VerbalPuke

I'm the same with the Disney flicks, haven't seen any of that myself. I've never seen the Goonies, and don't think I will out of spite of every person saying "OH MY GOD YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE GOONIES!?". Fuck the Goonies. One I do want to see and am sorry I've never gotten around to is Animal House. I've had more a few different people all tell me different, unrelated times that I should see Jacobs Ladder because "It seems like something you'd like since you're into all that weird shit". Thanks.

It's too late now, but the Dead Kennedys covering Link Wray's "Link's Boogie". Seeing as DK had a prominent surf sound in their music that would translate well into a Link cover, and seeing as the song itself is already pretty raw for it's time, it'd make for a nice match. The only problem is that Jello would be left out of this one as it's an instrumental. On second thought, this cover could still realistically happen. Motorhead covering Iggy and the Stooges "Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell" for no other reason than it'd be one loud awesome band covering another loud awesome band's loud awesome song.

I'll go ahead and avoid the scores of local shows I've seen as others have been doing. Lynrd Skynrd, ZZ Top, Elvis Costello, CCR, Primus, Blue Cheer, Charged GBH, Anti Nowhere League, Flatfoot 56, River City Rebels, The Queers, Primus, and a bunch of bullshit at Ozzfest last summer.

I want to see somebody take Detroit, surely they couldn't do any worse than Matt Millen right?

You're missing out then, there is nothing quite like the MC5, especially after a few high powered ales. It does my heart proud that the MC5 are Michigan boys, don't know why, just a sentimental thing I guess. They're probably one of my favorite bands of all-time, they really turned rock and roll upside down at the time, and I'm fond of any band that rejected the hippie subculture. The Bad Brains and Henry Rollins cover of Kick Out the Jams, man, haven't heard that one in awhile. It's not so bad, but Skummy really hit the nail on the head, nobody seems to be able to really capture it's magic. The RATM cover is too slow for me, and I don't like Zack's vocals for it. And the good quality of it hinders it for me, I don't think I can appreciate that song if it's not the live version. It just has that real energy behind it, as opposed to the watered down version RATM and so many others have attempted.

The only Christian rock I can think of is a group by the name of Flatfoot 56 out of Chicago. The music is sort of a mash of celtic and punk, but more emphasis on the punk (and half of the band are skinheads. Christian skinheads). The songs are Christian themed, but not preachy, it's pretty decent stuff, I've seen them live. They're all nice fellows as well, so I like to mention them every so often to people.

I've been rekindling my interest in Oi as of late, but not the usual UK stuff, but stuff from France. It's due in part to this compilation I have called "Oi, the French Connection" with two stand out songs being Identite by Camera Silens and Marseille Tombe by Warrior Kids. There's a German thrash band that do this really cool song called Mosh in Moscow, it's catchy. I have played the hell out of the Men They Couldn't Hang's Going Back to Coventry and Shirt of Blue. And if I want to feel like I'm on drugs I'll play Red Sign Post by Fifty Foot Hose. A little of everything, bit of punk, metal, psychedelic, whatever I find myself in the mood for.

I've got most of or all of Beautiful Maladies (not sure if it's the full album, roughly 8 tracks). I stumbled upon it by accident, I was trying to obtain another album, but due to badly sorted folders, I happened to get this as well. I figured I'd keep the Waits album to give it a shot since so many hold the guy in high regard. Edit - Oh yeah, metalman, do I need WMP 11 for that? I'm not finding this play count deal.

I'd like to see what my most played is, but I've only recently acquired Itunes, and since I hate the fucking program, I stick with Windows Media Player. They don't offer a neat feature like that, but I am curious to know what my most played has been. Somehow I managed to get some Tom Waits on my computer, and I don't get the appeal. I'm really bored by this guy, what am I missing here? Oh yeah, somebody stop me from buying vinyl, I can't stop myself. I get a few beers in me, and the wallet opens for more, I can't get enough of it.

My folks just bought this Downfall flick, so with so many people endorsing it, I'll definitely give it a whirl. That Cross of Iron sounds pretty cool as well.

I'll echo Platoon, I love that movie. Even though Last of the Mohicans isn't "modern warfare" (we're talking hatchets and muskets), it's still a great flick with some excellent battle scenes. I'm surprised so many people overlook it when mentioning some of the greatest films out there.

I don't dislike Kevin Smith the man, but generally am not a fan of his movies. Honestly, I only like Clerks, while the rest are just sort of there. But man, Rosario Dawson is fucking beautiful in Clerks 2.

For me it's easily the Warriors. I don't have a copy of it right now so I can't say I've been playing it lately (or much of anything for that matter), but when I did have it, I played the shit out of it. I can't tell you how many times I've beaten it, replayed missions, and did the other mini games such as the roof top brawls (so much fun). That game ought to be preserved as culturally significant, much in the same way they do with movies.

Dead Rising, Gears of War, and Hitman: Bloodmoney. Those are all guaranteed to never be finished, those were such disappointments for me after the hype they got.

This reminded me of RATM's Renegades of Funk album. Most of it isn't too bad, the covers of Renegades of Funk and the Cypress Hill song are very good. However, I don't like their MC5 cover of Kick Out the Jams at all, their sound just doesn't translate well for Kick Out the Jams.

I think my first venture into an Oblivion Gate (Elder Scrolls) to the tune of D.R.I.'s Manifest Destiny playing through the X-Box was pretty fucking epic. A friend of mine and I had a great game of Tecmo Bowl a few weeks back. I was San Francisco and he was Chicago, it was an evenly contest game with him going up 21-19 towards the end of the game. So I'm on my last drive of the game, I connect with two quick passes to John Taylor, with the clock an issue I get out of bounds. I have ten seconds, so I throw a nice long pass to Jerry Rice, he runs about twenty yards, and I get out of bounds with about a second or two left on the clock. I decide to set up for the field, the kick is up, AND...I missed. But still, it was an awesome game.

Try gemm.com if you want another place to throw a listing up. I go there for vinyl, but it's not strictly vinyl, it's dedicated to selling music and music related items.

Has anybody seen If? It's from the 1960s and stars Malcolm McDowell, it's a movie I've wanted to see for some time now.

I say this every time but I hated the whole Ramones tribute album, the one with Manson, RHCP, Kiss, Eddie Vedder, and a bunch of other groups. Didn't really care for Guns and Roses Aint It Fun or Pearl Jam's Sonic Reducer originally done by the Dead Boys (or Rocket From the Tombs really).

There's that move. D'Angello Hall for a second round pick. What do you say DMN? And in other Lions news, Kalimba Edwards and Kennoy Kennedy were also cut along with Kevin Jones. Good riddance I say, well except Jones. I'm not bothered by him being cut, but honestly, now everybody knows what we'll be doing in the draft. I'm really not following the Lions strategy here, this is going to be an absolute trainwreck this year.

Hardcore Punk 1. Wasted Youth - Fuck Authority 2. Circle Jerks - Red Tape 3. Negative Approach - Can't Tell No One 4. Bad Brains - Fearless Vampire Killers 5. Battalion of Saints - Fightin' Boys 6. Black Flag - Depression (Ron Reyes era version) 7. Code of Honor - Fight or Die 8. JFA - Beach Blanket Bongout 9. Fear - I don't care about you (Fuck You) 10. Government Issue - Puppet on a String 11. Reagan Youth - New Aryans 12. DOA - World War 3 13. The Dicks - Anti-Klan (Part 1) 14. Dr. Know - Life Returns The Swinging 60s (60s Psychedelic and Garage) 1. Paul Revere and the Raiders - Always Tomorrow 2. The Sonics - Bosshoss 3. Electric Prunes - Dr. Do-Good 4. The Eyes - My Degeneration 5. C.A. Quintet - Fortune Tellers Lie 6. Fifty Foot Hose - Red The Sign Post 7. Them Belfast Gypsies - 8. The Monks - Drunken Maria 9. The Nazz - Lay Down, Die, Goodbye 10. Davie Allan and the Arrows - Blues Theme 11. Pretty Things - Baron Saturday 12. The Sting Rays - I'm back in line 13. Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard 14. The Trashmen - Henrietta

Another one of the big thrash metal bands that can cite Motorhead as influence are Sodom as well, while not as big as Slayer or Metallica on the grand scale, they still had a pretty large following in the vein of a Celtic Frost. An interesting thing to note about Motorhead is that they (or Lemmy specifically) felt more camaraderie with the punks as opposed to metal fans. In a sense they sort of fall under that category that I cited for Venom, a band that bridges the gap between two genres, with fans of metal and punk tracing their influences back to Motorhead.

If we're going with rock and roll theatrics, I very nearly listed Screaming Lord Sutch...his political career (often quite rightly) overshadowed his music, but he was a really early exponent of "shock rock" and of the more camp, theatrical side of rock and roll, and was one of the first to combine rock and roll with horror-themed imagery and B-move schtick, long predating Alice Cooper, The Misfits, The Cramps and everyone else to have done it in their wake, as well as kicking off a ton of garage rock acts, pretty much with just one song ("Jack The Ripper"), to which I'd put him almost on a level with The Sonics (another act I sadly had to overlook). He also worked with Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, John Bonham (all on one album, in fact), as well as a pre-Deep Purple Ritchie Blackmore, and John Lydon's admitted his influence on the "Johnny Rotten" persona. Now I've put it all like that, I'm regretting not putting him in my list but, as I said, that's the thing with this, it's pretty much impossible to take everything into account, I just tried to cover as many bases of "modern music" as possible, and trace them back to their roots, but without going too far...so, while I could follow electronic music back decades before Kraftwerk to the avant-garde of the early '40s, electronic music then really has no bearing on today's electronic music, so I couldn't rightly call it "influential" in that sense. If I were to attempt that, we'd be here for a lifetime. I know how you feel, I don't know why, but I felt Arthur Brown was the right choice. Maybe because he's fresher in mind, since I've been on a kick of his, though I did consider another guy, Screaming Jay Hawkins. I think my choice of Brown had a lot to do with his influence on Alice Cooper (Cooper asked Brown if he could borrow his style of face paint for shows). I love Screaming Lord Sutch by the way, Till the Following Night is probably my favorite of his work. The 60s would have been an amazing time to be a music fan. And yeah, there is a fine line with what you decide to pick as far as influential, while I have the Stooges, should it have been the MC5? Or instead of Elmore James should I have mentioned any numbers of blues artists big in the 30s or 40s? Or instead of the Sonics, why not the Monks or the Wailers? I guess it comes down to which group or artist you personally think was more important in regard to their influence on music. Also, was there any particular genre I might have neglected when I made this list? By the way I'm intrigued by this electronic music you speak of dating to the early 40s, can you cite any names of groups or people I could check out?

There might be a few in this list that I will want to explain, otherwise you guys should understand why I made my other choices. 1. Link Wray (I'm sure everybody agrees, but is this too high? Nah, this is where hard rock originated) 2. Elmore James (But at the same time, is this really where hard rock originated? Should he be number 1?) 3. Chuck Berry 4. Iggy and the Stooges 5. The Sonics (Before the Stooges, MC5, Blue Cheer, etc. there were the Sonics. They helped to bring an even harder edge to rock and roll not yet seen.) 6. Frank Zappa 7. Arthur Brown (He should be here before Alice Cooper, he was one of the original shock rockers that made rock and roll into a spectacle with his ghoulish pageantry and onstage theatrics) 8. Black Sabbath 9. Venom (They are the bridge between bands like Black Sabbath and bands like Slayer) 10. The Ramones It wasn't an easy list, but it seems alright. I just wonder what omissions I will later notice and curse myself for.

Motorhead. Anyway, I'm inclined to agree with the Link Wray endorsement. I'd consider him a glaring omission considering his contribution to rock and roll. Alice Cooper also sounds like a good choice, and perhaps Iggy and the Stooges. I don't know though, I've never given it much thought. I did notice that the Ventures are getting in this year, that's nice to see.