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Jeff Thiessen - Features


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - The Phoenix Must Burn to Emerge

In 'This Metal Sky' Jeff Thiessen examines the issue of lost bands, and whether they really were the failures they are often portrayed as in their original lifetime


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - More Than Mental Masturbation: Honouring Pretention

In 'This Metal Sky', Jeff Thiessen writes about why pretentiousness is a good thing in rock music


Smashing Pumpkins

Smashing Pumpkins - Smashing Pumpkins

Jeff Thiessen in 'This Metal Sky' looks back on the Smashing Pumpkins' erratic career, and reflects on why their latest record, 'Oceania', is their greatest moment to date


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - The Long Hard Road to the Middle

In his 'This Metal Sky' column, Jeff Thiessen reflects upon Marilyn Manson, and the lack of danger of current rock music


Public Enemy

Public Enemy - A Guide to Hip Hop's Most Powerful Force

In his 'This Metal Sky' column Jeff Thiessen lists thirteen reasons why he believes Public Enemy are the greatest hip-hop act of all time


Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam Vs Ticketmaster

In 1994 Pearl Jam took out legal action against show ticket giants, Ticketmaster. Jeff Thiessen in 'This Metal Sky' writes of the battle and its continuing after-effects


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Five Bands Critics Love But I Hate and I Hope You Hate Them Too

In 'This Metal Sky' Jeff Thiessen writes of five much acclaimed bands that he feels are highly over-rated


Brian Jonestown Massacre

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Brian Jonestown Massacre

In his 'This Metal Sky' column, long-term Brian Jonestown Massacre fan and sometimes sufferer, Jeff Thiessen puts together a compilation mix of their seventeen best songs


Linkin Park

Linkin Park - Linkin Park

In his 'This Metal Sky' column, Jeff Thiessen explains why he finds Linkin Park's latest album 'A Thousand Suns' to be completely lacking of any real meaning or focus


Wild Cat Sleazy

Wild Cat Sleazy - Wilco

In his 'This Metal Sky' column, Jeff Thiessen writes of what he learnt after listening to Wilco's entire discography over a period of nine hours


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Stone Temple Pilots

In the latest in his 'This Metal Sky' column, Jeff Thiessen writes an open letter to American hard rockers about their self-titled first album in nine years


Tv On The Radio

Tv On The Radio - TV on the Radio

In his 'This Metal Sky' column, Jeff Thiessen discusses why he thinks TV On the Radio are the best band in music today


Metallica

Metallica - Metallica's 'St. Anger'

Jeff Thiessen explains why he believes that Metallica's 2003 record 'St Anger' is one of the worst metal albums ever made


Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous - Queens of the Stone Age Vs Black Label Society

Jeff Thiessen examines the arguments both for and against stoner rock bands Queens of the Stone Age and Black Label Society


Strokes

Strokes - The Strokes' 'Is This It?'

The Strokes' 2001 debut album 'Is This It?' appeared on many of the recent Albums of the Decade polls. Jeff Thiessen looks again at it and debates against it


Skinny Puppy

Skinny Puppy - Skinny Puppy

In his 'This Metal Sky' column, Jeff Thiessen argues the case for 90's industrial act Skinny Puppy being Canada's greatest musical export


Tricky

Tricky - Tricky

In his 'This Metal Sky' column, Jeff Thiessen reflects upon the career of Tricky, and his three albums, 'Maxinquaye', 'Pre-Millennium Tension' and 'Angels with Dirty Faces'


People in Planes

People in Planes - People in Planes

In his 'This Metal Sky' column, Jeff Thiessen finds Cardiff alt. rock band People in Planes' attempt to break into the mainstream with their recently reissued second album, 'Beyond the Hoizon', unsatisfying


Ohgr

Ohgr - Ohgr

In the first of two instalments this month in his 'This Metal Sky' column, in which he will be looking in depth at new pieces of music, Jeff Thiessen is riveted by the contradictory nature and ugliness of industrial band Ohgr's third album, 'Devil in the Details'


Dinosaur Jr

Dinosaur Jr - Dinosaur Jr

In the second instalment of his 'This Metal sky' series, in which he will examining in depth a new piece of music each month, Jeff Thiessen looks at Dinosaur Jr's latest comeback album, 'Farm'


Steve Abel

Steve Abel - June 2009

In his new column 'This Metal Sky' Jeff Thiessen, in the belief that all music good and bad is personal, will be writing about the links in his own life with a new piece of music he hears each month. He begins by telling of hearing Steve Abel and the Chrysalids' 'Flax Happy' on the day he was fired.


Ween

Ween - GodWeenSatan

In the latest in our 'Soundtrack of Our Lives' column, in which our writers reflect on the personal impact of music on their lives, Jeff Thiessen writes about discovering Ween's anarchic 'GodWeenSatan' as a college student







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