Noise-some Notes – A Week in Listening 15th October 2012
KISS – Monster This album’s been a nice surprise and it’s a shoo-in for the year’s best list here at HMO Mission Control. Maybe not quite number one… but it’s up there anyway. There’s been a lot of...
View ArticleNoise-some Notes – A Week in Listening 22nd October 2012
Remixes seem to be a theme this week. It’s not intentional I promise! Gillan – Double Trouble (Studio Side) Loving this intense and focused album. Let’s face it, if you’re going to open an album with a...
View ArticleBuying Round-Up – 21st November 2012
Haven’t done one of these bad-boys for a while! And I’ve got quite a backlog of purchases so there will be more where this came from… Because you can never have too many Iron Maiden albums. Unless one...
View ArticleNoise-some Notes – A Fortnight in Listening 10th December 2012
My posting routine is all skew-whiff thanks to Christmas so I’m going to cram two weeks’ worth of listening into this post. Happily there was a lot of repeat listening over the two weeks so it...
View ArticleNoise-some Notes – 10th March 2013
Manowar’s Destroyer… oops, sorry. Fighting the World Manowar – Fighting The World (Blue Vinyl – Back on Black) The closest Manowar ever got to being KISS. If that’s not immediately apparent from the...
View ArticleHow Tempting! – June 2013
I’m sure the market can figure this out. June brings with it a vexing problem… 2 Queensrÿches! If I can paraphrase Charles Bronson a little… that’s 2 Queensrÿches too many. Last month’s victory over...
View ArticleBuying Round-Up – June 2013
Welcome to month 6 of the HMO Challenge 2013. I had a relatively generous £60 to play with this month and after spending just £34 in May I was feeling remarkably confident about coming well in under...
View ArticleKISS – Lick it Up
A KISS Klassik on CD and Vinyl I discovered KISS in the late 80s. Up until Crazy Nights, they had never made much of a splash in the UK, so without much info on the band or their history I generally...
View ArticleVenom – Welcome to Hell
Venom – Welcome to Hell Extreme Metal pioneers Venom waged war from the very depths of Hell, raging against the early-80s New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands they considered tame and the heroes that...
View ArticleBuying Round-Up – January 2014 Part 1
I spent most of January looking for bargains and catching up on some of last year’s releases that I hadn’t got round to yet. Unshackled from any pesky challenges, I bought a lot this month but I’ll be...
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