It was said once that music is food for the spirit, I must agree with that old saying, as music has kept me going for many years now...
I love many bands and love many different songs...here you will find some
1979 was running, the Hong Kong Cafe's foundations were shaken by the powerful music of a new punk band: Christian Death...
Led by singer Rozz Williams (1963 - 1998) it soon gathered a loyal following, breaking up to reform in 1981, with a record contract from Frontier Records in 1982, releasing Only Theatre of Pain as their debut album, an album prone to induce a catharsis into listeners, would start the path that gained Christian Death and specially Rozz Williams an everlasting place in my heart.
A world first filled with punk sounds, necrophilia, lyrics that some have deemed as "satanic", then as the years passed by, with Surrealism, dada, drugs, alcohol and songs dedicated to serial killers, with theatrical shows like the Path of Sorrows extravaganza, it just sets the listener's mind in motion.
No matter what people say, Rozz Williams was Christian Death, Valor Kand just doesn't cut it as Christian Death's lead singer or song writter, aside from the fact that Rozz Williams never agreed to let Valor use the Christian Death name, after all it was Rozz's band...
In the early nineties, Rozz Williams formed Christian Death again and recorded some albums under the Cleopatra label. Sadly, Rozz commited suicide in 1998, he was found dead in his apartment on April 1st, 1998, and the voice and mind of a great artist was silenced
His heritage lives on however in the form of the various Christian Death, Christian Death featuring Rozz Williams, Shadow Project, Premature Ejaculation and several other bands recordings and tapes, incluiding some live ones and some live performances caught on video, incluiding the Iconologia live CD and video tape.
Songs:
-The Angels
-Romeo's Distress
-Spiritual Cramp
-Dream for Mother
Since Bauhaus started in 1978`s New Years Eve, taking their name from a german school of art, it has been one of my personal favourites, reflecting a decadent world, a world that they saw as it really is...with passion, vices and undead creatures roaming the nights...
It was quite a shame when they broke up in 1983, but only after establishing the foundations of the tendency known as "goth" or "dark" today. Melodic tension, dense bass lines, and Peter Murphy`s ever-variant voice (lamment to joy, quiet chant to overpowering howl) are but a few things that were critical in Bauhaus`.
-Bela Lugosi is dead
-She`s in parties
-Passion of Lovers
-Ziggy Stardust (a great cover of a David Bowie song)
-Crowds You can see some great Bauhaus videos and live performances (incluiding a Bela Lugosi live performance) here
In 1970, in an english industrial town, a band was born, a band called Earth...who tired of the club goers who didn`t listen, decided to change their name based on a Boris Karloff film, Black Sabbath, turning up their amplifiers louder and louder (and "using every gig as a rehearsal", Tony Iommi) and in general just doing an excelent, furious show, and some people would say setting the foundation for Heavy Metal.
In 1979, the band broke up, with lead singer continuing a succesful solo career and the band looking for a new lead singer, Ozzy Osbourne "The Madman" as he often calls himself, was back, with a guitar player who is known as an inspiration and teacher for guitarrists all over the world, Randy Rhoads, one of the best heavy metal guitar players ever born, after the death of Rhoads, Ozzy went through a heavy depression period, but not even that can stop this madman....
Black Sabbath and then a solo Ozzbourne could see the truth...hidden to most eyes, they saw a world, filled with creatures mankind thought to be myths, with songs like "The Wizard" and "N.I.B" in the Sabbath period, and then "Mr. Crowley" and "Bark at the Moon" as a solo artist. That truth, together with Ozzy`s high pitched voice and some would say clinical insanity, with really heavy, yet melodic guitar phrases, are what makes Ozzy Osbourne (and Black Sabbath) a personal favourite for the last 21 years...
Songs:
Black Sabbath:
-Paranoid
-Black Sabbath
-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
-Symptom of the Universe
Ozzy Osbourne:
-No more tears
-Bark at the moon
-Crazy train
-Mr. Crowley
-The ultimate sin