#last.fm is FANTASTIC for discovering new stuff

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[myfriendgoo94]

Check out my report for Last.week at https://www.last.fm/user/android9791/listening-report/year/2024/week/19. https://www.last.fm/user/android9791/listening-report/year/2024/week/19

Here’s what I listened to (digitally) this week. This week was a fantastic week for listening to music tbh. I’m back to listening to full albums again! Like all the time!! Feel like a teenager again in that respect. I have a hunger for it and most importantly listening to new stuff. For years i would buy cds and they’d just pile up but now I’m working through them and having a great time doing it ☺️

Fave new album listened to: If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power by Halsey

[chaosincurate]

chaosincurate's top album find of 2023

Soviet Kitsch by Regina Spektor

Genre: Chamber pop/anti-folk

Song to try: Us

I've recently been made aware that Regina Spektor has been an outspoken advocate for Israel's genocide, perpetuating harmful ideas. I'm not sure how to respond to that yet, but I feel like I needed to comment. The harm done by her political beliefs don't take away from her musical talent and lyrical profundity, and her musical talent and lyrical profundity don't take away from the harm done by her political beliefs. I'm not sure where that leaves things, but that remains a guiding principle as I decide how I move forward with her music, including what to do with posts like this.

About this superlative

Every year there is a tonne of older music that people discover, and they never get the chance to have the spotlight put on them, even if said people enjoy that older music more than the new stuff. I want to make sure I give past music the love it deserves too though, not only by writing about the albums I hear on my monthly "My Month in Music" posts, and occasional singular posts about music I am particularly fond of, but by highlighting them here, too, as my top finds of the year.

Honourable Mentions

Renaissance by Beyoncé - An immaculate, disco-informed dance pop album with one of the most charismatic performances I've ever heard. This isn't usually the type of thing that resonates with me on a level that puts it amongst my favourite albums, but Beyoncé had so much confidence pouring out of her performance here that it felt like she grabbed me by the neck and said "you will appreciate this or else". It worked, I appreciate this. It's probably my favourite dance pop album I've ever heard. The absolute epitome of queen shit.

Soft Sounds from Another Planet by Japanese Breakfast - A very atmospheric lo-fi/indie pop album from the fantastic Japanese Breakfast. To be honest, until I looked through for this post, I was certain I listened to this way back in 2021 or so, shortly after hearing Jubilee, but last.fm says it was just this year, so it qualifies here. I absolutely love this album for Michelle Zauner's near-perfect ear for the perfect atmosphere to convey the feelings expressed in her lyrics. It's no wonder she took so well to making the soundtrack for Sable, because she's been flexing the same muscles needed for soundtracks both here, and on the earlier mentioned Jubilee (which came out shortly after said soundtrack).

good kid, m.A.A.d city by Kendrick Lamar - If you want to show someone what a concept album is, this is the album to send their way. Not only does it have a clear and cohesive theme across the whole album, and not only does it have a narrative running through it, but it is also the best sequenced album I have ever heard. This is the perfect demonstration of why I'm protective over the "concept album" label: when it's actually earned, every single song is elevated by the album-listening experience.

Sign 'O' the Times by Prince - This is a weird one. This isn't my favourite Prince album that I discovered this year - that'd be 1999 - and it's probably tied for my least favourite of the four albums I'e heard from him, but this was the album that, for whatever reason, got Prince's music to click for me. Not only did I go on to listen to 1999 for the first time and enjoy it, I also gained a new found love for Purple Rain and Dirty Mind, two albums I listened to before this year and found mediocre at first. So that's why I'm putting this here. I essentially see it as a 4-for-1 deal.

Now onto the main event...

I've spoken about my love for this album before, and much like with honourable mention Soft Sounds from Another Planet, I'm honestly surprised I only heard this album this year. Before I checked, I was preparing a Renaissance review in my head. But here we are, with a Soviet Kitsch one instead. To recap from previous write-ups on this blog, the reason I love this album is largely down to Regina Spektor's lyrical style. I've never known lyrics to sound so stripped back that they almost convey pure emotion in a way that doesn't sound like gibberish (such as with many grunge anthems), and sounds somewhat infantile on a purely aesthetic level, but executed in such a powerful way that it fully encapsulates the feeling that Spektor wants to convey. It's as if you're being crushed by basic and universal facts, some of which seem entirely unrelated and unemotional. It's awe-inspiring to me.

All of that paints a pretty good picture of how the album is, but it's done with pretty broad brushes. Let's add some detail with a track-by-track.

First, the opener, Ode to Divorce, which starts the album with a heartbreaking depiction of divorce, with the narrator being put through the ringer in the legal battle following their separation, and struggling to make sense of the fact that the person that once loved them (and that the narrator clearly still loves on some level) is being so ruthless, destroying their livelihood. Throughout the song, we see the narrator occasionally beg for a small amount of mercy to allow her to keep supporting herself ("I need your money, it'll help me I need your car...") and then goes on to let slip what they actually care about ("and I need your love") before readjusting themself to be more platonic about it by asking ("So won't you help a brother out?"). And that's still a simple overview that doesn't go into how the pain that this ex-spouse is putting them through is depicted all that much. The writing here is incredible and is still far from the best this album has to offer.

Next is Poor Little Rich Boy, essentially a song about how being rich in financial terms and rich in emotional terms are often at odds with each other. The subject of the song struggles to find love ("you don't love your girlfriend // and you think that you should... And you don't love your mother // and you know that you should") and connection ("You're reading Fitzgerald // you're reading Hemingway // they're both super smart, drinking in the cafés"), and seemingly any true meaning in life ("all the world is okay // the water runs off your skin and down into the drain"). It's a very simple song, and isn't as dense as Ode to Divorce, but it still retains much of it's emotional power within that simplicity, with the lines quoted above being great examples of how a simple sentiment, when written by Regina Spektor, can crush you.

Following that is Carbon Monoxide, a song filled with fear and self-infantilisation from the perspective of a young person who feels unprepared to face the adult world. There's a strong sense of paranoia throughout the song, a feeling that something is always going to go wrong in even the most benign moments now that there isn't someone else to watch over you.

First time I get my socks on right

But I don't have a gas mask on

As I walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk

You home, yeah

It's another very straightforward song that uses it's purity of meaning to hammer home the emotions even more than would regularly be the case.

In a rare case of metaphorical songwriting within this album, the next song The Flowers uses the eponymous flowers, given to her by a partner to allude to the state of the relationship itself.

The flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them away

Some of the bulbs never opened quite fully, they might so I'm waiting and staying awake

She uses this metaphor incredibly well, too, as it helps to demonstrate the denial that the narrator is feeling as they cling on to this unrewarding relationship. It sends the implicit message that they aren't even willing to acknowledge the state the relationship is in, that they know deep down that fighting that fight is a lost cause, but knowing if she doesn't even acknowledge the problem that the relationship will at least survive. Of course, it is unlikely to ever thrive, and isn't particularly likely to survive for long either.

Another thing I want to call attention to in this song is the second verse:

The papers around me are piling and twisting

Regina the paperback mummy, what then

I'm taking the knife to the books that I own

And I'm chopping and chopping and boiling soup from stones

Genius' interpretation of this verse is very different to mine. They describe it as Regina turning to books for comfort for her failing relationship, and then being frustrated by their uselessness. Personally, I think it's a metaphor for the mounting evidence that she has to ignore in favour of the idea that the relationship is doomed. That's all, I just always love to see an interpretation that is different to mine which is also a valid one. Moving on!

Us is the big single and a great demonstration of the quirked up lyricism that holds a lot of meaning, but it is uncharacteristically difficult to discern the meaning of this one, at least for me. I'll start with what is clear: it seems pretty undeniable that it is on some level about the USSR, and that it criticises the USSR to some extent. From there on, it seems very difficult to pick out anything concrete, which makes that the fun bit if you ask me.

I think my most confident interpretation is that of a general, nuanced perspective on the USSR, what it represents now, what it represented then, the damage it's done, etc. In this interpretation, the song is sung from various perspectives. In the first verse, it's from the retrospective perspective of the USSR's leaders, bemoaning their disrespected legacy as if they deserve more than a statue left to rust in front of mostly uninterested tourists, and criticisms from people who supposedly wouldn't be able to understand the reality of the situation.

Then there's the chorus, which I think is from the perspective of true communists (yes, I'm gatekeeping), people like Karl Marx, who see it as a tool for liberation from power structures, not an introduction of a new one. People who are frustrated that their beliefs were taken and distorted to be something that put more people in chains than were freed from their previous ones.

And then I believe the second verse is from the perspective of people living under the USSR. People who haven't yet become uncomfortable enough to attempt to mount some sort of resistance and risk that small amount of comfort they have by doing so.

From there, the perspectives are pretty self-explanatory, I think, but I wanted to call attention to one more line: the repeated "it's contagious". I think this line is saying that in an unjust system, everyone becomes unjust, because everyone needs to serve that unjust system to survive. Sure, the people at the top are corrupt, and that corruption spreads amongst the bourgeois if it's allowed to flourish, because the people that don't just lose hope and give in are easily replaced by people who are being allowed to break the rules, that is pretty clear. But the people who just want to keep living their life and have kids in the second verse also help to sustain the system by keeping up the population of it's workforce and by contaminating those kids too. Even the revolutionaries will need to act unjustly in such a system to liberate themselves. Corruption at the top will spread to the bottom as if it's contagious.

The song tasked with following that masterpiece is Sailor Song, and it follows it by going for a much more jovial vibe, even if there is some sadness within the lyrics. It brings things down to Earth by going out to sea, with the song being written from the perspective of a sailor that compares life with his wife to life with his boat as he finally gets to live out his childhood dream of sailing the seas. As I see it, you could assign plenty of subtext to the song, but the lyrics keep things simple and allow you to add whatever meaning you'd like on top of the somewhat matter-of-fact lyrics, so there isn't much to write about. It's a very fun song despite the sadness that exists within it, and manages that in an interesting way too.

Following a light tease in an interlude track, we get another standout for me in Your Honor. I'd highly recommend listening to it before reading on if you haven't already (you can click on the song name for the links to Apple Music and Spotify). It's much better experienced than described.

If you're reading this, I hope that means you've gone away and listened to it or have already heard it before. The reason I wanted you to have heard it before going on, is the emotional effect that the stark changes between the two sections of the song had on me when I first heard it. I love the way the song uses the punky, grungy sound and sarcastic, pissy delivery on the vocals to acknowledge the anger that the protagonist is feeling towards their partner for "fighting for [her] honor", and then switches to a sweeter sound, more in line with the rest of the album, as it gets more loving and caring. It's beautifully done and also has the added benefit of making a song that is so unlike the rest of the album still feel cohesive within it, as if the song had been expertly stitched on: still sticking out, but as a part of the broader whole.

Have you ever had a moment where you've spoken to a child that hadn't been assimilated into society yet and as such is entirely pure of thought? If you have, there's a decent chance they taught you something that seems very obvious about the common absurdity with which we live our daily lives, but that we are too used to to see. There's just this ability that kids have to see the obvious solution that adults miss by following all these added layers of thought when they aren't necessary. That feeling is very palpable on Ghost of Corporate Future.

The song is basically a flurry of nuggets of simple wisdom: a call to care less about the state of your clothes, a reminder of how constant work can ruin your life, an assurance that you have the power to change some things, at least in your immediate vicinity, and a lot more, including my favourite nugget of "duh wisdom", as I've decided to call it, the reminder that social stakes aren't as high as you make them out to be ("People are just people, they shouldn't make you nervous"/"People are just people like you"). As someone with social anxiety, that last one has become something of a mantra for me since hearing this album, and I don't think it'd work as well for me if it wasn't so blunt and to the point.

Another favourite of mine, alongside Us and Your Honor that is, is Chemo Limo. The simple yet incredibly unique lyrical style is here in full force, demonstrating the power that this album has when it is using that style. The song is about a single mother who is told that she has cancer, but decides to turn down treatment, deciding that, given the financial situation it is likely to put her in, she'd much rather spend that money on dying happy (with an equally out-of-reach limo ride with her kids). The logic unfortunately checks out. Of course its not worth risking dying miserably in the hopes that she'll get lucky and live miserably, with not only a body wrecked by chemotherapy, but a bank account wrecked by it too. It is a (mostly implicit) scathing commentary on paid healthcare and it's immorality.

The way she talks about the oversized (and frankly wholly unjust) role money plays in saving lives in the US is amazing. The way she announces her intent to "go out in style" is invigorating. The way she then pulls the focus to her kids and the implications of how their lives will be without their mother is gutting.

And finally, the closer, Somedays. It's easy to forget about for me, in part because it follows one of my favourites without standing out in any major way, but also likely because it is such a great send off. It is about depression and the urge to ignore it in an attempt to escape it, the lost days to wallowing, and for a moment the acknowledgement that, as an artist, she also loves the art she makes from the suffering, wondering if she can escape one and not the other (or at least that's how I interpret the second verse). It's the smoothed off edge of the album, a mellow send off to a calm and pensive album.

I really love this album and am so glad I gave it a shot this year. If you've read this far, I would hope that you at least end up checking out one of the songs I highlighted as my favourites, particularly Us. I heard this album early in the year and still haven't quite heard anything like it.

[robertbjonesus80]

Top 10 Free MP3 Music Download Sites in 2018

Is there anything better in this world than music? Believe it or not, yes. The answer, of course, is free, open source music!

While the notion of downloading MP3s may seem strange in the age of Spotify, iHeartRadio and Pandora, downloading your music can give you the freedom that streaming can’t offer.

Make sure you’re never without your music by checking out 10 of our favorite free and legal MP3 download sites!

1. MP3Juices

We’ll start off with one of our absolute favorite music resource tools, MP3Juices. You may recall that we��ve given them a shout-out in the past, and for good reason.

While their site’s UI isn’t the most modern thing in the world, MP3Juices’ usability is on a whole other level.

Simply check out the site, type in the type of music you’re feeling, and browse from a massive free collection of tunes you’re sure to love.

What’s cool about MP3Juices is that it gets most of its audio straight from YouTube, so you can expect to get high-quality audio, even in a small MP3 file.

2. MP3Skull

While MP3Juices is fun, fast, and easy, it’s ultimately a little lacking, as you can typically only get audio from YouTube videos.

That’s where MP3Skull comes in. MP3Skull is all about options, giving you the ability to choose from YouTube, Deezer, and 4Shared. As you can likely guess, more sources of audio means more fantastic audio.

We recommend checking out the site’s how-to guide before giving it a shot, as it can get a little complicated if you’re not used to downloading.

3. YouTube

Sometimes it’s best to go straight to the source. If you’re someone who doesn’t want to mess with peculiar interfaces or research how to download music, keep it simple and head to YouTube.

Snag the YouTube app on your phone and sign up for an account (assuming you haven’t already).

Signing into the app should give you the chance to save videos to your account so you can play them offline. It’s quite handy and cuts out the middleman entirely.

4. Jamendo

Sometimes downloading an MP3 of a song you’ve already heard 1,000 times won’t cut it. Sometimes you want to discover something different and find some hot new talent.

If that sounds relevant to your interests, Jamendo is the site for you. Think of it as a cross between SoundCloud and Amazon Music.

It’s a site designed solely for independent artists to get their names out in the public, but it offers the convenience and accessibility of your standard streaming service.

And Jamendo is great for more than casual listening, for that matter. If you’re a video editor or want some cool background music for your office, they have a catalog of stock music ready for commercial use.

5. Amazon Music

Honestly, what can be said about Amazon that hasn’t been said before? They’re the behemoth of the digital market, generating 44% of all United States-based eCommerce.

So it makes sense that they’d dip their toes into the world of MP3 downloads.

While Amazon Music isn’t technically free, we’re willing to guess that you’re one of the millions of people with a Prime membership. And yet a shocking number of people aren’t taking advantage of this awesome service.

As great as Spotify is, it doesn’t let you actually download the music itself to your phone. In contrast, Amazon Music lets you do exactly that, and in a convenient MP3 format, to boot.

6. SoundCloud

Everyone and their mother seems to have dropped a mixtape or two on SoundCloud. In fact, the streaming service seems to have become somewhat of a joke among the Internet’s massive music community.

Still, for all of the jokes, SoundCloud is one of the best sites for discovering independent music out there.

While it can be hard to parse through the junk to find the good stuff, SoundCloud has tons of hidden treasures waiting to be discovered and downloaded.

7. Free Music Archive (FMA)

Any site beginning with the word ‘free’ is almost guaranteed to be good. And Free Music Archive certainly delivers on that!

While other sites may have a larger selection of music, few sites, if any, are as well-tagged and organized as FMA’s selection. In a matter of minutes, you can find exactly what you’re after, be it electronic, rock, metal, or instrumental and have it on your phone only seconds later.

And if you’re not sure what you’re looking for, FMA still has you covered. Check out its curation section for some of the best new music you’ve never heard.

8. Archive.org

We like to think that our choices of entertainment are permanent. But the fact of the matter is that some types of music are so poorly preserved that we run the risk of losing them entirely.

Archive.org is a site dedicated to preventing the loss of fantastic entertainment. Users can download music, audiobooks, radio dramas, podcasts, and just about anything you can think of to get your aural fix.

And if that wasn’t enough, you can even download public domain films, images, and books, too.

9. Last.FM

Halfway between the mainstream and the underground, Last.fm brings users a little bit of something well-known with a bit of something new.

Users can download tracks from awesome indie artists like Death Grips, Mac DeMarco, The Glitch Mob, and Sufjan Stevens for an extremely impressive digital library of free music.

10. Bandcamp

If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you’re in a band and have a Bandcamp page for your own music. But did you know that you can use Bandcamp to discover free downloads, too?

Be sure to check out the free download tag so you can be the first to hear great music from your genre contemporaries.

Never Go A Moment Without Music With These Free MP3 Download Sites

Music is one of the few truly universal languages. And now you can speak it wherever, whenever by checking out these great free MP3 download sites.

The only thing missing from these sites is your music! Find inspiration in these 100 great quotes that will inspire you to get out there and create.

Who knows? You could just be the next great musician the world is waiting for.

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[emilestrange]

    -S. M. W. — OnOne-

            From banging on pots and pans on the kitchen floor and winning his elementary school talent show to studying at MIT’s Vocal Institute of Technology in Hollywood, Ca. in their very first classes and selling out arenas world-wide; you could say that ZAK STEVENS is certainly dedicated to mastering his craft.  But he wasn’t sure music would pan out so he attended the University of South Carolina going for a degree in psychology.  “Actually music was my fallback career in the beginning because it was always pretty much just a hobby for me. Music was my first love but we all know how that goes, with it being very difficult to have a hobby transition into a career.  So as it turns out I never really got going with the psychology thing because music luckily just kept taking more and more precedence in my life.”

          As a child, ZAK was influenced by many different genres but is a true blues/rock lover, even being a member of the KISS ARMY with his first show at age 10 on the DESTROYER 1977 tour.  He states that they have the best hands-down stage show ever.  “KISS on the Destroyer album tour 1977…..I was 10 years old.  That’s where it all started….I think KISS had the best stage show I had seen as a kid and well beyond that.  Just the theatrics and shock and awe of it all, with Gene Simmons spitting the blood and breathing fire.  They also started all the huge hydraulic lifts that set the stage for all of the pyrotechnics and stuff that you see in mainstream rock shows today.   But with the type of music that we perform I prefer it to be a bit more atmospheric because that fits the mood of our music better.  There’s a time for the bangs and decoration with our stuff but it tends to be more for the end of the show.  We don’t really have any one particular message, but a lot of our lyrics come from the perspective of everyday people’s struggles and the means they use to overcome obstacles in life.  A lot of our music just deals with the struggle of everyday of people we meet in our travels or stories we’ve heard along the way in our travels around the world.  We’re lucky to be able to travel all around playing our music for people so we like to pass along some of what we’ve learned on the road in our songs.”    

          On the road, ZAK says that the most essential thins he brings are, “Different types of medications just in case something happens.  As long I have them nothing usually happens but if I forget them that will be that time something happens.  Murphy’s Law of course…. I don’t really get that nervous anymore.  As a matter of fact I like the situations where it might be a little more nerve-racking just to get a little more nervous energy going.  But normally I’m very relaxed and I just use my pre-show vocal warm-up routine to relax me and put my mind in the “zone” and relaxed for the show.  Then after that it’s just a matter of going out there and having a good time.”

          We asked him what his favorite venue/club to play at is and he said, “One of our favorite venues these days is in Pratteln, Switzerland at a venue called “Z7”.  It’s pretty much on the border of Germany and it’s just a great room with a large stage and a huge PA system.  They have their own in-house chef and catering in their own kitchen upstairs at the venue which is really famous all the rock bands that tour around Europe because the food is fantastic.  Z7 is owned by a very nice gentleman named Norbert who I have known for 20 years and he really treats all bands very well and all the bands have a great time playing there.  The crowd really gets into the music too and that also helps make it a great venue to play.”

          His impressive body of work includes fronting the heavy metal band SAVATAGE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA, to his current project, a melodic guitar-oriented rock group titled Circle II Circle (who expects their latest to be out sometime this fall) as well as guest vocals/lyrics on the upcoming AVALON album titled “Neon Sirens”.   

When we asked him about the breaking up of SAVATAGE and the formation of his band CIRCLE II CIRCLE he had this to say:  “Well actually it wasn’t so much a “demise” of Savatage rather than the advent of the band Trans-Siberian Orchestra.  No single member of Savatage had any more roles in it than any other.  It was an idea that Jon Oliva and Paul O’Neill had back in 1996 when the song “Sarajevo 12/24” got a lot of attention from the mainstream radio at the time.  In order to find a way to continue marketing this Christmas music type sound that Savatage had created upon on the Dead Winter Dead album, it was necessary to create a new band from the old one so to speak.  So all of the previous Savatage members knew as early as 1997 that Savatage was going to eventually transition into becoming TSO.  So that’s pretty much it.  Of course the untimely death of Criss Oliva in my opinion was basically the beginning of a forthcoming change to the band, but we didn’t really know what form that was going to take until the creation of TSO solidified that transition in 1997.  So that’s basically what happened with Savatage.  It is now known as the band TSO.”

          We asked where the name CIRCLE II CIRCLE came from, “It comes from the fact that I had come from one “circle” of friends in Savatage and formed another “circle” in the new band that became CIIC.  But at the same time in the beginning of the band, I wrote songs with Jon Oliva and Chris Caffery who came from the previous circle.  So we were very connected in the new circle by members of the previous one.  That’s basically how we came up with the name.”

          ZAK has remained graciously busy doing his life’s dream “job” for over 2 decades.  With that said, it’s no shock that he feels that bands need periods of style changes to stay creative and have long lasting career stamina.  STEVENS who considers himself a blues singer that does heavy metal music, says he thinks it is a good necessary thing to look at different areas other than only rock, because it made him a much more well-rounded musician.  “Well I discovered the song “Jam” by this band called L.T.D. and it got me very interested in funk music for a long time back in the day.  It was good to look at different areas other than rock for a while because it made me a more well-rounded musician at the time.   “I guess my signature thing is basically being a blues singer that sings heavy metal music.  Everything I do vocally is based on power yet with a blues touch that is pretty well disguised but stems from the beginning of my singing career.  I started singing when I was nine years old and the music that first shaped my vocals was the rock music that was popular back then.  A lot of it was blues-based.  Our genre is traditional heavy rock/metal music.  We’re very vocal and guitar centered but our music is very melodic on the vocal side as well.”

Over his career, ZAK says that the key for his success lasting over 20 years is, “Basically it’s just using all of my tools to the best of my ability and keeping that blues/rock feel intact that seems to work for me as a vocalist.  We asked him about his writing process, “We start with demo ideas submitted by each of our guys and send around the mp3s to be reviewed by me and all the members of the band.  These usually consist of only the music portion of the potential songs without vocals in the beginning of the process.  Then as we choose the strongest songs and finalize the arrangements, I add the lyrics and the vocal parts.”

 He believes it pays off to be patient.  Good things will come, even if when it seems like it’s taking forever to happen….  Live, laugh, rock and live some more….

  ZAK STEVENS OnOne’s :

Most ______song list by you–

Most sad song — “Daniel” – Elton John

Most romantic song — “Lovesong” – The Cure

Most angry song —”Sugar” – System of a Down

Most energetic song— “Take Me to the Top” – Motley Crue

Worst song you have ever heard— “Baby” – Justin Bieber

Best song you have ever heard— “Stairway to Heaven” – Led Zeppelin

Song You Think Should Be Turned Into a Movie—

“Beyond the Realms of Death – Judas Priest.  There are a lot of ways to go with this plot but I think they would all be very interesting.”

Top 4 Best Album Covers In Your Mind:

1) Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath

2) Heaven and Hell – Black Sabbath

3) Stained Class – Judas Priest

4) Killers -Iron Maiden

All-time favorite – Flirtin’ with Disaster – Molly Hat

      LINKS:

DISCOGS: http://www.discogs.com/artist/516876-Circle-II-Circle

DISCOGS: http://www.discogs.com/artist/271501-Zak-Stevens

MYSPACE: https://myspace.com/zakstevenstar

MYSPACE: https://myspace.com/circleiicircle

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ZakStevensOfficial

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/CircleIICircle

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/StevensZak

WIKIPEDIA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Stevens

WIKIPEDIA: len.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_II_Circle

METAL ARCHIVES: http://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Zak_Stevens/25364

METAL ARCHIVES: http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Circle_II_Circle/7170

LAST.FM: http://www.last.fm/music/Circle+II+Circle

REVERBNATION: http://www.reverbnation.com/circle2circle

          –ZAK STEVENS—Savatage, Circle II Circle, Trans-Siberian Orchestra,Wicked Witch, Machines Of Grace -S. M. W. — OnOne-             From banging on pots and pans on the kitchen floor and winning his elementary school talent show to studying at MIT’s Vocal Institute of Technology in Hollywood, Ca.