Awesome? Or totally awesome? Those are your only choices.
I was out at a pool hall last night and this song (as well as many many others) came on the Sirius radio piped in. How many chicks have been turned on by this song? It just seems unlikely. Guys on the other hand…
Also known as "The Black Album", Metallica's "Metallica" is THE Metallica album in my mind. Sure I've heard most of the others, but this is the one I go to first. Really I'm not much of a heavy metal fan compared to other genres, and without Metallica I wonder if I would've developed any taste for it at all. But how can you not love this album! When I am feeling that tinge of pissed, or perhaps some scorn for the world, or I just need to feel like I did back in the early 90s listening with my friends to feel bad ass even though we were anything but, this album is definitely a top pick for me. All you non-heavy metal fans should give it a try, you might just like it. Oh and when you do start to bang your head, don't stand too close to the wall. It hurts.
Here are my 5 favorites from the album, with "The Unforgiven" being my favorite (though I think "Enter Sandman" is a very close 2nd).
Welcome to my new site! What is that you say? It looks just like the old one? Well it is amazing how much work it is to move a blog. I like to think of it as moving a house over 1 millimeter. It is a shit load of work but you barely notice any difference. The song of the day is appropriately some hard rock for some hard work!
All you wordpress.com bloggers out there, do not be fooled!!! If you leave wordpress.com for your own hosting it will take you at least a full day to move your blog somewhere else. You will run into issues. If you do not know SQL or have access to the database, you will likely be updating every page and post you ever made. You will have moments where you think maybe you just broke everything too! Note that backing up your files and database as much as possible is a good idea. The process is stressful and scary and will leave you very tired and grumpy. G has been calling me things like "Mr. Grumpy Pants" all day!
I have been taking care of business though, so the move is 99% complete! Goodbye MSotD… Hello TSotD (The Song of the Day)! I still have some stuff to clean up and I did not get around to changing my theme or anything as dramatically as I had hoped. I'm just happy the pages are loading at the moment and I might just get to go to bed at a reasonable hour!
PS: I realize I've missed some days posting songs and am well overdue for an album of the week! Hopefully with the move just about complete I can get back on track!
I woke up this morning with Pearl Jam's "Alive" in my head for no discernable reason. It has been months since I heard any Pearl Jam and possibly years since I heard this song, "Alive", Memory is a funny and sometimes random thing.
Back in school the question was frequently "who do you like more, Pearl Jam or Nirvana?" I was always a Nirvana fan. Though endearing now 15 years later, Pearl Jam was just "alright" to me at the time. I didn't seek them out like I did Nirvana. Nirvana seemed more edgy and extreme and that appealed to me, though I am neither. I suppose I wish I were. I know I didn't need to choose either one but such is the ridiculousness of middle school and high school, where you feel like you have to choose this or that to define yourself. Screw that! Have both if you want both! Don't let silly questions like that or social boundaries define you. And definitely don't let it limit your musical tastes!
Whoa! Hello 1984! This song sparks memories of my youth. Short shorts and big collars on my shirt. Innocence and ignorance I have since lost.
And oh my god does Bruce look young in the video! He is like a baby! And yet in just this past Superbowl XLIII he was sliding across the stage, bumping his crotch into the camera…
… I guess he is just still young at heart.
I was watching when it happened too (the slide into the camera). I felt bad for him because clearly he underestimated how slick the stage was. I thought for sure there'd be another "Nipplegate (RE: Janet Jackson) because Americans are so incredibly stupid about such things, but Bruce's friends, let's call them "Big Jim and the Boys", stayed inside that night, so it was all "ok". Janet Jackson's bare breast = OUTRAGE! Over 100 people dying every day in car accidents in the USA = SNORE! Now perhaps if the car accidents were on football fields they'd feel differently?
Heavy Metal is not my default. I tend not to listen to it with regularity. But sometimes I just get in a mood… like an itch, and all that will satisfy it is some metal. Today's back scratcher is Megadeth. Some awesome speed metal passages and guitar riffs!
It is funny how so many of the most popular heavy metal songs seem to be a bit on the soft and sweet side of heavy metal. Maybe it is just me.
It is also funny that this song was basically written in five minutes, Slash's warm up guitar exercise being the creative spark that ignited it, and probably my favorite part of the whole song.
And finally it is funny that I remember trying not to like Guns N' Roses in school because there was this other kid who was a jerk to everyone, and he liked Guns N' Roses. I don't see that guy anymore, so I think the coast is clear.
