Consider this a different kind of Listening Post and more like a Reflections Column. With Reflecting Pool I will be going back through the catalog of bands that I love and have been following for years. I will try to be as impartial as possible, but I admit that I Continue Reading
Music Reviews
Listening Post: Judas Priest – Stained Class
“Breaking the Law”, “Another Thing Coming”, that’s just about the depth of my Judas Priest knowledge. Well, I know about the alleged backwards masking. I know that Halford is the leader of the metal/leather image. And gay. I now that the terrible move Rock Star was based on them. Sort Continue Reading
Listening Post: Judas Priest – Sin After Sin
“Breaking the Law”, “Another Thing Coming”, that’s just about the depth of my Judas Priest knowledge. Well, I know about the alleged backwards masking. I know that Halford is the leader of the metal/leather image. And gay. I now that the terrible move Rock Star was based on them. Sort Continue Reading
Listening Post: Judas Priest – Sad Wings of Destiny
“Breaking the Law”, “Another Thing Coming”, that’s just about the depth of my Judas Priest knowledge. Well, I know about the alleged backwards masking. I know that Halford is the leader of the metal/leather image. And gay. I now that the terrible move Rock Star was based on them. Sort Continue Reading
Listening Post: Judas Priest – Rocka Rolla
“Breaking the Law”, “Another Thing Coming”, that’s just about the depth of my Judas Priest knowledge. Well, I know about the alleged backwards masking. I know that Halford is the leader of the metal/leather image. And gay. I now that the terrible move Rock Star was based on them. Sort Continue Reading
listening Post: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Highway Companion
The last Tom Petty album before MudCrutch. He jettisoned the Heartbreakers and brought back Mr. ELO. Tom Petty – Highway Companion – 2006 (Buy It) Live blogging the last TP record. Saving Grace. A neat little toe-tapping rocker that suggests that this record might actually be fun.Square One. Oh, but Continue Reading
Listening Post: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – The Last DJ
With the end in site, we arrive at the concept album (rock opera) about the state of the music industry, which AllMusic gave 1 star. Is it that bad? Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – The Last DJ – 2002 (Buy It) In 2002 I was listening to radio late Continue Reading
Listening Post: New Music
After hosting (or, co-hosting, as it were) that Monkey Mix I, true to my word, loaded up on a lot of suggestions.Here are my super brief thoughts: Elliott Brood – Mountain Meadows – Excellent. Death Country. High energy. Like …and You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead, only Continue Reading
Listening Post: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Echo
Come hell or high water, I’m gonna finish this……. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Echo – 1999 (Buy It) No. The opening track, “Room at the Top” is NOT the Adam Ant hit. Wouldn’t that be cool, though? Mebbe not. As opening tracks go, it’s big, it’s heart wrenching Continue Reading
Listening Post: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – She’s the One
The end is in sight…. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – She’s The One – 1996 (Buy It) I’m not a fan of Ed Burns, the director of the movie “She’s the One”, for which this album serves as soundtrack. i suppose it would be weirder if it was a Continue Reading