[Rorschach]

CONTROLLED BLEEDING's "GAG" (a very rare cd I stumbled upon this weekend), and Best Of The SPLIT ENZ...

[Offbyonekenobi]

I just sent Cymro an MP3 of an... interesting... new take on Iron Maiden. Let's see if he wants more...

[-Oz-]

Bathory - Requiem

[Bondo]

At this moment, Madonna's "Jump" before that it was "Section 9" by Polyphonic Spree.

For some reason, I feel like joining a cult.

[-Oz-]

Bondo, on Jul 21 2006, 03:58 PM, said:

For some reason, I feel like joining a cult.

If you'll step right over here...

Mushroomhead - Born of Desire

[Jason Vines]

Shakira - "Hips Don't Lie"

It's not as catchy as "Whenever, Wherever," but it still works.

[Offbyonekenobi]

Been on this HUGE Joe Lynn Turner kick lately. Threw a new playlist onto the ol' ipod... Stone Cold, Spotlight Kid, I Surrender, and Street of Dreams from the Rainbow days, Yngwie Malmsteen's Odyssey album (great vocal job he did on that one) and a ton of his solo stuff from Rescue You (1985) and The Usual Suspects (2005).
20 years apart almost exactly and the shit is just seamless... the dude has some PIPES...

[Jason Vines]

Madonna - "Into the Groove"

I wasn't previously enamored with her talents. But this is a very catchy song. After listening to this, and other songs on her Immaculate Collection and GVH2 albums, I think I underestimated her.

[Cymro]

I don't get how people can seriously listen to pop songs like that. I mean, yeah it's great for going out when you want something light to dance to, but I've never been able to seriously listen to music unless it evokes some kind of emotional response.

[Jason Vines]

Cymro, on Aug 15 2006, 05:01 AM, said:

I don't get how people can seriously listen to pop songs like that. I mean, yeah it's great for going out when you want something light to dance to, but I've never been able to seriously listen to music unless it evokes some kind of emotional response.

Why can't pop music evoke emotional responses? Some of the most poignant songs I've listened to have been from the pop genre.

In any event, I like music with a good beat. I find many traditional rock songs boring because they're slow and meandering. As for hard rock and heavy metal... eek! It's just a bunch of noise to me. And rap's merely speaking, not singing, to notes from a keyboard that sound the same from song to song, artist to artist.

So that leaves pop and R & B for me. Good songs from these genres embrace a variety of instrumentation and feature actual singing instead of talking or growling or screeching.

[Cymro]

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Why can't pop music evoke emotional responses? Some of the most poignant songs I've listened to have been from the pop genre.

I didn't say that, but a song about getting into "the groove" isn't really going to do that either, is it? Hence "I don't know how people can seriously listen to pop songs like that". It's just mindless tripe.

And what use is a "good beat" when you're not on a dance floor?

[Jason Vines]

Cymro said:

I didn't say that, but a song about getting into "the groove" isn't really going to do that either, is it? Hence "I don't know how people can seriously listen to pop songs like that".

Ah, I gotcha. I'm just used to people trashing pop.

It's more of a love song, though. And Madonna sings so melodramatically sometimes, one could take a song more seriously than the subject matter would otherwise warrant.

Cymro said:

And what use is a "good beat" when you're not on a dance floor?

I still have brain chemistry, and a good beat influences mine in pleasing ways other music doesn't.

[Jason Vines]

This is one of the dumbest songs I've ever heard, but I can't get it out of my head:

Black Eyed Peas - "My Humps"

[Cymro]

Are you one of those people who starts dancing when they have a song stuck in their head?

[Jason Vines]

Cymro, on Sep 4 2006, 04:57 PM, said:

Are you one of those people who starts dancing when they have a song stuck in their head?

No.

[Jason Vines]

Fergie - "London Bridge"

[-Oz-]

Tool - Disgustipated

[Offbyonekenobi]

Evanescence- "The Open Door".

[Jason Vines]

Weird Al - "You Don't Love Me Anymore"

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We've been together for so very long
But now things are changing, oh I wonder what's wrong?
Seems you don't want me around
The passion is gone and the flame's died down

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem
That time that you made it with the whole hockey team
You used to think I was nice
Now you tell all your friends that I'm the Antichrist

Oh, why did you disconnect the breaks in my car?
That kind of thing is hard to ignore
Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore

I knew that we were having problems when
You put those piranhas in my bathtub again
You're still the light of my life
Oh darling, I'm beggin', won't you put down that knife?

You know, I even think it's kinda cute the way
You poison my coffee just a little each day
I still remember the way that you laughed
When you pushed me down that elevator shaft

Oh, if you don't mind me asking, what's this poisonous cobra
Doing in my underwear drawer?
Sometime I get to thinking you don't love me any more

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill
Now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will
You set my house on fire
You pulled out my chest hairs with an old pair of pliers

Oh, you think that I'm ugly and you say that I'm cheap
You shaved off my eyebrows while I was asleep
You drilled a hole in my head
Then you dumped me in a drainage ditch and left me for dead

Oh, you know this really isn't like you at all
You never acted this way before
Honey, something tells me you don't love me any more, oh no no
Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore

[Bondo]

Sigur Ros and Cornershop

Jason Vines, on Oct 2 2006, 08:22 PM, said:

Weird Al - "You Don't Love Me Anymore"

That sounds like a great song. Do you know if it is one of his ripoffs? and if so, of what?