Album: Hundred Days - How a War is Won
I covered Hundred Days before, but now they've got a whole album out it seems only right to do them again.
The album's called How A War Is Won and takes a lot of its substance from sounds like those of Velvet Revolver and similar bands - you definitely get quite a classic rock feeling when you listen to Hundred Days - but influences from different genres and periods ensure the overall sound is much more than that. In terms of a musical cake, the straight rockers of the 70s and 80s are the main ingredients that make it taste very familiar, but spices, sweeteners and icing from other styles between then and the present make for a much more interesting and fresh offering.
The track "Burning in in The Sun", for example, sounds a bit like it could be found on one of GnR's Use Your Illusion ablums, if not for the subtle decorations that give it a bit more of a contemporary sound. The song is followed by "Teenage Stalker", introduced by a very funky riff that is really not something you'd expect to come from Slash's guitar - it sounds more like early Chili Peppers or possibly Hendrix. It completely contrasts the previous track, and there is much more variety in there.
The lyrics to the songs are mainly of serious tones, dealing with things like love and drug abuse, but the album also contains wry humour in the form of the previously mentioned "Teenage Stalker" - a song aimed at the band's younger and rather more annoying female fans basically telling them to bugger off. And despite (or perhaps helped by) this, the album still holds quite a mature manner.
Overall this album is definitely worth you looking into if you're interested in rock in general. You can download or stream each track individually if you're not sure or grab the whole album as a zip file.
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Various Artists (arranged by The Presets) - Get Off The Beach Mixtape
And to end, just a brief mention of a mixtape put together by The Presets. It's very varied, and has artists such as Roy Buchanan, Public Enemy, Sparks, Aphex Twin, Sepultura, Chromatics and Cornelius. Give it ago, there's 43 minutes of it so there are going to be at least a few songs that should interest you, if not many.
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I suppose you'd call Hugh Cornwell's album, Hooverdam, classic rock.
Well, that's what I'd call it. After all, he was the lead singer of The Stranglers back in the 70's.