Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi 2020
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Deep, impressive lyrics
Great presentation and very up-to-date topics
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Not too strong on the melodic side
Ten tough songs make "2020" a bit of tiring
If you already released fourteen albums before and are about to do the fifteenth one, you might run out of album titles. Bon Jovi took the easy option and simply called their 2020 release Bon Jovi 2020 . The album, which has originally been scheduled to be released on 15th May 2020, has been delayed due to Covid-19 and has finally been published on 2nd October 2020.
Bon Jovi – About The Artist
I will do a short bio only in here – you know more facts than I could write down about these rock legends anyway. The band is named after their lead, Jon Bon Jovi (born as John Francis Bongiovi in Perth Amboy, New Jersey). Jon Bon Jovi started to do music in 1975, the band as such formed in 1983. The original band members were David Bryan, Tico Torres, Alex John Such and Richie Sambora. Bryan and Torres still record with Bon Jovi, Sambora and Such left the band and were replaced by Hugh McDonald and Phil X.
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Already the second band album, 7800° Fahrenheit , made it to the Top 10 in several markets in 1985. The two singles You Give Love a Bad Name and Livin’ on a Prayer paved the road to a massive success of the band in 1986, the corresponding album Slippery When Wet sold 28 million units worldwide. All of the following albums reached the top of the charts in a couple of major markets since then. On the singles side, the band had countless big hits including Bad Medicine (1988), In These Arms (1993), Always (1994) or It’s my Life (2000). However, the 2009 We Weren’t Born to Follow has been the last song, which made it to the Top 10 in a major chart listing (Germany #6, Austria #4).
Bon Jovi – Bon Jovi 2020 – Track by Track
The ten track album lasts 43 minutes.
1. Limitless
Wake up, everybody wake up
Morning comes, you do it all again
You know the song, it’s on repeat
Found your shoes, can’t find your feet
Grab your wallet and your keys
Better not forget to breathe
Sweat until you’re soaking
Don’t let them see you choking
A teardrop in the sea
Trying to keep your head above water
You’re trying to keep your head above water
This excerpt of the second verse of the first song is already quite illustrative for the whole track, the whole album: Bon Jovi have likely done stronger albums in the past if you just want to party or rock at one of their stadium tours. 2020 is an album which wants to leave statements and includes songs with a message. Regarding that, Limitless is even quite catchy.
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2. Do What You Can
When you can’t do what you do
You do what you can
This ain’t my prayer, it’s just a thought
I’m wanting to send
Round here we bend but don’t break
Down here we all understand
When you can’t do what you do
You do what you can
Do I hear a country music track here? At least, the song has a strong touch of country rock – and there is even a version featuring Jennifer Nettles of it. This song, which deals with the Covid-19 consequences, has obviously not been in the original list of songs for the May publication. I really enjoy it, though.
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3. American Reckoning
As said, 2020 is about messages. This also means that it contains deep, tough tracks like American Reckoning . Again, Bon Jovi show themselves more on the country-Americana side of music than as the tough rockers in Keep The Faith times, when they deal with the death of George Floyd in this track. I feel that suits the project quite much.
4. Beautiful Drug
Love is a beautiful drug
I’m talking ’bout, love is a beautiful
A mystery that sets you free, it’s what you want, it’s all we need
Love is a beautiful drug
A beautiful drug
This sounds like a typical Bon Jovi track to me: easy, catchy, rocking. Could maybe a bit harder, but feels like it could be a great one on stage.
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5. Story Of Love
I feel that Story Of Love is a real beauty. Unfortunately, I just do not find the right words to say more than that. YouTube needs to help me with this song – find out yourself!
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6. Let It Rain
Let it rain, let it rain
Let the rain fall all around
Who’s gonna stop the rain from falling down?
Let It Rain has its slow passages as well, but overall, it is quite a nice straight Bon Jovi rock-touch track. Not too bad.
7. Lower The Flag
Some say we start to die on the day that we’re born
But no one wants to live life on their knees
Maybe we start to die on the day that we’re born
But we deserve to live life in between
This Bon Jovi album is very poltiical – and Lower The Flag topics gun law and mass shootings. Towards the end of the track, Jon Bon Jovi is listening some of the places associated with mass shootings:
El Paso, Texas
Dayton, Ohio
Las Vegas, Nevada
Sebring, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Penn State University
Aurora, Illinois
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Gilroy, California
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
Columbine
Columbine
Sandy Hook Elementary
To me the most intense track of the album.
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8. Blood In The Water
Blood in the water
Who’s jumping in?
The devils made his final offer
Now the sharks are circling
Blood in the water
Our fates are sealed
The devils greatest trick
Was just to say he wasn’t real
Satan always used to love to say he wasn’t real
If you long for some light entertainment, music to have a dance to – you stopped this album already anyway. This rock ballad is another lovely piece.
9. Brothers In Arms
No, this one is not a Dire Straits cover. Brothers In Arms is touching harder rock. One of these storytelling tracks on the album. Melodically maybe not in the list of great Bon Jovi ones, but very political and straight in lyrics.
There’s no 7th day in a world without pity
There’s no ball and chain but the change didn’t come
Where’s my better days? Where’s my Jesus saves?
Where’s someone to say?
We got to hang on
We’re brothers in arms
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10. Unbroken
In this final track, Bon Jovi focus on the life of a young solidier, who has to cope with the result of war, who is losing comerades.
It’s eighteen months now I’ve been stateside
With this medal on my chest
But there are things I can’t remember
And there are things I won’t forget
Great storytelling for more than six minutes.
Bon Jovi – Bon Jovi 2020 – Spotify
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Bon Jovi – Bon Jovi 2020 – My View
Wow, that’s a tough one. But I feel that 2020 , even though it takes us through so much struggle and trouble, is simply a good album. The album might not be the right one to be presented in a huge stadium tour, but it has clear statements and definitely is based on great lyrics much rather than being a melodic masterpiece. Maybe melodic masterpieces would simply distract from the message. I take 2020 as it is – and recommend a listen.
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Nino de Angelo is one of my favorite German artists. I will definitely tell you about a very special concert ...
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Alice Cooper is truly a rock music legend. On 26th February 2021, he released his 21st album Detroit Stories. I have ...
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Bones Owens already worked with really big names of the business and has released two EPs so far. Nonetheless, seven ...
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I love to scan music and run into interesting artist. Ally Venable definitely fits into this category. At the age ...
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When I ran into the debut album by Ben Rice, Future Pretend, I initially thought he is a blues musician ...
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Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy, Black Star Riders - Damon Johnson has indeed worked with some of the really big names ...
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While so far the only German dialect I feature on Flyctory.com is Kölsch, the lovely way to speak in my ...
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If you are not a living music lexicon, most of you might not associate too much with the band Edie ...
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I enjoy the collaboration with promotion agencies, which feed Flyctory.com with new music. The key reason for that is that ...
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Jack McBannon does a quite interesting and versatile fusion of different Americana music styles. Being on stage for twenty years ...
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12th February 2021 feels a bit like the Norwegian rock day on Flyctory.com. A few days after I reviewed the ...
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The Tobacco Rd Band are known for their powerful country rock sound and inspiring love songs. On 12th February 2021, ...
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With Flyctoy.com, I already ran into music from a couple of Norwegian artists. I recently reviewed the new album by ...
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Apart from global mainstream sounds, there are some genres, which have a quite local popularity. The German Schlager is one ...
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I enjoy to present German acts as part of my media reviews - and even more if they are successful ...
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During the last months, I got more and more in Australian country music as well. When I scanned the new ...
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Happy Birthday, Michael Schenker - some three weeks after the German rock legend turned 65 years, he is back with ...
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Gehst Du mit mir unter - "Are you drowning with me" is the album title of a new German music project ...
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The Dead Daisies are a very interesting band, which has been founded in the Southern Hemisphere in Australia and New ...
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Steve Earle is indeed a productive musical artist: just some eight months after his amazing concept album Ghosts of West Virginia, ...
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With a 800m GBP estimated net worth, Paul McCartney is one of the very big names of the music business ...
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If Everything Happens For A Reason.... Then Nothing Really Matters At All - this is definitely the longest album title ...
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Miley Cyrus is simply a music superstar and talented in multiple genres. Thus, new Miley Cyrus albums are always exciting ...
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Clutch are an East Coast rock band, who steadily grew since their band founding in 1991. With the Weathermaker Vault Series ...
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The Lovell sisters and their band Larkin Poe have been become a well reputed name in the US music business ...
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Alternative rock made in Hamburg - the German band Tusq is already active for eleven years. Time to release some ...
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Indie rock made in British Columbia - Yukon Blonde are part of the Canadian music scene for 15 years already ...
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Dirk Busch's 1980's song Du bist keine Mona List would be a perfect candidate for my new Songs of my Life category ...
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Australian weekend on Flyctory.com: after I already reviewed the albums by Kylie Minogue and Caitlyn Shadbolt, the third release from ...
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What would Per Gessle be without Marie Fredriksson, who joined for the Swedish rock music export Roxette for so many ...
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Iceland - one of the most painful experiences this year for me. I already had booked a trip to the ...
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There are not too many occasions in the recent past that German-speaking artists gained popularity by performing country music. Undoubtedly, ...
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Radio, Radio - I have a very special relation to this Elvis Costello classic: whenever something goes completely wrong at a ...
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Joe Bonamassa meets Abbey Road studios? This definitely sounds like an interesting co-production of two legendary parts of music history! ...
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It's been quite a short-term: just three days before the release of their fifth studio album Tabasco and Sweet Tea, ...
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Low Cut Connie became quite a darling of the critics during the last decade. Their re-intertpretation of Rock'n'Roll attracted quite ...
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Even despite their first two albums had rather average success, The Struts gained a lot of reputation in Great Britain ...
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It has been a bit tricky to search for Patty Smyth's 2020 album It's about time. Smyth has been a music ...
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From street music to the tops of the German charts - Saltatio Mortis have taken the very tough route to ...
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I am a huge critics of the fact that music, especially radio airplay, becomes more and more streamlined. The more ...
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If one of your songs is streamed more than three million times on Spotify (even though driven by an excellent ...
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All five albums of the 2010's of the US folk rock band Dawes made it to the US overall album ...
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A band which has been named based on their nudist colony background feels to be a promising basis for a ...
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One of Us - what an amazing song! It is hard to believe that you are not too wrong to call ...
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Delta Spirit do Indie Rock with an Americana touch. Six years after their last album, they are releasing their fifth ...
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Due to the current situation, The Killers had to wait some extra months to present their complete 2020 album: Imploding The Mirage, ...
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Snow Patrol are back in the (virtual) record stores. The Scottish-Northern Irish band recorded a couple of songs during the ...
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When you think about Alanis Morissette, you think about Ironic. However, the Canadian artist is definitely not a one-hit wonder ...
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The Pretenders - what a big name in the music business. Undoubtedly, the band around Chrissie Hynde was big in ...
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Borlänge - I will always combine that city with the 1993 German Tennis Davis Cup semifinal defeat against Sweden. Michael ...
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Whenever big names of the music business release new music, there are two scenarios: they either still do great music ...
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While scanning the album releases as of 10th July 2020, I ran into Lighter by Donna Missal. I have to admit ...
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Haim is a band which became popular in the early 2010 years. Already with their first publications, the three Californian ...
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Neil Young - one of the very big names in music business. Whenever Young is releasing new music or a ...
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Beyond The Black got some additional focus in Germany when their lead singer Jennifer Haben joined the popular TV format Sing ...
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Not just due to being the only popular music artist who ever received the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan ...
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Steve Earle is definitely one of the big names in music in general. The country and folk artist had very ...
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If you are running out of albums to be reviewed as so many releases are postponed due to Covid-19, this ...
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Though Liv Austen is originally from Norway, she is an established artist of the British country music scene. On 10th ...
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It is really tough to select the right achievement to describe Joe Satriani's career in one fact. Over ten million ...
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Heinz Rudolf Kunze is one of the biggest songwriters and rock musicians in Germany. Already in the 1980s, he had ...
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It was 1989 when Richard Marx was Right Here Waiting For You and gave a musical promise of love which touched ...
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What does a musician give himself best as a birthday present? Richie Kotzen went for a new album on 3rd ...
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10th January 2020 had a couple of interesting album releases. DeWolff from the Netherlands are playing an interesting mix of ...
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All “classic” blog posts
No reviews – just debating and certain topics – these are my “traditional” blog posts in the categories Just blogging , Just blogging on music and Sports Blogging :
Every year, some time in June or July, I am spending hours and hours looking into flight schedules, checking out ...
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The Bergisch Coffee Table (Bergische Kaffeetafel) is a traditional meal, somewhere between a brunch and an afternoon tea. And: it ...
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Early summer 2022. After the Covid-19 crisis feels to have come to a certain end, air travelers all over Europe ...
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After my second posting about Food I Had Onboard in mid March 2022, I had a couple of interesting flight experiences ...
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He was ready to make a few people happy. For one evening. Ready to be the star of a luxurious ...
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After I got some quite nice feedback about my first Food I Had Onboard posting, I felt to continue this ...
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I am quite sure I will never forget this 24th February 2022. Like I will know what I did on ...
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The Winter Olympic Games 2022 are finished. I have to say, I am relieved. It may have been the two ...
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Especially for tourists, Dubai rather means entertainment, luxury and posh shopping. Thus, having a boat ride in a swan-shaped pedal ...
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22.4Last week only, I had to cancel or rebook four trip due to Covid-19 related reasons. Three of them included ...
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It is time for the final posting of the years, simply named The Best Ones 2021. After looking into my ...
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2021 definitely lifted Flyctory.com to another level. The community is steadily increasing - days with less than 2,000 page hits ...
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Year-end is the time to look back to all the stuff what happened to you. Ideally you rather remind the ...
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Christmas is approaching really quick now. While I traditionally do a festive edition of my Country Music Picks, I also ...
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Even though I do have a couple of airport reviews on Flyctory.com, I so far missed a lot of the ...
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Okay, I give in. In the world of country music, Christmas starts in early September. That's when the first song ...
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In October 2021, on a flight from Munich (MUC) to Keflavik Airport (KEF), I decided to go for a new ...
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Summer feels to be over - Fall 2021 is coming. Finally, I had much more - and better - trips ...
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This is a posting I am aiming to write since ages somehow. I visited so many hotels - not just ...
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The Summer Olympic Games 2020 in Tokyo are over. Two weeks of intense sports coverage are lying behind us. Definitely ...
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After the 2018 PyoengChang Olympic Winter Games, I already felt urged to do my very own medal count of the ...
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Are you currently also fascinated (or disgusted) by the Olympic Games? This posting is about cool sports - even though ...
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During the later phases of the Covid-19 lock-downs in Germany, I had the idea to that posting. Maybe just because ...
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I studied maths. This almost certainly means that I am weird. Or, at least, that I tend to have weird ...
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I got introduced to Smooth McGroove by a friend some half a year ago. At that time, the YouTube music ...
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At first sight, this is rather a blog posting for people outside Germany. At the time of reading, German residents ...
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Covid-19 has influenced our lifestyle in a historic way, indeed. A lot of things we did love to do are ...
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During a dinner concert in June 2020 of a Cologne local band, Cat Ballou (who will be part of my selection), I ...
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It started on 27th July 2018 with Talk of This Town by Catherine McGrath. Last weekend, I reached another milestone: with Immortal ...
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If you are on a city trip, you likely fancy to buy a multi-attraction ticket. There are global companies like ...
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I already introduced you to Feli, the German Girl in America, now Feli from Germany, in my Flyctory.com posting about her ...
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I am back. After five days in the United Arab Emirates metropolis, I came back to Germany. My Covid-19 test ...
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After praising my favorite songs of 2020 and the favorite albums and EPs in 2020, the final posting to do ...
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292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
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2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
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The critics hated the movie - the cinemas loved it (as it really cashed in a bunch). As a sequel ...
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Weird Al Yankovic is not only one of my most favorite artists, who I follow for some twenty years now ...
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While I have a couple of "PCR professionals" in my circle of contacts, it took me until December 2020 until ...
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In addition to the very personal new Songs of My Life category, I feel like having a bit more blogging contents on ...
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Just about one month left until we are facing our very first socially distanced Christmas. Especially after hard times in ...
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A typical scene at the bett1HULKS tennis tournament during the last two weeks at Cologne's LANXESSarena: Alexander Zverev (who swept ...
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During the last years, October has been one of the big months for European country music fans: being already "traditional" ...
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Starting Flyctory.com as a travel and sports blog some 30 months ago, I wouldn't have imagined at its beginning how ...
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After Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open 2020, charts like the one by below by the German Data Journalist Felix ...
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2020 is just halfway done - but if I was to choose a German person of the year, regardless whether ...
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I was originally working on a posting about key challenges that Nashville and the country music industry will face in ...
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I absolutely loved to follow Olivia Lane on social media and listen to her music after I happened to run ...
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Country music rarely makes it to German media - especially the major US acts, which are typically rather unknown in ...
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Many Germans did it - and I did it as well: travelling again. The Whitsun weekend was not only a ...
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They did it: the German Women Soccer Bundesliga (Flyeralarm Frauen-Bundesliga) re-started a few days ago, on 29th May 2020. I ...
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Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
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Saturday, 16th May 2020, 15:30 hrs German time. The point in time at which the German Soccer Bundesliga was intended ...
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Kenny Foster, one of the Featured Artists of Flyctory.com and one of the most friendly people I met in the ...
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A friend of mine recently asked me how the current Covid-19 situation is affecting myself personally and of course also ...
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My Country Music Playlists on Amazon Music and Spotify are one of the most popular elements of the Flyctory.com music ...
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Mlada Bolesav - a 44,000 people city in Czech Repiblic, some 65 kilometers Northeast of Prague. Though the city's history ...
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Due to the late cancellation of the C2C festivals in London, Dublin and Glasgow and all the organizational trouble caused ...
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While I am writing this blog posting, I am sitting in London. The C2C: Country to Country has been cancelled ...
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My third and final issue of stories around the C2C in Berlin - time to finish the days of country ...
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Saturday in Berlin is over. A lot of good music has been played on several stages - but some stories ...
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The German Country Music Scene is having their highest holidays - The C2C in Berlin started on 6th March 2020 ...
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While I so far made an semi-annual look back in time, the "Very Important Postings", I decided something with my ...
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Due to my passion for Weird Al Yankovic, I know Jim "Kimo" West for a couple of years now. Kimo ...
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I decided to split the "Best music" postings of 2019 into two parts: while I already published my personal Best ...
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2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
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You may have visited Flyctory.com the last days hoping to have some coverage of the Neuchatel World Floorball Championships this ...
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I am constantly aiming to improve your user experience on the website. I always felt that drilling down the list ...
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Usually, I am reviewing albums at the time of release. Luke Combs This One's For You has been released on 2nd ...
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Leo Moracchioli sounds very Italian, but in fact, the metal musician and producer is Norwegian citiizen. Despite his Youtube has ...
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Some ten weeks weeks ago, I added another feature to Flyctory.com: the Country Music Playlists on Amazon and Spotify allows ...
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During the London Country Music Week, Country 2 Country traditionally presented the lineup for the festival. Every year, fans pray ...
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Quite surprisingly, there seems to be a quite sudden competition about the promotion and management of country music concerts in ...
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I try to improve Flyctory.com steadily and enlarge your visitor's experience. I felt that there is so much music on ...
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After my posting in April, which was already speculating about a country music boom in Germany and Central Europe, a ...
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June 2019, time for the third semiannual summary of the website. Quite a lot has changed and improved compared to ...
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During the CMA Fest 2019 in Nashville, I did quite a lot of Meet & Greets. I just felt it ...
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The beginning of June was a very flattering moment to me. After I got more and more into country music ...
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CMA Fest 2019 was just massive to me. So many artists, so many new people - I was just overwhelmed! ...
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Facebook, Instagram and all other kinds of internet sources nowadays allow you to (sometimes by chance) find, follow and support ...
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The closer CMA Fest 2019 came, the more I became aware of all the side events, which are not happening ...
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Country music in Germany has a hard standing. It is still not played in most radio stations - or declared ...
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I have to admit that Germany is likely the largest music market, in which the amazing duet "Shallow" of Lady ...
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The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
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The "Road to Neuchatel 2019" - as only the Swiss team is qualified for their home World Floorball Championship in ...
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You have them on almost every flight. They are located in the seat in front you? The airlines try to ...
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No floorball competition is changing that frequently like the Champions Cup. While previous season, six men and women teams each ...
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Another six months have passed - the first full half year of Flyctory.com's existance. After I did the Very Important ...
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As blogging on music became a quite frequent category at Flyctory.com, I felt to look back to 2018 and introduce ...
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Similar to frequent flying, there is a straightforward option to become a status member in all major hotel chains: frequent ...
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Though I am a huge opponent of the Davis Cup reformations becoming active in 2019, I have to give in ...
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1st July 2018 - we start counting down the days to christmas already. In this posting I resume about what ...
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With Miles & More, Lufthansa Group's widely used loyality programme, introducing the concept of Mileage Pooling to their program just ...
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There have been so many discussions about Rio 2016. Not just about whether the country itself is able to stand ...
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Tianjin, China. Tennis Davis Cup, one of my most beloved sports competitions. He was intended to be the hero, the ...
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As you might have seen in the other blog entries, I have been attending Europe's major country music festival, the ...
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I typically have some notes of the major currencies I am frequently using at home. I just feel it is ...
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Yeah, I have to give in: as a German, you just hated when there has been a race with our ...
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Some of you may ask: Why did I choose Wordpress for this site? First of all, my wife Sarah had ...
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