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Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
 
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Haulover said:
Ritchie Blackmore was the original guitarist for Deep Purple. When he married Candace Knight (sp?) his style did a 180-regree turnabout, and he now plays excellent, elegant guitar over his wife's Celtic-ish vocals.

Very good within that genre.
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I feel it heavily depends on the album. The first one was excellent, but stuff went very la-la-la on later records. And that's coming from someone who adores the New Age pop phase of Clannad and Enya in general. :)

Played this evening:

HIM - Razorblade Romance (2CD version)

Interesting to see the Finnish goth gods recycle so much stuff from their excellent "Greatest Lovesongs vol. 666" debut on this - and the new versions are not necessarily better. Still, this is some nice autumn music, very melodramatic, quite bittersweet (or unbearably saccharine if you want to be cynical about it) and easy enough on the ears to write to.

CD2 has a bunch of live tracks and fuck me, they are NOT a good live band. Their studio albums have a nice, fat sound, but on stage you hear they only have one guitar - and it hurts. Also, Ville Valo is only serviceable without his double and triple selves.

before that: HIM - Greatest Lovesongs vol. 666

One of my favourite goth rock albums, right up there with The Sisters of Mercy's "Floodland" and the whole Fields of the Nephilim back catalog. The guitar(s) sound has that nice Finnish early '90s Death Metal brunt and works fantastic with the sobbing, sighing and suffering Mr. Valo does. Also, the songs are just that good. "Your Sweet 666", "Our Diabolical Rapture" with it's monstrous groove, the to-die-for synth riff of "Where Love and Death Embrace" and of course the cover songs. They did both Chris Isaac's "Wicked Game" and BÖC's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", the latter I find simply mindblowing. They cut the tempo in half and turned it into a freaking Doom Metal hymn, with beautiful female vocals to boot. Love that album! Everything afterwards isn't exactly bad, but they veered too far into pop territory for my taste.
 
I have noticed something about the group here. Half of them put the song name first then the singer, while the other half put the singer first and the song name second. Just an observation. I'm a song first kinda guy.


I'm a Man - Chicago
 
Zeb_Carter said:
I have noticed something about the group here. Half of them put the song name first then the singer, while the other half put the singer first and the song name second. Just an observation. I'm a song first kinda guy.


I'm a Man - Chicago
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Heh... I noticed that too. Also some of us are 100% songs, while others are 100% album, and some mix. I'm a mostly album guy.

Have a great day Zeb. Happy listening and writing!
 
Zeb_Carter said:
I have noticed something about the group here. Half of them put the song name first then the singer, while the other half put the singer first and the song name second. Just an observation. I'm a song first kinda guy.
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litfan10 said:
Heh... I noticed that too. Also some of us are 100% songs, while others are 100% album, and some mix. I'm a mostly album guy.
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I'm 100% an album guy. I go artist ":" album - a habit from when I was writing reviews.

I think I wrote about 600 reviews before it got old and I stopped. I still co-manage a prog-and-metal webzine with over 20,000 reviews :eek: and own one of the biggest music forums.
 
There are VERY few albums where I like and want to hear all tracks. Wakeman's Six Wives and Mykur's Mausoleum are two and a few by Nightwish. There are VERY few artists where I like all albums enough to create a playlist of theirs alone. Myrkur, Pray For Sound, Russian Circles, Still Corners and a few more, but even those would wear on me quickly if played very often.

My playlists are by genre (I hate that word), or grouped manually by style/preference. I've taken to setting tags on tracks I like and setting Media Player to extract playlists based on those tags. Most people would think it insane to have Miles Davis and Epica on the same playlist, but it works for me.
 
jaF0 said:
T...Most people would think it insane to have Miles Davis and Epica on the same playlist, but it works for me.
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It's the sort of thing I would do.

I don't really do playlists, but I'll happily switch from a Celtic album to a death metal album and on to Miles Davis.
 
I guess people used playlists for different things. The one currently playing is over 1,600 tracks and 118 hours and has a condition applied of 'not played in the last 30 days'.
 
A playlist I made of Eagles songs that weren't hits but that I like, omitting everything from Hotel California. The only thing from The Long Run in my playlist is Those Shoes.

31 songs on the list.

Say what you will about that band, and a lot of people have said a lot of things, but they wrote and played good stuff.

IMO.
 
litfan10 said:
Heh... I noticed that too. Also some of us are 100% songs, while others are 100% album, and some mix. I'm a mostly album guy.
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Yep, me too, albums.

Random song playlists based on my listening habits would bug me - I'd rather listen to the radio - someone else's taste.
 
Zeb_Carter said:
I have noticed something about the group here. Half of them put the song name first then the singer, while the other half put the singer first and the song name second. Just an observation. I'm a song first kinda guy.


I'm a Man - Chicago
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Now listening:

Rammstein - Rammstein
Icehouse - Icehouse
Belle and Sebastian - Belle and Sebastian
 
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