Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Nell' Ora Blu
Right, this is a bit ehm.. different. Uncle Acid is a lo fi metal band, doing their best Sabbath. Actually they do that very good and the albums preceding this one is just that: a collection of songs, sounding like Sabbath Just look them up and listen to a snippet, you know what I mean then, it sounds a bit like you listen to a metal album through your phone.
Anyway, the new one, with a weird title, is a smorgasbord of styles leaning on a faux film script for an Italian movie, complete with actors reading scenes. They pull out everything, metal, psychedelic stuff saxophones, you name it: it's there. And somehow..it works. In fact, it is fantastic. I really don't know how to describe it better, it's one of those things you need to hear it to believe it.

Another bunch sprint another win for the giant Italian.

Even though the vinyl is not here yet, I can still listen to the live Ayreon show form last September. One of the songs not on the featured album (01011001) but from the latest Star One album is now up on youtube. It's worth a listen if it's your sort of thing. It has Unleash the Archers singer Brittany Slayes and oh boy does she have a set of pipes on her...

 

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Quick, but was a bit of a guessing game.

Only saw the last 10K, but looked like a good win. Levefre is a relic, and an ugly one.

Quote from: Slim on May 15, 2024, 08:08:37 PMHelped myself to a bit of retro LCD fun. At £8.25 including delivery on eBay, I was half expecting it to be a fake!



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I like it. I recall I had a Casio back in the early 80s I think that had 7 different alarm tones, one for each day and a Christmas song (can't recall which, probably Jingle Bells). Monday was When the  Saints go Marching in.
Must have lost it at some point because I don't have it anymore.

Long weekend ahead, been waiting for and looking foerward to the Ayreon live LP and Blu Ray and the Plan Nine LP (another Lucassen thing) to come on Friday. Just got an e-mail: Ayreon vinyl delayed, so they hold the entire package 
The Manic Eden LP a couple of weeks ago was also delayed by weeks, Mascot not doing so well with the pressing plants...

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Well done to the 23 year old PP brother. Watched the last part, it's a good thing there was no wind. The lad weighs 52kgs.

Bardet 2nd, not bad.

This took forever. It was the only word I could think of, luckily it fit.
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Contrary to what I thought before (using my mortality as an excuse to not buy it because I would not be able to properly listen to it due to my demise being closer now than it was yesterday), I ran into it for a fair price at the right time. On top of that I maintain my motto that I am immortal until proven otherwise and in doing so buying the time to let it sink in fully, I bought the massive Camel boxset.

So that's a 34 disc trip through the Latimer Landscape ahead.

Gov't Mule - Life Before Insanity

Couldn't decide whether use it for line 3, went another route. Oh well.
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And todays' release:

1990 - Maiden Voyage - indeed the debut, 4 track demo. not the best soundng, it was transferred from tape. 3 studio tracks, 1 live.
All 4 of them sound rough, a real demo then. A try out. The band would evolve a lot over the years. Still I like the studio tracks. They have a very punky alternative edge to them. Track 4 Blueberry Daydreamshows the bands love for acoustic, and it's already quite an accomplished song, very kuch as the band would remain to sound when doing acoustics with vocal harmonies. Clearly the highlight from this tape.

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/maiden-voyage

1998 - Hey Jane
This is one of the singles off of Trust Us and it's a lovely tune. Sitar driven in the verses it's one of the shorter songs on the album.
Mellow Muffin' Stomp and Celestine are eerie or dreamy (depending on when you kisten to them I suppose) songs. I like them a lot, they have a sort of free floating quality about them. Valis is an alternative type of banjo tune, minute and a half and it's over.
The track that actually comes for the album sessions here is The Ballad of Pat & Put, it sounds like a re-worked piece from Blissard but it's good, downtempo. not the cheeriest of EPs, then again not everything's always cheerie now is it?

https://motorpsycho.bandcamp.com/album/hey-jane