Favorite Music

Zeppelin IV is IMO the best album in music history.

i got into Led Zep about 3 years ago - the same time i started reading Tolkien. nice coincidence there

Anduin: "Bron-y-aur Stomp" (fron Zep III) or "Bron-yr-Aur" (from Physical Graffiti)?

aryne *

Stomp from Zep III. All I want to do is dance.....which is kinda hard to do in the car.

Other albums that I consider to be up there with Zep IV is "Graceland" (Paul Simon), "Passion" (Peter Gabriel) and "Sgt. Pepper" (The Beatles).

A friend of mine, a geneticist at St. Judes sent me this back when the Hale-Bopp comet passed by...

THIS HAS NEVER BEFORE BEEN SEEN ON THE INTERNET!
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I just thought I would send you my poem about the stupid Heaven's Gate Cultist. Make sure you read it at least once while listening to the song Stairway to Heaven, just so
you'll get the full effect.

Later......
Clif

There's a prophet whose sure
That the stars all have souls
And he's sailing a comet to heaven
When he gets there he knows
If he wears his black cloths
With a wish he can get with his brethren
And he's sailing a comet to heaven
There's a sign in the sky
And we're hitching a ride
'Cause you know in his words we're believing
Now we've all cut our hair
So we can follow him there
'Cause you know it's the earth that we're leaving
It makes me wonder
As I'm going under
There's a feeling I get
As the poision sets in
And my body is shaking and heaving
My last sight that I'll see
Is my cult around me
I hear their voices chant words that I've spoken
It makes me wonder
As I'm going under
And it's clear to me now
As I finally pass out
That the prophet will lead us to Hale-Bopp
When again I awake
A new world will wait
And the planets will come to a full stop
If there's a buzzing on your viewscreen
Don't be alarmed now
It's just our subliminal message
There's only one path you can go by
And that's suicide
There's still time to take you own life
It makes me wonder
As I'm going under
You're head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know
A new Millinieum's approaching
Dear Brother did you see the comet?
And did you know
That heaven waits on the other end
And as we line up in a row
To give our live's to this John Doe
There walks a prophet we all know
Who tells us stars they all have souls
And they'll receive us if we go
And if we believe in every word
That we will find a ship of god
To take our spirits very far
A ship of rock and ice and snow
And he's sailing a comet to heaven...

... for the most catchy and addictive song ever...

Clash's "Rock The Casbah"

If you haven't heard it, you have no idea what you're missing.

"Rock the Casbah?"

Gross!

But now the wicked refrain will not stop playing in my head!

I despised the entire technobop new-wave phenom!

Well, it wasn't as bad as Disco...

AACK! the Heaven's Gate/Stairway thing just works a little too well...
for those who don't know, Stairway is MY song. (yes, i know a lot of people say that, but i mean it) it's also the only song i'll dance to in front of people when there's lights on.

"Rock the Casbah?" umm, no comment. if you want 80's "new wave" "retro" stuff, there's far better.

aryne *

I would agree and a lot better from the Clash than that mainstream sell out!

If I wanted good, I'd listen to Project 86 or Steve Vai.

However, when I want addictive...

Arynetrek, I'll tell Clif you appreciated(?) it!

Creed

I finally got off my butt and bought their new CD (just certified 6x platinum). It's... simply amazing. Definitely worth the money.

Next on my list is the two Project 86 CDs and Chevelle.

Limp Bizkit

It's official... The Chocolate Starfish and the Hot-Dog Flavored Water is quite pathetic. Whereas Fred Durst's prior two albums had at least some merit, thanks to Wes Borland et al, you would have to pay me to keep this one in my house.

Reasons?

He uses the F-word forty-odd times in the second track, and manages to make nine explicit references to NIN, and "My Way" and "Livin' It Up" crossed the line between rapcore (which I have recently learned to distinguish from hardcore) and rap.

Plus, the best line in the first ten tracks is "Your mouth's writing checks that your [rear end] can't cash" (from "Full Nelson"). I'm hoping the outro + hidden tracks has some good material, but... don't hold your breath.

The Offspring

Noodles and crew had their plans to prerelease their entire new CD over the Internet derailed by Sony, who promptly threatened them with a lawsuit. Rather than delay the release for a year and endanger the tour, they reached an agreement to distribute the first single ( Original Prankster) for Conspiracy of One on their website (www.offspring.com/).

The verdict? It's certainly interesting, but not enough to convince me to buy the CD. But don't take my word for it... download it for yourself.

(And on an aside, perhaps Offspring should have reached an agreement with EGO or something...)

Thanks to the self-deprecating humor in the outro, this album has finally gained a little bit of merit.

"F*** Limp Bizkit... Ooooh, I can put a Z in my name, I'm bad... I'm never gonna move out of Jacksonville..."

I would just like to say that before I give my musical opinion, everyone is entitled to like/dislike what they please and to please not call certain types 'junk' and 'trash,' if only for the sake of avoiding argument. I say this because

I LIKE RAP.
thank you. this has been a public service announcement paid for by :

*awaits your musical opinion*

Durst doesn't do the Beastie Boys act very well, though.

Long live Handel!

Grand Funk Railroad

sorry Elanor, but the best classical music is all Russian-written (& i can't spell or pronounce teh names of any of their composers!)

aryne *

exactly.... usually they're pretty good! Well... sometimes, we just NEED some classical music!

I don't see how you can say that, aryne. Some of the best recent (relatively--20th century) classical-style composers have been Russian, like Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff, but there were a lot of great ones before them who were French, Italian, German, etc. Handel was one of the best Baroque composers, Mozart one of the best Classical, Dvorak one of the best Romantic, etc. I don't think that any composer has been or ever will be the very best. They're all different.

I havent listened to the new Bizkit album yet, but in my view, it looks like it'll be pretty cool. At the moment, My Generation and Rollin are two of my favorite songs. I dont know much else about the cd except for those songs and that fred does a song with koRn, which I am excited about. Theyre two of my favorite bands, and I love when they do stuff together. I like the last time they did something, All In The Family. It didnt have much point to it, but it was a pretty cool song.

I listen to most every style there is, just not every artist. The only real exception ther is that I don't listen to rap, because I haven't found an artist I like yet...and yes, I look. Or listen, rather. I like Jars of Clay in small (very small) doses, but prefer Petra, Michael Sweet and Carolyn Arends in the Christian genre. Other than that, classical,esp. Mozart,Tchaikovsky and Clarke, but broad band otherwise.Celtic and classic rock are my other big things. That's about it.