34/52

Hear (Here?), we have a list of my listening for this week, which is a mixed bag that includes industrial metal as well as classic Country and Western music.

Jerk With A Bomb – Pyrokinesis

I had no prior knowledge about this band or what they sounded like. A half-dozen listens later, and I like their sound. They quickly and easily became my hot listen of the week.

Grinderman – Grinderman

I enjoy Nick Cave’s many personas, Grinderman being one of them. I think Grinderman is a bit like Frank Zappa. Only some people will get into what they are doing, but it is magical for those who do.

Jefferson Airplane – Surrealistic Pillow

Thanks to Alice, this album is an instant earworm. From my perspective, it has aged well. I gave it several trips around the spindle and filed it under “Half Way To A Deserted Island.”

Various – Classic Rock 1964 &

Various – Cool Rock. Road trip tunes.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – More Great Dirt

I have been a fan of the Dirt for many years. I saw them live twice, at the same venue, 40 years apart. This album contains the song “Cadillac Ranch,” written by Bruce Springsteen and first released on Springsteen’s 1980 album The River. I like the Dirt version better. I am not a big Springsteen fan. I like the album Nebraska, and that’s about it. I am a fan of the Dirt and have a good slice of their discography, including all three of the Will The Circle Be Unbroken series.

Lost Dogs – Mutt

I continue to be a big fan of Lost Dogs, and this one consistently provides a good listening experience for me.

Blue Rodeo – Lost Together

They are a Canadian institution, and this album provided an excellent listen with Valerie as we listened together.

James Gang – Straight Shooter

They are a good band but never as good as when Joe Walsh played with them.

PIG – Sinsation (Remastered)

On the trail of his ‘Red Room’ album, which I gave a nod of the hat to on 31/52, industrial legend Raymond Watts, aka PIG, presents his seminal ‘Sinsation’ album via Metropolis Records (digital, CD) and Armalyte Industries(vinyl). ‘Sinsation’ was released in 1996 on Trent Reznor’s Nothing Records but has been out of print for decades. Sinsation returns, re-remastered at Abbey Road and ready to rock your world.

I am giving a big shout out to Shameess PR contact@shamelesspromotionpr.com
‘Painiac’ video https://youtu.be/3XmSj11f8wc

PIG is labelled industrial rock, which is fitting, but people may dismiss it when they see that genre label and avoid a very listenable record. Industrial? Post-punk? Post-prog? No, it is Sinsational and it is sensational. Just listen to it and leave the genre labels alone.

Waylon Jennings – Greatest Hits

The Greatest Hits LP mainly documents Jennings’ outlaw country years for RCA Records during the 1970s and includes several of Waylon’s signature songs. This album was released in 1979, and I think I have lowered the groove in it a couple of millimetres from repeated playings. It may have a place on my deserted island.

Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson—WWII — I can not think of a more dismal sound than two talented people having their names and their music dragged through the mud of corporate greed. I can not imagine these two gentlemen releasing the record of their own free will. It is sappy music dripping in strings and broken-heart songs that never go anywhere. There is only one song on the platter that I can endure listening to, and it is a cover; ’nuff said. “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died” is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Tom T. Hall and covered here. The rest of the songs should be covered about six feet.