Axis - It's A Circus World


I gave it a try, but this not writing about albums you're listening to thing is terrible. How do all you weirdos live like that?

Hi, i'm Bottle. You might remember me from somewhere, i've lived a lot of lives. Most recently i used so much brain energy ranting about the nonsensical Communism v Capitalism fight that led to Putin's personal Cold World Wargasm that i exploded my own fortress of solitude into shrapnel. Time to rebuild, so i got some random records. I think we can all agree that's it's a circus world out there and we're all juggling our lives in our own hands. Great news! Camine Appice's little brother Vinnie's band Axis made an album called It's A Circus World. Can't make this stuff up. 

Instead, what you can do is listen to some perfectly lovely Hard Rock from 1978. This is one of those totally underappreciated one-off albums that only serious rock fans know about. It's the album that convinced Tommy Iommi and Dio to hire Vinnie to play in Black Sabbath. It's true, there's not a garbage track on the whole album. Killer riffs, crazy bass lines, no insulting or disgusting lyrics, just real proto Glam in power trio format with just a twinge of NWBHM rhythm guitar chugging. 

I suppose you could raise the criticism that it's a bit Crayola in the non-toxic department, but i'd argue that's actually a defining characteristic of Hard Rock proper. They're singing love songs to their girlfriends at the house party, not sword fighting demons in the parking lot, or complaining that the party sucks. This is good time for everybody type stuff. It's great, go check out It's A Circus World by Axis. You don't have to enjoy eating crayons to enjoy this, but it's not gonna give you a stomach ache if you do take a bite out of curiosity. My dogs love 'em.

Well, there you go. That was fun. My review writing hinges might need a spritz of WD40, but that turned out ok. Wonder what i'll listen to tomorrow....

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