You may have unwittingly heard it in the background of the latest Gears of War trailer, but its worth drawing your attention to this fine version of Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence as performed by Disturbed. It’s not without its critics, who point out its all a bit Dad Rock, and not as […]
Tag: music
Must Invaders Die?
The Prodigy make angry music for calm minds. I’ve been a fan since a friend lent me Music for the Jilted Generation some time around ’95, and since then the Prodigy’s music has got angrier and louder, and thumped and twisted its way to the edges of genius. Fat of the Land was a heavier […]
Death Magnetic: How can I be lost, if I’ve got nowhere else to go?
Last week I got myself a copy of the latest Metallica album (Death Magnetic). I’ve been following Metallica since the Autumn of 1991. That was a good year for rock; Nirvana’s Nevermind, G’n’R’s Use Your Illusions (I and II), and Metallica’s Black Album stabbed a flag in the eye of 80’s rock, and defined the […]
Bon Jovi at Southampton
Last night I went to see Bon Jovi play at St. Mary’s Stadium in Southampton – it was the first UK date of their Lost Highway Tour. My wife Jo and I don’t really share the same tastes in music, she likes unbearable cat stranglers like Westlife and Enrique Iglesias, and I like bearable but […]
OSX again and again
I came across this fabulous music video created by Dennis Liu using only Mac OSX – even if I hadn’t switched I’d think this was brilliant: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kxDxLAjkO8&w=540] I’ve been using the Mac now for almost two months and the shine hasn’t rubbed off yet. Some of my earlier quibbles have disappeared as I’ve got used […]
More symphonic metel madness
In the last month or so I’ve been listening to the new albums from Within Temptation and Lacuna Coil. I’ve discovered both of these bands in the last year and subsequently realised that they are already massively popular just out of earshot, which is always mildly disappointing, but it hasn’t stopped me enjoying their new […]
You will soon be able to download music online!
Yes, folks – hidden away in the depths of the BBC technology pages is the revelation that at last, after years of false starts and obfuscation, you will finally be able to legally download music online. Of course, many people falsely believe that they can already download music. They are sadly mistaken. The current set […]
Within Temptation
Why am I always the last to hear about bands? Rock music is a guilty passion of mine and last month I spent a few idle hours on Youtube looking at a number of Symphonic Metal Bands and wondering if I should speculatively buy an album or two. In the end I found this group […]