worst top 10 ever

The Top 10 Classic Albums That Accidentally Ruined Music

Ladies and gentlemen: I present, for your consideration, the WORST top 10 list about music ever composed! It's on Spike's website, and I have to deal with people who watch that channel every fucking day, so it's basically a site for dipshits to gather, compose lists, and have people who actually have some taste shoot holes in said lists.

The reason I link it is so you can read the leaps of logic on their site instead of me copying and pasting them here. About the only one I can agree with is #1, which is true that that album gave labels a blockbuster mentality even worse than they were already saddled with.

Stuff You Should Be Aware Of #3

This is my favorite Metallica song, 'The Outlaw Torn.' Check it out, yeah?

Lifetime movie or Megadeth song?

A quiz for you.

I got 10/10. I totally guessed on more than one, though.

Stuff You Should Be Aware Of #2

Steel Panther- 'Death to All But Metal'
Discovered this band today. I can't get enough of this song. You probably shouldn't listen to it at work, around children, or your wife.

Stuff You Should Be Aware Of #1

For this first installment, I'll pick what is undoubtedly my favorite U2 song- 'Red Hill Mining Town.' It was never released as a single, but there's still a promo video anyway. I just discovered it tonight looking for a suitable video for this post, and here ya go. Yeah, I didn't like it either. It would have looked so much better if they had been outdoors in the American southwest like the album cover, but no dice.

in related news, R&R HOF continues its slide into irrelevancy

WE PROTEST!!!: ABBA makes the rock hall of fame and KISS does not

This is unbelievable. ABBA in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Kiss and the RHCP aren't? This is a blunder on par with Jethro Tull winning a Grammy for Best Metal Performance over Metallica, and the HOF will pay dearly for this one.

I must say that it's complete nonsense that Kiss isn't already in the HOF. An artist is eligible 25 years after their first album is released (I imagine that means major-label release), which means Kiss had been eligible since 1999. They weren't even nominated until this year, and they were passed over. That's complete bullshit, if you'll excuse the vernacular. Kiss embodies the very essence of rock & roll- they did what they wanted the way they wanted, and the mainstream came to them. I would say the same about the Red Hot Chili Peppers- it's hard to find a more unique band than them, who also have done things their way.

Billboard article on nominees. I have no complaints about the rest of this year's nominees. The Stooges deserve it, as does Genesis, and the Hollies represent rock's early days (more or less), Jimmy Cliff is reggae, so I don't get that one, but someone could consider reggae a cousin to r&r, so whatever. But fucking ABBA? Come on.

video killed the radio star

So, Kiss finally released the video for 'Modern Day Delilah.' I don't see the wisdom in waiting two months after the album came out to release a video for the first single, but whatever.

Clicky!

Not their best, but far from their worst video ever made. Kind of how I feel about the Sonic Boom album as a whole.