Diario

Let me tell you a long and boring story. (which I'll probably delete by next week to go back to my "one journal per year" - policy)

In my attempt to read everything ever posted on the internet I stumbled across some classic rock shoutboxes where people were always saying things like "my dad has this on vinyl! :)". Some people even steal 90s rock CDs from their dads (no-one ever mentioned any mother)! Thinking about what I could steal from my parents, I came to the conclusion that Peter Maffay, Kuschelrock and Marius Müller Westernhagen weren't that cool after all. I would have never thought there would be something useful in this house. But then again, I couldn't imagine my father as a teenager either listening to nothing or to that kind of stuff. So one day I sneaked into the ironing room where we store our old, huge hi-fi system under layers of dust, and what did I find behind Peter Maffay and The Bee Gees? 3 (three!) rather cool records: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, a compilation of The Beatles and one by The Who. I used to think I had seen everything here. I couldn't have been more wrong. Surprised and totally stoked I instantly put them on, but nothing happened. It turned out that the record player had been broken for ages and no-one felt the need to repair it. Luckily my grandparents still had a working one under even more dust in a plastic bag in their attic.
So now my tiny room is packed with yet another music-related thing, and whenever I find time I put on a record, but always fail to find the beginning, so I start in the middle of the first song. I'm a real noob. It turned out that the Beatles - compilation was their all poppy stuff (which is still groovy and that ^^), the Who - compilation is totally weird (all I can say is: ò_Ó) and that the Floyd - Album is soooo far out in space, it'll take some time to get there, especially since LSD is illegal.

#20 Tenacious D
The movie wasn't actually THAT funny, and the soundtrack is a bit short. Plus it's comedy music, it gets boring pretty quick.

#19 System of a Down
I don't even consider myself a fan of them, how did they make it here? Which doesn't mean they're bad, but they're here probably only because I got Hypnotize and Mesmerize just as long as I have last.fm and listen to them every once in a long while. And I recently tried out their debut. "Sugar" is the ultimate madness, and so are some songs of their latest two albums, but apart from that it's not that spectacular.

#18 The Who
I only have a Best-Of CD which, according to the data, I statistically listen to like once a month or maybe every 2 months. And I like to blame them for the 70s. Just listen to the last songs on the Best-Of.

#17 The Velvet Underground
The banana - album is the only one I have, so again I don't care about them too much, therefor I am not nursing any grudge.

#16 Joy Division
Very much the same as for #17 and #18 combined. I own "Substance", but the only good songs are those which go away from punk but still have a punky feel to them.

#15 Red Sparowes
"Every Red Heart shines towards the Red Sun" has a far too long title, the songtitles are far too long and the album is quite a letdown compared to their debut.

#14 Good Clean Fun
Again: "Between Christian Rock and a Hard Place" is great and witty, yet the only CD I have. I usually tend to think that this is enough, maybe I will learn to hate them when I listen to more of their stuff.

#13 Dimmu Borgir
I once HAD lots of their albums, a friend gave them to me, but I quickly got rid of them as it turned out that only "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia" had a pointless title... eeeeh no, they do that quite often. But it's the only album I can stand, their old stuff is just too grim and trve for me, as I am not frostbitten enough. I mean, hey, I am wearing a yellow T-Shirt right now?!

#12 dredg
"El cielo" is great. Then, when last.fm made it possible to listen to full songs, I took a look at "Catch without arms". I did so ONCE, and never again. Someone called it "mindless pop music". I second that and don't even find it odd that people seem to enjoy it. "Leitmotif" isn't bad, but nowhere near as good as "El Cielo".

#11 Die Ärzte
German consense - band. Not that they don't deserve it, but they just can't seem to make proper albums. There are like 3-4 good songs and loads of fillers, which is why I have a huge mp3 - collection, but only one CD.

#10 Ska-P
"Eurosis" sucks ass. And they have a nice subliminal way to make their music entertainig: If you listen closely you often hear people making a party, shouting, whistling and so on. Oh, and "Que corra la voz" wasn't that great either.

#9 blink-182
Slowly getting interesting. Probably the only reason why I like them is because I was just old enough to enjoy their stuff when they became big. And somehow they survived. So, I can totally see why people hate them, and sometimes, when I pay to attention to some of the lyrics, I tend to think so too. But "Enema of the State" and their last album are really entertainig. Plus: Everyone says they can't really play their instruments, which may or not be true, but their songs are just to the point, I really like their songwriting.

#8 Nikola Sarcevic
"Roll Roll and Flee" was a joke. Some good ideas, but as a whole that album is sooo boring. But apart from that there's not too much to hate about him.

#7 Tool
Their fans suck. They really do. And so did 10'000 Days. "Lateralus" doesn't solve the world's problems either, still everyone keeps claiming that. That being said, Ænima is HUGE. Even more so when you're German and laugh your ass off everytime you hear "Die Eier von Satan".

#6 Interpol
Brrrr... Antics was SO indie, I just couldn't stand that boredom. And when I heard the single, I stopped caring about their latest album. But why, one might ask, are they on rank 6 then? Well, that's because the post-punk - songs on their debut are so incredibly good, it's incredible.

#5 Sigur Rós
You shouldn't get me started on this band, or their fans. Every studio album after AgBy sucks. ( ) is just like the space between ( and ): empty. Nothing happens on this album. Except for Untitled VIII. "Takk..." is about as deep as something that is not very deep. You can listen to their first two records as a whole, but you'll find that there are some qualitiy songs and enough pointless elevator music. So actually they suck except for some songs.

#4 Millencolin
They stopped being awesome after "Pennybridge Pioneers". And they stopped being good after "Kingwood". They don't play their ska-songs live anymore. Although this doesn't sound like too much of negative things, it actually is enough.

#3 Lagwagon
Their pre-"Hoss" work is boring. And I'd have to drive REALLY far to seem them live on their upcoming tour. The only bad thing about them would have to be that one just can't listen to every project Joey Cape is involved in, because there are too many of them, therefor I don't even try. Well, sometimes their new drummer seems to be hitting random time signatures that have nothing to do with the song, but that may be just my fucked-up ear or understanding of music. Oh, and one of their guitar players is a wookie, but that's totally okay to me.

#2 Ash
I once calculated that about 65% of my plays are "1977". That says it all. Their genre-hopping just pisses me off. "Free all Angels" isn't too bad, but quite often the amount of sugar-sweetness is just too much. "Meltdown" wants to be hardrock, but isn't. "Twilight of Innocents" wants to be an album, but is a joke. And the drummer can try as he might, he will always look like a pedophile weirdo or something.

#1 Deftones
If I was their guitarist, I would start smoking weed as well. Otherwise a concert would be way too boring. Seriously, compared to some of the Deftones' guitar work the Ramones are a student art-rock - band. And most of the guys in the band grew really fat over the years. "Around the Fur" and the selftitled weren't that good compared to the rest, but in general terms that doesn't mean anything at all.

Funny coincidence? There are not few songs which are last track on the respective album and really stand out.
Fist for example is the hidden track on Adrenaline, and compared to the rest of the album it seems pretty "soft" and atmospheric. And it's one of their best songs.
Similar thing with Pink Maggit (White Pony). A truly epic song, remarkably longer than the rest and though Digital Bath may be good, this one is even better.
I knew May 16 form THPS2, and I never thought Lagwagon could do any better. Well, I was to be proven wrong when I bought Let's Talk About Feelings and heard Owen Meaney. It is not only the best song on the album, but also the only Lagwagon - Song I know by now with an instrumental intro deserving this name.
Looking at Ash's 1977, where is their best solo ever? Right, at the very end. Okay, Darkside Lightside is not the best song on the album, but it certainly stands out somehow.
Another example is Third Eye, the last one on Ænima. Although not too different from the rest, it is still a class for itself.
Leif Erikson is yet another example, just like The Ballad, Millencolin like we DON'T know them ;-)
That's enough for tonight. We see, artists seem to put their most experimental and oustanding song at the end. If you have further proof, feel free to comment :D