Post Tagged with: "1980s"

by / on May 3, 2013 at 7:14 am / in Metal, One Track Mind, Rock Music

One Track Mind: Jeff Hanneman and Slayer, “Raining Blood” (1986)

Aside from the venerable opening riff of Metallica’s “Master of Puppets,” there may be no more recognizable melody in thrash than the main riff of Slayer’s “Raining Blood,” the sort-of title track of their landmark Reign in Blood album.

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by / on April 30, 2013 at 9:29 am / in Almost Hits, Pop Music, Uncategorized

Almost Hits: The Monroes, “What Do All The People Know” (1982)

From San Diego, California came the Monroes, whose impossibly infectious “What Do All The People Know” stalled at the #59 spot on the national charts in the spring of 1982.

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by / on April 30, 2013 at 8:44 am / in Rock Music

‘Feeling rejuvenated and inspired’: Journey’s Neal Schon at work on new music with Chickenfoot, Jan Hammer

Guitarist Neal Schon is returning to some familiar 1980s-era musical associations — though neither of them are Journey. Instead, he’s rekindling associations from the days of HSAS, and Schon and Hammer.

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by / on April 28, 2013 at 11:43 am / in One Track Mind, Reissue, Rock Music

One Track Mind: Midnight Oil, “The Dead Heart” from Essential Oils (2013)

This is the Almost Hit from Midnight Oil’s Diesel and Dust, which is primarily remembered for the Top 20 smash “Beds Are Burning,” but in many ways “The Dead Heart” always felt like the better song to me.

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by / on April 25, 2013 at 10:15 am / in Metal, One Track Mind, Rock Music, Uncategorized

One Track Mind: Cinderella’s Tom Keifer on “Somebody Save Me,” “Solid Ground,” others

As he awaits the April 30, 2013 release of his first solo album, The Way Life Goes, Cinderella frontman Tom Keifer took some time out of his latest tour to discuss some of our favorite tunes off the new record and some Cinderella classics

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by / on April 23, 2013 at 11:35 am / in Deep Cuts, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Deep Cuts: Exploring forgotten Journey gems like “Opened the Door,” “Daydream,” “Someday Soon”

In searching for forgotten gems from Journey, we left aside arena-filling efforts from Escape through Trial by Fire — which combined sold some 18 million copies. Been there, done that, right?

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by / on April 21, 2013 at 3:00 pm / in Jazz, Uncategorized

Charles Lloyd – Quartets ECM Box Set (2013)

The story of Quartets, the new ECM box set covering five of Charles Lloyd’s albums, isn’t a sweeping career retrospective; it would take at least twenty discs to sufficiently do that for this tenor saxophonist whose become a lion in jazz over a fifty year span. Instead, this is about a second act.

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by / on April 18, 2013 at 8:00 am / in Jazz, Reissue, Uncategorized

Paul Motian – Paul Motian ECM box set (2013)

By the time Paul Motian had passed away in November of 2011, he had established a legacy that reaches far beyond a couple of historical evenings at the Village Vanguard in late June of 1961. But becoming known as something much more than Bill Evans’ drummer within arguably jazz’s greatest trio didn’t happen overnight.

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by / on April 15, 2013 at 10:10 am / in Classical Music, Progressive rock, Reissue

‘Much better than I ever thought it was’: Genesis’ Tony Banks reissues long out-of-print The Wicked Lady

Tony Banks reissues his rare soundtrack for the 1983 Faye Dunaway vehicle The Wicked Lady today, the first of a series of solo albums the Genesis keyboardist will revisit — including Bankstatement and Strictly Inc.

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by / on April 10, 2013 at 8:00 am / in Uncategorized, WTF Wednesdays

WTF?! Wednesdays: Scott Johnson, “Part 3: Involuntary Songs” (1982)

Though it was only then just beginning to hit the mainstream, looping and sampling by the ’80s was becoming old hat for the New Music/Minimalist guys.

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