A Song A Day By Active Whyzzat Members.

We probably have music tastes that cover the spectrum. Could be fun to share that, one song per day per member. Post something you like, especially if it is a deep cut or far away from mainstream. All allowed and encouraged.


It's a shame most people probably thought Living Colour was a novelty band. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Let's see yours.

Late June, 2014, Glastonbury festival in England. Around 3:30am, many hours after the main stages had finished for the night, my partner and I stumbled into one of the smaller, all-night music tents to witness these two performing their version of this old country classic. I probably put this on at least once a month. I loved Glastonbury and saw some tremendous bands but I don't think anything really topped this song.

That's really cool. I can see why it was a highlight. It's a neat find when a support band blows away a headliner.

I'm going to avoid my really heavy sh*t for a little bit. You may know the name of the band, but probably not this album.

CELTIC FROST - A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh (OFFICIAL VIDEO)​

redrumloa said:

I'm going to avoid my really heavy sh*t for a little bit. You may know the name of the band, but probably not this album.

CELTIC FROST - A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh (OFFICIAL VIDEO)​

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Just getting around to listening to these. The LA Guns one isn't my cup of tea at all but this one is more interesting to my ear musically. I can't get into the vocal style he uses from just before 3 minutes in though. I've never been able to get my brain to like that, even when I appreciate the musicianship. I did a sound engineering course about 15 years ago and half the class were in bands with those type of vocals, although they were all about 20 years younger than me. Some extremely talented young musicians and I went to a lot of their gigs but never quite got it. Probably too late now.

This is from another favourite concert video of mine, The Last Waltz. The lyrics to this song really grab me in a way that few songs manage. That and the live performance with Levon Helm's amazing simultaneous vocals and drumming (very difficult as you'll know if you've ever tried). I could pick a whole bunch of other songs from that concert too. Well worth a watch if you've never seen it (or even if you have).

Robert said:

The LA Guns one isn't my cup of tea

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All good. We're probably pretty far apart on tastes with over some overlap. If something is sh*t, you can say so or just not even justify it with a response

Is it due to being a ballad, or just know you don't like the band? I'm not a big ballad guy, but do like that song. It's not my favorite from them and I'm not an LA Guns super fan or anything. They have some harder edge metal songs I like more.

Robert said:

but this one is more interesting to my ear musically. I can't get into the vocal style he uses from just before 3 minutes in though. I've never been able to get my brain to like that, even when I appreciate the musicianship

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Maybe a bad choice from me then. This was the rare song that the bassist sang lead on. IIRC that may have been the only time he sang lead while in the band. I do like harsh vocals, but only select types of harsh vocals. Mainly I like some of the early tradition death metal vocals and some early grindcore vocals. Most everything after that is just mostly garbage to me. Boy oh boy I can't stand "Screamo".

I guess one day I'll do another song with the same lead guy from Celtic Frost, Tom Gabriel Fischer (aka Tom G. Warrior). He'd been the main guy in 3 bands with a linear history between them. He's an interesting guy and quite intelligent. He was close personal friends with HR Giger, even being a servant to him in his later life. Tom's bands are AFAIK the bands to ever have Giger's original art on their albums, with his permission.




Do you completely avoid the heavier, crazier stuff? Not necessarily vocals, just in general.

Robert said:

This is from another favourite concert video of mine, The Last Waltz. The lyrics to this song really grab me in a way that few songs manage. That and the live performance with Levon Helm's amazing simultaneous vocals and drumming (very difficult as you'll know if you've ever tried). I could pick a whole bunch of other songs from that concert too. Well worth a watch if you've never seen it (or even if you have).

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Like you the first video above (Phillip & Hannah) I really liked, but this one did little for me. There's nothing wrong with it and it's not bad, just not something I'd seek out. Seeing the age of the link, I wonder if it has to do when we are first exposed to something. Some of the music I heard from my parents growing up that I was neutral to back then, I hear back now and really appreciate. I don't know.

I'm a big classic blues fan. So many to chose from. I'll default to Howlin' Wolf.

I've been neglecting music lately, so fun to revisit some of this stuff. My life should calm down soon and be able to get back to the simple things of enjoying music more. I did buy my first new album (CD) in maybe 5 years,



This is an extreme metal band from Botswana, Africa. I've been following them for several years and pestering them for physical media. They finally did a physical release, limited to 100 CDs. I snapped one up. Their indie record company is here in Florida. There is some talk of possible US shows next year. Good chance I can go see them if they do.

A bit OT, but this is the active music thread. If I do see them, I'll post in your concert thread

redrumloa said:

Is it due to being a ballad, or just know you don't like the band? I'm not a big ballad guy, but do like that song. It's not my favorite from them and I'm not an LA Guns super fan or anything.

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No, I like a lot of ballads. I think it's more the overall sound reminds me of a kind of 80s big-hair-and-spandex-glam-metal that I never liked. It's hard to explain as there is nothing objectively wrong with the song.

redrumloa said:

Maybe a bad choice from me then.

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Not at all, I still got something from it.

redrumloa said:

Do you completely avoid the heavier, crazier stuff? Not necessarily vocals, just in general.

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When it comes to metal, I've never really been a fan, despite being able to appreciate a lot of metal bands. OTOH, some of the electronic music I like can sound very harsh and atonal to others. Also, my first real musical genre I identified with was the UK punk scene of the mid-to-late 70s. To a lot of my friends as a kid, it was just as harsh and atonal as stuff I complain about today. I still have a bunch of 7" singles from that time, including this one:

Robert said:

Also, my first real musical genre I identified with was the UK punk scene of the mid-to-late 70s. To a lot of my friends as a kid, it was just as harsh and atonal as stuff I complain about today.

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Not a bad tune, pretty cool.

I wasn't really exposed to punk as a little kid. When I was really getting into music it was mainly early original Van Halen and a few NWOBHM like Def Leppard (when they were good) and Iron Maiden. From that went pretty quickly to Metal, then Thrash over about a ~6 year period. Without getting long winded, in the US during the 80s the punk and Thrash Metal scenes decided they were mortal enemies. It was mostly one way. If a "long hair" went to a punk show, chances were they'd get jumped. There's a long story there I won't get fully into unless you are interested. Basically during this period there were a few bands claimed by both scenes and punk heavily influenced my favorite band. The heavy early Punk scene was directly responsible for the craziest of crazy sh*t I love.

Long story short, In recent decades I've listened to a lot of that early heavy Punk and have an appreciation for it. I almost exclusively hate "Pop Punk" like Greenday. Only exception I can think to that would be a handful of Ramones songs.

Punk is an interested genre with some really dark chapters(see Nazi Skinheads), but then again Metal has some really dark chapters, mainly the Norwegian Black Metal scene in the 90s. The Nazi Skin problem was something I saw firsthand.

redrumloa said:

I guess one day I'll do another song with the same lead guy from Celtic Frost, Tom Gabriel Fischer (aka Tom G. Warrior). He'd been the main guy in 3 bands with a linear history between them.

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redrumloa said:

Not a bad tune, pretty cool.

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It's a wee bit formulaic and, frankly, rips off the Sex Pistols but I loved it when I was 7. (Along with the Pistols and a few others like Cockney Rejects, Buzzcoks and Stiff Little Fingers.)

redrumloa said:

Without getting long winded, in the US during the 80s the punk and Thrash Metal scenes decided they were mortal enemies.

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In the late 70s and very early 80s there was a "Mods v Rockers" thing still going in Glasgow. The so-called "mods" by that time were listening to bands like The Jam and at lot of two-tone and ska. The so-called "rockers" were into punk. The trouble I had as a 7-9 year old was I liked it all and remember briefly pretending to be "against" the mods, until my older sister reminded me I loved The Jam. I also got quite into the Two-Tone record label, buying lots of records by The Beat, Selector, Madness and The Specials. I still have a bunch of those too.

redrumloa said:

It was mostly one way. If a "long hair" went to a punk show, chances were they'd get jumped.

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Funnily enough, I ended up with long hair from 17 but it was almost the 90s by then. As for getting jumped, by 1983 all my favourite punk bands had vanished. "Punk is dead" was the cry and it was, sad to say, true. There were no punk shows to get jumped at by the time I was old enough to go to one. Also around 81-82, bands like Simple Minds and U2 entered my radar and I more or less forgot all about my punk records until years later.

Anyway, here's an old classic from The Jam.

Robert said:

Anyway, here's an old classic from The Jam.

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I remember that song - had it on one of the many "Curry's" 90 minute Metal Oxide cassettes I made with my old yellow cassette recorder jammed between the speakers of my parents stereo every week during Radio One's top 40 - finger hovering over the pause button so I could skip the songs I didn't care for.

Robert said:

s for getting jumped, by 1983 all my favourite punk bands had vanished. "Punk is dead" was the cry and it was, sad to say, true. There were no punk shows to get jumped at by the time I was old enough to go to one.

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Original Punk bands were pretty much done by then, but here in the states the New York Hardcore (Punk) was in full swing in the 80s. That genre was infested with skinheads, including Nazi skinheads. It's a part of history that is glossed over or ignored when people gush on about the history of punk. Even skins that weren't explicitly nazis still brought that same hatred of "long hairs" aka metalheads. I missed most of that since I wasn't allowed to go to shows until basically 18 years old. I did see Nazi Skins at shows well into the 90s, but I generally avoided the mosh pit. They'd show up to Slayer concerts extremely high on whatever with a crazed look on their face, obviously looking to just injure people in the pit. Dead Kennedys has a song 'Nazi Punks F*ck Off" in 1981. In 1993 Grindcore band Napalm Death covered it, as they were still a problem at shows.

That Jam song you posted sounds familiar. Pretty sure I heard it back in the day. Not bad.

Since we're talking about punk, I can say a lot of the bands I like were directly influenced by punk. Napalm Death started out as a straight punk band, before being one of the inventors of Grindcore. My favorite metal band Slayer ended up being so influenced by Punk, you can tell the shift in direction after their first album. There's a long story behind that.

Suicidal Tendencies is another band that started out as straight punk, before gradually morphing into a metal band. Their first album from 1983 was straight punk. I recommend listening to that whole first album if you like punk. It's hard for me to pick just one song, since they all are so strong and unique. I pick this one, not because it's necessarily my favorite, but due to the fact it supposedly got the front man a visit from the Secret Service.