Heavy Metal Tuesday

 Last night I received my Zakk Sabbath "Vertigo" album and some tracks from the new live albums by BabyMetal and decided to declare it "Heavy Metal Tuesday" at 9:30 pm PDT due to the high energy music of the day.  Zakk Sabbath performed a track-by-track recreation of the first Black Sabbath album, now 50 years old.  Some lyrics still hold up,

"A Politician's Job, they say, Is Very Hard,

For He's Got To Choose Who's Got To Go And Die

They can put a man on the moon quite easy

But people here on Earth are dying from All Diseases" from "Wicked World"

Showing that some of the issues of 50 years ago's Vietnam climate are still alive.  In fact, I'm reminded of this gem from John Lennon's album that will be turning 50 later this year,

"There's room at the top, there'll telling you still/

But first you must learn to smile as you kill/

If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

Hopefully, we can end our pointless 20-year conflict going nowhere soon.  On the other side of Metal, BabyMetal released two live albums recorded earlier that reminded me of the live show I saw of theirs last year.  I honestly believe this band has a bright future ahead of them and would list either them or Noah Cyrus as my top act of the 2010s, looking forward to their future.  This week doesn't have much in the way of releases, but Country fans should look forward to a 30th anniversary re-release of Reba McIntire.

Fun Fact; 30 years ago, Reba McIntire was also in the first film of a sci-fi series called "Tremors" where she played the wife of Survivalist Bert Gummer.  Bert reappeared in all the sequels, Reba is only referenced.  Bert Gummer is also the favorite character in the series of Internet Reviewer Allison Pregler.  One of the best scenes in the first movie is him single-handedly killing a Graboid with shotguns when it breaks into his underground rec room with Reba helping.  Tremors also created a short-lived series on the Sci-Fi channel.