No I hadn’t and thanks very much, needed some new material to explore. Last Eno discovery was this, with John Cale, some beautiful tone here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-INeMspNSQ0
I’ll check out Equatorial Stars so thanks indeed.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c9iYZdsZMM
liked blaze’s voice on this one
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I have no idea who this fellow is. I was running to a Spotify John Prine list and this came on. Goodness.
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This is what Mo Salah’s highlights reel from tonight’s game is going to be set to
https://youtu.be/zAAFXWTIuCc
The hat-trick by Giuseppe Verdi
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I could well imagine Salah dancing around with his daughter to that. 
New Bruce Springsteen album is excellent.
Going back to learning guitar my guitar teacher has asked me to learn intro to Crazy Train by Ozzy.
Been a challenge but I welcome it. Got most of it down now. On the part after the main intro thats repeated 4 times.
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The Springsteen album is really really good - I think this song is the pick of the bunch - written in 1973 ish apparently but never properly recorded - Something good has come out of 2020!
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Nice song however Bruce seems to have lost the power in his voice, the ability to ‘throw’ it. Or is that just a recording thing?
He just doesn’t seem to have that ‘power’ anymore and hasn’t learnt/progressed to something else.
To be fair singing was never really his forte. Fine song writer though
He is 71.
There are a lot of singers that do not have fantastic voices - Bob Dylan, Neil Young come to mind - It is more about what they say and how they convey it.
If you want to see a progression of style by Springsteen, listen to Western Stars or The Ghost of Thom Joad - completely different stylistically from any previous albums he recorded.
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Of course and being a big fan of Neil Diamond I noticed the same sort of ‘drop off’ with Melody Road still a good album though.
Not many songs make me pine for the good times I had as an idiot kid quite like this one…
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Fantastic band. Proper head banging driving song that one.
I love their acoustic album.
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DT’s Images & Words Vs Queensryche’s Operation Mindcrime ?
I tend to oscillate between the two as to the genre defining album. Mostly go towards OM , mostly due to the relevance of the themes and the lyrics even now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=motAwhIOycg
This one recently caught my attention. I tend to remember just one song of certain singers/band and for Uriah Heep it’s been Lady in Black 
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“Images and Words” edges it for me because of its sheer emotional weight (similar to why I prefer “Homicide: Life on the Street” to “The Wire”) - the former deals with personal issues that trouble a human being, while the latter deals with societal issues, that’s why it feels closer to me. Timeless classics, though, both of them, I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise! 
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I see that video has clips from the film Dusk till Dawn and in particular the Salma Hayek scene.
Anyone know who played the music and the name of the song in that scene. I always thought that track was brilliant.
influence of the band cant be stated enough. A very early influence to other more known bands like Judas Priest etc.
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Like i said , my oscillations between the two keep depending on my thinking at the moment. Both absolute masterpieces
Although i do believe that operation mindcrime does speak about the victim and his relationships too. That way , it was a complete album …
Instrumentally, that’s a different thing which i would have to give to dream theater (vocals aside, tate was a monster )