Ah, the sun is finally shining and no doubt soon enough those bothersome little flies and bluebottles will be buzzing around, annoying us all, to say nothing of wasps and bees! Yeah, summer is slowly heading our way, and down in Journaltown it's all hands to the pumps, with a decent body of work this week. Let's check it out.
Reclaiming his place at the head of the pack,
Anteater returns to bring us more of
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ravaganza.html, with a feature on Bernard Oattes. No, he was
not one half of Hall and Oates! Go check out Ant's journal and educate yourself.
There's more from Tritonal in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...continuum.html
while
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...lks-about.html and this week he's reviewing ten grindcore albums in less than a minute each. And then another ten. That's twenty too many for me!
George Harrison is on the menu (not literally, of course:
Black Francis is not a cannibal --- at least, so far as I know!) in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...l-journey.html
while
Frownland becomes the latest to take the plunge and open another journal, this time it's featuring his rather excellent photographic skills. Catch him
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-darkroom.html and see what you think.
Mew, Bloc Party, Boduf Songs, Ugly Duckling and more are all to be found in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...63-2013-a.html
but it's western classical music in China that concerns
innerspaceboy, also writing about how to entice mp3-buyers to purchase physical albums in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html --- not for me to be honest; it's a step backwards. Been there, done all that collecting, cleaning, drawing on the inner sleeves and writing the lyrics on those that had none...
Isbjorn (no I won't) has found himself disappointed with Al Jazeera, sorry Jahzzar down at
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...seur-cave.html --- Hell,
all free music can't be great you know!
Ki is taking it easy this week (for once) with just the one entry in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nal-music.html, on Godspeed You! Black Emperor, but that might be due to the fact that he too has opened another journal, this one concentrating on video games. In
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...is-arcade.html you'll find Zelda, Torchlight II and Pokemon, so indulge your inner gamer and take him on!
Kendrick Lamaar and some of
Machine's poetry/lyrics in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-its-dumb.html (but do, its not)
Oriphiel has chapter nine of
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...rgy-story.html
on
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...crap-heap.html you'll find Steely Dan, The Doors and The Cars (cars have doors, dont they?)
and there's an update on Guiseppe Torrisi in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...listening.html
We have a new journal, from a new member, as
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-robbe264.html gets underway with Chance the Rapper (didn't DJ Chameleon mention him? Or was it someone else? Anyone seen DJ recently?)
and
Soulflower is still praising the
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...dness-art.html, with Stone Temple Pilots and an article on The Jacksons.
And so to me. There are two more Tom Waits reviews in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html, leaving us with just two more to go before we finish his entire studio discography, while Star Trek Month continues unabated in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html with Deep Space 9, the third Trek movie and a whole lot more. Quite a lot happening down at
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...i-reviews.html, with reviews of albums from Antalio, Sawmail, Emissary Echo and Care of Night.
Meanwhile we're preparing to move into 1968 in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ive-metal.html, with a list of the albums I'l be covering from that year, and there's something of a change of pace coming for
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-2000-ad.html as I prepare to take on Alan Moore's masterpiece,
Watchmen.
Into the top ten for 1984 we go in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html, and at ten it's Metal Church while Mercyful Fate take the number nine spot. In the other journal
Unknown Soldier shares with Anteater,
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...78-2015-a.html there's a joint review of the second Toto album, “Hydra”.
Finally, poor old
Wpnfire is struggling
In the embrace of evil, but he doesn't seem to mind in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...s-journal.html.
It's not very often I award my
to a relatively new journal, but this one was pretty good so I think it deserves it. Certainly shows that she has a lot of passion for her subject, and is prepared to write rather than just throw down video after video, which is after all the hallmark of a decent journal.
while this week's
goes to Ki, for
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...is-arcade.html, which certainly seems to have everyone talking about their favourite games. And Pokemon.
Where were we, young polar bear? Oh yeah. June broke and he was back to “Essential emo albums I have never heard”, with the self-titled debut from Rites of Spring, but he couldn't stay away from metal for long, and so it was back to Mercyful Fate with Finntroll and Mayhem on the side, and that was more or less it for June, taking us into July as he tried to kick off Pierce the Veil Week, also talking about The Descendants and Kiss, decided to ditch PtV Week as he got bored, and so ended July.
And so ends our update. Back with more same time next week.
Till then,
Toodles!