Godsmack - Love-Hate-Sex-Pain

Band:  Godsmack
Song:  Love-Hate-Sex-Pain
Album:  The Oracle (2010)
Genre:  Hard Rock

Honestly, Godsmack is an overall good time when it comes to their music.  They've released essentially the same album with just enough changes to pick a new favorite song every time, they're simple and easy to listen to, and repetitive enough to just let rock in the background without caring.

I don't often listen to them, but when I do they manage to fill that hole that I like having them around for.  Just some big dumb rock music to have playing, ya know?

I mean sure, they have their weird mystical sounding down tracks, but that's fine I suppose.

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Godsmack - Whatever

Band:  Godsmack
Song:  Whatever
Album:  Godsmack
Genre:  Hard Rock
Language:  Strong

Every now and then you need a good basic chug band, yeah?  Godsmack is that chuggy Rock band that everybody needs in their life from time to time.

Their albums all sound the same for the most part, so really it just boils down to finding the album with your favorite rhythm on it, or your favorite weird mysticism track.  I have favorites throughout their albums, but it's really hard to find them because so many of their songs sound the same that I have a really hard time tracking them down without having lyrics to Google search.

Like this song.  The line is "Better f*cking go away" but I always thought it was *In a f*cking doorway", so finding this one was hard enough even "having" lyrics to search for.  Solid tune though, so I hope ya like it.

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Title Track Tuesdays: Godsmack - Faceless

Band:  Godsmack
Genre:  Heavy Metal

Let's be real now, Godsmack makes an album that is on average 11 songs long, have 2 low key kinda middle eastern sounding tracks, and 9 tracks that don't really sound too different.  You've got the albums that are saturated with the Wah pedal, you've got the ones that only have a little in the solo.  There's that one crazy acoustic album, but it doesn't even really count cause it's a special case, ya feel?

So with that in mind, let's look at Faceless.  With what I said we all should know that this song is kinda a shoe in for "Yeah, it represents the album", so we'll just go ahead and say that now.

But I'm not going to just skate past the fact that there are a couple songs on here that just straight up sound alike.  Firstly, you are actually able to just skip through the album from about the middle of each song on and it mostly could be the same song.  That's just Godsmack's style though, so we'll let that pass.

What I will not let pass is the fact that two of the songs on the album sound just like each other.  I can't find them right now because my Spotify is messing up, but if you listen through the album it's really obvious.

Godsmack - I Stand Alone

Band:  Godsmack
Genre:  Heavy Metal

The lead singer of Godsmack, Sully Erna, had his birthday yesterday.  The Superbowl was also yesterday.

Sully's birthday was the reason that I picked this song though, even though I'm sure that after I watch the Bowl that it will inspire a great many things as well.

Writing this before I get to watch anything, so we'll see which team I'm rooting for and which one wins, eh?

A to Z Challenge: F is for Faceless

We've talked about Godsmack before and how I really like them even though they're really repetitive.

This is a wonderful example of an album for that.

For instance, the songs Faceless and Changes have extremely similar choruses.  Like, really similar.  come on guys, the songs are even right after the other.

Still though, I do love a lot of these tracks.  Several of them are on my workout playlist actually.

My favorite tracks are:

Straight Out Of Line

Changes

Make Me Believe

I Stand Alone

I F*cking Hate You

Serenity

They're all pretty good songs, and I'd advise checking most or all of them out.  I mean, I think you should listen to the whole album, but that's a lot of time to commit, so I can understand if you don't.

Godsmack - Get Up, Get Out

Throwing back to some older Godsmack here.

This is a song off of the first album from 98.  Not too bad really, and the first lines always made me chuckle a little bit for whatever reason.  What can I say, I am amused when people talk about hitting each other.

This song was earlier in Godsmack's career, so it doesn't really follow the same outline I gave you the first time around.  Oh wait, it does.  it follows it perfectly.  Come on guys, vary your style just a tiny bit.

Cover Week: Godsmack - Come Together

I feel like I would get strung up as a music fan if I didn't do the obligatory "O.M.G.  The Beatles a the best musicians ever to grace the earth." thing.  Well you know, they were good pop rock musicians that experimented with psychedelic music.  Good for them.

This is a cover though, so it's obviously garbage, right?  I mean, nothing can possibly match up to the mighty Beatles, right?

Nah, this is still good.

Godsmack may not be the best band ever, but they do a decent rock song, and they also do a decent cover song.

On a side note, happy Valentine's Day everybody.

Godsmack - The Enemy

Steps to writing a Godsmack song.

1.  Open with drums and a catchy guitar riff.
2.  Add high guitar lead (optional wah) and bass.
3.  Open verse with "HEY" and end it with "YEAH".
4.  Catchy Chorus.
5.  Direct a lot of hate toward somebody.  Never be specific, just be clear that they suck.
6.  Insert solo here.
7.  Wrap up with another catchy chorus.

(Note:  This technique can also be applied to Metallica and Five Finger Death Punch.)

Now I'm kinda poking fun, but only a little.  They have a lot of songs that follow this pattern.

I'm gonna just cut to the fun fact about these guys.  Their name was chosen when the singer, Sully Erna, was teasing of a guy with a cold sore on his lip.  The next day Erna had one on his own lip, causing a friend to say "It looks like God smacked your face for making fun."  It was catchy enough of a phrase that they decided to make it their band name.

So to be clear about their genre, Heavy Metal is the kind of metal you blast while riding your Harley.  This is probably the easiest way to describe it.