Tag Archives: album review

The Midnight Ramble, High Time/Live. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

The one thing you can be sure of listening to The Midnight Ramble’s new album is that throughout the three new songs on offer and the elegantly captured live set is they don’t consider this in any way to be a ramble, a quiet stroll or saunter on a summer’s day taking in the sights after what has been a long cold winter in search of that elusive sunshine. High Time/Live is a statement, a jive on the promenade, an exertion of sound that mocks a sub four minute mile as being too slow and dull.

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(381 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

Queens Of The Stone Age, Like Clockwork. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Like a well-kept 20 year old bottle of finest malt being poured out without impunity, you know as soon as you take off the protective casing and put on the new C.D. by Queens Of The Stone Age, Like Clockwork, sitting comfortably on your bed or in your favourite armchair that what you will soon be enveloped by the heady aroma, the intoxicating aroma and reckless indomitable spirit filling every sense possible and a few more besides.

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(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Megadeth, Super Collider. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Thirty years after Dave Mustaine was sacked by Metallica, it seems as if the crown prince of Thrash can finally look back on the intervening years and sit back and think to himself that somewhere along the line, he triumphed. Not that there was ever a final goal of that kind lurking between two of the big four of American Thrash Metal but the grip satisfaction that since 1992 Megadeth have had nine top-20 U.S. albums on the bounce must keep him going and if there is any legitimacy and heart in the American market, as well as here in the U.K., then Super Collider will make it the seemingly impossible 10.

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(424 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

Queensryche, Frequency Unknown. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Long live Queensryche…no matter which version you end up following. Due to a very public falling out there are now two versions of the group and the former lead vocalist of the original band, Geoff Tate, the man who made the lyrics sing as if pursued by hoards of irate angels robbed of their vocal cords, has returned with his version of this new Queensryche’s first album Frequency Unknown and that is where the confusion starts in earnest.

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(587 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

Susan Hedges, Faces Without Names. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Even after a couple of albums it is impossible to ignore the song-writing talent that lives and breathes in the very heart of Susan Hedges. She impossible not to love, a piece of Liverpool that might go unnoticed by the greater population of the country but in the city she calls home, that talented is appreciated and nurtured.

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(373 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

Walter Trout, Luther’s Blues. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In modern day blues, anything really that fits neatly or even indirectly into the genre post the new Millennium, Walter Trout perhaps only stands behind the legendary Joe Bonamassa and Robert Cray in the queue of great Blues guitarists. His own course has been guided over the last few decades and like his previous album, Blues For The Modern Daze, Luther’s Blues will further enhance this musician’s already sky high reputation.

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(412 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

I Am A Man With A St. Tropez Tan, Just A Ghost. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

There can be no messing round when being avant-garde, it either works so well that it becomes a fashion all of its own or it leaves people so stumped that it can leave those taking part as the audience cold and bored. Thankfully boredom is not an option and not on the agenda when it comes to I Am Just A Man With A St. Tropez Tan.

I Am A Man With A St. Tropez Tan, Just A Ghost. Album Review. full post

(415 words, estimated 1:40 mins reading time)

Cavern Records Presents The Best In New Music, Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

In the 1980s a brand new way of presenting music as a package appeared, the then much loved Now That’s What I Call Music collection which featured artists and groups such as Phil Collins, Heaven 17, Malcolm McClaren, The Human League and Simple Minds made its first appearance 30 years ago. In that three decades music has moved on, young musicians have made their way onto the scene and nowhere it seems is that energy more keenly felt in the U.K. than in the home of music, Liverpool.

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(441 words, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)

Susan Hedges, Kiss My Attitude. Album Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

To meet Susan Hedges is to admire her. To listen to her remarkable voice on her album Kiss My Attitude is to understand that admiration is one thing, but to recognise and fully appreciate the driving force that pushes this extraordinary woman to make such great music, music that is tinged and immersed fully with depth and a burning anger.

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(340 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

The Doors, L.A. Woman. 40th Anniversary, Album review.

First published by L.S. Media on January 25th 2012.

I admit my musical relationship with The Doors is not what it could have been. I didn’t appreciate the American band at all. The reason for this rather glib demonstration of lack of musical compatibility is down to a girl I used to date who had the most overpowering and dedicated crush on Jim Morrison. No not a crush, she lived, breathed and dreamt of him, not a problem, that didn’t bother me. It was being called Jim that got me down about the band…for the record my name is not Jim!

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(1028 words, estimated 4:07 mins reading time)