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I was born in 1990 and live in Toronto, Canada.
I saw some shitty concerts because I liked shitty music.


Dec 1999 - Peter Gabriel
Jul 2004 - Eric Clapton
Aug 2004 - Rush (ugh)
Aug 2005 - Iron Maiden
Dec 2005 - The Musical Box
Apr 2006 - David Gilmour
Jul 2006 - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Sep 2006 - Roger Waters
Dec 2006 - The Musical Box
Sep 2007 - Smashing Pumpkins
Sep 2008 - My Bloody Valentine
Jun 2009 - Sonic Youth
Jul 2009 - Japandroids
Aug 2009 - Fleet Foxes
Oct 2009 - Manic Street Preachers
Oct 2009 - Daniel Johnston
Oct 2009 - Echo & The Bunnymen
Nov 2009 - Devo

Though the very thought of this seems impossible, I'll give it a shot.

29.Spaceboy
28.Love
27.Quiet
26.Zero
25.Bury Me
24.Mayonnaise
23.Drown
22.I Am One
21.Crush
20.Today
19.Annie-Dog
18.Here Is No Why
17.Siva
16.United States
15.Cherub Rock
14.Rhinoceros
13.Hummer
12.Bullet With Butterfly Wings
11.Blue
10.Silverfuck
9.Tristessa
8.Muzzle
7.Set The Ray To Jerry
6.Rocket
5.Tonight Tonight
4.Geek USA
3.Jellybelly
2.Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
1.Starla

So, considering myself to be a Smashing Pumpkins FAN, I slapped myself for not listening to Pisces Iscariot. Usually albums that are just B-Sides are just poor excuses to get money, but holy smokes I was wrong. This album is fucking stellar; it kills Machina.

Blue really stood out as an amazing song (though it sounded ALOT like Tristessa).
But the one that really kicked me in the face was Starla.
Holy Shit, this song is easily one the best Smashing Pumpkins songs, period. Honestly, this isn't a heat of the moment type thing. I truly believe this is one of Corgan's best works.

This then led me to think, if Starla was added to Siamese Dream initially, Siamese Dream would be even more perfect than it already is. By the way, Siamese Dream is my favorite album by the Smashing Pumpkins. I mean, how could one not love it? BUT, in doing that, it would be like taking the savory main course out of the delicious meal that is Pisces Iscariot, leaving the fixings alone to satisfy the hungry listener, which we all know is down-right impossible.

Anyway, this little rant has nothing to say really, it was just used to express my new-found love for Pisces Iscariot.

Yar!

Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
Are You Experienced (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Abbey Road (Brian Eno)
Another Green World (Brian Eno)
After The Gold Rush (Neil Young)


The Battle of Los Angeles (Rage Against the Machine)
Birds Of Fire (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Brain Salad Surgery (Emerson Lake and Palmer)
Bryter Later (Nick Drake)
The Bends (Radiohead)


Camel (Camel)
Charlie Brown Christmas, A (Vince Guaraldi Trio)
Colours Of Chloe, The (Eberhard weber)
Crosby Stills Nash (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
Country Life (Roxy Music)

Deja Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
Discipline (King Crimson)
Disraeli Gears (Cream)
Doolittle (The Pixies)
The Doors (The Doors)

Ege Bamyasi (Can)
Elephant (White Stripes)
Emerson Lake and Palmer (Emerson Lake And Palmer)
Eros (Dun)
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Neil Young/Crazy Horse)

Foxtrot (Genesis)
Farewell To Kings, A (Rush)
Faust IV (Faust)
Freak Out! (The Mothers Of Invention)
From Genesis to Revelation (Genesis)

Gish (Smashing Pumpkins)
Gorillaz (Gorillaz)
Grand Wazoo, The (Frank Zappa)
Godbluff (Van Der Graaf Generator)
Gentle Giant (Gentle Giant)

Harvest (Neil Young)
Head Hunters (Herbie Hancock)
Hot Rats (Frank Zappa)
Houses Of The Holy (Led Zeppelin)
Hybris (Anglagard)

In A Glass House (Gentle Giant)
In The Court Of The Crimson King (King Crimson)
In The Land of Grey and Pink (Caravan)
Iron Maiden (Iron Maiden)
Is This It? (The Strokes)

-Couldn't Find Any For J actually-

Kid A (Radiohead)
Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
Killers (Iron Maiden)

Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)
Lamb Dies Down on Broadway, The (Genesis)
Led Zeppelin III (Led Zeppelin)
Layla (Derek and the Dominos)
Love Supreme, A (John Coltrane)

Madcap Laughs, The (Syd Barrett)
Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles)
Meat Is Murder (The Smiths)
Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (Smashing Pumpkins)
Moving Pictures (Rush)

Nursery Cryme (Genesis)
Noumena (The Drift)
Neon Bible (The Arcade Fire)
New Boots and Panties!! (Ian Dury & The Blockheads)
Neu! '75 (Neu!)

Ocean (Eloy)
Octopus (Gentle Giant)
Odelay (Beck)
Ok Computer (Radiohead)
On The Beach (Neil Young)

Panthalassa (Miles Davis)
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (Simon and Garfunkel)
Peter Gabriel [Car] (Peter Gabriel)
Pink Moon (Nick Drake)
Piper At The Gates of Dawn (Pink Floyd)

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (Devo)
Quadrophenia (The Who)
Queen is Dead, The (The Smiths)

Red (King Crimson)
Revolver (The Beatles)
Rock Bottom (Robert Wyatt)
Room On Fire (The Strokes)
Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, The (David Bowie)

Saucerful of Secrets, A (Pink Floyd)
Selling England By The Pound (Genesis)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins)
So (Peter Gabriel)
Snow Goose, The (Camel)
Sublime (Sublime)

Tago Mago (Can)
Tarkus (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
Thick As a Brick (Jethro Tull)
Time Out (Dave Brubeck Quartet)
Trespass (Genesis)

Under Glass (Hash Jar Tempo)
Up (Peter Gabriel)
Us (Peter Gabriel)
Uomo Di Pezza (Le Orme)
Urban Hymns (the Verve)

Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground)
Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground)
Volumes One and Two (Soft Machine)

Waterloo Lily (Caravan)
We're Only In It For The Money (Mothers Of Invention)
Wheels of Fire (Cream)
Wincing the Night Away (The Shins)
Who's Next (The Who)

Yanqui U.X.O. (Godspeed You! Black Emperor)
Yes Album, The (Yes)
Yeti (Amon Duul II)
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Flaming Lips)
You're A Woman, I'm a Machine (Death From Above 1979)

-Couldn't find any for Z-



BeatlesLed ZeppelinPink FloydRolling StonesRadioheadRushJimi Hendrix

I just watched the whole "Crank Dat" music video by Soulja Boy. I am left confused, disappointed, and most of all, angry. I'm angry because, first off, this guy is making money, second, I couldn't understand a single word he said, three, the fucking vacuous lyrics that go along with this "song" (which consists of some typical rap beat and some synthesized steel drums).
I know this is, and has been thrown around for years, but I still can't help to ask "Why is this guy famous?". This often happens whenever a new surprisingly bad song comes out, but seriously, this guy is 17 years old. Me and soulja boy are the same age and because of this song he probably has enough money to legally have me killed for no reason. I know money and age don't really have much of a correlation in the entertainment industry, but this is just mind boggling.
This music video is distressingly bad. It plainly consists of various kids doing the whole "crank dat" dance, Soulja Boy with his glasses that read the same, doing this same dance, and some other shit. One other thing that pisses me off is the raw pretentiousness of this talentless teenager; I mean, sunglasses with your name on them? Come on.
Out of all the shitty fad dance routines I've seen, this one really tops the list as the worst. From the beginning of the video til the gruesome end, we see every "actor" flailing their arms and doing that whole "superman" bit, endlessly.
I know this little rant is poorly constructed, worded, formatted and everything, but bare with me for the rest.
I took a look at Soulja Boy's (god help us all)..Album. The album, (souljaboytellem.com) consists of titles that just made me stare blankly at my computer screen, giving this whole structure of stupidity a few seconds to drill itself into my head.
I swear to god, Soula boy actually has songs called "Yahh" and "Donk!". Get this, he has "Soulja Girl".
I couldn't let these ones go unmentioned:

I Got Me Some Bapes
Booty Meat
Report Card
Nope

I was very inclined to search up the lyrics for songs such as "Booty Meat", or "Donk!" but that would stretch this little blurb of text to a hate-filled novella.
Do I need to keep reminding people that this is just my stupid opinion? Go around the world and find every teenage "Genesis" or "King Crimson" fan and you're bound to get the same answer, so don't assume I'm trying to intentionally single myself out.
The lyrics are just confusing. Soulja Boy keeps the train of (Intentionally?) awful grammar to make the song memorable.
The song primarily consists of -

"Soulja Boy up in it (OH!)
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank Dat Soulja Boy,
that Super Man Dat (OH!)"

He repeats that (the chorus) a good 4 or 5 times. Anyway I've picked out some lines that I just can't wrap my head around. Am I just like really nerdy and stereotypically white? Probably. Is that why I can't understand it? Or is because I actually speak English?

"Then Watch Me Crank Dat Robocop
Super Fresh, Now Watch Me Jock
Jocking On Them Haterz Man
When I Do Dat Soulja Boy"

Now, here is the best one I found:

I'm Jocking On Yo Bitch Ass
And If We Get The Fightin
Then I'm Cocking On Your Bitch

....he seriously uses the term "Bitch Ass", and look.. "Then I'm cocking on your bitch."...........Cocking on your bitch?
Cocking on your bitch.
I hate to keep "beating the dead horse", considering this has been said a billion times, but I just feel I have to hit a billion and one. The lack of intellect in media is just astounding. You know just because you make rap, doesn't mean you HAVE to make completely inane self-preening bullshit. This rant of mine is not putting down rap by any means, I can respect it, just there is so much more bullshit rap than respectable.
This theory doesn't stand with rap alone, any genre of music that has lasted this long really.
Must music change as time goes on? Why can't we hear some stuff like King Crimson or Harmonium (the list goes on). Music that breaks the walls of the norm. Music that you WANT to listen to, music that makes you think. Not music that you just blare at parties when you're completely tanked and everyone dances to (some jokingly of course). Please don't take this as a "My music is better than yours" speech, it isn't.
To the (I'm guessing zero) who read this, thanks for your time, all I wanted to stress is break your musical horizon and go beyond this mainstream stuff. Sure music is opinionated, but there IS better music out there, I guarantee it.

P.S. Turns out I DID look up the lyrics from "Donk".
Here.

[Chorus:]
She Got A Donk
She Got A Donk
She Got A Donk
She Got A Donk [Faster]
She Got A Donk
She Got A Donk
She Got A Donk
She Got A Donk
She Got A Donk
She Got A Donk
She Got A Donk
She Got A Donk
Shake Some Wit It
Shake Some Wit It
Shake Some Wit It
Shake Some Wit It
Shake Some Wit It
Shake Some Wit It
Wow,Wow,Wow,Wow,Wow,Wow,Wow!


references

Soulja BoyCrank Dat

100. The Drift - Noumena
99. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
98. Traffic - The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
97. Brian Eno - Another Green World
96. Faust - So Far
95. Nektar - A Tab In the Ocean
94. Love - Forever Changes
93. 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of...
92. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
91. The Pixies - Doolittle
90. The La's - The La's
89. Roxy Music - Country Life
88. The Pretty Things - S.F. Sorrow Is Born
87. Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
86. Caravan - If I Could Do It Again, I'd Do It All Over You
85. Blur - Parklife
84. Air - Moon Safari
83. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
82. The Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
81. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per Un Amico
80. Sigur Ros - Agaetie Byrjun
79. The Byrds - Fifth Dimension
78. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
77. Soft Machine - Volumes 1 & 2
76. Dave Brubeck - Time Out
75. Miles Davis - Panthalassa
74. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
73. Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
72. Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt 2: Angel's Egg
71. The Mothers of Invention - Freak Out!
70. The Ramones - Hey! Ho! Let's Go! The Anthology
69. Van der Graaf Generator - Godbluff
68. Peter Gabriel - So
67. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
66. David Bowie - The Return of Ziggy Stardust...
65. Can - Tago Mago
64. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
63. Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
62. Sublime - 40 Oz. To Freedom
61. The Who - Tommy
60. Nirvana - Incesticide
59. The Police - Regatta Du Blanc
58. Nick Drake - Bryter Later
57. Soft Machine - Third
56. King Crimson - Red
55. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
54. Faust - Faust IV
53. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
52. Simon and Garfunkel - Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme
51. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
50. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
49. Neil Young - Harvest
48. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Trilogy
47. The Doors - Morrison Hotel
46. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
45. Camel - The Snow Goose
44. Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
43. Radiohead - Kid A
42. Yes - The Yes Album
41. Pink Floyd - Meddle
40. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
39. Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
38. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
37. Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
36. The Clash - London Calling
35. The Who - Who's Next
34. Jethro Tull - Aqualung
33. Frank Zappa - The Grand Wazoo
32. Cream - Wheels of Fire
31. Pink Floyd - Relics
30. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Dim The Lights...
29. Rush - Chronicles
28. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
27. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
26. Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
25. Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
24. Cream - Disraeli Gears
23. King Crimson - In The Court of Crimson King
22. Radiohead - OK Computer
21. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
20. Crosby Stills Nash - Crosby Stills Nash
19. Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
18. The Beatles - Revolver
17. Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
16. Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
15. The Beatles - The Beatles
14. Genesis - Nursery Cryme
13. The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
12. Amon Duul II - Yeti
11. Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
10. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
09. The Doors - The Doors
08. Genesis - Foxtrot
07. The Beatles - Abbey Road
06. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
05. Sublime - Sublime
04. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
03. The Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money
02. Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
01. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

1. What are you listening to right now?
Absolutely Free - The Mothers of Invention

2. What song makes you sad?
Octopus's Garden, or Sound Of Silence

3. What is the most annoying song in the world?
The Mini-Wheats commercial song..

4. Your all time favorite band?
Can't choose that easily...perhaps Genesis?

5. Your favorite newly discovered band is?
Amon Duul II, or 13th Floor Elevators

6. Best female voice?
No clue, I really can't think of one.

7. Best male voice?
Peter Gabriel!

8. Music type you find yourself listening to most?
Progressive Rock, and all the other subgenres inside.

9. What do you listen to, to hype you up?
Pink Floyd, The Mothers of Invention, Iron Maiden

10. What do you listen to, to calm down?
Pink Floyd, John Coltrane, King Crimson, Genesis

11. Last gig/concert you went to?
The Musical Box

12. Band you find yourself listening to the most right now?
Tough To say, I think Pink Floyd

13. Most hated band?
My Chemical Romance

14. Song that makes you think?
I talk to the wind - King Crimson

15. Band that you think the world should love as much as you do?
Genesis

16. Coolest music video?
I don't watch music videos.

17. Music video with the most babe watch?
No idea...?

19. Can you play a musical instrument?
Drums and Guitar.

20. Ever been in a mosh pit?
Haha yeah..Iron Maiden..bleh

21. Are you in a band?
Nope

22. If yes, what kind of music does your band play?
derp

23. Ever dated a musician?
Nope

24. If yes, what kind of music did he/she/they play/instrument/band?
derp

27. If no, would you consider?
Heck Yes I would.

28. Do you wish yourself that you were a musician?
I am.

29. Best chick band you know of?
The Beatles

30. Best guy band you know of?
the bootles

31. Last song that you heard on the radio/cd...etc...?
the flootles

32. What do you think of Classical music?
derrrrrrrp

33. What do you think of Country music?
naaaah

34. What do you think of Death metal?
no

35. Last BIG band that you saw live?
Roger Waters

36. Are you a groupie?
..no.

37. Do you listen to music in foreign languages?
yes! most Krautrock.

38. What famous musician do you find sexy?
ringo starr..ahh..

39. Worst concert moment?
Iron Maiden. getting killed?

40. Funny Concert moment?
Stephen Stills falling down onstage

41. Sad Concert moment?
Stephen Stills falling down onstage

42. Best local act you can think of?
I don't know.

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

44. Do you listen to the radio?
For ten seconds every morning...to wake me up.

45. Do you watch music TV?
no.

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

47. Have you meet any famous musicians?
uh..the barenaked ladies....

..just joking, they're not famous.

48. Are any of your friends/family etc musicians?
many drummers in my family

49. Song that best describes your feelings right now?
The Idiot Bastard son - the Mothers of invention

i kid.

50. Song that describes your life?
i dont even know.

51. Do you know the names of all the band members that you listen to?
All of them?! I know my favorites for sure, but... ALL?!

52. Does a musician’s physical attractiveness play a role in the music that you listen to?
Nope..except for when im listening to The Rolling Stones

53. What famous musician do you want to marry?
the fat guy from Focus

53. Favourite movie sound track?
Pulp Fiction perhaps

55. Any musician pet hates?
I don't understand the question.

56. What do your parents listen to?
My Dad listens to good stuff, my mom listens to not so good stuff

57. What are you listening to right NOW?
The Grand Wazoo - Frank Zappa

58. Do you wear band etc T-shirts?
I have a few: Led zeppelin, Genesis..

59. What do you think of people who do?
..i dont really care.

60. What music sub-culture do you feel like you belong to?
I dont know

61. What song is stuck in your head right now?
Absolutely Free - The mothers of invention

62. Do you sing in the shower?
probably.

63. If so, what? If not, why not?
cotton eyed joe, 24/7

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

65. What is in your walkman/discman right now?
I don't have a walkman....or a discman.

66. How important is your partners taste in music to you?
its actually influences my thoughts on them quite a bit. If they like shit like My Chemical Romance, ill be like "..ugh." but if they like stuff that I like, I'll be like "oh neat"

67. Hanson moves in next door to you, do you go introduce yourself, or do you arrange to beat them up?
I'd hit the small one for being annoying, then the eldest for being ugly, then the middle one just so he doesn't feel left out.

68. Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll, you dig?
FUCKIN RIGHT ON MAN

69. Do you cook to music?
I do everything listening to music..

70. Do you sing in the toilet?
I'm not IN my toilet often..but when I am, I sing up a storm.

Rarely I find an album that I can listen to the full thing without skipping one or two bad songs or tuning out when it gets boring, but I am making a list of those where the album is virtually flawless. I'll add as I think of more. They are in-order from best to worst (though worst isn't the correct word really). Oh, and I didn't Include the Beatles, for they would occupy my whole list.

1) Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

2) Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

3) The Mothers of Invention - We're Only In It For The Money

4)Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

5)Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!