I have been posting most weekends using @detlev’s #metalweekend tag, but my main love of music is progressive and alternative music. Some of my posts have included these songs, but I feel they are not keeping with the spirit of metal.
I will continue to post article’s using #metalweekend occasionally but feel I have more to offer regarding these other genre’s that I am more familiar with.
Introducing #alternativeweekend. Post an article that highlights THREE great songs that are either progressive or alternative and use the tag #alternativeweekend.
If you have a short story or something to offer regarding an opinion on your songs, then share it with us!
It’s back to THREE choice cut’s this week; my brain is a little dry and out of ideas right now. Possibly it’s this man flu that I’m in the process of throwing off, hope fully for good.
Some of the people I’m working with are complaining that it’s hitting them for a second time, just two weeks later. Can a virus mutate this quickly?
At this rate, I’ll have to add a health tag to this post with all my ramblings. Let’s get with the music.
Abigail's Ghost - Thereafter
This band happen to be the first alphabetical one in my car and due to the quirky nature of my audio system, every time I add tunes it always starts playing the first song by the first band starting with ‘A’.
As a consequence, this tune managed to wrap itself round my head. The band has been likened with Porcupine Tree. I don’t hear the resemblance myself.
Portishead - Roads
I was big fan of this very strange band in the 90’s. Beth Gibbons looks emotionally stricken singing this one.
I always loved this very melancholy track from their most successfully debut album, ‘Dummy’. Here's a live version with a full orchestra. Don't listen to this if you are feeling a little down, it may not help you much.
Leftfield - Original
I do like those 90’s sounds every now and again. A friend pointed this song to me back in those days. It’s probably quirky enough to qualify for a spot here.
The 90's to me was the last decade to have an identity and a specific kind of sound. Do you agree?
In the spirit of @detlev’s original idea, you need to remember one thing.
Pump up the volume, PLAY IT LOUD!
Guitar Image courtesy of http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/16642
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Some of that early Portishead stuff is so beautifully haunting.
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It is! I played Dummy to death in the mid 90's, but couldn't get to grips with later albums.
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Not sure I've heard of Abigail's Ghost. When the heavy guitar comes in it reminds me of PT, but not the rest. I also listened to Dummy a lot. Wandering Star is my favourite track. I heard Adrian Utley on the radio recently. Interesting guy. Can't say I know Leftfield apart from what I've heard on the radio. Some of the electronic stuff is interesting, but a lot just washes over me. This one is not bad.
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My tastes had not gone off track from the mainstream by the mid 90's and yet Portishead attracted both of us it seems. Maybe that was the start for me.
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