What song are you currently listening to?

I really haven't heard anything about that before! Thanks for the information. If I had to put together a 12 song UYI album combining both albums it would look something like this:

1. Right Next Door To Hell
2. Live & Let Die
3. 14 Years
4. Double Talkin' Jive
5. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
6. You Could Be Mine (my favourite G'N'R song)
7.Back Off Bitch
8. Civil War
9. Estranged
10. Don't Cry
11. Get In The Ring
12. November Rain

I couldn't do just 12 songs. I'd need all of those as well as Don't Damn Me, Bad Apples, Dead Horse, Dust N' Bones, Pretty Tied Up, Bad Obsession, You Ain't the First, etc. I love those albums so much especially UYI 1.

Anywho,

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The second verse on this track is so fucking dope it's unreal. Rittz is quickly becoming my favorite rapper. Every track he does sounds like a classic.
 
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The latest effort from Action Bronson is all sorts of sick. He's one of the most interesting guys in the industry at the moment.
 
The second verse on this track is so fucking dope it's unreal. Rittz is quickly becoming my favorite rapper. Every track he does sounds like a classic.

Fo sho. The speed and technicality on the verse is up there with what a lot of the top talents are capable of doing. Who's he signed with??

And Twista has been a hell of a feature lately. The verse he contributed to Sir Michael Rock's new album was fire.
 
Fo sho. The speed and technicality on the verse is up there with what a lot of the top talents are capable of doing. Who's he signed with??

He's about to drop his second album with Strange Music on the 9th of September. The first, The Life and Times of Johnny Valiant, was super dope.

And Twista has been a hell of a feature lately. The verse he contributed to Sir Michael Rock's new album was fire.

He kind of fell off of the face of the earth for a while as far as I was concerned but he's been doing a lot of features with Strange lately so he's been back on my radar. He and Tech seem to be a natural fit.
 
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You Blew It

I had never heard of these guys and I was checking out an article I think it was on Alternative Press about 36 bands that covered Weezer. I thought these guys did a really good job so I went to YouTube to check them out. This song is pretty good and I really like the lyrics of it. It definitely made me want to hear more stuff by them.
 
First time writing in a forum :D

Recently, I've been listening to alot of music. I'm constantly am surrounded by music.
But the main two bands that are on repeat is Of Mice And Men and Issues.

Of Mice And Men are.. incredible. All their lyrics are just on par, the heaviness of the band, with Austin screaming gives me chills. And the singing vocals are clean. So clean. I could listen to them as I fall asleep.

Issues.. are possibly one of the best bands I've come across in my life. Big statement? Yep.
First. You have Michael. Deep growls and high screams. He's incredible. And then you have Tyler who has the voice of an R'n'B singer. Yet.. he's playing with guitar riffs in which are brutal. The song writing is perfect. So good. Everything about these two bands are perfection.
 
I've been listening to the new Dragonforce album Maximum Overdrive, which was released in August, a lot this week. The new singer is really growing on me, despite both of the albums with him being a step down from the days of Sonic Firestorm or Ultra Beatdown. Maximum Overdrive is a pretty cool album, I purchased the deluxe version that has some extra tracks on it. Both the deluxe and standard versions contain a cover of Johnny Cash's "Ring Of Fire", check that out if you haven't yet. My favorite track on the album is this one:

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The name of the track is Three Hammers. It is one of my two favorite tracks featuring Hudson as the singer. The other being "Seasons" from the previous album. Three Hammers and the rest of this album have been good background music while levelling up and fighting random monsters outside towns in RPG games. Dragonforce have been my go-to band for levelling montage music for the past decade, this tradition continues now with Maximum Overdrive joining their older albums in my playlist.
 
I'm a big thrash metal guy, SLAYER is my be-all, end-all band, with Motorhead at a very close 2nd.

I picked up Motorhead's "We Are Motorhead" album this week and jammed to it alot. The song of the same title as the album is pretty kick ass.

We are the flame at night, the fire in the trash, we are Motorhead, born to kick your ass.
 
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Recommendations here for Triple Naitch. I'm glad I finally found somebody who might be able to appreciate this band. A lot of people seem to be turned off because of their Christian background. I try to leave personal beliefs out of it and just focus on the music they make. Good music is good music, what does it matter where it comes from? I'll be damned if these guys don't know how to write big heavy hooks clashed with powerful and catchy lyrics.
 
Recommendations here for Triple Naitch. I'm glad I finally found somebody who might be able to appreciate this band. A lot of people seem to be turned off because of their Christian background. I try to leave personal beliefs out of it and just focus on the music they make. Good music is good music, what does it matter where it comes from? I'll be damned if these guys don't know how to write big heavy hooks clashed with powerful and catchy lyrics.

Nice one man, like I said in the rep- I will give these a listen later tonight. I was (and still am I suppose) a huge fan of Creed and was a big P.O.D fan back in the day too, so Christian rock is fine for me. I'm not religious, I really don't care what religion a band is as long as I enjoy the music- whether I listen to the "messages" or not! Glad someone else agrees!

As for my next pick...

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Yeahhh baybayyyyyyyy! You cannot beat a bit of the 'Smack, and this is the opening track from their "The Oracle". Massive guitars and drums as always, growling roaring vocals from Sully and a powerful chorus...so basically a typical Godsmack song. However, I've found out recently that apparently this is an attack on Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx...I don't know how true this is..can anyone shed any light on this?
 
Nice one man, like I said in the rep- I will give these a listen later tonight. I was (and still am I suppose) a huge fan of Creed and was a big P.O.D fan back in the day too, so Christian rock is fine for me. I'm not religious, I really don't care what religion a band is as long as I enjoy the music- whether I listen to the "messages" or not! Glad someone else agrees!

As for my next pick...

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Yeahhh baybayyyyyyyy! You cannot beat a bit of the 'Smack, and this is the opening track from their "The Oracle". Massive guitars and drums as always, growling roaring vocals from Sully and a powerful chorus...so basically a typical Godsmack song. However, I've found out recently that apparently this is an attack on Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx...I don't know how true this is..can anyone shed any light on this?

I'm copying this from a music site. None of this is my first hand knowledge and I don't want to pretend it is. This is from an interview with Godsmack's drummer.

Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin is setting the record straight about singer Sully Erna’s feud with Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx.

After much speculation about the origin of Godsmack’s song ‘Cryin’ Like a Bitch,’ Larkin revealed in a recent interview that the song was not originally penned about Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx, but rather a sidelined Philip Rivers from the San Diego Chargers crying after a game loss.

Frontman Sully Erna then apparently took the song in a new direction that may have been influenced by his alleged less than hospitable experiences with Nikki Sixx on the 2009 Crue Fest 2 tour.

Now, in an all new interview with ‘Interviews From the Edge’ (see video below) on a recent Rockstar Mayhem Festival Tour stop, Larkin explains the rift between the two camps in a little more detail:

“Coming off of that Crue tour, [Sully] had issues with Nikki,” recalls Larkin. “Most of it stemmed from Motley Crue’s security more than Nikki, but Nikki is the leader of the band. Basically, the security threw us off the stage. Whatever, it was a bunch of ego s–t that none of us really got into.”

Larkin continues, “[Motley Crue's security] were real weird with our guests getting backstage, like our guests might want to look at Motley Crue. Our guests were there to see us and they didn’t care a s–t about Motley Crue. Motley Crue is a legendary band that we all respect. When I was 17, I had ‘Shout at the Devil’ but it just kind of fronted us a little that they would think that our guests would be star-struck over them. So, that’s where the bad blood came from.”

As to where all the recent animosity is coming from, Larkin pointed out that ‘Sully runs his mouth, Nikki runs his mouth. They’re both big rock stars. Next thing you know, it’s a battle in the press.”

Seemingly surprised that people are still talking about such an old issue, Larkin summed it up best, “People love drama.” He adds that despite the animosity between Sully and Nikki, “that was a fantastic tour.”
 


You + Me self-titled single

Dallas Green (of City and Colour and Alexisonfire) and Pink (of Pink) have announced that while they had plans to record a single together, they kinda sorta just ended up recording a 10 track album... as you do.

I'm a big Dallas fan but I have a lot of time for Pink too and they did some nice work together at live shows a few years ago so I'm really excited about this news and keen to hear how the rest of the album sounds when it is released in October.
 
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This song came up on my iPod on shuffle for the first time in ages this morning. I'd forgotten what a great song it was, and Jimmy Eat World was the 3rd concert I ever went to- I remember losing my shoe while crowd surfing to "Sweetness" hahaha, luckily I found it at the end of the concert though!

This song is about This song is about living life with no regrets. It's about realising that you haven't been living his life to the fullest so it's time to start, even at 25. It's never too late to get involved, meet someone and fall in love, and turn your life around.

Are you going to live your life wondering
Standing in the back looking around?
Are you going to waste your time thinking
How you've grown up
Or how you missed out?

Things are never gonna be the way you want
Where's it going to get you acting serious?
Things are never going to be quite what you want
Even at twenty five you got to start sometime

[Chorus]
I'm on my feet
I'm on the floor
I'm good to go
All I need is just to hear a song I know
I wanna always feel like part of this was mine
I wanna fall in love tonight
 
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So the metal thread suggested I check out Lamb Of God . Apparently the album this song is from (has the same title) is apparently one of the band's most popular so I'll check it out.
 
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The final song from the debut album of The Stone Roses, which is regularly voted by UK music magazines as one of (if not THE) greatest album of all time.

An incredible piece of music which builds up slowly until the epic chorus, and of course the iconic 4+ minute jam session at the end, which just emphasises (as does the song title) of the confidence and swagger of the Roses, who should have been the biggest band of all time, if they hadn't had the big falling out and break up after album 2. The enormous reunion gigs in 2012- which sold out faster than any UK rock gig in history shows how popular they are to this day.

The fact this was recorded in 1 take absolutely blows my mind. What talent Ian Brown, John Squire, Reni and Mani have/had.
 
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The final song from the debut album of The Stone Roses, which is regularly voted by UK music magazines as one of (if not THE) greatest album of all time.

An incredible piece of music which builds up slowly until the epic chorus, and of course the iconic 4+ minute jam session at the end, which just emphasises (as does the song title) of the confidence and swagger of the Roses, who should have been the biggest band of all time, if they hadn't had the big falling out and break up after album 2. The enormous reunion gigs in 2012- which sold out faster than any UK rock gig in history shows how popular they are to this day.

The fact this was recorded in 1 take absolutely blows my mind. What talent Ian Brown, John Squire, Reni and Mani have/had.

I Am The Resurrection is a great song, but the last song on my version of the album is Fool's Gold haha. Fool's Gold also is a great song with a great bassline, trippy guitar work nice drumming and Ian Brown sounding very out there. It also has a great jam near the end providing you're listening to the long version and not the single version
 
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I'm a HUGE fan of mash-ups. Especially when it's mash-ups of things that really don't go together. However, it seems easiest to do mash-ups of rap music, since the rappers don't actually sing most of the time and it's easier to synchronize to a track. When you're able to sync up actual singing to a track, however, and an entire song, that's impressive.

I love Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. It's insane, although it beats you over the head with the morals, and if you read the manga past the point where the show ends, the final big reveal will blow even fans of the TV show's mind as you can go back and pin-point certain things.

Avenged Sevenfold... they're alright. They rock nice and hard.

Mash up the two together... somehow, it's rock gold.
 
Ok, so I'm going to join in on this thread not just from time to time, but on a daily basis. The why?

I almost keep that "What song are you listening to" going on my own haha!
Challenge accepted brother, you're not alone any longer. ;) But I'm going to put my own twist on this, otherwise known as the "how." This thread can get mundane for me at times, picking random bands or artists and posting their songs. Regardless of the good memories I may have, it often feels like more of the "same old, same old."

So I'm going to pick an artist, and post one song of his/hers/theirs for a week.

Week 1: Brad Paisley​

Let me qualify this by saying that I'm not a country fan, but I am a Paisley fan. So much so that when his new album-Moonshine In the Trunk- came out two weeks ago, I pre-ordered it and waited until 1am Eastern time for it to be available on Itunes, and stayed up until 3, listening through the album several times. Many of the typical country themes are portrayed here:

-Women
-Alcohol
-Friends
-Chasing Women with Friends while drinking Alcohol
-Love of the South
-Guns and Trucks
-Heartbreak

But Paisley goes much deeper than that, and this album is a far cry from his 2013 offering, the concept album Wheelhouse. Here, he goes back to basics, but also offers up a hilarious duet that Carrie Underwood guests on about a bunch of rednecks who got a taste of cash, and once they had a taste of the "High Life", they couldn't let go. So did they work hard in order to make the money necessary to continue to live such lifestyle? Verse Two and Verse 3 especially have the answer:

I heard a song a couple months ago
It was Carrie Underwood on the radio
Reminded me of a song my brother wrote
Back in Second Grade

Now I know she didn't steal it, but so what?
We laywered up and we sued her butt
These days we figured we pretty much
Would get paid to go away


Here's the full song:

High Life-Brad Paisley

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The song touches on the humorous nature in parts of Paisley's songwriting, which is evident in at least 2-3 songs on every album of his. That he used Underwood as the person the lowlife rednecks sued and had her drop in to sing background on the last verse was pretty funny to me, as were the inventive ways the family kept generating money, then blowing it.

I'll have Day 2 of the week with Brad Paisley songs tomorrow.
 
Challenge accepted brother, you're not alone any longer. ;)

Great news man, I look forward to seeing your posts!

As for me? I am currently in the middle of doing a #100DaysofOasis theme on my Facebook, where I post a different Oasis song/ live performance/ demo/ interview/ picture/etc every day, as a response to the endless #100HappyDays statuses that have been clogging up my timeline for weeks.

This is today's (day 26) post...

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The first Oasis song I ever heard, which for some reason we sang regularly in Assembly in Primary School (why I have no idea?!), and it was my favourite song in the world for a couple of years until I discovered the rest of the Oasis back catalogue...now, it wouldn't get in my top 20 from the band.

Ignore the obvious similarities to "Imagine" by John Lennon, ignore the Lennon-esque sunglasses and just enjoy a band who were absolutely dominating the UK charts at this point.

".....I heard you sayyyyy"
 
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Oasis: She's Electric

I originally bought (What's The Story) Morning Glory? for the song "Champagne Supernova" and my first impression of the album was that I instantly liked the whole thing. I liked it enough that I went out and bought some other ones. I didn't really know much about the band and I found nothing matched up to this album. I was really surprised when I found out Definitely Maybe was supposed to be the superior album. That one never really worked for me.

I haven't listened to this whole album all the way through it quite a while but She's Electric is a song I tend to go back to quite a bit when I'm looking for something to listen to.
 
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I'm not vibing Corey Taylor's mask but we're here to talk about the music. I dig it. It has a Sepultura type feel to me (and I've been getting into them loads recently) I like the melodic singing mashed up with the heavier stuff and the proper heavy riffs
 
Great news man, I look forward to seeing your posts!

Day two comin' at YAAAA!!!!

Week 1 Day 2 : Brad Paisley: Then

I went yesterday with a comedy song from Paisley, something he does quite well. Today, I'm going with a love song, easily my favorite of Paisley's, and one of my favorite love songs of all time. It's about a love that grows over time, one that just when you feel it can't get stronger, something surprises you, and that love deepens all the more.

It was a song I heard years ago on Letterman, but was just flipping through the channels when it caught my eye. I never bothered to catch the artist, I only knew that I really liked the song. But I never bothered to follow up and find out who the artist was, that is, until a few months ago when I got into Paisley big-time as an artist. And despite my affinity for both his humor and his good old fashioned country songs, Then stands out as my favorite.
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Our very own JackHammer maligned 2013 as the "Year Country Music Died". Tomorrow I'll have a song from Paisley's 2013 album Wheelhouse to show exactly why it hasn't.
 
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Cool & Create, "S Complex"

This is what fascinates me about the Touhou universe, moreso than a lot of fandoms. With every new game, you get about 8-10 new characters added to canon. Every year for a while, an organization was having an annual poll to see who the most popular character of the 100+ Touhou universe canon was. One year these two women, the Aki sisters, both came in dead last. And yet, someone still made an in-depth music video and remake of their themes (Stage 1 theme and Boss 1 theme from Mountain of Faith, mixed together) to tell a deep story about their personalities. Even the least popular characters get a lot of love.
 
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I received my pre-order of Slash's new album "World On Fire" this weekend. It's pretty cool, I got the "Classic Rock" edition, which included the special magazine, big poster with all the names of the people who pre-ordered at the bottom, plus the album in special packaging.

I've listened to it 3 or 4 times now, and it's very very good. Myles Kennedy's vocals are as good as always and I think it's definitely better than the 2nd album. "Too Far Gone" is my favourite track, good riff (which Slash wrote during the 2nd album days and saved for this one), and a fantastic chorus which has been stuck in my head for the last few days!

I really hope this is in the set list for when I see the band at the Manchester Arena in November!
 
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This song really takes me back. It was the first Warren G song that I listened to and I remember my brother recording this off the radio for a mixtape he was making at the time. I plan on listening to The Rapsody Overture album soon, where hip hop music meets classical, but the two genres go absolutely great together on this track.
 

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