Scooter Chronicles

Collective Soul - “Collective Soul”

Tracks:

1. Simple
2. Untitled
3. The World I Know
4. Smashing Young Man
5. December
6. Where the River Flows
7. Gel
8. She Gathers Rain
9. When the Water Falls
10. Collection of Goods
11. Bleed
12. Reunion

This is the band’s second album, from 1994, but it was the single “Shine” from their debut album the year prior that brought Collective Soul into mine, and everyone else’s consciousness. I saw them twice for free before the release of this album. I liked what...

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Tuatara - “Cinemathique”

Tracks:

1. The Melting Sun
2. Love is a Calculated Risk
3. Pimpin’ for the Muse
4. Tumbleweeds
5. A Thin Gray Pickpocket
6. Action Thriller
7. Falling Pianos
8. The Hangover
9. In the Passing Lane
10. Walking in a Dead Man’s Shoes
11. Farewell to the Hero

I stumbled onto this band because of the drummer, Barrett Martin. Martin was the drummer for the Screaming Trees during their heyday in the early 90’s (Seattle grunge scene), and then more importantly to me, was part of the “super group” Mad Season. (The...

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King’s X - “Gretchen Goes to Nebraska”

Tracks:

1. Out of the Silent Planet
2. Over My Head
3. Summerland
4. Everybody Knows a Little Bit of Something
5. The Difference (In the Garden of St. Anne’s-on-the-Hill)
6. I’ll Never Be the Same
7. Mission
8. Fall on Me
9. Pleiades
10. Don’t Believe It (It’s Easier Said than Done)
11. Send a Message
12. The Burning Down

Since I am missing many of my CD’s in my collection, I come up to the second appearance of King’s X in my series. As I mentioned in their...

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Yes - “Drama”

Tracks:

1. Machine Messiah
2. White Car
3. Does It Really Happen?
4. Into the Lens
5. Run Through the Light
6. Tempus Fugit

After my realization that the band who recorded “90125″ had been around a long time before, I decided to go out and buy a couple of their older albums. This was one of the two albums I bought that fateful day, the other being “Close to the Edge”. I honestly can’t remember exactly when I listened to it, because I was so blown away with “CttE”. But eventually I picked up on it’s vibe right...

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Bozzio Levin Stevens - “Black Light Syndrome”

Tracks:

1. The Sun Road
2. Dark Corners
3. Duende
4. Black Light Syndrome
5. Falling in Circles
6. Book of Hours
7. Chaos/Control

I had heard that these three were doing an album, and was excited about two-thirds of it. At the time I was already a fan of Bozzio and Levin. I was disappointed with the choice of Stevens as the guitarist. The idea of this album was to write and record it in less than a week. It was a way for Bozzio to make some extra money during a slow time in his career, and...

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Sheryl Crow - “Sheryl Crow”

Tracks:

1. Maybe Angels
2. A Change Would Do You Good
3. Home
4. Sweet Rosalyn
5. If It Makes You Happy
6. Redemption Day
7. Hard to Make a Stand
8. Everyday is a Winding Road
9. Love is a Good Thing
10. Oh Marie
11. Superstar
12. The Book
13. Ordinary Morning

Hard not to know who Sheryl Crow is. Though I have my brother Todd to thank me for his introduction to her music. He had a copy of her first album that I borrowed a couple of times. Some of it I really liked well enough to end up buying her second album after hearing...

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Camel - “The Snow Goose”

Tracks:

1. The Great Marsh
2. Rhayader
3. Rhayader Goes to Town
4. Sanctuary
5. Fritha
6. The Snow Goose
7. Friendship
8. Migration
9. Rhayader Alone
10. Flight of the Snow Goose
11. Preparation
12. Dunkirk
13. Epitaph
14. Fritha Alone
15. La Princesse Perdue
16. The Great Marsh

Another progressive rock band that I was introduced to by the members of ProgressiveEars.Com. It took me some time to finally buy this, and is the only Camel album I own to date. But it was suggested at their best work.

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Metallica - “Master of Puppets”

Tracks:

1. Battery
2. Master of Puppets
3. The Thing That Should Not Be
4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
5. Disposable Heroes
6. Leper Messiah
7. Orion
8. Damage, Inc.

Ah, Metallica. Maybe you wouldn’t have pegged me for a fan. But I am. Sure, it took me a while. I was first introduced to Metallica by my high school buddy, George. He was a real nice guy, and not someone you might think of as a metal-head. But Metallica was some of the more mellow stuff he listened to. He kept giving me this album and “Ride the...

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Boards of Canada - “Music Has the Right to Children”

Tracks:

1. Wildlife Analysis
2. An Eagle in Your Mind
3. The Color of the Fire
4. Telephasic Workshop
5. Triangles & Rhombuses
6. Sixtyten
7. Turquoise Hexagon Sun
8. Kaini Industries
9. Bocuma
10. Roygbiv
11. Rue the Whirl
12. Aquarius
13. Olson
14. Pete Standing Alone
15. Smokes Quantity
16. Open the Light
17. One Very Important Thought

I have always had an interest in electronic music, but never knew where to look. Sure, I was introduced to Tangerine Dream in my late...

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The Outfield - “Play Deep”

Tracks:

1. Say It Isn’t So
2. Your Love
3. I Don’t Need Her
4. Everytime You Cry
5. 61 Seconds
6. Mystery Man
7. All the Love
8. Talk to Me
9. Taking My Chances
10. Nervous Alibi

Growing up in the MTV age brought my ears and eyes to a wide range of music. It opened my ears even to the less commercial music. But The Outfield was one of those pop-melodic-rock bands that stuck with me, even to this day. And their debut album “Play Deep” is something that I purposely went out and bought on CD a few years ago to finally...

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