“If you’re alone tonight…..” It might sound crazy but whenever I’m having a fit of rage or something has me extremely angry, I put on Def Leppard’s Hysteria album and I calm down. Specifically, the title track for this album puts me in a very calm mood. I don’t know why and I probably neverContinue reading “November Noise: Hysteria, Def Leppard, 1987”
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Throwback Thursday: Friday Night Videos (1983-2002)
Cashing In On MTV’s Success As many of you are aware, I grew up in rural Louisiana with very few options when it came to television. My family could watch local ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates as well as PBS and an independent station (when the weather was right) that would eventually become a FOXContinue reading “Throwback Thursday: Friday Night Videos (1983-2002)”
November Noise: Vixen (1988)
“I don’t need your shoulder….” The late 1980’s found me comfortably nestled into a rock cradle. I was listening to bands like Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Bon Jovi, Guns n’ Roses, and more hard rock and glam acts. One of the bands that slipped into my listening queue was Vixen, one of the mostContinue reading “November Noise: Vixen (1988)”
Throwback Thursday: Dazed And Confused (1993)
“Just keep livin, man. L-I-V-I-N.” 1993 was a big year for me. It was the year that I entered my senior year of high school. It marked the beginning of the end of my life as a nobody in a small town in Louisiana. Flash forward nearly thirty years later and I’m still a nobody,Continue reading “Throwback Thursday: Dazed And Confused (1993)”
November Noise: Too Fast For Love, Mötley Crüe, 1981
“Cuz I’m alive……” Mötley Crüe was the first “bad” band that I ever listened to as a kid. With their Satanic imagery, lyrics about rock staples such as sex, drugs, alcohol, and doing pretty much whatever you wanted to do as a youngster in the 1980’s, I was forbidden to listen to them. Because ofContinue reading “November Noise: Too Fast For Love, Mötley Crüe, 1981”
Throwback Thursday: KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park (1978)
“Ack!!!” Friends, family, and regular readers of this blog are aware that I am a huge KISS fan. I’ve heard pretty much every track that they’ve released, watched all of their videos, and spent countless hours watching and listening documentaries, interviews, etc. with the band. The one thing that I haven’t done is watch KISSContinue reading “Throwback Thursday: KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park (1978)”
The Loyal Subjects BST AXN KISS “The Spaceman”
“Don’t let’em tell you that there’s too much noise….” I’ve been impatiently waiting for the release of The Loyal Subjects’ BEST AXN KISS The Spaceman. I liked the Demon figure released earlier this year despite having a few hangups about it and, in all honesty, I have a few hangups about the Spaceman figure asContinue reading “The Loyal Subjects BST AXN KISS “The Spaceman””
A&E Biography: KISSTORY
“Two sides of the coin…..” A&E recently released their two-part Biography documentary KISSTORY that covers the career of the iconic band KISS and its nearly fifty year history. Being a massive fan of the group in all of its incarnations over the years, I was hoping to see something that hadn’t been revealed before inContinue reading “A&E Biography: KISSTORY”
Tunes: The Karate Kid Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984)
“Sweep the leg.” Thanks to the highly successful Cobrai Kai series that is currently being produced by Netflix (originally available on YouTube Red), interest in the classic The Karate Kid films has experienced a resurgence. Youngsters want to see the original film and its sequels in order to get a deeper look at the backstoryContinue reading “Tunes: The Karate Kid Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1984)”
Tunes: KISS 40
Decades of Decibels KISS has been around for over forty years as of this writing. Over the New Year holiday, they performed live in Dubai at Atlantis in what they dubbed the KISS 2020 Goodbye Concert. In true KISS fashion, they went over the top with the pyrotechnics and managed to break two Guinness WorldContinue reading “Tunes: KISS 40”
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