VHUS v.31: Le Official Playlist! (and The Devil's on Twitter now!)

First off, I hope you all read, absorbed and shared the previous entry.   I don't wan't to be known as "The Fatboy Who Cried PODCAST," but I don't want to leave you guys in the dark either.    Just read it, OK?

What occurred in Vol. 31?

• Where in the mall can you buy goth baby clothes?
• What does Hell have in store for YouTube comics?
• The best places to get robbed (and killed) in England.
• The last thing we need: A Deep Purple cover album... from Whitesnake?
• A steamy pile of leftover Irish jokes.
• Barking dogs DO bite (and it’s hilarious).

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The Very Heavy Uncle Show Volume 31: The Official Playlist 

(Original Debut: 26 March, 2015)

Ghost Of An American Airman -- Warboys   [Skin / Hollywood Records]

Whyzdom -- While The Witches Burn   [Symphony For A Hopeless God / Scarlet Records]

Touchstone -- Flux   [Oceans Of Time / Hear No Evil]

After… -- Waiting For   [Hideout / Oskar]

Jasper Carrott – Childbirth   [EMI Comedy Collection / EMI UK]

The SixxiS -- Waste of Time   [Hollow Shrine / Glassville Records]

Grand Tour -- Little Boy And The Fat Man   [Heavy On The Beach / Grand Tour Music]

Amorphis -- Mission   [Circle / Nuclear Blast]

Paatos -- Feel   [V / Glassville Records]

The Devils' Blood -- Christ Or Cocaine   [The Time Of No Time Evermore / Profound Lore]

Wolverine -- A House of Plague   [Still / Candlelight]

Montage -- Trapeze   [Montage / Secret Entertainment]

Doro -- Running From The Devil   [Fear No Evil / AFM]

Calliope -- La Prova   [Citta' Di Frontiera / Vinyl Magic]

The Black -- Golgotha   [Golgotha / Black Widow]

The Mighty Bard -- Bird   [Blue God And Other Stories / themightybard.bandcamp.com]

Jasper Carrott -- Vasectomy (edit)   [EMI Comedy Collection / EMI UK]

Man In A Can -- One Of A Kind   [Stanger Things Have Happened / maninacan.bandcamp.com]

Streets (w/ Steve Walsh) -- Everything Is Changin'   [Streets / Wounded Bird]

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As mentioned previously: That Devil Guy NOW has a Twitter account (accept no substitutes, this is the real deal).   He's been on Twitter for only a week, and he's already devolved into a Grade-A attention whore. Please follow him today, so I have to listen to him moan about having no followers.

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More gossip on the second coming of VHUS?    Watch this space.

 

VHUS Volume 30: The Official Antique Playlist!

What's occurred?

• Uncle’s clown-phobia: The ultimate test!   
• A 14-CD live box set that’s NOT from The Grateful Dead?!?  Really?    
• The Devil’s joke-book steps WAY over the line!    
• By request: Podcasting tips for the timid.    
• FIVE new countries debut in Audrey’s World Series (old news)!   
• Comedy, both imported AND domestic!

PLUS more kid-tested prog rock, listenable metal, caustic commentary and classic rock obscura!   JOIN US!!!

The Very Heavy Uncle Show, Volume 30

(Original premiere date: March 12, 2015)

Riot -- 49er   [Narita / Rock Candy]

Votchi -- Pink And White   [Out Of Jail / Votchi]

Tiamat –- Gaia   [Wildhoney / Century Media]

The Budos Band -- Into The Fog   [Burnt Offering / Daptone Recordings]

Bill Cosby -- Special Class   [Wonderfulness / Warner Bros.]

Black Widow -- In Ancient Days   [Sacrifice / Repertoire]

Corvus Stone -- Mystery Man   [Corvus Stone II / Melodic Revolution]

Arjen Lucassen -- Where Pigs Fly   [Lost In The New Real / Inside Out]

The Treat -- Effervescence   [Phonography / Rockular]

Violet District -- Hommage To The Irretrievably Lost  (Pt.1)   [Terminal Breath / Violet District]

Ars Nova -- The 42 Gods   [The Book Of The Dead / Musea]

Vanden Plas -- Point Of Know Return   [Beyond Daylight / Inside Out]

Stone Axe -- Old Soul   [Stone Axe II / Music Abuse]

Unreal City -- Lo Schermo Di Pietra   [Il Paese Del Tramanto / AMS/BTF]

Eddie Izzard -- Popeman   [Circle / Anti-]

Agnieszka Swita -- Something To Believe   [Sleepless / F2 Music]

Sylvan -- Shaped Out Of Clouds   [Home / Gentle Art Of Music]

Hemlock -- Challenge of The Will   [Exordium / Hemlock]

The Morrigan -- Night Comes Closer   [Rides Out / English Garden]

* Leonard Nimoy -- I Walk The Line   [The New World of Leonard Nimoy / Dot]

* Devilish Bonus Track

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RANDOM THOUGHTS DEPARTMENT:

I got nothing this week.   Absolutely nothing.   (I've been sick.)

VHUS on MIXCLOUD!    (Going... going...)

VHUS on Spreaker Radio!   (going... going...)

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Very Heavy Volume 29: The Official Playlist (etc.)

What's occurring?

• Who’s REALLY behind Earth's crappy weather?
• More cheap laughs from The Devil’s ginger joke book!
• The most outrageous TV show in New Zealand!
• What 8-Track was playing when Uncle became a man?
• French For Graduate Students: Lost in translation.
• Imported comedy from Billy Connolly & Lee Evans!   

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The Very Heavy Uncle Show, Volume 29: The Official Playlist   

(Original Debut: February 26, 2015)

Y&T -- Rock 'n' Roll's Gonna Save The World   [In Rock We Trust / Majestic Rock UK]

Iamthemorning -- The Howler   [Belighted / KScope]

Siena Root -- Between The Lines   [Pioneers / Cleopatra]

Comedy of Errors – Disobey   [Disobey / Comedy Of Errors]

Beardfish -- Ode To The Rock 'n Roller   [+4626-Comfortzone / Inside Out]

Lee Evans -- Bread & Butter   [Ultimate Experience Live / Universal UK]

Circulus -- Dragon's Dance   [Clocks Are Like People / Rise Above]

Neopera -- A Call To Arms   [Destined Ways / Armoury]

Silhouette -- Web Of Lies  (Pt. 1)   [Beyond The Seventh Wave / Freia Music]

Threshold -- Turned To Dust   [For The Journey / Metalville]

Fatal Fusion -- Tears I've Cried   [The Ancient Tale / Karisma]

Head East -- Pictures   [Head East / Hip-O]

Voice -- Devilish Temptation   [Soulhunter / AFM]

Sezione Frenante –– Le Quiete In Un Attimo   [Metafora Di Un Viaggio / Maracash Records]

United Progressive Fraternity –– Choices   [Fall In Love With The World / Inside Out]

Anima Morte -- The Carrion Crow   [Upon Darkened Stains / Transubstans]

Billy Connolly -- The Casual Vomit   [Billy & Albert / Virgin Records]

Cuprum -- Kolik Das   [Musica Deposita / Cuprum]

Fever Tree -- Liverpool Medley   [Fever Tree / Sundazed]

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Random Thoughts Department:

1)  UK Comedy recommendation-of-the-month:

I don't know how this one got past me when it first aired, but 2 episodes into the DVD box set, I'm declaring this BBC mockumentary series as "The Spinal Tap of the 21st Century".  (YMMV)   See it.  NOW.

The Life of Rock with Brian Pern

2)  It's beyond our mission statement here to provide comprehensive reviews of new releases, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to toss out a few titles getting a more rotation than usual in Uncle's office:

PURSON - Desire's Magic Theatre

HEADSPACE - All That You Fear Is Gone

SE DELAN - Drifter

FREQUENCY DRIFT - Last

HAKEN - Affinity

3)  Related to 2....  If you care... "Affinity" is a 2 CD set (fine so far)   where CD 2 is simply a 100% instrumental version of the regular album.   Otherwise, identical.    This seems to be a growing trend in the prog & metal worlds; Nightwish & Edenbridge did the same thing with their most recent studio efforts (and I'm sure there were a hundred more I missed).

Uncle doesn't really get this.   Now, I can see where A VERY SELECT FEW albums might benefit from this presentation.  (Nightwish, for sure. Pink Floyd? maybe...)  But personally I can't think of more than a handful of albums from my all-time 500 where I'd enjoy an instrumental version more (let alone as-much) as the original.

Led Zeppelin II sans Robert Plant?    Sabbath's Paranoid, Ozzy-free?    Queens' Night At The Opera with 0% Freddie Mercury?    I don't see the attraction.    Maybe it's a musician thing.  I can't say.

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VHUS Volume 28: The Official Pain-Free Playlist

After a 6-week wait to see the oral surgeon, Uncle D.L. finally returned to full active duty!    (and we couldn't get him to shut up)

What occurred upon his return?    

• The Devil reveals his college major!
• Ill-Advice: How to ignore a new roommate!
• New (old) Feature: Audrey's World Series Of Heavy Listeners!
• The Devil's jokebook unleashes a convent full of nun gags!  
• Korea makes monster movies?   Really?
• A special treat for fans of robots and creepy old guys in space.
• Stand-up comedy for the sit-on-your-ass crowd!

PLUS: More blacklight-fueled prog rock, listenable metal, caustic commentary and classic rock obscura!

The Very Heavy Uncle Show  Volume 28 -- The Official Playlist
(Original premiere date: February 11, 2015)

Whitesnake -- Slide It In   [Slide It In / Geffen]

A.C.T. -- Mr. Landlord   [Last Epic / Inside Out]

Adventure -- Empty Minds   [Caught In The Web / Progress Records]

Orchid -- Eyes Behind The Wall   [The Zodiac Sessions / Nuclear Blast]

Opeth -- River   [Pale Communion / Roadrunner]

D'accorD -- Here Lies Greed   [D'accorD III / Karisma Records]

Sam Kinison -- Highway To Hell   [Leader Of The Banned / Warner Bros.]

Big Big Train -- Uncle Jack   [Electric English Part One / English Electric Recordings]

Interstellar Overdrive -- Best Thing   [Epo / interstellaroverdrivemusic.bandcamp.com]

Flying Colors -- Mask Machine   [Second Nature / Music Theories Recordings]

Enchant -- Circles   [The Great Divide / Inside Out]

Spinal Tap -- Bitch School   [Break Like The Wind / MCA]

Lingua Mortis Orchestra -- The Devil's Bride   [L.M.O. / Nuclear Blast]

Lunatic Soul -- Walking On A Flashlight Beam   [Walking On A Flashlight Beam / KScope]

Rosenkreutz -- Sitting On The Edge Of Heaven   [Back To The Stars / Andromedarelix]

Eddie Griffin -- Star Trek   [Message In The Hat / Epic]

Messenger -- Piscean Tides   [Illusory Blues / SVART]

Hawkwind -- Quark, Strangeness And Charm   [Quark, Strangeness And Charm / Repertoire]

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RANDOM THOUGHTS DEPARTMENT:

1) Remember what I said about our show pages on SPREAKER & MIXCLOUD?     They look like they're losing weight, don't they?

2) The question has been asked: "How much longer is this whole extended encore thing going to last?"

The answer: There are 2 real reasons I'm running the entire show library over again since I pulled the plug on new episodes back in February... 

A) A not-small number of listeners wrote in, lamenting that the programme was canceled JUST after they'd finally discovered it's creamy goodness.   (You had 2 years to find it kids, what can I say?) 

So... as a consolation prize to all the people who wrote in, I thought I'd throw them a bone in the shape all the good stuff they missed from the very beginning.    I'm a nice guy that way.

B) The eternal optimist in me thought that "maybe" I'd be able to resume doing my very heavy uncle thing later on in the year when certain aspects of my private life calmed the fuck down.   And... I thought it couldn't hurt to keep the brand name active (and the communication channels open) until we knew for certain one way or another.

I will say this: At current consumption, we will exhaust our second cycle of material a couple of weeks before Halloween 2016.     At that time, one of two things will happen - either I'll grit my teeth and pull a brand new Volume 53 out of my arse... or we'll pull a Radiohead and completely vanish from the interwebs.   But without a new single.   We don't know.

3) I've been a loyal, faithful Amazon customer for 16 years.   They get more of my disposable income than every other vendor combined.   And overall I've been extremely satisfied with the service.   And the customer service.   But those days are apparently over.   

Amazon customer service on both sides of the Atlantic have been fucking with me for 3 straight days, and I have had enough!    Frustrated.   Insulted.  Disappointed.   Angry.   That's how Amazon has made Uncle feel.

I just can't conceive Amazon customer support failing on such a catastrophic scale, but I will say a LOT of it rests on the shoulders of their English-As-A-Third language support crew.   This week, I've set the record for saying "could you repeat that again, please?"   No more.

I hope eBay, Barnes & Noble and Best Buy can handle the uptick in business when Amazon gets served with divorce papers.   And if they don't pull their thumbs out SOON - it will happen.

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