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One Track Mind: Deep Purple's Roger Glover, "The Car Won't Start" (2011)

A tune that couldn’t be further away from the dark organ-based groove of his band, “The Car Won’t Stop” finds Deep Purple’s Roger Glover indulging in a childhood passion for skiffle. You May Also Like: No related posts.

Anthrax - We've Come for You All (2003): On Second Thought

Anthrax – We’ve Come for You All (2003): On Second Thought

As I await the release of Anthrax’s Worship Music, the band’s reunion with 1980s singer Joey Belladonna, I’ll try to drown out the soap-opera drama with changing lineups and re-records surrounding it by cranking up their last record You May Also Like: Anthrax, Sept. 23, 2016: Shows I’ll Never ForgetRead More

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Half Notes: Megadeth – Greatest Hits (2005)

by Tom Johnson When a band has more than one “best of” in their catalog, it’s usually because one skimped on a portion of the band’s catalog that was really pretty signficant. This one, however, only fills in a few gaps of the previous best-of, Capitol Punishment, while mirroring aRead More

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Half Notes: Free Form Funky Freqs – Urban Mythology, Vol. 1 (2008)

by Mark Saleski This is a certified jazz/funk/power trio bomb. With Vernon Reid on guitar, Jamaaladeen Tecuma on bass, and G. Calvin Weston on drums, there is not a flabby moment on this record. Many people know Reid from his fire-spitting days with Living Colour. If you weren’t paying attentionRead More

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Half Notes: King's X: XV (2008)

by Tom Johnson X equals 10 and V equals 5. So that’s 10 to the tenth power times 5 … carry the 1 … whatever. It’s higher math, but this was, believe it or not, the group’s 15th album. I’m going out on a limb here — I can’t imagineRead More

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Pride and Glory, featuring Zakk Wylde – Pride and Glory (1994): Forgotten series

In 1991, as Ozzy Osbourne wrapped up his “retirement” No More Tours tour, it seemed unlikely that guitarist Zakk Wylde would record three more albums with him You May Also Like: Zakk Wylde – Book of Shadows II (2016) Why You Should Count ‘No Rest for the Wicked’ Among OzzyRead More

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One Track Mind: Warrant, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1990)

by Fred Phillips This is the song that should have been Warrant’s defining moment. You May Also Like: Left Lane Cruiser’s Bring Yo’ Ass to the Table amped up North Mississippi blues Richard Turgeon, “Learning to Fly” (2020): One Track Mind

Living Colour - Collideoscope (2003): Forgotten series

Living Colour – Collideoscope (2003): Forgotten series

A band reunites, and fans complain that the results don’t really sound like their older material. This time, Living Colour almost sounded too much like it.

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Guilty pleasures: Skinny Puppy – The Greater Wrong Of The Right (2004)

by Tom Johnson It’s not so difficult to imagine Skinny Puppy continuing to exist through the mid-90s – most of the solo output of the members over that period actually sounded more like Skinny Puppy than the band’s own “final” album You May Also Like: Why Pop Will Eat Itself’sRead More

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Isis – In The Absence Of Truth (2006)

by Tom Johnson I like to think of Isis as the band that Tool wishes it could be. Call me jaded, but by this time, Tool had become entangled in plots created to baffle and obfuscate rather than intrigue and draw listeners in, being what they think is clever butRead More