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1. What’s my mood like right now?
"Strung Out" Life of Agony

Comment : Haha, maybe!

2. How’s tomorrow going to be for me?
"Blood & Fire" Type O Negaive

Comment : Let's hope not, eh?

3. What kind of person am I?
"Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy" Mr Bungle

Comment : Not gonna argue...

4. Am I loved?
"Thank You for This" Mastodon
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Comment : I guess so, then!

5. How can I achieve my highest potential?
Knives and Faces Raging Speedhorn

Comment : Good advice to take

6. What should I do with my life?
"Gods' Dice" Pearl Jam

Comment : Guess I'll let him decide.

7. Is everything going to be alright in the end?
"Echoes" Cult of Luna

Comment : Erm, probably not.

8. What is my best quality?
I Got Stripes

Comment : You heard the man.

9. How does my sex life look?
"batle at sea" Mastodon

Comment : Fuck yeah!

10. What’s the meaning of life?
"Skulls And Flesh And More" Fields

Comment : Err, agree to disagree?

11. What do people think of me?
"Midnight Steppers" Big Bill Broonzy

Comment : Yeah, I can dance bitch!

12. Would I make a good lover?
"strung out" This Mourning After
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Comment : d'oh!

13. How crazy am I?
"Women Left Lonely" Cat Power

Comment : That explains a lot...

14. Will I have a good life in general?
"Supershooter" Fu Manchu

Comment : Let's hope that's a positive thing.

15. Can my partner ever really love me?
"The Girl I love (unfinished))" Keith Caputo

Comment : It's unfinished so, I guess not! :'(

16. Can me and my partner ever be more than friends?
"Videotape" Radiohead

Comment : Oh dear. Erm, moving on...

17. What’s going to happen to me this week?
"Wait Until Tomorrow" Jimi Hendrix

Comment : Sounds about right...

18. Where will I be a year from now?
"the dawn of a drunk bum" Byron

Comment : Couldn't have expected any more!


19. What is my fondest wish?
"strung out" Elimination

Comment : would be a bit of a laugh

20. What is the love of my life doing at this very moment?
"Patterns in the Ivy" Opeth

Comment : Sounds like a lovely scene.

21. How did my parents meet?
"Walk" Pantera

Comment : Walk on home, boy!

22. How will I die?
"A Little Poker Tomorrow Night?" Mike Patton

Comment : Sounds like a scene mafia film.

23. What song will be played at my funeral?
"Mistreated" Deep Purple

Comment : PERFECK!

24. What will happen after I die?
"Love Light Shining" Bob Marley

Comment : I'll come back and haunt you mothafukkas.

25. What will I dream about tonight?
"Hail, Hail" Pearl Jam

Comment : Me being king, I guess.

26. How does my media player feel about me?
"[track artist=candlemass]the well of souls/track]" Candlemass

Comment : Not very highly, I take it.

Taxed from blessedheart

Using only song names from your top artist, answer these questions...

Alice in Chains

1) Are you a male or female?

Sickman

2) Describe yourself:

Junkhead

3) How do you feel about yourself?

Dirt

4) Describe where you currently live:

Man in the Box

5) If you could go anywhere, where would you go?

I Stay Away

6) Who is your best friend?

Brother

7) Your favourite colour is:

Frogs

8) You know that:

I Know Somethin (Bout You)

9) What's the weather like:

Sunshine

10) If your life was a television show, what would it be called?

Sludge Factory

11) What is life to you?

Love, Hate, Love.

12) What is the best advice you have to give?

Don't Follow

13) If you could change your name, what would you choose?

I Can't Remember

Taxed from Ellen!

1. What are you listening to right now?
Come on Up to the House by Tom Waits

2. What song makes you sad?
Lots, but Radiohead's later stuff mostly. I don't like picking ONE song, when I have 8,000 in my playlist.

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
Anything by:
Coldplay, Avril Lavigne, Scouting for Girls, Pendulum, etc.

4. Your all time favorite band?
Alice in Chains.

5. Your newly discovered band is?
Naked City

6. Best female voice?
Regina Spektor, Sinead O Connor...

7. Best male voice?
Tom Waits, Thom Yorke, Layne Staley, Steven Wilson (NOT JACK "BORING" JOHNSON!!!!!)

8. Music types you find yourself listening to most?
Experimental, jazz, avant-garde, hard rock, blues, ambient.

9. What do you listen to, to hype you up?
Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge or Every Time I Die

10. What do you listen to when you want to calm down?
Charles Mingus, Lamb, Massive Attack, Kaada/Patton, Team Sleep, Porcupine Tree.

11. Last gig/concert you went to?
Bloodstock, which was aaaages ago

12. Band you find yourself listening to the most right now.
Mother Love Bone, Porcupine Tree, Tom Waits...

13. Most hated band/artist
Pendulum, Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

14. Song that makes you think?
Mostly Radiohead, but lots of other artists

15. Band that you think the world should love as much as you do?
Dillinger Escape Plan.

16. Coolest music video?
Fuck music videos. Videos are NOT music. Fuck them all. Music is fucking AUDIO.

17. Music video with the most babe watch?
Do I need to say it again?

18. What do you play/would you play in the bedroom to spice things up?
Miles Davis, boi!!!!

19. Can you play a musical instrument?
Keyboard, bass, vocals (ish), harmonica.

20. Ever been in a mosh pit?
Yep.

21. Are you in a band?
No, I want to make music by myself.

23. Ever dated a musician?
Nope.

28. Do you wish yourself that you were a musician?
Sometimes, yeah. I want to tour with awesome bands like amplifier or Massive Attack

29. Best chick band you know of?
Kittie, probably! They're fairly shit, though.

31. Last song that you heard on the radio/cd...etc...?
"Around the Bend" by Pearl Jam on my cd player

32. What do you think of Classical music?
I love piano artists such as Tchaikovsky, but more traditional artists such as Vivaldi are superb.

33. What do you think of Country music?
I like Hank Williams Jr.

34. What do you think of Death metal?
Don't like death metal.

35. Last BIG band that you saw live?
Helloween maybe

36. Are you a groupie?
next question.

37. Do you listen to music in foreign languages?
Indeed. I listen to a lot of Jewish music as well as Easten European stuff. I used to be into Japanese music but not as much these last few months.

38. What famous musician would you like to fuck?
Kt Tunstall, or Regina Spektor because she's adorable.

39. Worst concert moment?
Losing my eyebrow bar in the Dillinger pit!

40. Funny concert moment?
Opeth. "If you don't know this song, fuck off and die."

41. Saddest concert moment?
Missing Deftones at Download 2006.

42. Best local act you can think of?
Elimination

43. If you were a musical instrument what would you be?
Organ.

44. Do you listen to the radio?
No.

45. Do you watch music TV?
Never.

46. Do you follow the music charts, like the top 40?
Hahahaha,

47. Have you ever met any famous musicians?
The singer from ALESTORM!!!!

48. Are any of your friends/family/etc. musicians?
Not professionally.

49. Song that best describes your feelings right now?
"Fadeaway" by Porcupine Tree.

50. Song that describes your life?
"Everyone I Went To High School With is Dead" Mr Bungle.

51. Do you know the names of all the band members that you listen to?
Try to

52. Does a musician's physical attractiveness play a role in the music that you listen to?
I've never been shallow.

53. What famous musician do you want to marry?
Regina Spektor, she has such a beautiful mind.

54. Favourite movie sound track?
Clerks, maybe. Or the first Lord of the Rings.

55. Any musician pet peeves?
Guitarists who rehearse when to "pose." And people who play nothing but power chords.

56. What do your parents listen to?
My dad likes blues (proper blues like Van Morrison and Tom Waits, nothing tedius like Stevie Gay Vaughan.)

57. What are you listening to right NOW?
"Better" by Regina Spektor

58. Do you wear band T-shirts?
Sometimes, but I've grown out of it a little.

59. What do you think of people who do?
Depends what the shirt is!

60. What music sub-culture do you feel like you belong to?
Definitely jazz/avant-garde/experimental.

61. What song is stuck in your head right now?
"Hamp's New Blues" Charles Mingus

62. Do you sing in the shower?
If I'm alone!

63. If so, what? If not, why not?
Songs which are fun to sing to, often stuff like Radiohead or Massive Attack or Fiery Furnaces

64. Would you rather marry a musician or be one yourself?
Be one myself.

65. How important is your partner's taste in music to you?
I'm not shallow. If my girlfriend listened to the biggest load of agarbage known to man, I would still love her regardless. However, if a girlfriend of mine understood the art of jazz and didn't listen to tripe like RHCP that would be awesome.

Last six months:

10. The Dillinger Escape Plan
First heard: I Love Secret Agents
Fell in love: Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants
Current favourite: Lurch (will probably change tomorrow)

9. Fantômas
First heard: Book 1: Page 1
Fell in love: [track artist=Fantômas]The Godfather[/track
Current favourite: [track artist=Fantômas]Rosemary's Baby[/track]

8. Pearl Jam

First heard: [track artist=pearl jam]i am mine[/track]
Fell in love: [track artist=pearl jam]i am mine[/track]
Current favourite: [track artist=pearl jam]present tense[/track]

7. Django Reinhardt

First heard: [track artist=django reinhardt]belleville[/track]
Fell in love: [track artist=django reinhardt]belleville[/track]
Current favourite: [track artist=django reinhardt]I Saw Stars[/track]

6. Black Sabbath

First heard: [track artist=black sabbath]paranoid[/track]
Fell in love: [track artist=black sabbath]hand of doom[/track]
Current favourite: [track artist=black sabbath]immaculate deception[/track]

5. Tom Waits

First heard: [track artist=tom waits]goin' out west[/track]
Fell in love: [track artist=tom waits]downtown train[/track]
Current faourite: [track artist=tom waits]Jesus gonna be here[/track]

4. Opeth

First heard : [track artist=opeth]hope leaves[/track]
Fell in love: [track artist=opeth]the moor[/track]
Current faourite: [track artist=opeth]heir apparent[/track]

3. Porcupine Tree

First heard: [track artist=porcupine tree]blackest eyes[/track]
Fell in love: [track artist=porcupine tree]arriving somewhere but not here[/track]
Current favourite: [track artist=porcupine tree]fadeaway[/track]

2. Mr. Bungle

First heard: [track artist=mr. bungle]carousel[/track]
Fell in love: [track artist=mr. bungle]quote unquote[/track]
Current favourite: [track artist=mr. bungle]platypus[/track]

1. Radiohead

First heard: [track artist=radiohead]just[/track]
Fell in love: [track artist=radiohead]pyramid song[/track]
Current favourite: [track artist=radiohead]lucky[/track]

Foo Fighters
Kings of Leon
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
The Smiths
Kaiser Cheifs
Coldplay
Franz Ferdinand
System of a Down
The Bloodhound Gang
Korn
Pendulum
U2
Incubus

Disclaimer: this is not a list of my least liked bands; raher a list of overpayed bands whose laundry is more interesting than their music.

More will be added in due course.

As far as last year goes, we had enough qualiy albums to make a decent top twenty list (okay, okay...fifteen... we haven't listened Machine Head in years, and God only wants to know what Serj's solo album is like)

The year of 2007 brought us a total of 16 listenable albums (including Opeth's The Roundhouse Tapes live album). Check back to my Top 7 'o 07 journal for a round-up of 2007

4. Portishead - Third

The first offering from the Somerset trio in eleven years, Portishead (more-or-less) pick-up from where they left off with their 1997 selftitled effort. The first real significant change to the listener is the production; a real clean sound is present throughout the album, sounding nearly as lush as Radiohead's In Rainbows. The track's Machine Gun and Small provide the best listening experience the CD has to offer, but overall the album wasn't quite worth the colossal wait. 3/5

3. Mike Patton - A Perfect Place OST

Mike's third official solo album, serves as a soundtrack to the film of the same name, A Perfect Place. The album seems to be centered around one lick/riff, (Main Title), and is featured in various places throughout the film and CD. This review focusses predominatly on the music, however, because I was "neither here nor there" regarding the film itself. Aside from the subtle, jazzy overtones, the CD is quite samey in places, but occasionl tracks shine above the others, such as A Little Poker Tomorrow Night? and Catholic Tribe which both provide top class musucal entertainment. In all fairness, the album is a collction of songs featured on a film - it is not a unitary movement. Overall, the songs serve the purpose well enough, even on an audio-only basis. 3/5

2. Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge

How many albums can you think of where every single track is a sing-a-long? Let me rephrase... how many albums can you think of where every single track is a sing-a-long, and HAS ACTUALLY BEEN A GOOD ALBUM? I'm struggling to think of any, besides Alestorm's debut Captain Morgan's Revenge.
On the face of it, "true Scottish Pirate metal" doesn't sound entirely appealing - one conjures up dreadful images of over-dressed clowns prancing around on stage "ARR!"ing a lot.

Wrong.

Alestorm are a metal band. There's nothing else to it. Lyrically, they aren't pirate cliche's - they sing about getting drunk and battling at sea, but it sounds MANLY! The opening track Over the Seas is one of the most exciting album openers I can even think of, boasting a chorus which any concert attendee will be singing a long to by the end of it, and some of the best metal drumming Britain has heard for WAY too long. The second track, the selftitled Captain Morgan's Revenge is arguably the most epic song of the last few years. Thrash metal with folky textures, this is probably their anthem. Their electric performance at Bloodstock Open Air concluded with this track.

I could sit here babbling on about each song and why they're awesome (see also Death Before The Mast and Terror on the High Seas), but I'll leave you with this: pirates can thrash too.

The only fault is the album's length, clocking in at only forty minutes. 4/5

1. Opeth - Watershed

Opeth's first studio outing since 2003(?)'s epic Ghost Reveries saw them, in all honesty, writing probably their heaviest and most diverse album all in one. I used to be a listener frightened of the prospect of a 'new album' from one of my favourite bands. "What if it's not as good as the others?" "I probably won't have time to like it" etc... but once I shedded that immature attitude three or four years back I've welcomed album releases with open arms.

I'm not one for downloading. I love holding my purchase in my hand, reading the booklet and figuring out the artwork - avoiding the temptation of listening to downloadable albums. I continued this trend with Waershed. Despite last.fm being jampacked with reviews, likes/dislikes of Waershed, I refused to listen to the album until it was officially released and I had it in my hand. There's nothing more satisfying than hearing a brand new album for the first time in a CD PLAYER!!!!!

On the first listen, I thought Watershed was "pretty good, but not up there" (basically, I rated it a long with Deliverance) but the third and fourth listens can be crucial. You begin to pick up on bits you didn't necessarily notice the firs time - and the bits you loved on the first two listens sound even better to you now. Arguably the album's single best track, Heir Apparent, didn't cry out to me and say "Hey, Shaun - I'm awesome." until about the fourth listen... at first the obvious Coil along with the beautiful Burden and the epic Hex Omega - but Heir Apparent is what this album is all about. The closing riff is one of the finest moments in Opeth history, if you take in mind the awesomeness of the song before it. It was the only song off they album they played at Bloodstock, which says to me that they agree with me ;)

This album is strong enough to be in Opeth's top 5 albums list, so the album gets 5/5

The Twilight Is My Robe

Bleak

--Heir Apparent

Advent

--In My Time of Need

The Moor

Serenity Painted Death

The Night and the Silent Water

Encore/Madrigal

The Amen Corner

--Ending Credits

Ghost of Perdition

I just realised how awesome NYC is for music

Sonic Youth
Interpol
The Fiery Furnaces
Life of Agony
Keith Caputo
Type O Negative
Anthrax
Regina Spektor
Biohazard
The Rapture
Every Time I Die
Carnivore