Almighty [Just Add Life]
This is a rather unique album, a very different idea where these plastic cases which are transferable and replaceable, actually in this case become part of the cover art in itself, consisting of an opaque green plastic case, where stickers are placed on the front and back, there's no back inlay, but there is a booklet that you can see underneath the plastic, plus the disc itself is bright orange with a red star in the middle, i think it's a great idea and a wonderful artistic statement, but i certainly enjoyed the music even more, this is still a fairly new album, this is the third time i've listened to it, and the second time it's appeared in my Blog [8th December 2010], and i've been looking forward to giving it another spin, i love the cracking drums, crisp and smart, play loud and enjoy!.
The Almighty are a Scottish Rock band, formed in 1988, they have broken up and re-formed at times, i believe they've gone from a quartet to a trio, the front cover artwork [photographs by Tony May & Rupert Truman] consists of nine pictures [3 x 3], all very colourful, though i don't see how they relate to the music, or the title of the album, they made this album in 1996.
It was certainly tracks 1-2 & 10-11 that i just found irresistible, a tremendous amount of energy goes on in these songs, ultimately it's track 11 'Feed The Need' which i found so great, here's a synopsis of this track,
11 Feed The Need - Nice deep bass starts off, and quickly the vibe is taken up by the other instruments [0:04], delicious drumming, nice and hard and loud, this is the music for the chorus, but then a certain Red Hot Chili Peppers funk comes in to the thing for the verses [0:23+], now the chorus is really anthemic [0:50+], with the other guys shouting 'feed the need' as backing vocalists, in the second verse James Taylor comes in on Hammond organ [1:17+], accentuating the funkiness of the verse, there's this certain rising guitar line that i just love, what a great track, best lyric 'all trying to live somewhere that doesn't exist', i've just got this anthemic shout 'feed the need!' stuck in my brain, and the other tracks are really starting to work their way into my skull.
Here's The Almighty album Just Add Life in full on YouTube, the track 'Feed The Need' is at 33:37, i added a comment with timings that you can click, however they don't list in a proper vertical order, but in a mismanaged clump, just hover your cursor over my comment and the timings open up.
The Almighty are a Scottish Rock band, formed in 1988, they have broken up and re-formed at times, i believe they've gone from a quartet to a trio, the front cover artwork [photographs by Tony May & Rupert Truman] consists of nine pictures [3 x 3], all very colourful, though i don't see how they relate to the music, or the title of the album, they made this album in 1996.
It was certainly tracks 1-2 & 10-11 that i just found irresistible, a tremendous amount of energy goes on in these songs, ultimately it's track 11 'Feed The Need' which i found so great, here's a synopsis of this track,
11 Feed The Need - Nice deep bass starts off, and quickly the vibe is taken up by the other instruments [0:04], delicious drumming, nice and hard and loud, this is the music for the chorus, but then a certain Red Hot Chili Peppers funk comes in to the thing for the verses [0:23+], now the chorus is really anthemic [0:50+], with the other guys shouting 'feed the need' as backing vocalists, in the second verse James Taylor comes in on Hammond organ [1:17+], accentuating the funkiness of the verse, there's this certain rising guitar line that i just love, what a great track, best lyric 'all trying to live somewhere that doesn't exist', i've just got this anthemic shout 'feed the need!' stuck in my brain, and the other tracks are really starting to work their way into my skull.
Here's The Almighty album Just Add Life in full on YouTube, the track 'Feed The Need' is at 33:37, i added a comment with timings that you can click, however they don't list in a proper vertical order, but in a mismanaged clump, just hover your cursor over my comment and the timings open up.
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