Shawn

A deranged lunatic splashes you in the face with a bucket full of hydrofluoric acid, immediately melting the flesh from your skull... Sounds like a Lucio Fulci film...cool.

Yeah, I'm sure that's the point...for anyone that doesn't recognize Giger, these images might help:

H.R. Giger signature guitars?

Allen speaketh the truth.

Then we've got Kerry Collins leading the Titans to another victory...

There are many others here who can post more informed judgments on Kind Of Blue (see Jim's post for instance). However, from my own experience it was the first Miles album I heard, also one of the first jazz albums in general (other than fusion). It made an immediate impact...I knew I was hearing something different and something that spoke directly to me. I've spent my entire life listening and loving "drones" (whether Sabbath doom, Pink Floyd spaciness or Debussy's musings) so that aspect of KOB hit me immediately. Had never heard of the album when I first listened to it, so no marketing reached me...just the music.

Metallica - Master of Puppets (2008 Mobile Fidelity 45rpm pressing)

I was fortunate enough to see them twice with Cliff. First time was on the Ride The Lightning tour (they were one of the opening acts), second time they opened for Ozzy during the Master Of Puppets tour. I started listening to them in 1984 when Ride The Lightning was picked up my Elektra and I bought it because I liked the album cover (remember those days?). I was an instant convert and within the next month I had picked up Kill 'Em All and the Creeping Death single. For those of us who were in our teenage years during the mid-80s, Metallica was more of a religion than a band. In that magical period between 1983-1986 they became famous without any radio airplay, videos or considerable marketing push...their legend was created by word of mouth and unwavering devotion of their fans. Which made it all the more painful when they gave in to all those concessions after Cliff passed away.

Well, Master Of Puppets and ...And Justice For All are pretty progressive.

Agree with everything you said. Metallica didn't cease to exist after Cliff passed away, but they became a completely different band. ...And Justice For All was mostly written while Cliff was still alive and he had a hand in the songwriting/arranging. Death Magnetic is the first Metallica album I've actually enjoyed since Justice...it only took them 20 years to put out another decent album. Stylistically it sounds like a lost album that came out sometime between Justice and "Metallica". As good as it is though...it's still a very different beast than they were on their first 3 albums.

I can't believe it's been 22 years since Cliff was killed in that horrible tour bus accident. I still feel it like it was yesterday. For my friends and I back in 1986, we felt like the world ended that day, like one of our brothers was gone. The legacy he left lives on, the band he was part of has never been the same since he was taken, he was irreplaceable. Cliff Burton Feb 10th, 1962 - September 27, 1986

A true class act all the way around. He will be missed.

I've been on a "retro" kick recently: Witchcraft (Sweden) Graveyard (Sweden) The Sword (Austin, TX)

Anybody here ever listen to Voivod? One of the few bands that took the King Crimson/early Pink Floyd thing and did some quite interesting things with it. Their first few albums weren't progressive, but all their middle period work is quite fascinating. Unfortunately their guitarist (who wrote most of their music) passed away in 2005 from colon cancer. The progressive period: Dimension Hatross (1988) Nothingface - (1989) Angel Rat - (1991) The Outer Limits - (1993)

I hear Tom Cruise is interested in it...

Toast with honey if you don't have anything else.

Tom Brady doesn't play defense. Looks like the Pats will go nowhere this season. Is it too impulsive to judge by one game? Hard not to right now. It's week 3...don't have the funeral yet.

Sorry, but I LOVE Raising Arizona, I've probably seen it 20 times.... The only film they've done that I really "hate" is The Huducker Proxy and that's entirely because of the awful Katherine Hepburn/Rosalind Russell imitation performance given by "the actress that should not be"

The most original and innovative improviser post-Coltrane. No shit. In my top 5 albums of all-time.

"The Jibbs" are actually 2 members of King's X (plus a couple friends) who are based out of Katy, TX and I'm assuming got some damage during the hurricane. The song is a country tune with some rather priceless lyrics... Walkin’ down the road I got nothin’ left to lose There’s no running water And mud in my shoes Trees in the rooftops Power lines are down A Hershey bar for dinner In a candlelit town But I don’t have a reason That I can complain Because a cigarette still Burns in the rain Walkin’ down the road I got nothin’ left to lose But don’t have the freedom To live how I choose Sweat sticks to my blue jeans In a way I can’t control Mosquitos bite my body And boredom bites my soul But I don’t have a reason That I can complain Because a cigarette still Burns in the rain © 2008, Molken Melodies (ASCAP) If you can, help the guys out with $1.49....

There is a pretty nice Marnie "suite" on this... Marnie is one of my favorite Herrmann scores as well...absolutely gorgeous.

Jeremy Steig - Howlin' For Judy. Just plain hipness in action.

If I remember correctly, he's not listed as an actual band member on The Final Cut either, he's listed below Waters, Gilmour & Mason as a session musician.