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60

Janes Addiction

Janes Addiction

A recorded live album – not a studio album, not a best of, otherwise it would have included being caught stealing. Rock N Roll by Velvet Underground and Symphony for the devil by the Stones two awesome covers are also on the album. I smashed this album in my early 20’s and I still find myself listening to it these days. My Time a tribulation of life yet such a simple almost shallow song yet I have loved and affiliated with the song from the first time I heard it and still to this day I don’t know why – I have listened to it hundreds of times and still don’t have the answer. Janes Addiction are an out there band but when you have two personalities such as Farrell and Navarro it could only lead to indifference which set them apart from so many start up bands like themselves at the time of their inception. They almost became a cult like band at the time, another band I discovered through Triple JJJ back then there was no way that this band would receive commercial airplay which is why I probably categorised them as a cult like band, you either loved them or hated them. Still I like their music and this was a great album – thank you yet again Triple JJJ making the difference for the indifference….

I would for you

Jane Says

Rock N Roll

My Pick -

My Time

1987

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61

Follow the Leader

Korn

Doing this top 100 has been a real honest insightful journey into my music tastes when you go from writing about the Bee Gees and then Boom into Korn. Yes, call it angry music but lyrically if Korn were to sing a Bee Gee song and make it their own – would it still be angry? And that is where I think a lot of bands simular to Korn get lost to all ears because of a heavy bass drum line or a pit of power from a voice like Jonathan Davis. I really dug this album when it come out and funny enough it took a cover version of Word Up by Cameo for Korn to even get noticed commercially but I’m glad they did. Korn were identified as pioneers of the nu metal sound or alternative metal, alternative music on steroids in my eyes they were more than pioneers but for leaders of pioneers when perhaps all the alternative music was growing a little stale at the time. A fair while ago they did a wound down MTV unplugged version of Freak on a Leash with Amy Lee from Evanescence and I often wonder had this version been released would they have enjoyed more of a commercial success. But that is not Korn and it is of my opinion they are an underrated band pigeon holed out of a wider spectrum because of their chosen Genre. I’m just thankful that the world still allows some individuality not excluding music but sometimes I so wish people would open their ears more perhaps then an understanding of angry music would come of it. Maybe – Maybe not, maybe hypocrisy on my behalf like artists people enjoy and have choices, further individualism should be allowed I guess and Korn is not everyone’s cup of tea to the ears.

Children of the Korn

Got the Life

My Pick – Freak on a Leash

1998

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62

2 Years On

Bee Gees

My first memory of the Bee Gees was Lonely Days blasting away in my father’s car when I was about 6, music has a habit of doing that to you – giving you a memory recall like no other. And perhaps that is where the infinity began with the Bee Gees luckily for me the only thing I really choose to remember of him these days. Bee Gees were more than Australia’s answer to the Beatles and I am glad they went on to conquer the world like they did. Talented musicians coupled with a habit to write great songs for themselves and other artists I have learnt to really appreciate their music over the years. As prolific as Saturday Night Fever was at the time (and it lasted) I like a lot of their earlier music with this album coming in as my favourite.

I’m Weeping

Portrait of Louise

My Pick –

Lonely Days

1970