So I can't lie I really dislike a load of modern hard rock and heavy metal acts because they all seem to come off as very single note and boring in plenty of way's and also a lot of modern/hard rock stations have been playing the same shitty songs for the last 10+ years and most of the top acts in modern hard rock make very safe formulaic music, and with that in mind I do occasionally dive in and listen to some of this trash because well.....I was an angry white boy at one time and the occasional heavy record can amuse me.
My only issue in that right is finding the right record to post because there's a few acts that I can decently get behind but I think in this case I'll post something that I recently came across randomly looking at a buddy of mine's collection and gave a whirl in the form of HELLYEAH's debut self titled LP from that magical year of 2007.
I do recall being amused with this band when they came out but then I eventually grew up and kind of broadened my own musical taste so the fact that upon looking up information on them I was surprised to learn that they're still going and while I had no desire to give the new stuff a listen I can say that this album kind of starts out on a really strong note before only really kind of having any bits of being alright when Mudvayne's Chad Gray who in all honesty is a solid vocalist for his genre is screaming the word fuck repeatedly in the more metallic numbers.
In all honesty the best songs on here while being relatively light on overall deph are at best by the number headbanging heavy numbers that only serve as an outlet to just kind of give the drummer from Pantera something to do...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Song of the Day 11/26/14
Man the years just flying by people and pretty soon I'll be posting the best songs of the year but I'll announce more on Thanksgiving if I can remember but until then I'm just kind of skating by these songs of the day for you guy's and there wasn't a whole lot that I could immediately remember to write about for this but I've been watching a bunch of random videos about the best songs of certain genre's, time periods, and individual artist and one of the bands that got some mention and even their own list was The Queens of the Stone Age.
Not going to lie this bands responsible for some bad ass tracks but I've never been able to just really get into them for whatever reason beyond maybe the fact that I've heard No One Knows about a half a million fucking times but even so it doesn't make the really good songs they've done any less better and I think Go With The Flow is a good example of what I like from this group. It's a fast paced rocker that pounds and moves at an accelerated pace and doesn't let up which is fucking awesome really and even here 12 years later it's still as refreshingly good now as it was when I was watching it on Fuse TV in middle school....
Not going to lie this bands responsible for some bad ass tracks but I've never been able to just really get into them for whatever reason beyond maybe the fact that I've heard No One Knows about a half a million fucking times but even so it doesn't make the really good songs they've done any less better and I think Go With The Flow is a good example of what I like from this group. It's a fast paced rocker that pounds and moves at an accelerated pace and doesn't let up which is fucking awesome really and even here 12 years later it's still as refreshingly good now as it was when I was watching it on Fuse TV in middle school....
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
The importance of being important...
So today's been rather difficult to come up with something to actually write about so I decided to go for a walk on some rather unkempt trails and in the process of driving up there and going for a very quiet walk I was thinking to myself about this CD I'd gotten back from a friend of mine that we'd put together god knows how long ago that we called our split 7 even though it's actually 20 songs long, but that's kind of irrelevant because while walking this thought came to mind that kind of inspired the title of this post which is why it's something as stupid as a mix of songs thrown together by two teenagers is something significant.
I was talking to the buddy that I'd made this very odd blend of shitty post grunge, hard rock, and alternative jam's of a CD not too long ago and he's going through some less then pleasant times at this time and in the process of giving him someone to talk to about these times this CD got brought up and I found myself going on this odd tangent because he tried to suggest that we somehow re-burn 2 new copies of this CD so we don't have to continue loaning it out to the other to hold onto for years at a time before eventually remembering to hand it to the other one because it's their turn and the reason I was telling him why we shouldn't do that is because there's this special thing about that CD and that it has to go on until it can't be played anymore and we can't have it any other way no matter how stupid it sounds.
It's this wild little tangent that kind of brings forth this idea that he mentioned where we all are aware that songs can take us to a time and a place in our lives that's a fairly common thing to accept that's why I write the throwback Thursday articles really, but there's something just oddly important about this in that when I'm skipping around trying to comprehend just what was going through my head in why I picked some truly shitty tunes I'm reminded of just how fucking fun it was to come up with this CD and what inspired a decent amount of the song choices and it's that overwhelming sense of nostalgia that makes it feel kind of important which makes me wonder why is that so important?
I can only really kick around an idea so much before I guess that this as cheesy as it sounds has become something more then a fairly amusing bunching of amusingly bad and great tunes from a time when making a mix CD was actually a thing as much as it is one of the remaining tokens of this odd little friendship between two individuals that have moved on to do things in our lives that lead us to really be kind of taken back by just how far apart we've had to grow to grow up and i guess we may have our times when we're annoyed by each other but this CD is just another example of two people that can be scratched up, overplayed, outdated, and likely to skip around but we're still rocking those teenage blues and these tunes are still as awesome as the two of us.
Man looking back can be so much fun but I guess if we do have to make a new split it'd be funny to see if we still like our choices as much almost 10 years later as we did at the time we where picking these tracks...also hopefully less shitty post grunge would be awesome, but even after all these years I'm still going to have to say while I won't post the tracks on the CD this one is still as awesome now as it was the first time Pigmy got me to get my groove on to it while we'd spend hours illegally downloading songs and talking about girls...
I was talking to the buddy that I'd made this very odd blend of shitty post grunge, hard rock, and alternative jam's of a CD not too long ago and he's going through some less then pleasant times at this time and in the process of giving him someone to talk to about these times this CD got brought up and I found myself going on this odd tangent because he tried to suggest that we somehow re-burn 2 new copies of this CD so we don't have to continue loaning it out to the other to hold onto for years at a time before eventually remembering to hand it to the other one because it's their turn and the reason I was telling him why we shouldn't do that is because there's this special thing about that CD and that it has to go on until it can't be played anymore and we can't have it any other way no matter how stupid it sounds.
It's this wild little tangent that kind of brings forth this idea that he mentioned where we all are aware that songs can take us to a time and a place in our lives that's a fairly common thing to accept that's why I write the throwback Thursday articles really, but there's something just oddly important about this in that when I'm skipping around trying to comprehend just what was going through my head in why I picked some truly shitty tunes I'm reminded of just how fucking fun it was to come up with this CD and what inspired a decent amount of the song choices and it's that overwhelming sense of nostalgia that makes it feel kind of important which makes me wonder why is that so important?
I can only really kick around an idea so much before I guess that this as cheesy as it sounds has become something more then a fairly amusing bunching of amusingly bad and great tunes from a time when making a mix CD was actually a thing as much as it is one of the remaining tokens of this odd little friendship between two individuals that have moved on to do things in our lives that lead us to really be kind of taken back by just how far apart we've had to grow to grow up and i guess we may have our times when we're annoyed by each other but this CD is just another example of two people that can be scratched up, overplayed, outdated, and likely to skip around but we're still rocking those teenage blues and these tunes are still as awesome as the two of us.
Man looking back can be so much fun but I guess if we do have to make a new split it'd be funny to see if we still like our choices as much almost 10 years later as we did at the time we where picking these tracks...also hopefully less shitty post grunge would be awesome, but even after all these years I'm still going to have to say while I won't post the tracks on the CD this one is still as awesome now as it was the first time Pigmy got me to get my groove on to it while we'd spend hours illegally downloading songs and talking about girls...
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Sam's Top 20 of 2013: #7
7 “Just A Ride,” The Virginmarys
Alright people every year there has to be that one ball’s
out ass kicking rock and roll jam that kind of gives all the alternative punks
an excuse to crank their radio up, put the pedal to the metal, and just want to
bang their fucking head and in every expletive filled way this was that hard
rocker that alternative radio had to eventually crank out and while it’s brute
nature seemed to not get this band anywhere beyond one late night rotation of
awesomeness the least I can hope to do is remind everyone that this really is
the most ass kicking tune of the year.
SO turn your speakers up and rock out because we’re all
going on a ride to the best tunes of this year….
Monday, December 9, 2013
Sam's Top 20 of 2013: #15
15 “Came Back Haunted,” Nine Inch Nails
What would a year end countdown be without a comeback tune
or two and while Nine Inch Nails really weren’t going to be gone in terms of
being Trent Reznors preferred method of delivering hauntingly danceable grooves
I guess the well dried up and even he realized we all want that amazing first
single already and that’s what we got.
This song’s your NIN typical in every way that we all love
and while I’m not honestly much for more electronic heavy Reznor and company I
find this one to have that kind of danceable vicious vibe that discipline had
but with more of a focus on sounding like a horror movie rather than something
you’d throw down to, but none-the less a great number that’ll leave fans well
pleased and in the mood to hear how much better he can do…
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Sam's Top 25 of 2012: #25
Tonight-Seether
Alright I figured I’d be best to kick off this with a tune that came out earlier in the year but I really didn’t give too much thought to especially considering it’s one of the better tunes I’ve heard from modern rock radio in one Seether’s, “Tonight.”
I’m not going to lie this is a very by the numbers rock song in many ways but it’s that sense of simplicity that makes it so appealing really. It’s a solidly well paced tune with the enjoyable metaphor of screaming your problems to the world and while it’s also the lightest offering I’ve ever heard from these guy’s I’m honestly surprised just how good it’s actually managed to remain so with that in mind I figured I’d go a good bit mainstream to start out this list.
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