I was in a pizza joint behind a kid and his (presumed) babysitter when I witnessed this kind of thing producing accidental anti-comedy gold:

Limp Bizkit's $3 Dolla Bill Y'all (which I owned) had a track near the end where Fred Durst spent the whole song thanking different bands, and Deftones were among them. Anyone mentioned or otherwise remotely associated with that album is officially nu metal, especially Fear Factory, Suicidal Tendencies, and George…

There are like one, maybe two sea shanties on that Ween album tops ("The Blarney Stone" and maybe "The Mollusk"). Multiple songs mention oceans or sea-life, but musically I think they were mainly going for progressive rock.

I've heard the Trait EP and enjoy it. Such a weird (but great) collaboration to have happened for a couple of reasons: 1) Looking at it now it's "the guy who coined the term 'straight edge' working with a musician known for taking a lot of drugs", and 2) At the time Ministry were still sort of known as a synth pop…

I'm still listening to music from 2000 as I said before, but I think I'm stopping after this weekend. These are some of my most recent selections and some brief thoughts:

Someone I know proposed an idea where you pick a year out of a hat and listen to music from only that year: I ended up with 2000, which is also the most recent year in the hat. Favorite 2000 discovery I made this week is Mwng by Super Furry Animals: I've listened to other SFA before, but this one is unusual for them…

If I hear a song over the course of the day that I know is going to be in my head later, and I don't want it there, I try to think of "I'm A Cucumber" from The Brak Show. It's something I accidentally discovered at work, where it popped into my head spontaneously and managed to outlast all the piped-in pop songs I…

The top 40 station they keep playing at my work is heavily promoting this movie. The two ads they keep running consist of 1) Alec Baldwin talking a little about his character, and 2) clips of interviews with test audiences. So the main focus of the marketing is "It has Alec Baldwin, and these anonymous moms who we let…

I don't understand how 'progressives' didn't notice this 'cruelty' of immigration control when Obama was doing it. And then the murders began.

I just recently learned from a TV Tropes page of Lucia Cole, a supposed aspiring pop singer who had an active social media presence using photos stolen from a model's instagram account, and most relevant to the article, an album on iTunes consisting entirely of re-titled, re-uploaded Jessica Simpson album tracks. The…

It makes me think of Hot Hot Heat, not that Adele would be referencing that Canadian band that did that "Bandages" song.

I didn't quite finish in time for the end of the year as planned, but this year I read most of the Harry Potter series (currently about a quarter of the way through Half-Blood Prince): I was slightly over the age for the target audience when Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone came out, and that was the only one I'd…

I think it's an exaggeration to say I looted everything, but I think I may have looted everyone (as in everyone I either had to kill on the way out of the vault along with everyone else who happened to end up dead) - I remember leaving a lot of naked people in my wake and ending up with like 10 or so Vault 101…

A friend of mine proposed an idea on Facebook: pick a span of decades when recorded music was being made, say 1960-1990. Write down every year occurring in that span on slips of paper, put them in a bag, and pull one out. Now you're going to be listening to music from that year until you're bored of it and ready to do…

Re: "Trump Yeah" - If nothing else, I have to admit the thought of Donald Trump does in fact make me want to get "jacked up, yeah".

I kind of like the vocals because the guy sounds like Kermit The Frog. The melody is pretty nonexistent though.

Judging from the header image, the Fire Gang from Labyrinth have not aged so gracefully.

The Residents - Not Available. A whole bunch of their albums ended up in a used CD store that used to be near my high school. I was curious and had this vague idea they'd be some kind of "college rock" (I later figured out I had them confused with The Replacements), so I picked the one I thought had the most…

My first Simpsons one was the episode where Mr. Burns tries to turn Santa's Little Helper into a guard dog by brainwashing him A Clockwork Orange style.

Just recently, a friend of mine posted an old Virginia Slims ad on someone's facebook wall as a birthday greeting, and only then did I realize Fatboy Slim had called an album You've Come A Long Way Baby as a reference to the old slogan. I'd even seen Virginia Slims ads before and just never made the connection, nor…