Diary of a Fat Man: Music

Musical

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:41:10 GMT

Okey dokey...this is post one of some unknown number of musically driven posts. I've been attached to my MP3 player like a scrawney electronic teat over the past few weeks. I have about 4000 songs over 18.5 gigs of storage. Using highly technical estimates (um 4000 songs X an average 3.5 minutes per song), I estimate about 10 days worth of music, if played straight through. I'm not even one of those freaky music snobs, so I'd be scared to see how voluminous their catalogs have become.

Since my time is somewhat limited today, here's the game today. I'm going to list whatever songs pop up from my random playlist for the next thirty minutes or so. I PLAN on linking to each song (don't know if I'll link to the whole song or just to a sample from Amazon or Best Buy or something). It's so CRAZY!

Heart Shaped Box: Nirvana:: In Utero-- I still remember cracking up while driving to Wal-Mart singing "I've been locked in your hot, shaved box for weeks." I LOVED Nirvana back in the day. Smells Like Teen Spirit was a turning point in mid-nineties music. I remember being so sad when Cobain popped himself, but as I look back now I think what a fucking tool he was for leaving behind his little girl...and why I would have done it after a week of being married to Courtney Love.

Crazy On You: Heart:: These Dreams-Heart's Greatest Hits-- The Wilson sisters are kind of like your fat aunts with the mustaches. You see pictures of them from like 20 years ago when they were super hot and you just can't believe they're the same people. How the hell did they turned into the Mario Brothers in just two decades?

(oh, did I mention that I won't necessarily be LISTENING to the entire song...a brotha can only do so much.)

Song Sung Blue: Neil Diamond::[unknown album]-- Who the hell likes Neil Diamond? Why the fuck is he in my playlist? I told you this shit was random.

Macrosolutions to Megaproblems: Voivod::Dimension Hatross-- Voivod is one of those really good bands that no one has really heard of. Sir Cumference hooked me up with a lot of their stuff. Really good metal tunes that kind of reminds me of early Megadeth.

Dance the Night Away: Van Halen:: Van Halen II-- Holy crap, I loved me some VH back in elementary school. The foundation to my musical tastes were poured the summer before fourth grade. My brother Steve, who's four years older, turned me on to a ton of kick ass music, including Van Halen. Who was cooler than David Lee Roth? No one, mother fucker. Now David Hasselhoff has more street cred than he does. What a shame.

Radio: Rancid:: Let's Go-- Rancid is by far, my favorite punk band. More musically talented than most of their peers, but still hardcore enough to be considered punk. What's cool is you get two flavors of punk coming from two brothers::Tim Armstrong from Rancid (more traditional punk), and his bro is Billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day (more peppy, emo-foundation-ish punk). Both are great, but my vote is for Rancid. Highly recommended for any jogging playlist (Rancid was in heavy rotation in mine back when I DID run).

So Tell Me Why: Poison:: Poison's Greatest Hits 1986-1996-- I totally don't remember this song EVER being played on the radio. I don't remember listening to Poison with irony...I just liked them back in the day. So, tell me why does it sound like syrupy crap now?

New World Man: Rush:: Chronicles--If you asked me if I was a Rush fan, I'd say no. Don't ask me why, then, I have a shitload of their stuff on my player. The are a very good, technical band and Getty Lee has a distinctive and interesting voice.

Not to Regret: Rancid::Rancid-- Yay, more Rancid! One of the other cool things I like about punk is the fact that you can get out a great fucking song with a profound message in 2:16. Let's see the Grateful Dead do that...

Come on Eileen: Dexy's Midnight Runners:: Modern 80's Vol 4--Holy crap, I remember this from when MTV was in it's baby stages (e.g. when they actually played videos). Great song, even greater fodder for sexual innuendo. Like you haven't thought that too, fucker.

Mexican Seafood: Nirvana::Incesticide-- This is my FAVORITE Nirvana album. Good, raw stuff.

Stain: Nirvana::Incestide--This is my FAVORITE Nirvana song off of my FAVORITE Nirvana album. Nice how RANDOM this playlist is sometimes.

Waste: Staind::Break the Cycle-- What happened to this band? How do you go from having EVERY song be a hit to obscurity in just a few years? Laurie wanted this CD and hated it. I didn't want this CD and hated it.

Women in Love: Van Halen::Van Halen II--Hmmm, 4000 songs, huh?

Creeping Death: Metallica::Ride the Lightning--Random Metallica Fact--Lars is a douchebag! Nah, seriously, random fact: This album was going to be called Metal Up Your Ass. I'm glad the record company stood their ground. One of my favorite Metallica albums. Another tragedy that could have been averted was their decline into mediocrity. I remember driving down the Dallas North Tollway with Sir Cumference one day after lunch and hurling "Load" out the window into traffic. They've put out nothing but shit since the Black album (which was only a mediocre album in itself)...oh, except for Garage Inc, but those were all cover tunes.

Psycho Holiday: Pantera::Cowboys from Hell--Random Chris fact--I've been in two riots in my lifetime. One of them was at a Pantera concert that didn't happen (which wound up on MTV News after some idiot PUNCHED a police horse...) Pantera is the closest to band worship that I will ever get. I think their peachy keen.

Mr. Blue Sky: ELO:: ELO's Greatest Hits--What do you get when you mix the Beatles and the Beegees and throw in a little homosexuality? Why, ELO of course!

One Celled Creature: NOFX::Wolves in Wolve's Clothing--NOFX is one of a thousand "new" punk bands. They are actually pretty damned good. I need to get a copy of "I'm Going to Hell for This" and toss it up here. It's a great song about how Jesus is coming back and he wants his money and coke and lots of other shit.

The Rock Show: Blink 182::Take off Your Jackets and Pants--Another good "new" punk band. How did Travis nail Shannon Moakler? Man, what a hottie.

Music List

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:42:03 GMT

**Updated 04/18/2006**

This is another one from the old Eclipse files, as well. This is a list of most of my CDs that I put together about 3 years ago. CDs that I've added since then are in blue. There have only been a few additions...I don't know if that's a reflection on how broke I've been over the past few years, or on how utterly awful the music scene is these days.

Although my musical preference are pretty varied, by no means could I be categorized as a music snob (or even psuedo-snob). I was watching MTV Cribs the other day and they were in that fat, bald DJ's house (I thought Cribs was for celebrities? Who the fuck cares where this jerk-off lives?). Anyway, this dude had this unbelievably huge music collection. He had, like, 2,000+ CDs (and that's not counting his vinyl, which, by the way, is the biggest sign that you're a fucking lousy music snob). Who has time to listen to that much music?

The list below is pretty much everything I have. Some categories (metal, punk) are more visibly represented, but the list is not exhaustive of what I like. The titles below are just the CDs that justified paying $15 for or because they were free.

Artist Album

AC-DC Powerage (Remaster)

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Who Made Who

Back In Black

Highway To Hell

Let There Be Rock

Aimee Mann Magnolia Soundtrack

Bachelor No. 2

Lost in Space

The Forgotten Arm

Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill

Alice Cooper Flush the Fashion

Anthrax Among The Living

Audioslave Audioslave

Out of Exile

B.B. King The Best of B.B. King Volume One

Blind Melon Blind Melon

Nico

Soup

Blink 182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

Dude Ranch

Bon Jovi Crush

Have a Nice Day

Slippery When Wet

Bowling for Soup Drunk Enough to Dance

Britney Spears ..Baby One More Time

Britney

Brooks & Dunn Greatest Hits 2

Bush Sixteen Stone

Razorblade Suitcase

Dada Puzzle

Dan Reed Network Dan Reed Network

Deep Purple Burn

Dido No Angel

Elvis Presley Live At Madison Square Garden

Eminem The Eminem Show

Encore

The Exploited The Singles

Faith Hill Faith

Filter Short Bus

Fiona Apple Tidal

Garbage Version 2.0

Good Charlotte Good Charlotte

Green Day Kerplunk

1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours

Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction

Gwynn Stefani Love.Angel.Music.Baby

The Hives Tyrannasaurus Hives

Information Information Society
Society

Jellyfish Spilt Milk

Judas Priest Stained Class

Screaming For Vengeance

Toby Keith Honkytonk University

White Trash With Money

Kings X King's X

The Killers Hot Fuss

Kiss Music from 'The Elder'

Limp Bizkit The Chocolate Starfish and
the Hot Dog Flavored Water

Three Dollar Bill, Yall$

Lit Tripping the Light Fantastic

Liz Phair Exile In Guyville

Whip-Smart

Luscious Jackson Fever In Fever Out

Madonna Music

Marilyn Manson Holy wood

Mechanical Animals

Antichrist Superstar

Smells Like Children

Maroon 5 Songs About Jane

matchbox twenty Mad Season

Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!

Peace Sells But Who's Buying

Rust In Peace

Metallica Garage Inc.

Load

..And Justice For All

Master of Puppets

Ride The Lightning

Mighty Mighty

Bosstones let's face it

Pay Attention

Miranda Lambert Kerosene

Motley Crue Shout At The Devil ('99)

My Chemical

Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

Nickelback Silver Side Up

Nine Inch Nails The Fragile (Right)

The Fragile (Left)

The Downward Spiral

Pretty Hate Machine

Nirvana Incesticide

Unplugged in New York

In Utero

Nevermind

Bleach

Pantera Vulgar Display Of Power

Cowboys From Hell

Far Beyond Driven

Reinventing The Steel

Pat Green Lucky Ones

Pearl Jam Ten

Phil Collins Serious Hits...Live!

Pink Missundaztood

Power Station Power Station

Prodigy Fat Of The Land

Puddle Of Mudd Come Clean

Queen Sheer Heart Attack

Queensryche Rage for Order

Radiohead Amnesiac

Kid A

Ok Computer

Rage Against The Renegades

Machine Rage Against The Machine

The Battle of Los Angeles

Evil Empire

Rancid Out Come The Wolves...

Let's Go

Rancid

Richard Cheese Lounge Against the Machine

Sevendust Sevendust

Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow

Slaughter Stick it to Ya

Slayer Divine Intervention

Slow Roosevelt THROWAWAYYOURSTEREO

Social Distortion Social Distortion

Staind Break The Cycle

Stone Temple Tiny Music...

Pilots Core

Sugarland Twice the Speed of Life

Sum 41 All Killer No Filler

Sweet Give Us A Wink

The Beastie Boys Licensed To Ill

Hello Nasty

Thomas Newman American Beauty Original Motion

Picture Score

Tim McGraw Greatest Hits

Tripping Daisy This Is Tripping Daisy

U2 All That You Can't Leave Behind

Best of U2 1980-1990

Keith Urban Be Here

Urban Cowboy Urban Cowboy Soundtrack

Van Halen Van Halen II

Van Halen

Various Artists 2001- a space odyssey
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Scream 2- Music

From The Dimension Movie

Voivod Nothingface

Dimension Hatross

weezer weezer