Metal Dad - Hardcore for Life

Nothing Gets You High When You're Hungry For Love

The Morning Drive - Todd Rundgren A Wizard, A True Star


I know I've written about this album before but it is one of my favorite albums of all time. TR could have cranked out a collection of songs just like "I Saw the Light" after the relative success of Something/Anything? but he chose to explore using the studio like a musical instrument. And while this LP was a portent of some of the prog-rock excesses of Utopia and later solo excursions I return to it quite regularly.

One of the best live shows I ever saw was Utopia at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago circa 1974. They had recently pared the group down to four members and they played a three hour show with no opening act and a 15 or 20 minute intermission. A highlight of that show was their take on "Something's Coming" from West Side Story. A good version of it can be heard on Todd Rundgren's Utopia's Another Live.

Tags: AWATS, Current Listening, The Morning Drive, Todd Rundgren

Punching A Gift Horse In The Mouth

or The Morning Drive - Charles Bronson Complete Discocrappy

117 tracks clocking in at under 90 minutes is a great soundtrack for the drive to the salt mines.

Tags: Charles Bronson, Current Listening, Powerviolence, The Morning Drive

Kingdom

I'm not a vegan or straight-edge but I do like good straight-edge hardcore and this band is worth a listen.

Technorati Tags: Hardcore, Kingdom, Straight-edge

Voice Poetry

or Lunchtime Listening: Ornette Coleman - Body Meta


Tags: Body Meta, Jazz, Lunchtime Listening, Ornette Coleman

Always Hopeful, Yet Discontent

The Morning Drive: Rush - Moving Pictures


I have to admit that I was never very fond of Rush back in the day but I've recently begun exploring their discography. While Geddy Lee's voice is an acquired taste, there's no denying they display excellent musical skills. I especially like the libertarian and Randian themes that run through some of their song lyrics.

Tags: Current Listening, Music, Rush, The Morning Drive

Hunting And Gathering

or Lunchtime Listening

Monoliths and Dimensions

We're back on the drone/doom tip after a Krautrock binge and no one does drone better than Sunn O))).

Tags: Doom, Drone, Lunchtime Listening, Sunn O)))

Tempus Fugit

or Lunchtime Listening

I do take a break from making my ears bleed quite often. If anything, my musical tastes are quite varied. So even though I don't usually eat lunch (too lazy to make one, too cheap to buy one. as long as there's coffee i'm good) this was playing during my lunchtime.

Bud Powell - Ultimate Bud Powell


Tags: Bud Powell, Jazz, Lunchtime Listening

In Heavy Rotation

So I'm looking at my "In Heavy Rotation" list and there's a troublesome lack of hardcore music being played. I could be accused of false advertising in the title of my blog. I seem to have slipped back into a Krautrock phase among other things.

Tags: Current Listening, Hardcore, In Heavy Rotation, Krautrock, Music

Dusk Falls Upon The Temple Of The Serpent On The Mount Of Sunrise

Lunchtime Listening: Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
I've liked Nile's Egyptian-tinged death metal for some time. I'm especially fond of this release.


Tags: Death Metal, Egypt, Lunchtime Listening, Nile

It's Life, Not Books That Taught Me All I've Learned

Well, not really but it's my Lunchtime Listening: The Bonzo Dog Band - The Doughnuts in Grannys' Greenhouse

British dance-hall and trad jazz collide with nascent psychedelia

Tags: Bonzo Dog Band, Lunchtime Listening