Time And Again with the Swedish Metal Group – Corroded. Don’t miss this one! Great Swedish Heavy Metal!
Best wishes for Wednesday.
Sorry for the two day glitch in the “7 tracks in 7 days”-project
7 tracks in 7 seven days – Calvin Harris, Ayah Marar – Thinking About You
A great relaxed slow tune by John Mayer, feat Katy Perry – Who You Love.
For the next seven days I will post a new track. The genre will differ, so I hope that you’ll find some great new tunes that will suit your own taste as well.
Recently I’ve started to create Spotify-lists according to the days of the week. This morning I’ve put together some tracks that I think suits perfect for an autumn Saturday morning.
I think most of these tracks would suit perfect as movie soundtracks, with a typical atmosphere in each one of them
I hope you enjoy.
Best wishes for the weekend
If you like Frank Oceans “Strawberry Swing”, then I guess you’ll like this one as well. Awesome track that keep’s getting better for every time.
If you haven’t seen Journey’s place in best albums of all times – Best Album Of All Times
Great documentary, of a great group. So many aspects of life are handled here; Success, sorrow, love, family, meeting “Kenny”, feeling apart of something and so on. Maybe the best music of all times. Don’t miss out on this one.
An oldie from the 90:s with influences from Bruce Hornsby (don’t miss the piano solo section). The sound quality isn’t the best (guess it’s translated from an LP).
Still a great song!
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I’ve always loved these type of stories / videos of people who put their fears, struggles and differences away, and just goes for it.
This is absolutely one of those. Truly inspirational!
In the last episode of Breaking Bad there was music playing in the background for quite some time. Could you figure it out?
For those of you who know Journey, you may also know Steve Perry, the vocalist. The song that were playing was from his solo album “Street Talk (1084) “Oh Sherrie”. Since Journey had a quite huge hit with “Don’t stop believn'”, this could might as well be a new hit due to such great exposure in Breaking Bad.
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See also: Music From Breaking Bad, Episode 16
Best wishes for the weekend
This is a story (as Heroin Diaries by Sixx A.M) that’s 16 minutes and 36 seconds long. It’s a story of a kid, that grew up, and all through life just had one wish, to be loved by his closest.
I guess this story isn’t that strange, and uncommon. Still it is a thoughtful story by W.A.S.P. For all music fans; even if you know the history of Blackie Lawless, he and Nikki Sixx used to play in the same band, “London”. As one of my friends said; this may be the inspiration for Nikki Sixx to share his inner thoughts in Heroin Diaries?
Don’t miss out on this piece of music history. Thank you J for the tip!
Lenny Kravitz overheard some music from The Voice of Praise Choir (First Baptist Church in Lewisville) and desired to crash in.
Today I came across another of those “romantic stories”, and since I recently published another of those stories I thought that I could post this as well.
I hope you enjoy it
Here in Stockholm it has been an amazing August day. Blue skies, people everywhere and it almost feels like the summer is still here.
What I enjoy with Sweden, and Swedes is that we almost never miss out on an opportunity to have a great day / evening when the sun is shining.
Back at home I started – as always – to listen to some music, and this awesome track started playing in my speakers. What a great autumn song!
Best wishes for a great “lill-lördag” tomorrow
This “Best Album Of All Times” needed an Index since it will be kept as a separate category. After some thoughts I also rearranged some albums to my final list, so here’s the final list updated with both initial and final positions.
If you click on the link you’ll be redirected to each review.
| Place | Artist | Album name | Position after some thoughts |
| 1 | Journey | Raised on Radio | 1 |
| 2 | Keane | Hopes and fears | 2 |
| 3 | Toto | Fahrenheit | 4 |
| 4 | Sixx A-M | Heroin Diaries | 3 |
| 5 | Hoobastank | The Reason | 5 |
| 6 | Jellyfish | Bellybutton | 7 |
| 7 | U2 | Joshua Tree | 6 |
| 8 | Babyface | Unplugged NYC 1997 | 8 |
| 9 | Phenomena | Phenomena I | 9 |
| 10 | Sara Isaksson | Red Eden | 11 |
| 11 | AC/DC | Back in black | 10 |
| 12 | Michael Jackson | Bad | 13 |
| 13 | Blacknuss | Gold | 14 |
| 14 | Mötley Crüe | Shout at the devil | 16 |
| 15 | Coldplay | Viva La Vida or Death and all his friends | 12 |
| 16 | Gary Moore? | Wild Frontier | 17 |
| 17 | Stephen simmonds | For Father | 18 |
| 18 | Ratt | Out of the cellar | 19 |
| 19 | Aldo Nova | Twitch | 20 |
| 20 | Rage Against The Machine | Rage Against The Machine | 21 |
| 21 | Dire Straits | On Every Street | 22 |
| 22 | The Fray | The Fray | 23 |
| 23 | Metallica | Metallica | 24 |
| 24 | Adele | 21 | 25 |
| 25 | Top Gun | Motion Picture Soundtrack | 26 |
| 26 | David Foster | David Foster | 27 |
| 27 | Nirvana | Nevermind | 28 |
| 28 | Peter Gabriel | So | 15 |
| 29 | Abba | The Album | 29 |
| 30 | Robert Plant / Alison Krauss | Raising sand | 30 |
| 31 | Johnny Hates Jazz | Turn Back the Clock | 31 |
| 32 | Bruce Hornsby | The Way It Is | 32 |
| 33 | Level 42 | Running in the family | 33 |
| 34 | Chicago | Chicago 17 | 34 |
| 35 | Marc Cohn | Marc Cohn | 35 |
| 36 | Richard Marx | Richard Marx | 36 |
| 37 | Guns n roses | Greatest Hits | 37 |
| 38 | Europé | Wings of tomorrow | 38 |
| 39 | Saga | Wildest Dreams | 39 |
| 40 | Tommy Nilsson | Follow the road | 40 |
Yesterday I got this tip from a close friend, to listen to Frank Oceans version of Coldplay’s Strawberry Swing. If you followed my little project during summer, Best Album Of All Times, this song was on the “number 15”-album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
I hope you enjoy Frank Oceans version as much as I do. Awesome!!
Say hello, then say farewell to the places you know
We are all mortals, aren’t we? Any moment this could go
Cry, cry, cry, even though that won’t change a thing
But you should know, you should hear, that I have loved
I have loved the good times here, and I will miss our good times
I’ve totally missed this project before. One song, musicians and singers from all over the world. Great project!
http://playingforchange.com – From the award-winning documentary, “Playing For Change: Peace Through Music”, comes the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled the globe.
This is an album that have followed me ever since it was released back in 1986. The album was supposed to be called Freedom, but the title later changed to Raised On Radio. Some of the line-up were changed from the previous album, Escape, due to some internal disturbances.
Following their two most successful albums, lead singer Steve Perry began to take more control over the band’s direction. First, Ross Valory and Steve Smith were fired from the band, against the wishes of manager Herbie Herbert. The two were replaced by various studio musicians for the recording of Raised on Radio, including Randy Jackson (bass guitar) and Larrie Londin (drums). Smith did record three tracks with Journey on the album, and he and Valory still received revenues from the record and subsequent tour.
If you recognize one name from American Idol, you’re right; Randy Jackson, on bass.
Band members
Additional musicians
Source: Wikipedia
In 2009 the group had a major hit with the formerly released “Don’t Stop Belivin‘” (from the Escape-album) which became the ever most sold track on iTunes in 2009. Many people argue that Escape is a better album, but I can’t see that. Raised On Radio is as perfect as it get’s.
So, the album? Well what can I say? This is music at it’s very very best, and in my mind there is actually no downsides. Every single track, except the title track, is a five-star track in my mind. Just listen to the guitars, the vocals of Steve Perry which definitely is one of the world’s best vocals, the piano, the rhythm.
All the “time stamps” are based on the time in Spotify which may affect the YouTube-times slightly.
***** Girl Can’t Help It: The piano starts of slowly, and soon the guitar kicks in before we hear the first words from Steve Perry. Relaxed and controlled.. Don’t miss the bass line that’s so solid. The guitar break after 2:57 is so good, and listen to the final seconds.
***** Positive Touch: Bass, and a rhythmic guitar accompanied by a piano that follows the guitar. Listen to the guitar at 1:00, and 1:11 together with the solo at 1:50! The background vocals are also so good all the way through. The saxophone, guitar and vocals that are “answering” each other after 3:02 is another delicacy.
***** Suzanne: A bass and keyboard intro before “I see your face at the movies”. Listen to the bass line, and the articulated “Suzanne”! The solo after 2:00. Full of energy.
***** Be Good To Yourself: The track that you should play before going on vacation, need a break or just some positive words. The track starts of with a keyboard-intro, then a great solid verse before the amazing chorus at 0:40. Don’t miss the guitar in the background, and the backing vocals!
***** Once You Love Somebody: Just listen to that cooperation between guitar, bass, vocals!! Brutal! After 45 seconds the bridge to the chorus. The little delicacy with guitar at 1:28!
***** Happy To Give: This is a singing lesson of Steve Perry. “I was born a believer, played the fool, lonely dreamer left to choose”. Listen to the vocals after approximately 3 minutes together with the keyboard!
**** Raised On Radio: An amazing track, but the least good one in my opinion. Really like the guitar handling, and the “blues-ish” sound.
***** I’ll Be Allright Without You: A little slower track, but oh, this is soo good. The keyboard after 0:38, the guitar intro, the backing vocals “It’s all because of you” “Try not to think of you”. Just listen to it!
***** It Could Have Been You: Almost tired of writing how amazing this album is. There isn’t a single second that’s amazing. In this track. Just listen to the guitar after 1:49, and the break at 2:10! Then “Where are you…. ” BAAM “Now”! Guitar solo with the incredible bass line.
Time washes over, memories
I can’t look back no more
Change has forsaken, our promises
There’s someone else for you to hold again
***** The Eyes Of A Woman: Once again we’re all going into singing class in with our class teacher Steve Perry.
***** Why Can’t This Night Go On Forever. Romantic. Subtle. A song for a wedding? OMG! This is brutal! The atmosphere, the performance from the musicians. One of the most “perfect” songs ever?
Lost in twilight, the memories
Precious moments, you and me
We’ve been old friends, all through the years
Picture postcards, sharing tears
What’s in our hearts, there’s never time, to say
Need you tonight, lover don’t fade away
I’ve seen your city lights
As I walk away
Why can’t this night…go on forever
Some other tracks from other albums:
Open Arms, originally made for “The Babys” and John Waite, but released by Journey
Separate Ways
Before we enter the top-2… short summary of the tracks on places 40 – 2 (with links to albums available on Spotify):
3 Toto – The Seventh One
4 Sixx A.M – Heroin Diaries
5 Hoobastank – The Reason
6 Jellyfish – Bellybutton
7 U2 – Joshua Tree
8 Babyface – Unplugged NYC 1997
9 Phenomena – Phenomena I
10 Sara Isaksson – Red Eden
11 AC/DC – Back In Black
12 Michael Jackson – Bad
13 Blacknuss – Gold
14 Mötley Crüe – Shout at the Devil
15 Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death and all his friends
16 Gary Moore – Wild Frontier
17 Stephen Simmonds – For Father
18 Ratt – Out Of The Cellar
19 Aldo Nova – Twitch
20 Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Machine
21 Dire Straits – On every street (Special mention Brothers in arms)
22 The Fray – The Fray
23 Metallica – Metallica
24 Adele – 21
25 Top Gun – Motion Picture Soundtrack
26 David Foster
27 Nirvana – Nevermind
28 Peter Gabriel – So
29 Abba – The Album
30 Robert Plant / Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
31 Johnny Hates Jazz – Turn Back The Clock
32 Bruce Hornsby – The Way It is
33 Level 42 – Running in the family
34 Chicago – Chicago 17
35 Marc Cohn – Marc Cohn
36 Richard Marx – Richard Marx
37 Gun’s n Roses – Apetite for Destruction
38 Europe – Wings of Tomorrow
39 Saga – Wildest Dreams
40 Elvis Presley – G.I Blues
When I was in my late teenage years, and I guess until I was 30, there wasn’t so much more music than Hardrock, Heavy Metal and Westcoast. I knew most of the bands, the musicians (which at least in the westcoast-genre many times are the same on many records with different artists).
Toto, has always been a group with amazing musicians. The guy/woman at vocals have changed over the years, but somehow they’ve always maintained a great standard, but they have never been a “band of the critics” (at least in Sweden), and I guess that’s partly due to the lack of “deepness”, but on the other hand, if you like technical stuff like amazing guitar solos, great bass play, amazing percussions/drums, keyboards and so on; Toto surely delivers always.
The line-up for this album:
So, why the album Seventh One? I like almost all songs on all albums, so it wasn’t an easy choice. After my first cut, where I left out the albums that I thought had 1 or 2-star tracks, I had to choose from the albums:
At first I picked Fahrenheit as the best of those four, but after a number of listenings I think The Seventh One must be the final pic. The average for all tracks are the best, in my opinion.
***** Pamela; with that amazing soft beginning, and the sudden “AHHHH” after 20 seconds. “Side by side”.. together with the rhythm section. The keyboard at 1:03, followed by the guitar afterwards. Nice! After 1:30, the chorus. Great, relaxed and the groove in the background just keeps on pushing. Don’t miss the solos after 2:50 with keyboard and guitar. Awesome!
*** You Got Me; in my opinion a great track, but the weakest on the album in my opinion. Highlights: the chorus after 0:50, and the horn section after 1:15 and forward. Really good.
**** Anna; one of two amazing soft ballads on the album. The place on the album is as good as it gets. Romantic, soft and gentle, and some nice strings of hope in the chorus. Beautiful! Listen especially to the guitar solo at 2:40 – 3:00
***** After some romantic feelings, the album once again get’s up to speed with Stop Loving You, and the acceleration is done superbly. A short intro in 20 seconds, then a stop followed by percussion and a verse that’s up to par with the amazing chorus. One of those tracks where at least I know almost every single tone. At 2:50 when they incorporate some Jazz-influences, the track reaches its peak.
***** Mushanga. I’ve tried to find out what the word Mushanga means but haven’t been able to find it. The only two explanations i’ve found:
“Mucu Mushanga, their 27th king, was credited with the invention of fire, and he was the first to make clothing out of bark cloth. Shamba Bolongongo (c. 1600), the 93rd king, who introduced weaving and textile manufacture to his people, was…”
or…
Meaning of Mushanga: Mishnaic:1:of or relating to the Mishna (the first part of the Talmud). – See more at: http://www.chacha.com/question/what-does-mushanga-mean#sthash.SsUYRz2m.dpuf
Well, I guess it doesn’t matter that much. After all this is an amazing track with (as so many times before) a great rhythm section, and the Spanish-influenced guitar solo after 3:05 is probably one of the most beautiful one’s by Steve Lukather, then followed by a Keyboard solo followed with a pairing of the two. Awesome!
**** Stay Away starts of with a guitar and drums / cow shells. Highlights, the chorus after 1:12 with a great backing vocals.
**** Straight for the heart. Pushed, upbeat drums, paired with vocals starts this track, followed by a great chorus with some amazing horn sections.
***** Only The Children. Great guitar intro which is connected to the end of the last track of the album. The verse has a gentle pace, while slowly accelerates to the great chorus, after the equally amazing break at 0:50. After 2:50 there is a long break followed by the always great guitar solos of Steve Lukather.
***** A Thousand Years. The albums second ballad, once again well placed on the album. Not as romantic as “Anna”, but a nice gentle track with some amazing performances by the musicians. Once again, Beautiful!!
**** These Chains is a slow, almost jazzy track. I really like the vocals at “What should direction should I go”. One of the places where I always here my self sing along (and no that will not improve the song at all 😉 ).
***** Home Of The Brave. 6:48 of total pleasure. My favorite track on the album, and an awesome track live where they are using the guitar section after 3:10 / 5:34 to alter the sound between right and left in the concerts. Some flavors of Peter Gabriel in that section? And the crescendo on the album after about 3:50, the break! Totally awesome. I know that this may be more enjoyable for those that really enjoys the technical parts, but this is so good!
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