Month: February 2022
Amazing Artwork! DAVID BOWIE 20 Years Ago
Eye-catching album artwork
Today: The creepy/alien cover of the late great genius DAVID BOWIE‘s
23rd album HEATHEN and images from the accompanying booklet
released 20 years ago this year (June 2000).
The CD came with a booklet with several striking images.
“It looks to be cropped, black-and-white Renaissance-era group of cherubs
designs that have been destroyed in some ways. The designs represent this
by using the destruction of religious art as a symbol of this renewal or spitting
on the past.”
Single ‘Slow Burn’
Full album
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DAVID BOWIE: All Albums
MELTED WINGS – Funky Pop Thrill With MELTED WINGS And Real Life Single ‘THE FIRE INSIDE’
New striking strokes
24 February 2022
Artist: MELTED WINGS
Who: The musical vehicle for artist
Michael Wynn out of Toronto, Ontario.
New single: THE FIRE INSIDE
The third shared piece from the upcoming album,
entitled ‘Cheer for the Deer’, out on April 6th.
“A track that looks at the absurdity of life, with the title referring to the life force/passion that exists in all of us. The verse and chorus contrast the seriousness of worldwide disasters/wars to the ineptitude of informal social chats and other meaningless small-talk & social gatherings.”
Turn Up The Volume: The Fire Inside is a funky electro-pop thrill awakening your
lazy limbs from the titillating intro to the infectious chorus, energized with jangly guitar sparks, and back again. It’s about all of us who experience reality as frightening – fuck you Putin! – while chit-chatting about nonsensical things. The story of our lives in a messed-up world.
“I’m going to tell you about my heartache
I’m going to tell you about my loves
I’m going to tell you little baby
I’m going to free some doves
I want to tell you about my hurry
I’m going to tell you about my signs”
Buy/stream here…
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Visual on YouTube..
MELTED WINGS: Instagram
FUCK PUTIN!
24 February 2022
War, I despise
‘Cause it means destruction of innocent lives
War means tears to thousands of mother’s eyes
When their sons go off to fight
And lose their lives
I said, war, huh (good God, y’all)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, just say it again
War (whoa), huh (oh Lord)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, listen to me
It ain’t nothing but a heart-breaker
(War) Friend only to The Undertaker
Oh, war it’s an enemy to all mankind
The thought of war blows my mind
War has caused unrest
Within the younger generation
Induction then destruction
Who wants to die? Oh
Post-Punk At Its Razorblade Best With NOTHINGHEADS And Frantic Single ‘DIGGING’
Daily electricity to load your batteries
24 February 2022
Band: NOTHINGHEADS
Who: Hit team formed through a shared love for the capital’s DIY music scene.
Their songs draw no boundaries – no subject is too confusing, no sound too
eclectic. The band write collaboratively, harnessing the noise and energy
that comes from playing together.
New single: DIGGING
“Propelled by a motorik rhythm and abrasive guitars, it stomps toward a doom-laden finale. Inspired by Sebastião Salgado’s (note TUTV: Brasilian photographer) anarchic photos of the Gold Mines of Serra Peladain the Amazon in 1985: the track explores the relentless obsession with grasping a glint of glory from the mud. “
Gold Mines of Serra Pelada, Brasil – photo by Sebastião Salgado – 1985
Turn Up The Volume: Once I learned that this startling belter is about
the horrible exploitation of human beings by ferocious money sharks this
jagged jackhammer blew my mind even harder than I heard it the first time
before knowing about the band’s inspiration for this stunner.
Expect rabid guitars, doom and gloom vocals, and frantic twists and turns
until the chaotic finale. Post-punk at its razorblade best. Think fierce Canadian
turbine Metz and London‘s up-and-coming gunslingers Crows. Dynamite!
Here we go…
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NOTHINGHEADS: Facebook – Instagram
Poster This! SCREAMING TREES 1993
FLORENCE + MACHINE Back On The Scene With New Epic Gem ‘KING’
New striking strokes
24 February 2022
Artist: FLORENCE + THE MACHINE
Who: Musical project of Florence
Welch (age: 35) from London
Active: Since 2006 – 4 longplayers
New single: KING
Welch: “As an artist, I never actually thought about my gender that much.
I just got on with it. I was as good as the men and I just went out there and
matched them every time. But now, thinking about being a woman in my
30s and the future… I suddenly feel this tearing of my identity and my desires.
That to be a performer, but also to want a family might not be as simple for me
as it is for my male counterparts. I had modeled myself almost exclusively on male
performers, and for the first time I felt a wall come down between me and my idols
as I have to make decisions they did not.”
King is a towering accomplishment. An epic gem
with Florence‘s vocal tenseness going sky-high.
Listen/watch here
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE: Facebook
LOU REED – 11Th Album ‘THE BLUE MASK’ Came Out 40 Years Ago
Back in time
24 February 2022
One of the greats of all time LOU REED ((March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013)
released his 11th album THE BLUE MASK 40 years ago today. One of his many unforgettable longplayers, lauded by fans and the press.
Rolling Stone wrote back then: “Lou Reed’s the Blue Mask is a great record, and
its genius is at once so simple and unusual that the only appropriate reaction is wonder.
Who expected anything like this from Reed at this late stage of the game? Even though the Velvet Underground, as critic Lester Bangs once remarked, “invented the Seventies,” Reed
had as much trouble as anyone else in trying to navigate the decade’s actuality. By its end,
he seemed to have just about removed himself from rock & roll for good.” Score: 5/5.
Back sleeve
I’ll always associate this grand LP with one of his most poignant, most disturbing
and most bewildering songs ever. A delirious goosebumps pièce de résistance tour
de force, lyrically and musically and Reed’s raging vocals are flabbergasting.
Lyrics
Waves of fear, attack in the night
Waves if revulsion, sickening sights
My heart’s nearly bursting, my chest’s choking tight
Waves of fear, waves of fear
Waves of fear, squat on the floor
Looking for some pill, the liquor is gone
Blood trips from my nose, I can barely breathe
Waves of fear, I’m too scared to leave
Waves of fear, waves of fear
I’m too afraid to use the phone
I’m too afraid to put the light on
I’m so afraid I’ve lost control
I’m suffocating without a word
Crazy with sweat, spittle on my jaw
What’s that funny noise, what’s that on the floor
Waves of fear, pulsing with death
I curse my tremors, I jump at my own step
I cringe at my terror, I hate my own smell
I know where I must be, I must be in hell
Waves of fear, waves of fear
Waves of fear, waves of fear.”
Full album version
Splendid (shorter) live version…
Full LP on Spotify…
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LOU REED: All Albums
FIREFLY 2022 – Dover Delaware
’15 MARK LANEGAN DIAMONDS’ – Playlist Compiled By TURN UP THE VOLUME
23 February 2022
Yesterday came the incredible news, totally unexpected, with this
message on his Twitter account that MARK LANEGAN passed away…
“Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney,
Ireland. A beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician he was 57 and is survived
by his wife Shelley. No other information is available at this time. We ask Please respect
the family privacy.”
The unique bariton voice and terrific songwriter born on November 25, 1964 in Ellensburg, Washington had a roller-coaster career along with Screaming Trees, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Gutter Twins (with Greg Dulli), with countless collaborations (with Isobel Campbell, Kira Skov, The Twilight Sisters, The Walkabouts, Soulsavers and plenty more) and with, most of all, his 12 remarkable solo albums.
He was a 24/7 artist who also lived as fast as he could during the 90s and early 2000s, at times with life-threatening consequences. He credited Courtney Love for paying 1 year of his rehab in the late 90s.
Last year, in March – being clean and healty for more than a decade – he caught Covid-19 in a devastating degree. In a book called Devil In Coma a few months later he described his comatose battle with the virus that almost killed him.
“From the moment I was brought out of my chemically induced sleep and was told what had happened and where I had been, I was determined to survive this nightmare, even though I had very little say, actually, no say in the matter, and had zero ammo to fight with.” The cause of his premature death isn’t revealed yet, but that bloody virus made him very vulnerable.
To salute this phenomenal rock warrior I picked
15 career-spanning highlights and called the playlist…
“MARK LANEGAN DIAMONDS”
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MARK LANEGAN: Bio – All Solo Albums
(photo by Turn Up The Volume)
(Image on top: Cover of his 2001 solo album ‘Field Songs’)