"Nothing but the rain"
Communication number 1668. Here’s what was happening in England during that year; lots of people were born and lots died, Newton created a reflecting telescope, the British East India Company took control of Bombay by “Royal Charter”, William Penn was imprisoned for writing a pamphlet attacking trinitarian doctrine.
Schematic is a decent album by Senser. It’s worth getting. Am I aware of any of the songs in particular? No. But this is worth owning if you like their particular brand of rock.
When this is published on this site this will be communication number 1667. Here’s what was going on in England in 1667. The Dutch sailed up the Medway and destroyed part of the English Navy. The Dutch attempt to sail up the Thames but don’t make it. The Dutch then land in Suffolk but are beaten back. In July the Second Anglo-Dutch war is ended by treaty. Paradise Lost is published, I know nothing about this book. Robert Hooke was being a genius.
I’ve had this album on in the background while I wrote the previous communication and I have to say, it’s just a metal/nu-wave album. The song Fuck Reality is quite funny I guess.
This is really an EP and came as an extra CD with Jar Of Flies by Alice In Chains. I bought this in the early days of CD players. If you want to listen to this properly then you need to be drunk, lying on the floor and wearing sunglasses in the dark. I can’t think of a better way to experience this.
Haunting.
That pretty much describes this album. It has all the classic vocal styles of Alice along with decent acoustic sounds followed by grunge/Seattle sounds. It is a masterpiece.
Well, what is there to say about an almost perfect album? This is an amazing collection of songs. Rust In Peace ends the current run of “R” albums and there have been some monsters here:
And so now to the last “R”.
This album starts with the magnum opus that is:
Well. This is just good old-fashioned rock. It’s like AC/DC but not quite as good. If you are fifty and haven’t adjusted your music tastes in thirty five years then you will love this.
Look. I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it: Rammstein are amazing. I love it. I can’t get enough and it just stuns me all the time. The thing is, and this is mentioned elsewhere within these communications, I forget song names. Bands I have grown to like over the last twenty years or so, Rammstein included, have suffered from a case of me not having the time to stare at the album packaging. It’s worse these days as I rarely buy physical copies of music and rarely look at the actual titles of songs I hear. This along with a propensity to not really listen to the lyrics combines to mean I don’t know song titles. Unless the chorus is the title over and over.
I know the songs and I know which ones I like but naming them? Almost impossible.
Just go and buy everything by Rammstein. You’ll not regret it.
This is gritty and fun. I don’t think I have deliberately listened to it but these songs definitely come on in a shuffle and I quite enjoy them. After the quite polished sound of the first album the Beastie Boys have definitely come on.
Considering how much I like AC/DC I’m not sure I’ve listened to this album all the way through. I love the Bon Scott era and there are some albums from the Brian Johnson era that are stunning but, this one’s just too recent. Black Ice was really the last AC/DC album I really knew. I bought it, obviously, but I’m not enough of a super-fan to listen to this. I didn’t even put it on before writing this.
I bought this album because I felt that I should like Jane’s Addiction. I bought Strays by Jane’s Addiction and I think I remember liking that. We will find out once we get to the “S” section of these album reviews. I have to say I have played this album one and a half times and I don’t like it. It has no good features. Yeah, I know it was raved about but I don’t like it.
So, I’ve been playing this recently and I really like it. There’s a particular level of noise and industry to it. This is an album well worth getting [if you like industrial metal and hate Bush Jr].