Today’s post will be particularly short. Not only was my day quite heavily punctuated by interruptions, I encountered a rather colossal set of music.
Despite the brevity of today’s post, the music was, in a word, fantastic.

Saigon Kick - The Lizard

If you were alive in the early 90s, you probably remember Saigon Kick as the one-hit-wonders who did Love is On the Way. While technically correct, this doesn’t properly represent the band that was Saigon Kick.
Saigon Kick was, despite the power ballad that everybody knew, a hard rock/heavy metal band with a bizarre sense of humor. Songs like My Dog and Peppermint Tribe will attest to that (as will the silly Peppermint Tribe dance that my friends and I came up with). In all seriousness, though - you truly do owe it to yourself to check this out - there’s probably a lot here that you’ve been missing out on.

Metallica - Load

I remember when this album came out - ie was surrounded by controversy. While some of it legitimately surrounded the band’s expanded musical direction and different sound, I was very surprised at the vitriol surrounding their new haircuts.
Seriously. People were pissed because they got haircuts.
Moving on to the actual music, “Load” did indeed represent a shift in Metallica’s sound. They experimented more with different styles of music and different sounds. For many people, this was high sacrilege. For me, it was just another good album from Metallica. It would be a few more albums before they’d make me say “WTF?”

Howard Shore- Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

This beastie was extremely long. 53 tracks long. Not that I’m complaining, but this soundtrack bloody well dominated my day.
Howard Shore did an excellent job throughout the trilogy. This particular episode, being the denouement, features some of the most hugely dramatic music of them all, with particularly heavy use of horns and operatic vocals.
Well worth the time. Well worth it, indeed.