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Friend just turned me on to Powerglove, a metal band that does covers of 90’s cartoon themes.




This counts because it was also used for the frankly never-even-close-to-equalled Batman the Animated Series.

Warren Zevon - Jungle Work -1980
Youtube served me this this morning. Turns out I have the whole album and didn't even know it.





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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Friend just turned me on to Powerglove, a metal band that does covers of 90’s cartoon themes.




This counts because it was also used for the frankly never-even-close-to-equalled Batman the Animated Series.

I got into Powerglove with this album. I was painting a monstrously huge collection of Necrons as a commission at the time. 300 warriors and a lot of everything else.

Jeez, her voice live is very nice. Not the same as the studio version, but still very nice indeed!

Now, I’ll confess to this not being quite my bag, preferring as I do the more operatic stylings of Maiden and Priest.

But, a close friend of mine just joined this band, and so I am honourbound by unbreakable bonds of friendship to pimp and promote.




Also whilst he’s not on this record (having only just joined like, today) he’s a Proper Sick Skills Guitarist.


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Much more my bag? And I’ve probably shared this before, but don’t care because it’s just that good?




RIP Algy, who passed away quite recently.

The whole of this thing, in my mind, needs to be set to a Star Wars Rebel assault upon something like an Imperial Shipyard.

Youtube served me this and it's kinda cool.

Cypress Hill with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra July 20th, 2023 (Full Show) I know

American culture is crazy now and it's delightful.

Because I have no taste, but boy do I have vision?




This….but a super heavy almost death metal cover. Imagine the orders barked out in a deff metal growl. The synth/keyboard bit replaced with proper sick electric twanger widdly-wahs.

And a crowd of massive hairy sweaty metallers having a great time following the barked instructions.

That had underground hit written all over it.

Began listening to the Ghostmaker audiobook for my review. Enjoying it a lot!

A song. A song about the mundanity of life.

Proof positive punk can turn its hand to even the most innocuous of inspirations.

No I don’t care if you don’t care for it. Just know it’s far, far more punk and musically competent than Good Charlotte.

Which to be honest isn’t that hard.

And having had a serious Attack Of The Head Weasels the past few weeks, I’m now well enough to get back to work.

Here’s a song summing up how I feel about getting back to what I’m genuinely good at, fighting the good fight, and frustrating Really Bad Liars. Including some genuine Columbo moments.

Just saw that stupeflip released a new album a month ago. While I'm not necessarely a big fan of the dude himself, I love his work. For some reason, I like the broken, scattered and absurd nature of it, with samples totally out of context somehow hammered together to work, scattered rythme, aggressive texts in lower french.

One from the vaults.

Whilst being predominantly Punk and Metal focussed?

Nice bit of modern folk.

Wikipedia wrote:A 1970 novelty song he co-wrote with his producer Ronny Light, a B-side single called "The Shortest Song in the World"- which clocked in at a mere eighteen seconds long, enjoyed some airplay in 1970

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With all the awful going on, the misinformation, lies and blurring and general “meh”?

A song for you my fellow Dakkanauts. A song of empathy and the promise of reaching some kind of detente. Also a song of tolerance and mutual respect, even if we will never see exactly eye to eye.

Pretty sure I’ve shared this before, and for the same reasons.




This to me is Peak John Williams, and therefor Peak Movie Theme.

Not just nostalgia. But from around 3:10? The central…erm…refrain, I guess? Repeats. Ever more strident. And in the movie, it’s when Supes has reason to push himself, and discover just what he can do.

As someone who has a history of depression? This inspires me. Not to superhuman (I’m not that kind of mental), but to pick myself up, dust myself off and try again. Because some things just require a bit more effort, and we never truly lose you til we stop trying.

Well, thats 6 1/2 hours done :

Recently discovered "Dokken", after assuming all this time a book was referring to a drink...




...and they banish Freddy in the form of a rock ballad!

SamusDrake wrote:

Samus, as a huge BGC fan ( i was watching it as it was released in japan) i own all the original first pressings of bubblegum crisis soundtracks. 1-6 are fantastic, 7 and 8 started to include loads of pop "image" songs because of contract issues with some of the voice actors that really took away from the feel of the setting.


I recently picked up a new band in my collection-
seven spires

clean vocals




harsh vocals





A youtube find- Algal the bard...bardic covers of metal songs

 aphyon wrote:


Samus, as a huge BGC fan ( i was watching it as it was released in japan) i own all the original first pressings of bubblegum crisis soundtracks. 1-6 are fantastic, 7 and 8 started to include loads of pop "image" songs because of contract issues with some of the voice actors that really took away from the feel of the setting.

Thats pretty cool! I discovered it in...1998, I think , when it got a release here in the UK by MVM and got the Adam Warran book free with a magazine called Manga Max. I fell in love with the series and especially the Moonlight Rambler episode, which was super sad at the end and had that uber-cool red battlemover. My parents were kind enough at the time to order all three RPG books by R.Talsorian. Crikey, I remember writing a text-based command-line game based on that RPG when I was only 20 years old in 2000, and...damn, I miss those days!

I only have the CD for Moonlight Rambler, which I think cost me about £40, which was a substantial amount back then. But you have all of them! Were you living in Japan at the time? I tried learning Japanese when I was 18 and wanted to visit Tokyo, but it really was a dream to be honest.

Blasphemy, I know, but I really like the US-specific songs by Cyndi Wheeler and can only hope the super-rare CD is found and shared one day.

SamusDrake wrote:

 aphyon wrote:


Samus, as a huge BGC fan ( i was watching it as it was released in japan) i own all the original first pressings of bubblegum crisis soundtracks. 1-6 are fantastic, 7 and 8 started to include loads of pop "image" songs because of contract issues with some of the voice actors that really took away from the feel of the setting.

Thats pretty cool! I discovered it in...1998, I think , when it got a release here in the UK by MVM and got the Adam Warran book free with a magazine called Manga Max. I fell in love with the series and especially the Moonlight Rambler episode, which was super sad at the end and had that uber-cool red battlemover. My parents were kind enough at the time to order all three RPG books by R.Talsorian. Crikey, I remember writing a text-based command-line game based on that RPG when I was only 20 years old in 2000, and...damn, I miss those days!

I only have the CD for Moonlight Rambler, which I think cost me about £40, which was a substantial amount back then. But you have all of them! Were you living in Japan at the time? I tried learning Japanese when I was 18 and wanted to visit Tokyo, but it really was a dream to be honest.

Blasphemy, I know, but I really like the US-specific songs by Cyndi Wheeler and can only hope the super-rare CD is found and shared one day.

It was the late 80s/early 90's so i was getting all my anime via purchased bootlegs off of laser disc onto VHS tape. by the time of BGC i was already a hardcore fan with a collection spanning space battleship yamato (my first experience), UC gundam, mospeada, macross, dirty pair, megazone 23, iczer 1 and many others.

CD wise i lived near a US branch of kinokuniya bookstore so i could order direct from Japan. once that opened up to me i got a laser disc player myself and started a collection there i still own. the CDs were about double the US price because of the way the music market works in Japan.

Konya-wa hurricane from BGC episode 1 was one of my first forays in to normal Japanese music that wasn't orchestral. and is still a favorite of mine. my soundtrack collection is quite expansive and has some rare items. BGC wise i own the soundtracks for the original series, crash (terrible in my opinion) 2040 and the ad police files (along with Takazakis manga that goes with it).

When it comes to western versions of soundracks every now and then you find a good one like cyber city oedo 808, the i have both the original and the rock inspired UK version. but on the flip side you end up with things like the 1994 streetfighter II soundtrack. the original is a masterpiece, the American one is garbage.

I also took Japanese classes at college, and even made the holy trek to tokyo in 2000, one of the best 2 weeks in my life.

One of priss's best songs-




This was the song they played in the original streetfighter soundtrack when chun-li fought vega in the hotel room.




The US soundtrack replaced it with some crappy grunge.

Aphyon, its awesome you got to make that pilgrimage. Seriously, some of us never get to leave the Shire and if I take one more step...it'll be the furthest I've ever been from home!

So much to say about anime in the UK during the 90s, but I hated the blood "Brit-pop" scene at the time(Oasis, Blur, Spice Girls) and really wanted to live in a different world altogether. I could stomach Sheryl Crow for some reason, but omg ADVision was a gift from the gods...




Moving on to some game music, I remember getting a shareware cd-rom called Piranha, and the music blew me away!




...and then Tyrian had banging tunes as well...




...and one final mention for X2: No Relief for the original Playstation...

I was a fan of the original dirty pair, flash, just felt wrong to me.

The original TV opening-




and something from the movie-





when it comes to game soundtrack they did 2 samurai showdown image albums called samurai spirits that were epic, and i also love sokaigi from the now legendary Hiroki Kikuta




P.S. the trip was even more fun since i was working with sakura con at the time i got to visit sunrise and madhouse studios, even got a private tour of the latter. i also got a private tour of the JAP guild unit shop. they make metal/leather jewelery, costumes and more for various Japanese musicians/groups as well as movie props. as a huge fan of the band seikima II i got to see a bunch of their original costume peices, sadly i never made it to the museum.

If you had just seen my reaction to you having visited Madhouse and Sunrise, you would have been in histerics. Seriously.

Aphyon, you have experienced something magical. I envy you so much.

Just listened to "Beginning of Demon's Night" and it confirms one's suspicion that Japanese are simply born demi-god musicians. I salute them.

Demons night......as in seikima II or a soundtrack?

Lovely bit of old school goth for your viewing and listening pleas-ure

This is so much fun

Crispy78 wrote:
This is so much fun

Ah the joy of covers, and it's roxxette-

since we are on to covers....here are a few


FEUERSCHWANZ -doing manOwar




Vancanto-does classic metallica




dimmu borgir doing accept




Denis Pauna-doing typeOnegative




Arch enemy-doing megadeth




I could keep going......

 aphyon wrote:
Demons night......as in seikima II or a soundtrack?

Seikima II. It was a drums & guitar intro before the lead singer walked out onto the stage. Bloody good it was.

SamusDrake wrote:

 aphyon wrote:
Demons night......as in seikima II or a soundtrack?

Seikima II. It was a drums & guitar intro before the lead singer walked out onto the stage. Bloody good it was.

Well it is Seikima II, i have been a fan for decades. they are fantastic musicians and still enormous in Japan even 23 years after they "broke up" and went back to hell.

Japan has a host of really great musicians, but like many others from other countries since they only perform in their native language aside from a few rare cases like rammstein they do not get much international attention generally.