I was not in class when we listened to the Beach Boys. This made me sad.
HOWEVER. I went out of my way to listen to this after my time of absence. And what can I say, other then this album is freaking great.
As a kid, I never really listened to The Beach Boys. I listened to more of Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash, and The Who, to name a few. But, listening to them now, they kinda sound like a more poppy Beatles. Saying that, I lean more towards The Beatles for being more rock. As much as it may hurt some, the inner metalhead in me must be pleased. I really do like The Beach Boys, though. I think it's hilarious how members (not sure how many) died by drowning. Mentioning this to Mr. A., he commented, "Yeah. They didn't surf."
No they did not.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Newsted
Newsted is Jason Newsted's metal band. It's great. Jason is one of the coolest dudes ever, and he's probably the coolest dude in the metal music industry. As in, he's not a self absorbed jerk.
Jason himself is the bassist and vocalist for this group, both of which are fantastically written and performed. Not to say the drums and guitar aren't good, because they are, it's just that the highlight of the band is Jason...in my opinion.
He released a 4 song EP for the band simply titled, "Metal", which I went nuts for went it came out.
And somewhat recently he released a full album called Heavy Metal Music. Great name. Great name considering that's what you get. True heavy metal at it's core.
I don't mean to come off as one who worships JN, but I do honestly think everything he does is just freaking great. Saying that, I'll just spoil upcoming posts on this blog. Echobrain and Flotsam and Jetsam.
Here's a music video for a song I went out of my way to learn when it first came out. Soldierhead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kRWwxCPyjw
Jason himself is the bassist and vocalist for this group, both of which are fantastically written and performed. Not to say the drums and guitar aren't good, because they are, it's just that the highlight of the band is Jason...in my opinion.
He released a 4 song EP for the band simply titled, "Metal", which I went nuts for went it came out.
And somewhat recently he released a full album called Heavy Metal Music. Great name. Great name considering that's what you get. True heavy metal at it's core.
I don't mean to come off as one who worships JN, but I do honestly think everything he does is just freaking great. Saying that, I'll just spoil upcoming posts on this blog. Echobrain and Flotsam and Jetsam.
Here's a music video for a song I went out of my way to learn when it first came out. Soldierhead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kRWwxCPyjw
Friday, November 8, 2013
Judas Priest
Metal Gods? Indeed. Judas Priest is an awesome freaking band. From the screeching guitars to...the screeching vocals.
Ah, Robert Halford... I have a feeling that as I'm writing this blog, that it will be more about him as opposed to the rest of the band. So I will talk about him for a moment. Halford is a bit interesting because I love him...but I also just don't really like him. You know? I dunno, so you probably don't.
See, he sounds great on records...and live, at least back in the day, he sounds great. But nowadays live, he's kind of lost it, I think. It saddens me to admit that though considering that he's been a pretty big influence on my own personal vocal stuff. I hope I don't lose my edge.... that would make me sad.
But anyway... I love Judas Priest. My favorite albums from them are Screaming For Vengeance, Hell Bent For Leather, and Painkiller. I don't put British Steel because it's a bit too poppy for me. I like my metal metal. You know? I really like Painkiller because it was released in the early 90s, around the time when Grunge was starting to become a thing. Most people either listened to Metal, or Grunge, and obviously one side wanted more followers than the other. Three albums during that time period stuck out in the metal scene as a response to the rise of grunge to try to keep metal alive, and those albums were, Rust In Peace from Megadeth, Vulgar Display of Power from Pantera, and Painkiller from Judas Priest. Metal masterpieces all, yet at the same time being pure musical genius.
But while sounding freaking awesome on the record, every live recording of every song off Painkiller has sounded significantly lamer. Whatever the reasons may be... who cares? It sounds lamer, and it shouldn't.
Ah, Robert Halford... I have a feeling that as I'm writing this blog, that it will be more about him as opposed to the rest of the band. So I will talk about him for a moment. Halford is a bit interesting because I love him...but I also just don't really like him. You know? I dunno, so you probably don't.
See, he sounds great on records...and live, at least back in the day, he sounds great. But nowadays live, he's kind of lost it, I think. It saddens me to admit that though considering that he's been a pretty big influence on my own personal vocal stuff. I hope I don't lose my edge.... that would make me sad.
But anyway... I love Judas Priest. My favorite albums from them are Screaming For Vengeance, Hell Bent For Leather, and Painkiller. I don't put British Steel because it's a bit too poppy for me. I like my metal metal. You know? I really like Painkiller because it was released in the early 90s, around the time when Grunge was starting to become a thing. Most people either listened to Metal, or Grunge, and obviously one side wanted more followers than the other. Three albums during that time period stuck out in the metal scene as a response to the rise of grunge to try to keep metal alive, and those albums were, Rust In Peace from Megadeth, Vulgar Display of Power from Pantera, and Painkiller from Judas Priest. Metal masterpieces all, yet at the same time being pure musical genius.
But while sounding freaking awesome on the record, every live recording of every song off Painkiller has sounded significantly lamer. Whatever the reasons may be... who cares? It sounds lamer, and it shouldn't.
Help (Beatles Movie)
Our class had the "misfortune" of watching this movie twice. I put misfortune in quotes because the kids that don't like this movie must be depressed or something. This movie is fantastic. It had a great soundtrack (predictably), great humor (humour? lolbritish), and kind of an interesting plot. I'm sure I'm not (or at least, I hope I'm not) the only one that got a bit of a laugh at the idea of a ring being stuck on Ringo's ring finger.
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It's a good movie, but the quiz sucked. I'm sure if I watched the movie a couple more times, then I'd ace it. But... that's kind of the point, in a way. No, I don't know which Beatle was throwing flowers at the camera. I was a little busy laughing at the idea that they were doing an intermission to being with, considering that laughter was the intended purpose of the joke, or any joke, I don't think they'd mind. BUTWHATAMIMADABOUT? That's in the past. Let's look to the future.
Please don't give quizes. They make me sadface.
Ringo ring ring ring Ringo ring ring ring rinringksrdhglkdsnbjdsfnhbhdsknhsd;nglkbjm skgh
It's a good movie, but the quiz sucked. I'm sure if I watched the movie a couple more times, then I'd ace it. But... that's kind of the point, in a way. No, I don't know which Beatle was throwing flowers at the camera. I was a little busy laughing at the idea that they were doing an intermission to being with, considering that laughter was the intended purpose of the joke, or any joke, I don't think they'd mind. BUTWHATAMIMADABOUT? That's in the past. Let's look to the future.
Please don't give quizes. They make me sadface.
Friday, November 1, 2013
Doom? Doom. Eh.
I wasn't in class for the watching of Help, so I'm just going back to an earlier topic that's sort of brought up everyday.
Are we doomed?
Yeah. Probably.
Let's look at this positively... We should probably accept that change in general is a natural part of life, and whether it's good or not is hard to say. Sure, it could be bad for those that feel that how society is changing is different or wrong... but you could also consider that maybe it's the right way of being for the ones living in today's generation. While modern mainstream may "suck", it's awesome to a lot of people, and that's why it exists. Does the one's music taste correlate with their intelligence? Ideally, no, but what makes an idiot? Sometimes I think, maybe I'm the stupid one because society has evolved to a new point in norm that's considered to be appealing. What some may consider clever and witty, might be dumb to them, and vice versa.
So what makes someone dumb? Now that I think about it, really it's just ignorance. And arrogance. What makes someone act that way? I dunno. People would probably act that way when they're afraid, or just don't care enough, but don't tell you directly that they don't care. Rude, yeah, but it's honest.
Are we doomed, though? Maybe. From what I understand, the only real reason bad things happen in life is because usually one dude with a handful of bad ideas gets too much power to do stuff to people's lives.
I'm gonna take the high road, here. I just wanna write and play music, and eat pizza.
Are we doomed?
Yeah. Probably.
Let's look at this positively... We should probably accept that change in general is a natural part of life, and whether it's good or not is hard to say. Sure, it could be bad for those that feel that how society is changing is different or wrong... but you could also consider that maybe it's the right way of being for the ones living in today's generation. While modern mainstream may "suck", it's awesome to a lot of people, and that's why it exists. Does the one's music taste correlate with their intelligence? Ideally, no, but what makes an idiot? Sometimes I think, maybe I'm the stupid one because society has evolved to a new point in norm that's considered to be appealing. What some may consider clever and witty, might be dumb to them, and vice versa.
So what makes someone dumb? Now that I think about it, really it's just ignorance. And arrogance. What makes someone act that way? I dunno. People would probably act that way when they're afraid, or just don't care enough, but don't tell you directly that they don't care. Rude, yeah, but it's honest.
Are we doomed, though? Maybe. From what I understand, the only real reason bad things happen in life is because usually one dude with a handful of bad ideas gets too much power to do stuff to people's lives.
I'm gonna take the high road, here. I just wanna write and play music, and eat pizza.
Nuclear Assault
Nuclear Assault. Funny, about half of this band made up S.O.D., while the other half of S.O.D. was about half the guys from Anthrax. The only reason that S.O.D. isn't really a thing anymore, is because it got bigger than those two bands, or at least, it got bigger then the members wanted it to be. Like, S.O.D. was more like a side project, but it was side project that got a lot more attention than expected, and apparently wanted. Kinda like how the writer for The Jungle wrote, The Jungle, because he wanted to inform people about how bad worker's rights were during the time of the Gilded Age for America, when instead people got more interested in the fact that the food they were eating made by these workers was in just as bad of condition. The writer said, "I aimed for people's hearts, but hit their stomachs." I love this quote. It makes me smile.
HISTORY.
So before ADD conquers my life any further, let's discuss my opinion on this band. I love this band. If I had to describe this band in terms of how they sound... it's kind of like if you mixed together Megadeth and Anthrax. You got real creative yet heavy riffs and song structures, but you also got the New York styled metal. It's great. It's like putting pepperoni on pizza. Both things are great, so they must go good together. But hey, no sh*t. It's kinda obvious maybe. To some people. Smart people. "Smart" people.
Nuclear Assault has a good number of albums, but the ones that stick out to me are (I believe) the first 3. Game Over, Survive, and Handle With Care. The first album I heard was Survive, and I listened to it because I want on a marathon of listening a buttload of different metal bands that I could find on the interwebs. I saw "Survive, Nuclear Assault, full album" and I was like, "Yeah, sure."
The first song was Rise From The Ashes, and my face melted. I've never been so happy to have said "Yeah, sure." to myself.
I'd put a link to that song from youtube, but my computer is currently being the worst thing ever, and I refuse to wait 20 minutes for it to load Youtube, maybe. I'd rather have a computer that "works", than a computer that's been smashed and thrown out the window. Parents get mad at that stuff.
HISTORY.
So before ADD conquers my life any further, let's discuss my opinion on this band. I love this band. If I had to describe this band in terms of how they sound... it's kind of like if you mixed together Megadeth and Anthrax. You got real creative yet heavy riffs and song structures, but you also got the New York styled metal. It's great. It's like putting pepperoni on pizza. Both things are great, so they must go good together. But hey, no sh*t. It's kinda obvious maybe. To some people. Smart people. "Smart" people.
Nuclear Assault has a good number of albums, but the ones that stick out to me are (I believe) the first 3. Game Over, Survive, and Handle With Care. The first album I heard was Survive, and I listened to it because I want on a marathon of listening a buttload of different metal bands that I could find on the interwebs. I saw "Survive, Nuclear Assault, full album" and I was like, "Yeah, sure."
The first song was Rise From The Ashes, and my face melted. I've never been so happy to have said "Yeah, sure." to myself.
I'd put a link to that song from youtube, but my computer is currently being the worst thing ever, and I refuse to wait 20 minutes for it to load Youtube, maybe. I'd rather have a computer that "works", than a computer that's been smashed and thrown out the window. Parents get mad at that stuff.
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