Downloads Of The Week

In short


1. Metallica - That Day That Never Comes, Cyanide & My Apocalypse from Death Magnetic.

2. Fleetwood Mac - Brown Eyes from Tusk

3. Glasvegas - Daddy’s Gone

4. David Bowie – Live in Santa Monica ‘72

5. Bob Seger - Turn The Page from Back in ’72 / Live Bullet / Greatest Hits

In Depth

1. Metallica

Metallica return with three stunners. Riffs & solos reminiscent of Metallica circa ’89 make me a happy man. Metallica will be unhappy as the new CD has been leaked. I succumbed to download an extra track That Was Just Your Life and it’s a peach. When Metallica tour this new CD the crowds will be screaming out the chorus’.


2. Fleetwood Mac

Revisited this track as I am thinking of buying it as Amazon have the expanded and remastered 2xCD version of this great album for only £6.47. Plus apparently DJ Shadow sampled this song on an early track.


3. Glasvegas

Great song from their forthcoming self-titled debut CD, saw this live on TV the other week at Reading, great introduction to a new band.

4. David Bowie

Great 2xCD set of 18 tracks of Bowie at his best whilst on the Ziggy Stardust tour. Bowie's output during the 70s is near perfect for me anyway, you could never accuse Bowie of been boring or doing the same album twice. No one was as prolific with 11x CDs during that era, not counting 1969's Space Oddity and 1980's Ashes To Ashes.. Bowie's stage show was constantly evolving to accommodate his changing characters. His other live CD from the 70's are Ziggy Stardust ('73 - The Final Concert), David Live ('74) , Stage (78) , and finally you cannot ignore the great Bowie @ The Beeb (68-72).

5. Bob Segar

Turn The Page was originally released as a single in 1973, however it never made the charts. It wasn't until 1976 that a live version of the track from the Live Bullet album that it became a rock radio hit for Bob Seger and his new band The Silver Bullet Band.

Metallica covered Turn The Page on 1998’s Garage Inc. This was the best new track on that CD and probably my favourite track of theirs from the last 15 years. The original has a kind of soft rock ring to it, not too much country and kicks off with a great saxophone riff. Needless to say Metallica replaced the sax with a slide guitar. The lyrics are all about the highs and lows of been in a band on the road. Metallica are the ultimate road band of the last 30 years and that’s why Hetfield identified with the song and lyrics so much. This has a standout video starring veteran porn actress Ginger Lynn. The video tells the harrowing tale of a stripper who sells herself and the side affects on her kid. What helps make it so good and helps you connect with the character is the interview Ginger Lynn's character gives at various points in the video. The video was Directed by Jonas Akerlund famous for his Smack Your Bitch Up & Ray Of Light videos for The Prodigy and Madonna.

I couldn't talk about it so much and not include the Metallica video for Turn The Page.