Showing posts with label rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rock. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Drive-By Truckers - The Big To-Do

I don't consider myself a big fan of country, but with a nice suffusion of rock that the Drive-By Truckers bring to it, as well as wonderful lyrics, I can't help myself. There's an underlying bitterness that, in my opinion, is what country should be ability. Songs about drinking binges, and songs about your idiot friend who's cheating on his psychotic, trigger-happy girlfriend.

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Friday, December 17, 2010

Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me from Being the Master

Dick Valentine seems to ooze rock attitude - the classic crooning, screaming and howling that should be associated with everything that rock SHOULD be. Electric Six manages to take any subject matter, from the plights of questionable women to the risks that come with taking the closing shift at a fast-food restaurant... and make your ass dance to it. Let's take a closer listen, shall we?

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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Ween - The Mollusk

An lo, they fell upon me with gnashing teeth, those feasting fangs; I fell to the ocean, then, where I was taken to become a clawed and carapaced creature. All things good and beautiful were there, awaiting me. This was my heaven...

Or so I thought.

This is Ween. This is The Mollusk. The above passage was merely inspired by this album. This is the least of all inspirations that it has given. Listen, damn you.

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