I love the epic feel of this song and it makes an excellent closer for the album. I get the feel of knights charging in full gallop toward battle. Solid choice!
Just…never dug this one. It sounds like “House of the Rising Sun” stapled to the last third of “Stairway To Heaven.”
Pretty typical of late '90s/early 2000s alternative. Overall, it reminds me of Incubus. I don’t hate it, but I don’t really like it either. It just is.
Good time danceable fun. Young-people-having-a-good-time music.
Though I am not young and thus my ideas of a good time are different today, I would have loved that song in my youth. “Do you want to go where I never let you before…?” is a good description of the possibilities of being young --when seeking out novel experiences was what life was about as opposed to the mundane repetition of days that are destined to engulf most everyone in later life. You are “so lucky” to be young indeed.
Coil: Where Are You?
I don’t really care for this one. It’s just angsty poetry being recited over a beat that doesn’t even fit the cadence of the poem. The music itself would make a good ambient soundtrack for a horror movie, but the vocals just bog it down.
I like the beat and entendres. Her voicing reminds me of Ellie Goulding or Adele. Very danceable and improbably reminds me of Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just wanna Have Fun…
I believe I saw Slash do this song live when he opened for Ozzy Osbourne a few years ago. At the time it just seemed like one of the filler songs he felt like he had to play before he closed on “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “Paradise City” like we were all waiting for him to do.
In retrospect, it’s a better song than I gave it credit for at first - the guitar work is great, and Myles Kennedy definitely has a bit of Axl in his vocals.
I think you have the wrong link, Smapti, it comes up as White Wizzard.
D’oh!
One of the best songs Yngwie Malmsteen has ever done, recorded before he let his awesomeness go to his head and became an uncreative hack. Amazing vocals by Jeff Scott Soto.
Usually not my cup of tea, but a solid performance, nonetheless. The singer’s voice is better than Steve Perry’s, IMHO. Of course, the overdubbed rhythm guitar helps out quite a bit. The backing vocals were fine. Nothing to be ashamed of, if you accept re-titling a Journey song and dropping the Kool-Aid man’s “Oh, Yeah,” into the mix. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it.
Eumir Deodato/C. DeBussy - Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun
That’s bizarre…I would have sworn that I replied to the Slash song yesterday, but my post is AWOL and gone without a trace…?
I think it’s in the music artist vs music artist thread, John, lost and afraid… 
OK, Yngwie was great, Rock Candy is now on my buy list and I think I actually like Deodato’s version of DeBussy more than the piano versions I’ve heard. Nice Choice, burpo! I particularly liked the trumpet work.
My pick:
I haven’t heard as much of Otis Rush as I should, because he’s really one of the great Chicago bluesmen. This one hits all the right notes, and it’s got some great guitar and piano work.
Going to the well again on this one;
Damn Keith Moon! Sheesh. These guys were so good. Very nice choice here. Love the interplay of the guitar, the dependence on the drums to hold through, and Daltrey belting it out. Thanks for this one.
Stone cold thrash classic. KIA is really before James Hetfield came into his own as either a singer or a lyricist, but the energy is just off the charts. I also really dig the Marshall tones on this album and RTL, before they moved onto their (less raw, but equally awesome) Mesa years.
I never really found Nirvana as amazing as a lot of people of my generation do. I was too young to appreciate his music when it was current, and I grew up listening to my dad’s classic rock stuff instead. To this day, my tastes tend more to the kind of balls-out arena rock sound that Kurt Cobain “killed” than to the post-1991 grunge wave.
That being said, this is a pretty unique and cool take on Kurt’s body of work. The riff on Smells Like Teen Spirit at the beginning was clever, and the jazz guitar here is amazing.
Genre-bending jazz covers it is, then. PIG - Head Like a Hole.
lol, that can hardly be called “Come as you are”. Jazz isn’t my thing at all, but I can certainly recognize the talent! As far a classical style guitar, I tend to listen more to Gareth Pearson, Ewan Dobson, and Specer Elliott
, but only cause as I said, Jazz isn’t my thing. Nice to see the genre pop up on here though as I believe that is what the thread is for! Nice add.
Hmm, not sure which I should comment on so I listened to both;
Pig- As one of the comments said Marilyn Manson does jazz, but I definitely heard more than a little of Shriekback in there. I enjoyed that but would want to be in the right mood to hear it for extended runs.
Howie Day- Equal parts of David Gray and Radiohead. I really liked the fact that he manages to put together such an intricate piece all alone. Like the Ed Sheeran piece, I am in awe of people who can use a looper to such good effect.
Soooo, next up in the genre bending: