I bought The Cranberries song Linger on cassingle at the time of its re-release in 1994. That song and Soundgarden’s newly released album Superunknown are linked in my memory, tethered as part of my overall youthful experience of the groundswell of creativity and good will that the Seattle-sound revolution had ushered in in 1991-92, when […]
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Careful with that Axe, Eugene | On titles
When Adolf Hitler marched to the centre of Munich in 1932, bounded by approximately 2000 men, with the intention to overthrow the then State Commissioner Gustav Ritter von Kahr, he couldn’t have imagined—even in his most feverish moments of ambitious delerium—that his act of political and social defiance (which would be lionised upon his becoming Fuhrer […]
Armoured Angel | Thy Blood Eterne
About once a week I pull out my super-fangled High Resolution Audio Music Player and headphones, which together cost me a frightening amount of dosh, and I listen to Armoured Angel’s anthemic Thy Blood Eterne; which I transferred direct to my player from the Hymns of Hate collection—no ripping or compression of the original track, straight […]