Thursday, November 17, 2011

Rediscovering bands

I don't know about anyone else, but my musical listening habits tend to be cyclic.  I listen to a wee group of bands for ages, then want to listed to something different, and move on.  Eventually I go full circle and end up back at the bands I've not listed to for ages (sometimes years).  And so it is that I'm currently on a King's X trip.

I first came across them when they supported Anthrax at the Barrowland in Glasgow, and my ex bought me Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, after seeing how blown away I was by them.  By the mid 90's my taste had shifted slightly (not always in a good way*), and King's x went on the back burner.  I recently downloaded XV, and was totally blown away.  From the opener Pray, all the way through, this is a superb album.  I've been going back and listening to the back catalogue again, and plugging the gaps in the collection (fortunately just a couple of studio albums.

If you like your rock music with a proggy (but not too proggy) edge, check them out if you haven't already.  They can rock out when they want to, Moanjam from Faith, Hope, Love is a case in point.

Click here and listen to Pray from the album XV.  Superb stuff.


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