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What Are You Listening To? - Thraak - 15-03-2011
Gamma- 'Gamma 2' (1980)
![[Image: Gamma2.jpg]](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0Jm8LimqDuw/Rn1g4HDMynI/AAAAAAAAADk/oyivUNt1O6Q/s320/Gamma2.jpg)
Trax:
- Mean Streak (Alcivar, Montrose, Pattison) - 4:50
- Four Horsemen (Montrose, Pattison) - 4:48
- Dirty City (Montrose, Pattison) - 4:04
- Voyager (Montrose, Pattison) - 5:23
- "Something In The Air" (John "Speedy" Keen) - 3:17
- Cat on a Leash (Montrose, Jerry Stahl) - 4:03
- Skin and Bone (Montrose, Stahl) - 4:48
- Mayday (Alcivar, Montrose) - 5:37
Line-up (with a few considerable changes in the rhythm section)*:
Davey Pattison- vocals
Ronnie Montrose- guitar
Jim Alcivair- keys
Glenn Letsch- bass*
Denny Carmassi- drums*
As you can see from the above line-up, there are two notable changes in the departure of Alan Fitzgerald on bass with Glenn Letsch (who now plays in Robin Trower band) replacing him and also the departure of uniquely named drummer Skip Gillette in favour of Denny Carmassi, a former member of Montrose back in the 70s. All other original members from the debut remain, at least for the time being.
Gamma line-up 1980 in promo shoot. Davey Pattison can be seen second from right.
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These changes, coupled with the progression into the 'new-age' decade of the 80s during which time instruments such as synthesisers were becoming more and more prominent/fashionable in music this album is considerably more synthesiser based in comparison to the latter. New drummer Denny Carmassi also brings a much heavier sound which is consistent throughout the album.
Before going on to discuss the tracks on the album, I would be insane not to mention the album cover which depicts two 'submerged' shark tails on a garden lawn, certainly making it one of the most unique album covers of all time.
Gamma's second album opens with what I personally consider to be their best song called 'Mean Streak'. With a incredibly catchy simultaneous guitar and synthesiser riff not to mention a fantastic solo by Ronnie towards the end, this song is an early reflection the albums new theme of leaning towards a sound that would later become typical of the 80s music in general. Perhaps the most notable feature on the track besides Pattison's trademark soulful vocals is Denny Carmassi's drumming which brings a new, more loose feel to the band and interlinks extremely well with the song's riff and vocal passages. 'Mean Streak' I believe was the album's lead single and scored them another hit on the Billboard charts. Along with 'Fight To The Finish' it is generally considered to be their amongst their best known songs.
After the overly-satisfying opener, we are treated to 'Four Horsemen' which is probably the heaviest Gamma song yet since 'Ready For Action' on the debut with an almost thrash-metal tempo during the intro. Again, the influence of replacement drummer Denny Carmassi clearly plays a big role in this.
Later on in the album, there is a shift in style on tracks such as 'Voyager' which is generally a blues driven rock 'ballad' song with some seriously breathtaking solo guitar passages from Ronnie Montrose and is very akin to something that Robin Trower would later record on his 1983 album 'Back It Up'.
Mid-way throughout the album we are (treated?) to a cover version of Thunderclap Newman's ever-covered, ever-played, ever-famous sole hit 'Something In The Air'. Gamma's version is extremely synthesiser based in comparison to the original which I wasn't exactly a fan of in the first place. Still interesting to hear vocalist Pattison's interpretation of it though!
Among the last three tracks on the album, 'Cat On A Leash' & 'Mayday' are both high-tempo jam based songs with limited lyrical input more of an emphasis of creating a racket which I'm all in favour of! The median being 'Skin & Bone' breaks up these two tracks with a slow tempo couple with some ferocious drumming from Carmassi. Also, 'Mayday' features a brief return of the use of the vocoder during the outro.
Conclusively, Gamma's second album is a strong-follow up to their outstanding debut and serves as an example of a band's successful progression (at least IMO) from 1970s rock to 1980s rock (with shitloads of synthesisers) which ironically is usually the ultimate achiles heel for me when it comes to the 80s music sound. The difference here is that the synthesiser, while rather prominent and definitely present in each of the songs, is not overpowering in the sense that it eclipses the guitar solos or vocals for that matter.
Strongly recommend fellow members to check out this band. They are one of the true gems of the underground rock scene! After the first two albums everything kind of goes tit's up in terms of the synthesiser situation (especially on third album!) so most attention is best paid to the first two releases!
Again, a good man has kindly uploaded the following videos, albeit with no visualization, onto youtube so I have linked some here for readers to sample
Mean Streak
[video=youtube;dnc1Z9B6I2E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnc1Z9B6I2E[/video]
Four Horsemen
[video=youtube;UJ4CYEBYF4s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ4CYEBYF4s[/video]
Dirty City & Voyager
[video=youtube;8mXKW4l0_8M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mXKW4l0_8M[/video]
Mayday
[video=youtube;-rUaFKhhBew]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rUaFKhhBew[/video]
Lastly, I've included a live version of one of the debut tracks which is one of the only available on youtube!
Razor King (Live in San Francisco, 1980)
[video=youtube;3oJZpzM3XkE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oJZpzM3XkE[/video]
What Are You Listening To? - underclass hero - 23-03-2011
Killing in The Name - Rage Against the Machine
What Are You Listening To? - Schmidty797 - 23-03-2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fud55uJq-jw -All That Remains, The air that I Breathe
What Are You Listening To? - Schmidty797 - 24-03-2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt5a7DJGEoo -Lacuna Coil, Fragile
What Are You Listening To? - Schmidty797 - 29-03-2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bi_gF6nJow#t=0m58s -Therion G.Verdi Il Trovatore
What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 31-03-2011
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CANNIBAL CORPSE "butchered at birth" 1991, cd.
firstly, i bought this Death Metal album back in 2002ish just to be able to say, "ive heard Death Metal music"....i really wish i didnt ever decide to buy it, Death Metal is crap! its the most unlistenable noise on the planet...the guitars and drums are distorted and their is no melody or rythem, its just a plain and simple thrashing of perfectly good instruments, and the vocals are so far in the background they are an inaudible screeching mess, you really need to read the lyrics to understand what the psycho is screaming about.
apparently, this album and the band are the pinnacle of Death Metal....sure says a lot for the rest of the genre IMO.
if you think the cover artwork is sick and disgusting read the lyrics to the songs....and everyone thought Marilyn Manson was 'evil', dead wrong!...MM is a lamb compared to these fruitloops who glorify necrophillia and the like.
anyway...on a positive note this album gets a perfect score................of 1.0!
avoid this genre at all costs!
THIS IS THE BY FAR THE WORST ALBUM IN MY COLLECTION!!
worst track: all of them
best track.....the one im going to put on soon to get me back to normality!
LIVING DISSECTION lyrics.
Fingers missing from hands, ready to snap bones
And necks, pierced together from dead tissue
Body parts crudely sewn,
face is smashed to pulp drooling from an empty socket
Brain half
Dead
Hungry for flesh
Many souls commanding my existence
My body alive, I defy, the life I've been given
I should have remained dead
Experimenting on dead tissue, convulsing bodies on the table
Reanimation of the dead, rusty scapals cutting skin
Pieced together parts and parts
Transplanting human life
Rotten organs, restal pus
Spitting up your galbladder
Donation of bodily organs carved from broken bodies
Eyes melting, skin exploding
Every bloody bleeding
Meat inter-changed from the mutalated stiffs
Parts of the dead are never to rest
Lymphatic nodes
Implode, while the brain corrodes
Bodies sold to science, profiting from the dead
Creation of a being never known to man
Heart pumping pus through the body, sliced in sections, the putrid infection
Regaining life from beyond
To rip the flesh from your bones
Stripped of flesh, unsighty
Torn in two, slicing through you
Live organs needed to be reanimated
Pathologist sawing the skull of the donor, now he lies
Dead
Awaiting a new brain
Re-cycling the bodies, parts of the dead
Exposing their insides, slitting their necks
Finding a way
Bringing life to the corpse, one dead on my table
Soon to walk again
Fingers missing from hands
Ready to snap bones and necks
Pieced together from
Dead tissue
Face is smashed to pulp, drooling from
An empty socket
Brain half-dead, hungry for flesh
Many souls commanding my existence, my body alive,
I derfy, the life I've been given
I should have remain dead
tracks:
1. meat hook sodomy*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jXWhlwrUPI audio
2. gutted*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VERvFZ_SQ0 live
3. living dissection*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_R-nCwl9is audio
4. under the rotted flesh*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiC4Ix8boq0 audio
5. covered with sores*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlnRMSlPqjE live
6. vomit the soul*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS5hP6YO_jM live
7. butchered at birth*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peJ8adcWPNU audio
8. rancid amputation*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOYa7gnZdso audio
9. innards decay*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vm9pJ_cA6g audio
3s=0
2s=0
1s=9
rating 1.0
What Are You Listening To? - Music Head - 31-03-2011
yes, but isn't it art
makes you wonder if there wasn't some merit in that campaign that Tipper Gore was behind to monitor entertainment.
but it is good to annoy your parents
What Are You Listening To? - CRAZY-HORSE - 31-03-2011
Music Head Wrote:yes, but isn't it art
makes you wonder if there wasn't some merit in that campaign that Tipper Gore was behind to monitor entertainment.
but it is good to annoy your parents
not sure about the 'art' thing????...and those lyrics i posted are among the most sedate from the album, surely lyrics like that must lead to teen fantasies about murder etc if they are mentally unstable????
i actually thought about not doing the album when i picked it out, took me about 30 mins to decide to.
if anyone is offended by it, i have no objection in its removal, PM me and i'll delete it.
What Are You Listening To? - Tiggi - 31-03-2011
Tipper Gore is the best living example of a good education wasted IMV.
Censorship is ridiculous...
I'm extraordinarily liberal on the subject of censorship. Kids don't take much notice, and for the enormous majority, they don't grow up to be drooling monsters. There may be odd individuals that are pushed into seriously anti-social behaviour, but I'd contend that they're likely to be innately that way inclined, and that choice of "entertainment" is an insignificant part of the whole.
Gentlemen, load your weapons...
:behindsofa:
What Are You Listening To? - Music Head - 01-04-2011
Tiggi Wrote:Tipper Gore is the best living example of a good education wasted IMV.
Censorship is ridiculous...
I'm extraordinarily liberal on the subject of censorship. Kids don't take much notice, and for the enormous majority, they don't grow up to be drooling monsters. There may be odd individuals that are pushed into seriously anti-social behaviour, but I'd contend that they're likely to be innately that way inclined, and that choice of "entertainment" is an insignificant part of the whole.
Gentlemen, load your weapons...
:behindsofa:
Nobody to fire on here.
My comment was in jest.
Of course I'm not for outright censorship.
I have no problem with the labeling thing though, to give parents a fighting chance.