Last week something weird happened on Spotify. I added a fairly large portion of UFO’s Deluxe live album and listened to some new releases from the album, then, as of Monday, the album was delayed to November 20th and the tracks from the album were made unavailable. Hopefully they will be “re-released” with the official release, though it makes you wonder why they didn’t have better quality control to make sure it didn’t get out at all. A few nice surprise releases occurred with a new Ariana Grande track, a single for the Black Stone Cherry album releasing this week and Miley Cyrus’ cover of The Cranberries’ “Zombie” at the “Save Our Stages” Benefit Event a couple weekends ago, which also heralds her new album “Plastic Hearts,” which is now on my Christmas list. “Zombie” is also about the innocents caught in the crossfire of extremist conflicts, it was written in response to the extreme Protestant-Catholic bloodshed in Ireland, one of the last places on the planet where what denomination you are makes a difference. To an extent, it speaks to my fears here, that there will be mass political violence in response to the election. One of my biggest fears these days is a massive persecution of the LGBTQ+ community that I will be powerless to stop, which has been exacerbated by the corruption of the Supreme Court. At this point, I am convinced Biden could win 11,000,000 votes to 1,000,000 and 400 Electoral College points to 10 and Trump could just go to the Supreme Court who would declare him the winner and the ballots null and void because he put three of them on the bench so they owe him loyalty and the Constitution and Bill of Rights are just toilet paper now.
However, we must not riot if this outcome happens. “Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do
that”-Martin Luther King Jr.
Anyway, here are the main releases I’m looking forward to
tonight:
Black Stone Cherry-Human Condition: The Kentucky-based
Southern Rockers who’ve teamed with Billy Ray Cyrus, Lzzy Hale and Warren
Haynes are back with another album.
They’ve been responsible for some of my favorite Hard Rock in the last
few years like “Cheaper to Drink Alone” and “Southern Fried Friday Night.” I’m anticipating this to be another hit of
2020.
Motorhead Ace of Spades 40th Anniversary Deluxe: “If You Like To
Gamble, I Tell You I’m Your Man!” It’s been 40 years since Lemmy belted those
words through vinyl speakers. In
celebration, the album gets re-released with live performances throughout
Europe throughout 1981.
Sam Smith-Love Goes: All their singles and collaborations are finally
available on one CD, with their duets with Normani and Demi Lovato both
available. I’m looking forward to this
album, Sam Smith is a good singer.
For King and Country-A Drummer Boy’s Christmas: The lead singer of For King
and Country, Joel Smallbone, was in one of my favorite religious films, Like A
Country Song and I got exposed to their music buying it for my cousin for
Christmas last year. It’s hard to screw
up a Christmas album and this one is somewhat more appropriately timed.
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