Bianca´s Diary 02/03/2008

girls just want to have fun by Cyndi Lauper

YouTube 14/02/2009 part 2

More 80´s: Billy Idol is one of my favorite rock singers from that era.
Billy Idol: Sweet Sixteen - VH1 Live version....from year 2001 or 2002, but I like this bitter version of this song more than that official "clean" video.
Billy Idol: Don´t Need A Gun
Billy Idol: Flesh For Fantasy - Live 2005 (80´s official video)
Billy Idol: Rebel Yell
HIM: doing cover version of "Rebel Yell"

....and B. Idol is still doing new records, but these 80´s songs are my favorite....

One more song....try to sleep:
Guns N´ Roses: Out Ta Get Me

YouTube 14/02/2009

Another sleepless night, another 80´s pop songs night:
Sandra: Everlasting Love
Sandra: Hiroshima
Sandra: Don´t Be Aggressive

....and something about my personal life: we bought Samsung LE37A567 Full HD tv tonight, I really didn´t know that movies could be so great watched at home! :) We watched "Quadrophenia" and now I don´t really know if it was bigger and better tv, which made that movie so great or maybe it´s was just a good movie. I should check that from our older tv....well there was also good music by The Who in that movie and that was really important part of making that movie so good. Next week we will also get new amplifier: Yamaha RX-V863, so also sound should be even better.

YouTube 06/02/2009 part 2

Well, I guess this wasn´t the first finnish speed metal band, but thanks to this band(and early Metallica, Anthrax etc.) my hair is still long:
Stone: Get Stoned
Stone: No Commands
Stone: Overtake

...and some Metallica, when they were still real band:
Metallica: Master of Puppets

Some Anthrax(this is one the first records I bought with my own money)
Anthrax: Among The Living

more of my old favorites:
Slayer: War Ensamble
Slayer: South Of Heaven
Kreator: Extreme Aggression
Kreator: Some Pain Will Last
Sepultura: Arise
Sepultura: Beneath The Remains

Now I have to watch my Sepultura DVD, because it seems to impossible to really find my favorite videos/songs from YouTube....

YouTube 06/02/2009

Some finnish rock from 80´s:
Smack: Criminal
Smack: Run Rabbit Run
(Awful cover version of same of song: This band is little bit better known:
Nirvana: Run Rabbit Run)
Unfortunately I couldn´t find any other good quality videos by Smack from YouTube...
So here´s something else:
Peer Cünt: Bad Boys & RNR Star
Hearthill: Love Rain On Me

YouTube 24/01/2009

Well...I have been listening to Guns N´ Roses album called "Appetite for Destrucrion" for last 2 weeks, so these are my favorite songs from that album:
Guns N´ Roses: Think About You
(It seems to be hard to find good version with original GNR members...this might the best....)
Same song, but this is demo version.....

Guns N´ Roses: It´s So Easy
Guns N´ Roses: My Michelle
....no "Welcome to the..." or "Paradise City" here, because I have heard those songs too many times and "new Guns N´ Roses," there´s couple of good songs, but "Appetite..." is only album I can really listen to....
Only new "Guns N´ Roses" song that I really like:
Guns N´ Roses: This I Love

YouTube 13/12/2008

After this night, when I saw 2 bands playing rock music it´s time for some 80´s pop here:
Sandra: Little Girl
Sandra: Around My Heart
Sandra: Secret Land
Sandra: We´ll be Together
Sandra: Midnight Man

I could actually post almost all Sandra´s songs from 80´s here, those songs were so great, but maybe I also post another great band from 80´s: A-HA. That might the best band from Norway ever...at least pop band, there are some black metal bands too, but maybe I will post those another time. Well, A-HA is another pop band from 80´s that I could post too many songs here....

A-HA: The Sun Always Shines On Tv
A-HA: Hunting High And Low
A-HA: Stay On These Roads
A-HA: Summer Moved On
and their biggest hit:
A-HA: Take On Me

...and thank you WMG: cant see these vidoe anymore....

...and after that rock night I´m so drunk that I can hardly speak or write even finnish.... :) It´s 5.00 am here in Finland, maybe I should sleep, but I still have too much energy left thanks to "some" brandy and beer. :) I shouldn´t write anything here when I have been drinking, but fortunately there´s nobody here who says what I should write and I´m going leave here whatever I will write....

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YouTube 12/12/2008

In my real life I´m going to see live performance by swedish band called Backyard Babies tonight, so I will post couple of their songs now.
Backyard Babies: Brand New Hate
Backyard Babies: Minus Celsius - Swedish TV 2004
Backyard Babies: The Clash
Backyard Babies: A Song For The Outcast
Backyard Babies: U.F.O. Romeo

....and couple extra songs, which really doesn´t have anything else to do with Backyard Babies except that this band had 2 ex-members of Hanoi Rocks(Andy Mccoy and Nasty Suicide) and Hanoi Rocks singer Michael Monroe has done some work together with members of Backyard Babies & Backyard Babies had some influences from Hanoi Rocks, specially when they were starting their band.
Suicide Twins: Sweet Pretending
Suicide Twins: Silver and Nightingales
Suicide Twins: Heaven Made You
Suicide Twins: The Best Is Yet To Come

One more thing ex-members of Hanoi Rocks have done(actually there were just Nasty Suicide in background band of this video.) :)
Samantha Fox: Do Ya Do Ya
S. Fox also did cover of Suicide Twins´song "The Best Is Yet To Come:"
Samantha Fox: The Best Is Yet To Come

YouTube 04/12/2008

This morning I decided to give some space here for one the first really good hard rock band from Finland: Zero Nine. This band isn´t really well known outside of Finland and most people even here have already forgotten how good this band once was. Actually I´m not sure even myself how active this band is right now, they were still active couple of years ago, but I don´t know what they doing now??? This is actually almost everything I found from YouTube:

Zero Nine: Never Stop Running
Zero Nine: Banging on Drums
Zero Nine: White Lines
Zero Nine: Dump Me
Zero Nine: Dream Of Me

Real Life

This has been really nice day for me: holiday, drinking some really good tasting spanish brandy and listening to music whole day....
One more DVD and then I´m going to sleep:

Billy Idol: VH-1 Storytellers
Little bit of rock and punk music mixed together. Again one star from 80´s! The best songs: Don´t Need a Gun, Flesh for Fantasy, Sweet Sixteen, Rebel Yell and L.A. Woman.

Music today

Hanoi Rocks: The Nottingham Tapes DVD
So today I´m listening and watching some finnish music: Hanoi Rocks. Hanoi Rocks have been my favorite band since I was just a little kid. I heard their song called "Taxi Driver" from radio, I think year was 1982 or 1983 and after that I have been listening to this band for over 20 years, so I have spend almost my whole life as being fan of this band. I´m now watching their DVD called "The Nottingham Tapes," which was filmed on 23.04.1984 at the Palais in Nottingham, England. Quality of this DVD isn´t so great, but all that energy and that they have rock attitude....you just can´t find anything better! My favorite songs from that DVD are "Mental Beat," "Back to Mystery City," "I Feel Alright," and "Underwater World." You can find this DVD from www.cdon.com. I think you can order that DVD there if you are living in Europe.

I´m still waiting for re-release of their official video "All Those Wasted Years." You can´t find any official version of that DVD now, but I just have to hope that they will release that someday.

This is so important band for me that I should write something about their history here, but maybe I will do that later. Meanwhile you can check their official website: www.hanoirocks.info or www.hanoi-rocks.net, which isn´t official website, but it tells you about their early history until year 1985.

Mötley Crüe: Live at US Festival 1983 Video
Well...Vince Neil is really awful singer and they don´t play very well, but there is again something I like about this: their energy, attitude and how great performance they are giving to their audience. Those 80´s bands might look stupid now when you are watching them, but at least they are not boring. They really looked like rockstars! Now there´s just too many boring bands now: they just look like as everyone else in this world. They just play their songs and that´s all. Favorite songs from that video: "Looks that Kill," "Bastard," and "Shout at the Devil."

You can find this gig as DVD called "Broadcasting Live," but quality is awful. Sound is nice, but picture is really bad. Maybe they just don´t have those original tapes left anymore, so DVD is probably made from VHS tape. Again if you´re living in Europe you can order that DVD from www.cdon.com, www.amazon.co.uk or www.play.com, but I must warn you: don´t buy that if you are not really big fan of Mötley Crüe...quality is so bad.

Other bands tonight:
Lauri Tähkä + Elonkerjuu, Hardcore Superstar, Levellers, Joy Division