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Jun. 13th, 2005 12:26 pmAs I'm bored out of my brains right now, being in the lab on Queeny's birthday, I will do that song meme that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mstakenidentity did and told those strange specimens fnoo and gerbilsage to do as well. Yes, even though I'm under no obligation, having not been tagged. Yes, I'm that bored.
Six Songs (some of which I heard yesterday as me and the missus cleaned up our pigsty of a house in preparation forericainarmadale's moving in....and assorted others).
1. Dallas Crane - Come Clean
Dallas Crane has to be my favourite band at the moment - it's been a while since an Aussie band grabbed me. This song is so sad, and yet it has that good ol' rockin' vibe, and the lead singer's voice has that great Bon Scott characteristic - you know, the "million pool halls and bars soaked in whiskey and layered in years' worth of cigarette tar" kind of voice.
2. Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells
This morning in the shower, I whacked on some Sep just to recall the glory headbanging days - most of you would be too young to remember :P Good old thrash metal, just what you need to wake you up in the morning. Better that coffee, I tell you.
3. Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
IMHO, the best track on the Songs For The Deaf album. This sort of foreboding, riff-heavy track with a smattering of acoustic guitars chucked in every now and again to really fuck things up, and Josh Homme's melancholy vocals all over it. A bloody masterpiece.
4. Soundgarden - Limo Wreck
Another grandiose, lurching 3/4-beat song that brings to mind images of doomsday and apocalypse. Soundgarden is another of those bands that I grew up with and whose demise I still grieve over. While I like Audioslave, they've got nothing on Soundgarden.
5. Velvet Revolver - Superhuman
Not my favourite VR song, but it's amusing playing it and seeing Eva go nuts over it. She has this thing for sleazy songs, and this is definitely one of the sleaziest-sounding hard rock songs that have been released in a while.
6. Smashing Pumpkins - Drown
My favourite Smashing Pumpkins song. I love the way it starts off all quite and contemplative and then launches into this crescendo, with one of the most plaintive guitar solos I've ever heard - not fancy, but full of really awesome tone. Funny how I hate nasal vocalists yet still love old Smashing Pumpkins stuff - of course, most of the stuff they did after Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness sucked hairy dogs balls in my opinion. That's the problem with having a frontman who writes all the material - the band is generally hostage to his "vision" - ie. ego.
Anyway, that's the Big Six. I, too, choose to tag no one in particular.
Going off to see the latest bollocks from George Lucas in a few hours. Hopefully I manage to make it through without falling asleep, but I ain't promising anything.
mstakenidentity did and told those strange specimens fnoo and gerbilsage to do as well. Yes, even though I'm under no obligation, having not been tagged. Yes, I'm that bored. Six Songs (some of which I heard yesterday as me and the missus cleaned up our pigsty of a house in preparation for
ericainarmadale's moving in....and assorted others).1. Dallas Crane - Come Clean
Dallas Crane has to be my favourite band at the moment - it's been a while since an Aussie band grabbed me. This song is so sad, and yet it has that good ol' rockin' vibe, and the lead singer's voice has that great Bon Scott characteristic - you know, the "million pool halls and bars soaked in whiskey and layered in years' worth of cigarette tar" kind of voice.
2. Sepultura - Dead Embryonic Cells
This morning in the shower, I whacked on some Sep just to recall the glory headbanging days - most of you would be too young to remember :P Good old thrash metal, just what you need to wake you up in the morning. Better that coffee, I tell you.
3. Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
IMHO, the best track on the Songs For The Deaf album. This sort of foreboding, riff-heavy track with a smattering of acoustic guitars chucked in every now and again to really fuck things up, and Josh Homme's melancholy vocals all over it. A bloody masterpiece.
4. Soundgarden - Limo Wreck
Another grandiose, lurching 3/4-beat song that brings to mind images of doomsday and apocalypse. Soundgarden is another of those bands that I grew up with and whose demise I still grieve over. While I like Audioslave, they've got nothing on Soundgarden.
5. Velvet Revolver - Superhuman
Not my favourite VR song, but it's amusing playing it and seeing Eva go nuts over it. She has this thing for sleazy songs, and this is definitely one of the sleaziest-sounding hard rock songs that have been released in a while.
6. Smashing Pumpkins - Drown
My favourite Smashing Pumpkins song. I love the way it starts off all quite and contemplative and then launches into this crescendo, with one of the most plaintive guitar solos I've ever heard - not fancy, but full of really awesome tone. Funny how I hate nasal vocalists yet still love old Smashing Pumpkins stuff - of course, most of the stuff they did after Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness sucked hairy dogs balls in my opinion. That's the problem with having a frontman who writes all the material - the band is generally hostage to his "vision" - ie. ego.
Anyway, that's the Big Six. I, too, choose to tag no one in particular.
Going off to see the latest bollocks from George Lucas in a few hours. Hopefully I manage to make it through without falling asleep, but I ain't promising anything.
