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Time Traveling Blues

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I'm not a kid, kinda wished I was again but oh well. I couldn't help bu review this. This review covers everything Orange Goblin has put out, it is great. Very good riffs, as can be expected from the, "stoner" bands, has a groove to it that makes you see lava lamps. I like to call it, "feel-good rock". Kyuss, Queens of Stone Age, Fu Manchu, Monster Magnet, Dozer, Hermano, I can go on and on and believe I'm getting older and sometimes I do go on and on. A few of the other reviewers made interesting comments. One was talking about not liking Metallica because of the angry lyrics, agreed 100%. I have been sick of the typical metal bands since Metallica's Load album. I'm not at all knocking them because Metallica is a great band but it's nice to hear bands like Orange Goblin and the ones I named that sound like they are just a bunch guys out jamming til the sun rises. My wife who despises heavy metal has found that she even likes the stoner rock bands but if I throw Slayer in she gets up and leaves the room. Did someone say they dance to this music? Alright now, I'm not trying to make this a macho review but unless you are a female, thigh-high boots and fishnet hose on, I don't need to know but I ger what you are saying, it's the groove of it. The last is the person who said to get Clutch. Clutch is a great band and I have been a fan since they come out but don't go ripping another stoner band, go review a rap cd and tell them to listen to Clutch. Most people reading these know who Clutch is. Horns up, hair flying....

"Time Traveling Blues" is a very solid hard rock album. There are no bad songs, but there are no mind-blowingly great songs either. It is true that Monster Magnet fans will be impressed and I think that the average fan of the Mighty Black Sabbath will find this a very good album as well. Some of the drumming sounds bad at first but really becomes cool with more listenings. You won't be disappointed with this one.

i love listening to this when i smoke a bowl

puts me in the mood to chill

I had never heard anything by Orange Goblin, or even heard of them, until I saw their first record "Frequencies from Planet 10" in a record store, and I bought it for their name alone. I was not disappointed.
If you liked the first record, this is very much in a similar vein to it - only with even heavier grooves and a move towards a more Skynard influenced sound than the previous Sabbath one.
The album is one huge trip, with only a few tracks standing out and distinguishing themselves - Blue Snow, Lunarville 7, Airlock 3 and Time travelling Blues (the title track) to name a few. They all meld together and produce a sound that is, for want of a better expression, damned awesome.

...to "Frequencies from Planet Ten", I had to listen to it a couple of times to get into it. I didn't find it quite as heavy-sounding as the debut, but it's still very cool. Purists may scoff at the restrained use of the keyboards here and there, but I find that it really adds a great element of originality and retro "presence"to the album, as it does in "Frequencies...". The organ intro to "Shine" made me think immediately of my all-time favourite band, Deep Purple.All in all, another great album by a very gifted and definitely under-appreciated group of musicians. If you like the genre, I'd say that this is another must-have.Cheers!

After their highly acclaimed debut "Frequencies from Planet Ten," Orange Goblin gave birth to this great album. I think, "Time Travelling Blues" is even better than the debut. The songwriting is more mature, varied, the ideas are freshier and more attractive. The improved vocals and guitar work make this CD one of the best stoner rock releases. The highlights of the album
include the mighty "The Man Who Invented Time" and "Solarisphere". The whole material is based on powerful Sabbath-like riffing, and it has class. The title track surprisingly has a cool bluesy touch. One of the strongest hippie/stoner outputs available, along with Nebula's newest "Charged".

This is probably the best piece of hard rock that i've heard in the last ten years... if you like monster magnet or fu manchu, you should consider getting this CD

This is the first CD I bought from this band. This band rocks and is as tight as a drum. These guys can play no doubt. Heavy guitars, groovy bass lines, some cool time changes, and good dynamics in the tunes. I would compare them to Black Sabbath, Monster Magnet, Fu Manchu, and Kyuss. This would definitely be the CD to slip in when you feel the party waning. Not too "metal" and not too "sludgy." I can see this as a CD that the metal fans and good old rockers could agree on. The one thing that brings it down is the lyrics. They can't seem to get away from singing about flying to the sun, the planets and sky, tomorrow and yesterday, and for some reason the singer feels the need to end every other line with the word "baby." A lot of "stock" space rock kind of stoner references. I understand that's where they are coming from as a band, but it just too superficial lyrics wise for me. This album could totally work as an instrumental work. Just kind of feels like they threw the lyrics together just to have some. My favorite tune would be Time Travelling Blues. It's one of the tunes that actually opens up and breaths and really shows the band's musicality. But the music itself is great and keeps me coming back and I'm definitely going to check out their subsequent releases. Hopefully, lyric wise, they get away from singing about the sun.

First, let me be honest here: I don't really know how to "critique" a band, and I really don't have any business judging whether a band is "good" or not, but IMHO Orange Goblin is simply one of the best bands out there recording today. I never liked Metallica and the lot of the popular metal bands, because even though I recognized they were immensely talented, it all just sounded, well, for lack of a better words, angry and hateful. This band is different; There's no awful lyrics simply for shock-value; There's no despair/suicide/homophobic-violence, and all of the other junk that has become unfortunately commonplace in music today. I've purchased three Orange Goblin CD's and enjoy every one of them. I don't know why they aren't more popular; I guess I've read reviews from "experts" who say they are a "rip-off" sound-alike of Black Sabbath, but I personally don't think so. The singer (Ben Ward) is capable of much more range and expression than Ozzy was ever capable of. You obviously can listen to the Amazon.com media-clips, but trust me; this CD is great: From the Harley throttle-opening at the beginning of Blue Snow, to the Mushroom-cloud lyrics in Snail Hook, to the steadily increasing/decreasing/increasing crescendo of Time Travelling Blues. I don't know what the guys in the band hope and wish people would write about them, but all I can say is that this band can put out some phenomenal albums, and this is one of them.

orange goblin released time travelling blues in 1998.time travelling blues is orange goblin,s 2nd album.time travelling blues defineatly continues the psychedelic metal grooves that the first album[frequencies from planet ten]was chock full of.i think orange goblin,s first three records have been their best so far.there is alot to like on this album if you like psychedelic metal.to me their sound is like a mixing of metallica,black sabbath and sometimes a bit like pink floyd.i just got this album today and i really like it. for me the best cuts are;blue snow,shine,solarisphere,time travelling blues,lunarville 7,airlock 3,nuclear guru, and the man who invented time.if you like orange goblin you probably already know this album is a classic and if you are a newcomer to orange goblin this album and frequenices from planet ten would be great starting points!!if you get this one turn it up and go on psycedelic metal journey into the dark beyond!!!