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Salvation from the Soul

Ruby’s latest album & etc.

RubyJust like every Mofu in the net sphere, I’ve dled the latest arab chicks albums (I just hate male singers, except Dio). I’ve got Ruby 2007,Dana – Enta Meen, Dina Hayek – T3a li Albi and I’ve planning to acquire more. I was surprised by the new change in Ruby’s music. It sound too oriental, like a 1992 Asala or some sort. Dana is of course dumb abd stuipd LOL. Dina Hayek in a queen of hearts. Her music is pretty good. I’m still focusing on Ruby, I want to listen more to see what’s the catch behind this new direction of music. I need Elissa’s 2nd album, my lady loves that record. I’ve thought that the first was a smash because I remember seeing her first appearance in the 3ala el bab ya shabab on LBC and she stunned me. As soon as her cassette was out, I picked it up before going back to the states, where I played it most of the time in while driving long distances. I knew from the start she’s gonna make it, but enough talk about Elissa. What I plan to get in the near future is : Hikmat’s 1st album, Yara’s 1st Album and some old Aline Khalaf albums.

April 5, 2007 10:32 Posted by Lunardream | Music | | No Comments Yet

FM radio in WasteLand

Since the release of Ipod and the creation of podcasts, I’ve realized that people still listen to radio, which is totally cool. To many, radio is an important part of their lives. The service is free and it helps to pass time during traffic jams. It’s also a conversation filler, a great medium to release new albums on and a better solution when two can’t decide by mutual agreement on what music to listen to during road trips. Sometimes when I’m driving and being bored of my CD’s, I’d just turn on the radio and check what’s going on in this infinite wireless small universe. I can’t believe that people still send faxes, e-mails and letters to their favorite radio programs. I thought that was way back then, before the internet, but it seems that some would never change and that’s ok. After the launch of many satellite music video channels and satellite radio, people stopped turning on their radios. Truly, Video killed the Radio. So, I’ve decided to support our beloved media since I used to be a volunteer DJ for WDBX Community radio in Southern Illinois and I have experienced the feeling that no one is listening to me while working hard on Saturday and Sunday mornings to deliver the best to everybody. Salute to all DJs! And if you’re stepping by Kuwait, tune up to one of these radio stations:

92.5 Easy FM: Simply the best variety of Easy Listening, Cool Jazz, Classical, New Age, Golden Classics and Adult contemporary. Sometimes they run out of musical resources which is a bad reputation to MOI since the station is state-run. My favorite radio station in Kuwait.

96.9 VOA: The voice of the US government. It has some good variety of programs and subjects as learning American history, teaching English on different levels and political/medical debates between well-recognized speakers and expertise. Although the channel should be renamed to Voice Of Propaganda due to the political trash and imperial views they’re broadcasting, I still check it from time to time since it seldom plays Rock music and keeps running commercial pop and hip-hop, which I dislike.

90.1 BBC Arabic: An important source for news when you don’t want to listen to the official propaganda from the state-run TV and radio stations here in Kuwait. Although BBC Arabic maintains a concrete red line not to cross when it comes to news regarding the evil Zionist State of Israel, they try to show bias through exclusive interviews and argumentative articles which has to be approved by the main BBC HQ before broadcast, just to show that BBC Arabic is not more than a pawn. I usually check it for its variety programs and weird news section.

99.7 Super Station FM: If you to listen to all kinds of music, try this one. It used to be the best station back then, where music was clean and hard. But since the arrival of gay boybands, singing monkeys and swinging sluts the music scene went downhill like an avalanche. So no wonder that most of the music being played is plainly commercial from the start. Used to play great Rock music, but just like MTV, it quit the good music in favor of awful rap and white pop.

September 14, 2006 18:36 Posted by Lunardream | Music, WasteLand | | No Comments Yet

Fall of the Wizard

Two days ago, I was hanging out with my buddies at Marina Mall and while we were cruising, we stepped by Virgin Megastore. I went to check the latest releases of metal and hard rock music and this is what hit me. Ozzy Osbourne’s current record label released for the 2nd time his albums in a new “Remastered” format. I don’t think all of his albums are re-released, but I was still in shock. I mean who would want to remaster his albums for the 2nd time? After detailed inspection and reading customer feedbacks for the new remastered albums at www.cduniverse.com, I realized that Ozzy is better off dead.

This man has brought in new musicians to scrap off the musical tracks in his old albums so he could rip off the old musicians of their royalties! Can you believe such an asshole exist in this world? No true artist with pure love for his music would do cheap acts such as the mentioned above except Ozzy and his beloved witch, Sharon Osbourne. Ozzy has broken a record for not making a good album since the Ultimate Sin album (1986) and yet still claims the throne of Hard Rock! The Osbournes is the only family in the planet who is eager to exploit their children and expose their dysfunctionality as a family on TV for money. Aside from that, Ozzy hit gold when he took over Black Sabbath once and for all when he saw how the fans wanted the reunion so bad and it was timed right after the continuous decline in his concert ticket sales due to a growing loss of voice and fitness. Ozzy must have been thinking ”Ozzy Osbourne Feat. Black Sabbath” tag-line for a promo poster when he agreed to the final reunion, after almost 20 years of verbal attacks on Black Sabbath!

To Mr. Osbourne:

By featuring hot bands on Ozzfest bills to rip off fans through high prices for tickets and consumables, falsely claiming credit for Hard Rock/Metal revival, abusing Black Sabbath to prolong your ended career and dubbing your old albums to deny fellow musicians their low royalties it seems that you have driven the last nail in your coffin. Adding bonus tracks and new linear notes to these new bogus remastered albums won’t buy us off, Ozzy!

September 9, 2006 03:22 Posted by Lunardream | Music, Rant | | No Comments Yet

Heaven Can Wait ~10 Rock CDs to own while you’re still alive~

Trapped on a small piece of land in the middle of the ocean? Got an Ipod? well, you might like to have these albums to keep your rockin’ till God-knows when your fingers would crack of drawing SOS’ on the sand. Switch on your Ipod and Heaven can wait!
  • Ozzy Osbourne’s Blizzard of Oz (1980): Out of Black Sabbath, Ozzy wanted to do something different. Tagged with Guitar hero Randy Rhoads (RIP), they made the best album recorded by Ozzy till now. I still listen to this one!!
  • Deep Purple’s In Rock (1970): The best lineup at their best time, Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice and Blackmore rocked the world with this album. Forget Machine Head, this is Purple!
  • Iced Earth’s The Dark Saga (1996): Equipped with a new singer, tried a new format (Burnt Offerings) and placing bets on a new territory for the band: a concept album. Teaming with McFlarin, Iced Earth produced their best album ever using basic melodies and simple orchestration. The story of the band after this album became a dark saga.
  • Dream Theater’s Scenes from a memory (1999): Taking the idea from a song in their previous album (Images & Words), Dream Theater produced the most complicated and alluring concept album to be made by a progressive rock band in our current time. You have to listen to this album like more than 2 times to get it. I think I listened to it like 5 times already and I can’t stop thinking about it. I was touched by it.
  • Rainbow’s Rising (1977): Rainbow, Blackmore and Dio, the holy trinity. I’d sell my soul to see them live. In this album you’re gonna hear Cozy Powell (RIP) smashing drums like you’ve never heard him before. All rock giants agree that this is the heaviest and the best Rainbow sound to be heard and you gotta believe them, cuz when the CD starts, you’ll go crackin’!! Just listen to Stargazer and A light in the black.
  • Led Zeppelin’s first four albums (1969/1971): I think there’s no need to say anymore about Led Zeppelin because the name stands out for itself. I bought this bootlegged hits tape from Fahaheel and when I was taking my summer class in Carbondale, man, that tape was blastin’ my Jeep speakers! Dýer Maker was running all day long! Made my sweet summer memories come true!
  • Dio’s Holy Diver (1982): Till this day, this album blows our sound systems. Tagged with new face on the scene, Vivian Campbell, Dio left Sabbah in its disastrous case to pursue a successful solo career. Correction: Dio left Sabbath to write History.
  • Black Sabbath’s Heaven & Hell (1980): Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler dropped Ozzy Osbourne to move the band to a better place, and they were right about it. Recruiting Dio to write the greatest Sabbath album ever, Heaven and Hell is surely in the top ten of any hard rock album list because you just can’t ignore its power. I haven’t heard till now any album as strong and good as this one. Dio’s magic and Iommi’s riffs stole our souls.
  • Iron Maiden’s Powerslave (1984): After trying out Bruce Dickenson in Number of the beast, Iron Maiden stole the world in their best live tour and their acclaimed album, Powerslave. From 1984 till early 90s, Iron Maiden was Rock and Rock was Iron Maiden. You just can’t live without getting this!
  • Demons & Wizards’ Self titled (2000): Iced Earth and Blind Guardian teamin up to make an album? it sounded like too good to be true. But when the news hit the media, rockers went frenzy. Gaining musical awards due to its musical quality, this collaboration should have been named the dream tream. You truly gotta listen to this!

March 25, 2006 02:37 Posted by Lunardream | Music | | No Comments Yet