
Hey you. yeah you! It's almost over. Where have you been? by the time I hit Z the rest of the music will be taken off. T : Ted Leo - The Ballad of El Goodo (Big Star cover Live) Texas is the Reason - A Jack with one Eye (Live) Talking Heads - Psycho Killer (Live) Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush (Live) Tool - Opiate (Live) [...]

His band Jane's Addiction helped grease the alternative-rock skids as the '80s hit the '90s, and Perry Farrell--pushing 50--now aims for a new decade and another century. The ethereal artist's revelry of contributors to his latest project includes one-named artists Flea and Fergie, Peter Hook (ex-New Order), and a creepy posthumous appearance by Jim Morrison. That's right: leave it to Farrell, creator of rock festival Lollapalooza and some of his genre's most impulsive music, to dust off the Lizard King, whose healthy vocal slinks and slides beneath the baiting, rhythmic lyric "Just try and stop us/We're going to love" (complete [...]

We're finally back, after a weekend in Cincinnati and a Sunday afternoon spent underneath SuperCar Jr. Sorry about that. Now, on with it! Whenever I hear "Aenima" by Tool, I have a very specific memory that is triggered. My friend Jon Davis and I are playing MLB '98 or FF VII or Tomb Raider in my bedroom. The lights are out and the blacklight is on. It's gotta be 2 or 3 in the morning - this was back when I could stay up all night long [...]

Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse-Five, amongst others, passed away last night. You might be wondering what that has to do with a music blog, but Vonnegut was a big music fan. In fact, he wrote the following in his last work: If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music. And so in honor of the late great writer, I've put together a compilation based on his [...]
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" Language is the source of misunderstanding " - Antoine de Saint-Exupery I was stumbling around the web this morning and I found a pretty interesting site about how the meanings of things get lost in translation. Here it is: http://www.tashian.com/multiba bel/ This site automatically translates any text you type into five different languages and then back to English. The result is never the same as what you typed in the first place. It is an interesting distraction if nothing else, so enjoy. Here is my example to give [...]
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There are things I know make me more likely to enjoy music--although they don't necessarily make it better; just techniques for which I have a soft spot. First: Vocal harmony (Kings of Convenience, say, Gold In the Air of Summer ). Maybe this comes from listening to classical music and medieval antiphonal chants as a kid, but I am a dead sucker for vocal harmony. Second: Strings in electronica ( Her Space Holiday - Tech Romance ). Putting strings in an electronica context just seems to make the timbre [...]
You didn't think I'd make it through this survey without fitting soccer into it somewhere, did you? Ryan Maxfield grew up in Rutland, played soccer for UVM, got a job after college with the New England Revolution and finally landed as the equipment manager for US National Soccer Team. That meant he spent the last few years trotting around the globe with the team and spending this past June in Germany as the team competed in the World Cup. Plus, he was the reason I was able to go to the World Cup [...]

Over the past semester, I was fortunate enough take a seminar entitled "The Music of Protest and the Politics of Music." I've attached my term paper for the course, and hopefully it'll be semi-intelligible. Of course, nothing beats listening, so I've included a recording as well. Enjoy: Tool is an American band, formed in Los Angeles in 1990. Its members include vocalist and lyricist Maynard James Keenan, drummer Danny Carey, bassist Justin Chancellor, and guitarist Adam Jones. Former bassist Paul [...]
Buy Tool albums Buy Tool DVDs Lyrics: Hush Fuck youuuuuuu! I can't say what I want to, even if I'm not serious. I can't say what I want to, even if I'm not serious. Things like.... Fuck yourself, fuck Yourself, you piece of shit, why don't you just go, kill yourself! I said, I can't say what I want to, even if I'm not serious. I can't say what I want to, even if I'm just kiddiiiiingg! People [...]
Buy Tool albums Buy Tool DVDs Lyrics: Hooker With A Penis I, met a boy, wearing Vans, 501s, and a dope, beastie-tee, nipple rings, new tattoos, that claimed tha he was OGT, back from '92, from the first EP. And in between sips of coke he told me that he thought we were sellin' out, layin' down, suckin' up to the man. Well now I've got some advice for you, little buddy. Before you point your finger you should know [...]
Buy Tool albums Buy Tool DVDs Lyrics: Eulogy He had alot to say. He had alot of nothing to say. (We'll miss him. 2x) He had alot to say. He had alot of nothing to say. (We'll miss him. 2x) (We're gonna miss him. 2x) So loooooong! We wish you well. You told us how you weren't afraid to die. Well so looooooong. Don't cryyyyy. Or feel too down. Not all martyrs see divinity. But at least you tried. [...]
Buy Tool albums Buy Tool DVDs Lyrics: Stinkfist Something has to change. Undeniable dilemma. Boredom's not a burden anyone should bear. Constant over stimulation numbs me But I would not want you any other way. Just not enough. I need more. Nothing seems to satisfy. I said, I don't want it. I just need it. To breathe, to feel, to know I'm alive. Finger deep within the borderline. Show me that you love me and that we belong together. Relax, [...]
Buy Tool albums Buy Tool DVDs Lyrics: Flood All I knewww and all I belieeeeved are crumbling images that no longer comfort me. I scramble tooo reach higher grounnnd, some order and sanity, or something to comfort me. I take what is mine, and hold what is mine, suffocate what is mine, and bury what's mine. Soon the water will come and claim what is mine. I must leave it behind, and climb to a new place now. This ground [...]
Buy Tool albums Buy Tool DVDs Lyrics: Prison Sex It took so long to remember just what happened. I was so young and vestal then, you know it hurt me, but I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive, even if signs seem to tell me otherwise. I've got my haaands bound, my heeead down, my eyyyes closed, and my throat's wide open. (Do unto others what has been done to you. 2x) I'm treading water, I need to sleep [...]
Buy Tool albums Buy Tool DVDs Lyrics: Parabol So familiar and overwhelmingly warm This one, this form I hold now. Embracing you, this reality here, This one, this form I hold now, so Wiide eyed and hoopeful. Wiide eyed and hoopefully wild. We barely remember what came before this precious moment, Choosing to be here right now. Hold on, stay inside... This body holding me, reminding me that I am not alone in This body makes me feel [...]
Buy Tool albums Buy Tool DVDs Lyrics: Vicarious Eye on the TV 'cause tragedy thrills me Whatever flavour It happens to be like; Killed by the husband Drowned by the ocean Shot by his own son She used the poison in his tea And kissed him goodbye That's my kinda story It's no fun 'til someone dies Don't look at me like I am a monster Frown out your one face But with the other Stare like a [...]
Buy Tool albums Buy Tool DVDs Lyrics: Sober There's a shadow just behind me, shrouding every step I take, making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. Waiting like a stalking butler, who upon the finger rests. Murder now the path called must we, just because the son has come. (Jesus, won't you fucking whistle, something but the past and done? 2x) Why can't we not be sober? Just want to start this over. Why can't we drink forever? [...]
Buy Tool albums Buy Tool DVDs Lyrics: Schism I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them fall away mildewed and smoldering, fundamental differing, pure intention juxtaposed will set two lovers souls in motion disintegrating as it goes testing our communication the light that fueled our fire then has burned a hole between us so we cannot see to reach an end crippling our communicatioooon. I know the pieces fit cuz I watched them tumble down no fault, [...]