A new month, and a new update thread. There's certainly been some interesting stuff happening, but the big news of course is the advent of
Yes, I know there are still two months to go, but you'd be surprised how fast they will go in, and today is the first day I sit down and really start researching, studying for and writing the third annual month given over entirely to Heavy Metal in my main journal. I'm hoping to make this the best yet, so if anyone wants to get involved, whether by writing something, making a suggestion or even joining in the fun via your journal, drop me a PM. Oh, and no poseurs please. Except me.
Well, after that shameless self-promotion, time to get on with this week's update.
Oh yeah, there are some new journals started this week. Read on...
Although
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...r-journal.html is another joint venture (no I don't know what they smoke; ask them!) between
Anteater and
Unknown Soldier, I hope the latter will understand if I continue to feature it under his partner's name. It's easier than changing each time one or the other posts, it's started under Anteater's name and more importantly, it means that unless Aaron A. Ardvaark starts a journal, this one should always be first, assuming it's updated that week. So I'm not calling it Anteater's journal alone, but I am featuring it under his name.
And after that rather long-winded explanation of my motives, it is in fact Unknown Soldier who writes this week, with an article on Angel's self-titled debut.
Another of our talented members,
Antonio has one of his own songs, a new one, in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ng-ground.html, so check it out
then get your crimefighting kick as
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ed-series.html. Finishing off with the second part of “Robin's Reckoning” and we'll be moving swiftly on to a Joker episode real soon, so stay tuned, Batfans!
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...es-patrol.html have been on something of a hiatus recently, but he tells us that's because he's been involved in helping to restructure the US Army! Good excuse, man, good excuse!
Coming near its end now,
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...63-2015-a.html is up to 2012, where we find him listening to the likes of Swans, Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, Aesop Rock and Death Grips.
Innerspaceboy is getting to grips with metamorphosing from a reclusive oracle into a taxpaying, productive member of society, even going so far as to buy a house! The things marriage does to ya, huh? Read all about it in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...nnerspace.html
Team Fortress 2 is
Ki's current addiction down at
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...is-arcade.html --- try getting him away from that one!
New journal this week from
Occulthawk, his first effort I believe, as he opens the doors of
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...cking-out.html and starts off with Daniel Menche, John Wiese and Hal Hutchinson.
Going a slight little bit off the beaten path,
Oriphiel presents the second and third parts of “Sam”, his side story to
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...rgy-story.html
A little way behind
Goofle is
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ar-1965-a.html, where he's just hitting 2006, with albums from The Knife, Melvins, Band of Horses and The Mars Volta among others.
Without question, the most momentous and surely most impossible task undertaken by any MB member --- more than Urban's reviews of every “NOW” album ever, more than my history of progressive rock, more even than Unknown Soldier's seminal “Pounding Decibels”,
TechnicLePanther presents
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...ory-music.html. The best of luck to him. This is going to have a lot of people interested. And as if that weren't enough, he also has
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-pop-flop.html, where you can vote on how good or crappy the song he posts is.
As for me, well we're getting close to finishing the Marillion discography in
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...d-journal.html, with
Arachnophobia. Expect it all to wrap up about midweek. Meanwhile, down at
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...-emporium.html we've got a new series in “The Simpsons at the Movies” as well as the fifth in the
Star Trek movie franchise,
The Final Frontier, as the USS
Nerdtopia continues its maiden voyage.
(Note: I'll do my best to keep my journals up to date, but over the next few months I'm going to be immersed in Metal in readiness for the Big Event, so I can't promise they'll always up updated. I'll certainly do what I can to make sure they're not neglected though.)
Stalwart of the journal section,
Unknown Soldier's
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...y-history.html hits the top ten for 1985, kicking off with Warrant at number ten.
Oh, get down off that chair and take the noose from around your neck son! We've all been there, but your troubles are over, as
YorkeDaddy is back on the case and the latest instalment of
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...tasy-epic.html takes us back in time four years to the heyday of a certain mod who is no longer with us. If you're not reading the greatest journal ever created in the history of Music Banter, then you had better be dead. Or in jail. And if you're in jail, BRRRRREAK OUUUUTTTTT!
(Disclaimer: Trollheart does not condone, endorse or encourage the forced exit of legally incarcerated felons from their prisons. The late Phil Lynott, on the other hand, did...)
For sheer audacity (no, not the music program!) and ambition, this week's
has to go to TechnicLePanther, who begins his journal this week thus:
Quote:
Originally Posted by TechnicLePanther
Introduction
Music. Probably what you're reading this about. Wikipedia defines it as "an art form whose medium is sound and silence". I believe this is the most accurate description of music. After all, music is extremely diverse, and at its extremes, music is pretty much just sound and silence. However, music also incorporates simple concepts such as harmony, melody, and rhythm. Usually, music is broken up into segments. Songs, compositions, albums, and the like are all ways of separating one piece of music from another.
Music goes back and forth a lot. A song from 2012 may end up sound like one from 1942. A song from 1167 may sound peculiarly like a song from 2015. The composer may not intend to be "remaking" someone else's work, but instead it is a strange coincidence. However, there are also some times when one person actually remakes another's work. This is usually called a "cover". The goal of this handy-dandy guide to the history of music is to stay away from jumping around as much as possible. As I move through this guide, I will also attempt to move through time, starting with the earliest music, and ending today.
I will also be operating under the assumption that anything that anyone calls music, is music, because I have no time to deliberate what is and isn't. Of course, some things will certainly be covered more thoroughly than others, but I will attempt to match the significance of a particular person, genre, or era to the amount of time spent covering it.
Now that the ground rules have been laid, I believe it's safe for me to begin my tale.
Expect the next part within the week.
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Okay, so now it's time for another look at a journal's opening post, the one made
My Random Generator sparkles, hisses and squeals at me (well, no it doesn't, but it's so much more dramatic, no? No? Have it your way then!) and delivers into my trembling hands the number
116
I check along the pages of the journals section and see that on page 6, sixteen lines down is this gem, from
http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...epe-kalle.html
We all know
Franco. Some of us love him, some of us hate him, but one thing I think nobody expected was that he would take his eyes off booty and stop listening to Pepe Kalle long enough to actually start a journal. But he did, and back in April of 2014, the 11th to be precise, his journal opened with these immortal words:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franco Pepe Kalle
You know I am a crazy man. Well I am doing a music journal for all music. Not just African. I already have one for African music. Here will be all music I enjoy and like myself.
I hope I can share them soon.
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Did he live up to that promise? Well, I'll tell you next week.
So that's it for this update. In a week that has seen the inception of one of the biggest and most ambitious projects ever attempted by an MB member, as well as the return of YorkeDaddy and Fiddler, it's been a busy one. Don't forget to let me know if you want to help out with Metal Month III.
Till next week,
Toodles!