The other day, I got dressed for work and entered the living room to find my son dancing around to Suddenly I See. I use the term “dancing” loosely, of course, since it was more like giggling and hopping in circles; you know, the sort of freeform joyful expression of which only a toddler is [...]
My wife hates this song, and I’ve never been a huge Weird Al Yankovic fan, but I just couldn’t help but feel like it’s talking about me. I actually did a lyric-by-lyric comparison to see just how white and nerdy I am. After tallying up my comments below, I’d say 9 of the lyrics describe [...]
The first time I heard this song, it was background music for a Gears of War commercial. I think I might have also heard it on a commercial for Thief. At any rate, I knew I liked it from the moment I heard it, but it wasn’t until a coworker played it that I finally [...]
I first saw the video for this song this morning, although I’m sure I’d heard it on the radio a number of times without paying much attention. Hinder has an almost Nickelback-like quality that makes me like them more the longer I listen to them. Of course, having only ever had one real girlfriend (or [...]
How much do I know about bass guitars? Not a thing. I once owned an acoustic. I tried to play it for a few weeks and thereafter left it to languish in my closet as hobby that was never meant to be. It has since passed on to my brother-in-law as an early Christmas present; [...]
I live in the city. I work at a white-collar desk job. Still, I have to admit that I went to a backwater high school in a rural county. Now, I can’t say that I’m proud of it, but I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t a part of who I am. That’s how [...]
My wife and I first heard clips of this song on previews for The Covenant and immediately knew that we had to put it in our collection. I’m not entirely sure if it counts as techno or just heavy metal with some techno influence (an indistinct genre that my wife and I lovingly refer to [...]
Like most songs I post here, I decided I must like 10 Years’ Wasteland after listening to it on continuous repeat for several hours at work without realizing it. Before I looked up the lyrics, I could’ve sworn he was saying, “Change my accent,” in the first line of the song. Oh well, I’ve never [...]
While I can’t say I’m a huge fan of Shinedown, I thought Save Me was a great song. It’s hard to put a finger on what makes it worth turning up the radio. It’s got thick, almost poetic symbolism throughout the whole song, which gives it a feeling of depth even though it’s difficult to [...]
Let me preface this by saying that I hate the idea of manufactured fame. It makes me sick to think that stars and music idols are created rather than self-made, that our cultural icons are now factory-produced rather than gaining their status on their own merits. Still, I like to give every artist, and by [...]