They say the first step in overcoming a problem is admitting that you in fact have a problem. So with that in mind… My name is Jeff. And I like the Damn Yankees. Now, this was not a problem back in 1989 when the band formed. The Damn Yankees were a rock supergroup consisting of […]
Tag: 1990
Naked City – “Torture Garden” (1990)
John Zorn was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2006 – a recipient of the so-called “genius grant”. As near as I can tell, about 15 other people have been named Fellows in the area of Music and Composition. Though I wonder how many, if any, have the words “grindcore” and “avant-garde metal” listed as genres […]
Black Sabbath – “Black Sabbath” (1990)
I try to make a point of only buying physical music that I intend on playing at least once. But… sometimes something very interesting comes along and, well, I buy it even though I have no intention of actually playing it. I just can’t help myself (fact check –> I’m perfectly capable of not making […]
Metalinda – “Metalinda” (1990)
If you’re old enough to remember the height of the Cold War, then you have a sense of the risk the guys from Metalinda were taking by forming a hard rock band in Czechoslovakia back in 1983. Sure, it wasn’t the USSR. But the ruling communist regime still didn’t take kindly to decadent Western music […]
Jim Kirkwood
(For more on Jim Kirkwood you can read about his Eternal Champion Trilogy HERE and his Sandman Trilogy HERE) Jim Kirkwood is a bit of a legend in the dungeon synth community, almost a myth for a while, really, before folks eventually tracked him down. In the 80s he was a guitar player into rock […]