Opinions on stuff I've been listening to

A quick review of albums new and old that I have been playing lately. So here it goes.

Ozzy Osbourne - Scream: Meh. I had high hopes after liking Black Rain. At least Zakk Wylde will be able to keep his good riffs for himself now.

Die Krupps - Too Much History: I'm embarassed I haven't gotten into this band earlier. Sounds like KMFDM meets Rammstein, and thats a good thing.

I:Scintilla - Optics: Less Auto-tune, more bass and they may have something. There are a few good songs that will find their way into my playlists. (The Bells, Machine Vision)

Angelspit - Black Kingdom Red Kingdom: Now this is a band that can thump. I've not had songs hit this hard since the days I used to cruise around with Bass CDs and rattle windows. WARNING: May blow your crappy stock speakers.

Porcupine Tree - The Incident: Everytime I try to listen, I get bored. I like prog, but so far have been unable to get through this album.

X-Ray Dog: I've you've seen a movie trailer in the past 5 years, you have most likely heard some of their work. Epic orchestral music is good, and since its written for trailers its usually short...which keeps songs from dragging on.

Fucking Awesome Friday - Hell March

If you've ever played any Red Alert games, you know this is awesome without me telling you. If you never have, then you are in for a treat.

CENTAURUS A - drop off

MACHINERY - COLD

EATEN!

Have to love those words lol

Studio version



Live version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGPvsKzrRi8&feature=related

Video game music - The Darkness

Some great music in a decent game! If you haven't played "The Darkness" yet, I recommend giving it a try!

2fer Terrible Tuesday - Diabeetus (Extended Sparta Remix)

2 fer Terrible Tuesday - Rock me Diabeetus

Classic Metal Bands - Overkill - 2

My personal favorite, with perhaps the most brutal bass guitar sound ever recorded.

Classic Metal Bands - Overkill

One of the original Thrash bands from the 80's. One of their classic songs.
Bass player in this group is awesome!

Mean ol Monday - a bit of Devian

middle part of the video is a bit demented.

Mean Ol Monday - A bit of Decapitated

Classic Metal Bands - Candlemass

Something newer from them. The were godfathers of the "Doom" metal genre.
Good Stuff.

Classic Metal bands - Artillery

Here's a recent video by a band that I loved in the 80's, a great Thrash band. Awesome stuff.

TPT - Growling and singing

Example 2. I love this woman!

TPT - How can you growl and sing great?

Example 1 - Impressive vocalist!

WTF Weds - a little bit of comedy part 2

The onion, a truly great source of news.

WTF Weds - a little bit of comedy

I highly recommend checking out the other Dr Tran vids, this one is my favorite.

MOM - New Cannibal Corpse

Rifftastic!

Mean Ol Monday - a bit of MESHUGGAH

Brutal!!

Mean Ol Monday - A bit of Slipnot.

Not a new song, but a great one!

FAF: Mutiny Within - Awake

How this guy can have such a good voice despite all the screaming is beyond me.

MUTINY WITHIN "AWAKE" DIRECTED BY PATRICK KENDALL from Patrick Kendall on Vimeo.

TPT - Things the same 25 years later?

25 years ago, jazz musician Paul Hardcastle, released the song "19".
The song was a serious electronica song, based on samples, very fresh for its day.
This is the original.



For the 25th Anniversary, Paul has created a new version. For thought provoking thursday, I thought it seemed a good fit.
Reminds me of the Fallout games opening line "War, War never changes"
Here's the new version

WTFW - Playing music with your shoes

It seems that anything can be made into a midi controller these days.

WTFW: Fritz Loves My Tits by E-Rotic

Warning..  NSFW...

Whitechapel is teh awesome

Really looking forward to the new alblum.

Mean ol Monday - Damn this is HEAVY!!

Amazing........

Austrian Death Machine - I guess they need clothes.

FAF: Ozzy - Let Me Hear You Scream

Its time again for another FAF.  Unfortunately there is no video, but here is a stream of Ozzy's BRAND NEW song "Let Me Hear You Scream".   Sadly, Ozzy and longtime guitarist Zakk Wylde split ways last year, but new axeman Gus G steps up admirably. If you didn't like any of Black Rain, then you probably won't like this.  If your not a stuck up prude who thinks that good music stopped when Nirvana exploded, well, enjoy.




I ripped this from Noisecreep. Please pay them a visit.

Thought Provoking Thursday - Do bats get cancer?

and if they do, does it sound this good?

FAF - Folk Metal that totally kicks ass!

Fucking Awesome Friday - Cypress Hill-Rise Up feat. Tom Morello

Yeah, this is a week or two old, but still fucking awesome. Cypress Hill pulls off a song that is reminiscent of Rage Against The Machine by using Rage's guitarist Tom Morello. Cypress Hill has a great ear for Rap-Rock songs, and this a perfect example.  Enjoy!

Thought provoking Thursday. - bringing sexy back the cheapest way possible.

Fucking Awesome Friday - Dark Side of the NES

As a child I spent a lot of time playing NES and listening to Pink Floyd, so when I tell you this is one of the most fucking awesome things I've ever encountered, you know I'm not kidding.

From the author's site:

Have you ever wondered what Dark Side of the Moon would sound like if Pink Floyd had written it for NES, instead of for a rock band?

Wonder no more.  Full album is available in MP3 from MOON8

Cover Vs Cover - White Rabbit

Cover vs Cover takes 2 different cover versions of a classic song and pits them against each other. You the reader get to vote on which one wins!

Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit covered by Collide and Crüxshadows



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Tough call this week! Let us know what you think!

Fucking Awesome Friday: Come Closer Together

What do you get when you cross The Beatles with Nine Inch Nails? Fucking Awesome. Thats what you get.  Enjoy this mashup.

Industrial awesomeness

Video itself boring, but music is teh awesome!

A late WTF Wednesday for Thursday!

Hair metal tribute to the joys of having your mother on facebook!

Gorillaz & Willis Break Web Record

Well good for them. The video for Stylo was featured a week ago on Fucking Awesome Friday, and now it has a record for "most successful music videoto debut on the file sharing website". Coincidence? I think not.

If you haven't seen the video, check it out, NOW! If you haven't heard the album, you are doing yourself a disservice. Its out now on at all the usual places.

Contactmusic News

Fucking Awesome Friday - Floggy Molly - 7 Deadly Sins

What can I say..this Irish punk band just makes me want to pick up a fifth of Knob Creek Jameson and start chugging. What is not to like? It has pirates. Its an awesome video. It inspires drinking. It makes me laugh. It doesn't have ninjas.

Floggy Molly - 7 Deadly Sins

Thought Provoking Thursday - Robot Techno

Video captures the imagination.

instrumental video nine from beeple on Vimeo.

WTF Wednesday Presents: The next big thing in music

Because I love you all so much, I have to share with you the future of music. This band, Xe-NONE has relealed a song called Angels that is indescribable, but I'll try anyway.  Take the Generic Guitar Riff #2, add Generic Techo Beat #1, Basic Drumline #3, a "growling" singer and a europop wanna be idol and mix them together.

I give you, THIS:

FAF Doubleshot: Twice as awesome

I didn't post a FAF last week, but that's because I had nothing of the quality normally available for your FAF to post. However, I found both of these FAF worthy videos this week: hence you have a doubleshot to make up for it!

First up: i09 has a great write up about the upcoming new Gorillaz album, including the new CG video with special cameo.Unfortunately.. Embeding has been disabled. Boo.  Hit the link for the video

Not at all least: OK Go - This Too Shall Pass is a single-shot Rube Goldberg device timed to the lyrics and "rythm" of the song.









OK GO have really embraced the single-shot off-beat videos and made it their own style. YOU GO OK GO!!

Thought Provoking Thursday - Margate:My Dog Duke

A little light musically than usual, but a good song.

Brand New Fear Factory!

WTF Wednesday: Günther - Ding Dong Song

It has the power...to move you...away from the stero...

ACCORDION HERO

Bring out your inner Mexican!

Alec Empire's New world Order - Nice Industrial metal piece!

Alec Empire "New World Order" from C. Haering on Vimeo.

Saturday Electronic: Vanessa Mae: Storm

Some neo-classical mixed with electronic. Vanessa-Mae is insanely hot to boot! You can tell she really enjoys her job.

Fucking Awesome Friday - Cannibal Corpse (kind of)

It would be hard to find anything more awesome than this.  I've always wondered what their lyrics were...

Cover vs Cover - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

Dead or Alive's classic 1985 single You Spin Me Round (Like A Record). This week's cover battle is Dope vs Eiffel 65 (bet you had no idea they covered this!)



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Let the whole world know who wins this round in the comments!

WTF Wednesday: The inaguration

WTF Wednesdays are all about those videos you see that make you pause ask yourself... WTF? A little something to help you through hump day.


POISON - IKWN / Jaakko Eino Kalevi from miikka lommi on Vimeo.

Sunday Metal Mania

In the grand tradition of Fark, here's a song to melt your face off this morning.

DevilDriver: Another Night In London

Saturday Electronic: Ladytron: Destroy Everything You Touch

Awesome song. Amazing Video. It must be Fucking Awesome... Saturday? Oh, its time for another Saturday dose of Electronic music.

In Which Warner Music Goes Bankrupt

Warner Music Group, one of the 4 big labels, has announced that they stop all free online streaming of their label's music. Services such as Last.Fm, Pandora, and Spotify will not be affected currently, as this plan so far only effects new streaming services. A quote from Warner chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr states:

"The 'get all your music you want for free, and then maybe with a few bells and whistles we can move you to a premium price' strategy is not the kind of approach to business that we will be supporting in the future."

Edgar is entitled to his opinion and to run his business as he sees fit, however I cannot fathom how he thinks this is a good move.  The sale of plastic disks has been declining as more people go online to find and buy music. The more people that hear your music on services like those mentioned above, the more potential buyers you have.

On the flip side, say you are signed to Warner. I'm no musician, but if I were I would definitely want as many people as possible to hear my music. Obscurity is a bigger threat than piracy to all but a handful of artists. Now the people who control your music just announced that they are making it more difficult for people to be exposed to your music. How does this help the artists that the label is supposed to represent?

This also ruins my plans for my music streaming service I had been dreaming up.  Without such Warner acts as Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, DevilDriver, Dio, Disturbed, Dream Theatre, Faith No More, Garbage, HIM, Jane's Addiction, Megadeth, Günther & The Sunshine Girls (ooooh, you touch my tra la la.. its classic!).. well you get the idea. Its just not worth it. Its a shame too.  I was going to call it XM, and it was going to be HUGE I tell you! Huge.

Way to doom your artists to obscurity Edgar.

Fucking Awesome Friday: Returns

Yeah, its been a while. No, I was not hit with one of the Google Blogger take downs. I almost lost my readership of 5 people with my extended break. So if you are still reading this, Thank you!

I'll give you all details of the last 2 months strung out like little hints over the course of the year as they do in almost every anime I've ever seen.

For now, I bring back Fucking Awesome Fridays with a post relevant to the situation: To Blog or Not to Blog. Enjoy!

I'm Alive!

Yes, I am alive.  December and so far January has been insane for me this year.. between getting engaged, my grandfather passing away, Christmas trip to Arizona, birthday, life, work, etc.  Keep checking back as I get back into this whole blogging business.

Saturday Electronic: Front 242: Headhunter

Classic Front 242. Happy New Year!