I used to be annoyed when artists had tracks they wouldn't release, but artists like Townsend teach you why that's really for the best. I almost hope they never start digging into the vaults of Prince and release all the unheard stuff he doubtlessly had lying around. I don't need to hear 1500 mediocre, unpublished Prince tunes when he's already got a massive library of published music.

I think the question on everyone's mind is whether the stew turned out good?

It was delicious. Unlike Townsend's song. :D

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12 Gold Bars – Status Quo – 1980
Genre: Boogie Rock/Pub Rock/Rock

Ah, hell: just about everyone here will sneer (our new word of the day, it seems) at the Quo, but tell me honestly, hand on heart, that you haven't once in your life boogied on down (drunkenness is no excuse, by the way) to “Caroline”, “Again and Again” or “Rockin' All Over the World”? Nobody expects these guys to change the world or write some amazing composition, but they've been popular pretty much across most of the spectrum for decades. Sure, they only use three chords but they use them to great effect. They're a basic, down-in-the-dirt, no-frills honest band who know who they are and what they do. They're comfortable with their image and they even poke fun at it, the title of their twenty-eighth album being In Search of the Fourth Chord! :laughing: All I can say is, when I hear this album it transports me back to my youth, and I rock out and love every track. So boo to you if you slag off Quo or anyone listening to them. They're fun, man, and that's what it's all about.

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Moments – IOEarth – (2012)
Genre: Prog Rock

Yeah, I know the album sleeve makes it look like the band are called Dearth, and so you might expect a Doom Metal or DSBM band, but no: they're called IOEarth (why I have no idea) and though I've heard the odd track through my playlists this is the first time I'm going to be checking out a full album. And as it turns out, it's pretty damn good. I realise I do know one track, the Battle of Britain-inspired “Finest Hour”, which utilises so many Churchill samples that really it should have stood some chance of becoming a hit single. Needless to say, it did not. Very good album though; I'll be looking forward to hearing more from this band.
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I like the Staus Quo song "In The Army Now". It's got some nostalgia value for me since it was on a mix tape I had as a young kid.

PLAYLIST FOR THURSDAY APRIL 5 2018

“Movement V” - Vangelis – El Greco, 1998
Genre: Electronic/Ambient/Classical
Based on the life of the Renaissance artist of the same name. Meh, it's okay: a bit boring if I'm honest. This is not a Vangelis album I've listened to in full.
5/10


“Siberian Khatru (runthough)” - Yes – Close to the Edge, 1972
Genre: Prog Rock
Controversial opinion # 2,391: I'm not impressed with seventies Yes. Anything I've heard has been just all right or downright boring. Let the lawsuits begin! This is a runthrough of one of their most famous songs from this classic album, but I have to be honest: it does little for me. Plus, every time I hear this title I'm reminded of that Star Trek episode: “I wager sixty Kwatlus on the newcomer!” I know it's not the same word, but they link in my brain. Whaddya gonna do? Yeah, give me eighties or even nineties Yes. This bores me.
4/10


“The Quantum Enigma (Kingdom of Heaven Part II)” - Epica – The Quantum Enigma, 2013
Genre: Prog/Symphonic Metal
Speaking of boring, a typical symphonic metal tune: too long, overblown and overstretched, plenty of choirs, orchestra and fiddling around with no real result in the end. Yawn.
4/10

“Sound Chaser” - Yes – Relayer, 1974
Genre: Prog Rock
Slightly better than the other Yes track, a bit more interesting, but not much. Again, too long and with not enough happening over the length of its run. Not a great playlist today, is it?
5/10

“Day of Wrath” - Virgin Steele – The House of Atreus, Act I, 1999
Genre: Power Metal
A nice short little neoclassical piano instrumental. Not a lot more to say. Runs for less than two minutes.
7/10

“Last Look at Eden” - Europe – Last Look at Eden, 2009
Genre: AOR
Europe are another Air Supply, as far as I'm concerned. I was convinced there was more to them than “The Final Countdown”, but there kind of isn't. Their last two albums were good, but other than that, everything I've heard from them has been pretty meh. This, to be fair, is a lot better, and gives me hope that there might be some gems hidden in among all the dross. Though I doubt thee are many.
8/10

“Missing My Son” - Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards, 2006
Genre: Spoken Word
A great little understated piece of prose from Waits, wherein he recounts his meeting a woman who swore he looked just like her dead son. “When I looked at the picture of her son,” he drawls in sort of embarrassed amusement, “I didn't look anything like her son. In fact, he was Chinese!” Good on ya, Tom! You ended the playlist on a high, and I had not expected that.
10/10

I love Orphans. It has one of my favourite Waits tracks, King Kong (originally by Daniel Johnston). I still prefer the original but Waits emulates the emotion well.

I didn’t know that pos covered Daniel.

Disgusting.

That phony dick riding bitch is the direct opposite of everything that makes Daniel great.

I hope someone kills Tom Waits. That’s how ****ing disgusting that is.

Not kidding.

I know. Tom knows.

F uck you