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F'd up my rear knee, hoping I didn't tear my ACL-Monday chasing after an ortho appt and and MRI-meanwhile my soothing recovery mental music is a playlist of a bunch of Baroque music I've picked up over the past few years. Bach: Cantatas, Brandenburg concertos, Yo-Yo Ma Cello suites, solo violin sonatas and partitas, Keyboard concertos, and Passions Vivaldi violin and mandolin concertos Handel: Water Music, Giulio Cesare and concerto Groso's Corelli-Concerto Grosso and violin concerto's

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ZZ Top/Rancho Texicano

Rising!

Some very valid points. And prolly a lot of times it's better to invest in a couple of key albums as I recently found with Depp Purple and settled with In Rock and Machine Head-all I really need in the end.

You just unwittingly gave a pitch perfect summation of my much derided tendency for compilations but I would extrapolate that to include larger box sets. Remember in the late 80's when Clapton's massive Crossroad box set came out? Well, no, you probably never listened to slow hand given his mellow nature, but we got it for my Dad and I bought it for myself a few years back. Perfect example. Do I love Clapton? No, but I dig a lot his 60's and some of his 70's material. I'm pretty sure Crossroads set the standard for interspersing "hits" with rarities and unreleased tracks and new live cuts to appeal to both new and old fans. Dylan followed suit with Biograph and then went bonkers with his Bootleg series. Now, I'm not about to go out buy individual Yardbirds and Darek and the Dominoes and Cream albums just like I'm not going to buy individual Dire Straights and Mark Knopfler albums....but for a big rock genre playlist, I'd like to occasionally get a hit of these kinds of artists. I did that with a bunch of classic and alt rockers a few years ago. And, the thing is, I might get a box set, as I have with the Kinks, Doors, Dylan, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Ramones and Byrds and then get turned on enough to go out and buy individual albums. But those comps still have a place as they might have a track or two from the albums I don't buy or something that was never properly released like Dylan's amazing Blind Willie McTell, a song I've seen you post that is IMO without a doubt, one of the most arresting songs Dylan ever recorded that was scrapped from his Infidels album and as in No Remorse, IMO a perfect distillation of a band at a particular time and place with out the fat. As I've said lately, I've gone back and love Overkill and Ace of Spades, but neither are as consistent as the stunning 29 tracks on NR. I got nostalgic for a bunch of cringy hair and other 80 rockers like Whitesnake, Ratt, etc. decades after I ditched my old vinyl copies. So a comp of WS makes sense to me because I don't really need to buy Slide it In, and the comps going to give me that horrid hair urge and give me some of his bluesier material before Coverdale became a huge stadium artist. Same kind of thing applies to dozens of other artists. Now, most of the time, I'm going for the albums-Blondie's Parallel Lines or Costello's Armed Forces and This Year's Model, London Calling, individual Sonic Youth etc., etc., etc., but comps and sets have a place often inspiring more investigation. Sure, I have a compilation of Queen and Yes and many others. But after this thread I think I will pick up a copy of Sheer Heart Attack which I owned as a Kid and Night at the Opera even though I don't think I ever really need to hear Bohemian Rhapsody again.

Blut Aus Nord/777-Sect(s) Blut Aus Nord/777-Comosophy

I was never huge into Kiss as rock/metal was getting heavier and darker beyond their ability to really hold my attention, but I always liked their 70's tracks. In retrospect those early albums are just fun R & R . When I was a kid I spent most of my time listening to Double Platinum just as I did Motorhead's No Remorse. But I always liked Dressed to Kill, Destroyer, Rock and Roll All Over and especially Love Gun. Think I'll grab some of those to add to my discs of Double Platinum and the three Alive albums. Sure, they're king of bubble gum but hey.....

I'm checking out your Motorhead rankings now....

Streaming some new release shit...saved for future evaluation: Skumstrike/Deadly Intrusions (black thrash punk) Tome of the Unreplentished/Earthbound (atmoblack/noise) Terzij de Horde/In One Of These, I Am Your Enemy (some form of post black I 'spose) Oceansnow/Vivienne (black/ambient-reminding me of a muuuuch more accessible avant Xasthur)

GG and Navy were discussing ZZ Top somewhere in the forums recently, and I started thinking, that's one band missing from my rock collection. I always liked their early stuff...never had any studio albums, but I recall a greatest hits with La Grange, Jesus Left Chicago and Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers and the like. Did a little research on boxed sets and comps, and found Chrome, Smoke & BBQ but at 4 discs with tepid reviews on the last disc, felt like more ZZ than I would ever want, so went with a double disc titled, Rancho Texicano: The Very Best of ZZ Top...now granted it's the first disc that holds my interest, but I don't mind the random odd song from their pop 80's singles. And for old time's sake just picked up Kiss Alive and Kiss Alive II. It's cold gin time again.

Navy and the other Metalfiers knows my story, but I invested in Sonos gear pretty heavily back in 2012-14 when I began putting together a dedicated listening room and stereo/HP config. It took several years at my side hustle. At the time I just wanted a fix for my Ipod which I'd outgrown and I thought if I could access all of my music across a variety of platforms, the gates of heaven would open. I use Itunes sadly but as transport to rip and send CDs to a NAS which is streamed by Sonos. A Sonos connect device allows me to listen on a stereo in a dedicated listening space that I have set up with a dedicated DAC w/ built in HP amp to listen on my more high fallutin' Audeze headphones. One of the reasons I went with Sonos was the ease to access my music on my stereo and then in other rooms wirelessly on their speakers. So, I have one of their smaller play 3 speakers that I move to different rooms. Right now, it's downstairs in a workout space adjacent to a laundry room and I'll just walk it to the laundry or work out space separated by a door. Currently my 2021-22 metal playlist is on endless rotation. Then, I have two play 5's with integrated SUB and TV playbar in our kitchen/sun room family area. I listen to a lot of non metal there in the kitchen , at the kitchen table or connected to the playbar. I can separate or add any of the components to a queue at will. I keep too many CDs from the last couple of years on rotation in and out of my vehicle. I find I'm listening less to my dedicated system right now. When I want to metalize and the wife is watching TV, sometimes she'll be watching something hideous on TV using the playbar and I'll be on my laptop often listening to Bandcamp. Then, when she leaves, I've got the two play5's in stereo with the sub and I crank it up. And, I might add the playbar to get a fuller sound. Sonos has some limitations. You have to use your transport system to organize and tag-in my case Itunes which is the pits and I should change, but it's easy to rip and send. I am able to make Sonos playlists. But you're limited by tracks. Right now, I have a current years' metal playlist, non metal (like everything but the kitchen sink) and an OSDM playlists. And I'll have other playlists on an Ipod and a portable music player . One way I've found to listen to stuff I've literally forgotten I own is to listen to genres in Sonos. I can listen to one genre or multiple genres and throw in a queue. So for instance, if I want to listen to a range of "non metal", I might make a queue of rock, punk, alternative and indie. Or I might mix say metal with rock and punk and make quick and dirty playlists from multiple genres and then when a random song comes from say, the Buzzcoks or Thin Lizzy or Bob Dylan or Pentagram, or Fugazi or the Byrds or Kyuss or The Zombies or Acid King or Funebre or BAS or Steely Dan it puts a massive shit eating grin on my face and all is good in the world.

I remember owning Tooth and Nail and seeing them with Twisted Sister in Boston in 85. Good times.

Thanks TG, I will hunt for SPOOK. Luckily no root canal yet, but those are two of the scariest words in the English language. Eucharist/I Am the Void

Hang in there Zack. You're a strong young buck. I know you'll bounce bag in a jiff.

Actually, I've got that song somewhere, prolly a bonus track, but I know that tune.

How about Bomber? I believe that's the final album of the classic lineup....seems to get mixed reviews.

E-L-R/Vexier (2022) dubbed doom gaze post metal....not sure that makes sense, but an interestingR listen... Golgothan Remains/Adorned in Ruin

For no good reason, other than a love for bad ass rawk'n'roll, I've been on a Motorhead kick. No Remorse was one of my favorite albums in college eve tho it's a comp -but I wore out the grooves on that double album. It was on of those albums like We sold our Soul to Rock and roll or Decade (Neil Young, you rubes) that introduced legions of fans to a particular band. More recently I've gone back to the classic 80's albums, and now I need to fill in some gaps. I'm not a completist, but I need my Lemmy fix from time to time.....finally purchased No Remorse on disc and 1916-fucking good album!

TG, You know I'm down with a whole bunch of your picks, but even tho I have several Meshuggah albums, I don't love them. But, I love you and I will listen to their new album. Not on BC-fucking bastards. BTW, my dentist told me I might need a root canal. I'm going to send you a PM. JK!

Been going thru some of my old Motorhead albums and picking up a few more Moterhead/Motorizer Motorhead/Hammered Pink Floyd/Animals Pink Floyd/ Meddle 2022: MWWB/The Harvest Messa/Close

TG-Glemsel is rather good. Motorhead/Aftershock Astral Tomb/Soulgazer-interesting stuff here.....need to reevaluate-there's a Blood Incantation cross section thang of cosmic death metal that will be far to spacy and out there for most goat minded bangers.

Motorhead-No Sleep 'til Hammersmith Checking out on Bandcamp: Deathspell Omega/The Long Defeat-Undecide on the new DSO Abbath/ Dread Reaver Kvaen/The Great Below Glemsel/Forfader

Motorhead/Sacrifice Motorhead/Kiss of Death