Music

Sunday Metal – Songs of My Youth – The Coup de Grace

/ hsoi

I like giving “Sunday Metal” a theme, and so this theme is “Songs of My Youth”. I found heavy metal as a teenager and it’s always been a big part of my life. I wanted to highlight some songs that stand out from those youthful days.

The Coup de Grace are probably still relatively unknown to most of you. They were a band out of the Minneapolis area, and I got to know of them because I had a good relationship with their record label, Red Decibel. Hooray days of college radio.

What I remember most was traveling to NYC for a music convention, where they happened to be playing on my birthday (or just around it; I honestly don’t recall the exact date). Getting to see the band, hang out with them, and party quite well with them, made for a great birthday present. I can remember a lot about that evening, but I just can’t retell it here. 🙂

 

Sunday Metal – Songs of My Youth – Heavy Metal

/ hsoi

I like giving “Sunday Metal” a theme, and so this theme is “Songs of My Youth”. I found heavy metal as a teenager and it’s always been a big part of my life. I wanted to highlight some songs that stand out from those youthful days.

Not so much a single song or a band, but a movie and its soundtrack.

I was in grade school. I remember the family across the street had a treehouse in their backyard. I was friends with the younger boy, who had an older brother. This older brother had put up a movie poster in the treehouse, for the movie “Heavy Metal”. It’s the movie poster classic shot of Taarna, and that was quite striking in every way to a young me.

Of course, the movie has more to do with the magazine “Heavy Metal” than the genre of music. But still, that magazine, that movie, those songs, they all played a role in my youth.

Sammy Hagar’s “Heavy Metal” is still a perfect hard rock anthem

And Don Felder’s “All Of You”, and the segment of the movie… classic.