Guitar, Life, Limb, Lists, Music, Propaganda, Time Paradox, Website
Posted December 31, 2007 at 4:56 pm by Severed Head
Every year must have its mandatory top 10 list. I normally listen to a few certain albums a year, and when I listen to those albums years later, and they remind me of that year/time/certain feeling. So here are my favorite/most listened to albums this year. Hopefully when I listen to these later, they will remind me of the better times of this year. Also, it’s in reverse numerical order. Kind of like some sort of stupid countdown…. One last note before we start: A lot of people choose the top 10 2007 albums list as all the albums released in 2007. Well I don’t know that I even have any CDs released in 2007 other than In Rainbows or The Dethalbum (and Cannibal! Which didn’t make it onto the list! Shit!). That’s because none of my favorite bands released anything good this year. Nobody in general did. It’s been the year of shite-indie-bands-that-sound-exactly-the-same-as-every-other-shite-indie-band and way-too-much-screamin’-metal.
10. Dream Theatre-Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
At first, I hated the crap out of this one. But it really grew on me. I don’t really listen to that much heavy modern metal stuff, as the rest of this list will show, and this was one of the first bands I listened to with some really good double-bass work. I really like the story in it too. The guitar not quite as much. I’d much rather air drum to this.
Listening to this right now reminds me of all the Sunday mornings when I worked at Best Buy and I was putting out signs for 3 hours, and I had the time to listen to really long albums, such as this one. Particularly, I remember walking around appliances!
9. Dethklok-The Dethalbum
Pretty fuckin’ good!
I don’t know that I have any specific memories when I listen to this. More than anything, just driving around… Specifically in Tempe and driving to Albertson’s to go grocery shopping… Or going south on the 202. I think I listened to it on my way to the first band practice with Chemicals of Democracy.
8. Radiohead-In Rainbows
Gotta love it! I really don’t care for the first half of the album as much. In fact, including the second disc, I only really like about half of the songs. But I like those half a lot. But I guess most Radiohead albums are like that to me.
This CD, while I like it a lot, reminds me of a horrible, horrible night when I was studying for an organic chemistry test. It was right after the Weird Al concert and since I hadn’t studied at all during the day, I was trying to pull an all nighter. My hard drive with all my music on it had failed so I only had so many options as to what I could listen to, and I chose to listen to this CD on repeat. I listened to it about 6 or 7 times that night. I don’t remember how I did on the test, but I remember really hating that night.
7. Pink Floyd-Animals
I like this CD a lot right now. It is really long and has these extended jams and it’s pretty relaxing at times, but also pretty rocking.
Again, as much as I like it, it reminds me of some really stressful time sometime at night, also around the time I listened to In Rainbows so many times in a row.
6. Blur-Parklife
This is a lot more pop than the other Blur album coming up on my list, but I still like it a lot. For pop, I think it’s really original and doesn’t sound “done” already, which, to me, is saying a lot, especially considering that this was made 13 years ago (foreshadowing?).
I don’t know that this CD reminds me of much other than just driving around or walking around campus.
5. Pink Floyd-The Final Cut
Beautiful! Arguably Pink Floyd’s best album. Has a great story, and some really freaking amazing songs. It is a lot darker than all of their albums. And I like that.
Reminds me of the beginning of sophomore year at ASU. w00t.
4. Local H-Pack Up The Cats
I love Local H, if you haven’t figured out by now. What I love most about this album is how beautifully all the songs go into each other. Even the transitions are beautiful! I also like the themes that show up in multiple songs, whether they be lyrically, or musically. Who would’ve thought a concept album about cats would be SO good?
This reminds me of the end of my freshmen year… Specifically, sitting in my anthropology class listening to music since I didn’t have any friends to talk to.
3. Blur-13
My favorite Blur album so far. Every single song manages to be really huge sounding, and really atmospheric, yet, each song accomplishes it in a different way. Freaking brilliant.
This album reminds me of a lot. From doing signs in the early morning in the appliances section at Best Buy to driving when it was raining that time I went to Desert Ridge with my cousin, to just driving at night in general. Good times.
2. Andrew W.K.-The Wolf
Quite possibly the most powerful album EVER. No matter how many times I listen to Victory Strikes Again, it still makes me want to throw my hands in the year and cheer.
Listening to this reminds me of a lot of the harder times at the end of my freshmen year at ASU. This really helped me get through a lot of those, and feel a lot better about stuff in general. It’s just so damn good!
1. Local H-Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles?
To anyone who knows me well enough, this should be of no surprise. I love this CD, quite simply. The concept is amazing… It feels just as cohesive as a Pink Floyd album, to me. Again, none of the songs really feel like they’ve ever been done before…… Well, maybe Everyone Alive, but I think that was intentional. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard anything quite as beautiful and rocking as Halcyon Days (Where Were You Then?).
This reminds me of some of the better times of the last year. Sometimes. Mostly just Halcyon Days. But Mellowed, for example, reminds me of waking up really early to go to Best Buy. Bleh.
Albums of good mention:
Static-X-Cannibal
ballboy-Everything
Blur-Think Tank
Freak Kitchen-Self-Titled
BONUS FEATURE FREE COMMENTARY ON 2007′S MUSIC SCENE:
If you look at the top 10 artists of this last week on last.fm, Radiohead is still number 1 (with all 10 of the tracks from In Rainbows taking up the top 10 tracks list), followed by The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, Metallica, Linkin Park, Coldplay, The Killers, The Foo Fighters, and Nirvana. How mahy of these people came out with albums in 2007, exactly, you ask? 3! Linkin Park, The Killers, and The Foo Fighters! The Killers’ cd arguably was not even an album since it is just a bunch of rerecorded B-Sides and stuff and they’re a horrible band anyway so who even cares. And I’m sorry. But Rolling Stone’s “list” of albums is just pure fucking shite.
What the fuck, musicians? We really need to work this year to make it kick some fucking ass, all right?
Im sure these guys wont mind me (harison?) linking to their site.
Posted December 28, 2007 at 10:52 pm by Crumb Bandit
good Canadian underground
Look up the band called Holy Fuck
How to get last minute shopping cash
Posted December 22, 2007 at 11:13 pm by Crumb Bandit
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=23802740
maybe I will get harixxxon a present and learn how to hyperlink my own links.
Awesome thing of the week, Fun, Music, Propaganda
Posted December 21, 2007 at 12:31 am by Severed Head
Posted December 20, 2007 at 10:26 pm by Crumb Bandit
I got all A’s this semester, except in English, my mother language. They must keep changing the rules, cause every time I think I have the language figured out, they tell me I’m doing it wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1gEtLwvo9M
Watch these guys live, never go back
Posted December 18, 2007 at 2:12 am by Crumb Bandit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJj4uORutwc&feature=related
Besides the drummer, who is most likely playing the most technically difficult part in this song, they all rock out like fuck piss holes. Who cares about the notes, right? Well, this is a hard question. How much rocking out is too much? How much covers for the lack of precision? In the case of the singer, he knows he cant hit some notes, so he just throws the mike. Would more people watch them live if he didn’t rock out and sang all the notes perfectly? They have a nice unified sound, which is rare, so you don’t have to concentrate on the singer.
Fun, Guitar, Life, Limb, Music
Posted December 18, 2007 at 12:10 am by Severed Head
Bleh. I’m ready to run away now and go on a road trip across the United States. Anyone with me?
Or just play some really angry music.
Obviously, the latter is what’s going to be happening. If even that. Playing Metroid Prime 3 has become ingrained in my body, not unlike phazon becoming ingrained in Samus.
But I have a lot of songs I reallly want to work on, and I have books I want to read.
Not that anyone will actually listen to those songs more than half of a time, if that. It’s hard to imagine a crowd listening to my songs if nobody I knows listens to them. Just like it’s hard to imagine anyone reading a book I write when nobody reads my free easy-to-use website. But that doesn’t mean I am going to stop believin’. In fact, it means quite the opposite! It means that I am going to keep working on this shit until it’s just so fucking good that you arseholes, that is, the rest of the world, can’t ignore it. As much as you, world, try to get me down, I won’t let you. I must succeed.
Q. What is red and smell like pork.
Posted December 11, 2007 at 8:29 pm by Severed Head
A. Sweet and Sour Pork.
Posted December 10, 2007 at 5:09 pm by Crumb Bandit
Well, homeless people have more fun. They are only tied to finding food. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENAbFBQxZVw
that guy raps at Wendy’s for his food. This guy has a nice shirt too, for a homeless crackhead.
http://arizona.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=37016532&id=10140395&ref=nf
Awesome thing that is of the week and maybe the last one too: Superbitron
Awesome thing of the week, Robots, Time Paradox, Website
Posted December 9, 2007 at 10:53 am by Severed Head
EVERYONE CHECK IT OUT. It’s Fenz’s new website! Superbitron.com
I think it’d be funny if all of the “awesome thing of the week” posts all are also under the category “time paradox”. Hah.
Or not.
WE WANT TEH COMMENTS FEATUREZ