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March 3, 2010
I don't need to hear this song again today. Murder City Devils - "I Want A Lot Now" Sounds exactly like high school, except there was no car. How about: Living's no good in this hick town and/or city Gonna be home and instant message my friend, he's *thumbs up* February 18, 2010
Dopes To Infinity "Look To Your Orb For The Warning" This song reminds me of the time in my life between 2002 and 2004. Astrology junkie times. I remember getting one of these Dopes songs stuck in my head on a long drive once in 2002, when I didn't have any music. Might be one of the causes for my brain infection. This was also on The Matrix soundtrack in 1999... I got that the day I saw the movie in the theater at Clackamas Town Center, before I saw the movie itself. My friend was doing it, I had the money, and it was already established that half of the artists on the album were good to me. I haven't listened to it in ages... and upon grabbing the album just now, I see that Ministry's on it. No wonder I knew who they were when I finally came around to listen to them. Durr. "Wake Up" by Rage... I listened to that eight hundred times when I first had this CD. I remember making fun of him. It was the "EUGH!" bit at 3:30 that got me laughing. Holy shit is this a painful listen today. Stupid album reminds me of my ex(s), now. I did a quick check of an old email account earlier and noticed I had a photo in there from one of them (though I couldn't tell which one til I checked). Fucking old. I don't even remember the context of getting it. Might not have been one. But jesus, man, get a room with yourself. You mistook me for some lady who has a delusion. I already burned your wicked garden. Now I'm distracted by STP. Fucking hell. What is this, my high school reunion? Fucking Monster Magnet. 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... January 20, 2010
Acid King. Busse Woods (1999/2004 reissue). I've heard this name floating around since I joined the Boris On Black Fire parade, but haven't bothered to get this until recently. That makes me ten years late. In reality, I'm probably only as late as I feel... so I suppose I'll be sterile forever. I'm glad there's nobody worth listening to who actually discusses stoner-sludge (of the 5 people) because then I can be the deer-in-headlights authority myself. In other words, commence listening or I'm going to cry and stomp my feet. Or whatever. It's a relaxed, simple, jam-my, Wednesday morning when you don't have work, kind of song. If you like that, you'll like this. November 29, 2009
Song: "Bludge" If I was human, I might like this song. Overrated in the so-called "underground" whatever-the-frig scene but nevertheless good. November 25, 2009
Song: "Lovefool" I heard part of this song in a commercial today... and immediately I was picturing listening to the radio at the time this song was popular. I haven't heard it in ages so it was more reference-specific for me than music has been for a while... All of this blog-related over-analyzation and genre-specific listening has taken a lot of the casual referencing out of music. In any case, the song sounded cold and wet and metallic like my room at the time. I pictured my best friend and didn't know why until I looked up information on the song - it's on the soundtrack of her favorite movie then. I didn't like it... Probably because I think the story sucks bad enough as is. Youtube wanted to remind me of that fucking "Kiss Me" song, and that reminded me also of recording in the back part of where I lived then, and Savage Garden, and playing Donkey Kong Country with my nephew, and laughing my fucking ass off about "birthing season". And more recent, sadder memories about how my same-aged friends are still listening to shit like this when there's newer artists out there that need a little lovin'. The song also reminds me of going to the mall, seriously, and looking at dresses. Girly, frilly, scary as fuck prom type of dresses. I never did the dress thing, but my friends did a few times... Yikes. Hot Topic was a couple of doors down, and I remember one of the first times I set foot in that store, I heard "Kinda I Want To" by NIN for the first time. My best friend was a little over-enthusiastic about it. I had no idea it was Nine Inch Nails. I went looking through old papers and photos the other day from when I was, mostly, in elementary school... and the horrors to my brain that ensued have resulted in this entry being more nostalgic than I've been in a while. You know what's crazy? My ten year high school reunion/anniversary is in six months. And I still act twelve...
Categories:
1990s - late, pisces
October 25, 2009
Song: "Eyeless" Heyyy. I haven't posted this song yet. I'm pretty sure I didn't care for this song at first, but it wore off on me over a few months. I suppose it inadvertently echoed what I was dealing with at the time. Some of the lyrics matched up well with my general thinking. It ended up becoming my favorite song of theirs, even well after I jumped off the bandwagon. Ten years... Weird. Then again, in ten years I'm going to be annoyed or embarrassed that I listened to [enter bands here] too much, so oh well. August 30, 2009
Song: "Fang" I'm pretty sure the moon doesn't do that. August 16, 2009
Song: "See Thru" "WHAT IS YOUR FUCKING PROB-LEM?!" Yeah, the intro to this song isn't remotely sincere sounding. Sounds like a couple of 20 years olds in a fight about who's going to do laundry and the guy just stands there in silence looking embarrassed by existence and she's thinking in her head that he's jacking off in his mind over some other girl, perhaps, if I could believe his "trying to be angsty for the record" response. And he's low. So low... It's all his fault. If he would have done laundry for his psycho girlfriend like a good little boy, he wouldn't have had to write this crappy song. Don't worry, man. We girls who don't play the girl game get "WHAT IS YOUR FUCKING PROB-LEM?!" on our answering machines, too. You're not alonnnnne. I tell them I have brain AIDS. I'm sure you actually do, considering you thought that would make a good introduction to a song. August 6, 2009
Song: "The The Empty" I was going through random shit online and ended up on a forum for a lady comedian. Said lady has several tattoos on herself, many quite visible. She seems to dress specifically so that they are, indeed, visible. People on this forum were whining that the tattoos were below her and that they were ugly in so many words, suggesting ways to remove them. There were several pages and much lengthy commenting in agreement about this... Very, very ironically, one of her tattoos is of a feminist symbol - it's actually the biggest one and the one they were bitching about the most. Let us imagine a tattoo of similar size on a man, a male comedian or actor perhaps... What would that forum's stick-up-ass members say about his tattoos? Likely the exact opposite, maybe something about "character". Sure, there would be a couple who would say they hated tattoos or whatever, but it wouldn't be somehow "below" said man. It would be apart of something bigger, a social decision, not a personal criticism. I know better than to read forums, but yeah... That little double standard there pissed me off. People are fucking evil, judgmental pricks. Similarly, they kept whining that she was "angry" or "seemed angry". Uh, okay, well, see... comics aren't FUCKING CLOWNS. Plus she's a political and social critic sort of comedian (think Bill Hicks), so essentially she's required to be dissatisfied. It's like when people bitch about musicians being moody. Uh, FUCKING DUH?! ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED? I get a similar amount of blatant stupidity out of people I encounter on a regular basis, though personally shaped. Excuse me for not being a sheep and not playing the social standards game. Fuck you. If you don't like what you get, you know where the fucking doors are. I wish my "Abortions Tickle" shirt still fit. Love you long time, Le Tigre. Lyrics: All that glitters is not gold [x4] I went to yr concert and I didn't feel anything (oh baby) why won't you talk to me? All that glitters is not gold I sat through yr movie but I didn't see anything You don't say, you don't say July 14, 2009
Song: "Venus in Red" I sampled these guys briefly due to their tour with Nebula, which I don't think is happening anymore since the local show now lists different bands (OMG: Mongoloid Village, Sandrider, Entrance). If you haven't heard them yet, either, now's a good time. This song is a little bit on the psych side, but I'm hesitating calling it that. It certainly has a familiar sound if you know related bands or just the genre of stoner rock. Warm, soft, easy to listen to, nice groove, good vocals... and I'm talking about the split version, which is most apparent in the video below. 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 25, 2009
Song: "Criminal" Today, I wake up and need to stay away from the heavy rock/metal until my health and hearing has equalized. I have no idea how the hell I get so health-disturbed from these things sometimes. When this song came out, I was initially okay with it. It got old from overplay on both the radio and tv, and because I was in the writing/creative mood all of that year, it wore off so much that I started to re-write the lyrics for myself. For a while it was only "I'm feeling like a crack whore" but I felt I could do better, and wrote the song as holy as possible, changing key words and phrases so it would be a song about a girl being a drug addict. It was beautiful. Crack Girl Don't you tell me to deny it [CHORUS] Heaven help me for the way I am Help me but don't tell me to deny it Hey, [CHORUS] Lemme know the way [CHORUS] And since I posted that, I might as well post the other good song parody I did which is much, much funnier... May 21, 2009
Song: "Eulogy" Ah, what the hell... I'm at mercy of the random/shuffle function. Some things I remember about this song in the early days: - I was in the car with my friends, and one of them complained that the song's intro before there were actual lyrics was too long (over two minutes). Another guy in the car yelled at him and gave him a nasty look. Always thought that was pretty funny... - It's everyone's favorite pre-Lateralus Tool song, or at least among people I have known that weren't trying to impress me. - Supposedly this is about Kurt Cobain? Or one of those guys... Likely just a rumor. - Instead of "like I cared at all", I thought the lyric was "like a cannonball" up until I found toolshed.down.net. I have great listening skills. - I saw a laser light show where they played this song to some graphic laser stuff. It was one of the best laser songs I'd seen, if not THE best. - One of my ex's called himself "Eulogy" for a while. He had angst. - "Not all martyrs see divinity, but at least you tried" goes through my head no less than once a week. It used to be a common statement I would tell my cat for no reason. I also called her "my lamb and martyr", but that's another song. Lately, I tend to avoid this song when it crosses my path... I've heard it enough times to not need to hear it anymore. It's nice to reflect once in a while, though. May 16, 2009
Song: "Natural One" I loved the fuck out of this song when I was growing up. The lines "when momma's not around, there's no telling what we'll do when we're free" especially struck me. I've always been a little irritated with the idea of having to be "supervised". I can police myself, and I will. Story time! One time I practically gave an old lady friend of my family a heart attack. She was watching me and my niece for the afternoon when I was about ten, and decided to drive us to visit Kmart. She let us wander the store a little, so I went through the books section to see if they had anything interesting. I was immediately drawn to a book that was "young adult" about vampires. The plot had something to do with a lady vampire who chases some high school guy down, or vice versa. I loved vampires. I loved reading. A book about them sounded great to me. And, looking at the cover price, I had just enough money with me to spend on this book. Now, I didn't want to let this old lady to see the cover of the book. Bottom line is that it was reading material. But yeah, this wasn't exactly Goodnight Moon. Still, I was old enough to handle what the watered down Kmart book selection could throw at me, and it's not too often that you get a ten year old enthused in reading. I assumed that this old lady might be proud to see a little girl happy about words and knowledge. I decided to ask nicely first, just because that's what you're supposed to do. So I found her and asked if it would be alright if I bought anything, like a book. She said no and gave some bullshit reason. But it's really inexpensive and I'll pay for it because I have the money? No. The fuck? I'd never been told NOT to read before. I thought about it, and I decided I was going to have the book. I wandered around the store until we got almost to the counter, then I went in line behind the lady and bought the book as she was moving out of the store with my niece. I'm not sure how she figured it out, but she did after the fact. I was yelled at. She was going to tell my mom on me, tell my mom how bad I was. Yeah, my mom was going to be TOTALLY offended that instead of liquor store candy, I spent $5 on a book. How dare I expand my mind and learn about the world. I was gonna get beat when I got home, and then my mom was going to burn all my damn books as punishment... especially that one about the mouse who ate the cookie. YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE A READER?! YOU'RE GONNA NEED MILK! AND MILK IS THE GOLDEN TICKET TO HELL! [enter flames here] I was astounded at this lady's lack of culture, but I'd dealt with moron adults before. Just shut up and take what they've got and at the first clear exit, run. After Kmart, the lady took us to lunch... and the bitch would not shut up about the book. Her attitude was just ridiculous. I completely lost any minor respect I might have had for her "authority" because she was clearly undeserving. You don't teach kids how to behave by ostracizing them and acting like a cunt. So, of course, the restaurant was so kind to my situation by getting my order wrong. I couldn't eat what I was given... and I really didn't want to say anything to the old cuntbitch. But she saw me not eat and thought I was "acting up" again. She lost it. I imagine the first person she told was my brother in law, in that disgusted, hateful, passive-aggressive fashion that only stingy old people can manage when talking about "the youth these days", when he came to pick my niece and I up. I'm sure he just laughed that I'd pissed off the old lady so much. Nothing happened after we left... despite being a very "interesting" afternoon full of threats and hate. I keep the book on a shelf in my room, even now. Apparently when momma's not around, I read. Oh yeah, and EAT COOKIES! May 1, 2009
Song: "Trust" This is dedicated to you-know-who because, holy shit, it's your birthday. I could never forget your birthday... After all, you're the best trustin' I ever had. Har har. I know. In any case, you're better than Megadeth is even on their best day under ideal circumstances, which probably doesn't say a whole lot... but all the same, keep being great. <3 April 23, 2009
Song: "Rickets" Looking at the wiki entry for the album, I decided to look up the day that this album came out in my own history. Apparently a friend of a friend told me I was "cool" that day. That used to happen a lot. It seemed to be people's way of saying they liked me well enough at the moment but if I acted human later there would be consequences. Or maybe a rounded off version of "you seem nice but you probably have chains hanging from your bedroom ceiling" and/or "you seem nice and I'd probably do you... if I was drunk". One of those times, I got a picture from a guy who I thought "liked" me because he flirted with me (unprovoked & constantly) that said "your cool" on the back of the picture. I wish I would have ordered pictures that year so I could have written on the back of mine "YOU'RE A FUCKING TEASE. LEARN TO SPELL, DUMBASS. 'YOUR' IN HIGH SCHOOL NOW." And instead of just handing the photo to him, I would have thrown it on the floor at his feet and done a mexican hat dance around it. OLÉ! And then gone home and listened to Pearl Jam's "Black" and sobbed into my pillow. In other words, I like this song. April 12, 2009
Song: "Touch, Peel & Stand" Brainwashing! This was on the radio so fucking much when I was a teenager. I don't know why it's good listenings, but it simply is. I also can't fathom that the vocalist here is only three years older than me. He sounds older... April 10, 2009
Song: "Forever My Queen" I'm late. As in, literally. This song made me pregnant. Obviously I have to abort. All of my hangers are made of plastic, so could someone please send me a care package? Hm, that's how I got in this mess to begin with. Nevermind. 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
Ninety-nine sucked for me. It started off bad but I was still maintaining because I was delusional, still. A month later, the shit hit the fan and did not, at all, let up, for the entire year. This was the year I finally got a copy of The Downward Spiral - THAT is EXACTLY the mood I was in. Then, between Slipknot's self-titled and The Fragile, I'd found my personal musical mecca of the moment. Pretty much all of this popular music sounded like crap to me. These were my songs of the year (among a bunch that didn't come out this year): "All Star" - Smash Mouth. This one reminds me of my ex. Fucking happy jerk. "American Woman" - Lenny Kravitz. One asks why. "Ana's Song (Open Fire)" - Silverchair. Oh boy, popularizing misery, that's what I love. I remember "Anthem For the Year 2000" better because, well, it was supposed to be my generation's "song". Not that my generation doesn't listen to any of this other garbage and think it's the greatest thing ever. Fucking idiots. "Angel" - Sarah McLachlan. No. "...Baby One More Time" - Britney Spears. It wasn't immediate hate. I have to say I relate to some of her apparent issues. But the differences mean a lot... "Bawitdaba" - Kid Rock. All I remember about Kid Rock other than the obvious mass suckage is that one of my internet friends was talking about her love for Kid Rock shortly after this period... and yeah. She's not my friend anymore. "Beautiful Stranger" - Madonna. Was pleased she didn't continue on with the goth thing. "Blue Monday" - Orgy. Reminds me of another ex for no apparent reason. "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" - Eiffel 65. Do I even need to say this is annoying? I thought this song was hilarious the first time I heard it because of a private joke I had with a friend about the word/name/title "Blue". I wanted really badly to call them up that second to tell them about it, but I didn't hear the song until after they were raped from my sphere. Sucks. "Californication" - Red Hot Chili Peppers. Didn't like it. Thought I'd heard enough of his thoughts on his location. "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" - Baz Luhrmann. Oh god, I remember this being popularized again around the time of my own graduation... "Every Morning" - Sugar Ray. This song disturbed me. "Falling Away From Me" - Korn. ARGH. I hated Issues SO BAD when it came out. And for the next several years. I don't know HOW I grew into it, but it somehow happened when I wasn't paying attention. But yeah. The production really got to me. I was used to Korn's self titled... This was, just... gay. I remember the first days of high school, in 1996, knowing a girl who wore a black and white oversized Korn t-shirt all of the fucking time. She was not "popular" in the least. By the time Issues came out, all of my friends - male and female, online and at school and everywhere else - liked Korn. They had tons of radio play. It had somehow become "cool" to like Korn. WHAT? But yeah, the production... it was just, fucking fuck this radio friendly, mute garbage. "Genie in a Bottle" - Christina Aguilera. You can probably guess how I felt about this. "Have You Ever?" - Brandy. Loved someone so much it made me cry?! Not this week, Brandy. "I Need To Know" - Marc Anthony. Yuck. "I Want It That Way" - Backstreet Boys. x2. "If You Had My Love" - Jennifer Lopez. Brainwashing. "Kiss Me" - Sixpence None the Richer. Maybe this should be called "Herp-es". Ha? "Last Kiss" - Pearl Jam. Some guy I knew in a band, I can't remember which guy I knew in a band because there's just so many to pick from, but... some guy told me his band was going to perform this song for some school thing shortly after this time. I was confused and yet awed that anyone my age could do this. "Learn to Fly" - Foo Fighters. AIRPLANES. "Lit Up" - Buckcherry. I'd rather not, but at the moment I, too, loved the cocaine. One of my friends in more recent years is (was?) obsessed with Buckcherry... I don't really get it. Maybe one day he'll reform back to Black Sabbath-inspired stoner rock with me. I have tons of that to share. You just have to ask. Seriously. "Livin' la Vida Loca" - Ricky Martin. I don't know how, but I forgot what this song sounded like... "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)" - Lou Bega. ... Dion - The Wanderer. "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" - Shania Twain. Your attempt at irony angers me. "My Name Is" - Eminem. It was interesting enough a few times in, but... you know, there's only so much of this you can take. "My Own Worst Enemy" - Lit. Lyrics WTF? "No Scrubs" - TLC. I guess it has some kind of weird feministic application, but.. no. "Nookie" - Limp Bizkit. At first I wasn't caring or paying much attention to what was going on over here, but it was soon realized what an obnoxious fucking asshole this guy is. ... and this whole genre. "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" - The Offspring. I knew a guy who fit this song. I don't know if he was retarded or autistic or what, but... yeah. "Praise You" - Fatboy Slim. WORST VIDEO OF ALL MANKIND EVER. "She's So High" - Tal Bachman. hiiiiiiiiii ee iiiiiiiiigh. "Sleep Now in the Fire" - Rage Against the Machine. Well ok. "Smooth" - Santana feat. Rob Thomas. Oh wow, someone won over a new crowd! Congratulations, you're still a bandwidth-wasting asshole! "Steal My Sunshine" - Len. One of the few songs that was interesting this year, yet not overplayed. "The Bad Touch" - Bloodhound Gang. Everyone liked this, then. I hate all of you very much. Fucking die. Seriously, right now... Kill yourself. You have nothing to offer society or the world in general. There's no point. Just do it. "Waiting for Tonight" - Jennifer Lopez. I could not fucking believe I liked this song. I was listening to the near-exact opposite spectrum of music at this time, and yet... I didn't cringe or want to hurt anyone hearing this. "What It's Like" - Everlast. No, and fuck you. "What's My Age Again?" - Blink 182. This band's attention span is greater than my own. "Where My Girls At" - 702. Owning people is great. "You Get What You Give" - New Radicals. PEEEEACE ISWHATYOUGET FROM THE CHEMICAL KING.... Not that I'd heard Spine of God yet, but yeah. Time to go listen to it, now. Welp, that was fun. April 3, 2009
Song: "Twin Sisters And Half a Bottle of Bourbon" Dear this song, I may have posted you before. It doesn't matter. I still love you so. There will be daisies. Und keine Eier. Hm, upon further inspection, I did not post you before. Not even as "One". I fail.
Categories:
1990s - late, cancer
April 2, 2009
This was the year I decided I'd had enough with pop music. I went into 1998 casually listening to music, not really caring that much what it was as long as it sounded good enough, and left the year stuck on the hard rock/metal radio station, a CD stereo of my own, and the beginnings of my crush on Tool. This was an amazing year for me, and everything I do now has roots here... It's when I first used the internet, had my first relationship, and of course began to learn about music. My favorite song from this year, "Space Lord" is not on this list, and it should be. Dave's voice broke my brain. I bought Powertrip at Fry's, listened to it, thought some of the songs were great. I brought the CD for some car trip to play for my friend/friends, and I remember their reaction. Silence, nothing. My best friend laughed at the lyrics in Baby, but maybe only because I prepped the song with a story about it being odd. That's it. I was really disappointed. A new rule was later enacted: no new friends who don't "get" music. Still in place. In the meantime... "Are You That Somebody?" - Aaliyah featuring Timbaland. I thought this was alright. I remember my really hot kind of gay younger male blonde friend with his little red shorts dancing to shit like this. Tease. "Ava Adore" - Smashing Pumpkins. I don't remember this video at all... I had a friend that looked a lot like BILLAY here. "Believe" - Cher. do you BEH-LEEEV IN LIFE AFTA LOVE?! "The Boy Is Mine" - Brandy and Monica. It was amusing the first time. After that, obnoxious. "Celebrity Skin" - Hole. I avoided this because of Nirvana. Didn't give a crap about the politics involved, just wanted to be far from it. "Closing Time" - Semisonic. "Crush" - Jennifer Paige. I made fun of this song mercilessly for a while, and then formed a piece of one of my shows around it. It was really stupid... I didn't even try. But the song is just so gay. "Doo Wop (That Thing)" - Lauryn Hill. Hate. "The Dope Show" - Marilyn Manson. I knew of Marilyn Manson about a year. I liked them only just enough, and my boyfriend sent me Mechanical Animals. I hated it at first, and this song gets on my nerves, but they definitely wore off after a while. "The First Night" - Monica. "Fly Away" - Lenny Kravitz. "Frozen" - Madonna. This video was on every morning when I got up for a while. Obnoxious. It's so boring, and Madonna's holier-than-thou bullshit going on around this time made it even worse. "Got The Life" - Korn. Korn and Tool came in together for me. I still love this song despite wanting to hate Korn so bad. "Freak on a Leash" isn't here, but I recall listening to it one night and, for the first time, being overcome by the need to be in music somehow. "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" - Will Smith. This was really popular that summer... and therefore annoying. "Hard Knock Life" - Jay-z. I only heard this a couple of times before I went into radio/tv silence. My friend(s?) liked this a lot... Didn't give a crap. I could watch Annie instead. "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" - Aerosmith. TOO SAPPY. My boyfriend saw the movie before I did and was talking about it a lot at the time. Thus, permanently connected, and no thanks. "I Want You Back" - *NSYNC. Yep, this is exactly why I stopped listening to the fucking radio. "Intergalactic" - Beastie Boys. Hated despite being not even a hundredth as gay as the previous song. "Iris" - Goo Goo Dolls. "And I'd give up forever to touch you". Welljesusshit, I think you about covered this year for me there, man. "My Heart Will Go On" - Celine Dion. She's shown up on almost every year so far... and I was doing a great job of avoiding her until the god damn Titanic. What a bunch of garbage. "Never Ever" - All Saints. Liked. "Never There" - Cake. Cake gives me a headache. "One Week" - Barenaked Ladies. NU rock. "Ray of Light" - Madonna. "Save Tonight" - Eagle-Eye Cherry. Best friend liked this for a while. "Sex and Candy" - Marcy Playground. Another hated song. They played this too god damn much. "Slide" - Goo Goo Dolls. "Still Not a Player" - Big Pun feat. Joe. Heh! I'm pretty sure I haven't heard this in ages, but it's like it never left. Still stuck in my head. I'm not a player, I just crush a lot. "Torn" - Natalie Imbruglia. I tried to write a parody of this song. I ended up listening to it fifty times to write out the lyrics/inflections so I could get my parody right. I never finished it, and I never want to hear this ever again. "Turn the Page" - Metallica. I loved this song when I heard/saw it. I think I was hearing it a lot when I was having hard times down on the homefront. "The Way" - Fastball. An-y-one can see that the road that they walk on .... "When the Lights Go Out" - Five. Another boyband. That's exactly what I wanted. "Whiskey in the Jar" - Metallica. Uh, no. April 1, 2009
By this point I was listening mainly to the alternative rock station. During this summer I watched a lot of mtv, also. I'm going by the list on wikipedia, but all the same... It looks to me like a few songs are missing from this. "Barbie Girl" - Aqua. As I said in the last entry... the beginning of the mechanical "dumb girl" pop. "Bittersweet Symphony" - The Verve. "Block Rockin' Beats" - The Chemical Brothers. I remember this being on late weekend nights apart of some radio thing where they remixed songs together... "Breathe" - The Prodigy. I saw this for the first time this summer, and thought it was the coolest thing EVER. I wanted to be Prodigy when I grew up. "Da Funk" - Daft Punk. I think I have a clip of this song somewhere in my nonsensical tapes. "Dammit" - Blink-182. And the trend that plagued my high school days began. You fucking assholes. "Don't Speak" - No Doubt. This song irritated the fucking hell out of me. It wouldn't go away on the radio or the tv. "Spiderwebs" (year before?) was way better. "Everlong" - Foo Fighters. I quoted this song at someone the following year because I wanted to love them long time. They totally ignored me. Six years later, they sent me the song like I wasn't the one who had introduced them to it in the first place. It was weird. "Firestarter" - The Prodigy. Can't hear this song without picturing Drew Barrymore. "Gone Away" - The Offspring. And it feeeeeeeeeeeels. like, heaven, so far away. "Honey" - Mariah Carey. And here's where Mariah started comping. And the videos all became stupidly flashy/expensive looking in the genre. "Hypnotize" - The Notorious B.I.G. I say that songs get stuck in my head a lot, and they do... but this one was one of the worst I've ever had stuck in my head. Just, over and over, BIGGIE BIGGIE BIGGIE CAN'T YOU SEE... "I'll Be Missing You" - Puff Daddy. This was so fucking popular this summer, and single handedly popularized Puffy... "It's All About The Benjamins (Remix)" - Puff Daddy. Didn't really care... and though it's not on this list, these videos are reminding me of the song "There's No Sex In The Champagne Room", aka the best video ever. "The Impression That I Get" - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. I'm pretty sure my reaction was WHAT THE FUCK? "Karma Police" - Radiohead. Oh Radiohead, why... Do you exist to just irritate me, or what? "MMMBop" - Hanson. I was told I looked like a member of Hanson this year. My niece is a bitch. "Monkey Wrench" - Foo Fighters. Somebody got a haircut... "Mo Money Mo Problems" - The Notorious B.I.G. SHINY! "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" - Busta Rhymes. Oh wait, I was wrong... this is the best video ever. "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" - Backstreet Boys. This and similar bands coming up at the time seemed like a total musical reversion to me. Even having listened to mainly lowest-common-demoninator popular music for most of my life, plus being young and female (aka the intended demographic), I still could not get into this shit in the least. "Semi-Charmed Life" - Third Eye Blind. This was my first sincerely favorite song, and its popularity coincided with my first "relationship" (the quotes are important) and when I started journal writing. "Song 2" - Blur. WOO HOO. I remember talking about this song with my first "real" boyfriend. He liked it, too. "Truly Madly Deeply" - Savage Garden. One of my friends liked this band/song and made me listen to them on a very long drive to the beach once. I didn't think they were bad, but seriously... I do not have the freetime emotion for this kind of stuff. "6 Underground" - Sneaker Pimps. I remembered this song with fondness. Picked it up again recently and... I can't remember why I liked it. "Tubthumping" - Chumbawumba. All I remember about this song is how vapid american kids are, not understanding "pissing". "Walkin' on the Sun" - Smash Mouth. Liked them okay until they became overplayed. Then my boyfriend went and did or said something or other with one of their songs, can't remember what, but it put a bad feeling for me on the band. March 30, 2009
I moved in 1996 and started high school. These things were very refreshing for me. At the time I was dialing back and forth between the pop station and an 80s/early 90s non-cheesy pop and dance station, and late this year I started listening to the alternative rock station (post-grunge, pre-nu metal times) sometimes as well. I didn't yet own a CD player and my newest friend owned Metallica CDs, which made me realize I had something to work on if I was going to be as cool as I felt in high school (sarcasm). "1979"- The Smashing Pumpkins. I'd pretty much tuned out by this point. "All Mixed Up" - 311. Never understood their popularity... "Big Me" - Foo Fighters. MENTOS. "California Love" - Tupac Shakur / Dr. Dre. After five years of pining for home and parents that didn't suck at life and thinking every day about running away, this song spoke to me... "Children" - Robert Miles. I completely forgot about this song until I found it on some comp a few years ago. It sounds way better as an adult. "C'Mon N' Ride It (The Train)" - Quad City DJ's. I could stand to never hear this song ever again, ever. "Crash Into Me" - Dave Matthews Band. Crash into your own damn self, asshole. "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" - Madonna. ...became "Don't cry for me, Pepperoni" after a while. I miss saying ridiculous shit to my cat. What a jealous bitch. "Down" - 311. CHILL. Or don't, because, ew. No. "Give Me One Reason" - Tracy Chapman. Annoying from overplay. "Guilty" - Gravity Kills. And here we find the first socially relevant song and band I had a crush on (assuming Stabbing Westward didn't come first). This song, it's dirty but subtle/well-timed... Finally I find my kind of music. Their CD became one of my first. "Head over Feet" - Alanis Morissette. Tuning out... "Hero of the Day" - Metallica. His mom tried to rape him. I wonder if Metallica's ever toured with Mudvayne. "If It Makes You Happy" - Sheryl Crow. I had no crushes synchronize with this song. "If You Could Only See" - Tonic. Future boyfriend projection. "I'll Stick Around" - Foo Fighters. How young they look... "It's Oh So Quiet" - Björk. I still have no idea what to think. "Interstate Love Song" - Stone Temple Pilots. Internets love song. "Ironic" - Alanis Morissette. No, it isn't. "Killing Me Softly" - The Fugees. Cover songs are annoying, but I didn't mind this the first couple of times I saw it. "King Nothing" - Metallica. The song's been stuck in my head, uh, 13 years... "My Boo" - Ghost Town DJ's. Gross. "Naked Eye" - Luscious Jackson. I remember recording this off the radio once and my niece recorded over it. "No Diggity" - Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre. Just posted this... "One Headlight" - The Wallflowers. They lost me with their name. But wow, that guy looks familiar to me now. Creepy. "Pepper" - Butthole Surfers. I had a cat named Pepper and one named Cinnamon. I was curious as to how this song happened to me. "Pretty Noose" - Soundgarden. I was pissed Soundgarden hadn't died in a plane crash. "Return of the Mack" - Mark Morrison. Another guy named Mark. "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand" - Primitive Radio Gods. More hate to give. "Stupid Girl" - Garbage. I told my nephew that this song was about his sister one day, and we decided to obnoxiously sing it hoping she'd hear. We also had a good laugh about "Head Like A Hole" near this year... "Tha Crossroads" - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. My nephew making me laugh, again. "The Beautiful People" - Marilyn Manson. I didn't pick up Marilyn Manson until later... At this time I just remember hearing the name in synch with negative criticism. "Tonight, Tonight" - The Smashing Pumpkins. Terrible. I saw this performed on some music (video?) awards and was just... no. Boring, dull, no no no. "Until It Sleeps" - Metallica. Take it out for coffee? "Virtual Insanity" - Jamiroquai. Lovvvvvved this video when I first saw it. "Wannabe" - Spice Girls. I might have heard about the Spice Girls before I saw the video, because I remember all of this talk about their feministic ways and being somewhat offended that they were really kind of slutty. In retrospect, this was pretty much the beginning of the forced, mass-produced mechanical "dumb girl" pop. "What I Got" - Sublime. Overrated. "Where It's At" - Beck. Also overrated, but I loved this song. "Who Will Save Your Soul" - Jewel. I thought this song would go away after its moment, but it's hard to get fucked up teeth songs out of head. "Zero" - The Smashing Pumpkins. And god is empty just like me. March 29, 2009
This year was strange, to say the least. I spent most of the time escaping through books and video games and writing fucked up things. I'm lucky I didn't have any friends because this would have been a prime year to learn about socially medicating myself. People are fucking assholes. "1st Of Tha Month" - Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. My nephew liked this group... It was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen. "Ants Marching" - Dave Matthews Band. I don't get it, at all. "Any Man of Mine" - Shania Twain. When I was a teenager, someone bought me one of Shania's CD. This is when I was listening to Tool and Marilyn Manson. I wondered a lot about this completely off interpretation. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" - Deep Blue Something. I remember this was on the radio a lot... Boring. "Buddy Holly" - Weezer. I thought this came later... Guess not. "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" - The Smashing Pumpkins. I loved this video when I first saw it (as much as I could with all of my rampant hate going on at this point). One of these days it's getting parodied. If you have an all black t-shirt, or a black shirt that doesn't have see-through print on the inside, and you don't mind dirt/makeup, you should let me videotape you very seriously lip-singing this. "Bulls on Parade" - Rage Against the Machine. Nothing like a drunk boy trying to quote this song to make an afternoon. I miss when guys were cute instead of in need of a good kick in the nuts, and the head, and the stomach, etc. "Carnival" - Natalie Merchant. Can't seem to find the video anywhere, but yeah... I remember not being impressed. "Cotton Eye Joe" - Rednex. A few people I knew after this time said they remembered this song with fondness... I must have missed something, somewhere. "Creep" - TLC. Didn't care for this when it came out (what a shitty video in comparison to Waterfalls), but I liked the song itself when I was older. "December" - Collective Soul. Very memorable song in and of itself... "Don't Take It Personal" - Monica. Loved this when it came out... I mean, why not, I have psycho in the genes. "Fantasy" - Mariah Carey. I remember my family playing this in the car while I sat there in pain. "Freak Like Me" - Adina Howard. I just posted this... "Gangsta's Paradise" - Coolio. I could quote the shit out of this song this year... That and California Love... but apparently that's next year. "Hand In My Pocket" - Alanis Morissette. Though I understand, it bugs me when people I know don't like Alanis. We have the same Sun/Moon, near the same degrees... Also, the same Venus... "Hey Man, Nice Shot" - Filter. This song always reminds me of the movie Demon Knight. "Hook" - Blues Traveler. Amazing song about "amazing" songs. "I Know" - Dionne Farris. Became annoying through overplay... [break] "I wanna be with u" - Fun Factory. Fucking radio asshole jerks. Man. "Kiss From A Rose" - Seal. I hate this song. Still. "Lightning Crashes" - Live. I remember wondering where this song went after a while, but I couldn't tolerate its slowness at the age I was when it was popular. "Lump" - The Presidents of the United States of America. BAA. "Macarena" - Los del Río. I did the Macarena once or twice just to be stupid. Mainly I remember the olympics people the next year doing it. "Missing" - Everything But The Girl. I hated this from overplay, but somehow it snuck into my collection when I was older. I remember listening to the radio once and some girl calling in trying to ask what the lyrics were... MORON. "One More Chance (Remix)" - The Notorious B.I.G. Oh no, here comes Faith... "Only Wanna Be With You" - Hootie & the Blowfish. Suck suck suck suck sucks. "Run-Around" - Blues Traveler. Memorable video... "Scream" - Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson. Nice attempt at a comeback, but NO. "She" - Green Day. She, she screams in silence... "The World I Know" - Collective Soul. "This Is A Call" - Foo Fighters. It took a while, but I liked the Foo Fighters. "This Is How We Do It" - Montell Jordan. Nothing like parading superficial bullshit for the kids. "Tomorrow" - Silverchair. Nothing like being the same age as the people on the tee-vee and not knowing how this could be possible. "Wonderwall" - Oasis. I decided that Oasis' only asset to bring them into popularization was their blatant post-Beatles Britishness. "You Oughta Know" - Alanis Morissette. Hate. Hate is great. I love hate. March 23, 2009
Song: "The Way" This song was also on the tape... March 23, 2009
Song: "Freak Like Me" I was going through tapes today and found a clip of this song. I had recorded the tape in '98 and wasn't intending to record this song specifically. It's interesting seeing how over-the-top sexual this song is in relation to other shit I picked up from the same time, or my friends around this time, or where I was/am in general. I'm surprised this song was on the radio as much as it was, considering "freak" is an obvious synonym...
Categories:
1990s - late, pisces
March 22, 2009
Song: "Pony" Here's another one from the same time. If the song isn't funny enough as is, imagine a ten year old enthusiastically singing this. I prefer this version.
Categories:
1990s - late, aquarius
March 22, 2009
Song: "No Diggity" And speaking of over the top shit... I remember listening to this when I was... 15? It was awful then. Most of my music-listening relatives were really into rap/r&b, so I heard enough as it was, but this song was played... constantly... on the radio. I was pretty sure at this point I wasn't heading in that direction, but god... mass media is cruel. Wikipedia is telling me I was 14. Ok.
Categories:
1990s - late, aquarius
March 20, 2009
Song: "Jerusalm (pt. 5)" And, this song is about being a good christian. :) 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. March 9, 2009
Song: "Moriah" 'Tis good. March 4, 2009
Song: "Reload" February 26, 2009
Song: "Where It's At" February 26, 2009
Song: "Semi-Charmed Life" February 26, 2009
Song: "What's This Life For?" February 26, 2009
Song: "Wrong Way"
Categories:
1990s - late, pisces
February 20, 2009
Song: "19 Witches" February 20, 2009
Song: "Boogie Woogie Wu" February 20, 2009
Song: "Cemetary Girl" February 20, 2009
Song: "Sway"
Categories:
1990s - late, capricorn
February 20, 2009
Song: "Lazy Boy Dash" February 20, 2009
Song: "Do Right" February 13, 2009
Song: "Super Sex" February 5, 2009
Song: "My Own Summer" January 25, 2009
Song: "Young Man Blues" January 18, 2009
Song: "Sexy Boy" December 30, 2008
Song: "One Inch Man" December 24, 2008
Song: "The Reflecting God" December 24, 2008
Song: "The Wretched" December 23, 2008
Song: "Grendel, Snowman" December 12, 2008
Song: "Forget the Minions" November 3, 2008
Song: "Black Steel" November 3, 2008
Song: "Jimmy The Exploder" October 22, 2008
Song: "Cosmic Overdrive" October 19, 2008
Song: "King of Mars" October 17, 2008
Song: "All Your Way" October 8, 2008
Song: "Soul Burn" September 30, 2008
Song: "No One's Kind" September 28, 2008
Song: "Stinkfist" September 28, 2008
Song: "Cumbersome" September 28, 2008
Song: "Hope You Die" September 28, 2008
Song: "Casual Affair" September 22, 2008
Song: "Dried Up Tied Up And Dead To The World" September 17, 2008
Song: "Shame" September 14, 2008
Song: "Fat Trout" September 13, 2008
Song: "Black Dove"
Categories:
1990s - late, aquarius
September 3, 2008
Song: "Ana's Song" September 1, 2008
Song: "Again" August 26, 2008
Song: "It's Shit" August 20, 2008
Song: "Atomic Clock" August 16, 2008
Song: "Neptune's Convoy" August 15, 2008
Song: "Solarisphere" August 2, 2008
Song: "Jet Ski" August 1, 2008
Song: "The Masses Are Asses" July 30, 2008
Song: "From Mars" July 29, 2008
Song: "Month of Sundays" July 28, 2008
Song: "Pushit" July 28, 2008
Song: "Blood, Milk, And Sky" July 24, 2008
Song: "Guardrail" July 24, 2008
Song: "Naked In Front Of The Computer" July 21, 2008
Song: "Beneath" June 23, 2008
Song: "The Dragonfly" June 9, 2008
Song: "Masikit" June 7, 2008
Song: "Twenty" June 6, 2008
Song: "Future Breed Machine" May 23, 2008
Song: "Let's Run" May 23, 2008
Song: "Electric Head, Part 1 (The Agony)" May 19, 2008
Song: "Supertramp" May 16, 2008
Song: "Third Alternative" May 11, 2008
Song: "Where Is Everybody?" May 11, 2008
Song: "Prosethics" May 7, 2008
Song: "The Mouth Licking What You've Bled" May 7, 2008
Song: "Come To Daddy" April 28, 2008
Song: "Bender" April 28, 2008
Song: "July" April 27, 2008
Song: "Blue Snow" April 20, 2008
Song: "Too Many Chiefs... Not Enough Indians" April 14, 2008
Song: "Freak" |
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