Playlist for May 5th, 2007

First show in 3 weeks, and not a lot of time to prepare, but with all the new material it more or less planned itself. The 2 hours just flew by and the show was over before I knew it. I think I found a nice mix of new and old, stuff I've played in the past and stuff I played for the first time.

1. AC/DC.......................Thunderstruck
2. Helix...........................Long Way to Heaven
3. Helix...........................Ride the Rocket
4. Lee Aaron..................Some Girls Do
5. Bruce Dickinson........Navigate the Seas of the Sun
6. Rush...........................Mr. Soul
7. James Labrie............Alone
8. Dark Moor.................Before the Duel
9. Dark Moor.................Devil in the Tower
10. Pretty Maids.............Hell in High Heels
11. Pretty Maids.............Future World
12. Dominici.....................The Monster
13. Slavior......................The Monster
14. Battlelore...................Mask of Flies
15. X-Piral.......................Powerlust
16. Megadeth..................A Tout La Monde
17. Pain............................Eleanor Rigby
18. Obliveon....................Suicide Solution
19. Angtoria.....................Six Feet Under
20. Angtoria.....................Not Deep Enough
21. Amorphis...................Stonewoman

I'd picked up the Pretty Maids and Dark Moor before I left on the trip and had planned a spotlight before the show got pre-empted for a hockey game.

The Megadeth track was the advanced single from United Abominations, and is the rerecording of one of my favourite Megadeth songs. The new version is a duet with Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil. I love the song, and this version is good, but I'm not convinced it needed to be remade, especially as a duet.

I'm glad we got the Angtoria. For those who don't know, Angtoria is a new band built around the vocals of Sarah Jezebel Deva, who has provided the female vocals for Cradle of Filth, Mortiis, and Covenent among others. It's great to finally hear Ms Deva in a project of her own.

And a very special thanks to David and Wheezer for making Pain's awesome cover of Eleanor Rigby available. I've loved this track for ages, but haven't been able to get a copy to play on the show. Enter David, who sent Wheezer the CD, and Wheezer in turn kindly donated it to the Tapping the Ether library.