King's X - Out of the Silent Planet
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Free Music Review: The beginning of an 18 year-long addiction.
Hit: 5 Stars
When I heard "Goldilox" for the first time, I was changed forever. Since then, I have come to appreciate King's X as one of the greatest bands in Rock and Roll, period. Doug Pinnick's soulful vocals, Ty Tabor's soaring guitar, and melodic hard rock song writing that is unparalleled make OOTSP one of the best debut albums ever. I saw them perform "Voices" the other night (12/5/2005) and it still stands the test of time. A must for every music lover's collection.Free Music Review: exploding from nowhere
Hit: 4 Stars
In 1988 Kings X release one of the finest debut albums in rock and roll's brief history. OUt of the Silent Planet went where no 80's metal band dared to tread. Drawing upon the coolest styles rock had to offer (Hendrix, the Beatles, the Beach Boys) Kings X offered up a plethora of diverse tracks that made it hard to pigeon-hole the band into one type of genre. From the opening track "In the New Age" with its spaced out arrangements and soulful vocals to the next track "Goldilox" with its beautiful melody and tasteful guitar work the band plows through 8 more songs , each one unusual and totally original, even with its obvious roots. The album carries a totally positive vibe with lyrics easily digestable and plenty on bone crushing guitar work by Ty Tabor. A trio, Kings X still give wonderful harmonies Brian Wilson would be proud of and melodies that even Lennon/McCartney would be proud of as well. It's a wonder that this band didn't explode on the scene, but in retrospect it's a good thing because it allowed the band to produce several more enchanting efforts without the pressures of big-time stardom. Check this out, please. Free Music Review: exploding from nowhere
Hit: 4 Stars
In 1988 Kings X release one of the finest debut albums in rock and roll's brief history. OUt of the Silent Planet went where no 80's metal band dared to tread. Drawing upon the coolest styles rock had to offer (Hendrix, the Beatles, the Beach Boys) Kings X offered up a plethora of diverse tracks that made it hard to pigeon-hole the band into one type of genre. From the opening track "In the New Age" with its spaced out arrangements and soulful vocals to the next track "Goldilox" with its beautiful melody and tasteful guitar work the band plows through 8 more songs , each one unusual and totally original, even with its obvious roots. The album carries a totally positive vibe with lyrics easily digestable and plenty on bone crushing guitar work by Ty Tabor. A trio, Kings X still give wonderful harmonies Brian Wilson would be proud of and melodies that even Lennon/McCartney would be proud of as well. It's a wonder that this band didn't explode on the scene, but in retrospect it's a good thing because it allowed the band to produce several more enchanting efforts without the pressures of big-time stardom. Check this out, please. Free Music Review: Out of the Silent Planet
Hit: 5 Stars
This first of the four 'must have' King's X albums is their debut release.
I bought this album virtually when it came out, and it is one of the best purchases I ever made. In an entire evening of watching 'Headbanger's Ball', I only saw one band that seemed different to all the Bon Jovi's/Slayer's/Warrant's/Poison's/Judas priest's etc. of the time, that were played in constant rotation. I saw King's X's ''King'', and though it was the second release ''Shot of Love'' that actually made me run down to the store to buy this album in 1987, I liked what I was seeing for a number of reasons.
1) King's X have an amazing vocalist named Doug Pinnick.
2) They were an interracial band in a world full of hairsprayed, mid-80's glamrockers.
3) Their guitarist played with 'soul', but was as good as the Yngwie Malmsteen's of the day.
4) They took elements from The Beatles / Jimi Hendrix / Sly and the Family Stone / Black Sabbath / Stevie Wonder, and made something very brand new out of all this.
I had found the band I was waiting for.
When I first played this King's X album to my friends, they had no clue what I was playing them, but I insisted this was the best band out there, forget about Guns & Roses, who were just making waves at this point. Pinnick could outsing most of the heavy metal hairpsray boys in a heartbeat. But it wasn't that. It was the sheer quality of their songs, and this unexplained energy that was happening in them. Whether this was the production of Sam Taylor, or a combination of Tabor/Gaskill/Pinnick and where they were at the time, Out of the Silent Planet is one of the most influential hard rock albums of its time. When Pearl Jam made waves in 1990 with 'Jeremy' from 10, I sat pretty amazed that this band was having huge success with what was, in sound and design, King's X with Eddie Vedder singing instead. Pearl Jam emerged 3 years after King's X's debut, and even though their formation started with Mother Love Bone, by 1990, Pearl Jam sounded like King's X. and had more success with it. That I never understood at all.
An actual influx of bands came out around this time that took King's X's sound and had a great deal of success with it, but King' X lurked somewhere on the borders of commercial success.It was infuriating. Here was a band that influenced quite a number of musicians, that couldn't get the time of day, until 1990's ''It's Love'', and by that time many were sounding like King's X enough to make it sound as if King's X were joining their own bandwagon. The first album alone defines the King's X sound between 1987 - 1992. Definitive years for a definitive band.
Another tag that gets associated with King's X is the Christian one. And I can honestly tell you I never ran to church after listening to their albums. The thought never crossed my mind. They had something far greater than just the excuse to quote the commandments or moralise. There was something mystical in their songs, and their live concerts were almost Revivalistic in energy. They had that much power. This changes after 1994's Dogman, but the first 4 albums are full of this certain type of energy that made me think King's X were one of the greatest bands I ever heard.
This album needs remastering, as it is mixed a bit low compared to today's standards, and I hope the band's efforts to convince Atlantic to remaster their catalogue are fruitful.
All 10 tracks are standouts. It's just the whole vibe the band puts on to these tracks that doesn't make just one person stand out over the other two. This is a band in all manner of the word. A must have album. It made me a fan of theirs for the past 17 years.
Free Music Review: What is this that gives me hope?
Hit: 3 Stars
When the meandering opening of the lead track "In the New Age" breaks, King's X arrives in well-developed form. Like The Police, another notable "power trio", the members of King's X had spent years honing their chops in various guises; their vocal and instrumental dexterity leave no doubt to this. Though arguably longer than it needed to be (an observation true of one or two tracks on every King's X album), "In the New Age" features moments of pure audio bliss, a poor man's "Out of the Silent Planet" for Gretchen fans. "Wonder" unfolds in a unique three-part form (verse, "pre-chorus"?, chorus) later used to great effect in "Fool You" from Dogman. "Sometimes" features vocal harmonies unparalleled in the hard rock world. Other tracks are strong at times, but "King" truly delivers the goods - as critics once dubbed Smokey Robinson's "Tears of a Clown" a perfect song, so the label fits for this flawless rocker - Tabor's idiomatic guitar work, Pinnick's convincing vocal flourishes, the surprising 6 beats (rather than 8 or 4) prior to the outro. Out of the Silent Planet is far from perfect, but as critic J.D. Considine accurately noted, it augured great things to come.