"...We're kissin' in Cleveland, Cincinnati, too. Way out in Chicago, I'll tell you what to do. They party all over, even in St. Lou. So, baby, get ready, and I'll be kissin' you..."
Happenings as of late, and the music I've been listening to.....
-Vacation to LA & Vegas (got a taste of where I want to live, and got my first lesson at the Tim Dralle School of Rock N'Roll)
-Sold the motorcycle, i'm sad, but didn't get to ride it as much as i'd have liked to, and it's an expensive extra to have around.....so i bought a Gibson SG Classic, and i love it dearly.....
-interviewed for a couple of different positions w/in the company, and got neither, but it's okay...i still love what i do.
-the band is throwing in the sweatrag.....last show will be Sun. Nov 5th @ Congress w/ the Reunion of NAKED RAYGUN!!!! (not to mention: Bolweevils, Blue Meanies, Deals Gone Bad, Effegies, Massacres, and more....)
-met a girl. i like her. she likes me. the rest is personal.
-wrote off some people, as they've become more like acquaintances, and further more have proven they don't have the slightest clue of what "LOYALTY" is...so fuck 'em....the ones i've chosen to remain close with, in fact DO understand Loyalty, not to mention, act upon that dying trait in this materialistic world.....
-started working at Estelle's and i love it...i never sleep as it is, so why not get paid to be awake and make some new friends, too....
-got some more ink done, i love it--elbow hurts like a motherfucker though, if you say it doesn't i'm coming after you w/ a flaming sledgehammer.
i must go, but here's some music i've been listening to:
KISS: "Kiss", "Dressed To Kill", and "Rock N Roll Over".
--top songs: "Love Her All I Can", "She", "Strutter", "Let Me Know", "Mr. Speed", and "Calling Dr. Love"
Cheap Trick: "In Color" and "Heaven Tonight"
--top songs: "Southern Girls", "Oh Boy", "Big Eyes", "Oh Caroline", "Auf Wiedersehen", "Heaven Tonight", and "Oh Claire"
Lamb of God: "Sacrament" and "Ashes of the Wake"
--top songs: "walk with me in hell", "curse the blackened sun", and "Omerta"
Mastodon: "Blood Mountain"
--top songs: "Bladecatcher" and "Pendulous Skin"
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: "Framed"
--top songs: "Midnight Moses"
The Bronx: "The Bronx"
--top songs: "Rape Zombie", "Around The Horn", "Three Dead Sisters, and "White Guilt"
that's it for now....more later.
Keep it loud, keep it hard
-uncle j.
Monday, September 11, 2006
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
"You want it all...."
"...but you can't have it"
or maybe you can, at one point. I feel like a fucking 15yr old again....carefree, carfree, bill free, reseponsibility-less....(i make words up at my own whim). I saw Pearl Jam lastnight for the first time EVER. I'd been into them since just before "TEN" was released....how've I never seen them before?? I seriously fell in love with that band all over again after lastnight....and Mike McCready is one of the best fucking rock guitarists of today...
set list is as follows:
Release
World Wide Suicide
Life Wasted
Severed Hand
Comatose
Given To Fly
Low Light
Corduroy
I'm Open
I Got Id
Even Flow
Unemployable
Daughter/W.M.A.
Present Tense
Do The Evolution
Jeremy
Save You
Porch
-Encore Break 1-
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Better Man
Come Back
State of Love And Trust
Black
Alive
-Encore Break 2-
Go
Blood/Atomic Dog
Indifference
Baba O'Riley
Yellow Ledbetter
what a great set....2-1/2 hrs of rock n roll, and eddie vedder went through 2 bottles of wine. Granted the show didn't affect me until i got home, or woke up this morning...i had different feelings AT the show, and it took a bit for the emotion to set in...i felt that "Even Flow" was a bit lack-luster, until the last 1/3 of the solo--it felt as if they were just 'going through the motions', then eddie stepped back and let the band sort of just jam it out...the initial 2/3 of the solo were very noodley, and off, not McCready's greatest, but then all of a sudden, as if his in-ear monitors had been off, turned on, and the solo picked up and was just amazing. THAT is the Mike McCready guitar playing i know and have come to love more over the years...then the show sort of picked up...the crowd was sort of iffy, not really gettin into it until "Even Flow" b/c aside from the opener, "Release", the first 4 or 5 songs were from the latest album. But i suppose, w/ an arena crowd, that is to be expected. I got chills when they played "Given To Fly", "Low Light", and the hair stood on the back of my neck when they dug deep into one of my favourite albums, "No Code" and played "I'm Open"...I wouldn't say that this show was close to a religious experience, but i WOULD say that i feel a bit more complete for have finally seeing them...
...we snuck closer during the last encore break,and we were really close to Mike McCready. that's when the smile got huge on my face, and the chills kicked in full effect. to hear some great tracks off of "Vs." was amazing, and then to hear "Baba O'Riley" and last, "Yellow Ledbetter"-wow! During the end of "Yellow Ledbetter", Eddie sat down, smoked his cigarette/joint, nursed his 2nd bottle of wine and just watched in awe, as Mike soloed his ass off--just beautiful. Very soulful, and Hendrix/Page/SRV-infused style...just breathtaking.
Another funny thing about lastnight: it was only the 2nd show i've ever seen at United Center. The first show i saw there was The Who doing "Quadrophenia" on Oct. 31st, 1996--which was my first concert EVER. And if it weren't for The Who, there'd have been no Pearl Jam. And on a symbiotic note, if it weren't for Pearl Jam, i'd not have gotten into The Who--so it was a weird 'aligning of the planets' type thing that lastnight I saw one of my favourite bands for the first time, in the same venue as my first concert ever, which also happens to be another one of my favourite bands--10 years apart.
..and today i recieved Faith No More's "Double Feature" DVD set-which contains the following:
-"You Fat Bastards": Faith No More Live at the Brixton Academy, London
-"Who Cares A Lot": Greatest Videos
FNM was the band responsible for me getting into hardrock/metal, and i am forever changed and grateful to them for such a huge service....
"Consider me an object/put me in a vacuum/free of all that friction/and i'll be hangin upside down/and i, i will swing/for all eternity!"
love,
uncle j.
or maybe you can, at one point. I feel like a fucking 15yr old again....carefree, carfree, bill free, reseponsibility-less....(i make words up at my own whim). I saw Pearl Jam lastnight for the first time EVER. I'd been into them since just before "TEN" was released....how've I never seen them before?? I seriously fell in love with that band all over again after lastnight....and Mike McCready is one of the best fucking rock guitarists of today...
set list is as follows:
Release
World Wide Suicide
Life Wasted
Severed Hand
Comatose
Given To Fly
Low Light
Corduroy
I'm Open
I Got Id
Even Flow
Unemployable
Daughter/W.M.A.
Present Tense
Do The Evolution
Jeremy
Save You
Porch
-Encore Break 1-
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Better Man
Come Back
State of Love And Trust
Black
Alive
-Encore Break 2-
Go
Blood/Atomic Dog
Indifference
Baba O'Riley
Yellow Ledbetter
what a great set....2-1/2 hrs of rock n roll, and eddie vedder went through 2 bottles of wine. Granted the show didn't affect me until i got home, or woke up this morning...i had different feelings AT the show, and it took a bit for the emotion to set in...i felt that "Even Flow" was a bit lack-luster, until the last 1/3 of the solo--it felt as if they were just 'going through the motions', then eddie stepped back and let the band sort of just jam it out...the initial 2/3 of the solo were very noodley, and off, not McCready's greatest, but then all of a sudden, as if his in-ear monitors had been off, turned on, and the solo picked up and was just amazing. THAT is the Mike McCready guitar playing i know and have come to love more over the years...then the show sort of picked up...the crowd was sort of iffy, not really gettin into it until "Even Flow" b/c aside from the opener, "Release", the first 4 or 5 songs were from the latest album. But i suppose, w/ an arena crowd, that is to be expected. I got chills when they played "Given To Fly", "Low Light", and the hair stood on the back of my neck when they dug deep into one of my favourite albums, "No Code" and played "I'm Open"...I wouldn't say that this show was close to a religious experience, but i WOULD say that i feel a bit more complete for have finally seeing them...
...we snuck closer during the last encore break,and we were really close to Mike McCready. that's when the smile got huge on my face, and the chills kicked in full effect. to hear some great tracks off of "Vs." was amazing, and then to hear "Baba O'Riley" and last, "Yellow Ledbetter"-wow! During the end of "Yellow Ledbetter", Eddie sat down, smoked his cigarette/joint, nursed his 2nd bottle of wine and just watched in awe, as Mike soloed his ass off--just beautiful. Very soulful, and Hendrix/Page/SRV-infused style...just breathtaking.
Another funny thing about lastnight: it was only the 2nd show i've ever seen at United Center. The first show i saw there was The Who doing "Quadrophenia" on Oct. 31st, 1996--which was my first concert EVER. And if it weren't for The Who, there'd have been no Pearl Jam. And on a symbiotic note, if it weren't for Pearl Jam, i'd not have gotten into The Who--so it was a weird 'aligning of the planets' type thing that lastnight I saw one of my favourite bands for the first time, in the same venue as my first concert ever, which also happens to be another one of my favourite bands--10 years apart.
..and today i recieved Faith No More's "Double Feature" DVD set-which contains the following:
-"You Fat Bastards": Faith No More Live at the Brixton Academy, London
-"Who Cares A Lot": Greatest Videos
FNM was the band responsible for me getting into hardrock/metal, and i am forever changed and grateful to them for such a huge service....
"Consider me an object/put me in a vacuum/free of all that friction/and i'll be hangin upside down/and i, i will swing/for all eternity!"
love,
uncle j.
Monday, May 08, 2006
Red Hot Chili Peppers
holy crap-
this album is friggn amazing....i'm 2 songs into the 1st disc, and it seriously brought tears to my eyes.......not only am i exstatic that there's stil great music out there, but it hit me on a personal level, as well. When I was first really getting into music, on my own, i'd memorize the record labels and distribution, the producers, engineers, singers, songwriters, guitarists, etc....and now, i work in that facit--the behind the scenes area--i work for the label, and its friggn amazing.....
Pick it up, i highly suggest it.
Love,
Uncle J.
this album is friggn amazing....i'm 2 songs into the 1st disc, and it seriously brought tears to my eyes.......not only am i exstatic that there's stil great music out there, but it hit me on a personal level, as well. When I was first really getting into music, on my own, i'd memorize the record labels and distribution, the producers, engineers, singers, songwriters, guitarists, etc....and now, i work in that facit--the behind the scenes area--i work for the label, and its friggn amazing.....
Pick it up, i highly suggest it.
Love,
Uncle J.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
When I speak, I cross my fingers....
...Will you know you've been deceived? I feel a need to be the demon, a demon cannot be hurt. -Guster
So i can't seem to find the right music today, I test drove a comp.cd I made Michelle: "When She Begins..." a Social Distortion mix. Hope she likes it...i do.
so this day has been going to shit--Jenny got me all riled up, and now my mom tells me my mom-mom is in the hospital. shitty.
just got the new David Gilmour cd, its okay....
wish i had somethingmore to write--music-wise, that is.
have some more comp. ideas, as per chatting w/ the lovely michelle, yesterday...just need to get some cases, and we're gravy--also need to bring more cds' home from mom's house--and need shelves to put em on at home (this is a typed out mental 'shopping list' of sorts--enjoy my brain.)
i'm rockn' some Johnny Cash right now...
shows past:
Rock Kills Kid @ Double Door, 3/27
Calling All Destroyers @ some bar in Milwaukee, 3/19
Taste of Chaos (Deftones, SOTY, As I Lay Dying, Pelican) @ Rave/Eagles Ballroom, 3/18
Deals Gone Bad & Beer Nuts @ Double Door, 3/17
Calling All Destroyers @ some shit bar in Chicago, 3/17
Subways @ Empty Bottle, 3/14
Calling All Destroyers @ Gunther Murphys, 3/11
Michael Buble @ Auditorium Theatre, 3/11
Lawrence Arms/NOFX @ House Of Blues, 3/5
i can't remember much before that right now.....
upcoming shows:
"Moron-O-Thon" (Audio Violence, Juicehead...)@ Kinetic Playground, 4/1
Hank III @ Metro, 4/2
Strokes/Eagles of Death Metal @ Riv, 4/7
Rob Zombie @ Riv, 4/8
Dane Cook @ Allstate Arena, 4/13
Full On Clothing presents a Rock n Roll B-day Extravaganza (C.A.D., AV, D.D.R., & Phenoms) @ Kinetic Playground, 4/22
tha's about all i can muster up from memory right now....
sit tight, and keep your arms, legs, and oher malleable appendages in the boat at all times....don't forget your helmet and dodge the stray bullets...
love,
me.
So i can't seem to find the right music today, I test drove a comp.cd I made Michelle: "When She Begins..." a Social Distortion mix. Hope she likes it...i do.
so this day has been going to shit--Jenny got me all riled up, and now my mom tells me my mom-mom is in the hospital. shitty.
just got the new David Gilmour cd, its okay....
wish i had somethingmore to write--music-wise, that is.
have some more comp. ideas, as per chatting w/ the lovely michelle, yesterday...just need to get some cases, and we're gravy--also need to bring more cds' home from mom's house--and need shelves to put em on at home (this is a typed out mental 'shopping list' of sorts--enjoy my brain.)
i'm rockn' some Johnny Cash right now...
shows past:
Rock Kills Kid @ Double Door, 3/27
Calling All Destroyers @ some bar in Milwaukee, 3/19
Taste of Chaos (Deftones, SOTY, As I Lay Dying, Pelican) @ Rave/Eagles Ballroom, 3/18
Deals Gone Bad & Beer Nuts @ Double Door, 3/17
Calling All Destroyers @ some shit bar in Chicago, 3/17
Subways @ Empty Bottle, 3/14
Calling All Destroyers @ Gunther Murphys, 3/11
Michael Buble @ Auditorium Theatre, 3/11
Lawrence Arms/NOFX @ House Of Blues, 3/5
i can't remember much before that right now.....
upcoming shows:
"Moron-O-Thon" (Audio Violence, Juicehead...)@ Kinetic Playground, 4/1
Hank III @ Metro, 4/2
Strokes/Eagles of Death Metal @ Riv, 4/7
Rob Zombie @ Riv, 4/8
Dane Cook @ Allstate Arena, 4/13
Full On Clothing presents a Rock n Roll B-day Extravaganza (C.A.D., AV, D.D.R., & Phenoms) @ Kinetic Playground, 4/22
tha's about all i can muster up from memory right now....
sit tight, and keep your arms, legs, and oher malleable appendages in the boat at all times....don't forget your helmet and dodge the stray bullets...
love,
me.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
"Mellon Collie & The 60-Minute Sadness"
So I was asked to post lists n whatnot, more often...so here goes...
My friend, Tim, tried to start a little thing amongst our 'circle of friends' called The Babysitters Club...j/k...no, he wanted to have a little "compilation" camp of sorts....there were like 8 of us or so...Tim, his GF-Rebecca, D.C., Pat, Ginny, Andie, Pete, and Me...wow that is 8, good guestimation on my part....he had the 1st 'assignment' due at the end o'november/mid-december which was simply "grab-bag" where you get someone's name and you have to make a comp. of whatever you wanted--whether it be things you think they would like, or things that the DO like or things you wish you can do to them using song titles, whatever...my name chosen (out of a hat-literally) was Pat..i didn't know, seeing as i really haven't hung w/ him or talked music in some time--i opted to get creative and use song titles to spell his name:
Patrick Wayne Thomas.
I thought it came out pretty kick ass, but alas, nobody but Tim, Rebecca, and myself have handed anything in...and on top of which, i've already done the next 'assignment' and Tim feels bad b/c i'm making everyone look like chumps....well, that'll happen when all i do is spend time on ze puter and stay up till wee hours of the night.....i should get a 2nd job...(right w/ what fucking time??)
this 2nd 'assignment' i speak of is teh subject of the blog---take the legendary double-album "Melon Collie & The Infinate Sadness" by Smashing Pumpkins, and make it into a 60-minute endeavor...holy fun project, batman..i'm all-in!!!!
so here goes, the cd i handed in, aptly titled:
Melon Collie and the 60-Minute Sadness
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
Where Boys Fear To Tread
Jellybelly
X.Y.U.
To Forgive
Galopogos
Bodies
(Fuck You) An Ode To No One
Here Is No Why
Stumbeline
Muzzle
Thru The Eyes of Ruby
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This magnificent endeavor has a running time of: 59min/54sec. which blew Tim's socks off, and rocks the shit out of the donkey (which pretty much goes w/o saying).
so try this out, and see how you likey...
till the next time--happy trails.
I'm hungry, let's get some fuckin french toast!
My friend, Tim, tried to start a little thing amongst our 'circle of friends' called The Babysitters Club...j/k...no, he wanted to have a little "compilation" camp of sorts....there were like 8 of us or so...Tim, his GF-Rebecca, D.C., Pat, Ginny, Andie, Pete, and Me...wow that is 8, good guestimation on my part....he had the 1st 'assignment' due at the end o'november/mid-december which was simply "grab-bag" where you get someone's name and you have to make a comp. of whatever you wanted--whether it be things you think they would like, or things that the DO like or things you wish you can do to them using song titles, whatever...my name chosen (out of a hat-literally) was Pat..i didn't know, seeing as i really haven't hung w/ him or talked music in some time--i opted to get creative and use song titles to spell his name:
Patrick Wayne Thomas.
I thought it came out pretty kick ass, but alas, nobody but Tim, Rebecca, and myself have handed anything in...and on top of which, i've already done the next 'assignment' and Tim feels bad b/c i'm making everyone look like chumps....well, that'll happen when all i do is spend time on ze puter and stay up till wee hours of the night.....i should get a 2nd job...(right w/ what fucking time??)
this 2nd 'assignment' i speak of is teh subject of the blog---take the legendary double-album "Melon Collie & The Infinate Sadness" by Smashing Pumpkins, and make it into a 60-minute endeavor...holy fun project, batman..i'm all-in!!!!
so here goes, the cd i handed in, aptly titled:
Melon Collie and the 60-Minute Sadness
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
Where Boys Fear To Tread
Jellybelly
X.Y.U.
To Forgive
Galopogos
Bodies
(Fuck You) An Ode To No One
Here Is No Why
Stumbeline
Muzzle
Thru The Eyes of Ruby
---------------------------------------
This magnificent endeavor has a running time of: 59min/54sec. which blew Tim's socks off, and rocks the shit out of the donkey (which pretty much goes w/o saying).
so try this out, and see how you likey...
till the next time--happy trails.
I'm hungry, let's get some fuckin french toast!
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
2005: Year In Review
Top 20 Albums
20) Wednesday 13 Transylvania 90210
19) Louis XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
18) Jack Johnson In Between Dreams
17) Kings Of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak
16) Lagwagon Resolve
15) Funeral For A Friend Hours
14) Dredg Catch Without Arms
13) Chimaira Chimaira
12) Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus
11) Bayside Bayside
10) Shout Out Louds Howl, Howl Gaff Gaff
9) Stellastarr* Harmonies For the Haunted
8) Corrosion Of Conformity In The Arms Of God
7) Ash Meltdown
6) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Worlds Apart
5) Trivium Ascendancy
4) Against Me! Searching For A Former Clarity
3) Queens Of The Stone Age Lullabies To Paralyze
2) Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
1) Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil
Other great albums that didn't make it in the top 20:
Dane Cook (Retaliation); Darkest Hour (Undoing Ruin); Hot Hot Heat (Elevator); Judas Priest (Angel of Retribution); Mars Volta (Frances The Mute); Nashville Pussy (Get Some); The (International) Noise Conspiracy (Armed Love); Beck (Guero); BRMC (Howl); Dark new Day (twelve Year silence); Eels (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations); Foo Fighters (In Your Honor);
Honorable Mention
311 (Don't Tread On Me); Alkaline Trio (Crimson); Coldplay (X&Y); Danko Jones (We Sweat Blood); Everytime I Die (Gutter Phenomenon); H.I.M. (Dark Light); Rolling Stones (A Bigger Bang); Sigur Ros (Takk...); Static-X (Start A War); System Of A Down (Mesmerize/Hypnotize); Team Sleep (Team Sleep)
Best Live Performances
Avenged Sevenfold (11/10 Rave); C.O.C./Fu Manchu (7/21 HOB); Dimebag Benefit Show f/ Anthrax, Soil, Drowning Pool (2/23 Aragon); Disengage (2/6 Bottom Lounge); Dropkick Murphys (10/24 Rave); Goo Goo Dolls (12/8 LA); Green Day (8/10 Allstate Arena); H.I.M. (10/22 Riv); Head Automatica (6/21 Bottom Lounge); Jack's Mannequin (12/8 LA); Last Vegas (2/24ish Double Door); Lindsay Buckingham (12/8 LA); Motley Crue (8/27 Tweeter Center); Nashville Pussy (10/12 Double Door); New Order (5/3 Aragon); Nine Inch Nails (5/6 Congress Theatre); Ozzfest f/ Black Sabbath, Mastodon, Iron Maiden, Killswitch Engage, Rob Zombie, Trivium, Black Label Society, Shadows Fall, Mudvayne...(8/6 Alpine Valley); Q101 Block Party f/ Queens of the Stone Age, Rise Against, Sum 41, Hot Hot Heat (6/3 & 6/4); Queens of the Stone Age (4/5 Vic Theatre); Rise Against (2/20 Metro); Social Distortion (9/25 HOB); Sounds of the Underground f/ Lamb of God, Clutch, Gwar...(7/8 Tweeter); Static-x/Bloodsimple (7/26 HOB); Subliminal Verses Tour f/ Slipknot, Lamb of God, Shadows Fall (3/11 Allstate Arena); System of a Down/Mars Volta (9/30 Allstate Arena); Talib Kweli/Jean Grae (12/8 LA); Taste of Chaos f/ Killswitch Engage, My Chemical Romance, Underoath (3/9 Aragon); Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers/Black Crowes (7/15 Tweeter); ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (4/22 Metro); Vans Warped Tour f/ Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance, Dropkick Murphys, Trasplants...(7/23 Tweeter); Snocore f/ Helmet and Chevelle (2/12 Congress Theatre)
Best cover Songs
Death or Glory(The Clash) as done by Social Distortion
Nervous Breakdown (Black Flag) as doen by Rise Against
Emerald (Thin Lizzy) as done by Mastodon, live at Ozzfest
Savory (Jawbox) as done by Deftones
Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival) as done by Dropkick Murphys
Best Song Titles
Champagne For My Real Friends; Real Pain For My Sham Friends (Fall Out Boy)
Bulletproof Skin (Institute)
Forgot To Remember (Mudvayne)
Guitared And Feathered (Everytime I Die)
A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation (Trivium)
Pretendeavor (Norma Jean)
This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song (System Of A Down)
Unprotected Sex With Multiple Partners (Against Me!)
With A Thousand Words To Say But One (Darkest Hour)
Top 5 Things Learned
5. Many cds makes for a heavy box…and a 3-month moving process.
4. “Chapstick” is FAR superior (and better for the lips) to “Blistex”.
3. Fingerless gloves are very comfy, but not perfect.
2. (I can’t decide which is better, so it’s a tie for #2)
a. Some-to-many girls like a guy in black eyeliner
b. The softest skin has to be on the bottom of a girls wrist…try it.
1. Break spaghetti noodles in half before putting them into a pot so you don’t overcook them and make an ass of yourself in front of your date.
20) Wednesday 13 Transylvania 90210
19) Louis XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
18) Jack Johnson In Between Dreams
17) Kings Of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak
16) Lagwagon Resolve
15) Funeral For A Friend Hours
14) Dredg Catch Without Arms
13) Chimaira Chimaira
12) Clutch Robot Hive/Exodus
11) Bayside Bayside
10) Shout Out Louds Howl, Howl Gaff Gaff
9) Stellastarr* Harmonies For the Haunted
8) Corrosion Of Conformity In The Arms Of God
7) Ash Meltdown
6) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Worlds Apart
5) Trivium Ascendancy
4) Against Me! Searching For A Former Clarity
3) Queens Of The Stone Age Lullabies To Paralyze
2) Nine Inch Nails With Teeth
1) Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil
Other great albums that didn't make it in the top 20:
Dane Cook (Retaliation); Darkest Hour (Undoing Ruin); Hot Hot Heat (Elevator); Judas Priest (Angel of Retribution); Mars Volta (Frances The Mute); Nashville Pussy (Get Some); The (International) Noise Conspiracy (Armed Love); Beck (Guero); BRMC (Howl); Dark new Day (twelve Year silence); Eels (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations); Foo Fighters (In Your Honor);
Honorable Mention
311 (Don't Tread On Me); Alkaline Trio (Crimson); Coldplay (X&Y); Danko Jones (We Sweat Blood); Everytime I Die (Gutter Phenomenon); H.I.M. (Dark Light); Rolling Stones (A Bigger Bang); Sigur Ros (Takk...); Static-X (Start A War); System Of A Down (Mesmerize/Hypnotize); Team Sleep (Team Sleep)
Best Live Performances
Avenged Sevenfold (11/10 Rave); C.O.C./Fu Manchu (7/21 HOB); Dimebag Benefit Show f/ Anthrax, Soil, Drowning Pool (2/23 Aragon); Disengage (2/6 Bottom Lounge); Dropkick Murphys (10/24 Rave); Goo Goo Dolls (12/8 LA); Green Day (8/10 Allstate Arena); H.I.M. (10/22 Riv); Head Automatica (6/21 Bottom Lounge); Jack's Mannequin (12/8 LA); Last Vegas (2/24ish Double Door); Lindsay Buckingham (12/8 LA); Motley Crue (8/27 Tweeter Center); Nashville Pussy (10/12 Double Door); New Order (5/3 Aragon); Nine Inch Nails (5/6 Congress Theatre); Ozzfest f/ Black Sabbath, Mastodon, Iron Maiden, Killswitch Engage, Rob Zombie, Trivium, Black Label Society, Shadows Fall, Mudvayne...(8/6 Alpine Valley); Q101 Block Party f/ Queens of the Stone Age, Rise Against, Sum 41, Hot Hot Heat (6/3 & 6/4); Queens of the Stone Age (4/5 Vic Theatre); Rise Against (2/20 Metro); Social Distortion (9/25 HOB); Sounds of the Underground f/ Lamb of God, Clutch, Gwar...(7/8 Tweeter); Static-x/Bloodsimple (7/26 HOB); Subliminal Verses Tour f/ Slipknot, Lamb of God, Shadows Fall (3/11 Allstate Arena); System of a Down/Mars Volta (9/30 Allstate Arena); Talib Kweli/Jean Grae (12/8 LA); Taste of Chaos f/ Killswitch Engage, My Chemical Romance, Underoath (3/9 Aragon); Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers/Black Crowes (7/15 Tweeter); ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead (4/22 Metro); Vans Warped Tour f/ Avenged Sevenfold, My Chemical Romance, Dropkick Murphys, Trasplants...(7/23 Tweeter); Snocore f/ Helmet and Chevelle (2/12 Congress Theatre)
Best cover Songs
Death or Glory(The Clash) as done by Social Distortion
Nervous Breakdown (Black Flag) as doen by Rise Against
Emerald (Thin Lizzy) as done by Mastodon, live at Ozzfest
Savory (Jawbox) as done by Deftones
Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival) as done by Dropkick Murphys
Best Song Titles
Champagne For My Real Friends; Real Pain For My Sham Friends (Fall Out Boy)
Bulletproof Skin (Institute)
Forgot To Remember (Mudvayne)
Guitared And Feathered (Everytime I Die)
A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation (Trivium)
Pretendeavor (Norma Jean)
This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song (System Of A Down)
Unprotected Sex With Multiple Partners (Against Me!)
With A Thousand Words To Say But One (Darkest Hour)
Top 5 Things Learned
5. Many cds makes for a heavy box…and a 3-month moving process.
4. “Chapstick” is FAR superior (and better for the lips) to “Blistex”.
3. Fingerless gloves are very comfy, but not perfect.
2. (I can’t decide which is better, so it’s a tie for #2)
a. Some-to-many girls like a guy in black eyeliner
b. The softest skin has to be on the bottom of a girls wrist…try it.
1. Break spaghetti noodles in half before putting them into a pot so you don’t overcook them and make an ass of yourself in front of your date.
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