What are you listening to, right now................
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Been thrashing the old Toy Love in the car like I'm back in the 6th form. Between this Dexy's (Searching for the Young Soul Rebels) and Stiff Little Fingers (Hanx) all ocassions were covered. <br />
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Back with some more of those Yacht Rockin' beats!<br />
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This is a surprise from left field...<br />
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[QUOTE][B][SIZE=4]Exclusive: Metallica and Lou Reed Join Forces on New Album[/SIZE][/B]<br />
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It was an improbable match: [URL="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/lou-reed"]Lou Reed[/URL]'s cutting-monotone voice and explicit stories of desire and despair, lashed to [URL="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/metallica"]Metallica[/URL]'s apocalyptic charge. It is now a perfect fit. In a recent rapid series of sessions at Metallica's studio north of San Francisco, the New York king of avant-rock and the world's bestselling thrash-metal band have recorded a new studio album together that is unlike any either artist has made before. The record, not yet titled, features 10 songs composed by Reed with significant arrangement contributions by the band that suggest a raging union of his 1973 noir classic, [I]Berlin[/I], and Metallica's '86 crusher,[I]Master of Puppets[/I]. <br />
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"A marriage made in heaven," Reed says in his first interview about the project, in the studio lounge during a break. "I knew it from the first day we played together: 'Oh, man, this is perfection, right in front of me.' " <br />
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"I don't think we've ever felt this free," Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich says, sitting next to Reed on a couch. "There's nothing that's totally outside of the boundary for us, nothing that feels like 'Oh, what happens if we go there?' The strength of us" – he gestures at Reed – "is it feels like we cannot land on a wrong place." <br />
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"They're bringing Metallica, with all that power," Reed confirms. "And because they're pretty sophisticated, wherever I go, they're still with me." <br />
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Reed and Metallica first played together in October 2009, at the 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York. Ulrich, singer-guitarist James Hetfield, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo backed Reed on two of his classic songs. <br />
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"We knew from then," Reed says, "that we were made for each other." He and the band first planned to cut an album of his older material, "fallen jewels that no one remembered," as Reed puts it. That changed a week before Reed showed up at Metallica's studio. He called the band, proposing a record of songs he'd written for [I]Lulu[/I], a theatrical production of stories by the German author Frank Wedekind, directed by Robert Wilson and currently running in Berlin. <br />
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"Lars and I listened to the stuff," Hetfield says of Reed's demos, "and it was like, 'Wow, this is very different.' It was scary at first, because the music was so open. But then I thought, 'This could go anywhere.' " Metallica started writing parts built from vocal rhythms and electronic patterns on the demos. <br />
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The result is at once unpredictable and viciously tight. "Pumping Blood" opens with a drone that breaks into a crunching march, goes into speed-metal gear and breaks into free-fall sections – all over seven minutes, cut live in one take. Another track, "Mistress Dread," features Reed singing across a relentless staccato riff played at manic velocity. "It doesn't feel like we're his backup band," Hammett claims. "It feels like we're a different band, in a situation we've never been in before." And, Trujillo notes, "it's making us a better band." <br />
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Ulrich says the album is "90 percent" finished. But there are no release plans yet. Reed does not have a record deal, and Metallica are no longer on Warner Bros. "We are free to go wherever," Ulrich says. "I'm obviously psyched for people to hear this, in whatever way we feel is right." <br />
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Hetfield has one condition. "I told Lou I want to be there when people hear it," he says, grinning. "I want to see their faces."<br />
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You know, man, when I was a young man in high school<br />
you believe in or not I wanted to play football for the coach<br />
And all those older guys<br />
they said he was mean and cruel, but you know<br />
wanted to play football for the coach<br />
They said I was to little too light weight to play line-backer<br />
so I say I'm playing right-end<br />
wanted to play football for the coach<br />
'Cause, you know some day, man<br />
you gotta stand up straight unless you're gonna fall<br />
then you're gone to die<br />
And the straightest dude<br />
I ever knew was standing right for me all the time<br />
So I had to play football for the coach<br />
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It's grand final week, so the metal is out!<br />
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Thought I'd share some of my favourite albums of 2011 so far.<br />
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Raphael Saadiq - "Stone Rollin". Great old school Motown sound. Love it.<br />
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Destroyer - "Kaputt". Mellow 80s style pop.<br />
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Rural Alberta Advantage - "Departing". Indie rock.<br />
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Action Bronson - "Dr Lecter". I like the JayZ and Kanye collaboration but like this a bit more as far as rap goes.<br />
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If life imitates art, for the next couple months I'll be fearing that Buzzcocks song I posted.<br />
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Listened a few times to the new album from Red Hot Chili Peppers called I'm With You.<br />
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Even though it's 'radio friendly' and doesn't sound like their break through album from 20 years ago (Blood Sugar), I really like it for what it is. It does lack the strong bass guitar riffs of old. Anthony Keidis has written some really strong songs. I can happily listen to the album from start to finish (which I often can't). -
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Can't never get enough of The Carrie Nations. (This version is the safe censored edit.) -
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[quote name='NTA']For Father's Day got the latest Fooeys (Wasting Light) which of course is on high rotation for me. The other album I got on recommendation from a friend: Them Crooked Vultures. Liking the blend of 70s-inspired rock thrown into a blender with FF and QOTS.[/QUOTE]<br />
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Foo Fighters album is good stuff, until it gets thrashed to death by Hauraki and The Rock.<br />
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Them Crooked Vultures is a bloody solid album too. Can easily listen to it from start to finish. Saw them in Wellington when they toured here too, was a fantastic show. Naturally John Paul Jones got the biggest cheer. Was great too see Dave Grohl back behind the drums too.
