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Iron Maiden Voted Best British Band In Past 60 Years

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According to a poll done by HMV, a UK and Ireland based entertainment store, readers have voted Iron Maiden‘s 1982 album The Number Of The Beast as the best British album of the past 60 years. Coming in with a pretty strong second place was Depeche Mode‘s Violator (hell yes!) while The Beatle’s had four entries in the Top 10. The poll garnered approximately 30,000 votes for the Top 60 albums of the past 60 years.

The Top 10:
01. Iron Maiden – The Number Of The Beast
02. Depeche Mode – Violator
03. The Beatles – Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
04. The Beatles – Abbey Road
05. Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon
06. The Beatles – Revolver
07. Queen – A Night At The Opera
08. Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
09. Adele – 21
10. The Beatles – White Album

This is fascinating to me as, in the past, more popular/mainstream artists would have almost certainly dominated the charts. Now, with the advantage of social media, the full scope of music can be appreciated and lauded.

You can see the full list of the top 60 albums here.

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“He Walks By Night” – Listen to a Brand New John Carpenter Song NOW!

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It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.

Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.

Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.

“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.

“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”

You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…

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