Tony Maim’s – Personal Top 20

 

 

Tony Maim’s – Personal Top 20

As we mentioned before, the Stoner HiVe Team Members are all involved with the Doom Charts as well. So most of the personal lists already appeared there or will probably appear there in the near future. But we’re honored to be the first to post Madman Tony Maim’s Personal Top 20 first… Even though he might have posted the same one on his own Black Insect Laughter site… Hell, last year he even delivered a different one for the HiVe then the one for the Doom Charts, cause the HiVe, in his words back then: "has more latitude with the genres..." And we thank all the freaks in the HiVe for that! And we’re proud to have a list by the Madman, cause he has been active on his own Black Insect Laughter blog, been even more active with all his musical outlets like Guitars On Drugs of which Forbidden Place Records released a first CD called ‘Spies and Dub’ back in August of 2021. It’s the Madman Tony Maim; and he’s right, we’re wrong and the other way around. But when the Madman speaks, we listen! 

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Tony Maim’s – Personal Top 20 (Errr, Top 47)

1. Idles - Crawler

2. Converge & Chelsea Wolfe – Bloodmoon: I

3. Sonic Demon - Vendetta

4. Squid – Bright Green Field

5. Love Your Witch – Fucking Relentless

6. Fucked Up – Year Of The Horse

7. God Is An Astronaut – Ghost Tapes #10

8. Melvins – Working With God

9. Part Chimp - Drool

10. Haaz - Andra

11. Rostro Del Sol - Cynical Mind

12. Turnstile – Glow On

13. Blasting Rod - III

14. Jointhugger – Surrounded By Vultures

15. Tropical Fuck Storm – Deep States

16. Kowloon Walled City - Piecework

17. Death From Above 1979 – Is For Lovers

18. Mother Iron Horse – Under The Blood Moon

19. Mdou Moctar – Afrigue Victime

20. Junkbreed – Music For Cool Kinds

21. Leon III – Antlers In Velvet

22. 2 Headed Dogs – The Engine Is On

23. Domkraft - Seeds

24. Cha Wa – My People

25. Cerce – Cowboy Music

26. Ill Considered – Liminal Space

27. Mythic Sunship - Wildfire

28. 10000 Years - II

29. Kills Birds - Married

30. Dinosaur Jr – Sweep It Into Space

31. Stomatopod – Completing With Hindsight

32. A Better Tomorrow – Spiritual Crossing

33. The Lords Of Altamont – Tune In, Turn On, Electrify

34. Watchman – Doom Of Babylon

35. Heavy Temple – Lupi Amoris

36. Chihuahua – Violent Architecture

37. Spotlights – We Are All Atomic

38. Uranus Space Club – Another Planet, Another Love

39. God Damn – Raw Coward

40. Duel – In Carne Persona

41. X'ed Out – We All Do Wrong

42. Fere - Visceral

43. Mono – Pilgrimage Of The Soul

44. Monolord – Your Time To Shine

45. The Pop Group – Y In Dub

46. Tv Priest - Uppers

47. Irreversible Entanglements – Open The Gates

Guitars On Drugs – Fractured Thoughts

 

 

Guitars On Drugs – Fractured Thoughts
Self released – 2021
Rock, Punk, Stoner, Doom
Rated: ***

It’s a new release by the Madman! Yes, Tony Madman Maim’s, musical moniker as of 2020 is titled: Guitars On Drugs. Under that name the one man Madman operation has already released five recordings in 2020 and the first one of 2021 is called Fractured Thoughts. “Heavy guitars and riffs, pounding drums, snippets of movie clips, solos with fuzz turned up to 10 - all this matches the voices in my head that tell me nothing makes sense anymore!” Since the Madman has been fighting in the frontlines of the Covid pandemic and lives in the UK we can only agree to that statement; he knows the deal and knows how bad it got and still is on many levels. But even though the world around him seems to make less sense by the minute; his music does not. Perfectly synchronized, the drums, riffs, howling guitars and movie snippets tell you a moving requiem to a mind lost long ago. But don’t get that statement wrong; cause what takes center stage is without any doubt the pummeling drums, that perfect sounding copper in closing track Acid Shock and ofcourse the freakout guitars. Yes, those Guitars On Drugs!

(Written by JK)

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Tony Maim’s – Personal Top 20

 

 

Tony Maim’s – Personal Top 20

The Stoner HiVe Team Members are all involved with the Doom Charts as well. So most of the personal lists already appeared there. But we’re reposting them here once again. Just because we like to keep things nice and tidy and up with the tradition… And here, on the HiVe we have a different one than Tony Madman Maim shared with the Doom Charts; cause the HiVe: "has more latitude with the genres..." And we thank all the freaks in the HiVe for that! And we’re proud to have a list by the Madman, cause he has been active on his own Black Insect Laughter blog, been even more active with all his musical outlets like Guitars On Drugs and has been fighting the battle against Covid on the forefront, the actual battleground… And doing all that and juggling a couple of shiny balls will make most everyone lose their minds…. But not the Madman! No, not the Madman!

Guitars On Drugs

Tony Maim’s – Personal Top 20

"These are in alphabetical order – each time I play one of these albums I am struck by how good it is – a number cannot represent how music has helped me get through this year. You may or may not know I work in a hospital which has been overrun by Covid since March. Taking a break and blasting sounds into my ears and just losing myself for a brief time in these sounds has been a lifeline."

Acid Mammoth  - Under Acid Hoof
(Doomy stoner rock)

All Them Witches  - Nothing As The Ideal
(Heavy psychedelic stoner blues)

Asbestos Worker – Dead End Town
(Punky noise rock)

Black Rainbows – Cosmic Ritual Supertrip
(Heavy psychedelic stoner rock) 

Bleach birth – Control
(Hardcore post-punk)

Darkest birds – Hope
(Drone doom jazz)

Fall Of Troy – Mukiltearth
(Math rock post-punk)

Forming The Void – Reverie
(Heavy psychedelic stoner rock)

Idles – Ultra Mono
(Post-punk noise rock)

Kaskadeur – Uncanny Valley
(Post-rock math prog!)

Kassad – London Orbital
(Post-black metal)

Locean – Top Ten Zen Meditations
(Garage psychedelic punk)

Love Your Witch – Fucking Relentless
(Stoner thrash metal)

Lowrider – Refractions
(Desert stoner)

Mammock – Itch
(Post-hardcore noise rock)

Orgone – Mos/Fet
(Experimental psychedelic rock)

Rosy Finch – Scarlet
(Sludge stoner metal)

Sun Crow – Quest For Oblivion
(Proto-metal doom blues)

The Mighty Ur – Take It On The Chin
(Spoken word anarcho punk)

Woorms – Twitching, as Prey
(Noise rock sludge metal)

Guitars On Drugs - Heavy Vibes

Guitars On Drugs - Heavy Vibes

Self released - August 2020

Funk, 70's, A Quinn Martin Production

Rated: ****

Our resident curator of all that's Punk and Proletariat, Tony Maim, has delivered an absolute screamer of a soundtrack! Heavy  Vibes! Under the moniker Guitars On Drugs! 70's 'Shaft' meets 'Quinn Martin' in a Car Wash in Detroit with a healthy dollop of Funkadelic oozing through the mix like a cranberry drizzle! This is the music the Pizza Man always appears in during those dodgy porn flicks from the 70's... think Pornalicious or sleazy Afrobeat and you're there, downing a J&C with Huggy Bear and dodging the Feds! This is the sights, smells and sounds of "The Streets of San Francisco" expertly exported to The Streets of London... About as Ghetto as it gets! Brilliant!

(Written by Reek of STOOM)

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