Wall of Mouths

the only thing I;ve seen is Eddie Vedder’s song for the Chicago Cubs…who could get swept out of the playoffs tonight. They better hope that luck doesn’t spread to O’Bama

Got even more fresh vinyl…they’re even stocking it again at Best Buy.
Radiohead- OK Computer, Pable Honey, Kid A
Judas Priest- British Steel
Hendrix- Band of Gypsies
Misfits- Statiic Age
Frampton Comes Alive
U2-War
Cream- Disreali Gears
Boston
Kiss -Alive
Def Leppard-Pyromania
Zepplin- Song Remains the Same (Love the extra tracks)
Decendents-Somery
Strung Out - Live in a Dive, Twisted By Design
Shellac/Mule -split
Metallica-Death Magnetic
Q and Not U- Different Damage, Power

I just got DM on vinyl. Hopefully the sound quality is better

I’ve listened to more of the album. Have to say it’s definitely better than anything they’ve done this century (not saying much there). If it came out right before or after the Black album, I’d probably be more impressed. Unfortunately I can’t help thinking how derivative they sound now. That’s what happens when you take 3-4 years between albums and go back to your roots instead of doing something new. You start sounding like a clone of yourselves.

Perhaps this a perfect illustration why T? has never done Troublegum 2.

Maybe it’s just my copy, but I’m a little disappointed in the mix. The drums don’t hit like they should.
Popped it in the car and cranked it up, and was a bit disappointed. The guitars were fine, but the drums and bass were a little muddled.

The Black and Load albums had much better production value.
Bands need to get over the digital studio trend. Yeah it’s cheaper…but it’s true “You get what you pay for”. This is a broader criticism than this album and can be leveled at our boys T? as well. Albini is right!

Here’s a few other observations.
“The End of the Line” has a big riff in it, that I couldn’t help but start singing “Animal” from Pearl Jam.

And although I loved it, the solo break in “Broken Beat and Scarred”, sounded like the best Megadeth clone I’ve heard…a little bit too close to “Hanger 18”
As a matter of fact, quite a few of the solos sound a little Dave Mustaine-ish too me. Seems like Kirk was trying too hard to do Kill ‘Em All, and it sounds kind of mechanical,
“Insert Riff 1-A here” instead of spontaneous and inspired.
I will say, I enjoyed some of the harmonized leads. They picked there spots well for them.

Overall though… I will say it’s an enjoyable thrash album. Again would be much better 10 years or so ago. Where now it sounds too much where they took the best bits from older songs/ albums and repackaged them.

I think they’ve peaked. And if this is what we can expect, they should not take 4-5 years to deliver.

It’s time for them to collaborate with Mustaine. Maybe the tension between them would create something truly interesting.

Criticisms aside, I’d actually recommend this to others. And it’s going to get more plays than their last 3 albums combined.
I think I’ll go ahead and order the vinyl.

Solid workmanlike album…but not a masterpiece. B+

I’ve heard three songs so far “The Day that never comes” , “Cyanide”, and “My Apocalypse”…all I can say is not terrible but more “Been there…heard that”

“The Day That Never Comes” Is Unforgiven 3 with a bit of “Where it Bleeds” and “One”.
“My Apocalypse” is another Load type simple riff…gets old
“Cyanide” does have a nice solo, the rhytm behind it sounds like they’ve been listening to “5 Magics”. Probably would have liked it better in 1992

Again not terrible, but not going to be worth the hype it will enevitably come. And considering how long it took to put out, they’re best days are behind them. They’re definitely behind the curve now.

Best thing I can say, is that Kirk put the wah away for a bit.

I see Strung Out is doing a UK tour in October.
For those of you in the Uk I’d highly recommend checking them out. Great live band!

Oct 16 2008 8:00P
Croft Bristol
Oct 17 2008 8:00P
White Rabbit Plymouth
Oct 18 2008 8:00P
Zodiac Oxford
Oct 19 2008 8:00P
Charlotte Leicester
Oct 21 2008 8:00P
Music Box Manchester
Oct 22 2008 8:00P
Trillians Newcastle
Oct 23 2008 8:00P
Cathouse Glasgow
Oct 24 2008 8:00P
Rios Leeds
Oct 25 2008 8:00P
Queen Charlotte Norwich
Oct 26 2008 8:00P
The Peel Kingston
Oct 27 2008 8:00P
TBA Sheffield
Oct 28 2008 8:00P
The Asylum Birmingham
Oct 29 2008 8:00P
TJ’s Newport
Oct 30 2008 8:00P
Underworld London

Got some classic Kiss on vinyl off EBay, Dude threw in Alive for free…class!

some old school grunge…Gruntruck

Would like to see Seaweed do a new album. Their last one was really good. Had a great cover of Warsaw…and a cool original Antilyrical

would be cool to see Green River. I have a PJ bootleg where mudhoney opened and then late in the PJ show they did a mini-reunion. It was great. But that was 1993

Finally got my Nurse red vinyl LP…sooo much better than the CD!

Oh yeah…also got a few Tad CDs off of Amazon marketplace.
Infrared Riding Hood and Inhaler. As grungy as grunge gets..good stuff

Got some fresh vinyl the last 2 days been listening to that.
Metallica- Master of Puppets 2LP 45RPM- awesome! They done a great job with these, Kill ‘Em All and Ride the Lightning are great also.
Deep Purple- Machine Head
Weezer- Pinkerton (cranks much better than CD)
Ramones - Leave Home, Rocket to Russia, Road to Ruin, End of the Century
Black Sabbath- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (clear vinyl..freaky)

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue…great album. Wasn’t much of a Jazz guy but gave it a shot originally on iTunes and got hooked. So much better on vinyl. One of my faves. Real bluesy.

Dug into my old mans old record collection. Cleaned up a few of his old jazz LPs
Ahmad Jamal - Live at the Pershing great piano player.
now listening to Modern Jazz Quartet & Oscar Peterson Trio- Live at the Opera house. Pretty cool stuff to mellow out to.

These things hadn’t been played in 30 years. Put a little Gruv Glide on them…good as new. Those old fat vinyl LPs hold up well.

Meat Puppets - Too High to Die
Urge Overkill- Saturation
Tad - Inhaler
God Lives Underwater- Empty

Just bought it DVD, just stumbled into it Best Buy…really liked it. I thought the actors did a great job live. Surprised they actually played live versus synching to a recording.

Shellac’s - At Action Park, the LP is really cool. THe stuff is too small to see on the CD

alright album. Better than the last but not as good as Blue or Pinkerton. I pre-ordered mine and got a free viynl 7inch. Still haven’t listened to that though

Kyuss. Just got into them after Local H dropped their name on their new album. Cool stuff

Rival Schools? They got back together?
They only had the one album, which was great, and last I saw the singer was in another band, Walking Concert. (not as good)

Muskeg wrote:

I love Empire Strikes First. Sinister Rouge is flippin fast and sounds almost like Blackened by Metallica !

Get their Live at the Palladium DVD. Excellent show!
They’re so tight live. Also cool to see the three guitar attack with Mr. Brett actually attending and not running Epitaph.

Have to say the New Roadmaps of Hell CD hasn’t done anything for me yet.

now if they’d just put out some new songs. It’s been a few years since the Hibernation single/EP

a couple of newbies

First some new- old school Bay Area Thrash
Testament - The Formation of Damnation…the first Testament with the original lineup (except the drummer). Alex Skolnick is still awesome.

Second the new Local H- 12 Angry Months..one the few bands that can pull of a concept album. Pretty simple in this case, in this case chronicling a horrible break-up. Good Stuff!

yep…more along the lines of Social Distortion then pop-punk

Face to Face got back together to do some shows. I think they’re in Europe right now..or were.
They aren’t planning to record because they have so many side projects..but they still love to play the stuff live.

Great live band, catch them if you can.

just got a fresh batch of vinyl
The complete Doors box set
Metallica Kill ‘Em All & Ride the lightning each one a special 2 disk 45rpm print
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath & Paranoid
Pearl Jam- Ten
Pennywise- Reason to Believe (best one since Straight Ahead)

plus downloaded Trever Keith’s (lead singer of Face to Face) solo album…alot like Ignorance is Bliss

I got it the new vid. It’s the early years pt2, plus the full Live After Death video, plus a ROck in Rio concert and some videos

Jus found out Pennywise has a one coming out., THey have the whole thing on their MySpce page.

http://www.myspace.com/pennywise

Only listened to a few songs. Big improvement over the last two. FLetcher finally came up with a few new riffs.
It’s coming out on a limited vinyl. Got mine ordered.

Electric Eye - Judas Priest

Mandatory Suicide- Slayer

Sludgefest -Dinosaur Jr