Note - These reviews aren't very serious and are just a little overview of what the album is. Nothing to be taken in a serious manner. Serious. Serious.

  

My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River (1995) - Distant, atmospheric metal with a focus on lengthy tracks and mournful sounding lyrics. This is an amazing album, fantastic rhythms on the drums, emotive guitar playing and consistent bass come together to make a very bleak album. Every single songs seems to scream out in pain, yet without being over dramatic.

Recommended tracks - Black Voyage, A Sea to Suffer In

Rating - ■■■■■

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985) - An artist I feel quite embarrassed listening to, but don’t really care because it’s damn fine music. The earlier albums were pretty bad, but this is where you can see that she has definitely grown up. Production on this album is pretty top notch, details floating in the background that boost the entire album onto the next level. Plus, I’m basing my best music video of all time on the video ‘Cloudbusting’ so that has to count for something, right? (College assignment for you Giant Bomb fellows)

Recommended tracks - Running up That Hill, Hounds of Love, Cloudbusting, Jig of Life.

Rating - ■■■■■

Gentle Giant - Free Hand (1975) - Hm, I’m torn on this one. One of my old favourite experimental progressive rock bands on their rockiest album yet, filled with strange instruments and instrumental passages. Yet the production on my copy is absolute pap, everything sounds muffled and terrible, I’m not sure if it’s just my copy or what because their previous album ‘The Power and Glory’ sounds fine. Nontheless, it’s fine music, a bit pompous but aren’t we all?

Recommended tracks - Just the Same, On Reflection, Free Hand, Time to Kill, Mobile.

Rating - ■■■■□

Righto, I'm going to do a rare blog post on 'maturity' as the title suggests.  
 
What the hell is wrong with idiots at college? For some reason people have some absolutely mind-bogglingly stupid thought that as soon as you enter college you must act twice your own age and act like an absolute stuck up asshole with no sense of humour. So what if I'm acting stupid, do you have to get directly involved? No. Am I being loud and irritating? No. Could you stop paying attention to me? Yes. People cannot seem to comprehend that people are different. Just because you want to act like a stuck-up prick it does not mean I want to and if you are 'mature' as you would like to think you are, you should be able to accept that.
 
Act your age? No. Don't try to tell me how the hell I should act. You are contradicting yourself by trying to act all high and mighty when in fact you are being childish by not respecting how other people behave. Heck, today I got told that I act like I am twelve years old. Infact I was being myself and if I was trying to act like a twelve year old you'd damn well know it, I was trying to have a good time. I hear bad, depressing news every single day so I like to cheer myself up a bit by injecting humour into what ever I'm doing, but apparently doing that is childish.
 
What is complaining about in a blog post going to do? Nothing. There will always be teenagers who believe themselves to be superior to everyone else as they go through this stage of 'I'm an adult now, so obviously the only fun I can fathom is getting drunk and making an absolute twat of myself' but I just wanted to get it off of my chest.

 

My lovely friend Robert decided to loan me some money so I could pick this game up, so I'm playin' 'n' stuff. Hit me up with a friends invite, I'm Beatlor@Schizoidgb.

I had a PS2 when it was first released, but the only game I had was Burnout and I didn't have any money to buy any more games so, stupidly, I sold it. But hey, that was years ago and I was an idiot. (Still am, but hey ho) so I've been watching the Persona Endurance Run and it's got me thinking that I should really pick one up and play all of the games I missed. I need suggestions from every genre because I've missed a whoooole lot of games. 
 
Games like Persona would be a plus though, I normally don't like stuff like that but for some reason I really want to give those types of games a try seeing as everything I've been playing has been FPS FPS FPS FPS FPS FPS for quite a long time and I feel like a change. So yeah, fire away!

Been a quiet 2 weeks or so, no new games. Just been playing Battlefield Heroes and Jedi Academy, that's it really. No new music either so everything has pretty much come to a stand still, just waiting on college so I can get my creative juices flowing again! I actually feel terrible not having anything to work on, I thought 2 months off with nothing to do would be great but it seems that I actually need something creative in order to make me happy. Pretty odd I think!  I've been trying to think of something else to do, but so far my mind is at a blank, it seems everything I would like to do requires money which I don't have.  
 
Hmm, oh well. Night night Bomb!