Amy Winehouse - rehab (Back To Black)
Crematory - for love (Remind Live)
Dimension Zero - silent night fever (Penetrations From The Lost World)
Irina Mikhailova - stojnelé stokole (Lumin-Hadra)
Korn - no way (Issues)
Pink Floyd - waiting for the worms (The Wall)
Rush - red barchetta (Moving Pictures)
Savatage - crying for love (Fight For The Rock)
Sinergy - venomous vixens (Beware The Heavens)
Six Feet Under - what do you do for money honey (Graveyard Classics II)
Therion - in the desert of set (Theli)
Thin Lizzy - bad reputation (BBC Broadcasts 1972-77)
Thin Lizzy - parisienne walkways (Greatest Hits)
Thyrane - sickening (Hypnotic)

is it better to start with the bad or the good, or should you just get started ? ... ah well, I never know tbh :). Here we go again, Graveyard Classics a cover album from
Six Feet Under. I just cant get used to his voice, rather his growling.

Korn, interesting to hear a song from Issues again, the album I really like of em. Therion was the bright star today, illuminating the desert of set.

Sacrifi-sir

Giuseppe Verdi - gerusalem! (I Lombardi)
Haddaway - desert prayer (The Drive)
Muse - unintended (Showbiz)
Trio Exklusiv - teguise (Trio Exklusiv)
Speedway - genie in a bottle
Virgin Steele - theme from 'the marriage of heaven and hell' (Invictus)
Arkona - po zverinym tropam (Vozrozhdenie)
Hypocrisy - never to return (The Fourth Dimension)
Enthroned - final armageddon [epilogue] (Towards The Skullthrone Of Satan)
Norther - drowning (Till Death Unites Us)
Slayer - show no mercy [live] (Live Undead)
Stygma IV - i.n.r.i. [overture to jesus christ superstar] (A History In Pain)
Persuader - escape (The Hunter)


Again 13 tracks instead of "the holy number", 14. Why? Guča, Trubači, that's why. That's the bad news. The good news is, I think I found the correct album now and tagged it :-) Yeah.

Haddaway's 'desert prayer' was really cool by the way. Go listen to it if you can find it, great verse melody. Also, Muse were great as always, but a little depressing (love, anyone?), so let's quickly move on to Trio Exklusiv: Ennio Morricone Jazz is not exactly what this is, but it sounds interesting, doesn't it? I saw them live many years ago in Villach, and they are worth checking out. Nice cover version of Christina Aguilera's first single is up next, by Speedway. You might think at first that it's a little cheap, but it totally works.

The shortest interlude ever by Virgin Steele (22 seconds, ladies and gentlemen), and Arkona rule Today (by the way, with the same song you already had recently, Sacrifi-sir). This Hypocrisy song next is for example something I would NOT give to our Bosnian angel to represent "our" music. Na-ha.

It took me longer to write about Enthroned's epilogue than it actually was (a couple of synthie waves), before Norther sound quite typical and, yes, quite cool. Then Slayer live in 1984 - oh, how good they were back then. And how diabolical Tom Araya sounds... good old times. We stay on stage with Stygma IV from Salzburg and their evident talent and end with Persuader's demo track 'escape'.

Random. Music. Rules.


--Sapnish--

14 songs I adore

...in no particular order:

Iron Maiden - caught somewhere in time
Paola & Chiara - fino alla fine (2001 vision)
50 Cent feat Justin Timberlake and Timbaland - ayo technology
Therion - to mega therion
Paradise Lost - gothic
Indira Radić - april
La Bouche - be my lover
Judas Priest - a touch of evil
Cradle Of Filth - her ghost in the fog
ABBA - eagle
Dimmu Borgir - grotesquery conceiled (within measureless magic)
Alanis Morissette - you owe me nothing in return
Madonna - secret
Emperor - in the wordless chamber

--Sapnish--

Gamma Ray - follow me (No World Order!)
Jucifer - when she goes out (I Name You Destroyer)
Rosemary Clooney - sentimental journey [live] (The Last Concert)
Jan Savitt - jiminy crickett (Swing Era)
Marduk - beyond the grace of god (Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered)
The Offspring - genocide (Smash)
Sezen Aksu - arka sokaklar (Yaz Bitmeden)
Månegarm - fylgians dans (Havets Vargar)
Connie Francis - that's all
Solitude Aeturnus - black castle (Beyond The Crimson Horizon)
Goran Bregović feat Cesária Évora - ausencia (Underground)
Dark Tranquillity - the mundane and the magic (Fiction)
Dark Tranquillity - winter triangle (Fiction)
Catamenia - kaamos warrior (Winternight Tragedies)


Yeah, the weather actually WAS better :-) And in a way, so was Today.


Heavy Metal - Indie/LoFi Rock - Swing - Swing - Black Metal - Punk Rock - Turkish Pop - Viking Metal - Oldies - Doom Metal - Folk - Death Metal - Metal - Black Metal


--Sapnish--

Kreator - ruin of life (Outcast)
Dawn - stalker's blessing (Slaughtersun - Crown Of The Triarchy)
Bolt Thrower - armageddon bound (...For Victory)
David Hasselhoff - summer in the city (Everybody Sunshine)
Shivaree - i don't care (I Oughtta Give You A Shot In The Head For Making Me Live In This Dump)
Gwen Stefani - luxurious (Love. Angel. Music. Baby)
My Dying Bride - catherine blake (Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light)
Crematory - reflexionen (Illusions)
Ceca - ako te ona odbije (Ceca 2000)
Uhrilehto - korpimetsan perkele (Ihmisvihan Eliitti)
Ini Kamoze - here comes the hotstepper
Opeth - white cluster (Still Life)
Green Day - panic song (Insomniac)
Donna Summer - when love cries (The Donna Summer Anthology)


Took Today for a walk with me this time. Sounds good, and it was, but meh weather. Hope it'll be better tomorrow.

--Sapnish--

Bruce Springsteen - growin' up (Live/1975-85)
Cannibal Corpse - dismembered and molested (Gallery of Suicide)
Cesare Cremonini - vieni a vedere perchè (Bagus)
Crematory - the eyes of suffering (Early Years)
Dark Lunacy - lacryma (Forget-Me-Not)
The Gathering - event the spirits are afraid (Souvenirs)
Hypocrisy - apocalyptic hybrid (Hypocrisy)
Hypocrisy - nightmare (Penetralia)
Kamelot - desert reign (The Fourth Legacy)
Meshuggah - new millenium cyanide christ (Chaosphere)
Nina Badrić - kosa [gelo live edit] (Ljubav)
Nine Inch Niles - fist fuck (Fixed)
Philip Glass - the history (Notes On A Scandal OST)
Richard Wagner - summ und brumm, du gutes rädchen [der fliegende holländer] (Wagner I)

im glad that I have found some time again to just relax in my cozy chair, keyboard closeby and just listen to Today. That was relaxing, surfing on the sound waves ...

Sacrifi-sir

Paola & Chiara - Win The Game

Yeah, I'm too late. I wanted to go to Italy to buy this album, but I haven't managed to do that yet. So I waited, and I filled my days with other great artists to love and adore. But I haven't forgotten about it, and now it's here - the new Paola & Chiara album. How I loved these two ladies from Milano, and in a different way (and yeah, to a lesser degree), I still do. I still do. Two creative artists, openminded, always ready to push boundaries and always there for you with their wisdom and their love for people and music. How can you not love them? I just don't know.

(So yes, this album has a silly title like all of their albums have)

Cool intro... God have I missed them.

Oh my God, great 80ies synthies on 'vanity & pride'! And their voices, oh the beauty! How cool and effortless they smoothly come over you and take you in and own you. And it's true, Chiara does sound a bit like Madonna when she's singing English. Have I mentioned how much I love their voices?

'second life' was the first single so I already knew it. I don't think it's that strong, but it has a nice disco bass that tries to lead the song. Nice one, but the chorus is strangely rushed and it's certainly not an attention grabber.

Oh, the production and the beats are awesome. I love how smooth and retro (in the best possible way) their dance tracks sound, and 'secret' is no exception. I'm already looking forward to listening to this album again and again and again, especially in summer, baby :-) Oh, summer... Also here it seems that they quote Madonna a bit (also in the lyrics). Which, just in case you're not aware of it, is one of the best things you can possibly do on this planet, in my opinion.

Oh I love these beats.

'cambiare pagina' then finally is in Italian again. I have to say, I like when they sing English on this album, but hell, Italian is still so much better. This track is beautiful and cool and their voices... oh, I already said that I think.

'rumors' sounds modern and fresh, they took the next step - this sounds unusual for them. Again Madonna-esque, although I can't explain it (it might just always be Chiara's voice). This is great and different and creative. I could cry... they are so brave.

By the way, I have to add that I am in no way objective about Paola & Chiara - I just love them too much.

Electro pop takes you in its arms again with 'i can't forget'. What else can I say? They just do it right on this album for me, this is what I want and they do it so so well.. It's so cool, but still driven. Awesome beats. But I think I'm repeating myself.

I think at this point I cannot say that this is a music revolution or even that it exceeds my expectations in a new P&C record. It's more the happiness and even euphoria that they actually did what I expected and continued with the electro pop (which seems to be my new happiness in life anyway, see Róisín Murphy's newest record which I adore).

A dancefloor that is rocking but still safe enough to hold your drink - is that something that your music should be? I don't care, 'morphine' is just that, and it's fucking good.

My lord, I love the way this is done. And with 'tu sei il futuro' we get further prove that singing the whole album in Italian would have been even greater, seriously. They just sound so promising, so mystical and sexy in Italian. 'buona stella' comes to mind at this point, a song from "Television" that went into this direction. It doesn't matter, I cannot bring myself to write about their evolution as singers and songwriters, it doesn't make any damn difference. The only thing that's important is that 'tu sei il futuro' sounds cool as the night and has them singing awesome melody lines. This song is big love.

Oh hell hell, those great beats that bring us '99 %'. If I could marry beats they would certainly be among the top ten to choose from. I think you will easily find 20 people who will say that this album is nothing special, boring, that there are hundreds of artists who do the same and that their English lyrics stay on a certain level that usually doesn't add anything useful to your life. But these people just don't get them, they haven't tried to read their Italian interviews with a heavy dictionary on their knees, they didn't look at their posters for years and they can't just accept that cool electro pop doesn't have to be "innovative" to function.

The outro says that the "official" part of the album is over now... on to the bonuses and add-ons.

We start with 'i'll be over you/turn the page' that remixes what we heard before. It sounds like a remix and it's nice, but I'm not falling in love.

Totally Madonna on 'back to the future' (which is - duh - the English version of 'tu sei il futuro'). And yes, even if they'd sing it in Dutch, this song makes you fall to your knees and thank God for your ears (and your style because you find it cool, and your brain because you get it).

This album is, above all, cool and still driven. I don't understand how this combination is possible, but that's what this is. If you don't find anything else that excites you here, Paola & Chiara's voices certainly will.

Then 'cambiar de página' (yep, Spanish version) and we're still in love.

We leave the record with 'electro me (ana b'koach)', and yes, here we say "Kabbalah" again I'm sure. And the oh so smart people will tell me why Kabbalah is in a way like Scientology. And I will tell them to leave me the hell alone because, even though I personally don't care about the Kabbalah, it's spirituality and spirituality is a good thing. (Scientology is not spirituality, don't even get me started).

But since this is about music and nothing else here (and thank God cause who cares about Scientology, and why did I even mention it), I can just go back to track number 1 and finally be with Paola & Chiara again. You just don't know how you miss them until you get a taste again.


--Sapnish--, happy

Paola & Chiara - in viaggio (Ci Chiamano Bambine)
Tarkan - inci tanem (Tarkan)
Virgin Steele - we rule the night (Noble Savage)
Hypocrisy - unleash the beast (Into The Abyss)
Trivium - the rising (The Crusade)
Bon Jovi - save the world (Crush)
Catamenia - the era (Chaos Born)
Children Of Bodom - children of bodom (Hatebreeder)
Beherit - black arts (Drawing Down The Moon)
Léo Delibes - blanche dourqa, pâle siva! (Lakmé)
Sedativa - loud'n'everywhere (Forgotten Fun)
Catamenia - burning aura (Halls Of Frozen North)
Cubismo & Bolesna Braća - las grinas (Amigos)
Seamus Haji feat Kayjay - last night a dj saved my life (Kontor - House Of House Vol. 4)


Nice rock song by the "old" Paola & Chiara. As much as I loved them and still do, they've always had really silly album titles and still have (see "Win The Game"). But other than that, they rule. Beautiful ballad by Tarkan, and then Virgin Steele really rule the night with this one. Hypocrisy was also cool, Trivium I didn't quite understand, and Bon Jovi re-defined the word "kitsch". And it's a long song, believe me.

'the era' is an interlude (nice by the way), before Children Of Bodom rock today's Today. That's a damn great melody line, sir. Beherit, as expected, are a journey not only to, but into the moon that is pictured on the cover. A wonderfully old sounding recording of Lakmé follows (thanks Supul), and then a quite old Metal Hammer compilation gives me Sedativa, who sing a chorus that totally works, folks.

And then once more Catamenia, this time with a full track from their first album - typical and good. And now for something totally different: Cubismo & Bolesna Braća I think collaborate on this track to do some Croatian/Venezuelan shout-out at World Music (partly working). We end this session with my new love and desire, House music. Very nice production by Seamus Haji. "And if it wasn't for the music, I don't know what I'd do".


--Sapnish--

@Work with the Easter Bunny

Dark Age - The Silent Republic
Paradise Lost - In Requiem

the silent republic, had that in my Music folder at work and I quite like that album. Now that I have my old/new heaphones back, I had to listen to In Requiem again, just love that album from Paradise Lost.

Sacrifi-sir

The Gathering - alone (Home)
The Gathering - in motion #2 (Mandylion)
Hammerfall - crimson thunder (One Crimson Night)
Indira Radić - zmaj (Zmaj)
Janis Joplin - my baby (Absoute Janis)
Kataklysm - a view from inside (Victims of this Fallen World/Northern Hyperblast)
Killah Priest - time (Black August)
Killah Priest - my life (Priesthood)
Nile - ruins (In Their Darkened Shrines)
Nouvelle Vague - human fly (Bande à part)
Opeth - godhead's lament (Still Life)
Queen - fat bottomed girls (The Platinum Collection)
Thin Lizzy - chatting today (Shades Of Blues Orphange)
Thyrane - in the shape of a demon(Symphonies Of Infernality)

cool live record from Hammerfall with some Swedish intro to get the crowd into gear , well I hope it was Swedish. My beloved Indira with Zmaj, I can still remember the awesome concert as it was yesterday, oh please ... come to Vienna again this year. A really nice Black Metal song from Thyrane ends my Today today and with the partly sinister atmosphere that the song leaves in my ears I go to bed - yawn :).

Sacrifi-sir

Korn - y'all want a single (Take A Look In The Mirror)
Alfred Polansky - ensueño de jerez (Gran Reserva)
Michael Lloyd & Le Disc - trot the fox (More Dirty Dancing - Original Soundtrack)
Ensiferum - intro (Ensiferum)
Kamelot - elizabeth - part II - requiem for the innocent (Karma)
Connie Francis - my wild irish rose
Desaster - alliance to the powerthrone (Divine Blasphemies)
Cream - rollin' and tumblin' [live] (Gold - Live)
Devin Townsend - things beyond things (Ocean Machine - Biomech)
Crematory - angel of fate (Revolution)
Persuader - as you wish (The Hunter)
Vanitas - mein nasses grab [live] (Live im Atombunker)
Romana - nikad i zauvijek (Ne vjeruj mi)


The "strange" one from 20.3. That day WAS strange, so why shouldn't Today agree and be strange as well. I'm also having only 13 because I fell "victim" to the same un-tagged compilation as Sacrifi-sir. It's about time we find and tag it, since our Bosnian angel gave us quite some "raw" untagged stuff :-)


--Sapnish--

Wok. Äh, work.

Cradle Of Filth - Thornography
In Flames - Colony
Opeth - Ghost Reveries (very interesting album, but I had to stop half way through due to depression)
Stavros Xarhakos - Rembetiko (Original Soundtrack) (just amazing, incredibly intense. please see the movie.)

Cannibal Corpse - covered with sores (Butchered At Birth)
Enthroned - bloodline (Carnage in Worlds Beyond)
Louis Armstrong - c'est si bon (Golden Hits)
Nirvana - lounge act (Nevermind)
Opeth - the baying of the hounds (Ghost Reveries)
Paradise Lost - pity the sadness (Shades Of God)
Subway To Sally - die schlacht (Herzblut)
Aaliyah - i care 4 u (Aaliyah)
Into Eternity - spiraling into depression (Buried in Oblivion)
Mithotyn - as brothers now bonded (Meadow In Silence)
Ramones - teenage lobotomy (Anthology)
Vreid - pitch black (Pitch Black Brigade)
Dismember - europe burns (Rock Hard Dynamit 59)
God Dethroned - swallow the spikes (Ravenous)

11 ... yeah !!!

Sacrifi-sir & Sapnish

Arkona - po zverinyim tropam (Vozrozhdenie)
Candan Erçetin - zeytinyağlı yiyemem aman (Aman Doktor)
Daemonlord - wasteland 2035 (Hellfire Centuries)
Nevermore - believe in nothing (Dead Heard, in a Dead World)
Nightwish - nightquest (Oceanborn)
Nile - kheftiu asar butchiu (In Their Darkened Shrines)
Paradise Lost - take me down (One Second)
Samah - ma bakash yehmni (Arabesq 2)
Saxon - krakatoa (The Very Best of 1979-88)
System of a Down - streamline (Scorpion King OST)
Six Feet Under - in league with satan (Graveyard Classics)
Ska-P - planeta eskoria (Planeta Eskoria)
Twin Obscenity - revelations of glaaki (Where Light Touches None)
Virgin Steele - blaze of victory[the watchman's song] (The House of Atreus, Act I)

everything represented in Today, versatile mix again ... nightquest, take me down, kheftiu asar butchiu and planeta eskoria giving the spice in today's 14 course musical menu, in league with satan the dish that you hide in your napkin after trying it for a bit and blaze of victory as dessert rounding up the menu

Sacrifi-sir

4 minutes

Madonna's new single, finally - how is it?

It's good. It's not revolutionary, and maybe, yes, maybe you expected even more of a collaboration including these names - Madonna, Timberlake, Timbaland: it's a promise of creativity and success.

And it is all that, and it is good. The beats are usual Timbaland style which means that they are great, they rule all, and they are very distinctive. Timberlake is nice, Madonna's vocals are nice. The verse is really cool, I think however that the chorus is a little weak. Timberlake's lines have already been sung by Michael Jackson 20 years ago. A good chorus is sooo important and they didn't make it. Maybe Madonna should give Soilwork a call for her next album.

Having said that, she's the Queen of Pop, and the Goddess, and the Holy Mother of Music. I can't wait until the album's out.


--Sapnish--

Judas Priest - leather rebel (Painkiller)
Morgenstern - es (Feuertaufe)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - fra gli amplessi (Così fan tutte)
Raise Hell - holy target (Holy Target)
Stratovarius - the kiss of judas (Visions)
Voivod - tornado (Killing Technology)
Ancient Wisdom - postludium-his creation reversed (...And The Physical Shape Of Light Bled)
ABBA - i saw it in the mirror (Ring Ring)
In Flames - touch of red (Soundtrack To Your Escape)
Judas Priest - the green manalishi [with the two-pronged crown] [live] ('98 Live Meltdown)
Evergrey - nosferatu [live] (A Night To Remember)
W.A.S.P. - i wanna be somebody [live] (Live...In The Raw)
Celtic Frost - danse macabre (Morbid Tales)
Donovan - mellow yellow


This time I really just started Today, then left the PC to be able to just close my eyes, listen and maybe guess a couple of artists correctly.

The ones I got right: Priest (twice), Morgenstern, Mozart, Raise Hell, Stratovarius, Voivod, ABBA, W.A.S.P.

Faves were leather rebel, holy target, and the kiss of judas. Creepy was the Celtic Frost "interlude" thingy - creepy in any possible way you can imagine. Also featured were one of the weakest ABBA tracks, Donovan's ear glue mellow yellow and quite useless plink-plonk by Ancient Wisdom.


--Sapnish--

Alfred Polansky - ensueño de jerez (Gran Reserva)
Children of Bodom - black widow (Hatebreeder)
Elton Johbn - old friend (Duets)
Equilibrium - heimdalls ruf (Turis Fratyr)
Iced Earth - the suffering: a question of heaven (The Dark Saga)
Judas Priest - battle hymn (Painkiller)
Judas Priest - diamonds and rust [live](Unleashed in the East)
Machine Head - imperium (Through The Ashes of Empires)
Manowar - spirit horse of the cherokee [live] (Hell On Wheels - Live)
Metallica - my friend of misery (Metallica)
Mike Oldfield - red dawn (Tubular Bells II)
System Of A Down - sad statue (Mezmerize)
Thin Lizzy - do anything you want to (Black Rose)

was a long weekend, just a lil dose of my daily drug Today, diamonds and rust was the definately the precious jewel among the songs today :). with do anything you want to Ill drift to the land of dreams ... good night Today

Sacrifi-sir

Metal Hammer, Vol. 125

I also listened to the latest Metal Hammer compilation today..

Dark Age - outside the inside
Quite nice, will give it another listen

Avantasia - shelter from the rain
Schlager Metal. Not bad :-) but Schlager Metal...

Draconian - seasons apart
I still like them a lot. Lisa Johansson sings very clear vocals (even a bit TOO clear if I'm picky), and Anders Jacobsson does some fabulous grunts. Good band.

Eluveitie - inis mona
Nice and well done, but I also have to say that this doesn't sound any different to me than the other billion songs from that genre

Legion Of The Damned - slaughtering the pigs
Just great

Death Angel - sonic beatdown
The first thing that comes to mind is the weird, one might say crappy, sound. The second thing that comes to mind is that this is weird. Acoustic beatdown indeed.

Dark Fortress - edge of night
Cool. More!

Atrocity - the sun always shines on tv
a-ha cover from "Werk 80 II". Gruesome vocals, I HATE German accents. I have to say I like cover versions (even whole cover albums) and I still like the idea and what Atrocity are trying to do here. But this blows. And hurts.

Norther - we rock
First of all: a little silly, this song title... This song had a couple of men shouting something in the background and the track length was 3:57.

Mourning Caress - nothing is lost
The vocals are exhausting, really. If the morning would caress me like that I'd be in big trouble.

Lost Dreams - i curse you
4 seconds in and it's clear: Melodic Death Metal. How exciting ;-) Wasn't bad

Made Of Hate - bullet in your head
They sound funny - quite rock, but in a way Melodic Death Metal. But then again, it's Heavy Metal with harsh vocals. All in all too upbeat for me today.


--Sapnish--

Tristania - aphelion (Beyond The Veil)
Megadeth - addicted to chaos (Youthanasia)
Finntroll - ur djupet (Ur Jordens Djup)
Connie Francis - romantica
Ceca - dragane moj (Decenija)
Sirenia - in my darkest hours (An Elixir For Existence)
L'Âme Immortelle - life will never be the same again (Dann habe ich umsonst gelebt)
Mortal Love - all the beauty (All The Beauty...)
Johnny Cash - come in stranger (This Is Gold)
Amr Diab - ba'ed el layali (Aktar Wahed)
Impaled Nazarene - i eat pussy for breakfast (Latex Cult)
Tristania - midwintertears (Tristania)
Candlemass - dark are the veils of death (Nightfall)
Howard Shore - the riders of rohan (The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (Original Soundtrack))


I hate to concentrate on the negative, but: L'Âme Immortelle... "Dann habe ich umsonst gelebt", I can't judge that. But this song was definitely of no earthly use and "umsonst" recorded.

Other than that: music music music music music. Today = Love.


--Sapnish--

@Work II

Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Paradise Lost - Symbol Of Life
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Dragana Mirkovic - Trag u vremenu

great Emperor albums, gave me to power to endure the day :). Symbol of Life, I have absolutely no clue why I only gave 4 stars on RYM, I had to change that immediately to 5 after listening to songs like Isolate, Erased, Mistify ... erm every song is great. Some Folk in the end to chill and wait for the work day to end ...

Sacrifi-sir

The Impossibility Of Reason

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ibQtF9E1wk)

I don't know - I was listening to Hande Yener's great "Nasıl Delirdim", and for the first time (well, not really, that's a lie) I've questioned my ability of doing reasonable ratings on RYM. Because: This is a great album, and even greater - if you think about it - knowing what Hande Yener did before the release of this album (and here I have to say that the predecessors were great as well). Those albums were awesome Turkish pop, but ""Nasıl" is an electronic dance album with (and I say that having no insight on electronic music whatsoever) cool beats and also, oldfashioned beats (that I LOVE).

So, it's great. And I gave it 4 stars when I rated it a couple of months ago. And I think that 4 stars sort of 'feels' right, but then again, it's too good to only have 4 stars. Or is it? Is it 4 or 4.5?

If you know the answer to this very important question, please mail to unholy.winter@gmail.com and save me in my time of need.

(I kept the rating for now - 4 stars. But I don't know if that's the right thing to do).

***

Additionally, I found out that not just one, but BOTH of the Take That tracks I actually like are covers! BOTH OF THEM! 'relight my fire', as we knew, is by Dan Hartman, and 'could it be magic' is by Barry Manilow! Now, I didn't know that... I heard it tonight on Donna Summer's "Anthology" album, and thought it would be originally hers, but coverinfo told me that the original is by Featherbed (which apparently was an alias of Manilow). Donna Summer and another thousand people covered this song, and that's not the end of it: it features a citation (I don't even know if you can use that for music, my English knowledge ends here) of Chopin's 'prelude in c minor'... well, I'm totally out of breath now and can say that - again - I learned something new about music, which is so much more important than having a vast knowledge of Austria's history and topography. But that's just my personal opinion.


--Sapnish--

@Work I

Manowar - Gods of War
Hande Yener - Apayri
Iron Maiden - Powerslave

can only repeat myself, but Gods of War is a piece of music art, was fun to listen to it while the sun was shining outside and the work - "Games" raining inside ;-)

Sacrifi-sir

Nigel Kennedy and the Kroke Band - kukush (East Meets East)
Nirvana - stay away (Nevermind)
Amon Amarth - burning creation (Sorrow Throughout The Nine Worlds)
Apocalyptica - fade to black (Inquisition Symphony)
Machine Head - devil with the king's card (The Burning Red)
Finntroll - kyrkovisan (Jaktens Tid)
Noir Désir - des visages des figures (Des Visages des Figures)
Thyrfing - ...ty mörkret skall falla (Hednaland)
Bob Marley - back out (Reggae Hits Vol. 1)
Joan Baez - farewell, angelina [live] (Live In Europe '83: Children Of The Eighties)
Yo La Tengo - i should have known better (I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass)
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra - music for a found harmonium (Café del Mar - The Best Of)
Mystic Prophecy - sacrifice me (Satanic Curses)
Antonio Vivaldi - I allegro [assai] (Concerto per violino, archi e cembalo "del ritico" Es-Dur RV 256)


Folk - Grunge - Death Metal - Classical - Thrash/New Metal - Folk Metal - Rock - Viking Metal - Reggae - Folk - Indie Rock - Neoclassical - Heavy Metal - Classical

Damn good mix today :-) Especially 'kukush' was a blast, fun playlist. Thank you kindly, wise Today.


--MightySapnish--

Arkona - gnev vremen (Vo Slavu Velikim)
Chuck Berry - roll over beethoven (The Best of Chuck Berry)
Death - killing spree (Spiritual Healing)
Despina Vandi - thimisou (Come Along Now)
Gustav Mahler - von der jugend (Das Lied von der Erde)
Hypocrisy - apocalypse (The Fourth Dimension)
Iron Maiden - the trooper (Edward the Great)
Kemal Mentono - to je drugo lice ljubavi (Denje i kolači)
Mike Oldfield - family man (Elements)
Neuosis - under the surface (Time Of Grace)
Simon & Garfunkel - wednesday morning, 3am (Greatest Hits)
Therion - enter vril-ya (Live in Midgård)
Thin Lizzy - diddy levine (Thin Lizzy)

Death with killing spree was trembling the walls when I was listening to it this morning, well might be the contruction work right below my window too ;). Big Sorry to Iron Maiden ... the troopper was completely wrong tagged in MM3, that looked kinda odd. As you can see there are only 13 songs in the list today, as the last one is from a compilation where Im missing the song title - (Track 12, Trubaci, Guca).

Pagan/Folk Metal - Rock - Death Metal - Pop - Classical - Death Metal - Heavy Metal - Pop - New Age - Hardcore - Pop - Symphonic Metal - Rock

Sacrifi-sir

Aaliyah - rock the boat (I Care 4 U)
Antonio Carlos Jobim - children's games (Stone Flower)
Emperor - funeral fog (Scattered Ashes: A Decade Of Emperial Wrath)
Enthroned - the horny and the horned (Carnage In Worlds Beyond)
Eric Serra - the fight [part 4: one is alive] (Léon OST)
Gigi d'Agostino - bla bla bla [dark mix] (L'Amours Toujours)
Osman Hadžić - dugo nisi bila tu (Zbog ljubavi)
Pat Boone - the wind cries mary (In A Metal Mood)
Sepultura - human cause (Nation)
Stratovarius - anthem of the world (Destiny)
Testament - nobody's fault (The New Order)
Tom Jones - help yourself (The Best Of... Tom Jones)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - come mai creder deggio... dalla sua pace (Don Giovanni)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - andante (Hornkonzert Nr. 2 in Es-Dur (KV 417))


Sacrifi-sir & Sapnish

Atheist - green (Elements)
Buddha Monk - dedicated (The Prophecy)
David Bowie - rebel rebel (Charlie's Angel OST)
Fanny Ardant - a quioi sert de vivre libre (8 Femmes OST)
Grand Magus - generator (Grand Magus)
Iron Maiden - fear of the dark (Live At Donington 1992)
Iron Maiden - blood on the world's hand (The X Factor)
Killah Priest - if i die (View From Masada)
Naglfar - force of the pandemonium (Sheol)
Sepultura - lookaway (Roots)
Thin Lizzy - the rocker (Live & Dangerous)
Tom Jones - green, green, grass of home (The Best Of ... Tom Jones)
Tristania - lost (World of Glass)
Type 0 Negative - haunted (Life Is Killing Me)

Death Metal - Hip Hop - Soundtrack - Soundtrack - Doom Metal - (extraordinary) Heavy Metal - Heavy Metal - Hip Hop - Black/Death Metal - Thrash Metal - Rock - Tom Jones - Gothic Rock - Doom/Gothic Metal

Sacrifi-sir

The Corrs - radio [live] (The Corrs Unplugged)
Anni-Frid Lyngstad - en gång är ingen gång (Frida 1967-1972)
Raise Hell - no pulse (Not Dead Yet)
Ilham Al Madfai - khuttar (The Best Arabian Album In The World... Ever!)
Đogani - sama (Dok Ja Ljubim)
Nevermore - insignificant (Dead Heart In A Dead World)
Cryonic Temple - thunder and lightning (Blood, Guts & Glory)
Kenan Doğulu - baş harfi ben (Festival)
Norther - the last night (Dreams Of Endless War)
Mike Oldfield - to be free (Mystera Vol. 9)
Sonic Reign - reminiscence of imperial wrath (Raw Dark Pure)
Massive Attack - unfinished sympathy (Blue Lines)
As I Lay Dying - forever (Frail Words Collapse)
Cans - dreams (Beyond The Gates)


--MightySapnish--

Bruce Dickinson - taking the queen (Accident Of Birth)
Marduk - summers end (La Grande Danse Macabre)
Megadeth - blood of heroes (Youthanasia)
Howard Shore - the passage of the marshes (The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, Original Soundtrack)
Thyrane - travesty of heavenly essence (Travesty Of Heavenly Essence)
Kubilay Bas - güle güle
Boney M - daddy cool [remix] (20th Century Hits)
Kreator - pleasure to kill [live] (Live Kreation)
Nirvana - come as you are [live] (Unplugged In New York)
Ride The Sky - endless (New Protection)
Venom - countess bathory (Black Metal)
2 Unlimited - no one (Hits Unlimited)
Jag Panzer - eyes of the night (Ample Destruction)
Trent Reznor - it is raped (Quake Original Soundtrack)


yay: Bruce Dickinson, Megadeth, Kubilay Bas, Venom
nay: Kreator (noise)
surprise: Jag Panzer
kvlt: 2 Unlimited

Kubilay Bas participated in Austria's preliminaries for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002 with this song. I only have a low quality radio rip, but I remember seeing this show on TV, and this was definitely the song I wanted to win (and marry). Great Turkish pop - this is just where I belong. Needless to say, Bas didn't win. Manuel Ortega and 'say a word' were sent to Tallinn to represent Austria. Well, we all know how that ended...

"Counteeeeeess Baaathoryyyyy!"


--MightySapnish--

Alanis Morissette - you oughta know (Jagged Little Pill)
Kreator - realitätskontrolle (Renewal)
Arch Enemy - we will rise [live] (Dead Eyes See No Future)
At The Gates - the architects (With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness)
Katatonia - without god (Dance Of December Souls)
Impaled Nazarene - soul rape (Death Comes In 26 Carefully Selected Pieces)
50 Cent feat Mobb Deep - outta control
Thyrfing - solen svartnar, part I (Hednaland)
Richard Strauss - ich hab' ihn nicht einmal geküßt (Der Rosenkavalier)
Manowar - overture to odin (Gods Of War)
Vintersorg - till fjälls (Till Fjälls)
Entombed - sinners bleed (Clandestine)
Belphegor - necrodaemon terrorsathan (Necrodaemon Terrorsathan)
Tierra Santa - tu misión (Apocalipsis)


Rock - Thrash Metal - Death Metal - Death Metal - Gothic/Death Metal - Black Metal/Punk - Hip-Hop - Viking Metal - Opera - Heavy Metal - Folk Metal - Death Metal - Black/Death Metal - Heavy Metal


--MightySapnish--

A-ha - dragonfly (Lifelines)
Beherit - thou angel of the gods (Drawing down the Moon)
Bolt Thrower - honour (Honour Valour Pride)
Dom Oman - angelito (Kings of Kings)
Ensiferum - battle song (Ensiferum)
Hande Yener - kurtar beni (Nasil Delirdim)
Hawkwind - orgone accumulator (Space Ritual)
Mystic Circle - king of the nibelungenhord (Drachenblut)
Napalm Death - strading purposely backward (The Code Is Red ... Long Live The Code)
The Offspring - bad habit (Smash)
Richard Wagner - steuermann, lass die wacht (Wagner I)
Thin Lizzy - Rosalle (BBC Broadcast 1972-77)
Tristania - cure (Ashes)

I can still feel "Guitar Hero" in my wrists, that was fun ... luckily I dont have to earn my money being a musician ;). Sorry back to Today which presents me with a fine mix again ...

yeah ! - Bolt Thrower, Thin Lizzy
aye nice - Hande Yener, Mystic Circle
interesting - Hawkwind, psychedelic, loooong ending though
erm ... - beherit, hmm dont understand it

Pop - Black Metal - Death Metal - Reggaeton - Viking/Folk Metal - Pop - Space Rock - Black Metal - Death Metal - Punk Rock - Opera - Rock - Gothic Metal

Sacrifi-sir

Colonia - oci boje meda (Dolazi Oluja)
Dark Fortress - immortality profound - throne of sombre thoughts, chapter 2 (Tales From Eternal Dusk)
Indira Radić - vatromet (Zmaj)
Judas Priest - heavy dute/defenders of the faith (Defenders of the Faith)
Metallica - leper messiah (Master of Puppets)
Mystic Circle - hate (The Great Beast)
Rob Zombie - perversion 99 (Hellbilly Deluxe)
The Rolling Stones - dandelion (More Hot Rocks)
Sacred Steel - sword of the king (Reborn In Steel)
Satyricon - trascendental requiem of slaves (Nemesis Divina)
Therion - master of cain (Crowning of Atlantis)
Vreid - raped by light (Kraft)
Zarathustra - cosmic black (Perpetual Black Force)

quite some time that I heard something from Rob Zombie and then its the instrumental song on this album, well not so unhappy about it
another instrumental song, from Satyricon though, not bad but I think I have to hear em singing another song later

well what shall I say, Colonia and Indira in one list, Today <3

Techno - Melodic Black Metal - Turbo Folk - Heavy Metal - Thrash Metal - Melodic Black Metal - Industrial - Rock - Heavy Metal - Black Metal - Symphonic Metal - Black Metal - Black Metal

Sacrifi-sir

Mayhem - a grand declaration of war (Grand Declaration Of War)
Nigel Kennedy and the Kroke Band - ajde jano (East Meets East)
Darkthrone - hans siste vinter (Panzerfaust)
Tristania - hatred grows (World Of Glass)
[CD from Tunisia - all arabic - no idea] (Stars Hits Mix)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - menuetto - allegretto (Eine kleine Nachtmusik KV 525)
Laura Pausini - resta in ascolto
Connie Francis - so long, good bye
Dimension Zero - the introduction to what this is (This Is Hell)
Vasilis Papakonstantinou & George Dalaras - s' akoloutho (Sto Attikon - live me Dalaras)
Randy Newman - i'll be home (Little Criminals)
Pigface - suck (Gub)
Antonio Vivaldi - primavera - danza pastorale: allegro (Le Quattro Stagioni)
Dragana Mirković - zašto zoro svanjavaš (Trag u vremenu)


Noteworthy: Nigel Kennedy's interpretation of the Serbian folk song 'ajde jano' and the piece from Vivaldi's Quattro Stagioni (amazing amazing amazing)

Not noteworthy: Pigface. What was that?

In related news, I have to learn Arabic.

Black Metal - Folk - Black Metal - Gothic Metal - Arabic Pop - Classical - Pop - Oldies - Metal - Rock - Pop - Industrial - Classical - Turbo Folk


--MightySapnish--

Mary Mary - wade in the water (Thankful)
Mango - i giochi del vento sul lago salato
Stakka Bo - here we go
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - follow the calls of battle (Follow The Calls Of Battle)
Eddie Kendricks - girl you need a change of mind (Mojo Club Dancefloor Jazz Vol. 10)
Helloween - a little time (Keeper Of The Seven Keys, Part I)
Carpathian Forest - call from the grave (Bloodlust And Perversion)
Carcass - symposium of sickness (Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious)
Almora - rainbow (Shehrâzad)
The Kovenant - stillborn universe (SETI)
HIM - the path [p.s. version] (Uneasy Listening Vo. 1)
Zarah Leander - kinostar (Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein)
Cannibal Corpse - every bone broken (Gallery Of Suicide)
Ride The Sky - make the spirit burn (New Protection)


Gospel/R&B - Italo Pop - Pop - Black Metal - Soul - Heavy Metal - Black Metal - Death Metal - Heavy Metal - Industrial Metal - Gothic Rock - Schlager - Death Metal - Heavy Metal


A crossfade from Zarah Leander to Cannibal Corpse - I'm home and I'll stay forever.
Funny that it's the same CC song my Sacrifi-sir had a couple of days ago :-) Oh Today, you indeterminable genius.


--MightySapnish--

Aaliyah - rock the boat (I care 4 U)
Bolt Thrower - Return From Chaos (Mercenary)
Candlemass - Arx-Ng (From The 13th Sun)
Dio - dream evil (Dream Evil)
Iced Earth - dark saga (Alive in Athens)
John Lennon - borrowed time (Lennon Legend)
Korn - make me bad (Issues)
Lacuna Coil - reverie (In A Reverie)
Massimo - gdja ja ljubav ? (Vještina)
Paradise Lost - falling forever (Gothic)
Secrets of the Moon - nemesis (Stronghold of the Inviolables)
Sejo Kalač - bogata sirotice
Solitude Aeternus - shame on the night (Holy Dio)
Tori Amos - precious things (Little Earthquakes)

Sacrifi-sir & Sapnish

Stratovarius - anthem of the world (Destiny)
Haggard - chapter I: heavenly damnation (Awaking The Centuries)
Abigor - satan in me (Supreme Immortal Art)
Marduk - seven angels, seven trumpets (Plague Angel)
Edguy - falling down (Theater Of Salvation)
Dark Princess - the pyre's song (Stop My Heart)
Slayer - aggressive perfector (Reign In Blood)
Gregorian - child in time (Mystera Vol. 9)
3 Inches Of Blood - isle of eternal despair [upon the boiling sea III] (Advance And Vanquish)
Thin Lizzy - the rocker [live] (Live And Dangerous)
Allen/Lande - under the waves (The Revenge)
Burden Of Grief - stigmata (On Darker Trails)
Nile - papyrus containing the spell to preserve its possessor against attacks from he who is in the water (Ithyphallic)
Paul & Paula - hey paula


Right at the end Today smuggled in a love song after all - very funny, Today....


--MightySapnish--

Bow Crewe & Charles Fox - dead duck (Barbarella OST)
Bruce Springsteen - the river (Live/1975-85)
Cannibal Corpse - every bone broken (Gallery of Suicide)
Celtic Frost - morbid tales (Morbid Tales)
Howard Shore feat. Enya - the council of elrond (Lord of the Rings OST)
Korn - play me (Take a Look in the Mirror)
Kotipelto - can you hear the sound (Coldness)
Paradise Lost - mistify (Symbol of Life)
Pink Floyd - high hopes (The Division Bell)
Ska-P - derecho de admisión (Planeta Eskoria)
Soilwork - the mindmaker (Figure Number Five)
Therion - grande finale/postludium (Theli)
Watain - the serpent's chalice (Sworn to the Dark)
Wolfang Amadeus Mozart - non son cattivo comico, va bene (Casí fan tutte)

was enjoying Today's creation with a big cup of tea, while rain or at least heavy storm was shaking my windows. Barbarella again, had that yesterday as well (the labyrinth), think Today wants me to watch that movie again :), the rest was a good mix

unreachable classic - Rock - Death/Gore - Power/Death - OST - New Metal - Power - Gothic Metal - Rock - Ska - - Symphonic Metal - Black - Opera

Sacrifi-sir