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Vinyl

Slayer: Show No Mercy (1983)

A lot more new music purchases to get to, but I needed a bit of a breather. So I go back to the time of my childhood, but I’ll be honest: I definitely wasn’t listening to Slayer at 10 years old, cool as that would be. I remember the burnouts in high school with the logo emblazoned on their jackets, but my black Members Only jacket had a small Stryper logo at the time (I would eventually upgrade to acid washed denim with a Halloween back patch). It took another few years and the band’s incredible live album before I became a fan, and a few decades after that before I dug into Show No Mercy, their 1983 debut. Fast and loose and gleefully evil in a way their followups would veer sharply from, it’s a bubbly blast that shows hints of the beast they would become.

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Miscellany, Playlists

52 Reasons Why

Wanted to do something different today. It’s my birthday, and I already built a playlist last week celebrating a bunch of great music that came out during the year of my birth. But the music of 1973 isn’t what made me into who I am now – that’s an ever-growing, ever-evolving store of musical moments and memories. And so I wanted to make another playlist, of the songs that inspired me, moved, me, marked significant moments of my life.

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Playlists

(Un)Focused Definition Ep. 9: Killing Music Forever

This one’s for the metalheads.

Three days back from vacation and I’m still negative for COVID…but I’m still congested all over, only now it’s accompanied by insane coughing, asthma, and an ear that feels like someone’s inflating a balloon in my skull. So I’ve been listening to a lot of music to match my sour mood. For a least eight years I’ve maintained a playlist called “Killing Music Forever” that contains a lot – but not all – of my favorite heavy music. It’s weird: there’s a dearth of black metal on it, which seems strange considering my love (and sideways adoption for my own music) for the genre, but I always wanted this playlist to punch more than scream, if that makes sense. It does to me, which is the only thing that matters. So as I continue to recuperate we’re hitting random and seeing what pops up. May it get your blood moving as well.

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