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Mixed feelings here: good thing is that Brian May and Roger Taylor are still active, and any type of music from them is a treat, bad thing is that they call it Queen and defame the band's name. Paul Rodgers ((formerly of Bad Company, Free, The Firm and The Law) is not Freddie Mercury it all doesn't make much sense.Continue reading the entire review: Queen — The Cosmos Rocks

…when talking about my music taste that is.

Today it is two years since I joined last.fm and where these years have gone is a question that I can’t answer since it feels like it was yesterday it all happend. Almost precisely one year ago I was writing a journal similar to this where I described how my music taste had changed over the year. This journal will head in the same direction and is going to reflect my thoughts about the year that has passed.

This year I feel that my taste have changed and have become more broader than it was just three or four months ago. Two years ago it mostly consisted of British bands such as The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Cream, with Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. The last three mentioned names were the key objects of my collection and 80% of it was related to them and bands they used to play in. "Not very open minded" would probably be the first comment one would say and I can’t agree more. …

This is a tl;dr piece. Of rehashed ideas over and over again. You have been warned.

1. Visual appeal equals musical appeal.
Obvious cases of visual kei faggotry and metal posturing idiocy aside, it’s to say that artsy music videos and photoshoots do not mask the fact that the musicians are just terrible at rousing emotions other than righteous loathing back at them. And even then on the other end, mesmerizing soundscapes wafting from the stage, emanating from spaced-out statues with guitars or what have you. As dorky as they look, no different from the classroom nerd, unmoving but for the subtle flicks of the picks on their fingers, fact remains…. They’ll never get laid.

That, and the other lesson so implicitly overt.


2. If it sucks live, it sucks.
At its basest classification, only two types of music exist. Studio version and live version. One of those clearly plays with sounds difficult/impossible to replicate under real time circumstances…

Blue Murder / "Sex Child" / Blue Murder(2) / Apr 1989

Artist: Blue Murder
Original Album: Blue Murder
Track: Sex Child

After reading & discussing my love of the first Fantastic Friday selection, Thunder and Lightning, Kris pointed me to Blue Murder, which is the group that John Sykes formed with Carmine Appice on drums and Tony Franklin (The Firm) on bass after he (Sykes) was summarily dumped from Whitesnake by David Coverdale after merely supplying all the great guitar work on the 1987 Whitesnake album! Well!

Smart move by Geffen Records to get Sykes signed and hooked up with the veterans, because they immediately started turning out some heavy riffs and great blues-influenced hard rock here! It sounds a bit dated now, mostly due to Bob Rock's overblown production, and so it is very much "of its time" but the songwriting is strong and you can't denounce the musicianship.

(However, Geffen should have seriously considered also hiring somebody to give the band some sound sartorial advice…

AZ Undeniable IN STORES APRIL 1st!!

http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh81/AZUndeniable/AZUndeniablearton5897.jpg

Tracklist:

1. The Game Don’t Stop
2. Superstar
3. Life On The Line
4. Fire
5. What Would You Do ft/ Jay Rush
6. Dead End
7. Parking Lot Pimpin’
8. Undeniable
9. Go Getta ft/ Ray J.
10. Now I Know
11. A. Game
12. The Hardest ft/ Styles P

Undeniable Released: 1st quarter April 1, 2008 Singles: "Life On The Line"/"The Hardest"

XXL Interview:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=fJgxy9GrD70

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The Hardest ft. Styles P
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=De39yAiNm3s

Undeniable
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJfwsHxIofc

AZ in the Internet:

- http://www.myspace.com/azisundeniable
- http://www.azundeniable.blogspot.com/
- http://de.youtube.com/user/AZUndeniable

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZ_(rapper)
…

I made a videography of all AZ musicvideos from his first album in 1995 till now.

Sugar Hill ft. Miss Jones (Doe Or Die)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=U3y1VyKMkvY

Gimme Yours ft. Nas (Doe or Die)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=JG1h2oQRF98

Doe or Die (Doe or Die)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=yp1hBB6kgAY

Hey AZ (Pieces of a Man)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=DIEcKkOrhLQ

What's the Deal (Pieces of a Man)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=1R2C2au-2OQ

Problems (9 Lives)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=bufbKG7ugHY

Everything is Everything (9 Lives)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=JRvsqMORmzQ

I'm Back (Aziatic)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=QyNSKd2BXjc

The Come Up (A.W.O.L.)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNQ0YJhs1k

The Format (The Format)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=W6-CpPc7QIM

The Hardest ft. Styles P (Undeniable)
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=De39yAiNm3s

The Firm:

Phone Tap
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=w6BX4ddQ-tU

Firm Biz
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=_Erm0-s7scc
…

1. Eddie Van Halen - Van Halen (Eruption)
2. Steve Vai - Solo, Whitesnake, David Lee Roth (For The Love Of God)
3. Jimmy Page - Led Zeppelin, Yardbirds, The Firm (The Song Remains the Same)
4. David Gilmour - Pink Floyd (Run Like Hell)
5. Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix Experience (All Along the Watchtower)
6. Zakk Wylde - Solo, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Label Society (Stronger Than Death)
7. Randy Rhodes - Ozzy Osbourne, Quiet Riot (Crazy Train)
8. John Petrucci - Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment (Paradigm Shift)
9. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Solo (Texas Flood)
10. Slash - Guns 'N Roses, Velvet Revolver, Slash's Snakepit (Welcome to the Jungle)