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Music, videos, and two lists
Apr. 2nd, 2007 03:09 pmGoing back home for a week was also an opportunity to see what music had found its way on to the family computer (formerly known as my computer), and I came back with a few more albums from Richard on the iPod's file partition. After circumventing Apple's cleverly thought out copyright protection system with a simple copy and paste on my own computer, my music library has increased dramatically. One of the highlights is a band called Falconer, who sound rather like Kamelot would have sounded like in their early days if they hadn't been catastrophically dreadful. The opener "Quest for the Crown" is good apart from two minor details.
List 1. Things wrong with Quest for the Crown
1. That's the title of the first King's Quest game.
2. It sounds exactly like Brave Sir Robin.
And I've just found out it isn't actually the opener even though the track listing on the file says it is.
Most of the new collection is comprised of albums from Helloween from the period after Kai Hansen left but before Andreas Deris arrived, when they were sort of floundering as to what direction they were taking and bordering on the edge of dementia. This is evidenced in the following list:
List 2. Song titles I can't believe Helloween used
1. Pink Bubbles Go Ape
2. Kids Of The Century
3. Heavy Metal Hamsters
4. I'm Doin' Fine CRAZY Man
5. Les Hambourgeois Walkways
6. Red Socks And The Smell Of Trees
7. Irritation (Weik Editude 112 In C)
8. Grapowski's Malmsuite 1001
9. Anything My Mama Don't Like
10. Deliberately Limited Preliminary Prelude Period In Z
11. Hey Lord!
12. Lavdate Dominvm [sic]
13. Moshi Moshi~Shiki No Uta
14. Escalation 666
15. Sun 4 The World
There's also another thing I noticed recently - from its entire sound and music video, I thought "Power" was written in the Eighties (for obvious reasons), until I realized a few weeks ago that Andi was the voice on it. My first thought then was that the Treasure Chest 'best of' album that I got it from had a reworked version, but it genuinely was from 1996.
Another band that's very much stuck in the Eighties is Gamma Ray, but their approach to best-of albums is exemplary. Unlike bands such as Iron Maiden who release collections every three years to get "new fans" ("quick cash"?), they went to the trouble of asking fans to vote for their favourite songs across their previous albums, then rewrite and rerecord them with the modern band members. So what would normally be something that everyone had already paid for became a new album in its own right.
But their music videos are pants, there's no way around that.
List 1. Things wrong with Quest for the Crown
1. That's the title of the first King's Quest game.
2. It sounds exactly like Brave Sir Robin.
And I've just found out it isn't actually the opener even though the track listing on the file says it is.
Most of the new collection is comprised of albums from Helloween from the period after Kai Hansen left but before Andreas Deris arrived, when they were sort of floundering as to what direction they were taking and bordering on the edge of dementia. This is evidenced in the following list:
List 2. Song titles I can't believe Helloween used
1. Pink Bubbles Go Ape
2. Kids Of The Century
3. Heavy Metal Hamsters
4. I'm Doin' Fine CRAZY Man
5. Les Hambourgeois Walkways
6. Red Socks And The Smell Of Trees
7. Irritation (Weik Editude 112 In C)
8. Grapowski's Malmsuite 1001
9. Anything My Mama Don't Like
10. Deliberately Limited Preliminary Prelude Period In Z
11. Hey Lord!
12. Lavdate Dominvm [sic]
13. Moshi Moshi~Shiki No Uta
14. Escalation 666
15. Sun 4 The World
There's also another thing I noticed recently - from its entire sound and music video, I thought "Power" was written in the Eighties (for obvious reasons), until I realized a few weeks ago that Andi was the voice on it. My first thought then was that the Treasure Chest 'best of' album that I got it from had a reworked version, but it genuinely was from 1996.
Another band that's very much stuck in the Eighties is Gamma Ray, but their approach to best-of albums is exemplary. Unlike bands such as Iron Maiden who release collections every three years to get "new fans" ("quick cash"?), they went to the trouble of asking fans to vote for their favourite songs across their previous albums, then rewrite and rerecord them with the modern band members. So what would normally be something that everyone had already paid for became a new album in its own right.
But their music videos are pants, there's no way around that.
