rock & roll
Spiderland (1991) – Slint
[25-WR]
Dry up to caustic but full of silver guts bravado and true no-nonsense resuscitation that domestically questions everything that´s drowning in its quarrel-lake.
[25-WR]
Unmountable Stairs (2014) – Witchrider
[25-WR]
An indirect-listening that can beautifully rock just so long as one does not pay too much attention. A promising commercial knockoff-band that’s decent.
[25-WR]
Dazed and Confused (1993) – Soundtrack
[25-WR]
There are mostly unusual suspects to be found in this dextrously hand-picked movie soundtrack with 1970´s era-evocative songs that feel mostly like synonyms.
[25-WR]
Euphoria Morning (1999) – Chris Cornell
[25-WR]
It sifts true, strong emotions through the punitive barriers of commercial expectancy—afloat from the then gouged-out Grounge that originally propelled this fallen angel.
[25-WR]
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998) – Neutral Milk Hotel
[25-WR]
Upbeat melancholy raft-ride that´s full of genuine quirkiness and maritime-saltiness that feels bittersweet and soberly sad. Trumpeting ever so slightly while floating around.
[25-WR]
The High End of the Low (2009) – Marilyn Manson
[25-WR]
Wish good luck to those thinking themselves unbiased enough to see this ordeal through. The equivalent of the Simpsons after Season 10. Needs a Futurama.
[25-WR]
Eat Me, Drink Me (2007) – Marilyn Manson
[25-WR]
Fantastic rock music with ballads that remind of the “Fundamentally Loathsome” days. Subject matter goes down the shit-rabbit hole when ego takes over, though.
[25-WR]
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) – Black Sabbath
[25-WR]
As satanic-ginger as it gets, a musical royal-ass worthwhile kissing with abandon. Ferrying-guitar paragraph-paragliding with Ozzy Osbourne´s idiosyncratic lovable luckluster-finesse.
[25-WR]
Low (1977) – David Bowie
[25-WR]
Poly-syncratic avant-garde mindfuck simmering ahead of its time with high-functioning, cutting-edge madness that is never boring to the sound or vision.
[25-WR]
Mechanical Animals (1998) – Marilyn Manson
[25-WR]
An impeccable Rock & Roll concept-album of evocative stereo-sterility shining strong but cold with light-bending rhymes of emotional implosion and consensual descent.
[25-WR]
Morrison Hotel (1970) – The Doors
[25-WR]
Waiting for the Sun two times again while bar-diving savagely in the spirit of exploring the raw confines of the soul, mind and body.
[25-WR]
Let It Bleed (1969) – The Rolling Stones
[25-WR]
A fine album about violence, anxiety and fear that somehow feels very relaxing to listen to. Perfect tunes from what is basically an American band.
[25-WR]
The Soft Parade (1969) – The Doors
[25-WR]
Passive-aggressive instrumentation that looks after a wrapped-in-gauze Morrison by sidetracking him when playing with fire. Slightly dislocated but still coordinated Door´s disc.
[25-WR]
Strange Days (1967) – The Doors
[25-WR]
It´s only natural to love this album two times and get lost in grateful admiration thrice by each one of its ten lizard-hole tracks.
[25-WR]
‚Don‘t Fear The Reaper‘ (1976) Blue Oyster Cult – Agents Of Fortune
[25-WR]
Euphorisches Gitarrenpickung und butterweicher Gesang laden ein zum Picknick.
Erst in Bridge wird aus naivem Mitwippen ein unberuhigendes Aufstoßen.
Ein Killertrack getarnt im seidenzarten Mantel.
[25-WR]
Diamond Dogs (1974) – David Bowie
[25-WR]
Poetic genocide for the R & R crowd with both vitamins D & B promulgating plastic progress growth that could go either U or D.
[25-WR]
The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) – Pink Floyd
[25-WR]
Nach der Mondlandung die nächste weltweit bewegende Entdeckung.
Wissenschaft und Kunst vereint. Erforschung und Aufeinandertreffen ambienter Klänge.
Blaupause jeglicher Soundmischer sowie Erschaffer atmosphärischer Entspannungsmusik/Soundlandschaften.
[25-WR]
Steven Adler
[25-WR]
LAX. Breakfast with the Boss. A colorful commotion on Route 66. Electric entourage. That guy who got expelled from GNR for doing too many drugs.
[25-WR]
Electric Ladyland (1968) – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
[25-WR]
The man obviously knows what he´s doing by performing open-cock surgery to himself. An entire album recorded “in the zone” with no spared expense.
[25-WR]
Blue Record (2009) – Baroness
[25-WR]
Baroness: the Claude Debussy of the modern school of stoner metal proving itself once again with sub-aquatic riffs from a progressive civilization gone under.
[25-WR]
Diary of a Madman (1981) – Ozzy Osbourne
[25-WR]
Certain Rhodes you take U-turn you into an instant believer. The power of a missed presence and its missed chances sounds strong and latent.
[25-WR]
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Startdust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) – David Bowie
[25-WR]
It has the moxie/mojo of five Dominican Republics arching backwards while juggling leper-chainsaws on Guiness posters in wet-woven shit-hole London pubs.
[25-WR]
Portrait of an American Family (1994) – Marilyn Manson
[25-WR]
Creatively indestructible diamond-in-the-rough lecture that needs no polishing. The roots of an escalating discontent that aimed for, reached and passed the stars.
[25-WR]
Technical Ecstasy (1976) – Black Sabbath
[25-WR]
The sweet smell of decomposing fruits and flowers by the droning can-opener-crackling sound of tin-robot pornography underway in industrially-lit primary colors.
[25-WR]
The Wall (1979) – Pink Floyd
[25-WR]
Maternal hub of all solipsistic concept albums having a strong autobiographical-novel taste of pathos. Having a big ego is not always a bad thing.
[25-WR]
Today´s 25-WR Birthday Toast: Marilyn Manson – January 5, 2019
[25-WR]
Self-taught & made word-gamer, social-combustion agent and living work of reference-art that ages backwards while carrying torches of his own heroes.
[25-WR]
Scott 4 (1969) – Scott Walker
[25-WR]
Boyish sounding mature-troubadour voice, that´s like mixing Beck Hansen with Chet Baker wrapped in strong, paradoxically manly French-flair. An Ingmar Bergman-Western soundtrack.
[25-WR]
Waiting for the Sun (1968) – The Doors
[25-WR]
Ceremonial sound-potion for trance-transitioning between ghosts in pursuit of sacred inner-galactic truth. That and happy-sounding tunes with deep, philosophical fine-print.
[25-WR]
Louder than Love (1989) – Soundgarden
[25-WR]
The unmistakable push of pure life is loud, raw and true through the close-chambered vocal channels of a talent not yet spent and buried.
[25-WR]
Let it Be (1970) – The Beatles
[25-WR]
Here´s where you write. Delete this text to set the Word Count to back to zero but do make sure you stay between the signs.
[25-WR]
Disco Volante (1995) – Mr. Bungle
[25-WR]
Patton and his weirdos create a bizarre soundscape of Metal, Jazz & Lynchesque black hole sceneries which swims nerve-racking against all shapes of mainstream.
[25-WR]
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) Birthday Tost, 06.03.1946
[25-WR]
Gitarren und Vocal-Koryphäe welche die Band voller und verträumter klingen ließ, doch später nach Waters Weggang in Seniorengefilde mit 80er Synthietrademarks abdriftete und auslebte.
[25-WR]
Freak Show (1997) – Silverchair
[25-WR]
Power-upgrade to a genre that was and keeps being lifted by an open gush-gust of rocking air from silver-fox of a chair.
[25-WR]
The Doors (1967) – The Doors
[25-WR]
The doors of perception being set on fire, kicked-in and entered. There’s worlds of dare inside. You can now kiss the old-you goodbye.
[25-WR]
Heaven & Hell (1979) – Black Sabbath
[25-WR]
A hungover but not less able Black Sabbath playing with the official replacement in Ozzy Osbourne´s presumably wishful funeral without anger or Schadenfreude (again, presumably.)
[25-WR]
“White Album” (1968) – The Beatles
[25-WR]
A clown car-supernova filled with brilliant ideas silhouetting unusually shifting times. This is what happens when you give recreational drugs to the right people.
[25-WR]
Rebel Meets Rebel (2006) – Rebel Meets Rebel
[25-WR]
A great amalgamation of geographically compatible musical styles and characters bolo-tied together by lust of freedom and charm. A damn shame not to continue.
[25-WR]
Heavy Metal Mania EP (1980) Hölöcäust – Phoenix Records & Filmworks
[25-WR]
Motörhead made the Umlaut „salo(o)nfähig“, british comrades Hölöcäust are riding the NWOBHM-wagon into cringeworthier territory with hardrock histrionic type-singing.
Thank satan it’s 1980.
[25-WR]
The Dirt (2019) – Jeff Tremaine
[25-WR]
Vier unterschiedlichste Schauspieler für fragwürdigen Film zum schattenwerfenden Buch über DIE 80er-Schockband.
Unerwartetes geistiges Kopfnicken zum modernen rewatchable Biopic über Sex, Drugs, Rock’n‘ Roll.
[25-WR]
Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains (2018-2019) Dortmunder-U
[25-WR]
Rohe Anfangsklänge erster Alben entführen in düstere Hallen voller Lichtspiel und bunter Kunst wo Musikgeschichte mit Besucher verschmelzen.
Aufregender Anfang, Mitte bis zu The Wall.
[25-WR]
Disco Volante (1995) – Mr. Bungle
[25-WR]
Der bizarre Hybrid aus Metal, Jazz, Filmmusik schwimmt unkonventionell gegen jedmögliche Mainstreamformen.
Patton und seine Weirdo-Band kreieren düsterste Soundsphären mit Lynch-esque schwarzen Löchern.
[25-WR]
Songs For The Deaf (2002) Queens Of The Stone Age
[25-WR]
Wo Kyuss’s „…Sky Valley“ tagsüber qualmend den Highway gen Erlösung fuhr, nimmt dieser radiofreundliche Cocktail aus Bier, Mojito, Gras, Amphetaminen die Gegenspur zur nächtlichen Apokalypse.
[25-WR]
Black Gives Way To Blue (2009) – Alice In Chains
[25-WR]
Neuer Sänger mit natürlich origineller Stimmfarbe. Neue Motivation aus der Trauer, den drogenversifften Mammutspuren und dem Grunge herauszutreten. Eine cleane Band. Ein hammergeiles Hardrock Album.
[25-WR]
Revolver (1966) – The Beatles
[25-WR]
A warm revolver loaded with intense imagination that makes you happy every time you pick it up. It contains Mccartney´s arguably best song: Elenor Rigby.
[25-WR]
Elenor Rigby (1966) – The Beatles
[25-WR]
Everybody has some kind of redeeming quality — not unlike this catchy song from the least-liked surviving Beatles member and its absolute but temporary dfghdfh.
[25-WR]
Alice in Chains (04.07.18) – LMH Köln, Deutschland
[25-WR]
Live-Überraschung des Jahres. Cool und zurückgelehnt spielten die 90er-Urgesteine eine grandiose Setlist, die alle Grungehörer befriedigt hätte. Schweißtreibende Atmosphäre dank Hitze und Riffs.
[25-WR]
The Real Thing (1989) – Faith No More
[25-WR]
Neben Anselmos Pantera-Einstieg hob auch ein gewisser Patton eine Band auf komplett anderes Level. Funk und Rap fusioniert mit Metal passierte bereits vor RATM.
[25-WR]
Blizzard of Ozz (1980) – Ozzy Osbourne
[25-WR]
The Blizzard of Randy Rhodes and the Chris Farley of Heavy Metal (or vice-versa) making the stuff Tenacious D’s wet-dreams are made of.