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Around the 'Pod in 80 Gigs

An album-by-album exploration of my entire music collection, courtesy of my 80GB iPod.

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  • Day Sixty Nine - Ups & Downs

    God Lives Underwater - Life in the So-Called Space Age

    It’s been quite a while since I’ve listened to this album…I’d forgotten how good some of these songs are.
    This album gave God Lives Underwater their only “serious” hit: From Your Mouth. This song got fairly serious airplay for about a year before God Lives Underwater vanished from the public consciousness.
    Part of the reson for thir disappearance may be the overall flow of this album. It starts oyt pretty energetic, but quickly starts to bog down. By the end of the album, you’re listening to a bizarre, extremely repetetive ambient techno piece.
    This album’s worth picking up cheap, if only for the first handful of songs. Just be careful - it gets pretty dull before long.

    Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me

    Ahhhh…Good ol’ Type O. Among metal bands, only they would cover a song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch…and it’s done in Type O s Classic Gothadelic style.
    I was fortunate enough to see Type O Negative in concert twice afer this album. The first time, when they had Lacuna Coil opening, the concert was awesome. I went home exhausted, deaf, and a little battered. (I keot falling into the mosh pit).
    The seonc time, though - co-headlining with Cradle of Filth, with Moonspell opening, was EPIC! Not only was the entire bill awesome, Type O successfully “bazinga’d” the audience: Normally, when the house lights come down before Type O tale the stage, the audience starts chanting, “You Suck!” (it’s a tradition - I’ll tell you more about it when we get to “O”). About 2 or 3 “you sucks” into the chant, a rotating red light comes on, and the theme from “COPS” starts playing. While the audience laughed, the band took the stage, bedecked in orange jumpsuits.
    Welcome to the strange world of Type O Negative.

    Korn - Life is Peachy

    This is definitely the weakest album that Korn has ever produced. I know that I liked it at the time (I did buy it, after all), but now…not so much.
    Admittedly, I did like A.D.I.D.A.s. when I was a teenager, but it;s that kind of song. It’s the kind of thing that appeals to an adolescent. The rest of the album feels like Korn focused too much on the visceral sound, at the cost of style.

    KMFDM - Light (single)

    Best. Single. Ever.
    This single contains 9 different versions of the song Light. None of these nine tracks is the album track. Ironically, it’s the fact that it’s the same song nine times that makes this single so great. These nine versions of Light are just different enough that you don’t ever get bored with it.
    Now that’s skill.

    Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment

    Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment II

    Liquid Tension Experiment started as a side project by Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy. Three quarters of this band would end up being members of Dream Theater - Jordan Rudess and John Petrucci also played in LTE. Because of this, bits of LTE songs are often incorporated into Dream Theater concerts.
    Interesting fact: Dimebag Darrell was invited to take part, but he was not able to due to schedule conflicts. Too bad…
    This music is nearly all instrumental, which is extremely awesome. When you let a bunch of top-quality musicians rock together like this, the sky is indeed the limit.

    Tagged: God Lives Underwater Korn KMFDM Liquid Tension Experiment Type O Negative

    Posted on February 11, 2010

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