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Debut album released 50 years ago today

I just read that the Zep song Jimmy dislikes the most is Living Loving Maid ( She's Just A Woman ) off II. Listening to LZ II this morning.

I get a lot of soul out of it, but it’s a childlike one. A sense of wonder and amazement that really connects with me.

I'll stick to potatoes.

Muse - Black Holes & Revelations This album always feels like a breath of fresh air to me. A part of me will never fully understand people who don’t get excited over this.

Now: Pearl Jam- Lightning Bolt This is such a great album.

I can see the case for post BH&R being soulless, but to me all of those first four have loads of it.

i actually agree if we're talking recent Muse but i love black holes. i actually find it their least souless. Mick

Yesterday: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts’ Club Band Tierra Whack - Whack World Brian Eno - Another Green World The Strokes - Room On Fire

There "return to their roots" is exactly how all bands should do it. They brought back doom, but not once did they sound like they were trying to recapture their past.

Sin After Sin is my favourite! Sad Wings...I feel it's overrated. The songs have power live, but I honestly prefer Rocka Rolla

Two other teams won the opportunity to get beaten in the first round of the "big dance" but at least they're going.

The Award for Best Supporting Actor goes to Robert Downey, Jr. for portraying Lewis Strauss in Oppenheimer. His first Academy Award in three attempts. I haven't seen many of his films (Iron Man, The Avengers, The Pickup Artist....that's about it), and I haven't seen Oppenheimer, but I surely know great talent when I see it. The man is gifted. Acting talent and natural charisma. Even when accepting his first Oscar, he was (mostly) cool, collected and smooth.

Such a great album!

I’m finishing Alice in Wonderland with Through the Looking Glass.

I only saw this today, thank you rugen for the post. But I have to say...4 "Likes"? 3 replies? I am not affiliated with this group from Singapore but they obviously spent a hella-lot of time recording this. The album is Examination put out in 2019. They also do a version of Manhattan Project and BU2B (What?!) and I Walk The Line, by some old country music dude as well as some others. And The Sound of Muzak by Porcupine Tree. Seems to be a western music appreciation album. But they are really good at what they do! These folks are amazing, they recorded some tracks separately, just like ours faithful, instead of recording multiple vocal tracks they used two singers, the guitarist is playing both classical and electric guitar pieces, like ours faithful and the drums are simple but work perfectly. And the lyrics are clear with a similar emphasis on timing that Geddy always talked about. This group looks relaxed and the notes are all spot on. There are some variations (I think I heard some flute?) and with the guitar and obviously the drumming, but it works really well and the tone and respect of the song is really strong. Who spends that much time making new artwork that keeps to the steam-punk theme but adds - a lover story -a journey of ageing - and builds on the original images with the great playing? This group did! I think it's one of the best "band appreciation" projects I have seen. Highly recommended viewing.

One thing I would say about Epitaph, Faulkner did some stuff that was a little bit too like Zakk Wylde at times. It was his first Priest tour so maybe he wasn't quite on point at that stage.

I want to try this band. Segue really turned me on to them. it took a while tough because this band has had so many shifts and twists that they are not the easiest to rank or even enjoy for that matter, lol here we go Paradise lost. 1. Tragic Idol 2. The Plague Within 3. Host 4. Obsidian 5. Faith Divides us, Death Unites Us 6. Symbol of Life 7. One Second 8. Icon (though i prefer the recent re-record ) 9. Medusa 10. In Requiem 11. Draconian Times 12. Paradise Lost 13. Gothic 14. Shades of God 15. Lost Paradise 16. Believe In Nothing. Now to stress. none of these albums are bad. just my prefered order. And this band were much better than doom metal. and when they circled back to it they did it better the 2nd time whilst keeping other sounds in tact from different eras. Mick

At home, they treat me like God. I’m generally ignored until someone wants something.

This is a good call. The stuff with Allison Krauss isn't really my thing but I can recognize that it's good. I really liked his album Carry Fire from a few years ago and he's had some other good ones post-2000 as well.

Maybe you should create your own Priest albums like Pete Pardo and the heavy metal squares have done!

Good rock record. Gonna listen to it on my way out tonight.

Great album.

It seems like it was just 600 months ago....

I've decided to give Priest a proper discography run. Will take me a while given the size but you gotta start somewhere. Rocka Rolla is better than I remember it being. It's not the Priest I know, but for 70s hard rock it's surprisingly solid, at least the first couple tracks and Diamonds and Rust.

Have you seen the Epitaph DVD? That's a good one as well, better really.

John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White

I noticed on Friday that Animals is on Apple Music is streaming in Dolby Atmos. I have not had the chance to sit down with it on headphones. Soon I will, Very soon.

Showing The Princess Bride to my mother. Her first experience….inconceivable! Epilogue: She actually gave it a !