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Axis Of Evil – Suicide Commando

Axis of Evil – Suicide Commando

Those crazy Belgians have a lot to answer for. I found this artist while looking for more aggrotech and hellectro. I’m pretty sure I looked on Wikipedia for associated acts and probably looked through iTunes to see related acts from Combichrist. Axis of Evil is full of dance beats, samples and club style synth sounds with some lovely disturbing lyrics over the top.

To start an album with the worldwide statistics on suicide is a brave move and one that works. Just a glance at the song titles will inform you of the style and mood of the music. Strangely I find this stuff quite upbeat and happy. It’s definitely my kind of stuff.

  • Consume Your Vengeance
  • Face of Death
  • Evildoer
  • Plastic Christ

These pretty much sum up this album!

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Audioslave – Audioslave

Audioslave – Audioslave

This is the first album by Seattle supergroup Audioslave or Rage Garden / Sound Machine as they possibly should be known. I don’t remember why I bought this on CD or when but I have a feeling I saw the video on TV at some point and thought it would be worth a punt. It turned out to be a good purchase and I went on to buy all the Audioslave albums.

The opener “Cochise” is a superb rock song, great guitars wonderful vocals and the video is pretty good too. Every song on this album is good. Some of the guitar solos don’t fit the songs and this bothered me until I found out that the guitarist was Tom Morello and then it all made sense. He’s such an experimental guitarist that his sounds really don’t fit the mainstream rock.

This is an album I’d have on in the car if there were non-rock fans in the car. I think it’s an album that everyone can enjoy and not just the hardcore metal fans. It’s about as easy listening as I get, even with the “out there” solos.

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An Atheist Album – Shelley Segal

This is really more of an EP but it is worth mentioning in this list. I downloaded this from iTunes after hearing a song played on a podcast. I can’t remember which particular podcast but probably The Humanist Hour from the AHA. Shelley Segal is not related to Steven but is from Melbourne, Australia. The songs are nice and gentle and she is the only singer/songwriter whose work I actually enjoy. It’s good to hear someone explaining rationally about religion and gods within a gentle guitar based soundtrack. Get this album to hear songs such as:

  • I Don’t Believe In Fairies
  • Eve

It’s definitely wrong to base your views on women and life on those expressed in a book.

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Asylum – Disturbed

This is a very good heavy metal album. I got it after a recommendation from Andy Smith. It’s very good to run to and has some cracking riffs. I’d be tempted to get some more stuff by Disturbed but I think it may be a bit the same. I’m currently seeking new sounds and experiences. As this is a newer album and discovery by me the standard “not sinking in” argument applies to my knowledge of this band. I know it’s good, I know I like it and I know I like playing it. Can I remember any of the songs or how they go? No.

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Asylum – Senser

I’ve been a big fan of Senser since my third year at university and Andy gave me some tapes with their songs. The album Stacked Up is still one of my favourites but this is about the album Asylum.

I have bought all the Senser albums, although there is one coming out soon which I think they are funding through an innovative route. This album is pretty good. However, Kerstin Haigh does all the singing / rapping as the main lead singer / rapper was off doing some solo projects and things with other bands.

Ah, the long song. This album has a long special song at the end. It’s 24:58 long. It that necessary? I like how bands mess around with these things but I don’t always think the results prove it worthwhile.

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Astro-Creep: 2000 – White Zombie

There are two versions of this album. This one and the remix. The remix has a far more interesting cover but let’s move on.

This is a really good album and the start of me heading into a more industrial sound rather than the clean produced stuff that I had previously liked. I don’t think there are any bad songs, although I don’t listen to it enough to know the names of all the songs. One of the issues with playing music on the iPhone is that I generally don’t know what the song is called. Back in the days of proper records I would read the dust cover from top to toe and make sure I knew the name of every song.

Highlights are:

  • More Human Than Human
  • Electric Head
  • Real Solution #9

“Real Solution #9” has a sample of one of the Charles Manson killers giving an interview about her victim on TV in the 80s. Interesting use of counter culture.

Rob Zombie and Marylin Manson toured together recently and I considered going but £60 for seeing two bands I’m not that fussed about seemed a lot of money. I didn’t go.

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Apple – Mother Love Bone

I bought this album mostly for a digital version of the song “Crown of Thorns”. I’m pretty sure this song was on a tape that a friend, Mark H, made when I was at school. I might be mistaken though as the song appears on the “Singles” original soundtrack and this came out in about 1992 or so.

So, the album version of “Thorns” doesn’t have the “Chloe Dancer” part at the beginning which I really like. So I got the album for pretty much nothing. The singer is dead, AFAIK. I could look it up but that isn’t a concern with me here. I’m pretty sure the band were also part of the Seattle sound which influenced music for about 10 years [more later].

Are there any more songs of note? I’m not sure. I haven’t listened to this enough to know. I’ve grown out of the Seattle sound now and I don’t know if it’ll come back. This is another summer album and sound.

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Appetite For Destruction – Guns ‘n’ Roses

It is very hard to give this album enough credit and praise for just being brilliant.

I bought this when I was about 16 from the Our Price record shop in Jackson Square in Bishop’s Stortford. How do I remember? Well I was just very excited at owning this rather controversial piece of vinyl. I remember opening the album in the car on the way home with my dad driving and my sister in the back seat. I proceeded to inform my father of some of the lyrics that were printed on the record dust cover. Also I have the original album cover, which the record label changed after a while over complaints about the subject matter. Funny, but I never really saw what the picture depicted, I just thought it was a good cover. So, the songs:

  • Welcome to the Jungle – brilliant
  • It’s So Easy – until you’ve heard 100,000 people shout out its most famous line you’ll never truly appreciate this song! Brilliant.
  • Nightrain – I don’t like it. It really bothers me and I think it’s a lazy song. I don’t like guitar parts that follow the vocals. Just me, I know.
  • Out Ta Get Me – Brilliant.
  • Mr Brownstone – Brilliant.
  • My Michelle – Brilliant.
  • Think About You – Brilliant.
  • Sweet Child O’ Mine – Absolutely Awesome.
  • You’re Crazy – so very crazy, great lyrics, find the acoustic version on Lies.
  • Anything Goes – of course it does.
  • Rocket Queen – Marvellous

Such a seminal album and one they could never really live up to afterwards. I reckon the teenage angst and drugs made this perfect. Very much a “summer” album, more on that later.

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Apocalypse Now Soundtrack – Various

I have been a little obsessed with Apocalypse Now! since I first watched it in my second year at university. I bought the soundtrack after Ades told me he had seen it in HMV in Oxford Street. This time being the early 90s there was no email really, no mobile phones that were cheap or small and no tweets! To find an album you had to search through record shops!
Ades informed me he had seen this and I rushed off to the tube station and got to HMV. I bought it. Happy person!
What I would really like is a full length version of The End by The Doors with all the naughty words in but I can’t find it so I’ll just have to cope with the version on this album.
To appreciate the album you need to be a fan! Considering I only watch the film when I’m feeling a little messed up it shouldn’t surprise you that the soundtrack isn’t played that often but it is an important part of my collection!

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