Deep Purple - In Rock [1970] {{Stoner Collection #18}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 018-===

Hello strangers. Some time has passed.
Crohn's disease got so bad that I had to abandon my 'steroid Reduction' plan and put the dose back up until the inflammation symptoms lessened.
the reason I HAD TO do this was because I started losing weight rather rapidly. from 10stone 5 lbs, to 8stone 11lbs in a couple of weeks or so. That's more than I can afford to lose and, once you get very ill with this, it can be so much harder to deal with if you get too thin.
Well the steroids did slow this down and enable me to feel slightly better but I haven't been able to get back to the level of health I was at before I changed the steroids dose! so it seems I have made my situation worse by trying to reduce the steroids!
Heh. What luck :)

The GREAT news is!!!!!!

I went to the hospital today and I have been given my first dose of a new (relatively) drug that has a great success rate for people with Crohn's Disease, especially those who no longer respond to other treatments...that's me!
I was worried about taking it at first...amongst the warnings they give you at the hospital is the increased risk of Lymphoma as a side effect, although it is, thankfully, rare.
When I lost weight so quick and also became so ill and in constant severe pain the the decision was made for m e. illness has a way of changing your mind. after many hours of this crap you will agree to anything if it gives you a chance of not being in pain!
So I had the first dose today and I really am hopeful about this.
I also hope it doesn't turn out to be false hope. Best thing would be not to get too excited or invest any hopes in it at all but I can't help myself this time. I am so ill just now that I NEED this to work.
If it doesn't work, doesn't slow the process of deterioration I have dropped into, I will require surgery. Pretty hefty op too.
I'm not going there.
I'm too hopeful.
This drug will work :)

I am only giving you some music here as I thought it might piss you off to see an update and not even an album to boot...!

Sorry but you wanted information on the album?
You'll have to use google this time I'm afraid. You ought to be ashamed of yourself if you really need to do that.
If that is the case then GO GO! Educate yourself on this fine band...

Files are in HIGH QUALITY 320K MP3.

I am working on getting a great set of FLAC files on this to you. they are uploading now, complete with the guitar tabs book too so you can get yourself playing along.
Rockin'..
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Who knows, this could be the very beginnings of a new era in my life.
One that isn't ruled by pain and suffering and taking painkillers all bloody day and night..
We shall see.
Like I said, I'm hopeful!



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Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath [1970] {{Stoner Collection #17}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 017-===

Hello folks.;
So, by now I should be recovering from the steroid reduction eh?
I should at least be feeling better after not lowering the dose any more for almost two weeks now.?
Nope.
The Crohn's disease has now become so terrible that the steroid withdrawal seems almost easy by comparison.
now I find myself in a situation of my own making - kind of. If I had stayed on the high dose of steroids then the illness would not have increased so dramatically (or would it?) but if I had carried on taking them then I was heading for the serious side effects of which I already have Osteoporosis but thankfully nothing too bad like Diabetes or cancer. I do have muscle atrophy and thinning of the skin (Crap picture but I couldn't find a better one. Just imagine no wrinkles on it) and other minor(!) complaints so I stopped them at the right time I think.
Hey don't forget to look at the LASTING PERMANENT DAMAGING EFFECTS opf these horrible shit steroids. I don't remember being warned quite to the degree that I should have been, when I was put n them!
When I say 'stopped' I mean I have managed to reduce them to 6mg and I cannot reduce them any further. For now at least. I still dream of not taking any one day but it is becoming just that...a dream.
If this is boring and not what you came here to read then I'm sorry. Pain has become my life recently and there's fuck all I can do about it.
At least understand why I must talk of it!

Most days I can't even get on the computer as I feel so weary and tired out, having to sit up at the PC chair is too much believe it or not. If it were just pain I could deal with it somehow. It isn't 'just pain' though, the pain brings an overwhelming feeling of weakness and sickness...you go weak to the point of feeling you will faint, the room spins, you shake and sweat drips from your head whilst the most raw and tender pain swells in your abdomen and goes into a severe cramp that takes your breath away and makes you moan almost as a reflex to it. You curl up and want it to stop. Nothing else can enter your head when it gets to this point. just pure pain and a feeling of: ILL.
What can I say?
Just thought I'd share that with you.

I'll just keep the following in my posts for now so I don't have to explain over and over..
I can only really say one word: Steroids.
Well, maybe I should make that two or three:
Steroid Reduction Sucks.

Enter...BLACK SABBATH.
You have heard of them right?
Either you love them and have a lot of their music or you don't mind them and have maybe a greatest hits album or this one, or, you hate them. I just think that, if you are in the last category then there is also a good chance that you haven't really given their music a chance.
In other words a lot of folk who say Black sabbath are shit, or bands like them, usually haven't listened to them or don't have anything by them! They just have an attitude of Heavy Metal being freaky shit for long haired spotty youths or middle aged beer-bellied hicks with mullets and bad manners and an unhealthy obsession with guitars or guitarists and loose women...and something to do with too much masturbation and not enough interaction with females...

That sounds about right actually :)
Hehe.
No!
You must give it a try or you will forever be an arrogant dick who thinks they know it all but haven't actually tested these beliefs about the world (or the world's music).
Am I making sense or is it just the tablets?

I speak from experience.
I used to say 'Heavy Metal? No thanks!' for years until a guy I met played some to me and I really got into it!
How about this for a fact though: not heavy metal. Not metal really in my opinion, just Rock.
Good..
old..
solid
ROCK music.
In it's purest form.
This band is Rock.


Just download it and comment.
Thanks :)

By the way this is 320K MP3 and it's the double CD Deluxe Version remastered (2009).
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Random mildly amusing Ozzy Osbourne article: Ozzy wants to donate his body to Museum but who would want it I wonder...?
I suppose he could sell his lungs to some potheads to scrape them out and dry them for the THC?

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Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys [1970] {{Stoner Collection #16}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 016-===

Hello. I managed something, at least.
Next one in the list and I don't have to tell you my opinion on this fine album hehe.

I'll just keep the following in my posts for now so I don't have to explain over and over..
I can only really say one word: Steroids.
Well, maybe I should make that two or three:
Steroid Reduction Sucks.

Not much to say at all right now. I'm too friggin ill to have the energy. It feels as if all my energy is used up dealing with the opain that never stops and increases so much more when I try to eat.
If you don't eat you get thinner so ... not a good idea.
I'm turning this into some kind of medical journal now hehe.
Life is as it is for now.
Pretty fucked!

Here is a nice wee link for some reviews on this album. No fanboys there at all..

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I need to get healthier... the steroids dose being so low now, has caused the symptoms of Crohn's Disease to be higher than ever and it's pretty much constant pain and weakness here. I'm just waiting for it to change but it is looking less likely each damn day.
Hmm.
OK and hey! Blast this album loud if you know what's good for you..

Up next ... Black Sabbath!
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Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk [1969] {{Stoner Collection #14}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 014-===

Hello again. Life is still harsh. In fact today I feel so much worse than yesterday so here is the next album in the Stoner collection series...

I'll just keep the following in my posts for now so I don't have to explain over and over..
I can only really say one word: Steroids.
Well, maybe I should make that two or three:
Steroid Reduction Sucks.

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Wow. An hour is a long time these days :(

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Santana - Santana [1969] {{Stoner Collection #13}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 013-===

Hello again. Looks like summer eh? Great.

I can only really say one word: Steroids.
Well, maybe I should make that two or three:
Steroid Reduction Sucks.
I'm suffering right now so just wanted to post the next album and leave again...

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I am now at 5.5mg of Steroids per day for my Crohn's disease, as opposed to the dose I started on, 15mg. This is the most difficult things I have tried to do: come off medically prescribed Hydrocortisone.

I hope to come out of the other side of this at some point, with my faculties intact. they appear to have left me during the process and it is just bloody horrible 23 hours out of 24.

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Grand Funk Railroad - On Time [1969] {{Stoner Collection #12}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 012-===

Hello all.

Yes it's not been a good week. Or should that be month? I lose count when the illness is bad..

Hope you enjoy this next album in the Stoner Music collection series...

And here it is



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I am now at 9mg of Steroids per day for my Crohn's disease, as opposed to the dose I started on, 15mg. This is one of the most difficult things I have tried to do: come off medically prescribed Hydrocortisone.
Looks like summer is here already.. Life goes on.

You know comments are always read with appreciation...say something!
Time for my medication..


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King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King [1969] {{Stoner Collection #11}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 011-===

Hello my people.
I wonder if that's how Jesus called to his followers? In that case I should just change it to Hi!
I don't want to be resembling jesus, not today.
Not ever.

So whatever happened to that Stoner Music Collection you were posting HitMeWithIt you lazy no good sonovvabitch?!
"erm...duh...uh-oh.."
So where the fuck is the next friggin' instalment then arsehole?
"Well I, erm...it's here, I just need to ..."
Hurry it up shithead!

And here it is

This King Crimson album is a real classic. It means a lot to me due to it being around during the time I was experimenting with drugs, to a point that is - I never wanted to try chemical drugs, avoided coke and heroin and would never even consider things like crack...but I liked the so called 'natural' highs from various plants or mushrooms. I remember hearing this alvbum for the first time shortly after taking some Liberty Cap mushrooms when I was about 17.
It is even now, still difficult for me to put into words exactly what went on!!
After all these years I still struggle to convey the things and feelins I had that night and that this very album brought to my mind!
It takes you on a journey....it's an incredibly exciting and unpredictable journey but...you get there in the end and you are all the more mature and better for having travelled!
There, and that is my so called review.

Oh and tiny update: I have been VERY ill recently, much worse than the usual moans I make...so the site has been far from my mind as I deal with increased pain and weaning off steroids. that is the hard thing.
I'll try to bring the site more to life again when I feel my strength returning but, for now, it's whenever I can!
Thanks for supporting me by still dropping by whoever you are :)


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More when I can OK.

You know comments are always read with appreciation...say something!
Time for my medication..

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Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum [1968]{{Stoner Collection #10}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 010-===

Hello again friends and enemies...(?)
I always thought that honesty was the best policy.
Not always of course. I mean, when you are young, trying your hardest to grow up, getting it wrong, going down some stupid and maybe illegal paths before eventually realising what a twat you were. So yeah, not always.
But I have probably grown up a bit by now and I do, nowadays try to stick to the old Honest-Best-Policy thing.
So let me be honest here.
I have never ever even heard of the band that I am presenting to you today!
Not a thing. I do not know what type of music they do, where they hail from, how many band members there are, all of it.
I know nothing!!

Yeah, I should have went to wikipedia and allmusic and did some googling before I posted this eh?
Then I could have written some facts that I had pretty much copied and pasted...at least then I wouldn't have looked like a bit of a twat eh.
But that wouldn't have been honest now would it.!
Hehe.
So I am as green to this as you are(that is, assuming you haven't heard this either).
I wasn't able to have a listen to this before now due to computer and health problems. So the situation is this: I will have a listen tomorrow and so will you...I hope, then we can both, if we can be bothered, report back on what we made of it.
At least the album cover looks promising as far as that it reminds me of some of my old vinyl covers.
A bit hippie.

Well it is part 10 in this HUGE 'Stoner Music Collection' that I am attempting to post so I'm gladly going to give it a try and see why it made the collection.
If you are a horrified fan of this band then please leave a comment and let me know whats so good! Sorry if I offended you

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Hope you enjoy the music! Let me know either way!

Come on!!! Give my meaningless life some purpose!

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland [1968]{{Stoner Collection #09}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 009-===

Hello again.
I know it's a bit shite and all but I'm still very unwell and not able to write much.
Yeah, it's tedious like I sai9d.
Howeever, you have the whole of the world wide web, the internet(!) to explore so really, if you think this is shit then you have many places to go besides so think yourself lucky ;)

Now this ios one of my all time favourite albums.
It was the record I bought that made me realise just how much of a friggin' GOD Hendrix was. It was the record that made me then go and buy books about him and read about his life, get obsessed with listening to and reading and watching him...this was THE defining record regarding Hendrix, in my life.
Brings back so many memories too.
Anyway, just have a listen.
I wish I could write more cos' there's a story or two behind this album, not just the fact that Hendrix was taking so much acid and smoking so much weed that it took him much longer than planned, he had loads of hangers on around him, pissing the other band members off, nebver sticking to time scales etc...he was being a bit of a wreck but wow...what he created was little more than genius!

OK then I wrote a little more anyway. Great.
I recommend you go look up some info on the album!

Whatever you do, enjoy.
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Have a good day now won't you
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Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets [1968]{{Stoner Collection #08}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 008-===

Hey people!
More heavy times of illness around here.
Much lying down.
Much not eating and much feeling like the epitome of 'shite'.

Apart from that everything is just fine.

This is such a friggin' groundbreaking masterpiece of vinyl - OK well digital bits nowadays but I HAVE THE VINYL damn you! - that I am kind of glad I feel too weak to attempt to describe or set it up for those who have never had the pleasure. Believe me, you young 'uns might well think your trance or psych or whatever new names they have for techno-ambient-psych-trance-etc-bleeeuuurrrgh music these days but let me tell you - it all began here.
With this very album.
As far as I know.
Yes go on someone, tell me how wrong I am and that there is actually this or that album I should have mentioned..
I'd accept it.
I try but I'm no music encyclopedia!
More like a music pocket guide but I strive to bring you things of particular interest and this is one of those that everyone MUST own.
It is NOT negotiable.
Every music listener must have a copy of this somewhere.
End of story.
Download it.

Then fire up some nice green, um herbs and lie back and enjoy the journey.

I'm off to take some harsh chemicals (Tramadol) and at least attempt to relax..heh.
Life goes on and all that.

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No password, nothing complex, just music.

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Cream - Disraeli Gears [1967]{{Stoner Collection #06}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 006-===

Call it laziness if you like, call it crap. Whatever you think, my illness is coming down heavy right now. I will carry on posting but don't expect too much in the way of words for a bit.
No one reads them anyway right?
Heh.. Maybe every third post?.

Next up in the Stoner Collection...an album I just love.
That's it.
DOWNLOAD and LISTEN and COMMENT.

Never heard of this one?
This might just help a bit then. :)


TRACKLIST :
1 Strange Brew (2:50)
2 Sunshine of Your Love (4:13)
3 World of Pain (3:05)
4 Dance the Night Away (3:36)
5 Blue Condition (3:32)
6 Tales of Brave Ulysses (2:49)
7 Swlabr (2:34)
8 We're Going Wrong (3:29)
9 Outside Woman Blues (2:27)
10 Take It Back (3:08)
11 Mother's Lament (1:47)


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Have a good Christmas did you?

Answers on a postcard please.

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced [1967] {{Stoner Collection #5}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 005-===

An out of character short post today! (Yes that was irony).
Had so much snow here over the last week or so. The country 'grinds to a halt' etc etc. It's beautiful but cold. Very friggin' cold. When you can't get around much or do much to keep the blood flowing, it's freeeeezing cold!.

Next part of the stoner collection is, surprise surprise, another Hendrix classic.
I wish I felt well enough to write about this one but I'm sorry: I don't.
Been up all night in pain and it's lasted all day too. Things are gettin' scary but maybe it'll get better. I will see I suppose.

Please do enjoy this fine album and leave a comment if you can be arsed...

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love [1967] {{Stoner Collection #4}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 004-===

Hello again.
Isn't it fucking COLD now!. At least in Southern england it is. I remember an American friend I used to know, he always laughed or took the piss whenever I said something like 'Southern England' or 'up North' as he said the country seemed so small to him that it didn't seem large enough to nominate anywhere as the south or the North part of it,. Well I disagree! Oh and if you know anything about British folk in general, you would know that they regard such names and designated areas highly. Nobody from the South would like to be mistaken for someone from the North. I'd say that the same goes for Northerners, they don't want to be Southerners either! There is a bit of a divide ... it's quite a topic and one I like to go on about sometimes but, I am guessing that you didn't come here to read about that.
At least if you are from outside the UK, you have learned a little factoid for the day!
As I was saying, it is COLD in the South! It went down to -4C last night and I can confirm it really felt like it.

So on with the show.
Next in the list is a band I really have no interest in and, to be honest I can't f*ckin' stand them.
The guitarist especially is weak and I feel he drags down the rest of the band into his scantily talented void of piss and wind. It took a lot of determination to listen to this abhorrent maudlin drivel to the end. In fact to be honest I didn't listen, I just had to stop it after 3 tracks.
I mean it's just outstandingly bad.
OK OK I just cannot continue with this.
I thought it would be novel to slag off what I consider to be one of the best bands ever but I just cannot do it.
This album is a defining moment in the history of music and has influenced so many others that to not see this, to not understand this and to not have listened to this ... well that would be criminal as well as awful.
Where do you start, trying to explain tracks like 'Spanish Castle Magic' or 'Little Wing'?!!
Little Wing is one of my all time loves let me just say.
Then you have the absolutely brilliant 'Castles Made of Sand' and then 'Bold as Love'?! The only possible way to understand these tracks is by hearing them!
The way these tracks make me feel is really hard to define.
I am stuck for words so if any of this is new to you, I urge you to listen now.



It's unoriginal but, I sometimes wonder, what Jimi Hendrix would have been if he hadn't died when he did?
I mean, how would his music have become, shaped by the years and the way the world has changed so dramatically since his death?
Would he still be setting fire to guitars?
I doubt it.
I think he would have become a wiser and possibly calmer, sage of a man. His talent would never leave him of course.
Maybe a bit of a David Gilmour but with harder balls. Hehe.
Make sure you have a listen ;)

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Well that be all for now fans.
Leave a friggin' comment or I may kill myself soon.

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The Doors - The Doors [1967] {{Stoner Collection #3}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 003-===

Next in the list, be it a bit later than I planned to post it, it's here now and a nice bit of music to accompany the arrival of winter here in England.
The frosts are starting to come in during the nights, the stars are amazingly clear with not a cloud in the sky, I love this time of year.
I could watch the sky for hours.
Oh and there is another meteor shower due here on the 14th. If it's a clear sky that night get outside and have a look...you might be lucky.

So here we have the next album and Band in the 'Stoner Collection' which will be a long series of posts and this is a great one!
Been listening to this a lot this week and it made me get my other Doors albums out, been a bit of a Doors week really. I urge you to grab this one and get into the rock that was The Doors. There is no other band like it.
Rock.
Blues.
Poetry...
They were unique and I wish Jim hadn't gone so far downhill into the depths of erm, his mind...the band fell apart.
Anyway have a listen to them in the days when things were going great for them and the music was blinding!

Christmas looms ever nearer..

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OK back to my grindstone...hehe I wish.
Not been so well the past two weeks so things are slow.

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Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out! [1966] GUEST BLOGGER TODAY! {{Stoner Collection #02}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 002-===

Hello again my friends...
first off I just have to point out that, nope, I hadn't neglected to notice something that is really crap around here (and I don't mean my 'reviews') and that is these extra large sized Capital Letters starting each new post.
It looks crap. It doesn't quite fit into the stream of writing at all and I want to get rid of it but I'm not sure what way to go with it...
anyway, that's all very interesting right?

Ladies and Gentlemen!
Let me introduce, today's exclusive Guest Blogger for the day...

My 9 year old son, James!


I must add that the photograph has been subjected to a few random and funny filters so he doesn't always (or ever!) look like that!

As James is not so well versed in writing on blogs or indeed doing much writing at all if he can help it, I told him to sit down and I put on this album. I gave him some guidelines of what people might want to know about the album and left him to write some stuff.
If we get more than two lines then we are doing good!

Why didn't I do it?
Well a couple of reasons...I always planned to see if James would do this for me as I think it would be interesting so that's the first reason, the second is that I am not and never really have been a Zappa Aficionado.
I don't know why ... I just don't really get his music. I know, you're not supposed to get it right?
Well I don't.
Although I love the album that goes on about religion and has the track 'Heavenly Bank Account' on it. That's because it appeals to my beliefs though and it's hilariously funny!


I now hand you over to today's Guest Blogger...

Hello my name is James and I am nine. My Dad asked me to do a review of this album.
I will just type the stuff I wrote on a piece of paper when I was listening to this album now cos my dad gave me a list of some things I should try to explain when I hear it and what it makes my mind feel like and what I imagine when I close my eyes to it.
I quite like the song: Who Are The Brain Police cos it sounds like Gong and I really like Gong.
The song at track number 4 is like an old fashioned love song and I don't like it.
I don't really like most of the songs but Who Are The Brain Police is my fave song.
My mind says "I hate this album" (and so do my eyes when I close them!)
Don't buy this album it is RUBBISH!
From James.


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Well I hope that was a bit of fun. I enjoyed it and James' viewpoint is pretty accurate from my perspective!


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The Monks - Black Monk Time [1966] {{Stoner Collection #01}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 001-===

Damn! All I had to do was post the album in position number one of the list I was telling you about in my last post. Just look at a list, get the album at the beginning of it, have a good few listens to said album, take the title etc of said album and, post it on the blog.
Well I somehow posted the wrong one!!!
The FIRST one in the list of Stoner Rock albums that everyone should hear (apparently) is...

The Monks - Black Monk Time (1966)
Well I must admit before going any further here, I had never heard this until today AND, I hadn't even heard of the band so ... if that makes me a shite music blogger with no idea about music then so be it.
In fact there's a few on the list that I haven't heard of so got a lot to look forward to.
I love discovering 'new' artists, that's what it's all about right?

This band are interesting.
I am a bit stuck on what tags I should be choosing to put this into a certain genre.
They don't fit too well in any to be honest. I know I can just cop-out and select 'stoner collection' and of course, 'rock' but It's deeper than that: On first listen to this album I was pretty mesmerised. The first track hits you right off the start with the pounding drumbeat. The vocals jump in with faint memories of 'The Doors' and the lyrics are quite cutting, referencing Vietnam and quite angry. A forward moving beat with some great organ behind it, Doors fans will start to feel pretty comfortable but ... don't get too comfortable!
There are a few surprising twists and turns on this record.
The second track, again, kicks off with the beat. Pounding drums and then it eases a bit when the organ creeps in to help it out and back it up...The organ isn't so much 'Doors' on this track as maybe early 'Floyd' - well, that is, if I MUST keep trying to compare this...which is a bad habit I have.
It's a very experimental song and I have to say I like it. :-)
A total gear change for the next track ... all 1 minute 26 seconds of it! I won't try to compare this track, it's just a cool surfy/garage rock tunes and again, it gets my thumbs up!
The same goes for most of the tracks on this. I can't say there is a track I really dislike. Perhaps a couple or three that would irritate me if I wasn't in the right frame of mind but all in all this is just a great piece of work and deserves to live in every collection!
I was pleasantly surprised to hear something very Syd Barret-ish too..see if you can spot what I'm talking about. It isn't difficult!
Later on there are obvious signs of 'surf rock' and more than a hint of The Beach Boys' thrown into the mix.
There are so many different styles and brilliantly arranged riffs in there that this album really is a classic and, as such deserves to appear on probably most lists or collections of music from the days before music went corporate! (When was that exactly?)
I regret not having heard or known of this until 2009 however, better late than never and now it's YOUR turn!

That is all.

Now go forth and listen.


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Hey ho I would have written more folks but I'm just feeling fuckered so I'll leaver it for now...
Do let me know what you think of this album, if you download it then an opinion would be interesting so leave a comment!

More soon ...
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Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1965){{Stoner Collection #07}}

===-Stoner Music Collection Entry Number 007-===

Hello hello hello.
It will soon be that pagan celebration time known as 'Christmas'.
Oh fuck.
Don't you just hate it?
I mean REALLY dislike it?
Let me get something clear here: I suppose 'hate' is too strong a term but I really do get irate when the corporate world/capitalist world makes us; the public; society; the suckers that suck up their media, have a so-called 'holiday season' that is nothing more than a huge, all out, no-holds-barred marketing ploy, done with such attention to detail that they leave nothing to chance for those who wish to perhaps NOT makes themselves poor for the sake of buying their kids or their family or friends some 'gifts' that bring them close to bankruptcy or at least a huge overdraft or emptying of the credit card limit, and for what?
Do people really believe in the Xmas spirit?
Please don't get me wrong.
I am all for anything that enables people to get together. People spending time with each other - Families, friends etc. I am all for any situation or event that enables people to feel free of the usual social restraints and stuff and be true and caring towards each other. So they can give each other a gift and maybe even tell them how much they love them.
Letting people know how much you care about them is one of the greatest things you can do as a human being, to another.
The problem is people...no one fucking bothers too much about that part of it!!!
Christmas is all about BUY! BUY! BUY!
I fucking detest it!!
I hate the way my son is supposed to be, like all his friends, desperate to have the latest this or that and, what really pisses me off, he is supposed to feel bad, even ashamed, if he cannot obtain the gift that is the latest fashionable gift to have.
If you told your kids these days 'We don't have enough money so this year we are going to have a nice cosy Christmas at home with a nice meal and spend some great family time together' they would be so disappointed that they might not even bother getting out of bed that day!
I don't expect the kids of today to appreciate a stocking with an apple and an orange in it (like we used to get eh?! he-he!) but I do wish parents - and the fucking media! - would at least still try to instill the sense of value in them, let them know that they should be grateful. Let them understand that things cost money and that you don't always get what you want in life. Let them see that there are kids in the world that don't even have clean water, never mind a friggin' xbox360!
If you did tell them these things they wouldn't care. They'd just think you were being cheap for not getting them an xbox360 and they'd surmise that all the stuff you just told them was all part of your bullshit excuse to justify not buying it for them.
You cannot win.
My main beef with Xmas is that our kids and, to a great extent, many many adults, are being brainwashed by the barrage of marketing by all the forms of media we put upp with today. Christmas follows Halloween. It will soon be Easter and then valentines day. Or is it the other way around?
I don't know.
Or care.
Rant over!

Music?
You are looking for music?
Oh yeah, well you came to the right place then!

I recently joined a music site. I won't tell the name in this climate of UK Government piracy bills and the paranoia surrounding torrent sites and all that crap...but!
I mentioned it for one reason: They have lists of albums and categories for all genres and styles you could ever dream of.
One such list is of 'stoner' music. In case you aren't educated even that much (fuck man you need to get back to school you thick twat!) I will just enlighten you: This is the kind of music a stoner (someone who smokes cannabis, probably a lot of it) would listen to. Usually this means the music is either of the type that takes yopu on a journey of sounds and great expanses that you can hang your stoned head on, whilst the music virtually controls you...or it can be reggae music, music that glorifies cannabis and sings about it, music that is just bloody brilliant (as the stoner generally can appreciate many forms of music probably due to the fact that ingesting cannabis causes you to have an enhanced musical experience in general - try it it's great!).
Well I hope that's a bit clearer.
Clear as mud probably.

So, I decided to go through this very long list and, starting with the band at position 1, I will post every one here, one by one, letting you hear and then hopefully leave your reviews in the comments.
I am not assuming everyone here is a stoner - far from it.
The reason for this list to be the one /I have chosen is simply that it has so many different genres and a lot of great bands and artists in there that I have posted before and of course a lot I haven't.
In fact, forget the stoner part.
Just look upon each posting as an album and give it a try to see what you think!
That's all you have to do OK.
It's not friggin' complicated.
If you need any help though, don't ask me.
Oh yeah, one more thing. these albums are not in order of who is the greatest or anything like that. The list is just in chronological order (the oldest ones are first).

So!!!
First up!!
Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1965)

Here's a little info on the band, stolen from wikipedia. If you want more click the link.
Iron Butterfly is an American psychedelic rock band, known for music such as 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". Their heyday was the late 1960s, but the band has been reincarnated with various members. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is the 31st best-selling album in the world, selling more than 25 million copies.

First impressions after listening to the album?
Hmm. Hippies.
I used to want to be a bit of a hippie and even lived the lifestyle - to a point. However those times are gone and nowadays I don't grow my hair long and I certainly don't listen to Iron Butterfly.
The thing is I would never have listened to them even back then because they are what I would call 'Formulaic Hippie Shit'.
Now, before anyone gets annoyed and starts telling me how wrong I am and how this band were so influential etc etc. Let me just say I am telling you how I see it.
I may be wrong, of course. I'm not an oracvle of fucking wisdom.
I am just saying, Iron butterfly=hippie shit.
there you have it.
It's the kind of music you would hear on a woodstock type movie or some film from the sixties and there'd be people with flowers in their hair, dancing with their arms steretched out, spinning around in circles, to make the acid feel so much better.
I don't mind these kinds of tunes in that context but, seriously, when I put this album on I thought...oh shit, how long does this go on for?
It seemed to go on forever.
I'm not usually against music from that era but there are certain bands and certain music that does do my head in and Iron Butterfly fit the bill.
Annoying, whining on, hippie shit.
As I always said, don't listen to me: I KNOW NOTHING!
Download it and try for yourself.
I mean, they can't have such a huge following and fans for no reason I suppose.
Some people actually love this music.

You may be one of them.
Have a listen and then please, tell me what exactly it is that makes you like them.
Of if you listen and agree with me, even better! Leave a comment stroking my ego!
See you soon folks.
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More when I can.
Got to go to a hospital appointment Monday so it's a long day. May not be able to update til Tuesday.
Ciao!
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