In Memoriam: Pete Shelley, 1955-2018

Adios, Pete. The Buzzcocks were easily one of my favorite first-generation punk bands growing up, capable of combining melodic sensibilities and chainsaw guitars to produce memorable songs by the truckload. And as he would've wanted it, I'll remember the music above all else.

Mark E Smith, 1957-2018

 

Damn it, it's almost as if someone is trying to destroy the soundtrack of my formative years piece by piece.

Luckily, they won't succeed.

 

Malcolm Young, 1953-2017

I knew his time was going to be up due to his early-onset dementia, but I wasn't prepared for his passing a few days ago.

His rhythm guitar was exactly the sort of concrete you need to build a metaphorical expressway of a rock song on, and it's shown nowhere better than this example from 1977:

In memorial: Gregg Allman, 1947-2017

And a second musician whose body of work I greatly admired buys the farm in as many weeks.

Oh, shit.

In Memoriam: Chris Cornell, 1964-2017

I still have a hard time believing this.


I'm having an even harder one accepting it.

A baker's dozen for the Samhain offerings

Pretty much what the subject line says.

Triptykon, "Tree of Suffocating Souls"

 

 

The Cramps, "TV Set"

 

 

Valediction, "Above the Horizon"

 

 

Samhain, "Descent"

 

 

Skinny Puppy, "Convulsion"

 

 

Carcass, "Unfit for Human Consumption"

 

 

Type O Negative, "I Don't Wanna Be Me"

 

 

Metallica, "All Nightmare Long"

 

 

Dead Kennedys, "Halloween"

 

 

The Witch Trials, "Humanoids from the Deep"

 

 

Motorhead, "In The Year of the Wolf"

 

 

 

Vader, "The Eye of the Abyss"

 

And last, but not least...a fairly obvious one.

 

17 for the 17th

Music and nothing but, for once. If it's not from Ireland, it certainly has Irish in it. Slainte!

Thin Lizzy: Emerald (live)

Them featuring Van Morrison: Mystic Eyes

Rory Gallagher: Just Hit Town

The Pogues with Kristy MacColl: Fairytale of New York

The Undertones: Get Over You

The Waterboys: Fisherman's Blues

The Corrs: Toss the Feathers

Dropkick Murphys: Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya

Boiled in Lead: Jolly Tinker

Clannad: I Will Find You

U2: Bullet the Blue Sky (live)

Therapy?: Opal Mantra

Stiff Little Fingers: You Can't Say Crap on the Radio

Mael Mordha: Cluain Tarbh

Chieftains: March to the Battle

The Tossers: Rocky Road to Dublin

Enya: Echoes in Rain

Ziggy boards the starship bound for home

David Bowie, 1947-2016

The end of a very loud era

Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, 1940-2015.

In Memoriam: Ornette Coleman, 1930-2015

Truly. But I'll let the music speak for itself: