Song: "Bad Bhang Recipe" Artist: Grails Album: Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1, 2, & 3 (2006)
This is approximately how I feel today. It was more likely the trek than the experience itself, but thanks Black Elk and Red Fang! I always wanted to have a hangover without drinking!
This song is in a huge time-related mix someone made that I downloaded without thinking, which I don't come back to and generally skip through when it starts. A few weeks ago it showed up when I was occupied and not paying attention... and I was taken right back to the time this song came out.
At first, I hated this song. It's a fine means of white noise, but it's just sort of dull. It was played too much on the radio for what it's worth.
After that particular "moment", this song reminded me a lot of when I was 18, particularly the winter of that year... Tough times, but nothing in comparison to what was to come. I found the song ironic versus my experiences at the time. Even now, it's pretty odd looking back at the timing of this song in my life. Just, wow.
And also some crap about how I named one of my major internet projects after a line in this song. That was dumb, because now I'll never escape its mediocrity.
I've had this song stuck in my head for several years, particularly the "la la" part. If you don't recognize this song by name and therefore don't know better or aren't already tainted, I would suggest probably skipping it because it just does not go away.
But seriously. Listen to it once and then go slam your head into a cement wall or something, because... LUUUHVIN YOU IS EEASY CUZ YER BEAUTIFUL. LA LA LA LA LA.
Song: "Warrior's Dance" Artist: The Prodigy Album: Invaders Must Die (2009)
On par with their most recent work. This song feels a bit high school dance club / hanging out with crazy, high foreign boys to me, particularly the one who directed me towards Prodigy's prior album, but it's still good blend of noise. I approve for sure.
You can get this online, now, for the record. Blogsearch time!
...In tagging this, I realize I haven't posted about Prodigy solo before. WHAT.
Here's more Prodigy. It's tough choosing a song between what's on this album because they all are interesting enough and none really stand out in comparison. I thought about posting "Girls" but it would be a little too ironic for this blog. "Action Radar" is nice. The first songs I liked off of this album was "The Way It Is" and "Hotride" but they're both dance covers. But this little song here has the extra bit of bass this blog requires. It's a little too repetitive for more than occasional listening, but if it finds you in the right mood you won't notice.
Last I checked, Invaders Must Die comes out March 3rd... so if you're "Prodigal", be sure to pick it up.
Song: "Easter Romantic (live London 5/02/2007)" Artist: Big Business Album: none, go here.
Someone clearly awesome posted this live recording of Porn/Big Business/the Melvins last year. I don't generally care for live stuff or b-sides or dvds because it all just seems like unnecessary teasing. This had to show up on its own time, and so it did.
Aside from the obnoxious clapping from a guy close to the recording source, this... is genius at work. especially 6:40 onwards...
For those unfamiliar with "Easter Romantic" in produced form, you are just the same missing out. Consider changing this.
Song: "Tear You Apart" Artist: She Wants Revenge Album: She Wants Revenge (2006)
heh! Yeah. How about this one?
I saw this band live the year this album came out. It was a fucked up day/night as a whole, something I hope remains unique. It might just be because I was into this kind of sound then and the timing was right, but I liked the show itself - their performance and energy. I don't clearly remember much about it now other than the negativity from the night, but... I still have fond thoughts of the band. Which is something considering my non-liking their latest album.
Just trust me on this: download it from Mercenario. There are some live recordings of The Whip swimming around the internet that are also quite good. In fact, for this song, they're better.
Song: "Do Right" Artist: Jimmie's Chicken Shack Album: Bring Your Own Stereo (1999)
I was looking at a list of my mp3s back in July 2000. There were 127. I lost or deleted most of them. Here's one I haven't heard in a while. You might recognize it even if you've no idea who the fuck they are.
There's no excuse. But it was on my hard drive in 2000.
The best part of having/knowing this song came when I was about 17. I was spending time at my sister's house, and my niece's friends were over. They were all about 10 years old. They were being stupid sluts as we all know 10 year old white trash girls are inclined to be to further their career in drug abuse and abortion management, and my joking at how stupid and slutty they were seemed to encourage one of them.
I don't know what the hell happened to make her do this otherwise unprovoked, but she started singing this song... exactly how the song is sung here. It was very memorable... some little girl going "THE ROOF THE ROOF..."
It's like if there's a freak in the world, I'm going to meet them.
Song: "Cemetary Girl" Artist: Insane Clown Posse Album: Riddlebox (1995)
And another on my hard drive in July 2000.
A song about fucking dead people. Why not?
Speaking ICP's obsession with fucking dead things, "Dead Body Man" was also on my hard drive, then. This song is still stuck in my head. 55, 65 bodies at least...
I totally understand if you unsubscribe, stop following, and delete your bookmarks after this.
And finally in this round of stupid crap I listened to in 2000 because I couldn't afford CDs and mp3 sharing wasn't popular enough yet, this highly contrasting song to what else I listened to in 2000. Or any year for that matter.
I don't know about the lyrics, but this song sounds super positive and energetic.
Song: "Quintessence" Artist: Mastodon Album: Crack The Skye (2009)
I am posting one of my rare I Do Not Like This (Sam I Am) songs. This song... is bad. I do like the first two songs on this album. But this song... is crap. I imagine it has a lot to do with the production. Perhaps they'll fix that before the actual release date. But, in the meantime... NO.
This song is better than the former post, but you will undoubtedly have trouble on first listen with it if you're a listener of anything else I post here.
It's hard... really, really hard for me to dislike a song with "Fuck You" in the title. She's a bit insecure in person and I know she irritates a lot of people, but I like the attitude presented in the music and her albums' eclectic production style. Even if it's still pop...
I am even surprised that I like this album at all because I thought she was going to pull a "I HATE MUSIC NOW THAT I'M POPULAR" second-album stunt. Good to see an actually interesting popular artist continue on where they left off.
And... holy shit. If this song doesn't appeal to you to begin with thanks to the cliche vocals, tough it out til the very end. It's worth it.
Edit: See, this is why the internet sucks: too much misinformation. The album I found was mistitled. The song I meant to post here was actually "Spirit Molecule". See the video here:
I found a couple more mp3 lists from back in the day. These were both from when my hard drive was 8GBs and I only had a CD drive so I had to regularly delete songs I didn't like and/or be satisfied with just some.
The major difference between these lists is that I had access to a cable internet connection for a while between them.
Nine Inch Nails A Warm Place Burn Eraser I Do Not Want This Kinda I Want To Ruiner Ruiner (remix) Something Blue Ten Miles High The Becoming The Perfect Drug The Perfect Drug (Rusty Syringe Remix)
A Perfect Circle Diary of a Madman (cover) Judith (remix)
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Butthole Surfers Pepper
Days Of The New Enemy Shelf In The Room Touch, Peel, And Stand
Deftones 7 Words Around The Fur Be Quiet And Drive Bored Can't Even Breathe Change Lotion My Own Summer Passenger Root
Fear Factory Cars Linchpin
Front Line Essembly Everything Must Perish
Garbage Dumb Hammering In My Head Temptation Waits
Hole Doll Parts
Jimi Hendrix Hey Joe
Joydrop Beautiful
Led Zeppelin Hey Hey What Can I Do House Of The Rising Sun
Marilyn Manson 1996 Angel With Scabbed Wings Another Brick In The Wall Apple Of Sodom Born Again Burning Flag Cake And Sodomy Coma Black Dried Up, Tied Up, And Dead To The World Get Your Gunn Highway To Hell I Put A Spell On You In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death Irresponsible Hate Anthem King Kill 33 Little Horn Lunchbox President Dead Shitty Chicken Gang Bang Target Audience The Death Song The Fall Of Adam The Fight Song The Love Song The Nobodies The Reflecting God Valentines Day
metallica Am I Evil? Enter Sandman King Nothing Until It Sleeps
Monster Magnet Doomsday God Says No Heads Explode Silver Future
Mudvayne -1 Cradle Death Bloom Everything And Nothing Nothing To Gein Pharmaecopia Prod Severed Under My Skin
Nada Surf Popular
Nine Inch Nails Burn Downward Spiral (full album) Perfect Drug Perfect Drug (Rusty Syringe remix) Ruiner (remix) Something Blue
Nirvana About A Girl All Apologies Blew Breed Come As You Are Dumb In Bloom Lake Of Fire (live) Lithium Negative Creep On A Plain Pennyroyal Tea Polly (live) Serve The Servants Something In The Way Stay Away Territorial Pissings Where Did You Sleep Last Night (live)
No Doubt Bathwater Just A Girl Simple Kind Of Life Spiderwebs
Nonpoint Double Stacked Levels What A Day
Ozzy Osbourne Diary Of A Madman
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Placebo Every You Every Me (remix) Nancy Boy Narcoleptic Passive Aggressive Pure Morning Scared of Girls Special K Teenage Angst
Radiohead Karma Police Paranoid Android
Sap Got Me Wrong
Second Coming Soft Vintage Eyes
Seven Mary Three Cumbersome Cumbersome (acoustic) Water's Edge
Sevendust Bender Breathe Feel So Headtrip Licking Cream Praise Waffle
Silverchair Ana's Song Pure Massacre Suicidal Dream Tomorrow
Sipher Sarcoma
Slipknot People = Shit
Smashing Pumpkins 1979 Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Soundgarden 4th Of July Blow Up The Outside World Burden In My Hand Outshined Pretty Noose Spoonman The Day I Tried To Live
Stabbing Westward Breathe In You Control Crushing Me Dawn Falls Apart Inside You Lies (Hello Kitty remix) Shame Slipping Away So Wrong Ungod Violent Mood Swings Why
Stone Temple Pilots Bi-Polar Bear
Sunna Power Struggle
System Of A Down Legend Of Zelda Marmalade Snowblind The Metro
Tool Ænema (full album) Opiate (live)
Tricky Black Steel Girls Overcome Ponderosa Something In The Way
Song: "Dear Can" Artist: !!! Album: Louden Up Now (2004)
Dear song,
I like you. I wish your band were easier to search. I also wish you were online in a nicely consumable format, period.
I miss when we used to hang out on walks and at work. You were my first favorite !!! song. I think it's because you're crazy. I always like the crazy ones.
I'll give Sublime for being catchy and having relevancy, and they're okay and they have their place... But... The obsessiveness. Why. The radio when I was growing up was constantly playing Sublime - ESPECIALLY this song. There's only so much of Annie's bullshit you can take. This was later made worse by retarded friends and coworkers who had a collective Sublime hard-on. No. Just say no, kids. Sublime is not the answer.
I don't necessarily hate this song, but have the disgust for this band. Overplayed at the time it came out, that rode itself out and was replaced by some other, newer song. What was more annoying at the time and for a while afterward was the number of morons who considered Creed the end-all be-all of music. It was pretty scary. For a while, though, they became an easy weighing tool for me to quickly learn how much I had in common with others. Yeah, I'm judgmental, I know. But you have to be when there are Creeds and Blink182s out there raping the sense out of the children.
Song: "Joker & The Thief" Artist: Wolfmother Album: Wolfmother (2005)
The Creed dilemma reminds me of Wolfmother. I think the best part of this band is that Mike Patton insulted them on camera once. I suppose it's "nice" that they temporarily introduced a more creatively authentic sound to the masses... but in the same, FUCKING CLONES.
I don't really mind this likely because it's hard not to empathize with the lyrics. Chances are, many of you do not like this song... and you have every right. There's so much eighties in it. And flamboyant gayness. And you know what Bill Hicks says...
Song: "Semi-Charmed Life" Artist: Third Eye Blind Album: Third Eye Blind (1997)
This was my favorite song for a month or two when I was 15. The song in music mirrored my mood at the time, hyper positive. Things were going well enough in school, I had a best friend who brought me positivity and growth as a person, I felt interested in "life", I had some idea of who I was, and I trusted the future would bring me better things. There were dramas, but I felt good.
I never tried to discover what the lyrics were. When I finally looked them up this decade, I was pretty surprised. All that ignorance. I bet it did psychological damage. ... If there's an answer to that mystery, I'm sure it's present on this blog by now.
I was the most socially retarded kid ever, but I still thought I was more musically "with it" than the majority of my peers. For one, I knew this song at the time it was relevant. Which, for me, was in 6th grade. Imagine my surprise when one day I'm walking down the hall and this popular kid who looked like a porcelain doll starts quoting/singing this song randomly to himself. He was clearly going to ascend easily in life. It was really ironic.
Song: "Jambi" Artist: Tool Album: 10,000 Days (2006)
This has been deemed the greatest song to visit mankind in all its history, and it is yours for the listening now that you've put up with a bunch of stupid song posts. Be gentle with it, it's still just a baby song yet to grow into its awesomeness. Also be careful to pay attention in particular to 3:20 onwards.
I'm not sure what else to say about it, at this moment, but I'm sure someday I'll edit this entry with something thoughtful.
I wonder what the second best song ever is. Perhaps... SATAN?! Not to detract from Tool or anything, but... god. Black Cobra = amazing.
I just like the way this sounds, especially the opening bit of the song. And I'm also just liking this album, period.
Perhaps I should put together a "first two months of 2009" great songs mix for ole Swampy... Ah, so cliche. But so like me. A whole year is too long to wait.
Song: "IronSwan" Artist: The Sword Album: Age of Winters (2006)
This song has infected my brain since I last saw them. Time to post it, eh?
Wildly assuming you've yet to hear or get to know this song: precious wittle fwuffy bunny intro meets an almost thrash metal drop off point + typical stoner mood-swings galore. The first vocals aren't found until two minutes in, which is an asset. There is variety, which you all know I love because I have the aesthetic ADD. Listen.
Song: "Judith" Artist: A Perfect Circle Album: Mer de Noms (2000)
Random choice for the day.
Maynard has mommy issues. While that's all fine and dandy, this song tends to make me think more of myself. About when I first heard this song, I wrote a story about a character named "Judith" that was on the topic of this song.
It was for school so I had to take out all of the typical nastiness my stories require, so it became very cartoonish and child-like in presentation. It was about an elf at the north pole who suddenly ran away to California to pursue a career in music. Not an original idea, but it was a matter of the presentation. The whole story took part on stage of a talk show where Judith had to confront her parents and Santa Claus. Through the whole thing, I hinted that Judith was goth and satanic. Cracked me up. I bet my teacher had to look up what a baphomet was.
I turned the story in a couple of days before the last day of high school, ever, so I never found out what kind of grade I got on it... but I passed the class enough to graduate, so who cares? Though it would have been interesting to find out. Wonder what the teacher was thinking... or, if I had been living in some christian town or going to catholic school, what would have happened?
Too bad I never found out. That would have been hilarious.
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