This was an exceptionally busy week, as I stated it would be last week. Every album I was looking forward to had standout tracks, Noah Cyrus, FLETCHER, Ringo Starr and Death Cab for Cutie had the strongest showings of pop, emotion, crunchy rock at times and fun, while there were some great blends of pop and alternative rock from Rina Sawayama, Creedence delivered the Classic Rock goods and Smith/Kotzen played some great Hard Rock that made me hunger for a show so long as energetic bassist Julia Lage is on stage. There was also a nice surprise of David Bowie medley-ing The Jean Genie with Love Me Do live with Jeff Beck on guitar. Also, Maggie Lindemann brought some Evanescence vibes to her album with tracks that would start soft, then become raucous. This week alone will keep my MP3 budget busy for the next few months, luckily, October seems relatively quiet so far.
Yesterday, I had a meltdown of all the tension and worry I've been holding back. I let some of the issues loose on Twitter this morning and actually received some support, which made me feel a lot better. I guess the real issue is that my fears have been stoked by the rigidity of my old Church and the excessive snark of a decade of DeviantArt and memories of certain YouTube reviewers, making me afraid to be who I am because who I am isn't popular and isn't going to win any popularity contests. And the big worry is I will die without friends, family or a funeral because I'm too scared to connect with people I don't know too often in the real world and I'm afraid if people online knew more about me, they'd hate me and stop talking to me.
Anyway, onto happier things. This week has a new single by Guns N Roses from their “Use Your Illusion Super Deluxe Edition” release, scheduled for Veteran’s Day. It is from the first live disc, which was, strangely enough, recorded on May 16th, 1991, my 2nd Birthday. Japanese all-girl rock band BAND-MAID released an album on Wednesday, so I’ll be checking that out, and Bethel Music has an interesting looking Praise album I want to look into. Two live Dio albums are also going to be re-released, one from 1983, the other from 1987, and the last release of note is a Billy Idol EP. Not as busy as last week, but that’s fine, next week looks to be a busy one, too.
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