If you’re wondering, here’s what I got:<\/p>\n
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- Chapter I: Monarcy<\/em><\/a> by Ad Infinitum. Metal, female lead.<\/li>\n
- American IV: The Man Comes Around<\/em><\/a> by Johnny Cash. Uh, country? Because my oldest son asked my my favorite Johnny Cash song, and I said it was the title track, but then I realized I had no Johnny Cash in my library.<\/li>\n
- The Dana Owens Album<\/a><\/em> by Queen Latifah, after I heard her singing a jazz standard on WSIE.<\/li>\n
- Trav’lin’ Light<\/a><\/em> by Queen Latifah, ibid, although the song I heard came from this album.<\/li>\n
- Chapter 2: Legacy<\/em><\/a> by Ad Infinitum.<\/li>\n
- Welcome to Fat City<\/em><\/a> by Crobot. Hard rock. A couple of the favorites on my gym playlist are from this band.<\/li>\n
- Original Album Classics<\/em><\/a> by Pretty Maids, a five CD set that includes Red, Hot and Heavy<\/em>, Future World<\/em>, Jump the Gun<\/em>, Sin-Decade<\/em>, and Stripped<\/em>. My beautiful wife introduced me to the band via Future World<\/em> fifteen or so years ago; given how much I liked the band, it’s taken me a long time to fill out my collection.<\/li>\n
- Undress Your Madness<\/em><\/a> by Pretty Maids, their 2019 album.<\/li>\n
- “Sabotage<\/a>” by the Beastie Boys (single, MP3).<\/li>\n
- “Intergalactic<\/a>” by the Beastie Boys (single, MP3). Funny; I have put these on my gym playlist, but I have not yet downloaded the first Beastie Boys cassette single I bought (“So Whatcha Want?”). I’ve never bought a whole Beastie Boys album.<\/li>\n
- “The Pioneer<\/a>” by Follow the Cipher, who are long overdue for a real CD or album.<\/li>\n
- Independenz<\/a><\/em> by Null Positiv. I ordered the CD directly from Germany and got a signed picture from Elli Berlin for my effort.<\/li>\n
- Mirror, Mirror<\/em><\/a> by Eliane Elias. A jazz songbird and pianist I heard on WSIE; this album is mostly the pianist.<\/li>\n
- American Dream<\/a><\/em> by Diamante. C’mon, man, I warned you<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- BRKN Love<\/em><\/a> by BRKN Love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
So that’s 9 rock\/metal albums versus 3 jazz records with 1 Johnny Cash album with three singles, of which 2 are rap and 1 is metal. Definitely unbalanced, and unfortunately no metal additions to the gym playlist yet (although I have added the Beastie Boys songs, but mostly for non-intensive workout listening).<\/p>\n
But enough about that. Let’s talk about Elli Berlin, Melissa Bonny, and Linda Toni Grahn.<\/p>\n
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Melissa Bonny fronted Rage of Light before Ad Infinitum and is Swiss.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nElli Berlin is German, natch, and fronts Null Positiv; she does both clean and unclean vocals.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nLinda Toni Grahn wore some glue-on (I hope) studs above her eyebrows in the videos for the songs on Follow the Cipher’s self-titled debut album from 2018, but I think she looks better without.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nAll three are worth a look and a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- American IV: The Man Comes Around<\/em><\/a> by Johnny Cash. Uh, country? Because my oldest son asked my my favorite Johnny Cash song, and I said it was the title track, but then I realized I had no Johnny Cash in my library.<\/li>\n