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"Cheers Craw"

On your recommendation I bought "Songs for The Deaf" last night on the way home and it's fantastic.
Only the first 4 songs have instantly grabbed me, but the rest are the sort I'll get into with more listens tonight and the next few days.

Also got The Streets album, that's bloody good as well.

Queens of The Stone Age - almost as good as Clutch in my world.

Mike Skinner is my new hero. I heard a Streets remix of Blak Twang on Xfm, and it ruled.

Went to a 'The Streets' concert two weeks ago in London, very very good, just like their album.

Yay me I got a topic named after me.

Glad you like it GB. Its funny I've a lot of friends who don't necessarily like to 'rock' but have bought this album and think its amazing.

*tips rock hat and nods*

Maybe I did, maybe I didn't.

That's because you didn't get "Pure Rock Fury" by Clutch.

Co-incedentally, Songs for the Deaf and Original Pirate Material are two albums which currently reside in my car, as they're the best driving songs I've ever heard. Songs for the Deaf is the best album I've got so far this year.

I see what you mean.

Williams started off as a slam poet, if you can find it try and watch a film called "Slam", it features some of the most incendiary poems I've ever heard. Williams was like Langston Hughes, except he took his rhythms from hip hop, almost certainly including that song, instead of the blues and jazz Hughes used.

Then he eventually came full circle and recorded a hip hop album, which is pretty damn good. He's also got a Cornell type howl when he signs, which is always a good thing :-)

I like it, but a guy called Gill Scott Heron was doing this years ago.
Still good though.

Check out "The Revolution will not be televised" by Heron, that's superb and has been sampled so many times it's not funny.

On the subject of good albums, I found a rap album that I really like, which is quite an achievement in itself. It's called "Amethyst Rock Star" by a guy called Saul Williams produced by Rick Def Jam Rubin

Try downloading Om Nia Merican because it samples a Rage riff plus Rocha howl and turns it into to something cool.

And "1987" is, lyrically, one of the best rap songs I've ever heard. It starts off as a dig at bling bling rappers, moves on to black slave ships and ends up with a short spoken word bit about showing feminine sides and having flowers shoved down throat. But it's damn good.

I've uploaded them on to my BTinternet pace because i can't find them on I-mesh, but the mp3's do sound a little flat. The album has much meaty bass, which rocks.

You can get them at:
http://www.kieranhappy.btinternet.co.uk
and if that doesn't work, try www.btinternet.com/~kieranhappy

Nor me. It's just good music, regardless of genre.
Queens of The Stone Age is damn good as well.

Happy, for top rock drumming, go download "Sinkemlow" or "Immortal" by Clutch.