Music Time! “Sleep” Edition. 7/23/16

Apparently my body and brain think I’m still in Mountain time and I should wake up at 0600. While something startled me awake (probably a jackass slamming his car door), I couldn’t get back to sleep. So here I am… awake. Wanting sleep…

ARTIST: The Cure
SONG: Sleep When I’m Dead
ALBUM: 4:13 Dream
YEAR: 2008

ARTIST: Apoptygma Berzerk
SONG: Half Asleep
ALBUM: 7
YEAR: 1998

ARTIST: Stray
SONG: Sleep As Metaphor
ALBUM: Abuse By Proxy
YEAR: 2008

ARTIST: School of Seven Bells
SONG: Half Asleep
ALBUM: Alpinisms (Special Edition)
YEAR: 2009

ARTIST: B! Machine
SONG: SleepDreamSleep (Alternate)
ALBUM: Alternates And Remixes
YEAR: 2002

ARTIST: Evil’s Toy
SONG: From Above Comes Sleep
ALBUM: Angels Only
YEAR: 1997

ARTIST: The Creatures
SONG: Don’t Go to Sleep without Me
ALBUM: Anima Animus
YEAR: 1999

ARTIST: Edge of Dawn
SONG: In Your Sleep
ALBUM: Anything That Gets You Through The Night
YEAR: 2010

ARTIST: Cruxshadows
SONG: Sleepless
ALBUM: As the Dark Against My Halo
YEAR: 2012

ARTIST: Deviant UK
SONG: Wide Asleep
ALBUM: Barbed Wire Saints
YEAR: 2006

ARTIST: Lights of Euphoria
SONG: Sleepwalking
ALBUM: Beyond Subconsciousness
YEAR: 1996

ARTIST: Liquid Divine
SONG: Sleepwalk
ALBUM: Black Box (Expanded)
YEAR: 2007

ARTIST: Anders Manga
SONG: At Dawn They Sleep
ALBUM: Blood Lush
YEAR: 2007

ARTIST: Collide
SONG: Dreamsleep
ALBUM: Chasing The Ghost
YEAR: 2000

ARTIST: Assemblage 23
SONG: How Can You Sleep
ALBUM: Compass (Limited Edition)
YEAR: 2009

ARTIST: Conjure One
SONG: Sleep
ALBUM: Conjure One
YEAR: 2002

ARTIST: Simple Minds
SONG: Sleeping Girl
ALBUM: Cry
YEAR: 2002

ARTIST: Ayria
SONG: Kiss Me Goodnight As I’m Falling Asleep
ALBUM: Debris (Expanded Edition)
YEAR: 2003

ARTIST: Moulin Noir
SONG: I Can’t Sleep
ALBUM: Descending
YEAR: 2000

ARTIST: Say Y
SONG: Sleeping Under a Bridge
ALBUM: A Digital Fate
YEAR: 2012

ARTIST: Escape with Romeo
SONG: Sleepless Nights
ALBUM: Emotional Iceage (Limited Edition)
YEAR: 2007

ARTIST: Fiat Lux
SONG: Sleepless Nightmare
ALBUM: Fac Ut Vivas
YEAR: 1984

ARTIST: Faderhead
SONG: No Time to Sleep
ALBUM: FH4
YEAR: 2013

Music Time! Water Edition… 5/14/16

So we got a little water logged today, so what’s the shuffle got for “water?” We got soaked. By soaked I mean standing in a cold waterfall with clothes on for an hour followed by full blown pneumonia 30 minutes later. The rain came on hard and we had to scramble to get the canopy down, everything packed up, into the car, and then get ourselves in. We weren’t fast enough and the rain was too hard and too fast. Drenched!

ARTIST: Legacy of Music
SONG: Oil & Water
ALBUM: [ex]pedition
YEAR: 2007

ARTIST: The Alpha Conspiracy
SONG: Waterfall
ALBUM: Aura
YEAR: 2004

ARTIST: Funker Vogt
SONG: Hostile Waters
ALBUM: Aviator (Limited Edition)
YEAR: 2007

ARTIST: Underworld
SONG: Moon In Water
ALBUM: Barking
YEAR: 2010

ARTIST: Simple Minds
SONG: Waterfront
ALBUM: The Best of Simple Minds
YEAR: 2001

ARTIST: Akanoid
SONG: Water Drop
ALBUM: Best Off
YEAR: 2000

ARTIST: Thompson Twins
SONG: Still Waters
ALBUM: Close to the Bone
YEAR: 1987

ARTIST: Public Image Ltd.
SONG: Blue Water
ALBUM: Commercial Zone
YEAR: 1984

ARTIST: Android Lust
SONG: Water Whispers
ALBUM: Crater Vol. 1
YEAR: 2013

ARTIST: Clan of Xymox
SONG: Waterfront
ALBUM: Creatures
YEAR: 1999

ARTIST: Gene Loves Jezebel
SONG: Down to the Water
ALBUM: Discover (Special Deluxe Edition)
YEAR: 1986

ARTIST: The Cure
SONG: The Same Deep Water as You
ALBUM: Disintegration
YEAR: 1989

ARTIST: Tears for Fears
SONG: Fish Out of Water
ALBUM: Elemental
YEAR: 1993

ARTIST: Escape With Romeo
SONG: Open Water
ALBUM: Emotional Iceage (Limited Edition)
YEAR: 2007

ARTIST: The Arch
SONG: Waterfall
ALBUM: Engine In Void (Expanded Edition)
YEAR: 2011

ARTIST: The Echoing Green
SONG: Waterfall
ALBUM: Evergreen Collection, The: The Collected Works Of The Echoing Green 1994–2001
YEAR: 2000

ARTIST: Austra
SONG: Shoot the Water
ALBUM: Feel it Break
YEAR: 2011

Music Time! 2/24/16

Time to shuffle MediaMonkey again and see what comes out! Hopefully you’ll be introduced to a band you’ve never heard before!

ARTIST: BlackOPz
SONG: It’s Not Human V2.0
ALBUM: Blood, Sweat And Fear (Deluxe Edition)
YEAR: 2012

ARTIST: The Darling Buds
SONG: LIttle Bit of Heaven
ALBUM: Crawdaddy
YEAR: 1990

ARTIST: Ego Likeness
SONG: Song To The Divine
ALBUM: Dragonfly
YEAR: 2001

ARTIST: Halo Effect
SONG: Spaceman
ALBUM: Recording
YEAR: 2012

ARTIST: Frozen Plasma
SONG: The End – Deliverance
ALBUM: Monumentum
YEAR: 2009

ARTIST: Van She
SONG: Virgin Suicide
ALBUM: V
YEAR: 2008

ARTIST: Depeche Mode
SONG: World in My Eyes (Oil Tank Mix)
ALBUM: World in My Eyes (CD Single)
YEAR: 1990

ARTIST: Tears for Fears
SONG: Watch Me Bleed
ALBUM: The Hurting
YEAR: 1983

ARTIST: Simple Minds
SONG: All The Things She Said
ALBUM: The Best of Simple Minds
YEAR: 1985 (song)

Got to see Mr. Kitty last year in Austin. Incredible energetic performer and amazing music as well!

ARTIST: Mr. Kitty
SONG: Hell
ALBUM: Fragments
YEAR: 2015

ARTIST: Leather Strip
SONG: Before I Fade
ALBUM: Ængelmaker
YEAR: 2009

ARTIST: In My Rosary
SONG: Confused By The Time
ALBUM: The Shades Of Cats
YEAR: 2002

2014, Thank You for the Music!

I usually put this out at the end of the year, but I still had some music to import into my library and wanted to make sure I had everyone on the list!

2014 was a great year for music. It wasn’t as an amazing year as 2013 was for quantity, but what it lacked in quantity it certainly made up for with quality. A lot of great bands that I love put out new music in 2014.

I’m a huge fan of EBM, Futurepop, Industrial Dance, Synthpop, New Wave, etc. I’m always happy to see the scene continue to produce new bands and great music. And this year marked new albums by some bands a few of us older folks will recognize, like Billy Idol, Information Society, and Simple Minds!

Thanks to the following bands for putting out new stuff in 2014!

Billy Idol — Kings & Queens of the Underground
Birthday Massacre, The — Superstition
BlutEngel — Black Symphonies (An Orchestral Journey)
Bryan Ferry — Avonmore
Bush — Man on the Run
Clan of Xymox — Matters of Mind, Body and Soul
Client — Authority
Combichrist — We Love You
Cosmicity — Humans May Safely Graze
Cryo — Retropia
Diary of Dreams — Elegies in Darkness
Echo & The Bunnymen — Meteorites
Erasure — Reason EP
Erasure — Violet Flame, The
Faderhead — Atoms & Emptiness
Front Line Assembly — Echoes
Haerts — Haerts
Information Society — Hello World
Iris — Radiant
Laibach — Spectre
Live — Turn, The
Melotron — Werkschau
Mental Discipline — Butterfly EP
Mitch Murder — Interceptor
Morrissey — World Peace Is None of Your Business
New Division, The — Together We Shine
Nine Inch Nails — Recoiled
Perturbator — Dangerous Days
Peter Murphy — Lion
Phantogram — Voices
Seabound — Speak In Storms
Simple Minds — Big Music
Smashing Pumpkins — Monuments to an Elegy
St. Vincent — St. Vincent
Surveillance — Oceania
Thomas Bergersen — Sun
THYX — Super Vision
Trust, The — Joyland
Weezer — Everything Will Be Alright In the End
Whiteqube — Panic, Rage, Riot, Revolt! EP
Xenturion Prime — Mecha Rising