Top 10 modern day bassists
Posted on 02.23.08 by hardrockchick @ 4:12 pm

1. Twiggy Ramirez/Jeordie White of Marilyn Manson, Goon Moon, A Perfect Circle, and Nine Inch Nails

2. Mike Inez of Alice in Chains (It’s hard to find video that doesn’t focus on Layne or Jerry)

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Top 5: Low fi music vids
Posted on 02.12.08 by hardrockchick @ 3:08 pm

OK Go: Here It Goes Again. All well choreographed and well practiced dance moves make this seem higher budget than it is.

Mickey Avalon: Waiting to Die. Shot with a cell phone.

Beck: Elevator Music. Beck released 2006’s The Information, with a video for every song; most of them low budget.

Snoop Dogg: Sensual Seduction. Worn out VHS tape style.

A Place to Bury Strangers: I Know I’ll See You. Shot using a webcam from the director’s home in LA and the band was in their RV.


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Top 5: hybrid or flat out made up music genres
Posted on 02.11.08 by hardrockchick @ 11:38 pm

1. electro-synth spaz: Yip-Yip

2. Ghettotech / Concrete / Melodramatic Popular Song :Rjd2

3. Screamo / Glam / Rap: Foreign Beggars

4. Death Metal / Happy Hardcre / Powerpop: Scratch Perverts

5. New Wave / Dub / Psychobilly: Santogold


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Top 5: Music Video directors
Posted on 01.28.08 by hardrockchick @ 12:51 am

1. Spike Jonze

Fatboy Slim/Praise You. To put himself in the starring role took something all by itself. And it was very timely, hitting in 1999, right before reality television took off.

Beastie Boys/Sabotage. He took the already cool Beastie Boys and made them cooler.

Fatboy Slim/Weapon of Choice. Two words: Christopher Walken. Two more words: Can Dance.

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Top 5: I’m Depressed About the World songs
Posted on 01.22.08 by hardrockchick @ 9:51 pm

The world is pretty fucked up right now. Today felt like the tipping point where all hell began to break loose. Yesterday was Blue Monday…perhaps today is Black Tuesday. We’re in year 5 of a war, oil costs $100 a barrel, the stock market is taking a nose dive, health care sucks, mortgages suck, entertainers are dying from pills instead of heroin, our president is retarded….let’s commiserate.

Black Flag- Depression

Tears For Fears- Mad World

Nirvana- Downer

NIN- Survivalism

Radiohead- Lucky


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Top 5: Things to take to a show
Posted on 01.15.08 by hardrockchick @ 8:48 pm

1. Your ticket. There’s no worse feeling than getting to a show and realizing you left your ticket at home. Likewise, if your ticket is at Will Call, don’t forget to print your email receipt, bring your credit card, and…

2. Your ID. If you’re 21, of course. And if the venue is 21 and up.

3. Ear plugs! If you go to shows frequently, you should invest in some earplugs, or at least go get some from coat check, security, or at the bigger shows they are free at the rock medicine booths. I’m awaiting a nice pair of custom earplugs soon, so I can enjoy the vocals again.

4. Sturdy shoes. Metal and rock shows= steel toes. Hip hop= sneaks. There are only a few shows where it is acceptable to wear nice shoes, and usually they involve having a seat. If you wear stilettos to a GA show, please don’t step on people’s feet- I have some permanent damage.

5. Money. Drinks-Posters-CDs-Tees…support your venue and the band. And don’t forget to tip your bartender.


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Top 5 rock chicks that rule/d the stage
Posted on 12.20.07 by hardrockchick @ 12:21 am

Wendy O. Williams/The Plasmatics

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Top 5: premonition songs/albums
Posted on 12.04.07 by hardrockchick @ 10:48 pm

Ready to Die, Notorious BIG
Three years before his death, BIG proclaimed that he was ready with this album and song title.

Ready to Die

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Live Through This, Hole
Conspiracy theory says that Kurt Cobain penned this album for his wife, Courtney Love…and if he did, he was sending her a message. It was released 4 days after his death.

I Think That I Would Die

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Makaveli: The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, Tupac
Released a month after his death, the number 7 is prevalent in Tupac’s death- he was shot on Sept. 7th, lived for 7 days, etc.

Krazy

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Isolation, Joy Division
The lyrics echo the emotions of Ian Curtis before his committed suicide shortly before the release of Closer, which contained this track.

Isolation

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I Hate Myself and Want to Die, Nirvana
The title, rather than the lyrics, captured the tragedy and became the slogan of poster child Kurt Cobain.

I Hate Myself and Want to Die

kurt


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Top 5: Songs that are long and could be longer
Posted on 11.28.07 by hardrockchick @ 10:30 am

These songs could go on forever…and almost do.

Christian Woman, Type O Negative (9:04)

Freebird, Lynyrd Skynyrd (9:13)

Estranged, Guns ‘n’ Roses (9:24)

The End, The Doors (9:36)

In A Gadda Da Vida (17:11) They even had to youtube it in 2 parts!


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Top 5: Songs that are too short
Posted on 11.27.07 by hardrockchick @ 9:53 am

They leave me wanting more every time.

Breaking Glass, David Bowie (1:53)

Been A Son, Nirvana (1:56)

Yesterdays, The Beatles (2:05)

Dropkick The Punks, The Faint (2:24)

Highwayman, The Highwayman (3:04)


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