2. Holy Wars - Megadeth
― Marty Innerlogic, Friday, 22 May 2009 09:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Not 1. Calling your attention to the album and project Baghdad Heavy Metal (myspace link), which I just came across this week. It posits itself as a wartime crossing of paths, but in reality it seems to be a one-off by some musicians associated with travelling troupe "Bellydance Superstars": Steven Last (keys/prog) of Galactic Caravan, Steve Hunter (guitar) of Lou Reed's band, and percussionist Issam Houshan, along with a rotating cast of guest vocalists (including Sammy Hagar). Overall sound is a lot like Rachid Taha's rock crossover, and the album sounds like its auditioning for incidental music on an HBO miniseries. But I don't have a problem with that. Special commendation for "Blue Sky Goodbye" (featured at the myspace), as vocalist Woroud is very good in a Natacha Atlas overdub emphatic mode.
― Derelict, Friday, 22 May 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
-1. Metallica - Wherever I May Roam-2. David Bowie - Yassassin-3. Inertia Creeps - Massive Attack-4. Dirt - Alice in Chains
Quite a lot of metal sounds a bit Middle Eastern to my ears, maybe because of a propensity for minor keys?
― chap, Friday, 22 May 2009 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
This is not western rock, but it is rock, which means it is sort of western, and it is not Arab.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSn39O-1v0g
(And once again thanks to the Electric Mole crew for providing good leads.)
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
(due to a sudden moment of clarity in my corroded memory, remembering this 90s project)
Turkish Delight - saburie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72HHlq8lKN0
― meisenfek, Sunday, 20 November 2011 06:34 (twelve years ago) link
MBV - Swallow
― Chris S, Sunday, 20 November 2011 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
Sun City Girls to thread
― Zack Richardson (teenagequiet)
+1 + Sir Richard Bishop
― Moka, Sunday, 20 November 2011 08:11 (twelve years ago) link
"The Blood" by the Cure https://youtu.be/v9_Xvpxdwcg
― moeSC, Monday, 22 April 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
Not "rock" but just heard it in the radio today so"The Fakir"- Cal Tjader, arranged and composed by Lalo Schifrinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AU_91XRstM
― Theory of Every Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 April 2019 18:29 (five years ago) link
Blaak Heat a band i discovered through the Svart label shop sale . Whole lp Shifting Mirrors has an arabic theme running through it, not sure about teh 2 lps they cut before they shortened the name
― Stevolende, Monday, 22 April 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link