There was a time I was an aspiring vocalist. I took voice lessons even and sang in my high school choir. The reality was I had a really good vocal quality but a major pitch problem. As much as I tried, I wasn't cut out to sing any place else than in my car, alone. [...]
73: Heavy Metal Soundtrack
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Some people have Eraserhead. Others have The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And I think a couple of people in Denmark like Gigli. However, my favorite cult movie is Heavy Metal. I'm taken back to a time when my grandmother would take me to the grocery store with her and I would stay in the magazine [...]
74: Rusted Root – When I Woke
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The Rock Renaissance Is In the Metal Scene
Mar 5, 2010 By 7 Comments
Every decade, some music journalist somewhere declares rock and roll dead and buried. This has been going on since the '60s. You know the spiel: corporatism, prima dona artists, greedy producers, the entire industry, take your pick, are all villains. Somehow rock and roll survives. I'm not a music expert. I'm a fan. I love [...]
75: Queen – The Game
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Cover of The Game (+ Bonus Track) Queen's The Game (1980) is one of those albums I wore out until you could see through the vinyl. The Game is Queen at the beginning of a change to less experimental but still incredibly strong songs. From the opening track "Play the Game" the controlled power of [...]
76: Pushmonkey – Pushmonkey
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Cover of Pushmonkey The only reason you probably don't have Pushmonkey's self-titled album (1998) is because you weren't listening to WONC in Naperville, IL in 1998. They started playing "Caught My Mind" and I was hooked. I special ordered the CD from a music store in Austin, TX, the band's home base. This album is [...]
77: The Smiths – Louder Than Bombs
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Cover of Louder Than Bombs Ah the 1980s. AOR ruled the airwaves and mullets were acceptable. People actually drank beer from cans and cruised in muscle cars up and down streets in order to demonstrate who coud play Dokken louder from their Fieros, 280 ZXs, and barely bolted together American muscle cars. Before our culture [...]
78: Simple Minds – Once Upon a Time
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79: Van Halen – Van Halen
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Cover of Van Halen If you've ever been to a local music store guitar solo contest, you know when it comes. You hear the first chord and know you're about to hear yet another sixteen-year-old grind out "Eruption" in hopes of winning the free guitar. No guitar solo contest would be complete without "Eruption" rehashed [...]
80: Gojira – The Way of All Flesh
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Unrest by Parkway Drive