April 9, 2005
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Anthrax – “sound of white noise”
is one great heavy metal album. It is just full of thick riffs
that feels dark and heavy. Top that with John Bush’s first vocal
effort with the band and you got a combination of pure heaviness.
This is actually not as thrash metal as their ’80s albums but a cross
between that and hard rock. As for the songs, unfortunately I
would have to say that while these are stellar work, there’s not many
here that really stands out as pure on classic metal songs besides a
handfull of them. But listening to the whole thing as a whole is a
great experience overall.1) Potter’s field
2) Only
3) Room for one more
5) Hy Pro Glo
6) Invisible———————-
Natalie Imbruglia – “White Lilies Island” is the album that really showed how much her sound has matured from her debut album.
As always, her vocals really carry you through her songs really
well. Unlike her debut album that played around with a lot of
different song styles, this one chooses the style of her strongest
songs from the first album and mostly sticks with that. The
result is a much more fluid and better produced work, and dare I say
that it’s much better than her more popular debut album. I would
still consider this a pop album, but this is far from the usual drivel
common in the genre. Re-listening to this album again after well over a
year made me realize that I’m really going to have to consider myself a
fan of her work.1) That Day
2) Beauty On The Fire
5) Wrong Impression
7) Everything Goes
11) Butterflies———————–
Suzanne Vega – “99.9 F°”
is a pretty likeable album. The sound is a great mix of
alternative rock, industrial noise, and guitar folk tunes. There
is a great emotional sound behind her vocals and the lyrics also
reflects that. My only concern with the album is that it feels
incomplete to me. Some songs like “Blood Makes Noise”
is very likeable as it goes along, but then it just stops. This
trend happens often throughout and it leaves me with an empty feeling
at times. Still, definitely worth a listen.1) Rock in the pocket (song of david)
3) In Liverpool
5) Blood Sings
10) When Heroes Goes Down
11) As Girls Go———————-
Fastball – “All the pain money can buy” was made popular by the hit single “the way.”
The whole album in itself evokes that feeling that you are driving in
an empty highway through the desert, which isn’t too surprising I
suppose coming from these Texan rockers. While there aren’t that
many stand out tracks, they are still able to make each song catchy in
their own right.1) The Way
2) Fire Escape
3) Better Than It Was
7) Slow Drag
10) Out Of My Head———————
Poe – “Hello”
has proven in time to be quite a great album. From the great
musical stylings of rock, folk, and even jazz, to the amazing angry
voice, you got yourself a killer album. This album has some really
catchy songs in it but is more or less far from being broadcast radio
friendly in the traditional sense. Songs are quite sing along inducing
which is a good testament to me, especially when you enjoy singing a
line like “you can’t talk to a psycho like a normal human being.” This
album is for those people who like to listen to an angrier Alanis Morisette.2) Trigger Happy Jack
5) Angry Johnny
6) Dolphin
9) Beautiful Girl
11) Fly Awayp.s. – as of my posting this, it looks like hot linking amazon.com’s
sample music has been disabled or something because I can’t get it to
work. Or it could be the laptop that I’m using right now.
