A middle-aged music lover expands his album reviewing from blog to podcast. Each episode here will focus on the past and the present. New album reviews, old album retrospectives, best-of lists, conversation and discussion. If it's music you love, come and let me share my love of music with you.
Bruce Dickinson: "Scream for Me Brazil" - 25 Years On
"Even more than that, this album proves that Rod Smallwood had to be very canny to protect his number one priority when it came to this situation. Because there is no doubt Bruce was in the ascendancy at this time, and this lie album is the final proof of that. Neither “The Chemical Wedding” nor “Accident of Birth” could have been written of recorded in Iron Maiden. It isn’t their style and has a different set of writers and people in charge that would not have occurred in the other group. “The Chemical Wedding” is a superior album in every respect over Maiden’s “The X Factor”. And if the status quo had remained onto another album cycle... would Maiden have survived? Would Bruce and band have gained further success? This live album asserts that the band was firing on the stage, and that this scenario was more than possible. And while Rod was probably just looking to save his longest investment by insisting that Steve and Bruce meet up and see if their differences could be resolved, he probably also saw the future and knew that the true longevity lay in Bruce, and Adrian, returning to Maiden and getting that ship righted and sailing true once again".
On this episode we are going to talk about “Scream for Me Brazil” by Bruce Dickinson, the band’s 2nd live album released 25 years ago this week, on today’s episode where “the road to hell is full of good intentions” on Music from a Lifetime.
1 Nov 2024
Megadeth: "Youthanasia" - 30 Years On
"“Youthanasia” is, once you have digested it, the logical next step in the direction Megadeth had travelled over the previous two albums. “Rust in Peace” was the amazingly perfect progression from the out and out thrash metal of the debut albums to the maturing yet aggressive nature that that album took on. “Countdown to Extinction” had, for want of a better word, matured even more, still stinging and heavy but with a slightly lesser focus on the thrash genre than the band had utilised before. And then came “Youthanasia”, an album that almost settles into its own tempo early on and doesn’t move away from that too much, and with heavy riffs that are now closely devoid of what one might consider to be thrash or speed metal, where the roots of this band exist. It’s not a case of the band selling out their sound for the era but is just part of the next step in their evolution.
So, rather than a thrash album, instead here we have a collection of songs that can certainly inspire some hearty singalongs and table banging along the way, in a way that may not satisfy the earliest fans of the band but is worthy of checking out."
On this episode we are going to talk about “Youthanasia” by Megadeth, the band’s 6th studio album released 30 years ago this week, on today’s episode where “don’t want no revenge, ain’t no payback time” on Music from a Lifetime.
31 Oct 2024
Nirvana: "MTV Unplugged in New York" - 30 Years On
"Nirvana had been the face of the grunge movement since they had crashed upon the music scene with their second album “Nevermind” in 1991, and had been riding the wave ever since. With the release of their third album “In Utero” in 1993 saw this trend continue, despite an album that was far from mainstream in content. The tour that followed this was their first of the United States for two years, and included the addition of Pat Smear as a second guitarist to increase the impact of their music.
In November of 1993 Nirvana agreed to record a performance for MTV Unplugged, which had been a popular addition to their music channels programming. Although the band had been negotiating to be on the program for some months, they also wanted to do something different from what most bands did when they recorded the show. Whereas other bands still wanted to be loud and energetic, Nirvana wanted it to be the intimate setting that the style suggested it should be, and to incorporate songs that suited the style that weren’t their own"
On this episode we are going to talk about “MTV Unplugged in New York” by Nirvana, the band’s first live album released 30 years ago this week, on today’s episode where “underneath the bridge, tarp has sprung a leak” on Music from a Lifetime.
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