Last week had some good releases, like a duet version of Noah Cyrus’ song “Noah (Stand Still)” with Billy Ray Cyrus. This feels appropriate, since Noah mentions her father in the lyrics and Billy Ray wrote, sang and still performs a song called “Stand Still,” which served as the theme song for DOC (which started Miley and Noah’s careers) and I heard live when I saw him in concert. Guns N Roses released a live version of “You Could Be Mine,” which was recorded on May 16th, 1991, my 2nd Birthday. The band sounds great, but Axl sounds hoarse and like he needs a lozenge through the song. He even admits this by saying after the performance “I need a ****ing stiff drink.” Dolly Parton released a single of “Silent Night” as her Christmas album from 2020 with Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus and Willie Nelson has another go-around, though with bonus tracks like this I can’t complain, while nonbinary artist Sam Smith and transgender woman Kim Petras teamed up to make a song called “Unholy.” I feel it is long past time for our conservative, make your choices for you attitude to be dropped so people can go out, make mistakes and come back if they choose, or determine what their relationship with God means and how it impacts their identity and which parts. God calls me to be compassionate and help the downtrodden by trying to entertain or cry with those who cry, he doesn’t seem to care about my gender or orientation. Unfortunately, the current political atmosphere suggests my generation’s great-grandchildren will be dead before significant headway is made in this area.
Dio released two live albums, one from 1983 and one from 1987. Both were great listens, I especially liked the versions of “Neon Knights,” “Heaven and Hell” and “Man on the Silver Mountain” from the 1987 album and “Stand Up and Shout,” “Straight Through the Heart,” “Rainbow in the Dark” and “Man on the Silver Mountain” in the 1983 one. Band-Maid, from Japan, also made an intense hard rock album that was fun to listen to.
I have had discussions and realize a lot of my current issues are due to my binary way of thinking in terms of actions and the fact that I have let people down and angered them through my life. It is hard for me to see actions of any kind as neutral or anything other than good or bad as is, and I also worry other people in my complex can hear me and judge me. I have let people down in various ways through my life, so it shouldn’t upset me as it does, but that’s what clinical depression and anxiety do, they remove logic and reason from your thoughts and make you think if you let someone down, you are evil. They start to demand perfection from everyone around me or that I’m entertained by for security, or they’ll either throw them out or gloss over their problems. But it’s unrealistic to expect another person to live by your moral code just as it is unrealistic to think you can live without ever thinking of sex, doubts, worry, anger or other things we try to pretend don’t exist. I realized right now I simply want to create safety and security in leisure and the rest of life for myself and those who matter to me, and this current extremism threatens that due to how diverse my friends, inspirations and loved ones are. I worry about people saying “you can’t listen to Miley Cyrus or Judas Priest or BabyMetal or Ozzy Osbourne or FLETCHER” or “you can’t play with Edelgard, Erza Scarlet, Kiria Kurono, Samus or Melony” or “you can’t watch Aquaman or Wonder Woman or Birds of Prey or Friday the 13th part 6” because how they see the world becomes law.
This week looks to be a busy one. Sammy Hagar and the Circle and The Dead Daisies are both releasing their new studio albums, which means lots of passionate Hard Rock vocals from Sammy Hagar and Glenn Hughes. There is also a new Alice Cooper live album featuring a reunion of the original band, except one guitarist who is no longer with us, who is replaced with more recent Alice Cooper guitarist Ryan Roxie. Brandi Carlile’s deluxe, stripped-down version of last year’s album with a bonus version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” also came out earlier this week, I actually have already heard the renditions of “Mama Werewolf” and “Space Oddity” and they were fantastic. Paramore has a new single, their first new music in five years, which is dreamlike in the verses and loud and crunchy on the chorus with a dance beat, the album will likely be an early favorite of next year. Vanilla Fudge has a Led Zeppelin cover album coming out and that George Michael Deluxe album I talked about weeks/months ago is getting released tonight. Just like two weeks ago, this will be a very busy week for me.
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