Albums Listened To In October

Wow, a month with record numbers. 112 albums in 31 days! Apparently all I did this month was listen to music, and I'm quite alright with that.

Unintentionally I focused on entire (or large portions of) discographies by classic rock groups; Cream, Traffic, Blind Faith, Kiss, The Jeff Beck Group, Styx; and alot of modern bands; Alestorm, Ogre, Primus/Les Claypool, Blind Dog, John Mayer, and Disturbed. All fell beneath my mighty (albeit slightly worn) speakers.

With brand new releases (or soon to be released) by Shrinebuilder, Transatlantic, Wolfmother, 3, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Black Robot and Austrian Death Machine, this month was also rife with unheard music, some to be future classics, some to fall forever from grace. I'm going to try to write reviews for most of these, at least the Wolfmother and 3 releases, in the near future. I want to listen to them again to get a better understanding of the works.


Of my favorite albums of the month, Les Claypool's Frog Brigade's tibute to Pink Floyd's Animals, Live Frogs: Set 2, is up there. It is a note-for-note tribute (ok there are some differences) of that great album, something for any Pink Floyd fan to take a listen to. Another favorite was the new 3 album, Revision, but more on that one at a later date. I've already talked about my love of Ogre, so no need to go deeper, just read about it here.Another great one was a bit of a surprise, Bing Bang Theory by Styx is a cover album and a surprisingly good one at that, joining the ranks of Rush and Tesla of classic bands putting out superb cover albums.

As far as bad albums are concerned, Beaver's debut album, 13eaver, heads the list. The vocals, the music, the lyrics all were horrible. I'm going to listen to their newest album (eventually) and see if it's more of the same or if they changed their sound. If it's alot of the same, it will be deleted from my hard drive to make way for something better. A few other releases that were poor (but not as bad as 13eaver) are Spine of God by Monster Magnet, I found it boring compared to their later work, and the latest from Wolfmother, Cosmic Egg. Again, I will write more on this album after I give it another listen, but first impressions are one of a lackluster performance. The album isn't bad, it's just a long way off from their debut album. Hopefully another listen with alter my frame of mind.

Items of note: as you may notice, the format for the monthly albums collection has changed. I figured for this year I'd try a week-by-week transcript instead of a monthly one, it makes it easier to see trends to my listening tastes. Also, I am done linking every band and album to a web page. You all have google, you can find it yourself. Finding links for the growing number of bands (over 100 this month) is what was taking me so long to post this article every month. This is much simpler and quicker.


1/10 - 7/10

1. Austrian Death Machine - Double Brutal (2 Disc) - Newly Listened!
2. Beaver - 13eaver - Newly Listened!
3. Blind Dog - Captain Dog Logs Out - Newly Listened!
4. Blind Dog - Captain Dog Rides Again
5. Blind Dog - Last Adventures Of Captain Dog
6. Blink 182 - They Came to Conquer... Uranus (EP) - Newly Listened!
7. Five Horse Johnson - Fat Black Pussy Cat - Newly Listened!
8. Kiss - Love Gun - Newly Listened!
9. Wolfmother - Wolfmother

8/10 - 14/10

1. 35007 - Especially For You - Newly Listened!
2. 35007 - Phase V - Newly Listened!
3. Alabama Thunderpussy - River City Revival - Newly Listened!
4. Black Robot - Black Robot - Newly Listened!
5. Five Horse Johnson - Blues For Henry... - Newly Listened!
6. Kiss - Destroyer - Newly Listened!
7. Kiss - Dressed To Kill - Newly Listened!
8. Kiss - Hotter Than Hell - Newly Listened!
9. Kiss - Kiss
10. Kiss - Rock And Roll Over - Newly Listened!
11. Les Claypool's Frog Brigade - Live Frogs: Set 1 - Newly Listened!
12. Les Claypool's Frog Brigade - Live Frogs: Set 2 - Newly Listened!
13. Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity - Newly Listened!
14. Monster Magnet - Spine of God - Newly Listened!
15. The Mushroom River Band - Simsalabim - Newly Listened!
16. Ogre - Dawn of The Proto-Man - Newly Listened!
17. Ogre - Plague of The Planet - Newly Listened!
18. Ogre - Seven Hells - Newly Listened!
19. Primus - Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People (EP) - Newly Listened!
20. Primus - Frizzle Fry - Newly Listened!
21. Primus - Miscellaneous Debris (EP) - Newly Listened!
22. Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
    
23. Primus - Suck On This - Newly Listened!
24. Trouble - Psalm 9 - Newly Listened!

15/10 - 21/10

1. 3 - Revisions - Newly Listened!
2. AC/DC - Back In Black
3. Airbourne - Runnin' Wild
4. Baroness - Red Album
   
5. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
   
6. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
   
7. Alabama Thunderpussy - Constellation - Newly Listened!
8. Cream - Disraeli Gears - Newly Listened!
9. Cream - Fresh Cream
   
10. Cream - Goodbye - Newly Listened!
11. Cream - Wheels Of Fire - Newly Listened!
12. Deep Purple - Machine Head
    
13. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs For The Damned And Delirious - Newly Listened!
14. Disturbed - Believe
    
15. Disturbed - Indestructible
    
16. Disturbed - The Sickness
17. Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists
18. Dream Theater - Dark Side of The Moon (Official Bootleg)
    
19. Dream Theater -  Scenes From A Memory
20. The Honeydrippers - The Honeydrippers: Volume One (EP)
    
21. The Jeff Beck Group - Truth - New
22. Metallics - Metallica (The Black Album)
    
24. Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
    
25. Pink Floyd - The Wall (2 Discs)
26. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
    
27. Styx - Bing Bang Theory - Newly Listened!
28. Styx - Crystal Ball - Newly Listened!
29. Styx - The Serpent Is Rising - Newly Listened!
30. Styx - Styx - Newly Listened!
31. Styx - Styx II - Newly Listened!
32. System of A Down - Toxicity
    
33. Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg - Newly Listened!

22/10 - 31/10

1. Alestorm - Black Sales at Midnight
   
2. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
   
3. Ayreon - Ayreonauts Only - Newly Listened!
4. Bigelf - Closer To Doom -Newly Listened!
5. Blind Faith - Blind Faith - Newly Listened!
6. Clutch - Blast Tyrant
   
7. Elf - Carolina County Ball
8. Elf - Elf
   
9. Elf - Trying To Burn The Sun
   
10. Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
11. Flogging Molly - Float
    
12. Incubus - Light Grenades - Newly Listened!
13. The Jeff Beck Group - Beck-Ola (Cosa Nostra) - Newly Listened!
14. The Jeff Beck Group - The Jeff Beck Group - Newly Listened!
15. The Jeff Beck Group - Rough And Ready - Newly Listened!
16. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
    
17. John Mayer - Any Given Thursday - Newly Listened!
18. John Mayer - Continuum - Newly Listened!
19. John Mayer - Heavier Things - Newly Listened!
20. John Mayer - Inside Wants Out (EP) - Newly Listened!
21. John Mayer - Room for Squares - Newly Listened!
22. John Mayer - The Village Sessions (EP) - Newly Listened!
23. John Mayer Trio - Try! - Newly Listened!
24. KoRn - Untouchables
    
25. Metallica - Master of Pupets
    
26. The Offspring - Americana
27. Priestess - Prior To The Fire - Newly Listened!
28. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
29. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime II - Newly Listened!
30. Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder - Newly Listened!
31. The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
    
32. Styx - The Grand Illusion
    
33. Sunstorm - Sunstorm - Newly Listened!
34. Tenacious D - Tenacious D 
35. Tesla - Psychotic Supper
    
36. Traffic - Far From Home - Newly Listened!
37. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die - Newly Listened!
38. Traffic - Last Exit - Newly Listened!
39. Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Newly Listened!
40. Traffic - Mr. Fantasy - Newly Listened!
41. Traffic - Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory - Newly Listened!
42. Traffic - Traffic - Newly Listened!
43. Traffic - When The Eagle Flies - Newly Listened!
44. Transatlantic - The Whirlwind - Newly Listened!
45. Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards
    
46. Zimmer's Hole - When You Were Shouting At The Devil...We Were In League With Satan