Where is the Love For All These Bands from my "H" CD Shelves Who Don't Get Mentioned Nearly Enough on ILM?

Helloween is an old Euro-metal band from the Eighties who've been around a long time, even splitting in two at one point to form Gamma Ray. I had an all covers album by Helloween that I really liked. They even performed a tune by Babe Ruth on it.

Hot Cross are phenomenal. Their first 10", "A New Set of Lungs" is totally furious and loud as hell - sorta like Big Bear/Orchid, with lots of layered guitars and shifting time signatures. Can't wait to hear what they do next, as they're easily one of my favorite hardcore(ish) bands right now.

Hoku's "How Do I Feel (The Burrito Song)" has one of the great first verses in all of pop music:

I was free when we met,
you were eating a burrito,
with a girl, some brunette
at El Torosco’s.

Then you smiled
like you knew
that someday we’d be together.
And together we were,
for a while.

A Hoosier Hot Shots CD is actually sitting two feet away from my desk right now: SO much fun. Who doesn't like "I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones)"?

Hampton Grease Band were amazing, should've-been-big-or-at-least-more-notorious-than-they-are Beefheart-esque strangeness from the late 60's-early 70's. You're talking about Col. Bruce Hampton's solo records, though, which suck. Bad MOR jam band dreck.

Helloween are notable for their 2 album Euro-cheese metal concept albums "The Keeper Of The 7 Keys Parts 1 & 2", which they followed up with an album called "Pink Bubbles Go Ape" and blew it. Imagine Rhapsody doing that! The disciples have learned from the mistakes of their masters.

Not much love here is there? Which Bernard Herrmann do you have Chuck?

The Brit stoners, though actually you cleared up something I was confused about. I'd heard somebody say Hangnail were Xtn once, but I never realized they meant a different band.

>No Hovercraft?<

No. Who are Hovercraft?

>hooverphonic -> a belgian reviewer claimed the new album was better than portishead. he's obviously on crack.<

Why? Their old stuff (or at least *Blue Wonder Power Milk*) was better than Portishead (or at least I liked it better at the time); why wouldn't their new stuff be better, too? (Though I've never heard their new stuff, so maybe you know something I don't. And I'm guessing you like Portishead more than I do.)

>My favorite Hrvatski album is Oiseaux:<

Mine, too; Oiseaux 96-98 to be exact. That's the only one I've ever liked enough to keep. So yeah, a while ago. Have no idea about his more recent stuff, or what his name is now.

>Tom Hamilton- the bass player from Aerosmith?<

Nah, though he's in my collection plenty, obviously; I meant the experimental composer who put out *London Fix: Music Changing With the Price of Gold* a year or two back.

>You're talking about Col. Bruce Hampton's solo records<

Not really; I'm talking his two new-wave-era (early '80s) records with the band Late Bronze Age, which I prefer to both his Aquarium Rescue Unit ones or his Hampton Grease Band one (inasmuch as I remember it, though I prefer HGB to his most recent stuff obviously.)

>Which Bernard Herrmann do you have Chuck?<

*Citizen Kane: The Essential Bernard Herrmann Film Music Collection,* Silva double CD

>Halfcocked the soundtrack, right? Not a band?<

Nope, a glammy 3-gal/2-guy hard rock band/pop-metal band, DreamWorks 2001.

And the only Helloween I own (or have ever enjoyed) is *Metal Jukebox* an all-covers CD which includes their interpretations of songs by Jethro Tull, Focus, Babe Ruth, Sensational Alex Harvey Band, David Bowie, and Frank Marino's Mahogany Rush, among others.

his remix of a kid606 track is also a must. its called something like catstep my vsp.

Why? Their old stuff (or at least *Blue Wonder Power Milk*) was better than Portishead (or at least I liked it better at the time); why wouldn't their new stuff be better, too? (Though I've never heard their new stuff, so maybe you know something I don't. And I'm guessing you like Portishead more than I do.)

I do like Portishead better but it's just not that comparable in my opinion. I think the comparison is a bit easy. The last album is actually pretty good. They have a new singer now.

ztt are about to reissue this album (why when they have Nasty Rox Inc in their unreleased archives is beyond me) with extra disc of remixes, apparently.

basically - uk version of daisy age hip hop - lots of radio friendly loops and fun stuff, not great - but pleasant enough.

http://www.villagevoice.com/music/9923,reynolds,6343,22.html

I've never heard it but I believe he did a concept lp w/Swamp Dogg!

What I remember from Hooverphonic was a friend of mine rabidly recommending some song of theirs as magnificent, and then being crestfallen when he realized it was essentially Hot Buttered Soul with worse lyrics.

And the Howling Diablos are an amazing show and highly recommended even if they can be a little bit on the shallow side of fun (how many songs about drinking do you need?)

No. Who are Hovercraft?

Mostly known as the band with Eddie Veder's girlfriend in it, though I think one song did get a small amount of alternative radio (or MTV 120 Minutes) play.

Am I the only one who still listens to Swarm and Dither?

Anyway. The ZZ Hill CDs I have are *Turn Back the Hands of Time: Rare And Unreleased Recordings, 1965-1972* (Night Train) and *This Time They Told the Truth: The Columbia Years* (Columbia/Legacy), both pre-Malaco, even though my favorite stuff by him is '80s Malaco stuff like "Cheating in the Next Room"; I used to own a couple of those LPs on vinyl (and according to Xgau's '80s book there was a good best-of of those years), but I think I sold them. Which was very dumb of me.

"More a soul record than a country record," Matt Cibula (who I believe likes it more than I do) says, which is true. And I don't care about no bonafides; hell, all boring alt-county bands have bona-fides. I care about the songs and the rhythm and the singing; it's one of the few alt-country CDs lately that *didn't* bore me to tears. But right, it isn't great. Might make my country Top 40 this year if I were to make one; then again it might not. (It was a great year.)

Last time I callibrated, it looked like something like this:

ALBUMS
1. Miranda Lambert
2. Deana Carter
3. Gary Allan
4. Jamie O'Neal
5. Shooter Jennings
6. Lee Ann Womack
7. Big & Rich
8. *Desperate Housewives*
9. Dallas Wayne
10. Elizabeth McQueen and the Firebrands
(also conceivably in the running: Odyssey Band, Little Big Town, Brooks and Dunn)

SINGLES
1. Shooter Jennings - "4th of July"
2. Miranda Lambert - "Kerosene"
3. Dierks Bentley - "Lot of Leavin' Left to Do"
4. Kentucky Headhunters - "Big Boss Man
5. Erika Jo - "I Break Things"
6. Deana Carter - "The Girl You Left Me For"
7. Mazey Gardens and the Brick Hit House Band - "Callin' in Dead"
8. Toby Keith - "As Good As I Once Was"
9. Brad Paisley - "Alcohol"
10. Tim McGraw - "Drugs or Jesus"
(also in the running: Sara Evans "Cheatin", Kenny Chesney "Anything But Mine," Leann Womack "I May Hate Myself in the Morning", Leann Womack "20 Years and Two Husbands Ago," Saywer Brown with Robert Randolph "Mission Temple Fireworks Stand," Montgomery Gentry "Something to Be Proud Of," Big & Rich "Comin' To Your City," Cowboy Troy "I Play Chicken With the Train.")

REISSUES
1. *Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows: 1926-1937*
2. *You Ain't Talkin to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music*
3. David Allen Coe *Penitentiary Blues*
4. *The Dukes of Hazzard*
5. Bill Kirchen *King of Dieselbilly*

A few days ago I picked up 1993's Good Vibes (Classic) at a truck stop in Wisconsin (for a dollar). The backing track isn't as bad as I thought it would be. The harmonies are wonderful. I think I'll pretty much just track down everything by them from now on.

revive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUxADCsPV8s

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