Thursday, December 11, 2008

Everest – Ghost Notes – 3.5

A little James Blunt, Neil Young and The Dead all in the mix, but for some reason I didn’t mind. Everest has just the right balance of relaxing, emotion melodies. By far my favorite band of this month’s picks.

The Yayhoos – Fear Not the Obvious - 1

There are some songs that shouldn’t be re-made, Dancing Queen is one of them (for several reasons). Another rule should be that the word (if you can call it that) “Hankerin’” really needs to be stricken from the English language. I’m not sure what this band’s goal was, but if whining through every song to the point it was just pure annoying was their goal they hit it right on the head. I also heard a note of Neil Young, Rod Stewart and Jerry Garcia here.

In the spirit of the holidays, I’ll give the cd 1 star for “Baby I Love You”.

Blitzen Trapper – Furr - 3

I struggled with this band I know that I compare a lot of bands to other bands, but I have a fundamental problem with bands that aren’t original. This band is really good but it sounded so much like Axl Rose and Bob Dylan singing White Stripes songs that I almost couldn’t get past that. It is a good thing that the songs and the lyrics where good because I almost just gave up on them. Instead, being in the holiday spirit and because they do have a cool name I’ll give the band a 3.

Whitesnake – Slide it in – 3.5

One of the coolest album covers ever, next to Slaughter’s “Stick it to Ya”. This really could be a greatest hits cd instead of a disk of the month. I was never one for “Zeppelin wanna be” bands, but Whitesnake and Zebra did a good enough job that I felt that they could hold their own. I guess that wasn’t the case for Zebra. David Coverdale has some serious pipes.

Golden Smog – Greatest Hits

Typical bar band. Sorry, event with the talented group they have I expected a little more. They just didn’t do it for me.

Topic:

What was the first album (or albums) you ever bought AND have you listened to it since??

Kiss Destroyer – Yes but only select tracks

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