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The Fat of the Land (1997)Prodigy, TheElectronica "The Fat of the Land" is the best and the last album of British electronic band Prodigy with its original membership. When this album released, it became a bomb of momentary blasting. "The Fat of the Land" was not simply popular and best selling album - it literally flied up to the top of charts in 22 countries, including United States and Canada! No one among musicians of electronic genre could achieve the same success since the beginning of music industry. And all this was done without any promotion campaign. Many tabloids all around the world proclaimed Prodigy as geniuses of dance scene. Some called them "the greatest phenomenon since Beethoven". Absolutely all tracks of "The Fat of the Land" are brilliant: "Smack My Bitch Up", "Breathe", "Funky Shit", "Firestarter". But I especially would like to emphasize "Narayan" - this is an astonishing track. Almost a decade later my madness about Prodigy has been faded, but I still consider them as a great band and do value their works very much. | |
Volcano (2003)SatyriconBlack Metal I'm not a black metal fan, but Satyricon seems to be interesting to me because, first of all, they are considered the originators of the genre and, secondly, their performance is really good. Their music is original and complicated (for instance, combination of three guitars makes strong effect); all compositions are prolonged and pithy; there are no any satanic things here, but only social subjects. A musical theme is very interesting and complicated, it always changes during the compositions sounding with thrash or sometimes with hard rock elements, and it gradually immerses you into the atmosphere of darkness and spite. All compositions differ from each other with their sound, but at the same time they perfectly flow, one from another, along the atmosphere of the album. The music is supported by strong, true black metal vocal, which in contrast to many other black metal bands is perceived relatively easy. Norwegian black metal band Satyricon created the excellent album (actually they never did poor albums) that reflects dark and malicious present-day reality. By the way, "Volcano" has been awarded with Norwegian Grammy as best black metal album of the year. In my opinion, the most interesting compositions on this album are "Mental Murcury", "Black Lava", and "Fuel for the Hatred". | |
Shadow of the Moon (1998)Blackmore's NightAcoustic Ritchie Blackmore described once the sound of Blackmore's Night as "Mike Oldfield meets Enya". Legendary Deep Purple and Rainbow guitarist shifted his musical focus away from hard rock in the late 1990's and started concentrating on his love of Renaissance-era music. He formed Blackmore's Night with his fiancee, vocalist/lyricist Candice Night, and recruited other musicians from around the world to combine elements of world music, Renaissance, new age, folk, and rock & roll. The debut album "Shadow of the Moon" was released in 1998. Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson contributes flute on "Play Minstrel Play". I very like this album and other works of this band. Ritchie's acoustic guitar melodies and Night's clear, ethereal voice blend with a host of instruments such as mandolins, keyboards, pennywhistles, violins, tambourines, military drums, and hurdy-gurdies. This is an excellent album. | |
Earthbound (2005)Lars Eric MattssonInstrumental Rock Maybe it's just my musical taste changed, but it seems that I don't like the heros of shred guitar anymore. All these Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen... Yes, they are true masters of guitar, but the kind of music they perform is definitely not what I like to listen now. And this album by Lars Eric Mattsson only confirms this my point of view. "Earthbound" is an album representing quite unvaried instrumental music, which is a kind of hard rock with pronouncedly heavy rhythm section and rapid guitar soloing. Lars Eric Mattsson is certainly excellent musician and his skills of playing guitar are high, but anyway I listened to this album without the great pleasure. Music is not only technics, and I consider that this kind of music loses a great part of melodiousness just because such talented musicians as Lars Eric Mattsson want to show how great technically they are and forget about music. And "Earthbound" is a sample of this. Unfortunately. | |
eMOTIVe (2004)A Perfect CircleAlternative Metal I knew absolutely nothing about this album at the moment it came to me, and only when the second track began to play with well-known to many words "imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try..." and I looked at track list attentively, I understood that "Emotive" is an album of covers. I'd listened to another album by Perfect Circle before and it had made a quite favourable impression on me, but this album... My Lord, what have they done with optimistic John Lennon's "Imagine"? It became sounding incredibly dark and depressive. Actually, every track on this album is performed in depressive manner with some industrial influences, so if I haven't listened to the original songs before, I would never guess who the real authors of these songs are. This especially regards to the instrumental track "When the Levee Breaks", which is performed in such an eccentric manner, so I still don't understand if this is Led Zeppelin's song cover or not. Very strange album. Why have they recorded it? | |
The Boatman's Call (1997)Nick Cave and The Bad SeedsRock On this album Nick Cave decided to change the subject of his songs. Most of his previous works were devoted to murder and death. "The Boatman's Call" is an attempt to find love amid the ashes of the world. And Nick finds it: perhaps it's a strange, twisted, doomed love, but love nevertheless. With only the sparest accompaniment - piano or organ, light percussion and violin, Cave employs traditional folk song structure and simplicity to weave addened tales. Melancholy mood communicates to you by digress, song by song. It is an excellent feeling. Nick Cave is one of my favorite artists and this album among my favorites. | |
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