Music from a Lifetime

By: Bill Peters
  • Summary

  • A middle-aged music lover expands his album reviewing from blog to podcast. Each episode here will focus on the past and the present. New album reviews, old album retrospectives, best-of lists, conversation and discussion. If it's music you love, come and let me share my love of music with you.
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Episodes
  • Megadeth: "Youthanasia" - 30 Years On
    Nov 1 2024

    "“Youthanasia” is, once you have digested it, the logical next step in the direction Megadeth had travelled over the previous two albums. “Rust in Peace” was the amazingly perfect progression from the out and out thrash metal of the debut albums to the maturing yet aggressive nature that that album took on. “Countdown to Extinction” had, for want of a better word, matured even more, still stinging and heavy but with a slightly lesser focus on the thrash genre than the band had utilised before. And then came “Youthanasia”, an album that almost settles into its own tempo early on and doesn’t move away from that too much, and with heavy riffs that are now closely devoid of what one might consider to be thrash or speed metal, where the roots of this band exist. It’s not a case of the band selling out their sound for the era but is just part of the next step in their evolution.

    So, rather than a thrash album, instead here we have a collection of songs that can certainly inspire some hearty singalongs and table banging along the way, in a way that may not satisfy the earliest fans of the band but is worthy of checking out."


    On this episode we are going to talk about “Youthanasia” by Megadeth, the band’s 6th studio album released 30 years ago this week, on today’s episode where “don’t want no revenge, ain’t no payback time” on Music from a Lifetime.

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    32 mins
  • Nirvana: "MTV Unplugged in New York" - 30 Years On
    Oct 31 2024

    "Nirvana had been the face of the grunge movement since they had crashed upon the music scene with their second album “Nevermind” in 1991, and had been riding the wave ever since. With the release of their third album “In Utero” in 1993 saw this trend continue, despite an album that was far from mainstream in content. The tour that followed this was their first of the United States for two years, and included the addition of Pat Smear as a second guitarist to increase the impact of their music.

    In November of 1993 Nirvana agreed to record a performance for MTV Unplugged, which had been a popular addition to their music channels programming. Although the band had been negotiating to be on the program for some months, they also wanted to do something different from what most bands did when they recorded the show. Whereas other bands still wanted to be loud and energetic, Nirvana wanted it to be the intimate setting that the style suggested it should be, and to incorporate songs that suited the style that weren’t their own"


    On this episode we are going to talk about “MTV Unplugged in New York” by Nirvana, the band’s first live album released 30 years ago this week, on today’s episode where “underneath the bridge, tarp has sprung a leak” on Music from a Lifetime.

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    14 mins
  • Scorpions: "Fly to the Rainbow" - 50 Years On
    Oct 30 2024

    "All was not lost, however. Despite the demise of Scorpions, Rudolph had decided that he wanted to work with Uli Jon, and having attended some of Dawn Road’s rehearsals he decided to join the band, which at that time consisted of Uli Jon Roth on guitar and vocals, bass guitarist Francis Buchholtz, drummer Jurgen Rosenthal and keyboardist Achim Kirschning. Once he was in the mix, Roth and Buchholtz convinced Rudolph to invite Klaus Meine to come on board as lead vocalist, reprising his role from Scorpions, which he eventually agreed to. With two bands figuratively merging into one, the new group decided to forego the Dawn Road name to retake the name of Scorpions, as that name was already well known in the German music community and had of course already released an album, which Dawn Road had not. And thus came the second coming of Scorpions the band"


    On this episode we are going to talk about “Fly to the Rainbow” by Scorpions, the band’s 2nd studio album released 50 years ago this week, on today’s episode where “just listen to his records, now hear what he says” on Music from a Lifetime.

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    34 mins

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