Stuff I've been listening to the last several days:
The Beatles - Abbey Road I find "The End" to be a very poignant goodbye - maybe it's me but it seems you can feel them jamming and cruising to the end knowing that they are signing off for posterity... an emotional moment in popular music history. Also way underrated is "Oh! Darling".
Chris Whitley - Live in Bremen 9-19-98 Chris Whitley was a very interesting and mostly unknown artist who sadly passed away from lung cancer in 2005 at the age of 45. This is an unreleased recording of Chris with his guitar and stomping his boot for percussion. Great bluesy stuff with Chris's unique aching vocals. Need to dig deeper into his catalogue...
Gov't Mule - High and Mighty One of my favorite albums of this decade without a doubt. I'll be road tripping this weekend and I can't wait to pop this one in again when I'm out on the open road cruising through Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi... this will be one I'll be listening to for the rest of my life guaranteed. Warren Haynes is one of the greatest guitarists of all time, one of the greatest singers on the planet, and for my money developing into one of the best songwriters in rock. I'm not exaggerating.
Metallica - Death Magnetic I'm still going back and forth on this one. It's definitely good - maybe the best since ...And Justice For All, but that alone doesn't mean it's a masterpiece since nothing they've done since Justice has been close by comparison. Not to say they've recorded a bad album, but they haven't quite been able to reach greatness again. This one seems to come close and a few tracks get there, but there are usually a few tracks that get there on each of the recent Metallica albums along with a few garbage tracks (see Don't Tread On Me, Wasting My Hate, Poor Twisted Me, The Unforgiven II, Where The Wild Things Are, Shoot Me Again etc.). So does this album approach greatness? I don't think it's going to quite get there for me, but I'm still pleased. "All Nightmare Long" is worth the price of admission alone - a classic.
Ian McCulloch - Slidling I pulled this one out the other day realizing that I had never given it a proper run through, and I was pleasantly surprised at the energy level - this album jams and the songs are strong. I was expecting a more mellow outing without Will Sergeant doing the shredding. Upon first listen this jams more than Ian's other two solo albums.
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