Saturday, January 19, 2008
Saturday Random 10 (but really 20) XXVIII: Back, Bitches!
It is the return of the incredibly self-serving and unpopular Saturday Random! Indeed, after a month-long hiatus where I only finished 2 of the 5 or 6 year-end lists I actually started (and NOT A GODDAMN PERSON commented on my albums of the year....seriously, that took me forever to type out, fuckers!) I begin this tradition of commenting on my personal goings-on for the week, and give you all a glimpse into the incredibly diverse playlist of Evil Brian. I'm also gonna start cross-posting almost everything between the O.G. blogspot and the second-hand store myspace, just because.
Anyways, just came back from a matinee showing of Cloverfield with my dear, dear friend Art and WOW. I haven't really been paying attention to the whole viral marketing dealie that's been going around; I've just really been looking forward to this flick since seeing the infamous trailer before Transformers last year. As someone who's been unexposed to that extraneous crap (I also started reading some of the poor reviews for it, and wondered if they saw the same movie I saw, or whether they actually accidentally saw The Chipmunks movie instead) I have to say that the flick chopped your ass off and delivered it to you on a platter. Seriously, I can see where the shaky-cam thing would turn a lot of people off (didn't really bother me too much though) but the effects were fantastic, the acting was...meh....but really, I just went into this expecting to see an unimaginably huge mystery creature tear New York City a new asshole, and I got all that and more. I've read a bunch of reviews saying the ending was ambiguous....but really, there wasn't any other way for the movie to end that would make any sense whatsoever. So it's not the standard happily-ever-after that Hollywood churns out time and time again; take your fucking blinders off and try something different from the same-old same-old. Seriously though, if you like creature features or just apocalyptic doom in general, I can't recommend this film enough.
Anyways, enough film-fellation, on to the Random!
1. Radiohead - Go To Sleep
2. The Moldy Peaches - Lazy Confessions
3. Danger Doom - No Names (Black Debbie)
4. All That Remains - Whispers (I Hear You)
5. Hole - I Think That I Would Die
6. Pressure 4-5 - Into Yesterday
7. Dinosaur Jr. - On the Brink
8. Method Man featuring Prodigy - Release Yo' Delf (Remix)
9. Faith No More - The Grade (Live at Brixton Academy)
10. Joy Grutman - Schnappi das Kleine Krokodil
11. Professional Murder Music - Dissolve
12. The Smashing Pumpkins - We Only Come Out At Night
13. Deftones - Minus Blindfold
14. Faith No More - Paths of Glory
15. Iggy Pop - Success
16. Van Hunt - Down Here in Hell (With You)
17. Iron Maiden - Journeyman
18. John Legend - Stereo
19. Oasis - Shakermaker
20. System of a Down - Boom!
Got a little bit of everything for the comeback Random, huh?
Starting off with one of the better songs off Hail to the Thief (probably my least favorite Radiohead album...and yet still better than most normal mainstream rock releases), transitions quickly into the lo-fi/folk weirdness of the suddenly-thrust-into-the-mainstream Moldy Peaches (still haven't seen Juno yet, but I DID pick up the soundtrack...pretty damn good, I'd say) then into the always-bizarre MF Doom rapping about Sealab 2021 (and NYC...and the Sandman for some reason...). After that the awesome metal power of All That Remains cleanses the palate before Courtney Love pisses all over it with her terrible, terrible band; who are then followed by early 2000's nu-metal also-also-ALSO rans Pressure 4-5 (one of the many who went on Ozzfest, released one album on a major label, then promptly broke up and were never heard from again). Dinosaur Jr. then appears out of nowhere to save us from the brink of total suckage with the jangly, mumbly On the Brink; which then has the tempo completely switched with a techno remix of Method Man's Release Yo' Delf off the Resident Evil soundtrack which, surprisingly, doesn't suck nearly as bad as you'd think (though this IS the best song off that album); definitely worth tracking down, if only for this song. You got some live acoustic country-fried FNM kicking all kinds off ass segueing right into an 8-year-old German girl singing about her pet crocodile (which, though I don't understand German, is ADORABLE), then another also-also-also ran nu-metal (though they're closer to straight industrial) Professional Murder Music which, despite their stupid name, is actually quite listenable...I'm sure you can find their album in the 99 cent bin of your local record store...they do a cover of The Cure's A Night Like This that is surprisingly decent. After that comes a track off my favorite band's best album ever...nothing else need be said, really. a track off Deftones' first album (which I don't really care for...then again, you could fit all their good songs onto one CD basically, White Pony notwithstanding) then, you guessed it, MORE FAITH NO MORE (though it's off their worst Patton-era album...I still love 'em); the vocals are the best part of this song which is, unfortunately, pretty damn boring for Faith No More. Then Iggy muthafuckin' Pop sings about Success for awhile before Van Hunt takes everything down a notch with the soulful, laid-back funk of Down Here in Hell (this dude doesn't get nearly enough props...he's seriously talented, and definitely worth looking up); the slowed-down tempo continues with a ballad from Iron Maiden which, while no horrible, isn't very good and is off probably my least-favorite album by them (it's even worse than Virtual XI...that's a goddamn FEAT, to say nothing of the X Factor), the soul-metal sandwich is completed by John Legend who I've been listening to more and more lately (he's another R&B/soul traditionalist...though he uses a lot of newer-sounding beats, where Van Hunt uses the old-school flute loops and acoustic guitars) this song in particular is quite good....definitely one of the better ones off his newest album (Target-only live album be damned!). After that, you got yourself some older Oasis, and is then capped off by the band Oasis called the worst band they'd ever heard (which some would say makes them one goddamn great band to listen to), System of a Down with one of their more prominent singles, Boom! You know what, crappy nu-metal and Hole aside, this is a pretty damn great Random. I'm gonna be generous, give this one a solid A. You done good, iTunes. You done good.
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It is the return of the incredibly self-serving and unpopular Saturday Random! Indeed, after a month-long hiatus where I only finished 2 of the 5 or 6 year-end lists I actually started (and NOT A GODDAMN PERSON commented on my albums of the year....seriously, that took me forever to type out, fuckers!) I begin this tradition of commenting on my personal goings-on for the week, and give you all a glimpse into the incredibly diverse playlist of Evil Brian. I'm also gonna start cross-posting almost everything between the O.G. blogspot and the second-hand store myspace, just because.
Anyways, just came back from a matinee showing of Cloverfield with my dear, dear friend Art and WOW. I haven't really been paying attention to the whole viral marketing dealie that's been going around; I've just really been looking forward to this flick since seeing the infamous trailer before Transformers last year. As someone who's been unexposed to that extraneous crap (I also started reading some of the poor reviews for it, and wondered if they saw the same movie I saw, or whether they actually accidentally saw The Chipmunks movie instead) I have to say that the flick chopped your ass off and delivered it to you on a platter. Seriously, I can see where the shaky-cam thing would turn a lot of people off (didn't really bother me too much though) but the effects were fantastic, the acting was...meh....but really, I just went into this expecting to see an unimaginably huge mystery creature tear New York City a new asshole, and I got all that and more. I've read a bunch of reviews saying the ending was ambiguous....but really, there wasn't any other way for the movie to end that would make any sense whatsoever. So it's not the standard happily-ever-after that Hollywood churns out time and time again; take your fucking blinders off and try something different from the same-old same-old. Seriously though, if you like creature features or just apocalyptic doom in general, I can't recommend this film enough.
Anyways, enough film-fellation, on to the Random!
1. Radiohead - Go To Sleep
2. The Moldy Peaches - Lazy Confessions
3. Danger Doom - No Names (Black Debbie)
4. All That Remains - Whispers (I Hear You)
5. Hole - I Think That I Would Die
6. Pressure 4-5 - Into Yesterday
7. Dinosaur Jr. - On the Brink
8. Method Man featuring Prodigy - Release Yo' Delf (Remix)
9. Faith No More - The Grade (Live at Brixton Academy)
10. Joy Grutman - Schnappi das Kleine Krokodil
11. Professional Murder Music - Dissolve
12. The Smashing Pumpkins - We Only Come Out At Night
13. Deftones - Minus Blindfold
14. Faith No More - Paths of Glory
15. Iggy Pop - Success
16. Van Hunt - Down Here in Hell (With You)
17. Iron Maiden - Journeyman
18. John Legend - Stereo
19. Oasis - Shakermaker
20. System of a Down - Boom!
Got a little bit of everything for the comeback Random, huh?
Starting off with one of the better songs off Hail to the Thief (probably my least favorite Radiohead album...and yet still better than most normal mainstream rock releases), transitions quickly into the lo-fi/folk weirdness of the suddenly-thrust-into-the-mainstream Moldy Peaches (still haven't seen Juno yet, but I DID pick up the soundtrack...pretty damn good, I'd say) then into the always-bizarre MF Doom rapping about Sealab 2021 (and NYC...and the Sandman for some reason...). After that the awesome metal power of All That Remains cleanses the palate before Courtney Love pisses all over it with her terrible, terrible band; who are then followed by early 2000's nu-metal also-also-ALSO rans Pressure 4-5 (one of the many who went on Ozzfest, released one album on a major label, then promptly broke up and were never heard from again). Dinosaur Jr. then appears out of nowhere to save us from the brink of total suckage with the jangly, mumbly On the Brink; which then has the tempo completely switched with a techno remix of Method Man's Release Yo' Delf off the Resident Evil soundtrack which, surprisingly, doesn't suck nearly as bad as you'd think (though this IS the best song off that album); definitely worth tracking down, if only for this song. You got some live acoustic country-fried FNM kicking all kinds off ass segueing right into an 8-year-old German girl singing about her pet crocodile (which, though I don't understand German, is ADORABLE), then another also-also-also ran nu-metal (though they're closer to straight industrial) Professional Murder Music which, despite their stupid name, is actually quite listenable...I'm sure you can find their album in the 99 cent bin of your local record store...they do a cover of The Cure's A Night Like This that is surprisingly decent. After that comes a track off my favorite band's best album ever...nothing else need be said, really. a track off Deftones' first album (which I don't really care for...then again, you could fit all their good songs onto one CD basically, White Pony notwithstanding) then, you guessed it, MORE FAITH NO MORE (though it's off their worst Patton-era album...I still love 'em); the vocals are the best part of this song which is, unfortunately, pretty damn boring for Faith No More. Then Iggy muthafuckin' Pop sings about Success for awhile before Van Hunt takes everything down a notch with the soulful, laid-back funk of Down Here in Hell (this dude doesn't get nearly enough props...he's seriously talented, and definitely worth looking up); the slowed-down tempo continues with a ballad from Iron Maiden which, while no horrible, isn't very good and is off probably my least-favorite album by them (it's even worse than Virtual XI...that's a goddamn FEAT, to say nothing of the X Factor), the soul-metal sandwich is completed by John Legend who I've been listening to more and more lately (he's another R&B/soul traditionalist...though he uses a lot of newer-sounding beats, where Van Hunt uses the old-school flute loops and acoustic guitars) this song in particular is quite good....definitely one of the better ones off his newest album (Target-only live album be damned!). After that, you got yourself some older Oasis, and is then capped off by the band Oasis called the worst band they'd ever heard (which some would say makes them one goddamn great band to listen to), System of a Down with one of their more prominent singles, Boom! You know what, crappy nu-metal and Hole aside, this is a pretty damn great Random. I'm gonna be generous, give this one a solid A. You done good, iTunes. You done good.
