This sadness does something to you. I remember exactly how I bought Sketches of Spain in a store for used vinyl at Mercer Street corner Bleecker in New York, for $3,99. It was the time after CD’s had conquered the market and people sold their vinyl records in order to replace them by discs. That’s …
What else in hell should be so great about the USA, other than this music? When this album got released, I listened to it over and over and over again. I can still sing along to songs like It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) und Subterranean Homesick Blues. Back then, I sat in front of …
Suddenly I felt anger and shame This record is important to me, because in a certain way it saved me. When Music For 18 Musicians was released, I lived the rock’n’roll lifestyle with every fibre of my body and continued to incite myself. I went through every wall with my head first. I tried to …
I was 16 and made a living from selling dope. My Mom left me alone pretty often back then and I had to figure out for myself how to get along. One of my customers was a guy from a record store. He recommended Let There Be Rock to me, and I think he even …
It was in a cute little club in Sheffield. I had heard rumours about this band, Queens of the Stone Age. How can you not be interested in a band with such a name? I didn’t know what to expect- the best approach to a concert if you ask me. The Queens started with one …
Albums have to be vinyl for me, not cd’s or downloads. When I am writing songs for my own albums, I always imagine at which point the listener has to turn around the record. And when I think of the artwork, I always imagine a big gatefold cover. Because that’s how I listen to music: …
With 15, I was living in a small working-class town in the north of Sweden. I was a metal-head back then and was just starting to approach hardcore and punk, I only had a very vague idea of either. In my area there weren’t any punks, nothing happened in Sweden in that regard, there were …
It was on Canadian radio where I heard songs from Low for the very first time, that was in 1977. The older brother of a friend owned a copy of the record, it had just been released. I remember how especially the instrumental tracks struck me. They felt almost plastic, like a landscape that as …
I was just recently talking about Sabotage by Black Sabbath again. I always wonder if there had been Nirvana without this album. Probably not. It’s everywhere in Nirvana’s music. This is the music that I loved when I was 15 or 16 years old. I had the album on cassette, and I listened to it …
I bought Road To Ruin on vinyl in 1983, I forgot where. My friends Kenny, Benny and I all bought different Ramones albums to share them, and I think I chose Road To Ruin because of its comic cover. The John Holmstrom illustration is great, in the style of the Zap-comix. A classic. Just like …
