Music Roundup Monday: "In Memorium"

Memorial Day is winding to a close. Everyone goes back to work tomorrow. Anyway, let's listen to music.

Corpo-Mente - "Arsalein"

Gorillaz - "Glitter Freeze"

Hole - "Doll Parts"

Steve Earle - "The Devil's Right Hand"

Quest For Fire - "Strange Vacation"

The Infamous Stringdusters - "When Silence is the Only Sound"

Manowar - "Manowar"

And an extra song for Memorial Day: The Dropkick Murphys - "The Green Fields of France"

Music Roundup Monday: "She just wanted him to love her but he didn't."

Well hello there! It's time to talk about music. YAY!

Sabaton - "Night Witches"

Gogol Bordello - "J.U.F."

Iggy Pop - "Miss Argentina"

Disturbed - "Indestructible"

The Lemonheads - "Confetti"

The Crimson Ghosts - "I Turned Into a Martian"

Crom Dubh - "Sailing to Byzantium"

Music Roundup Monday: "Even Cthulhu Thinks Corporate America is Awful"

Those of you who know me know why some of the songs this week are the songs they are. Those who don't, enjoy.

Serj Tankian - "Reality TV"

Styx - "Renegade"

Breaking Benjamin - "Diary of Jane (Acoustic)"

Rage Against the Machine - "Killing in the Name"

Stone Temple Pilots - "Pretty Penny"

Owl City - "The Bird and the Worm"

Aerosmith - "Eat the Rich"

Three Days Grace - "Riot"

Music Roundup Monday:

I already started planning my next Dark Souls III character. I am a sick, sick man. Help me. No wait, don't. I like it here. Anyway. Music. Music is a thing. 

Broken Social Scene - "Anthems for a Seventeen-Year Old Girl"

Kanye West and Jay-Z - "No Church in the Wild"

Motoi Sakuraba - "Gwyn, Lord of Cinder"

The Used - "The Bird and the Worm"

Loverboy - "Working For the Weekend"

Iron Maiden - "To Tame a Land"

Vicetone and Nico Vega - "Beast"

Music Roundup Monday: "Black Coffee, Help a Fella..."

I am tired. I am always tired. This is no doubt exacerbated by the fact that I've been working two jobs for the last two weeks. During the day, I work at my IT job. At night, I play Dark Souls III. (I did the math. In two weeks, I've put 70 hours into the game. That's a nearly full-time job). And I wouldn't have it any other way. Let's listen to music.

The B-52s - "Rock Lobster"

Tyr - "By the Sword in My Hand"

Weddings, Parties, Anything - "A Tale They Won't Believe"

Paramore - "The Only Exception"

Blue Oyster Cult - "Burnin' For You"

The Careless Lovers - "Black Coffee"

The Moody Blues - "Nights in White Satin"

Music Roundup Monday: "Variety Hour"

Dinner is cooking. Dark Souls III awaits. I have a story to write. Let's make this quick. Music. From last week. Shocker. 

Ennio Morricone - "A Gringo Like Me"

Damien Rice - "9 Crimes"

Twisted Sister - "We're Not Gonna Take It"

Chumbawamba - "Tubthumping"

Relient K - "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been"

Pantera - "Cemetery Gates"

Tyr - "By the Sword in My Hand"

Music Roundup Monday: "Metal Mulisha (Is a Terrible Brand)"

Woo! It's Monday! Despite jumping from 50 tickets in our ticket queue to nearly 100, it was still a pretty good Monday! (I'm trying to be more positive--there's a poster on my door now that says "What a lovely day." Yes, it's the Nux quote from Mad Max: Fury Road.") So yeah! Let's talk about music! In particular, metal, since that's what I wanted to post last week.

Gojira - "Satan is a Lawyer"

Iron Maiden - "Fear of the Dark"

Metallica - "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Judas Priest - "Pain Killer"

Megadeth - "Dawn Patrol"

Mastodon - "Blood and Thunder"

Music Roundup Monday: "The Easter Rising"

One hundred years ago, Irish freedom fighters began what is known as the Easter Rising. Though it was unsuccessful (they vastly overestimated the amount of support they would receive from the general populace), the aftereffects of the Rising--including a groundswell of public sympathy after many of the Rising's leaders were executed--set in motion the beginning of Irish independence. So yeah. That's why the second half of these songs are Irish/Irish-themed. 

Laura Marling - "Crawled Out of the Sea"

Chicha Libre - "Primavera en la Selva"

Tengger Cavalry - "Hymn of the Earth"

The Men They Couldn't Hang - "Shirt of Blue"

Shane MacGowan and the Popes - "Aisling"

The Dunn Boys - "St. Jerome"

Sinead O'Connor and the The Chieftains - "The Foggy Dew"

W.B. Yeats - "Easter 1916"

Music Roundup Monday: "Curse the Wind Which Shakes the Barley..."

I am so far behind on my writing... I need to get a story written by Thursday and I've barely started. ACK. Anyway. Music. That's a thing, roight. It was St. Patrick's Day this week so a few of the songs are Irish, and from there it just sort of shifted into folk-influenced music, a trend which is carrying over into this week. Anyway. 

Isles and Glaciers - "Clush"

My Chemical Romance - "Na Na Na"

Caspian - "Arcs of Command"

Bananarama - "Cruel Summer"

Flogging Molly - "Drunken Lullabies"

Shane MacGowan and the Popes - "Aisling"

Dalriada - "Moldvageddon"

Music Roundup Monday: "Trophy Lost in a Crowd"

Ahhhh. Just finished a great game of DCC. It was an excellent dungeon, designed by one of the other players. We probably shouldn't have stepped on the Pear of Eternal Life. Huh. Yeah. Probably. 

The Dead Maggies - "Jorgen Jorgenson"

Mischief Brew - "Coffee, God, and Cigarettes"

Drug Church - "Hit  Your Head, Greedy"

Beast in the Field - "The Sacred Above, The Sacred Below"

Bat For Lashes - "Trophy"

Fantastic Negrito - "Lost in a Crowd"

Don Henley - "Dirty Laundry"

Music Roundup Monday: "The Captain is Too Old to Die Young"

I got picture frames for all of my posters today. Now my apartment doesn't look like a college dorm anymore. Well, at least not as much. Also, I'm going to make a lightsaber this weekend. Just a cheap one, out of plumbing parts. Or something. I dunno. Anyway. Music. 

The Dreadnoughts - "The Skrigjaargen Polka"

Leonard Cohen - "The Captain"

Ruby Friedman - "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive"

Motorhead - "Brotherhood of Man"

Honeymoon Suite - "New Girl Now"

Sandrider - "Crysknife"

Brother Dege - "Too Old to Die Young"

Music Roundup Monday: "Heavy as a Very Heavy Thing"

Last week's theme was fun. Heavy music. Not just in terms of sonic weight, but also in terms of...feel? Like, CCR isn't a "heavy" band, but a lot of their songs are heavy. Emotionally heavy, maybe? I don't know. Anyway, all of these songs are heavy in their own way.

Iggy and the Trolls - "Inferiority Complex"

Black Sabbath - "Electric Funeral"

SubRosa - "Ghosts of a Dead Empire"

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"

Finntroll - "Galgasang"

Alice in Chains - "Grind"

OM - "Haqq al-Yaqin"

Music Roundup Monday: "Creepy Folk Week"

You know, I should write an intro for this. I mean, it's a bunch of slightly-unsettling folk songs from various traditions--France, the Ukraine, Poland, Britain, and America. Nah.

Guilhem Desq - "Omen"

Corvus Corax - "Totentanz"

Faun - "Iduna"

Marcin Przybyłowicz - "The Song of the Sword-Dancer"

Drudkh - "Archaic Dance"

Townes Van Zandt - "Lungs"

Eilen Jewell - "Bang Bang Bang"

Music Roundup Monday: "Covers That Did It Better"

Okay, not all of these covers did it BETTER, per se. Dio's "Holy Diver" is just as good as Steve'n'Seagulls' version. Same for Nirvana and Bowie with "The Man Who Sold the World." But they're as good, and in SOME RESPECTS, better. Now don't kill me. And yes, there are two songs by Nirvana. I like their MTV Unplugged performance. Sue me.

Steve'n'Seagulls - "Holy Diver"

Five Finger Death Punch - "Bad Company"

William Shatner - "Common People"

Nirvana - "The Man Who Sold the World"

Nirvana - "In the Pines"

Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Higher Ground"

August Burns Red - "Baby One More Time"

Music Roundup Monday: "Emo Week!"

Yay! It was emo week last week, full of songs that are sad and depressing and forlorn! That was fun! Let's recap! (Also, scheduling note: I'm going to be traveling several days this week, so... The chances of me posting 7/7 days is...low.)

The Smiths - "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"

Death Cab for Cutie - "I Will Follow You Into the Dark"

Drudkh - "The Cranes Will Never Return Here"

Johnny Mandel - "Suicide is Painless" (M.A.S.H. theme. The original--movie--theme, with lyrics).

Johnny Cash - "Hurt"

Sufjan Stevens - "To Be Alone With You"

Simon and Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence"

Music Roundup Monday: "Music Maketh the Game"

I love game soundtracks. Love 'em. They're an instrumental part of what makes great games memorable. Here are some (only some!) of my favorites from last week. 

Motoi Sakuraba - "Great Grey Wolf Sif" (Dark Souls)

Sam Hulick - "Leaving Earth" (Mass Effect 3)

Mike Morasky - "Cara Mia Addio" (Portal 2)

Darren Korb - "The Pantheon (Ain't Gonna Catch You)" (Bastion)

Kenji Yamamoto - "Metroid Prime Title Screen" (Metroid Prime)

Nobuo Uematsu - "You Can Hear the Cry of the Planet" (Final Fantasy VII)

Kazumi Totaka and Shinobu Tanaka - "Luigi's Mansion Theme" (Luigi's Mansion)

Music Roundup Monday: "The Red Right Hand Comes For Zorro and Cuchulain...And the Thin White Duke"

It hasn't been a good few weeks for great music. Lemmy's dead. Now Bowie's dead... I don't want to think about who will be next... I'd like to think of them both as defying death like Zorro does in one of last week's songs...

Blur - "Mirrorball"

John Williams - "Rey's Theme"

Alice Cooper - "Zorro's Ascent"

Heidevolk - "Vulgaris Magistralis"

The Decemberists - "The Tain"

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Red Right Hand"

Arctic Monkeys - "Red Right Hand"

Music Roundup Monday: "Genre Whiplash In B Minor"

Oh hey. It's been a while since I've done one of these. Like two weeks? Or more? I can't count good. I can't word good either. Let's listen to music. 

Arcade Fire - "Crown of Love"

Ulver - "Utreise"

Atlantean Kodex - "Enthroned in Clouds and Fire (The Great Cleansing"

Chase Holfelder and Kurt Schneider - "All I Want For Christmas"

Motorhead - "Ace of Spades"

Cat Power - "Fate of the Human Carbine"

Andrew Bird - "Depression Pasillo"

Die Antwoord - "Wie Maak die Jol Vol"

Andrew Lloyd Weber - "Learn to Be Lonely"

Sikth - "Days Are Dreamed"

Rotor - "Oktogan"

Music Roundup Monday: "Apparently This is Theme Song Week"

And by apparently, I mean "is" because 3/7 of this week's songs are soundtracks for various movies and TV shows. Also I may or may not be entirely coherent. I'm not sure if I'm actually typing words right now. They look like words. Are they? I hope so. 

Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova - "Happy Accident"

The Soul Benders - "7 and 7 Is"

Heartless Bastards - "Done Got Old"

John Williams - "The Imperial March"

Annie Lennox - "Into the West"

Bear McCreary - "Theme From Black Sails"

Archspire - "Spontaneous Generation"

Music Roundup Monday: "Yes, I'm Being Condescending..."

Well hey! It's a Monday, I'm alive, I'm eating leftover pizza for the third day in a row, and I'm feeling good. Let's talk about music. 

Jeff Herriott and S. Craig Zahler - "Four Doomed Men Ride Out"

Amorphis - "Stone Woman"

Sun Kil Moon - "Red Poison"

Stratovarius - "Babylon"

Puscifer - "The Remedy"

Concrete Blonde - "Everybody Knows"

The Alan Parsons Project - "The Cask of Amontillado"