Rock And F'n Roll

It's Music Day a day early. 1. Japanese performing in blackface? If I do it, I’m called a racist. If the Japanese do it... well, nobody cares since they are freaky tentacle porn and Hello Kitty molesting perverts anyway. Here's a picture of them in full attire: I promised myself I wouldn't use the word "Mammy" to describe this. Somebody bring in the P.C. police quickly. 2. Music videos. Remember those? They used to have entire television shows dedicated to showing a visual presentation set to the music of a musical artist. Sadly, that is a thing of the past, and what we get instead is the mind-numbing pablum of reality shows. Thank God for VH1 Classics. Here's a music video for the lib in your life. Bush was right. ... Just not on unchecked spending, sucking up to democrats, and little, if any, border control. Bwaynose Tardees Me Amigoos (spelling intentional) 3. Just what the hell is grindcore and noisecore anyway? Here's a definition: "Grindcore is an extreme form of hardcore punk and heavy metal, related to both death metal and crust punk, but historically formed by combining elements of hardcore punk and early thrash metal. " I remember naming my first band. The name was Collusion. I liked the sound and meaning: “A secret agreement between two or more parties for a fraudulent, illegal, or deceitful purpose.” To us that meant nothing more than which fake ID we used to buy beer. We lasted all of two semesters in 10th grade, but it was a good time. What the hell are kids thinking these days? They have some of the worst band names. (WARNING on the link below) Run the cursor over the link to see if you want to continue to their song page. Some words may not be safe for work.

Their mothers must be proud.

I looked (but not very hard) for their lyrics, and couldn't find any. If they are as simple as some of the tabs they posted, I don't think I want to know the words. But, some of the more enjoyable sounding work is shown here: Everyone In Limp Bizkit Should Be Killed Ha Ha Your Wife Left You Harvey Korman Is Gay I Ate Your Horse I Got Athletes Foot Showering At Mikes I Hope You Get Deported I Lit Your Baby On Fire I'm thinking they probably sound like so many of those growling, heavy on the one chord bassline bands, that are so popular right now with the suicide candidates. Although, you have to like the Everyone In Limp Bizkit Should Be Killed. 4. What's been in the CD player this past week? A. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium Review: It gets better the longer you listen to it, although I'm curious about the song placement. It seems that each disk's music is set up in this order: funky, slow, funky, slow, etc. Why not take the funk songs they are so popular for and put them on one CD, and put the slower, ballad songs on disk two? Makes sense to me. Maybe there was too much material here to begin with, and it was a case of let's just dump it out. Is it Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik, or Mother's Milk? No. But it is better than By The Way, or One Hot Minute. On the plus side, Flea doesn't have a solo song to sing. It's a nice all 'round effort that just about everyone can listen to. Why don't we leave it at that. B. Joe Jackson: I'm The Man C. Gomez: Out West D. The Stone Roses: Best of