You could post this at musicbabble.net. if you do, I’ll cross-post this.

I bought Tyr at my local used record store in high school for $1.99 and liked it, probably more than I would have if I had downloaded it (or bought it even scratched price – it’s a bad album and they knew it. I paid $2.99 for Rock Island there and badly overpaid). The Y rune was used by the Nazis, as were many runes, and it’s got a really bum rap now. It also has Satanic connotations among fundies as a broken cross. Cyrillic is the worst for our using their letters that don’t fit the sounds – notably, ya is used for R (as in TetRis or KoRn). As the name suggests, it’s supposed to be pronounced “ya”. The Greek uppercase sigma for E is also up there. (It’s a shame the Ya-Ya-Ya’s never had a backwards-R album. Unless they did.)

The backwards N is pronounced “ee” and evolved from the Greek uppercase eta, as did our H. I don’t know where they came up with ya. (I actually write my uppercase H’s, print and cursive, like a backwards N – people understand it and you don’t have to lift the pen.)

I bought the Aerosmith albums between Rocks and Draw the Line at a thrift shop in high school for 50 cents each. I liked them, but only slightly more than Bad Company or Foreigner, who I place in the same general category. Not blues rock, but ’70s hard rock. I’m happy to have heard them, but I haven’t heard any other Aerosmith except for the ’80s and ’90s radio hits.

Starostin really liked Heathen, didn’t he? I think I’m skipping an album in there but I remember disliking the 2003 album and I haven’t heard any Bowie since (yeah, yeah, I’ve got to get on Blackstar). Hours had a funny Prindle quote about it being music for boring old people who drive cars. I think it’s in the review of the next album.

Sample of capital H’s