Albums I like : Little Barrie - Stand Your Ground

Little Barrie – Stand Your Ground
Artemis Records
Released 29th January 2007


The trio from Nottingham, England, whose fusion of funk, blues, soul, & rock, are certain to get your feet tapping and head nodding. So if you want to hear a mixture of Jimi Hendrix and the 50’s sound, you won't do better than to start here.

Stand your Ground, which is their second album, was recorded between New York with Dan The Automator on the producing skills and the help of Russell Simins (of Blues Explosion) on drums and London with Mike "Prince Fatty" Pelanconi as producer and new drummer Billy Skinner. Little Barrie are currently recording their 3rd album and are about to go on a UK tour with Paul Weller.

Check it out!!


Track List:

01. Bailing Out
02. Love You
03. Pin That Badge
04. Yeah We Know You
05. Green Eyed Fool
06. Pretty Pictures
07. Cash In
08. Just Wanna Play
09. Why Don’t You Do It
10. Pay To Join ---- Girls & Shoes (Hidden Track)


Barrie Cadogan (Guitar, Vocals); Lewis Wharton (Bass); Billy Skinner (Drums).



Top 3 songs : Why Don’t You Do It, Yeah We Know You & Green Eyed Fool.

Little Barrie - Love You

Little Barrie - Pay To Join

“Sounding not unlike Hendrix covering The Temptations, they succeed in capturing the essence of the Delta and bottling it in a contemporary garage brew.” ~ The Independent Review (UK)

“Sounding like the bastard child of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Led Zepplin, Little Barrie are a throwback to a time of dirty rock and roll.” ~ Fasterlouder.com.au.

Where to buy?


CDwow.com £3.99
TheHut.com £9.93
CDon.com 99NOK

Remember this is the current price. November, 4th 2008. If anybody finds a better price somewhere, please feel free to leave a comment stating where :)

Links :

Little Barrie - Homepage & Little Barrie - Myspace

P.S.

If I have written anything or have done something wrong in creating this Blog, please let me know .

Song of the day #3 - The Sundays - Wild Horses

The Sundays and their cover version of The Rolling Stones "Wild Horses" I could not find the proper video, but this one is OK.

The Sundays - Wild Horses

Halloween - 12 Scary Songs

In the spirit of Halloween, I'll give you 12 Scary songs.

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Tchaikovsky. This one is a classic for setting the mood, in my book.


Supergrass - Mary. My favourite Supergrass song & and a great Scary song.


Halloween Theme Song - John Carpenter. If you've seen the movie, then you know why it belongs here.


Michael Jackson - Thriller. Another classic.

Michael Jackson MTV Music

Danzig - Mother


Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath


Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams


Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper


Queens Of The Stone Age - Burn The Witch


Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London


Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls


AC/DC - Hells Bells

Newsreel - AC/DC

* AC/DC's “no downloads” policy has slipped through the cracks in Australia. Download service BigPond Music currently has 16 AC/DC albums on sale. AC/DC has been opposed to the digital download format and outspoken about being involved with download companies. Bigpond Music stated : “We are not selling the new album but we are selling the old albums bundled because AC/DC want to sell it as an album”. Read the whole story here.

* AC/DC will hit a milestone during their upcoming "Black Ice" U.S. tour and play its 2,000th concert. Due to the lack of solid touring information during the years 1974/75 when the band played clubs and pubs in Australia, it is impossible to pinpoint exactly which concert will bear this number, but according to information available at this time, concert No. 2000 should take place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on December 20, 2008. What is certain is that this milestone will be reached at some point during the "Black Ice" tour.

* AC/DC's "Black Ice" is not only the biggest selling album of the week in Australia, it is the biggest selling album of the year. 83,855 copies of "Black Ice" sold last week in the first full week of sales, earning it its first platinum stripe. (Platinum is 70,000 in Australia.)

* AC/DC held a "dress rehearsal" for their Black Ice World Tour on Sunday, October 26. at the Wachovia Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in front of 3,000 specially invited fans from around the world. Read a review in Norwegian here. English here.

SetList :

01. Rock 'N Roll Train
02. Hell Ain't a Bad Place To Be
03. Back in Black
04. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
05. Thunderstruck
06. Hells Bells
07. You Shook Me All Night Long
08. TNT
09. Black Ice
10. Whole Lotta Rosie
11. Let There Be Rock
12. Highway to Hell
13. For Those About to Rock


* A statue honouring AC/DC’s Bon Scott was unveiled at the Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour in Western Australia on Saturday, October 25. Although born in Scotland, Bon Scott grew up in Fremantle. Bon was born in 1946 and his family emigrated to Australia in the early 1950s. Little Bon started out his newfound Australian life in Melbourne. The family lived in the suburb of Sunshine for four years before moving to Fremantle. The Mayor of Fremantle, Peter Tagliaferri, did the official unveiling of the statue.

* Wal-Mart and Columbia Records have announce a milestone record breaking event for AC/DC's "Black Ice", reaching No. 1 this week in U.S. music sales. Selling more than 780,000 units in the U.S. since its release October 20, "Black Ice" also represents the first No. 1 album for the band on the album charts in the U.S.

That makes No. 1 in 29 countries and in all, nearly five million copies of "Black Ice" have shipped worldwide. And when you take in to account the roughly five million albums from their back catalog AC/DC has sold this year - hard physical copies, mind you, no downloads - and it's safe to say it doesn't suck to be in that band.

The next highest charting albums for the band are 1990’s ‘The Razor’s Edge’ (2), 1976’s ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’ (3), 1980’s ‘Back In Black’ and 1995’s ‘Ballbreaker’(4), 2000’s ‘Ballbreaker’ (7). No other AC/DC album has cracked the US top 10.

It is interesting to not the relatively low peak position of ‘Back In Black’ on the US chart. Despite never going to number one in America, the album has become the 5th biggest selling album on all-time in the USA after Eagles ‘Their Greatest Hits’, Michael Jackson ‘Thriller’, Led Zeppelin ‘IV’ and Pink Floyd ‘The Wall’.

"It's overwhelming, and quite hard to take in," the legendary group's lead singer, Brian Johnson, said Wednesday after learning his group had 2008's second-biggest album debut.
"Even an old dog like me has a few more surprises in life, I guess," he said, chuckling.

* The band is also dominating the U.S. Rock Radio chart, where “Rock N’ Roll Train” has remained perched at No.1 since its debut back in early-September.

* The UK's Guardian newspaper - Alexis Petridis argues that AC/DC's success means very tough times are ahead. He points out that AC/DC's biggest-selling albums – 1980's Back In Black, 1990's The Razor's Edge and 2008's Black Ice – have all coincided with recessions. And AC/DC released their first album, in 1973, just at the onset of the oil crisis. When the economy was more buoyant, say in 1985, the AC/DC album of that year (Fly On The Wall) was a relative flop.

"AC/DC's appeal in unpredictable times is straightforward," argues Petridis, likely with his tongue in his cheek. "People crave something uncomplicated and dependable in a time of uncertainty, and rock music has never produced a band so uncomplicated and dependable as AC/DC."

* AC/DC's opening gig of their 2008 world tour in Wiles-Barre, Pennsylvania, had the following setlist :

“Rock and Roll Train”
“Hell Ain’t a Bad Place To Be”
“Back in Black”
“Big Jack”
“Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap”
“Thunderstruck”
“Black Ice”
“The Jack”
“Hell’s Bells”
“War Machine”
“Anything Goes”
“You Shook Me All Night Long”
“TNT”
“Whole Lotta Rosie”
“Let There Be Rock”
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“Highway to Hell”
“For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)”

Review of the opening show at Rollingstone.com & USAToday.com.

* Smashing Pumpkins mainman Billy Corgan has told Entertainment Weekly that he understands why the shift toward exclusive deals with a single major retailer is paying off for a beleagured music business. "At the end of the day, it's about marketing," Corgan said. "I've heard literally 25 to 30 commercials for AC/DC; that's the most amount of energy I've heard about an AC/DC record in 20 years! Because the labels weren't gonna do that. They treat a band like AC/DC with a sort of reverant distance. Throw it out there and if it clicks, great. If not, they'd bury it. So great for AC/DC and great for Wal-Mart."

* Did you know that based on the setlist for AC/DC's current tour, Brian Johnson will sing/screech the words "black", "rock" and "hell" a combined 163 times in one single show? Or that Malcolm Young does play lead guitar? Head over to Musicradar.com for 13 idiotic AC/DC facts.

AC/DC's 'Rock 'N Roll Train' Video Recreated In Excel Spreadsheet.


AC/DC performing Black Ice at Wilkes Barre 28.10.08


AC/DC guitarist Angus Young was featured in a recent MTV Germany special in which he took the viewers through the band's history and commented on some of the group's "most important" videos.









Sources : AC-DC.net, Undercover.com.au, Blabbermouth.net, Musicradar.com, Rollingstone.com, 411mania.com, Dagbladet.no

Newsreel - Metallica.

* Robert Trujillo told The Pulse of Radio, that with lead guitarist Kirk Hammett away for part of the time with a new baby, it fell to him to act as the referee between frontman James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. "It was an honor for me to sort of mediate most of the time, 'cause Kirk was away, and to be in the same room with Lars and James when they're arranging a METALLICA song is a wonderful experience, like going to the best school of music and arranging and songwriting you could ever imagine," he said. Trujillo also said that Hetfield and Ulrich, the band's chief songwriters, were "open" to his ideas as well.

* El Universal México conducted an interview with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich at the "Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2008" event, which was held on October 16, 2008 in Guadalajara, Mexico. View the interview here.

* After only six weeks on the shelves, Metallica's Death Magnetic has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The album, released on September 12, is the band's ninth album and their fifth #1 album. To date, it has sold over 1.2 million copies in the US alone.

* Metallica has added a second show in Madrid to their upcoming Euro tour, on the 14. July.
Complete List here.



* The summer of vinyl has stretched into Fall with the re-issue of "…And Justice For All" as part of the on-going series that will eventually see the entire catalog available again. "Justice" is now available in North America as a two disc package for the 33.3 version, and in a box for the four disc, 180 gram, 45 rpm edition. Rest of the world will get it on December 1. Next up is the "Black Album"



* The second show of Metallica's North American indoor arena tour took place at the Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico (Thursday, October 23). Support at the show came from The Sword and Down.


SetList :

01. That Was Just Your Life
02. The End Of The Line
03. Creeping Death
04. For Whom The Bell Tolls
05. One
06. Broken, Beat And Scarred
07. Cyanide
08. Sad But True
09. Until It Sleeps
10. No Remorse
11. The Day That Never Comes
12. Master Of Puppets
13. Blackened
14. Nothing Else Matters
15. Enter Sandman
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16. Die, Die My Darling
17. Stone Cold Crazy
18. Seek and Destroy


* Official Metallica.com footage of "That Was Just Your Life", from Glendale, Arizona.


* Footage of DOWN performing the song "Bury Me In Smoke", as the support act for Metallica in Glendale, Arizona.

MTV Launch New Music Video Website

MTV has launched a new website, called MTV Music, which gives you access to most of the videos MTV has collected over the years. Even artists such as Michael Jackson and Prince, that have banned their videos from Youtube, are available at MTV Music. So it will be a good addition to the music video scene.

Song of the day #2 - Tishamingo - This Time

Today's song features Southern Blues-Rockers Tishamingo, from Athens, Georgia US, and the song "This Time" taken from the 2007 album "Point"




Tishamingo.com & Tishamingo - Myspace

Guitar Hero World Tour news

* Jimi Hendrix, The Raconteurs, The Smashing Pumpkins are all coming to Guitar Hero World Tour as downloadable content.

Jimi Hendrix : The blues track “If 6 was 9” rhythm and blues classic “Little Wing” and a live version of the iconic Hendrix track “Fire”.

The Raconteurs : Are set to leave their mark with three tracks off their second album Consolers of the Lonely. The trio of “Salute Your Solution” “Hold Up” and “Consoler of the Lonely” will debut on a video game as part of a three song set list.

The Smashing Pumpkins : Will debut their new single "G.L.O.W." exclusively in the game. The new track, bundled with two other rocking Smashing Pumpkins hits, “1979” and “The Everlasting Gaze” will be available post-launch of the game as a three-song downloaded content pack.

Additionally, on-disc with the release of Guitar Hero World Tour this fall, The Smashing Pumpkins’ singer, songwriter and lead guitarist Billy Corgan will appear as an in-game character and will bring with him “Today” the band’s smash hit from their pivotal and four-times platinum 1993 album Siamese Dream.


* On October 31. Amazon.com will put on for sale a Gene Simmons Guitar Hero controller, named "The Axe". The axe-shaped guitar is compatible with both Guitar Hero and Rock Band, and features a bi-directional strum bar, an analog whammy bar, and ultra-responsive fret buttons.The guitar, which is only compatible with the Playstation 2 and 3, also comes with a sticker of Gene Simmons' face and signature on the front.








* Logitech will release a Guitar Hero controller that costs as much as a real guitar, $250. The new controller has a Strat-style design and features a wood neck, rosewood fingerboard and metal frets. It works with all versions of Guitar Hero on the PS2 and PS3 and should be available in December.

"There's no better feeling than being the guy with the best instrument when you walk into your friend's house to jam on Guitar Hero," said Ruben Mookerjee, Logitech's director of product marketing for gaming.



* You can of course do it like Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne has done it. The band's latest piece of crazy gear has been revealed to be a double-neck Epiphone G-1275 customised to include, amongst other things, a Guitar Hero controller.

Coyne explained "I've constructed this great looking Guitar Hero double-neck guitar thing here because there's a lot of kids out there that actually think this is how you play guitar now. You just press a series of four or five buttons and it makes every sound the guitar can make."
Coyne's pimped double neck consists of one regular guitar neck, and a neck with a Guitar Hero controller hooked up to a Korg Kaossilator. you can hear it here.

Slash to release solo album.

In an interview with Billboard.com, Slash revealed that he's set to record a solo album early next year, which will feature different singers for each song. Who that is, are not yet clear. Read the full interview here.

There is also an Slash action figure on the way from Mcfarland Toys. It will stand six-inches tall, have 15 moving parts and a removable guitar.

Song of the day #1 - Dave Matthews - The Fly

Todays song is Dave Matthews and the song The Fly which he made for the movie Joshua, featuring Sam Rockwell and Vera Formiga.