All Time Favs ...

I shall begin ...

newschool?

Nice!! I haven't heard anything from puscifer in forever ...

Clutch

I woke this morning and had this stuck in my head ...

...oh me and my boots

Bussing through Hippie town today, so here's some oldness:

Epica

Classic!!!

Good times

System of a down is one of my favorite bands ... expect to see more

Protege Moi De Mes Desirs i.e. Protect Me From My Desires

Smiley wrote:

Protege Moi De Mes Desirs i.e. Protect Me From My Desires

I love that song ... truly one of my all time faves! From what I can see, we have a similar taste in music .

This band really helped me through adolescence. The front man of the group grew up to be a proffesor at a university. He began writing lyrics when he was in class during highschool.

I could really identify with a lot of the lyrics, and some of them, and from other bands too, helped me stay whole living in southern california beach towns. The lyrics of this band and others are where some of the most complete and accurate social commentary of our times is hidden.

Another couple personal favorites-

Awww ... that reminds me of Hawaii .

I think Bad Religion spoke to lots of people; a bit to harsh (in a very relative sense) for me personally but a lot of my peers indulged.

They sounded really harsh. I remember everytime they played in LA when I was a kid riots ended up breaking out into the street.

Lyracly though they were nothing but the most intellegent and progressive bands of the time. OG punk rock, like the real deal hardcore stuff attracted two major "types" of people. People that were into mindless chaos and then there was a much more progresiv, political and intellegent side to the scene.

Its all bubblegum and chaos now, the soul sold out but it was really an outlet for people who grew up in tightwad whitebread waspy suburban famlies that saw through the veil to some degree. So there is a lot of anger in it because its also the voice of an opressed minority of the time it ran...white kids with eyes and ears.

Theres also a difference between european punk and american hard core, I think a lot of euro punk and new york punk was much more a fuck you type of art without any other representation, but american hardcore was much more like, heres the reason why fuck you.

A lot of it only even sounds angry but if you listen is really very posotive.

This stuff is all pretty positive, in fact that was one of the sub-cultures of the PR scene, "positive action"
and then there was the straight edge kids that were anti drugs and sloth. Its kids taking themselves out of the system and making there own, making their own music and making their own record labels and magazines and being their own media. Its all very good; listen.

It gave kids that didn't fit in something to look too besides religion, something they could also look at as cool so they could be like sneaches with stars.













but you have to listen.