THIN LIZZY- BLACK ROSE

This is a fucking great record. If you like guitars then you'll dig this... if you don't like guitars, go to a different blog.

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HUM- DOWNWARD IS HEAVENWARD

Well, what to say about HUM? a cult act if there ever was one. Spacey (but not shoegazy) alt-rock with lyrics about girls and astronomy. When I say "alt-rock" I worry it conjures memories of Pearl Jam or Stone Temple Pilots or something else that sucks but I'm thinking more along the lines of Smashing Pumpkins' heavier songs circa 95! This is very blissful music with the occasional crushing guitar part and feedback-laden lead melody. I feel like by describing it, as I'm trying to do right now, I'm over contextualizing it and not getting to the point. This band is really good and sadly forgotten in comparison to other bands from the era. This is their last album but it's a good starting point!


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OLD POSTS

I've been lazy and since I don't upload any of these albums myself, most of them seem to have been taken down from mediafire. I was just going to discreetly re-up all of them... but the number kept getting bigger and I don't want to sit at my computer all day. So I'm just going to leave this here and let people comment if they want something re-upped that has been taken down.

p.s. google it first! someone else probably uploaded it!

GROUNDHOGS- THANK CHRIST FOR THE BOMB

Groundhogs are one of the few lost classic rock bands that actually deserved to be remembered and aren't just some hyped up record-nerd bullshit. A power-trio in the very traditional sense, the songs are composed of fast, bluesy rhythms with tons of jamming, the occasional sabbathy heavy section and oh yeah, killer solos! I'm a douche so I can tell he's using single-coils and sometimes the guitar sounds a lot thinner than is appropriate for the songs, but when it clicks, it does so in the perfect way. The third track is as good as anything Cream ever did.

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DANZIG- S/T

Before being a washed-up goth dad, an overly cocky tough-guy, a prima donna rockstar with demands of french onion soup and all the other hilariously pathetic stories we'll probably never hear, Danzig was fucking rad. Obviously he was in the fucking Misfits when they were actually good but he was also asked by Lyle Preslar and Brian Baker of fucking MINOR THREAT to start a band after both bands had called it quits. As if that wasn't enough to convince you this guy was fucking cool, there he is on the cover of fucking Thrasher in 86' when it was probably the coolest fucking magazine in existence. Gradually his ego was fed and well... shit happens. Some people just end up shitty and I guess Ziggy is one of them but hey, he was cranking out decent shit from 78' to 92', which is not a bad run if you ask most people. Scoff all you want but this, his first solo LP, is the fucking jam.

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SAXON- WHEELS OF STEEL

I'm just listening to this record for the first time... HOLY SHIT! This rules so hard! you and your lame attitude don't even know. Saxon are always counted among the more important NWOBHM bands but clearly these guys are less interested in their contemporaries and more interested in sounding like a biker-obsessed version of the Scorpions trying really hard to sound like Van Halen! So good. If I had parties, I would play this record all night.

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CULPEPER'S ORCHARD- S/T

This is something of a lost-classic. Unfortunately it's really great heavy-psych with elements of prog and folk... Not exactly a style that hipster music-nerds are currently enamored with so I imagine this will stay in the lost-classic section for at least a few more years. According to Wikipedia they weren't even a big deal in their homeland of Denmark... shitty because this is better than a lot of supposedly 'classic' music from the era. You may want some chemical-aid before taking in this one

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BOSTON

It's saturday night.

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THIN LIZZY- JAILBREAK

I'm tired and I won't go into any detail about this. All I'll say is that this record is probably better than you think it is. If you don't like guitars and feeling good then don't even bother.

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