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February 3, 2010
I can't... believe... I haven't posted this song yet. Two years, two and a half years!, and still nothing. And after listening to it eight million times, or 84 times since mid-2005 according to last.fm... 5 hours of my life, gone. "Blue Sky Mind" Naturally, of the Blue Sky Mind album that came out in 1996. It's too bad I didn't have a last.fm (or audioscrobbler as it was at the time) eight months earlier than I did, because then I might have a record of actually hearing this for the first time and be able to say something definitive like it was one of my first listened favorites, but I forget now what order these songs went in after "Electric Sleep". Yeah, it sounds like Black Sabbath. What are you going to do? Everything around here does. Odd, considering I tended to avoid Sabbathisms even when I was exposed to them growing up. Sunday is a shitty day, and even now after all of this I'm still cracking up at "serious" metal. That "then you know they'll tell you a story" line at 1:20 pleases the Gemini in me. No, the other one. Oh, and in case you haven't heard, there's a new Sheavy album out this year. Possibly even two of them... February 2, 2010
Good low mood, sleepy (but not unconscious) drone metal here: "Guns And LSD". They seem to come across as instrumental even though they have vocals. Those of you who're into anything around the heavy Isis to SunnO))) camp will appreciate them - and if it tells you anything, which it should, they've currently listed shows with Wolves In The Throne Room and Ninth Moon Black. February 2, 2010
I tried sampling OvO in the past, likely originally having something to do with them touring with Subarachnoid Space. I've given them a few chances based on myspace/vids, but the "dark" metal hilarity factor wasn't working out for the ten seconds I was going to give it. Recently, however, I got ahold of 2008's Crocevia... The first song "Ostkreuz" reminded me of Rabbits right off, though I'm not sure if that connection is authentic because I don't own the song I was immediately reminded of. All in all, it's actually alright even though the vocals sent me into giggle fits the first time or two. The second song on the album, however, seems like it's supposed to be obnoxiously funny. "Tiki 2020" starts with a really misleading drum/guitar bit, the song switches up, and then here come the vocals... I assume that's Italian or maybe German, but from across the ocean it sounds like nonsense language a kid randomly makes up and suddenly turns into a song. For some reason, I'm reminded A LOT of the Melvins circa "If I Had An Exorcism" despite them being literally musically dissimilar. As for a closer musical relation, I'm thinking black metally sludge layered in retarded humor. I wonder if any of these songs are about prancing through the dandelions... January 7, 2010
Song: "Gimme Back My Bullets" This song is relaxed and good for relaxing. I miss seeing these guys live... They don't seem like it by listening alone, particularly with a song like this that doesn't stand out above like most others they've done, but the two shows I've seen them do have been very nice. Warm and inclusive sound, and their stage presence is outstanding. I recall hearing/seeing this song and, despite being a bit underwhelmed by album listens, thinking it sounded great live. See, in trying to find a link, I just found out it was a cover. I had no idea.... because I was born in the 80s. Nevertheless, I've recently heard about them doing shows nowhere near here, and I'm jealous. November 13, 2009
Song: "Shaman Of Ur" This band is better than Them Crooked Vultures. And guess what? This band's album officially released today. I don't see a link up for you, the internet, to buy it yet... but all the same, you should tell these guys that you want to spend your money on their purdy wittle vinyl recording. Seriously. Especially for "Pyres", but this song, too. November 13, 2009
Song: "Scumbag Blues" I have decided, upon 2-3 listens, that I like this song. I do not, however, have the mental incapabilities or benefit of doubts to take in the whole product. But this song sounds nice. Reminds me of something, I don't know what, but my first thought was Liam Lynch... well, before I heard the recycled Queens of the Stone Age riff. October 17, 2009
Song: "Shitlist" Oh L7, you make'a me the happy. If it weren't for your warm lady voice and low bass & drum, I'd fear I hated all women singers-groups ever. Nope. I still think I should do a video for "Shitlist". Hate, even as representation, however, is exhausting. August 24, 2009
Song: "Queen of the Void" They sound a little bit like Headdress here, but somewhat more conscious and "full" sounding. Plus, female vocals that don't remotely make you want to punch a hole through someone's face. RARE. By the way, the song is a free download at last.fm... among several. August 22, 2009
Song: "King Beef" I hear an instrument or some kind of sound in this that I haven't heard with Torche before. Not sure what it is. It's the light echo sound (it's not present in the video) - you tell me. Also, it's one of the least "smiley" songs they have. July 26, 2009
Song: "The Painted Desert" I went through some old writings this morning and noticed (again) that I tend to go through phases of bands/types of bands. While I don't think the particular "psych" phase of this past winter has returned, it's strange that I keep listening to this. Why was this band's timing good for now? or, even, how can I consume this without a problem but bands of similar style I can't even spend a whole minute on before getting completely bored? Anyhow... This is brilliant in its simplicity. There's not a whole lot going on here. Instrument, voice. It's pretty quiet. The vocals sound like they're recorded in a warehouse or bathroom with a very high ceiling, but I'm unclear on the instrumental echo. The mood is pretty compact... and the song sounds "fresh", like after rain sort of wet. Lyrics: "let me in"? Not sure what that has to do with painted deserts. The whole album has a hippie/indian theme so I suppose it's irrelevant. July 26, 2009
Song: "Passive Aggressive" I'm still mad that this band sounded so great to me for years and then when I saw them live it was like being raped by a ghost. No pun intended. I have happy thoughts for them anyway. If you don't see the humor in this post, you're totally smarter than me. June 30, 2009
Song: "Grim Reaper Blues" No idea how I missed this before tonight. I was doing my rounds and finally someone updated Nebula's tour page with a Portland date. It seemed logical but I couldn't be sure til I saw that. This band opens, and I went looking for a sample. I found this. I knew Paz was still around making music but I never followed her. That's too bad, because this hardly ruins the image in my head of what APC was when it was great... what with being a completely different genre and all. Stoner rock and assorted 60s/70s-inspired creepy nonsense: June 3, 2009
Song: "Heavy Heart" For the dancing and for the annoying you when you're on the bus with no music and this song's stuck in your head. And also for the Venus-Mars conjunction this month. June 1, 2009
And since I didn't have a song sample for you back when I posted the song originally... Shrapnel - "Combat Love": June 1, 2009
Song: "Jack" And this is for Jack... Though my Jack's an angel despite being a huge fucking tease. This song sounds very much not like the sound Danava has created for themselves. It's more... something. It seems to come from the same "place" but it doesn't have that extended, introverted, thoughtful sound. In any case, Danava has since taken the demo off their myspace/etc, so I'll upload the song later on. Edit: Only took me two hours... June 1, 2009
Song: "The Beautiful People" Trying to think of a song that was astrologically relevant so I'd have something to post today. I came up with this. The Sun's in Gemini about to square Saturn, the moon's in Libra being squared by Pluto. Constipated rebellion meets ironically/sarcastically ugly. "The will to live in every host" = Libra. "You can't see the forest from the trees" = Saturn. I'm pretty sure you've heard this so you don't need a link. May 7, 2009
Song: "Schism" To my webserver: I get a large portion of my hits before noon because many come from the other side of the world. The fact that you were down for hours early this morning was not amusing. What were you trying to do, prove the existence of mercury retrograde at me or something? Too late. In any case, I hope you achieved your necessary level of whatever-the-hell and had a nice nap. I remember where I was when I heard this song for the first time. I was sitting at my desk against the wall in the living room, with the recorder on my desk waiting for the radio station to play the new Tool single like they promised. It began, I pressed record on time, and I wandered off while it recorded because I didn't know what to think yet. I would play it back afterward and see how I felt after a few listens. After the song recorded, I rewound the tape and pushed play to check where I was on the tape. I blinked because I didn't hear anything, then said "AW, SHIT"... because I'd just recorded over the song. Instead of "play", I'd pushed "record". It was so funny to me that I made an mp3 of me accidentally recording over it to share with a friend. I got up early for nothing but comic relief that day. Like every day, I know. May 6, 2009
Song: "Combat Love" Dave Wyndorf. That, alone, should say enough to you. If not, we have a serious problem and I think you know what to do to correct it. I have a hard time believing this song is 30 years old. It seems rather fresh. If any of you have any other Shrapnel, send it my way. April 9, 2009
The first band I discovered going in to 2006 was The Gossip. I read about them on some obscure music website and listened to the only songs of theirs I could find, which was a grand total of two songs. I couldn't find SHIT on them. About two months after hearing them for the first time, they had a concert nearby and I finally found That's Not What I Heard. I asked a friend if they wanted to go because they'd bitched about me going to Fiona Apple by myself without telling anyone I was doing it. They said no. The place was too far out for me to get to and from entirely on my own, so I skipped it slightly pissed off about my daft friends. Standing In The Way Of Control came out. I liked it okay but not in the way I liked the more raw sound from the other stuff. Somehow, from it, they became insta-popular. I have to say I'm still a little annoyed that I never made that show, their "last" as a semi-obscure band where their fanbase wasn't yet made up of socially climbing fucking idiots. It took me a really long time to find the album Superjudge by Monster Magnet for some reason. I didn't actually get a copy until 2005. Initially, besides the more acoustic tracks, it sounded like shit to me. Just pointless noise. I knew it would just take time (even though no Magnet record had ever taken me long to get into). I tried to come back to it, but didn't really succeed in any breakthroughs. I was about to write it off, when suddenly I had "Evil" stuck in my head. YER A LONG WAY FROM HOME... It wasn't the noisiest track, but it was more on that spectrum. Interesting. I started coming back more often... Slowly, each song was sticking. It'd been at least a year since I fell in love with "Third Alternative" (going by the evidence that I named a website "third alternative" in 2004), and I was appreciating similar lyrics... but I hadn't listened to any new/relevant metal after Tool turned on me, and this was a little surprising. I had a crush on a guy who listened to the worst music in the world short of country, hardcore rap. I'm also pretty sure he had no idea who the fuck Nirvana was. My thought was, well, at least no music's going to get raped. Nevertheless, I had to turn the Monster Magnet off for a while because... Monster Magnet is greater than boys.... human beings in general. I tried to listen to entirely new shit, things "normal" people listened to that would go away in a month when it got tiring to the masses, when I got tired of blatant musical idiocy. And then I found youtube. People had songs in their videos. Because I was listening to crap, I discovered Scissor Sisters and Lily Allen and loved the fuck out of them both. Tool's 10,000 Days came out. I tried my best to wait for it to actually be physically released, and I was doing really good. I avoided every website that might talk about it. But, one of my friends who I could not avoid and knew would talk about it (probably purposely just to piss me off) downloaded it... It was, do I let him ruin it for me or do I just download it now? It was fucking great... Especially "Jambi". Most of my associates at this time went nutty over "Rosetta Stoned", but I feel Jambi's the true winner. I listened to it every... single... day. I couldn't leave the house without some Jambi. At this time, I met a new guy. He seemed interesting, and knew plenty about music, and seemed to have diverse tastes despite being a bit stuck on metal-isms and extremely strong opinions. I think we had one good month of contact before we got into a huge fight, obviously about music, to the point that it was fucking impossible to talk to him after that even though we never talked about the reason for the fight again. He kept saying other shit, random things that seemed like he was trying to control what/how I thought... which was ultimately incredibly inspiring (resulting in Sounds of Sagittarius) but at the time I was frustrated as fuck by it. He threw Meshuggah at me, some songs from Catch 33. Yeah, that's where a beginner on Meshuggah who hasn't listened to much actual metal in their life wants to start. Great job. I obviously didn't like it. He talked about a bunch of other bands. Converge, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mindless Self Indulgence, Mastodon... I knew Mastodon was touring with Tool, so I gave them a listen. Nope, still too "out there". I needed a bridge to cross this river... I kept coming back to "Iron Tusk". I kept confusing it with "Iron Swan" by The Sword, a band who I'd downloaded the year beforehand who was also a little over my perspective at the moment, so I kept coming back to The Sword as well... Hm, "Freya"... My friend had whined about Isis being great, so I was expecting them to actually be great. I saw them open for Tool. At this point I was completely jaded on anything my friend was telling me or saying in general... Isis sucked live. To go with my Scissor Sisters and Lily Allen, I bought She Wants Revenge. This was a little bit of compact brilliance for a while. My life changed a bit about this time, and I had more actual free time. I tried to put together a list of all of the bands I'd listened to, ever. I didn't complete it by any means, but I asked people to help me fill in the blanks. A couple sent a bunch of bands my way, most of which I knew by name but had never actually listened to... The first one was Ministry. I swore I'd heard Ministry before because I knew their name and had an idea of what they were like... but damn, I hadn't actually listened to them. This took up some time... The other major band was the Melvins. I knew them, I'd seen them on tv at some point in my youth, I knew who Buzzo was... but god damnit, I hadn't actually ever listened to them. Why not?! I went about randomly getting the albums that contain "With Teeth" and "June Bug" for reasons that should be obvious... sat on those a bit... needed to get more... and they released A Senile Animal. I'd jumped on this train right on time - this album is fucking amazing. Awesome? One of those words. At this point I was pissed that these bands had existed my entire life (literally), I had had opportunities to see them as a living band, but nobody around me then knew music or cared about music. I was discovering them very late in the game. While it would be understandable that I'd discover a band like Led Zeppelin or The Doors "late in the game" due to their lack of relevance to the music I grew up on and me being younger than their albums, the Melvins was inexcusable. Why had NOBODY, EVER told me how good this was? Why did nobody I ever knew talk about them? Did anyone I knew even know them? Why was everyone jerking off about Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains back in the day... when two steps to the left there was this GREATER band? Meanwhile, Blood Mountain came out and I finally downloaded it around December. It might have taken ten minutes total for me to lose my fucking mind. Well, twelve and a half minutes is the length between "The Wolf is Loose" and "Sleeping Giant". I was immediately sold on "Sleeping Giant". April 9, 2009
My life started to improve in late 2004. Coincidentally, this is when I downloaded all of the Kyuss albums - Wretch, Blues for the Red Sun, Welcome to Sky Valley, and And The Circus Leaves Town. I knew, beforehand, that this was going to be something epic so I wrote down all of my first thoughts on the songs. This resulted in a comment from a guy I knew who didn't listen to fucking garbage, telling me to check out the band Sheavy. I tried to listen but I never gave a fuck about Black Sabbath despite my one-off argument with the ex about them, and didn't really want to hear a vocalist that sounded like Ozzy. This was not appealing. Take your BS obsession somewhere else, asshole. Then I actually listened to the lyrics in "Electric Sleep". "Cyberspace is no place for the real world" about covers it. My wordy friend went off on tangents about the band, about Black Sabbath, about a whole genre inspired by the same sort of crap... He sent me Unida and Dozer. I gave them all a listen... I liked them better. But, in time, I was coming back to Sheavy and getting used to their 'sound'. Before long I was even broken on Black Sabbath. Apparently, covers aside, I'd just never heard Vol 4. Meanwhile, I talked to one of the guys from Sheavy. I could not fucking believe it. I was coming from bands like Tool where band contact is pretty much impossible. This guy fucking found ME. THE HELL. Theoretically I'd been friends with people involved with music before, but not a member of a now-favorite band. Crazy. About that time, my friend introduced me to Dream Theater. I liked some, but... what a bunch of wankery. He also went off about Fiona Apple. I knew her from 1997 or whenever it was, but singer-songwriter wasn't really my cup of tea. I downloaded some random songs that I didn't already have, anyway... and subsequently became very caught up in the drama going on about the release of Extraordinary Machine. Fucking bullshit. I bought everything she had and pre-ordered the album. With Teeth by NIN came out. Pretty much everyone around me were saying it was a joke, even though most of these people were not "typical" listeners of NIN. I was a bit sad that it wasn't really that great, but that didn't stop me from buying a ticket to see them the second it went onsale for me. And I got DSL. I needed to utilize this for music. I found 20 years worth of top-100 billboard songs for each year, and downloaded every single one. I wrote about them all. I was reminded about a lot of artists I hadn't bothered with in years, resulting in a little more downloading. I'd gotten a last.fm account a few months beforehand, and during this time my charts were fucking schizophrenic because I was also listening to a lot of Sheavy, Monster Magnet, Kyuss... 80s and 90s pop right next to stoner rock. Madonna came out with Confessions on a Dance Floor. I didn't really want to like it, but I was stuck on it for a while. Extraordinary Machine came out, naturally great. Sheavy's new one, Republic? came out. I was disappointed. I listened to Autolux's album in preparation for their show with Nine Inch Nails. I also did Queens of the Stone Age research, though I was still sick about them. I ended up looking at a link on their site for the band Eagles of Death Metal. I figured I had nothing to lose, I guess, and watched the "Speaking in Tongues" video... and died laughing. HOLY SHIT THIS WAS BRILLIANT. It was a tutu'ed death metal growl about ponies and rainbows short of my ideal band. MORE PLS. I saw Nine Inch Nails live... In itself, it was a great experience. The first time I saw them, and the first time I saw Tool in 2001, I was a little sick afterward because I didn't have the money to be spending on concerts but I really liked the whole feeling/experience. Now I had some expendable money. I could do this if I tried to. I wasn't sure. I was scared. My friends now didn't listen to my music. And they were "old" in my eyes, "over" the inanity of momentary experience, more interested in security and assurance. Bleh. I didn't want to do this alone but I was going to have to if it was going to be accomplished. Seeing Queens of the Stone Age... just, what? They'd been this awesome all of this time? How the fuck? Where did I go wrong? I got a bunch of their albums starting with Over the Years, and probably got Desert Sessions at this time as well. I had to see another show soon, so I went to Fiona Apple. It was my first non-arena, middle-sized venue show, and my first non-rock show. It was really great and just what I needed. Yep, more concerts... April 9, 2009
Most of 2002 sucked for me. "Important" things happened, and I suppose things improved over the course of the year, but I felt like shit. Any music that I took into this time was making my heart hurt. I did some searching to figure out that bands that I didn't love but merely liked worked for the moment. I listened to a lot of Deftones and Nirvana for a while. I needed less bass, though. Maybe something in my exact opposite mood. Maybe something I wouldn't care if it got ruined by my shitty moods and disgust with humanity. I heard The White Stripes' "Fell In Love With A Girl" somehow - perhaps the radio. I did my research, and their style struck me as really familiar even though I knew I'd never heard anything like it before. I downloaded a bunch of random songs. At the same time I heard The Strokes' "Last Night" which resulted in some minor downloading. This fresh newness was nice. I started looking for other stuff, something nice and simple and popular and meaningless. A friend of mine online liked the band Le Tigre. I looked them up to discover their most popular song was "Deceptacon". I gave it a listen, and... WHAT THE FUCK. NO. I had another friend who had "I'm a gasoline gut with a vaseline mind" quoted on some site of hers, and I needed to go back to it and find out why... The song somehow stuck. And then I was listening to "Friendship Station" because it was about how I was feeling then. Or "Let's Run", aka give me attention every day and every niiiiiiiiiiight. And then there's "The The Empty" which made me notice that perhaps those lyrics were intelligent enough to look up. I'd known of Placebo a few years at this point, but hadn't bothered much with their music. I downloaded some. It fit my mood really well... and they were just varied enough to not become boring. At first I loved songs like "Allergic" and "Drowning By Numbers". Towards the end of the year, I was screwing around and bored one night, so I ended up fishing the radio again. It all sucked. I found myself on the classic rock station for some reason. After a song or two, I realized I needed to do this... I was fucking ignorant about classic rock. I knew things in a vague sort of way, and that wasn't good enough. I needed to hear more, and learn something... Randomly, in 2003, I had a new boyfriend again. He was interested in music in a hoard-ish, sampling way. He liked a wide spectrum and didn't seem stuck like the former. Of course, we tried to discuss music with each other. By this point I was stuck on the classic rock and had a pretty strong opinion about what I was/wasn't going to take in, in general... but he was listening to motherfucking dance music. I wasn't digging metal anymore, or anything like it, but come on... Dance music? I realized it had a lot to do with where we "were"... I am simply not a "fun" person. AND I was in a shitty mood pretty much constantly around this time. He went "dancing", drank, smoked, fucked around, and whatever else idiots do when they're 18-21 that qualifies as "fun" but sounds more like punishment to me. He'd also pretend to be happy and pleasant for the sake of others - LOL! Sooo not me. I felt like a fucking asshole about this and made attempts to like the pussy rock and dance music... but... eh. He tried to please the beast by sending me things like Pink Floyd. I mean, c'mon... Try harder. It's not like I knew everything they had or anything, but I definitely knew Pink Floyd by now. I was not impressed. He threw Muse and Queens of the Stone Age at me. I was disappointed. I'm sure he had a whole album's worth of either of their songs, so why in the world would he chose "Hysteria" knowing I got pissed off at girly sounding music? Methinks it should have been "Time Is Running Out". A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth Step came out. Finally something to share. But, by this point, he was grumpy with me most of the time so that was a bit futile... heh. This album makes me think about a time we got into a retarded fight because he had no sense of humor about some pictures I took. This was the time I picked up L7 after going through a someone a few years older than me's CD collection, particularly "Wargasm". HELLO. And there was Bikini Kill's "Resist Psychic Death", a song made of pure awesome... even though the bass in "Rebel Girl" is better. Yeah, bass. I'd renewed my appreciation. For some reason I looked up Monster Magnet and discovered they had a new album out soon, Monolithic Baby. I found it online. It was better than what little I'd retained from God Says No, and I liked its.. synchronicity. I felt inspired enough from it to finally get a copy of Spine of God and Dopes to Infinity... and in time the brain was breaking again. I can't remember offhand when I looked up Fu Manchu. It was apart of something else, some random search. I ended up getting "King of the Road", "Neptune's Convoy", and "Saturn III" to begin with. I pretty much immediately knew I'd found a winner. I suppose because of his momentary QOTSA-ing, the boyfriend recommended Welcome to Sky Valley at me. His tastes thus far had not met anymore than briefly with my own, but I knew one of Kyuss' songs and gave it more of a shot when he sent a couple of songs my way. I had been listening to a lot of nondescript, who-cares classic rock, so it fit well enough. Over time, though, I noticed I was listening to "Whitewater" a lot... We broke up, and I was doing new things, so at this point I shut off my mind on everything but "new". I wanted to continue exploring music, but the break up feelings were going to ruin anything good, so I went with the next level up: 80s music. There is no possible way that 80s music can get ruined because it's already terrible. A little time passed, and I remembered that I had bands in queue to learn about. I certainly loved "Whitewater" by now, and "Demon Cleaner" passed years of inspection, and "Space Cadet" was interesting... so why not get their albums? April 8, 2009
Song: "The End of the Road" The start of this song is great. Very Kyuss influenced despite the Monster Magnet band name. Warm, familiar stoner rock for you all... April 8, 2009
Song: "The Sermon to the Hypocrites" I finally listened to a Behemoth song all of the way through, seeing as it came on when I was busy doing something and I didn't think to turn it off. I suppose this is familiar to a few things I've posted in the past... but it's still left field for me. What do you think? Behemoth: yes/no? April 7, 2009
What the hell, let's keep going. I'm going to have to backtrack a little, though, so here we go. In the mid-late 90s, I realized I was not a typical listener. I wasn't sure about this at the time because I never had a favorite band, didn't feel like I was a "fan" of anything, and though I liked some songs, I didn't really care about the band or whatever. The kids in school who liked music were either possibly retarded, obnoxious band geeks, or the "metal"/"punk" crowd who took their appreciation of bands to their absolute limits, or one of the endless supply of girls who said they liked music but actually just liked to dance/have fun/appear like a fuckable human being. I hated cliches even then, and was not going to be participating in any. I would have to approach music in my own way. Being poor worked against me, having deaf and immigrant family worked against me, having parents twice the age of anyone else's parents worked against me, and not being the type to do things for myself worked against me. In high school, I made friends with someone who would provide "interesting" for me. Soon, my social sphere opened up... and in time I was introduced to "real" music. The first band that stood out to me in a serious context was Nine Inch Nails, specifically the song "Down In It". I heard it through the radio. Soon after that, my social sphere opened up. One of the people liked Tool a lot. It was played a lot when they were around, then in general. It wore off. I was not interested in being like any of these people, being that most of them were fucking full of themselves (as music geeks are inclined to be), so I was resistant. Around this time, I was noticing that my taste in music was not what was becoming OF music. Socially, music was cleaning up and had always been pretty superficial. I was attracted to songs that were more bassy, deeper, lower, or lyrically "risque". I really liked the song "Obsession" by Animotion. Then there was Stabbing Westward's radio songs at the time. Then it was Gravity Kills. And then I heard Monster Magnet's "Space Lord". The next school year, I met a guy who I thought was just the hottest jerk and stingiest asshole in the whole wide world. He quoted "Swamp Song" at me for no apparent reason, and I asked what the hell that was about. I was amused that "belligerent fucker" was apart of the lyrics of a song. I had no idea about Undertow, so I bought it. Meanwhile, I met other Tool geeks who I also thought were interesting in their own little way. One of them told me "Hooker with a Penis" was his favorite Tool song, and I busted up laughing and said "that figures". At the same time, my best friends threw Korn at me. I didn't particularly care for Korn in the way my female friends did, where it seemed largely superficial as if they had never actually listened to Korn ever, but the angst present in the music helped me turn my mind on that. In 1999, I met some people online that were each different sorts of music geeks. One of them really, really, really liked Insane Clown Posse. I did not and was not going to participate in that, but I was in awe of how far he took his love for ICP. Another guy was a metal geek, in a band, smoked his brains out daily. I also knew a girl who loved feministic punk rock to death - L7, Bikini Kill, Hole... And there were all of the Tool geeks. I wrote one of the girls a story called Mary the Anorexic Lesbian Cow, about a cow who loved Uddertoe and wasn't having any of the other cow's Ricky Mootin's music... She loved that. The guys introduced me to Slipknot. I was hesitant because, well, ICP. I heard "Wait and Bleed" first. The jerk who got me into Undertow was talking about how he liked it. I got the album. We talked about how great "Purity" is when it peaks at "you all stare but you'll never see". A few months later, Slipknot became really fucking popular. I heard them played in the parking lot at school. I was annoyed and disgusted. At this same time, I was listening to The Fragile pretty much constantly. Somehow, ICP guy got me to download one of their songs. I think the first one was "Boogie Woogie Wu". It took a few listens but I figured it was okay enough, and got The Great Milenko. Despite being obnoxious, I figured it had a better "message" than the vast majority of music. Because I got ICP, I said it was only fair for him to listen to Tool. He was the only one who had not jumped on the bandwagon, and it was time. He kept saying the usual regurgitated crap people say when they supposedly hate Tool even though they've only ever heard "Sober" or been in the presence of one of the more obnoxious members of the Tool geekdom family. I got him to listen to some songs off Opiate. A few months later, he was listening to Aenima. At this time, I was listening to a few albums a lot - Antichrist Superstar, Darkest Days, Mer de Noms, and Undertow. I'd had the latter for almost two years at this point, but was just coming into my appreciation of it. The others, I'd just recently bought or found.
The song I brought into 2001 with me was Union Underground's "Revolution Man". Napster was having issues about this time, and I was wondering if I should utilize the service while it was still running. My boyfriend recommended a bunch of songs over the course of this time, almost entirely nu metal. A few passed my filters but most did not. I found a live APC song somewhere, "Diary of a Madman", which resulted in me getting the same song by Ozzy. At this time I'd just recently begun writing publicly online, and I appreciated the coincidence. I remembered that I had been interested in discovering more about Black Sabbath/Ozzy before but simply hadn't bothered because they weren't relevant. I got "Paranoid", the song. I said something vague about it online. My boyfriend reacted that he hated Ozzy and Black Sabbath and it was all crap because Ozzy's an asshole, etc, and therefore I was dumb for listening to them. I picked apart his logic, which he did not appreciate. I think it was the only actual fight we ever had. At the same time, he said he had a song stuck in his head all day. I asked what song. "Silver Future" by Monster Magnet. WHAT? MONSTER MAGNET? GIVE ME THIS SONG! I got the song, and a few others from the recently released God Says No. Hm. I didn't get it. I wanted to, but... nope, not happening. I heard "What a Day" by Nonpoint in the early spring of 2001. I was impressed at the lyrical ability of this guy, and got a few songs from the same album. I thought about making a new website and having a feature on it where I wrote about my favorite albums/bands at the time, with Statement being my first one... but I got sick. And stayed sick. Lateralus came out. My mind was thoroughly blown. I could have listened to it 24/7... My boyfriend's last present to me was talking about Mudvayne, their LD50 album I was stuck on for about a year. System of a Down released their Toxicity album with AMAZING timing with 9/11. And, suddenly, I was listening to Alice In Chains all of the time. I had a lot of research to do with music, I realized. I'd missed a lot as a kid, and as a teenager, and due to my obsessions. It was necessary to expand my horizons. AIC was safe enough, as I knew them well enough already from brainwashing radio play. I loved the song "Again". I made a background for my desktop, that just read "again and again" over and over. It was great, I used it for years. I'm sorry for my sense of humor. And "Angry Chair". I was sitting in my angry chair, too. All god damn year. But then there's "Bleed the Freak", aka Freak the Bleed. Love love love love. I was pissed when Layne went and died (in 2002). That meant he was going to gain a bunch of post-death groupies, in the same vain (VEIN, LOLZ) as had been with Nirvana, and that was going to be in my fucking way. Sure enough, five minutes later, my ex loved Alice In Chains even though he hadn't to begin with. Nice one. Anyhow... Napster died. I found Audiogalaxy, and 2002 began... March 13, 2009
Song: "To Sirius" Best part of this song: either the vocal-less, building psychedelic guitar pieces or 4:09/"this is my way" onwards. Discuss. March 13, 2009
Song: "One Minute to Midnight" Is there some other Justice I don't know about? It's so strange to be on some stoner rock related site and discover they're pushing the Justice alongside the doom. EH? How does a band/duo become that diverse? For the record, this song sounds best when you're in a low mood, played extremely loud. Think Electric Wizard, except... dance music. And don't forget about playing "Waters of Nazareth" first, either. March 13, 2009
Song: "Endure" I'm posting a different video on the link than here. The link above is to a proper video. This other one is live. Really good video quality and sound, but it's apparent that the crowd is not really there for Nonpoint. In every other video I've found of this song, the crowd has drowned out the singer at the "en-durrrrre" part of the song (like here) and been jumping to the beat the whole time. Anyway, angst? Nonpoint has some. Great song, one of the best ever. Nonpoint really needs to stop nationally touring with sub-par bands, though. March 12, 2009
Song: "Deformography" I have the fondness for this song. It sucks that it's "cool" right now to hate this guy, because some of his albums are still packed full of classics. February 13, 2009
Song: "Super Sex" January 16, 2009
Song: "Hung, Drawn, and Quartered" January 16, 2009
Song: "Mr. Integrity" December 21, 2008
Song: "Pravus" December 20, 2008
Song: "Boxes" December 20, 2008
Song: "Ramesses Part I" December 20, 2008
Song: "Everything I See" December 19, 2008
Song: "Assassin" November 23, 2008
Song: "Eyes in Disguise" November 23, 2008
Song: "Make It Reverse"
Categories:
electronic, libra
November 23, 2008
Song: "Seconds" November 22, 2008
Song: "Quantum Mystic" October 27, 2008
Song: "Mother" October 25, 2008
Song: "I Like It Both Ways" September 30, 2008
Song: "No One's Kind" September 30, 2008
Song: "Miss Alissa" September 28, 2008
Song: "Stinkfist" September 28, 2008
Song: "Cumbersome" September 1, 2008
Song: "Black Liner Run" September 1, 2008
Song: "Again" August 6, 2008
Song: "Revolution Man" August 6, 2008
Song: "When The Levee Breaks" August 6, 2008
Song: "Machine Gun" August 5, 2008
Song: "Sugarchord" July 10, 2008
Song: "The Four Horsemen" July 9, 2008
Song: "Triceratops" July 9, 2008
Song: "Five Years Ahead of My Time" June 11, 2008
Song: "Victim"
Categories:
2000s - early, libra
June 11, 2008
Song: "Bomb This Track" May 16, 2008
Song: "Third Alternative" April 19, 2008
Song: "El Equis" March 23, 2008
Song: "You Will Be Reincarnated As An Imperial Attack Spaceturtle" March 23, 2008
Song: "Naked Burn" March 22, 2008
Song: "Reverse Thunder" March 21, 2008
Song: "Don't Speak..." March 21, 2008
Song: "Dope" February 24, 2008
Song: "Schyssta Lögner" (two links) February 24, 2008
I'm expecting a busy week, so you're going to be expecting a post drought. But that's what these entries are for! January 28, 2008
Song: "A Barren Cause" January 27, 2008
Song: "The Great Destroyer" December 31, 2007
I'm posting a little early so I can share the best new song I heard in 2007. In this case, I mean new to me, as this song was on an album released a few years back. I was a little late in discovering them. but, better late than never... December 31, 2007
When I first heard Fear Of A Blank Planet December 30, 2007
This song is hard rock with hyper drums pieces that could qualify as metal, but it has a strangely feminine "indie" feel. The way the song moves is pretty cool, and therefore I have to recommend it. December 4, 2007
Tool.
Categories:
libra
December 3, 2007
"Got Body If You Want It" is a pretty good song, but I can't seem to find a recording of it anywhere except as a preview November 7, 2007
"Another Fourth of July... Ruined". If you've never heard Big Business before, you need to go check them out. This song is off the album Here Come The Waterworks November 6, 2007
Isis - "Not In Rivers, But In Drops". This band has a myspace, you can listen to a handful of their songs in the media section of their website, and you can buy their albums on amazon. This particular song is on the album In The Absence of Truth
Categories:
libra
November 6, 2007
Today Monster Magnet's new album 4-Way Diablo November 5, 2007
I listened to this song at least 20 times this past day, so today's song must be The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's song "I Could Be An Angle" from their 2004 album, Royal Society |
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, and I've linked the song to a place where you can download their discography by each individual album.