Music: The Cranberries - No Need to Argue

I remember the time when I first herd The Cranberries back in the 90s, it was through an old PC game/EP titled Doors and Windows I did not care for the band I generally care about the interactivity part of the CD, because in my 5 year old mind everything that I could click is a game to me, win or loose, its all game to me, but I do remember watching one of the clips in the game that includes a video clip when they played on Woodstock 94 and the song from that clip was Zombie, I can't remember I liked the song or not, fast forward a tad, when I used to listen to the radio to fall asleep to, I remember hearing that song again and I ended up liking the song along with the song Dreams, Ode to My Family and so on.

I have picked this CD up at my local Goodwill and I think to myself, oh hey, lets give this one a spin, right away they kicked off this album with Ode to My Family one of there pretty well known song, it is not really my favorite but I 'll take it or leave it none the less. The next two songs I will have to say they are pretty ok songs, its nothing memorable but it is something nice to cruise along to, then we get to Zombie, arguably there most well known song, I will say this song definitely got the alternative edge with the chugging of the heavy guitar, I would say the main reason why they got some attention from the alternative crowd...or just generally for the American audience with there obsession with anything with loud guitars (hey, it was the 90s, it means ether you get a guitar or get the fuck out).

Now this is where the album starts falling apart, I mean its not terrible by any means, they are good at there own right, its just there not that memorable, its not something you would blast to while your driving on the highway, they are good, but seems like its something you would chill to, bring in some weed and maybe bring a buddy and just relax. I guess the only problem I have and its just my opinion and I may sound like an idiot, but my point is, that its not a car album...you know what I mean?

Overall, its not good, its not bad, its just...in the middle, its an average album at best, maybe its not my kind of music, but hey I least I tried, and I gave my honest opinion, does that make us all winners?

Music: Sisqo - Unleash The Dragon

Sisqo (aka Mark Andrews) is a singer of the R&B group "Dru Hill", they where well known for the hit singles "In My Bed", "Never Make A Promise" to name a few. Along the line of there career Woody left to pursue his solo career, and thus inspired other members of the group to do there own themselves, I am sure the most infamous member to make a solo is album is Sisqo, I remember watching TRL back in the day and have this little guy running around announcing his new video on this album, titled "Thong Song", I remember that video so much, all bunch of hot chicks in there bikini's at a beach, and have Sisqo drive into the beach an start dancing around getting the party started, but the scene will always stick out to me is the black light scene, thats where dreams are made of...

Then again, the video is just plain ridiculous. I will admit it, the song is catchy, its a song that get the girls dancing, I find the lyrics are ridiculous by todays standards, its laughable, and also some outdated references (Does anyone in US say "Livin' La Vida Loca" anymore?). Don't expect to ever to hear this song at a club or a strip club any time soon, it just did not age too well and its pretty much just a novelty of a song.

So yeah, many are now thinking, hows the album? Well, if you take away the sole hit song, its just a awful album, every song sounds exactly the same, the subject matter is all the same, its just music about making love, girls, all that jazz...or something a little bit about more specific...its songs about fucking, thats all it is, its just songs about fucking. Don't get me wrong, I like romantic, love making music, but here is the difference, you can have the greatest production of all time, you can have songs about making love, but you have to make the song...good. If the music just for the sake of love making, then your album will not do too well outside the bedroom.

The biggest problem with this album is cliched, rest assure you will bring out the check list of RnB/Soul Cliches and it will clear out everything to a tee. Many songs are all the same, it will not let up the pace at all until 8 tracks in (guess what the song is). Its also a boring album, I've been driving around at least 5 towns (I live in Connecticut, there are so many small towns) trying to run some errands, but this crap just sucks the life out of me, I wanted listen to something new but I can't for the sake of reviewing, I pretty much have to suffer through this one. I remember when the last track on the album came on, it bursted out with energy, I was like "woah holy shit what happened!?" but sadly, its just a remix track and it came in too late. Overall, if you see this album in the used bin...avoid it, its awful...not worth the 3 bucks, do the world a favor, don't listen to it.

Music: Limp Bizkit - Significant Other

First, lets get this out of the way, Fred Durst is the worst rapper ever. Honestly, he is just the worst, he has the worst flow, worst rhyming ability, and just bad choice of words, if any people think they can rap, they are idiots like Fred Durst.

Now we got that out of the way, let me tell you a little history of my life, back in Middle school I was an angry young lad, I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the good ole stuff that my dad influenced me, then one day I have the desire to listen to something...heavy, and loud, and thus I discover bands like Korn, Kid Rock, and of course...Limp Bizkit. I did not know any better since I am just a teenager and this was something that just happened to played on MTV around the time, I do remember watching the video for "Nookie" and being attracted to Wes Borland, it was his contacts he was wearing, when I first saw that I was like "dude, whats up with your eyes?" I never knew contacts existed until my friends pointed out, of course months later I bought the CD and liking every minute of it because it was loud and heavy, it was what I called around that time "Heavy Metal", years go by and I was getting old, realize there is better stuff out there if you actually look, so I destroyed my Limp Bizkit CDs when I realize that it was crap and I was hypnotized by this lie, but in the way in defined me for who I am today, I hated it but at the same time I admired it.

10 years later, I am all grown up and I found my way, and expanded my knowledge of music, and lets just say I officially found my center, and I have expanded my mind. One day, I decided to take a look back at my music that I used to listen to back in Elementary School, Middle, and High school because I felt like I was in a runt, I was tired of listening to same metal music that I have been hearing for years, so I took a look back and see what influenced me throughout the years and see how it aged, so good, some bad, some because all time favorites, some I despised all together...and Limp Bizkit's "Significant Other" is one of them.

I have picked up my copy at a Goodwill for $3 since I have destroyed my original copy (damn that teen angst of mine), I was with my friend at the store, I pulled out the CD case, exam it...make sure the CD wasn't stolen...it wasn't. My friend looked at me and told me that I have lost my mind for buying a Limp Bizkit CD, I told him that I am just revisiting the past, he was all like "whatever dude". As I popped in the CD into my Sony Walkman connected to a cassette adaptor in which is connected to my car stereo system and start listening, the intro was playing with its spacey backbeat and it includes what I assume is Fred with a downtuned voice announcing that I wanted "the worst" and I got it...I would of taken that as a warning, but I listened on to the albums opening track "Just Like This" which to be honest its not a bad song to open up to, it gets you pumped, gets you excited, and encourage you with not so great lyrics, but I do like the song non the less.

We move on to next song which is debatably there biggest song, "Nookie". I will admit it, it is a guilty pleasure of song, it is also a very cocky kind of song, basically the song is just saying "oh, I am just in it to get laid...byeeeeeeee", oh and the chorus is repetitive, but at the end, I actually kind of like it, maybe its the nostalgia goggles. Pretty much the next 2 songs are the string of hits "Break Stuff" and "Re-Arranged", "Break Stuff" is pretty much the angry teen anthem, encourage to use violence when someone treats you like trash...Eric and Dylan would of been proud, legend has it that this song was the reason why there where violence at Woodstock 99, so I guess Fred ruined Woodstock, what an asshole. "Re-Arranged" as far as I know sounds like some kind of break up song, baseline being played over and over again and with a little scratching from good ole DJ Lethal (little late on the party don't you think?), but you know what's really crazy? this is actually my favorite song on this whole album, I don't know why, I tend to listen to this song over and over then most the songs on the album.

After a string of hits, something crashed landed and I don't know what it is, pretty much the whole album hit awol with the song "I'm Broke", the song is basically what I am hearing is Fred bitching for the fact for people begging for money and for some reason that he does not have any money, to me what really stand out is the opening lyrics, this is the true mark of a genius

"I aint no joke/So you should get yourself a pen/And write yourself a little note so you don't forget again/When it comes to cash/I've been gettin' smoked/Lendin' out my money now im broke/Somebody's gettin' choked/Cuz now its time to pay the piper/Bums are the type of shit that are in a diaper/Don't make me have to call a sniper..."

 that is by far the worst lyrics I have ever herd of my life!! By this time the goggles has been taken off.

As I face the reality of it all, I have swam through some of the worst songs I have ever whiteness, and so many of the songs are just not that memorable other than hearing Jon Davis saying "fuck me" which I pretty much laughed out loud because it just sounded so dumb. Then we reached to what it is a straight up hip hop song "N 2 Gether Now" which I will honestly say the production did sounded good because of DJ Premier (of Gang Star), once again it's plagued with Fred Durst ability to rap, luckily it did not last long when Method Man, which he is in many ways, the better rapper, its not his best rapping he done, but its better none the less. I do have to admit, Fred Durst maybe the worst but he does has good taste of rap music.

More crap about him bitching about his sex life and all that jazz with songs like "Trust?" and "No Sex", here something I don't understand about the song "No Sex" its about regretting about making love to someone but if you listen to "Nookie" 9 tracks ago, this song defeats the purpose of the meaning and this makes him sounded like a hypocrite, and I would like to point out the lyric...

"its my ass/your perfume/that make my temptation hard to refuse."

...kind of confused me a little, when I heard I was like "wait what!?", maybe its my toilet mind of mine, what he is saying that the smell of his ass and the girls perfume makes sex happen...hey guys, fart as much as possible! the girls love it!! Moving on, what we got here is what I would say is there anthem song or as I would like to call it for Nu-Metal bands...the "GITDAFUKUP" song "Show Me What You Got", I am going to admit I am a sucker for anthems, even it does have the most terrible writing, the whole song is just listing off cities they played (I'll admit it, I gleed when he mentioned Hartford, because anything Connecticut rarely gets mentioned), and they also listed there thanks to there friends and influenced, honestly they should of ended the album there, but the album has to end with a whimper of a song "A Lesson Learned" what the does the song mean to me? it just sounded like whining about how life is just not easy, luckily its short, but I considered it unnecessary, and we ended this album with an Outro which is the extended version of the intro.

Overall, the album started out strong, but after 4 songs, it just completely dropped the ball, there where some redeeming songs but its hard to fully recover when it keeps delivering bad songs, the album did not age well, production values is not too bad, it is a step up from there first album. One thing I would like to point out is the album cover, although its a good cover, but when you actually look through the whole packaging, it has an identity crisis, its poorly designed (try to read the lyrics). Its such a shame that the album that I once liked actually turned out to be a not so good of an album. Sorry Fred, but this is my Unquestionable Truth *grins*

Ramble On - Christmas at Ground Zero

Lets the record straight, I much I love Christmas, mainly because I love to be with my family, I think they are the best in the world (yeah thats really biased), I don't mind the gifts, and the lights, and the noise noise noise, and surprisingly I don't mind the religious meaning (I'm an Atheist, I'll talk about it some other time) but the thing is...I hate Christmas music!!

I personally cannot stomach this crap, yes its traditional, yes it makes people get in the spirit, but I hear it so many times that I am so sick of hearing it, but out of all of the Christmas music, the one I will never get tired of hearing no matter what, and in a strange way, it always gets me in the spirit of Christmas...Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you...Christmas at Ground Zero

An original song by the great Weird Al Yankovic, defiantly one of my personal favorites, I would say that this tops most of his music HE written, I will admit it, his parodies trumps over his original songs, hell even his polkas are better, don't get me wrong, I do like most of his originals, its just many of them are hits and misses. If I have to pick 3 songs, I would pick (in no order) Dare to be Stupid, One More Minute, and Albuquerque. Anyway, I am just rambling on here. The reason why I like this song is because for some reason I really do like his dark sense of humor, many people do not know that Weird Al does have a real good scenes of humor, not all of his jokes are just for kids but it has a little something for Adults, thus explain that there are fans that are at least 16 or older. I mean, when I saw this video from College Humor, I thought that sketch was a genius idea

Anyway, I adore this song and its been playing on my iPod especially around this time of year, there is something about thtat just catches my ear, especially after 9/11 the meaning of the word "Ground Zero"has since changed, and I like looking at all the dumbasses thinking the song is about 9/11, but the song is actually about the cold war, hell even the video basically used old educational and news reel films that where used around the Cold War era, even former president Ronald Reagan made an appearance. While I'm at it why do people think the song "911 Was A Joke" is a song about 9/11? the song is about Police...and not a positive look at it. I don't know, I generally like to play with people and there stupidity, makes me happy I live in the Post 9/11 era.

Leaving on a positive note, I like this song, it is my all time favorite Christmas song, I wish you all a Happy Holidays!!! and I am sorry for a crappy entry :3

Rant - Pearl Jam's Jeremy video

Heres a little something I want to get this off my chest, first of all, I am not a big Pearl Jam fan, but I do like the song Jeremy, I do remember seeing the video back when it came out, it was an awesome video, many people talk about the video more than the actual song itself, but did you guys know there was an uncensored version?


Yes, there was an uncensored version of the video, its a video that was rarely seen because MTV are too much pussies to view anything that would potentially get sued for. In the original version of the video we would see all the students stand up in the class, as the camera pans from left to the right, we would see the students doing a nazi salute with the American flag turned upside-down, Thats one thing, the other one is the most infamous, the video was suppose to end with the titled character walk in the class room, throws the apple to the teacher (where we hardly see at all) he stands in front of the class, then he pulls his gun out and put it in his mouth and ends up killing himself, in the "censored" version the video was "post-producedly" edited the video of closing up on Jeremy's head, obscuring the gun. In the censored version many believe that Jeremy killed all his fellow students in the class, but they are all wrong.

Now, many are asking "why are you posting this?", well, I have a problem with all the idiots on YouTube. Every video I have seen claimed that they have the uncut version of the video but in reality it s a fucking lie! I know it, everyone who searches the video knows it, I really want to know why they faulty claimed its the uncut version? was it there plot to get more views? or are they just plain stupid. Its obvious that they did not bother looking at the video itself, they just lurk around the internet, they found a video claiming its the uncensored version, downloaded it off of Limewire or whatever crap P2P servers they use nowadays, never bother watching it or thought it is the legit version and upload it on YouTube. Just blows my mind how stupid people can be. Here is the sad part, ITS EVERYWHERE!!! 1 out of 30 chances you would actually found the actual version of the video, at least these assholes did there homework and knew it was the actual video, here is the problem, most of the time the video got deleted because of those fat cat record executives need more money so they take down the video claiming that its copy-write infringing. For gods sake people, let the world see the offensive video, the world is curious, and we all want to see the original artist attend for the audience to see.

Anyway, just throwing it out there, its just something that just grinds my gears, so for your amusement, here is the uncut version (its real, trust me).

Top 5 - Guilty Pleasures

I was watching Nostalgia Critic's review on Moulin Rouge, basically, he hated the movie with a passion but during the review they brought in 2 guest reviewers trying to defend the movie saying that its a good, fun movie and all, until about halfway into the review, they where starting to turn against the film, but its not until the end that they still like the movie, then they break into song about that they like the movie because its a guilty pleasure. Encase you guys don't know, A guilty pleasure is something one enjoys and considers pleasurable despite feeling guilt for enjoying it. The "guilt" involved is sometimes simply fear of others discovering one's lowbrow or otherwise embarrassing tastes. Fashion, video games, music, movies, and junk food can be examples of guilty pleasures.


Anyway, the video inspired me to create this list, this list pretty much speaks for itself, it is based on my personal opinion, whether you guys like it or not, besides, I need to post something new, since I nearly posted nothing for like a month...Sorry. So without further ado, lets start the list.

5. The Wizard

Of all the bad movies that I watched over the years, there is always something uncomfortable about admitting of liking the movie, I know for the fact that its a really bad movie. I know many video game fans tore this movie apart, saying the movie is really a really big commercial for Nintendo, they are right, and pretty much most of the time the facts of the movie is generally wrong, like how you could get 50k points on Double Dragon in less than 2 minutes, most of the wrong facts are ok, but the one part that always get me everytime is this part, it just does not make sense!!! Honestly, what the fuck was he talking about!?

Yeah I know my nerd rage is showing but the thing is, its fun to pick this movie apart, especially with friends, and I love the peoples reaction to the old man in the speedo (btw, sorry for the image). For a movie, it is a bad movie, but as a party "Camp/Cult/So Bad That is Good" movie night, I recommend watching this one, you won't be disappointed.

4. Pokemon

I will admit to everyone, it was a trend, a phase that I went through, I am pretty sure everyone around my age where playing Pokemon games on the Gameboy, I remember when everyone was collecting Pokemon cards (I have a few myself), and there was the Anime...my god that show was absolute crap and that ruined Pokemon for everyone, when everyone thinks of Pokemon, they think of the crap show. To me,  I'm a fan of the games than the show, now the reason why is this on my list is because when I admit something like this to the public, they are going to go all low brow and think of the show than the games, people need to admit the games are fun. I generally enjoy it. For the record, I only played Pokemon up to Pokemon Yellow, I never went beyond that, so I only know the first 151 Pokemons. I am glad I am friends of people that openly admits that they like Pokemon.


To sum it all up, I like the games, the show can kiss my ass!

3. Wrestling Video Games

I love video games, and I love wrestling games. I will admit that I like video games and like wrestling to the public. But for some reason when I go out to buy a new wrestling game, I feel embarrassed! I guess I know for the fact that wrestling is fake, and many people look at it as kids stuff...I guess, and the thing is, most the games are meh (the last good WWE/F game was WWE Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain), I hear everyone asking "Y U PLEH RESTLIN GAYM!?"....I love the CAW feature...now for those who are not in the know, CAW stands for "Create-A-Wrestler", it kind of speaks for itself, its a feature that YOU can create your own wrestler, it was a addiction since WWF Warzone came out, my brother and I would create our own wrestlers and we would fight each other, it was a good time fun.

Sad thing is, many wrestling games did not age that well, Warzone is crap by today's standards...so what do I do? BUY MORE WRESTING GAMES!!!! because they always update the CAW feature and right now its so advance that you could make your own Ring in the new WWE 12', and as a fool, I am going to buy it, even knowing the fact that the game is just meh.

2. Nu-Metal

Once upon a time back in Middle School, I was an angry strapping young lad, I was rebelling against my parents, my teachers, and my friends...I wish I was :p it wasn't until High School when that stuff happens. Anyway, back in Middle school, I listened to allot of bands like Limp Bizkit, Creed, Korn, Staind, I thought I was cool because I thought the music was cool and I looked down on everyone, I was just cool in my own mind. I thought listening to this was the coolest thing in the world, until I get a load of this.

They seriously changed my ways and I became a true metal head, and I threw away all those crap CDs that I have and listen to stuff like Sepultura, Slayer, Megadeth, it was like a divine intervention. I completly closed out of the whole Nu-Metal shit, and realize there was a difference between good shit and the shit that MTV spoon-fed me, MTV and I where no longer friends back then and I have not let them back into my life...thank goodness! Beyond the end of High School (roughly my early 20s) I decided to look upon my years and realize how much I changed over the years, I look at the music and I realized that there was an evolution in my taste of music, and I decided to take a listen to my old Nu-Metal music, it kind of rekindle my interest and I looked up and see where most the bands are at nowadays, and being shocked that some of my favorites broke up. So yeah, I do like Nu-Metal music for what it is, I know its bad music but I think its fun to listen to. Just don't expect me to admit it in front of hardcore metalhead at a Manowar concert.




and now... NUMBER 1# Drum Roll please

1. Cyndi Lauper

Ok, here is something that is need to be said, I...think Cyndi Lauper is hot!!! You can have your Katy Perry, you can have your Natalie Portmen, or whatevers on Maxim's Top 100 list. I think Cyndi Lauper is the hottest girl in the world, even nowadays she actually looks good. Plus, I personally love her personality, I love her fashion, I am generally in love with her, I know I could never have her, but if I ever meet her in-person, I would just for shits and giggles, ask her in a hand of marriage. Now, I hear you asking "do you like her music" yes...yes I do, I love "She Bop", "Time After Time", and yes..."Girls Just Want to Have Fun".






But the cream of the crop is "Goonies R Good Enough", because The Goonies is one of my all time favorite movies and that song was get me out of the blues, it was my call back from reality, it makes me remember that I should never give up and never say die. I am also a fan of the music video, I think the video was epic especially the cameo of WWF wrestlers like Andre The Giant, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Iron Sheik...it just tickles the wrestling fan in me.




So this concludes my list!! I hope you enjoy my list, if you guys like it, I will make more!!

Pardon the Silence

Hey guys pardon the lack of new posting, I live in the southern part of New England we got hit with a wicked snow storm...in October, and pretty much faced a total blackout for almost a week. I already got stuff planned out, I am working on one review as I am posting this, I know I don't have much readers,  but I figured I let you guys know that I am alive and I will keep this blog site going.

Stay tuned.