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"One More Round, Delia's Gone"
One of the strangest things I’ve ever heard someone say came from Johnny Cash. In a 1996 interview to promote Unchained, his second album for producer Rick Rubin, Johnny talked about the renewed interest he was receiving from audiences following the first Cash/Rubin collaboration, 1994’s American Recordings, which featured just Johnny and his guitar. Cash discussed the long process leading to the solo format of that first album. The months of trial and error mostly consisted of Johnny and Rick sitting at Rubin’s Los Angeles home, with the recording equipment set up and running down a list of 200 songs that Johnny had in his head and which he had always wanted to record. According to Cash, after that process and the decision to keep the album bare, came the matter of working on Cash's guitar playing and making it sound good for recording since, as he put it, “I can’t play guitar.”
By Michael Kantuabout a year ago in Beat
Johnny Cash ‎– Bitter Tears - Ballads Of The American Indian
The Back Of The Album Introduction This album came to my attention, I have already forgotten how I saw it. It is sixty years old now and this is the first time I have come across.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred about a year ago in Beat
The Surprising Truth About Pop Music: Beyond the Beats and Lyrics. AI-Generated.
Pop music, with its catchy melodies and relatable lyrics, has dominated the music industry for decades. But beneath the surface of the catchy beats and infectious choruses lies a rich tapestry of stories, influences, and cultural significance. Let's delve into some surprising truths about pop music that you may never have known.
By Kelly Munala Brookesabout a year ago in Beat
A Second Harvest Playlist
Introduction This is a follow on from my lats Harvest playlist, hopefully managing to pick some less obvious, to me, songs from the label.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred about a year ago in Beat
Elsa and Sonic: The Mystery of the Frozen Forest
Chapter One: The Frozen Forest Elsa and Sonic, their recent victory over Zorvath's spell fresh in their minds, found themselves in the presence of an extraordinary frozen forest. The trees within this mystical realm shimmered as if made of fine crystal, and peculiar glowing footprints dotted the icy ground.
By Maya2 years ago in Beat
Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters
Introduction Although I have always said that the most important thing for me is the music, my reawakened love for vinyl has made me fall in love with some of the more excellently presented albums, and I remember loving the embossed cover of this album as well as a lot of the songs.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Beat
The Ghoul Brothers
"Welcome to the disgusting world of...The Ghoul Brothers!" The Ghoul Brothers (1984) I first discovered The Ghoul Brothers in the advertisement section of Fangoria. Or maybe it was Gorezone. It was one of those Eighties newsstand horror and gore magazines.
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Beat
A Harvest Playlist
Introduction I recently joined this Facebook group because they were posting a lot of music that I love and still play, and also made me revisit some stuff as well. They are a wonderful bunch of people and all correspondence is interesting, fun and supportive
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Beat
Benefits Of The Availability Of Digital Music
Introduction This has been partly influenced by Julian Cope's "Copendium" that I am reading at the moment and it is introducing me to a lot of music that I was unaware of, having said that I completely missed AC/DC although I sang several of their songs when I played with Spoon and The Abominable Showmen. You can see me here much fatter singing "Wuthering Heights" (Kate Bush) and Highway To Hell (AC/DC)
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 years ago in Beat
The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails . Content Warning.
Thirty years on, Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral still feels like a fresh breath of thick, toxic-filled, self-hatred-driven, cathartic air. This album is not a pretty journey to take. Anyone who has heard it will attest to that fact. So why have I chosen to write about its importance to me personally?
By Paul Stewart2 years ago in Beat
Marconi Plays the Mamba
The Eighties were a paradisical time of lemonade rivers and cotton candy clouds, where everyone had joy and a high fashion sense: hair was big, and women wore lots of makeup, huge earrings, and blouses with shoulder pads. We all ate delicious McDonald's three meals a day, and movie theater popcorn was covered in a buttery substance equivalent to slamming fourteen Big Macs. Eye shadow, lipstick, rouge, Cyndi Lauper hair, and Debbie Gibson eyes were the cultural touchstones that kept Commieland in relative check. (Well, that, and our nuclear arsenal.)
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Beat
The Road to Nowhere
Reviewing a record album is always a difficult prospect, as music, unlike cinema, has intangible aspects that cannot be easily quantified and assessed. Music is an intensely personal experience, and each vocal or sound can mean something entirely different to each individual. Indeed, a piece of music will recall a particular era or even a certain moment in time, each experience remembered peculiar to the individual listener.
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Beat