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|2-My Fave Tunes
|1-And what they mean to me...
by Freak of NFA
Elsewhere in this issue you'll find an article going on about lists and
stuff, one of them is "Fave Music" or something, I thought I'd expand on
it by going through all the tracks and albums that I really like and go
out of my way to listen to:
Van Halen - 1984:
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This album is one of the first that I ever bought when I got my first CD
player, it was stolen when I was burgled and I bought it again, I listen
to it just about every day while testing a CD-Player I'm writing, and
I'm listening to it now.
I love this album, it's mainly down to the crazy VH style at that time
and the vocals of David Lee Roth which haven't changed a bit over the
years. Roth in my opinion was responsible for getting Eddie Van Halens
awesome guitar talent into the limelight, I think without him Eddie
would have just been another talented guitarist with a group.
The tracks that really make it for me though are "Panama", "Drop Dead
Legs" and of course, "Hot for Teacher", which I think everyone must have
heard of, if you haven't where have you been? I can't imagine a world
without Dave Lee Roth, it would have to be a very drab and drearly place
indeed!
David Lee Roth - Various Tracks:
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Staying on the DLR theme, I bought albums like Skyscraper and what have
you because the music was so damned funky. Groups like ugly Kid Joe
have managed to take it one step further but there's no substitute for
great tracks like "Paradise", "Yankee Rose", "Goin' Crazy" and that ace
cover of "California Girls", another famoue track.
Later albums proved just as cool as ever, although I never got to hear
the latest one. Stuff like "A Little Ain't Enough" and "Sensible Shoes"
show that Roth is capable of all walks of music, as long as they have
that wacky touch to them. I loved it so much I went to see DLR at the
NEC years ago, it was an experience I'll never forget!
Ugly Kid Joe - "Everything About You":
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This is one of those tracks that just smacks of early Roth, but they
managed to add a more punchy beat to it that he would have done and so
it grabbed my attention straight away, I rushed out and bought the album
"America's Least Wanted" on the strength of this track alone and I'm
glad as hell I did! I should also make mention of "Panhandlin' Prince"
which when I first heard it was a load of cack, but it's one of those
that grows on you. "Goddamn Devil" is another classic that has me on
the air guitar, but strangely I don't play "Cats in the Cradel" anywhere
near as much as I used to.
Green Day - "Dookie":
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A wicked album that I reviewed in an early issue of The Word because it
was such a wild departure for me, I saw "Welcome to Paradise" on TOTP
one time and got this on tape to hear the rest. Dookie are a weird
group, they're kinda like The Jam crossed with the Sex Pistols, you just
have to listen to it to understand it!
Tracks to listen to? "Welcome to Paradise", "Wasting Your Time", and
the bizarre "Pulling Teeth".
Skid Row - Various Tracks:
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Skid Row are my favourite group these days, the only group I've always
listened to. They've got the image of being a band of hard-nosed, drunk
and doped-up punks, but most people don't know that they've written some
of the most poetic and powerful ballards ever, for example: "Wasted
Time", "I Remember You" (always makes me feel sad), and "Quicksand
Jesus".
Granted, Skid Row have always had the emphasis on hard and very heavy
music, tracks like "Monkey Business", "Piece of Me" (which they sang in
LA as Seb Bach jumped into the crowd to punch some guy who threw a
bottle at him, cutting his head, requiring several stitches), "Get the
F*ck Out" and the slightly-poppish (IMO) "Youth Gone Wild", but all of
the songs have a hidden meaning in there, even if it's just "f*ck the
system", you just have to find it.
I went to see Skid Row at Milton Keynes with Bon Jovi (the *first* time)
Vixen and Europe, I got burnt to shit but it was 100% worth it.
Blitzkreig Bop - The Ramones
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What a song! I love this song! I got hooked on the Skid Row cover of
it (on the video "Oh say can you scream") but the original Ramones one
is even better! Hey, ho, lets go!
Ozzy Osbourne - Various Tracks:
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Ozzy who? Actually Oz was back in the charts last year sometime with a
track called "No More Tears" which quite suprised me, I thought it was a
bit too heavy for that sort of thing but it only goes to show eh? Oz
has been around and writing excellent music since Day 1 of Black Sabbath
and "Paranoid" which, if you can find a decently-recorded version - is
STILL, after ALL these years, an excellent track.
I do prefer the newer stuff, like "Miracle Man" which takes the piss
fairly and squarley out of Jimmy Stewart - an Envangalist who was caught
coming out of a whorehouse, and my all-time favourite "Crazy Train".
Sadly Randy Rhoades who originally played it is dead, and IMO I think he
was the only person who could actually play it properly, nobody else
seems to be able to. Get the "Randy Rhoades Tribute" Album which has
also got the acoustic instrumental "Dee" on it somewhere, written by
Randy for his wife Delores.
Yup, I've seen Oz too, again at the Birmingham NEC, I was sat right at
the back and couldn't see f*ck all, but that was okay cos' I could sure
as hell hear him!
Bon Jovi - Various Tracks:
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Ooops! Bugger! Okay I confess, I actually like the odd Bon Jove track
these days and even went to see them several tines in my impetuous youth
at places like the NEC and Milton Keynes Bowl. Say what you like but I
still think "Wanted Dead or Alive" is a damned cool track.
I also like "Bad Medicine" because it's a fun song, it was made to sing
along to and so you do, but then I also like "Ride Cowboy Ride" and
"Blaze of Glory". "Living in Sin" ranks quite high too, there are those
who say that BJ write far too many ballads, and I'm inclined to agree
with them, I think that's ALL they write, it's just that some of them
are pretty good!
Stairway to Heaven, Highway to Hell:
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This is a compilation album that I had before it was stolen in that
burglary, it comprosed a collection of cover versions of tracks done by
people who had died because of drugs, here's some of the songs I
remember from it:
Skid Row - Holidays in the Sun (Sex Pistols)
Ozzy Osbourne - Purple Haze (Jimmy Hendrix)
Some russian band - Our Generation (The Who)
Bon Jovi - The Boys are Back in Town (Thin Lizzy)
plus loads of others, if anyone has got this on CD and is prepared to
sell it then I'll take yer bloody hand off! I've got a tenner here for
it if you'll sell it to me!
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