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Saxon - Love Without Ballads

  Saxon – Love Without Ballads “ And the bands played on.” February is supposed to be about love. Roses. Choruses. Predictable sentiment. Saxon never played that game. So it feels only right that Saxon opens our new monthly series — One Band Per Month — not with a ballad, but with something far more honest: love that survives noise, distance, time, and defiance. This series isn’t about ranking bands or rewriting history. It’s about honouring them — for who they were, who they are, and why they still matter. And Saxon matter because they never pretended to be anything other than what they were. Saxon Didn’t Write Love Songs — They Lived Them Saxon’s catalogue isn’t filled with candlelit choruses or romantic fantasy. Instead, their songs speak to: loyalty over lust endurance over infatuation brotherhood over heartbreak Their version of love is forged on the road, tested by time, and kept alive by belief. And that makes it real. Love as Obsession: When Belief Goes Too Far “Dallas 1 PM...
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The Crazies: Love Songs That Lose Control

  The Crazies: Love Songs That Lose Control When love stops behaving. February is usually dressed in soft focus. Red roses. Safe sentiments. Predictable longing. But love doesn’t always show up like that. Sometimes it arrives shaking. Sometimes it obsesses. Sometimes it loops, claws, fixates, consumes. These are crazy love songs — not parody, not irony, not cynicism. Just artists staring straight into the moment where love stops being polite and starts becoming something else entirely. This is love off the rails. Welcome to The Crazies. 1. The Gun Club – “She’s Like Heroin to Me” Love as addiction. Jeffrey Lee Pierce never romanticised damage — he documented it. “She’s Like Heroin to Me” doesn’t flirt with metaphor; it leans into it hard. Love isn’t sweet here, it’s chemical. Compulsive. Ruinous. The kind you chase knowing exactly how it ends. Blues-punk desperation, stripped raw. This isn’t falling in love — it’s relapsing. A perfect Madness opener. No easing in. 2. Suicide – “Che...
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Through The Wall B-side Quiz

  Through the Wall, Into the Opera  A Rock Deep-Dig Quiz “ Just when they thought Never Never Land was going quiet…” This month leaned into rock as theatre, ritual, myth, and confession. From full-blown rock operas to cult B-sides and deep cuts that refuse to behave, these questions pull directly from recent stories and the shadows around them. All answers are song titles. Some are cinematic. Some are feral. Some barely whispered their way into history. If you’ve been reading, listening, and digging — you’ve got a fighting chance. Flip the record. 🎲 THE QUIZ — 25 QUESTIONS 1. Which Kate Bush track plunges listeners into trial, terror, and fractured consciousness during The Ninth Wave? 2.. What symphonic rock opera opening sets the invasion in motion with narration and dread? 3. Which Styx song turned censorship paranoia into glossy sci-fi theatre? 4. The Tubes wrapped satire and spectacle into this forgotten MTV-era operatic hit — name it. 5. My Chemical Romance hid reckless,...
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The Loudest Voice

  The Loudest Voice: B-Sides That Roared “The hit single gets the spotlight — the B-side tells the truth.” Just when they thought Never Never Land was going quiet… B-sides are often dismissed as the softer, forgotten siblings of chart-topping singles. The afterthoughts. The leftovers. But every now and then, it’s the flip side of the record where bands spoke the loudest — free from radio rules, label pressure, or expectations. Hidden in plain sight, these tracks carried raw nerve, defiance, and bold experimentation. Sometimes they weren’t polished. Sometimes they weren’t pretty. But they were honest. These weren’t whispers from the shadows — they were roars. Here’s a fresh batch of B-sides where bands let loose, made a statement, and showed us their loudest selves. 1. The Jam – “The Butterfly Collector” B-side to: “Strange Town” (1979) Paul Weller pulls no punches here. A venomous critique of fame, exploitation, and hollow celebrity culture, “The Butterfly Collector” simmers with b...
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Back in Black

  Back in Black Black Metal B-Sides for the Untrained Ear "Not every riff needs daylight. Some only make sense in the shadows." Black metal has a reputation. Cold. Harsh. Unforgiving. A genre that dares you to turn it off before the first minute is up. But like every corner of rock history, the truth lives in the margins — in the B-sides, the deep cuts, the songs that didn’t exist to shock or dominate, but to build atmosphere, tension, and feeling. This isn’t a descent into extremity. This is an invitation. Even for those of us who don’t live in black metal — myself included — there are tracks that quietly reveal something familiar: riffs, restraint, melody, and patience. The same qualities that made us fall in love with rock in the first place. Here are six black metal B-sides and deep cuts from around the globe — chosen not to overwhelm, but to let untrained ears in, slowly. 1. Mayhem – Life Eternal (Norway) Who: Pioneers of the Norwegian black metal scene  What: A slow, me...
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