Trouble-Simple Mind Condition (Escapi Music)
Trouble's first new album in 15 years remains true to the heavy metal music of the late 80s when they made two classic albums for Rick Rubin's Def American label (why they haven't been reissued is beyond me). Unlike thrash of Metallica or Slayer, Trouble remains more in tune of early Black Sabbath but not as dark and sometimes can be enlightning. Their cover of Ride The Sky starts with the riff like Immigrant Song from Led Zeppelin and Goin Home is the stuff that would find regular rotation on Headbangers Ball (circa 1989 mind you). Eric Wagner remains in nice vocal form. Not a dull track and if you enjoy metal like it used to be before Poison and Motley Crue came and polluted Simple Mind Condition should be on your player. Grade A-
Cuts: Goin Home, Ride The Sky, Arthur Brown's Whiskey Bar, After The Rain
Manic Street Preachers-Send Away The Tigers (Columbia)
2007 album and although it rocks pretty hard it lacks the focus of their 2009 Journal For Plague Lovers lyricwise. Without Richey James' lyrical help MSP lose their way. But it does get better with throwaways such as I'm Just A Pansy or Winterlovers. Grade B-
Genesis-Live (Atlantic)
I have a Twitter buddy that has been supplying me with Gentle Giant songs, for what reason I don't know. Genesis has always been an underground band around 1973 to which when this album was released to the world (on the famous Charimsa Label) and the bizarre word of Peter Gabriel and although not a total waste, it serves purpose to me that I still can't get into this period of Genesis although Watcher Of The Skies and The Knife are top flight. Grade C+
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