You want to do this? You know you want to do this right?
It's been a while, I did the Green Day thing and I will do Thee Offspring at some point, but to do a new album live, it has truly been a while but it is playing and I am feeling it, so the latest Slash album Orgy of the Damned. Where you want to start? At the beginning well that's not hard.
The opening track kicks in at 7.08. An it is a belting blue rifts called the Pusher and while this is a Blues Album musically it is so far phenomenal, so I am presently sat here slow grooving out to
Track 2. Crossroads. Gary Clark Jr. Punchy kick drum start, Does sound like something you would have heard on the 2nd Slash's Snake Pit album but it really isn't, it quick up beat tempo blues track, and a true blues track, sat here swaying away in the chair as it plays through keyboard in my lap moving with me.
Track 3. Hoochie Coochie Man. Billy F Gibbons. Muddy Waters I am hoping would be impressed with this cover. Such a low tone gravelled sound coming out of these speakers. An a voice that could be gargling gravel.
Track 4, Oh Well. Which is with Chris Stapleton and it is just that level of rock and roll you would expect from Slash but also very clearly Blues. So far it has been like this from track 1 to here. Leading into
Track 5. Key to the Highway, with Dorothy, as with all these tracks still a Blues track, so expect that soulful howl of the vocal with every song, but total tempo change still tapping my toe and just letting this slide over my shoulders and down my spine. My Media Player is labelling this all Metal and Hard Rock. It is NOT Rock and Blues yeah, with a lean lyrically to he Blues side and the guitar to the Rock Side, Only Track 4 comes in at under 5 minutes and that is only just at 4.53.
Track 6. Awful Dream it is with Iggy Pop and it just opens up like a bowling ball slamming from a great hight into a barrel of tar. With Iggy crooning away on the lyrics with a voice that sounds like pebbles falling down a glacier. (That is possibly the oddest description I have done yet) there is a reverb in Iggy's voice that sounds like he is singing through the distortion arm on the guitar. It is I don't know how to describe it. It is possible he is doing it with a wobble and moving the microphone back and forth. I feel he is that old school it wouldn't be post production. It sounds awesome but it really does something odd to my skull!
Track 7. Born Under A Bad Sign with Paul Rodgers. Comes out as a very bluesy track just what you would expect if you didn't know the Blues. Now I will be honest I am an Alternative so my closes links to the Blues are Lisa Sings the Blues from the Simpsons, and several of the tracks from Slash's Snake pit and Velvet Revolver, Because Slash does like to play the Blues. But this track I unfortunately would consider just generic Blues Rock.
Track 8. papa was a rolling stone. Demi Lovato. Okay. erm. I might have to go find the original to play that through to try and work this out. No it is a pretty faithful cover, slightly faster speed but yeah it is okay. I wish I could say more but it is a classic song and sometimes doing covers though it sounds alright and good it isn't the original.
Track 9. Killing Floor Brian Johnson. Already dancing and it hasn't even started yet! Shortest song on the album now, funky up beat blues rift, with harmonica backing it up. The further you get into the album the more rifts start to come back round though, great harmonica break in the middle of this track though and Brains voice just superbly fits it so well.
Track 10. Living for the City. Tash Neal. I know nothing of Tash Neal. I am enjoying the track, though I am not wanting to groove in my seat it is well put together and that is all I have on that to be honest. I wish I could say more but not knowing the contributing artist I can't cross with their normal work so I am just enjoying it.
Track 11.Stormy Monday. Beth Hart, Let's slow it right down now for this one, the moment of the giggle from the vocalist is just a thing the way the words slip and slide over words along in tune with Slash's guitar, a totally gorgeous ly performed blues track.
Track 12. Mental Chestnut. This is just Slash and the band and it is a beautiful ending to the album, just enough to calm you down make you relax and walk drive your worries away.
I don't star rate I do not score I just give it the love it deserves these artist took their time to make this music for us and even this metal head can accept this album is perfectly good for just grooving out too and relaxing, so if you didn't know Slash's Orgy Of The Damned is a Blues Album but it is so worth picking a copy up from where ever you can buy music from now a days!
