Muso-bable
The thoughts and ocassional ramblings of a 30-something muso.
Hello, I’m a muso. I'm one of those guys you see digging around the racks of vinyl in London's backstreet record shops. I'm not addicted, I can give it up whenever I want. I just need to find that limited edition 7" single that the NME made single of the week. Maybe you've bumped into me in the queue for the bar at The Academy or The Astoria. There are thousands of us in London - I've seen all the regular faces in the record shops and at the gigs.

This blog is my attempt to write about the records that I love, the gigs I've been to and, well, anything else to do with music. Hopefully you'll find something here that makes you nod in agreement or rant in disagreement or maybe even laugh.
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
 
Very Metal

I've decided that I like metal…again. After my first encounter with metal and erm, soft rock, in my teenage years I gave up metal for the wonders of indie.

Well now I’ve decided that I like metal again. Two things have changed this:
1/ Funeral For A Friend. I’ve heard a couple of tracks from Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation and I really like it. In particular I’ve heard different versions of “She Drove Me to Daytime Television2, (the live version on the NME awards CD from a couple of weeks ago is particularly good) and its got me. Good lyrical hooks, great guitars and drumming. I think I’m going to enjoy FFAF, mainly because they are not American Sportz Metal (Yes, I’m talking to you Mr F Durst).

2/ Someone at work leant me a real gem of death metal – Wages Of Sin by Arch Enemy. This is real Metal for Men, sung by a Woman who sounds like a Man. So that’s clear then?!? Example lyric, from Ravenous, “I will be/ the carnivorous Jesus/ I need your blood/ I need your flesh.” - so nice easy listening lyrics there! The whole album has some of the best drumming I’ve ever heard. And what is so surprising is that, yes this is metal, but it is really catchy, almost poppy and I found myself returning for a second and a third listen.

So that’s it. I’ve managed to avoid Limp Bizkit (Behind Blue Eyes – my arse), ignore Puddle Of Mudd and laughed openly at Nickleback, but FFAF and Arch Enemy have got me all excited about rock again.





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