GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Back in 2000-2001 he would use Trumpets of Jericho as the song to warm up his voice. Not sure which one he is using now, but it seems to be working great.
Back in 2000-2001 he would use Trumpets of Jericho as the song to warm up his voice. Not sure which one he is using now, but it seems to be working great.
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
Well to be honest he'd be a muppet if he didn't, the way he sings. Which is why I'm assuming that what is meant by "warm up" in this context is something a bit more structured/specific than singing in a portaloo, for example:
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Funnily enough, I remember that conversation with Danko Jones from back in the day!
My aunt is a professional singer. I remember as a young kid i was scared by her making some strange noises before going on stage. Thanks for posting the link. it's interesting.
Jer
A window to the west, a blazing star above
Would people be interested in doing a ranking of every song in Adrian's solo discography similar to what's going on with Bruce's solo work in this thread? If enough folks are up for it, I would be happy to run it.
My thought is that I'd include every album track and B-side from solo bands where Adrian wrote or co-wrote most of the songs, and then from collaborations where he only co-wrote a minority of songs I'd only include the songs that he actually co-wrote, and not the ones he only played on.
His Urchin work is a tough situation, because to my knowledge none of it had a wide release, but there's apparently quite a bit of it out there now, just in very limited release form. Since it's hard to dig up most of it, even on YouTube, I'm tempted to leave it out entirely and focus on A.S.A.P. and beyond. Let me know what you think.
The song list I'm considering using is in the spoiler tag below:
If you're interested, let me know if anything's missing or if you disagree with the choices.
My thought is that I'd include every album track and B-side from solo bands where Adrian wrote or co-wrote most of the songs, and then from collaborations where he only co-wrote a minority of songs I'd only include the songs that he actually co-wrote, and not the ones he only played on.
His Urchin work is a tough situation, because to my knowledge none of it had a wide release, but there's apparently quite a bit of it out there now, just in very limited release form. Since it's hard to dig up most of it, even on YouTube, I'm tempted to leave it out entirely and focus on A.S.A.P. and beyond. Let me know what you think.
The song list I'm considering using is in the spoiler tag below:
A.S.A.P. - Silver & Gold
- The Lion
- Silver And Gold
- Down The Wire
- You Could Be A King
- After The Storm
- Misunderstood
- Kid Gone Astray
- Fallen Heroes
- Wishing Your Life Away
- Blood On The Ocean
- Sins Of Your Father
- World's On Fire
- Psycho Motel
- Western Shore
- Rage
- Killing Time
- Time Is A Hunter
- Money To Burn
- City Of Light
- Excuse Me
- The Last Chain
- A Quarter To Heaven
- Rain
- Believe
- With You Again
- Into The Black
- No Loss To Me
- Underground
- Welcome To The World
- Something Real
- Innocence
- I'm Alive
- Hypocrisy
- No Friendly Neighbour
- No Place Like Home
- I See Lights
- Bright As A Fire
- Savage World
- Tortured Tone
- White Sheet Robes
- As Tears Come Falling From The Sky
- Awoken Broken
- Search For Bliss
- Snake Ladders
- Mirror And The Moon
- Road To Hell
- Welcome To The Pit
- The Ghost Of Cain
- Killing Floor
- Machine Men
- Return Of The King
- The Calling
- New Horizons
- Blood Brothers (A.S.A.P. version)
- Fighting Man
- When She's Gone
- School Days
- Last Goodbye
- (Can't) Wait
- Just Like A Woman
- Scientist
- Mooncusser
If you're interested, let me know if anything's missing or if you disagree with the choices.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Sounds good to me! 
Jer
A window to the west, a blazing star above
Thanks for the links; I only had spotty luck trying to find that stuff on my own!
My issues with including tracks that were never formally released are that folks wouldn't have had a chance to hear them as much as the rest of the work, and because they're only demos or live versions they wouldn't really be on equal footing sonically with the other tracks.
I definitely wouldn't want to include live-only songs, but if folks thought it made sense, I could include "City Of Dreams" from The Untouchables and all of the studio tracks from Urchin that are readily available online. I suppose I could divide up the Urchin tracks based on the limited release album definitions on Wikipedia, but I don't know that all of those tracks are easily accessible.
Folks who are interested, let me know what you think about this.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
I have a couple of Urchin albums, so I would say those should be included. If I could get a copy, anyone can!
https://www.hrrecords.de/high_roller/sites/release_detail.php?id=126
https://www.hrrecords.de/high_roller/sites/release_detail.php?id=230
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Call me old-fashioned, but I like to buy records of artists whose music I enjoy...
Ariana
Black-and-white leopard
Oh, I didn't mean that at all. I'm completely with you on that. What I meant to say was that if someone wanted to hear Urchin, they wouldn't even have to bother to look for the albums and buy them, since everything is already on YouTube. In other words, there's no excuse for overlooking the band.
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
No excuse for overlooking them completely, but I generally find I appreciate stuff a lot more after I've bought the CD and listened to it a few times. Like with the White Spirit album - I heard it all on YouTube and thought okay, that sounds good. But after I got the CD and played it a few times in the car I thought actually, it's very good. But that may be just me, perhaps I'm a freak.
I'll clearly have to work harder at tracking down the Urchin stuff now - as I understood it before it had never been properly released so I hadn't bother to look too hard. Maybe it never got a CD release?
I'll clearly have to work harder at tracking down the Urchin stuff now - as I understood it before it had never been properly released so I hadn't bother to look too hard. Maybe it never got a CD release?
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Check www.hrrecords.de. They did release the Urchin compilations of material I mentioned above and I think they still have copies in stock.
EDIT: It seems that they have High Roller on CD, but not Get Up and Get Out. Both are available in vinyl though.
Jer
A window to the west, a blazing star above
Thanks. I wound up ordering both just now on CD from eBay for a bit cheaper, though this underlines my original point that the albums had such a limited release that they're hard to come by. And it looks like the self-titled Urchin CD listed on Wikipedia wasn't even an official release.
Well, so far only two people have shown interest in doing the voting and countdown. I figure we'd need significantly more than that for the results to have any value, so please speak up if you're interested.
