it was strange last night going to bed after watching coverage of the upcoming execution of gang leader Tookie Williams, the guy was still alive as i drifted off to sleep & by morning he was gone after a, by all accounts, difficult execution
my instinct as a liberal kind of guy is that any state approved murder is wrong, and in this case there seems to be some debate as to his guilt or otherwise - however on the other hand I would find it hard to argue against sending cold-blooded murderer's such as Ian Huntley, Anthony Walker's killers & the guys who killed the policewoman in Bradford the other week, off to the chamber
ultimately i suppose if you take a life deliberately & you live in a place where the punishment for that crime is death - you have little in the way of arguments against the punishment you will recieve BUT and it's a big but - you are then reliant on the courts & justice system identifying the guilty & freeing the innocent - in the UK we have a chequered history of punishing the wrong guys & therein lies the problem with capital punishment.
i missed yesterdays Top 26 post so today is a double header
first up we have the only song in the list not actually released this year - it's a 2004 track but i include it in tribute to Hideaki Sekiguchi aka Bass Wolf, bassist with legendary Japanese rock monsters Guitar Wolf - Bass Wolf died of heart failure this spring at the age of just 38. Guitar Wolf, like Om, are an acquired taste but they often blow you away with the sheer untamed brutality of their music - screaming banshees would be put to shame by the wail these guys create & yet it is so right - in an age of bland, manufactured "corporate punk" doled out at the kids we need something like this to remind us that music is not about $$$$ but is a state of mind - Bass Wolf R.I.P
next we have The Reigning Sound out of Memphis, TN who produced a quite brilliant garage rock inspired LP in 2004 (Too Much Guitar) & then followed it up this year with Home for Orphans which veered off down a country lane & contained some impeccable alt.country - it's rare for a band to be accomplished at such different genres but these guys manage it & I love "Find Me Now"
No. 14 The Reigning Sound - Find Me Now
No. 15 Guitar Wolf - Jet 13
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