• 50 questions about my top 50

    Abr 25 2009, 10h32

    Taken from the_umbersun

    1. How did you get into 29? (SikTh)
    When they first started out they were often bigged up on Radio 1's rock show.

    2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22? (Slayer)
    Seasons in the Abyss

    3. What’s your favorite lyric by 33? (Stone Sour)
    She asked me,
    Why so shy?
    If you only knew what I was thinking
    You would understand.


    4. What is your favorite album by 49? (Repulsion)
    Grindcrusher

    5. How many albums by 13 do you own? (Type O Negative)
    All of them :D

    6. What is your favorite song by 50? (Sepultura)
    Slaves of Pain

    Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad? (Mother Love Bone)
    Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns

    8. What is your favorite album by 15? (Cannibal Corpse)
    Vile.

    9. What is your favorite song by 5? (Life of Agony)
    This Time and Words & Music

    10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy? (Every Time I Die)
    Off Broadway

    11. What is your favorite album by 40? (Raging Speedhorn)
    We Will be Dead Tomorrow

    12. What is your favorite song by 10? (Tomahawk)
    Point & Click

    13. What is a good memory you have involving 30? (Kyuss)
    Generally getting high to their music in the summer

    14. What is your favorite song by 38? (Mastodon)
    Sleeping Giant

    15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy? (Interpol)
    Rest My Chemistry

    16. How many times have you seen 25 live? (Amplifier)
    Once

    17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23? (Down)
    Stone the Crow

    18. What is your favorite album by 11? (Mr. Bungle)
    Disco Volante

    19. Who is a favorite member of 1? (Alice in Chains)
    Layne Staley.


    20. Have you ever seen 14 live? (My Dying Bride)
    No.But I will some day.

    21. What is a good memory involving 27? (Slipknot)
    I'm sure there are some,. but I don't recall any in particular!


    22. What is your favorite song by 16? (Opeth)
    The Moor

    23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47? (Rage Against the Machine)
    Killing in the Name, probably.

    24. What is your favorite album by 18? (Deftones)
    Saturday Night Wrist

    25. What is your favorite song by 21? (Neil Young.)
    Too many to name just one!

    26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26? (Black Sabbath)
    Iron Man

    27. What is your favorite album by 3? (Faith No More)
    Angel Dust, but recently I've been lovin' AOTY

    28. What is you favorite song by 22? (Slayer)
    Seasons in the Abyss

    29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32? (Metallica)
    Enter Sandman

    30. What is your favorite song by 8? (Porcupine Tree)
    Fadeaway

    31. How many times have you seen 17 live? (Jerry Cantrell)
    Once

    32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy? (Fields)
    Most of them!

    33. What is you favorite album by 12? (Converge)
    Jane Doe.

    34. What is the worst song by 45? (Django Reinhardt)
    There's not a song by him which I dislike.

    35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34? (W.A.S.P.)
    Chainsaw Charlie (Murders in the New Morgue)

    36. What is your favorite album by 48? (Fantômas)
    Suspended Animation


    37. How many times have you seen 42 live? (Cult of Luna)
    None.

    38. What is you favorite song by 36? (Massive Attack)
    Special Cases

    39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28? (Regina Spektor)
    Ode to Divorce

    40. What is your favorite album by 7? (Pearl Jam)
    No Code.

    41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy? (Tom Waits)
    Step Right Up

    42. What is your favorite album by 41? (Soundgarden)
    Badmotorfinger

    43. What is your favorite song by 24? (Tool)
    Forty Six & 2


    44. What is a good memory you have involving 46? (Alter Bridge)
    Summer, I suppose

    45. What is your favorite song by 35? (Mad Season)
    Don't have one.

    46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy? (Pantera)
    Probably!

    47. What is your favorite album by 4? (Radiohead)
    Amnesiac

    48. Who is a favorite member of 37? (Team Sleep)
    Chino, I suppose!

    49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43? (Megadeth)
    The World Needs a Hero

    50. How many albums do you own by 20? (Misfits)
    Three
  • Random song title survey

    Jan 22 2009, 14h52

    1. What’s my mood like right now?
    "TocarStrung 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?
    "TocarThank You for This" Mastodon
    .
    Comment : I guess so, then!

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

    Comment : Good advice to take

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

    Comment : Guess I'll let him decide.

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

    Comment : Erm, probably not.

    8. What is my best quality?
    TocarI 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?
    "TocarSkulls And Flesh And More" Fields

    Comment : Err, agree to disagree?

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

    Comment : Yeah, I can dance bitch!

    12. Would I make a good lover?
    "strung out" This Mourning After
    .
    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?
    "TocarSupershooter" 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?
    "TocarVideotape" Radiohead

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

    17. What’s going to happen to me this week?
    "TocarWait 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?
    "TocarWalk" 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?
    "TocarMistreated" Deep Purple

    Comment : PERFECK!

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

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

    25. What will I dream about tonight?
    "TocarHail, 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.
  • Song title questionaire

    Jan 21 2009, 16h14

    Taxed from blessedheart

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

    Alice in Chains

    1) Are you a male or female?

    TocarSickman

    2) Describe yourself:

    TocarJunkhead

    3) How do you feel about yourself?

    TocarDirt

    4) Describe where you currently live:

    TocarMan in the Box

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

    TocarI Stay Away

    6) Who is your best friend?

    TocarBrother

    7) Your favourite colour is:

    TocarFrogs

    8) You know that:

    TocarI Know Somethin (Bout You)

    9) What's the weather like:

    TocarSunshine

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

    TocarSludge Factory

    11) What is life to you?

    TocarLove, Hate, Love.

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

    TocarDon't Follow

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

    TocarI Can't Remember
  • 65 questions

    Jan 1 2009, 15h19

    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.
  • First heard/Fell in love/Current favorite.

    Set 7 2008, 12h32

    Last six months:

    10. The Dillinger Escape Plan
    First heard: I Love Secret Agents
    Fell in love: TocarSetting 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]
  • Dull bands who don't deserve the recognition they get

    Set 3 2008, 18h42

    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.
  • 2008: A musical oddysee

    Ago 25 2008, 13h25

    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 TocarMachine Gun and TocarSmall 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
  • Perfect Opeth live set

    Jul 8 2008, 18h55

  • NYC

    Jun 7 2008, 20h07

  • Top 7 o' '07

    Jan 13 2008, 9h17