone">Marc Bell</a>. Additionally, Kenny Kerner wrote the group's lyrics, and acted as their producer and manager. Their debut <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album">album</a> was released on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra_Records">Kama Sutra Records</a> in 1971, and was followed by a sophomore release on the same <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">label</a> the following year. While the group only released these two albums, they later became of historical interest to collectors interested in early American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="Heavy metal music">heavy metal</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_%28band%29#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup><br />
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The group's members all went on to other projects.<br />
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In the mid 1970s Bell worked with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_County" title="Jayne County">Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys</a> and <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hell_%26_The_Voidoids" title="Richard Hell & The Voidoids">Richard Hell & The Voidoids</a>. In 1978, he joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones">Ramones</a>, assuming the name <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marky_Ramone">Marky Ramone</a>. Aaronson played with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stories_%28band%29" title="Stories (band)">Stories</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_County" title="Jayne County">Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys</a> in the 1970s and worked as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_musician">session musician</a> into the 1980s. He also toured with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Winter">Edgar Winter</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Jett">Joan Jett</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Idol">Billy Idol</a>. Wise and Kerner went into production with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_%28band%29" title="Kiss (band)">Kiss</a>, among others.</blockquote><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Buy <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Attack/dp/B004557MES?ie=UTF8&tag=ocapo-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Hard Attack</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ocapo-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B004557MES" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /> if you like it! Just click the link. </span></div></div>Andy Wrasmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09404901729530244690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671416959664537171.post-2867740208754292542011-03-14T08:25:00.000-07:002011-03-14T08:25:24.480-07:00The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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So why am I writing about <i>Faster</i> on this blog about rock?<br />
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</tbody></table>The movie featured a song I heard in a Guy Ritchie movie (I believe it was Lock Stock). When I heard it in the Guy Ritchie movie it perfectly fit the tone of the movie and what was going on and the tune stuck out enough to me that I really wanted to know who it was, but I never found out. So when the song kicked-in in <i>Faster</i> I knew I had to find out this time from the credits who it was. Low and behold, it was the Stooges, the band which Iggy Pop fronted.<br />
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One of my first posts was on Iggy Pop. I heard of Iggy Pop for quite sometime, but I had no need to listen to him until finding out that Henry Rollins is a huge Iggy fan.<br />
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So here is the song from <i>Faster</i> and the Guy Ritchie flick (whichever one it was):<br />
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Initially, upon hearing this song, I thought the band was some underground band from the 90's. Wow! The song is 40 stinking years old! It was released on The Stooges first album in August, 1969. Knowing this release date, I can picture that era more, and I can even picture Mick Jagger a little as Iggy sings. But this song sounds way before its time in my opinion. <br />
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Most of my searches for the band also bring up Tool, and I think this is because the Sugartooth singer, Marc Hunter, at times sounds similar to Tool's Maynard. A review for the their self-titled album compared their music to a mix between Led Zeppelin and 90's grunge. I can easily hear this mix. They sound like they should be from the 70's on "Booty Street" but their sound doesn't fit that era at all.<br />
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They never received a big following but opened for big name bands in the 90's. The fame they did receive mostly came from being featured on an episode of Beavis and Butthead.<br />
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<b>There is a dark side to rock culture and the rock industry. </b><br />
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<b>Today the former bassist of Alice in Chains died. Likely, it was related to drug use. </b><br />
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<b>Another piece to this dark side is band worship. Rockers are just humans and are not perfect or worthy of the exaltation they sometimes receive from their fans. </b><br />
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<b>The following is a copied article from "Amplified" concerning Mike Starr's death:</b><br />
<blockquote><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="post-details"><div class="title"><h2>Ex-Alice in Chains Bassist Mike Starr Dead at 44</h2></div><div class="posted"> Posted Tue Mar 8, 2011 3:34pm PST by Caryn Ganz in <a href="http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier">Amplifier</a> </div></span> </div><img border="0" height="270" src="http://a323.yahoofs.com/ymg/amplifier__5/amplifier-416872768-1299627918.jpg?ymOOFrEDOOsEztoo" width="185" /></blockquote><br />
<blockquote>Former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr, who played on the band's first two influential albums and was one of the last people to see singer Layne Staley alive, has been <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=14c63pb2i/**http%3A//www.tmz.com/2011/03/08/mike-starr-alice-in-chains-bassist-celebrity-rehab-dead-salt-lake-city-utah-felony-possession-painkiller/" target="blank">found dead in a Salt Lake City, Utah home</a>, TMZ reports. Starr, who was 44, <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=13phibk1g/**http%3A//www.tmz.com/2011/02/18/mike-starr-alice-in-chains-prescription-drugs-celebrity-rehab-xanax-opana-arrest-utah/" target="blank">was arrested</a> earlier this month in Salt Lake City and found to be in possession of six Xanax pills and six Opana painkillers. According to a police report, Starr asked an officer if he'd heard of Alice in Chains, and said he was in Utah with a friend to put together a new band. "It's a terrible shock and tragedy," the rocker's father told the website today.<br />
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Starr played on the Seattle band's 1990 album <i>Facelift</i> and cowrote "It Ain't Like That" and "Confusion." He also performed on 1992's <i>Sap</i> EP and <i>Dirt</i> LP, which featured the band's breakout tracks "Down in a Hole," "Rooster," and "Would?" which also appeared on the soundtrack to the film <i>Singles</i> (the band also <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=11hsfgsje/**http%3A//www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv=iUeHyaAMOxA" target="blank">briefly performed onstage</a> in the movie, too). Starr exited the band in 1993 and later admitted he'd been booted because his drug problem was out of control.<br />
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The musician, who appeared on VH1's <i>Celebrity Rehab</i> and <i>Sober House</i> in 2010, displayed erratic behavior while battling a vicious heroin addiction on TV. He wore headphones most of the time, and said, "My singer dies, and the only way I can hear him is through this... It takes me back to when Layne was alive." In a <a href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/SIG=13uk04k47/**http%3A//www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/ex-alice-in-chains-bassist-starr-talks-cobain-staley-on-rehab-20100223" target="blank">pivotal episode of <i>Rehab</i></a>, Starr spoke with Staley's mother and apologized for not doing more to help her drug-addled son. "I wish I would have called 911, he told me if I did, he'd never talk to me again," Starr said. "I was too high. I got mad at him, I said, 'I'll just leave' and his last words were 'not like this.' And I just left. I can't believe that. I'm so ashamed." Staley was found dead of a lethal mix of heroin and cocaine in his Seattle apartment in 2002.<br />
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When Starr first appeared on <i>Rehab</i>, his onetime bandmate Jerry Cantrell criticized the show for sensationalizing drug recovery: "[Mike is] a friend of ours, and we wish him the best. But that show's not really cool." Starr seemed to have kicked his dangerous addiction, and appeared on an episode of the following season's <i>Rehab</i> to demonstrate his progress. He was six months sober at the time of the taping.<br />
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I thought about Chuck Berry, because I actually thought about George Thorogood. Riding around with my wife this weekend, the song, "No Particular Place to Go" came to mind. I am most familiar with the the Thorogood version, but it dawned on me that Berry did it first. <br />
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Here's Berry playing the song... Is this not more rock than anything Elvis did? And of course there are much better Chuck Berry songs.<br />
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I've never seen them play live, but I know someone who has and he said they were amazing!<br />
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I have their Live at Slane Castle DVD, picked that one up for a buck in China. That gig starts off with an amazing jam before ripping into "Can't Stop", one of my least favorite Peppers songs. I did a search for them on youtube and it appears that they usually start shows with an intro jam. Here are a few those jams. Enjoy.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Collection of Intro Jams!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The artwork.<br />
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Some CDs have lots of cool pieces of art in the sleeve. The art can help you get inside the music as you listen to it. With some bands, I can't understand the words of a song at all. But if I bought the CD, I can easily read the lyrics since many bands supply them inside the sleeve. Once I've read the lyrics to a song I couldn't normally understand, I can then easily remember the words and understand them every time I listen to them after that.<br />
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Here's some of the artwork within a CD I just recently purchased: <i>Leviathan</i> by the band, Mastodon.<br />
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</tbody></table></div>These images all accompany the songs on <i>Leviathan</i> and help ignite my imagination to picture what the riffs of this album are depicting as Ahab does battle with the white whale! If I didn't purchase the CD, I might have also missed that these songs all piece together to form one complete story arch. This is by no means a rock opera, but it still tells a story and the artwork is part of that story. I even saw an interview with one of the band members and he mentioned that they have an art team and that even though the music was complete, it was still going to take months for the art team to finish their job. <br />
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Here's the band playing "Godzilla" live with Godzilla footage spliced throughout!<br />
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I lived in China for three years. During this time, I heard a few Chinese songs played again and again and again over speakers in restaurants, stores, and in taxis. It seemed like the Chinese only had a few songs that were standard on the radio or for playing. Most of them were all Chinese pop songs.<br />
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One Chinese pop singer named Jay Chou stood out to me, and it was because of his song, "Nunchuks". It reminded me of rap-rock with a Chinese flair because it has a breakdown in the middle with a traditional Chinese instrument, and I liked it very much, because I finally heard something tough being played, so it stood out for me. <br />
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Jay is also a movie star in China! Just recently he starred in an American film, <i>The Green Hornet</i>. So I was already familiar with him, before his big American debut. At the end of <i>The Green Hornet</i> as the credits roll, Jay's "Nunchucks" plays! I recognized, and I said, "Yes!!!", but no one else probably thought much about it, which is why I'm bringing attention to it now! And yes, I used a lot of exclamation marks for this post.<br />
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P.S. He's actually Taiwanese, not Chinese, but in Mainland China, Taiwan is China! Here's the music video for "Nunchucks". Don't worry if you can't understand anything he's saying, the Chinese don't understand this song much either: he's rapping with too much slang, and way too fast. <br />
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I was given a copy of the <i>Scorpion King Soundtrack</i> when it first came out almost ten years ago. I was familiar with many of the bands on that soundtrack, but some of them were new to me, one of those new bands was Injected. The Injected song on the soundtrack is "Burn it Black". I really liked the song, but I have never heard any of their songs or heard of them outside of this one soundtrack to a movie I've never even seen.<br />
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Now, I can quickly and easily find out more info. about little known bands like Injected. All I have to do is <img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ocapo-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B000VZO3PW" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />search for them on youtube or pandora or wikipedia and I can usually find out some good info. and even hear their songs.<br />
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Here's Injected playing "Burn it Black" live. I don't think it's as good as the studio version, but here it is anyways:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><blockquote><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">INJECTED was a great hard rock band from Atlanta. After many, many years of owning the Atlanta rock scene, they signed a major label deal and put out the album Burn it Black (produced by Butch Walker) in 2002. They spent that year traveling the country rocking arenas, clubs, and everything in between, converting many unsuspecting audience members into hardcore INJECTED fans. </span></span></div><div align="center"><br />
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Now, listen to Led Zeppelin's "Dazed and Confused". Listen to 3:30-4:50. Doesn't it sound very similar to 3:42-4:53 of "Prodigal Man"? <br />
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This is Rollins doing his thing, and I can't think of any other band who has songs that sound anything like this, and I'm not referring to Rollins. Remove Rollins from the picture, and does any band sound like this besides them? I don't even know how to describe their sound. I like to use the term hard jazz or hard blues.<br />
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As demented as many people may think his lyrics are in this song, including the bass player at the start of the song when Rollins is just improving a rant, I think there is a lot of truth to them. How often do "we love someone and hate them at the same time?" And as much as we like to point the finger at others to remove the speck from their own eye, we really need to think about ourselves first and get the plank out of ours first. I think he points out our sinful natures very well. I'm always convicted when I listen to this band. <br />
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</div>I'm always amazed at the number of people who love Pink Floyd and wear their T-shirts but are only familiar with <i>The Wall</i> or <i>Dark Side of the Moon</i>. I'm at least stoked when I find someone who knows that the entire album <i>Wish You Were Here</i> is great, and that it's hard to find a better Floyd song than "Shine on you Crazy Diamond" and that "Shine On" is in fact so amazing that "Wish You Were Here" falls short in comparison (although they are two completely different types of songs).<br />
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An album they made which I rarely see or hear mention of is <i>Obscured by Clouds</i>. I doubt many will agree with me on this but, I think that it's a better album than <i>The Wall</i>. I mean seriously, how many songs on <i>The Wall</i> are actually great! I think just one, "Comfortably Numb" and then some others are good, and some others, thank God I grew up in the era of the CD so I could just hit skip or record a tape or burn a CD that just contains the good stuff.<br />
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<blockquote>Childhood's End appeared on the Pink Floyd rock album, Obscured by Clouds, which was based on the band's soundtrack for the French film La Vallée, by Barbet Schroeder. Some copies of the album refer to the film by its alternate English title, The Valley. The LP was released in the UK on June 3, 1972 on Harvest/EMI and then in the U.S. on June 15, 1972 on Harvest/Capitol. The album reached #6 on the UK album charts and #46 on the U.S. album charts (where it was certified Gold by the RIAA in March, 1994). In 1986, the album was released on CD. A digitally remastered CD was released in March 1996 in the UK and August 1996 in the U.S.<br />
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The Song Childhood's End was inspired by a science fiction novel of the same name, by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, orignally published in 1953.<br />
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This song reminds me of the Sinai, Egypt, where many of the images from this video are shot.<br />
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The lyrics go as follows:<br />
You shout in your sleep <br />
Perhaps the price is just too steep <br />
Is your conscience at rest <br />
If once put to the test? <br />
You awake with a start <br />
To just the beating of your heart <br />
Just one man beneath the sky <br />
Just two ears <br />
Just two eyes <br />
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You set sail across the sea <br />
Of long past thoughts and memories <br />
Childhood's end <br />
Your fantasies <br />
Merge with harsh realities <br />
And then as the sail is hoist <br />
You find your eyes are growing moist <br />
And all the fears never voiced <br />
Say you have to make your final choice <br />
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Who are you and who am I <br />
To say we know the reason why? <br />
Some are born <br />
Some men die <br />
Beneath one infinite sky There'll be war <br />
There'll be peace <br />
But everything one day will cease <br />
All the iron turned to rust <br />
All the proud men turned to dust <br />
And so all things, time will mend <br />
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To my surprise most of the songs sounded like David Bowie. I even thought I heard David Bowie singing on some of the tracks. I checked the notes and Bowie actually wrote the music to most of the tracks, and Iggy just wrote the lyrics. So the music on Lust for Life didn't meet my expectations from hearing Rollins speak on the man, but I've watched some live videos and Iggy does fit Rollins' description in some cases.<br />
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The song that stood out to me from <i>Lust to Life</i> was "The Passenger". Here's a video of "The Passenger" from Youtube edited together with old school Hollywood clips:<br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QEY6_jcrzI8" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe></div></div>Andy Wrasmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09404901729530244690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4671416959664537171.post-44090908816214766182011-02-20T14:41:00.000-08:002011-02-24T14:16:57.688-08:00Corrosion of Conformity - Wiseblood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ocapo-20&l=bil&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0012GMYOQ" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" />This is the first blog post for On Rock! I chose to feature the band Corrosion of Conformity and their song "Wiseblood" because I just started to listen to them this week. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Click on the arrows in the Prezi presentation below to read my comments about them and to listen to their song, "Wiseblood". You might need to wait a moment for the presentation to load.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wiseblood-Corrosion-Conformity/dp/B0012GMYOQ?ie=UTF8&tag=ocapo-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Wiseblood</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=ocapo-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=B0012GMYOQ" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important;" width="1" /></span></div></div>Andy Wrasmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09404901729530244690noreply@blogger.com0