Mikes CD Recomendations 2-21-01

Alright you bastards, since you've been good, it's time for me to enlighten your backstreet boy
lovin' huggin' your girlfriend to the Promise Ring no taste in music asses on what CD's you must
go out and buy if you ever want to become a half-assed excuse for a respectable human being. You
will make a lot of progress in the area of not being such a shithead if you buy Empty Bottles
Broken Hearts by the Murder City Devils. This is some of the coolest shit I've ever heard, The
Murder City Devils kick ass! Despite the occasional horny moans the lead singer lets out every
now and then which make you feel like you are being fucked in the ass by him (I suppose there's
some value to this, But as a Heterosexual (despite those two months in high school where I turned
into the world's biggest pussy, courtesy of Utah's favorite drug Prozac), I could live without
it). Anyway, that's not the point is, the point is this band is everything Rock and Roll is
supposed to be about. I'll describe them like this, Imagine if Nirvana and Mudhoney, decided to
go get wasted at Lemmy (from Motorhead for those of you who don't know your metal) Kilmister's
house, and invited over Nashville Pussy and some hardcore punk bands. Then after they were all
tanked they decided it would be funny to start playing surf music with a really cool organ. Anyway
bottom line, Murder City Devils rule! On the subject of bands that are everything rock and roll
should be, Nashville Pussy also kicks ass. I also gave some Motorhead a listen, I was suprised,
considering I ain't much of a metal head, but they were pretty cool. All you hardcore fans, not
to mention metalheads and people who just likedamn good music, should get a copy of The Refused's
Shape of Punk To Come. This album is pure artwork, all there is to it. Who would have thought
that Sweden's where you have to go to find a talented punk band these days (of course these guys
aren't purely punk, they combine a lot of different elements, but the spirit is definitely a
punk one). On the subject of Punk, Agnostic Front Something's Gotta Give, good album, if you like
sick of it all and H20.... well then logically you'll like Agnostic Front. They're basically a
cross between the two (actually I should say H20 is a cross between those 2, since Agnostic Front
and Sick of it all basically founded the New York Hardcore thing). Only problem with Agnostic
Front is they're a little too proud to be hardcore, maybe that's a thing with the style though.
Personally, although there are some excellent hardcore bands, they seem to spawn shitheads. (you
know who I mean, shaved head, tattooed, nose-ring vegan anti-fur know it all fuckhead). No reason
to hold that against Agnostic Front though, this is a damn good album, in the sense that it is
loud, angry, full of energy, and it never lets down. A lot of bands have a trouble in the sense
that their albums drag in certain spots, but not these guys, These guys are loud, vicious and
they don't let up until the album finishes (although there is a funny 1 minute song about Pauly
the Beer Drinking Song that's kind of a folk song, but it's still cool). I was extremely excited
to finally find The Exploited in a music store (might I say I take back my non-recomendation
of their new cd, it does kick ass) so I picked up Don't Forget the Chaos not realizing it was a
live album. I must say I was dissapointed, not in the music, but in the quality of the recording.
If I had any other Exploited albums I wouldn't have minded, but this is an album strictly for
hardcore fans, not for people just getting in to the exploited. The record is put out by the same
people who put out The Germs live record, which sunded equally as bad recording-wise (of course
with The Germs it works). Speaking of The Germs, I order you to buy M.I.A. (or at least burn it
off napster like I did). The Germs are the closest thing to punk rock this country has ever seen.
If you want to piss off musical purists and know it alls, this is your band. First time you listen
to them, you might thing "What the fuck? These guys suck!". Well, first understand something,
Darby Crash was about the drunkest most drugged up incoherent rock star around, he had a hard
time finding the microphone most of the time, and was so into his idea of whatever the hell the
song was supposed to sound like that no one else could figure out what the hell it was about.
In other words, he's my personal hero. Listen closer though, he was also a fucking genius. If
you really listen to his songs they are very good, (for the most part), they stick in your head
and you feel the energy vibrating off them in every direction, I would've killed to see these guys
in concert. Fear-The Record, rules. I had a evil music listening session with roommate/ex bass
player Zach one afternoon, while I didn't gain a true apprecation for it, I did enjoy some of it.
In Flames kicks ass as far as a death metal type band goes (meaning they have a little punk and
other elements to their death metal), Slayer has a kick ass album of punk covers. Pantera's pretty
cool, I won't attempt to say anything more about Pantera, Pantera fans seem to have a way of
wanting to stomp on your head and break beer bottles on you if you say anything about Pantera
they might not like (not that there's anything wrong with that, hehe).Brujeria's pretty
entertaining, Mexican Death Metal featuring one of the dudes from Fear Factory. Some newer albums
I got recently, Fu Manchu-King of The Road, good album in the same way the Agnostic Front album
is, except these guys smoke more weed then Cypress Hill, and have a Black Sabbath fetish. Nothing
wrong with that, I finally got me a Black Sabbath album, Irecomend anyone who doesn't have one
get one, that's where a lot of shit began, obviously. Pennywise-Live at the Key Club, pretty
good, although all it does to me is make me pissed off that Pennywise never seems to want to
tour around these parts. Black Label Society, if you like beating people up and think you have
the world's biggest cock, this is your band. Zakk Wylde's got that whole I'M GONNA BEAT YOU UP
YOU LITTLE FUCKHEAD, BECAUSE I'M ZAKK WYLDE, AND YOU ARE SHIT! thing going for him. He's a damn
good guitar player, and some of the songs on the album are pretty good, it's just not something
I'd listen to every day. I got Kilgore's first album, if you bought the newer album like I ordered
you to last month, and you liked it, you'll probably like this one, it's a lot more just pure
metal. There's one song on there, My Trial I think it's called, that stands out from the rest,
it should have been all over the radio, damn good song. Also if you go looking for this, the band
was named Kilgore Smudge on this album.  Anyway, if you skipped the rest of this article, the
point is, go buy the Murder City Devils, or I no longer acknowledge having any association to
you...... and if that threat doesn't work, I'll puke on your shoes