MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM RHINESTONE MUSIC!

Bettie and I want to wish all Rhinestone Music followers and lurkers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Due to the holiday season, we will be on vacation and won't be back until the first week of January. So be happy, enjoy life and rock on!

Video: FAITH NO MORE - Stripsearch

Faith No More is one of my favorite bands of the 90's. The reasons: Angel Dust (1992), King For A Day... (1995) and Stripsearch, the song, which is included in Album Of The Year (1997). The latter is a good album, but I wouldn't say it is as good as its predecessors. Nevertheless, this album contains a gem that refreshes my mind and soothes me everytime I listen to it. This gem is called Stripsearch, and this intriguing video is the perfect companion to this mesmerizing song. Hope you like it!

THE PRIMITIVES - Never Kill A Secret EP (vinyl rip - FLAC)

After 18 years of silence, The Primitives are back with this EP containing 2 new songs (Rattle My Cage, Never Kill A Secret) and 2 cover versions of some obscure 60's bands (Need All The Help I Can Get, Breakaway), which will be included in a future album. Tracy Tracy is today as gorgeous as she was 20 years ago, and these new recordings sound frankly good, so I can't be happier with this long-awaited comeback. Enjoy!

ZODIAC MINDWARP & THE LOVE REACTION - High Priest Of Love (1986) [Vinyl rip - FLAC]

There are times when you wanna make sweet love to your girlfriend, and then you play some Marvin Gaye record... and there are times when you just want to fuck that bitch and, in times like these, you should summon up the High Priest Of Love a.k.a. The God Of Fertility a.k.a. The Wild Child a.k.a. Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction! In 1986 they recorded this EP which raw and dirty tunes contained the seeds for their legen (wait for it) dary, first album Tattooed Beat Messiah.
So now let that bitch take a trip behind your zip and enjoy!

Video: FILTER - Welcome To The Fold

"You get yourself a nice cold beer, and drink yourself away
You're celebrating nothing, and you feel a-OK!"

There's a better version of this video on Youtube, but some sucker at Rhino Records don't want it to be shared. Nevermind that. This song ROCKS!! It is included in the Title Of Record album, which was one of the greatest surprises in 1999 and, in my opinion, the last great record of the 90's. Then came the bullshit. Ok, I will soon post this superb record here for you to enjoy it. In the meantime, I welcome you to the fold!

K1LL1NG J0KE - Democracy (1996) [FLAC] - Remastered

KJ will release a new album in 2012, and that's fuckin' good news! Can't wait for it, seriously. I wasn't disappointed with their latest album and if the upcoming album is half as good as Absolute Dissent, I will be happy. Until the day comes, I will dive into my KJ collection and enjoy their records one by one. Democracy is the album that paved the way to superb albums like KJ (2003), Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell and Absolute Dissent. Enjoy!

RADIO FUTURA - De Un País En Llamas (1986) [FLAC]

"La Ciudad Interior"

Back in the 80's, Spain, and Madrid to be precise, was a cheerful and colorful melting pot of different art disciplines such as architecture, cinema, photography, fashion and, above all, music. This glorious decade spawned a lot of at-that-time groundbreaking bands that were eager to experiment with different musical and visual aspects, always anxious to to go one step beyond with their avant-gardism, but keeping an eye on the British post-punk scene. One of these bands, and my favorite one from that era, is Radio Futura. Before they ruined their brilliant career in the 90's by adding some latin-roots bullshit to their music, Radio Futura made music inspired by the likes of early Roxy Music, Talking Heads, The Clash and David Bowie. Without any doubt, one of Spain's best kept secrets. Enjoy!

MOTT THE HOOPLE - Live 30th Anniversary Edition (2004) [FLAC]

A few words from Brian May to introduce this outstanding live album...

Mott the Hoople were the first rock'n'roll band we ever knew. I don't mean ever heard, of heard OF. I mean this was the first real Band we ever were close enough to touch, smell and share our lives with. I vividly remember the first day we turned up to the rehersal theatre for the tour we were about to embark on, as support group to Mott The Hoople (the only time Queen supported anyone). We were pretty full of ourselves, and probably already felt we knew it all -we knew the theory, we had made our first album, and were fast discovering our own style in music, ethos, clothes and staging. But as we surveyed the exciting huge amount of gear on the Mott stage, up strolled the Band. They looked "The Business" -they were obviously It, seemingly without trying. They appeared as an agglomeration of bright colors, bizarre shapes, scarves, leather, sunglasses, velvet, huge boots, strange felt hats, blending seamlessly into masses of hair, beer bottles, fags, battered guitar cases covered with stickers, and SWAGGER. They looked lived-in; they exuded Attitude, and easy humour, and the utter confidence born of "Knowing you are Good". They were.

They were friendly to us, and courteously treated their warm-up group as equals from the start, but in the following months, as we toured Britain and the U.S.A. with them, I was always conscious that we were in the presence of something great, something highly evolved, close to the centre of the Spirit of Rock and Roll, something to breathe in, and learn from.

I vividly remember Ian's advice to me, late one night, realising I was missing my home comforts, ("If you need your things around you, Brian, you're in the wrong business" -he was right...). I remember the legendary Ariel Bender and the legendary Morgan Fisher crashing through my hotel door as one body, with a bevy of beauties in tow, with the cry "looking for a bit of head, Bri?!" (I was too shy). I remember the whole world of rock'n'roll girls Mott attracted and felt so at home with -they became a big part of our world too. I remember standing around back-of-stage in an arena in Memphis, seeing the place erupt to the first chords of "All The Way From Memphis", truly a great moment of re-connection to the original capital city of White Rock. I remember the night-long party afterwards in a Holiday Inn on the banks of the steamy Mississippi, a scene comparable with the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland, with a seemingly endless traffic of revellers in and out of everybody's rooms... and a lady who said "I'm going to make you a Rock Star". And so much more.

Oh, and there was the music! We worked our butts off on the tour, with great success; luckily for us most of the Mott fans took to our style. But there was never any doubt who was the Headline Act. Mott would swing relentlessly and unstoppably into their show every night; like a marauding band of outlaws, and every night there was something close to a riot -the kids couldn't get close enough to the stage- they simply couldn't get enough. Every night the legendary Silver-Cross-Painted-on-Chest Overend Watts would be winched on stage in his impossibly high boots, to thunder deafeningly, and menace the audience from on high. Ian Hunter (the unwritten Boss) would plant himself centre stage behind his shades and dare everyone to remain seated, pianos would be pushed off stage, amps would be thrashed, dedicated roadies would scuttle tensely across the stage, always aware of the possibility that the strong and silent Buffin would suddenly lose his rag and trash the drum kit over their heads. Ariel Bender played -screamed- on guitar, with hos whole body and spirit, rushing around the entire stage, on his feet, on his back, guitar behind head, or held aloft, or however the mood took him -an inspiration.

And it ROCKED. It was raw, fun, angry, glorious, jagged. It was everything except normal or predictable.

All things must pass. Mott The Hoople passed away much too soon. But it all lives in our heads. And in the surviving recordings there are hints, echoes of those days of Danger and Wander.

God bless'em!

Enjoy Broadway!

1. Intro - Jupiter from "The Planets"
2. American Pie / The Golden Age Of Rock 'n' Roll
3. Sucker
4. Roll Away The Stone / Sweet Jane
5. Rest In Peace
6. All The Way From Memphis
7. Born Late '58
8. One Of The Boys
9. Hymn For The Dudes
10. Marionette
11. Drivin' Sister / Crash Street Kids / Violence
12. All The Young Dudes
13. Walking With A Mountain


Enjoy Hammersmith!

1. Intro - Jupiter from "The Planets"
2. Drivin' Sister
3. Sucker
4. Sweet Jane
5. Sweet Angeline
6. Rose
7. Roll Away The Stone
8. All The Young Dudes
9. Jerkin' Crocus / One Of The Boys / Rock'n'Roll Queen / Get Back / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' on / Violence
10. Walking With A Mountain

IGGY AND THE STOOGES - Metallic KO (1976) [FLAC]

The story goes like this:

(After a fight with a Hell's Angel at the previous gig):

That next day I went back to Detroit. I went to the radio station and challenged the entire gang, the Scorpions, of which the guy was a member, to come down and do their worst at my big show in Detroit -at the Michigan Palace- which they proceeded to do.
It became "the last ever Stooges gig" tape, METALLIC KO, with a picture of me on the front of it knocked out cold -a picture of me lying IN STATE as it were. And you can hear all sorts of things on the tape flying through the air. Shovels, four-gallon jugs, M-80's, blah blah: -but our lady fans in the front row threw a lot of beautiful underwear, which I thought was sweet." -IGGY POP, extract from 'I Need More'



Throughout this side you can hear the sound of glasses splintering against amps, light-bulbs, shoes, eggs -even an expensive Nikon camera which just manages to miss Williamson's face at one point. All of which means that as a live documentary of an audience-artiste friction, the second side of Metallic KO has Dylan's Royal Albert Hall in '66 Judas harangue beat to a frazzle. Talk about sorting the men from the boys -The Sex Pistols wouldn't have 16 bars under such horrendous circumstances! -NICK KENT

Enjoy the Last ever Iggy and The Stooges Show at Michigan Palace, Detroit 9th Feb '74

1. Heavy Liquid
2. I Got Nothing
3. Rich Bitch
4. Gimme Danger
5. Cock In My Pocket
6. Louie Louie

Enjoy Iggy and The Stooges Show at Michigan Palace, Detroit, 6th Oct '73

1. Raw Power
2. Head On
3. Gimme Danger
4. Search And Destroy
5. Heavy Liquid (I wanna be your dog)
6. Open Up And Bleed

Video: ZODIAC MINDWARP & THE LOVE REACTION - Prime Mover

"Sex führer baby, I'm a love dictator
Blitzkrieg baby, I'm a cool dominator"

Today is Friday, it's been a hard working day, nighttime has just spread over the city, the neon lights are shining bright, the girls look pretty... and this can only mean one thing: fiesta y cerveza! So I'll let Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction take over as I hit the city tonight. No worries, no problems. Just the city at night, a bunch of crazy friends, beer, the smell of diesel and Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction as the perfect soundtrack.
Have a nice weekend!