The Benja-man Is Verbose

Past exposure to this band/record:   As mentioned before, I had a moment with Austrian symphonic-power-proggers Serenity * around the time of their first two records, at which time anything written about them involved a comparison to Kamelot.  So, with my limited piggy bank money - after getting confused and spending a little time with Katatonia, a very different sort of interesting metal band - I ended up grabbing a copy of  Ghost Opera .  I liked it quite a bit, even if it wasn't an all-timer, and still find myself humming "Rule The World" from time to time.  But then Poetry For The Poisoned  just somehow failed to grab me, and not for lack of trying.  So I drifted away from all things Kamelot, until now.  It sounds like some would argue I picked the right time to jump off that train, but since I never really rode it much to begin with, this is a great opportunity! I'm a classifier when it comes to music just because there's so ...

Released  in 1990, but actually recorded on a whim by Zevon and the non-Stipe R.E.M. guys during the Sentimental Hygiene  sessions.  If I'm a little cursory in my exploration of  Hindu Love Gods , well, the material kinda demands it.  The quip about this record is that they recorded it in less time than it takes to listen to, or something to that effect.  So it's entirely possible that I'll spend more time and effort composing this post then went into recording Hindu Love Gods .   Not everyone involved even agreed to have the session released to the public before it happened.  So... yeah.  I'm never tremendously enthusiastic about covers records in which I don't know most of the originals, but let's dig shallowly in. Track One:  "Walkin' Blues" [Robert Johnson] It's worth noting that most of these songs are blues standards.  My knowledge of the blues is mostly confined to the fact that I lived in Chicago for about ten yea...