Lil' Jon Feat. LMFAO - Get Outta Your Mind

So as a metalhead, it's a general rule that we have at least 1 guilty pleasure band/ genre that doesn't fit into the whole stereotypical metalhead thing.  I have Gangster Rap and Lil' Jon.

Now don't ask me why I like this, cause I really don't know.  I'm not a partier, I don't got to the club, and I really don't drink, and I don't do drugs so I have no idea why I love this type of music so much.

Somthing I find kinda funny here though is that Mr. Jon is featuring somebody in his song.  Not the other way around like usual.  Seriously though, this guy is featured in more songs than Pitbull, and that's saying something.

The video is kinda funny to.  I don't know how anybody could take the party life seriously though.  Let's be real, you can only go for so long till you crash hard.

Skrillex - Kill Everybody

So I know that choosing Skrillex is kinda stereotypical.  "Oh, you listen to dubstep?  You must love Skrillex then!"  No.  Not really at all actually.  I enjoy some of his material, but he's a lot more chill then I tend to like for the most part.  If you play his Pandora station, it tends to stick mostly toward the "Cinema" and "Summit" end of it.  This is one of the reasons that when I play Dubstep on Pandora I stick to the Knife Party station.

Still though, this is one of my favorite Skrillex songs because it does fill the style that I enjoy.  It's kinda crazy-ish, and has a driving cathy beat.

Kanye West - New Slaves

Now obviously Kanye is the best thing since anything.  Like, when God created the universe he tapped Kanye on the shoulder saying, "Hey Kanye, this look good to you?" and Kanye was all like, "Now God, Imma let you finish, but Yeezus made the best universe of all time."

This is totally what happened.  Just look in Second Genesis 3:17, it's all written out.

On a more serious note, I'm not actually going to give you real information on this egomaniac, because if you actually really care about that then you can look it up.  It's really a lot more fun to make stuff up about him anyway.

Something I like about this song is the synth.  It kinda has an Egyptian feel I think, and it's really really catchy.  Also Kanye sounds more racist than most KKK representatives in this song, but it's ok cause he's black.

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.

Thelonious Monk - Straight, No Chaser (Album)

EDIT:  I really feel bad, cause I accidentally released this on October 24th when I was writing it and people were trying to read it during the "Week Of Evil".  Sorry if that was you!

Ok, back to the real thing.

You know what's really nice?  Jazz.  I like jazz.  But not crappy jazz.  If there's a girl singing, then she'd better leave right away or else that band hits my list of "I don't like it".

So other than Fats Waller and Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk is one of my top jazz acts to listen to.  Despite the fact that I've only just started recently listening to them, the band quickly climbed my list of jazz favorites for one good reason.  No singing.

While I like some "singing jazz", I really feel like it distracts me from the music I'm trying to enjoy.  Either way though, instrumental; music is a really nice thing to have on in the background no matter what you're doing.

KoЯn - Twisted Transistor

KoЯn is a really good band even though they're Nu-metal.  Some exceptions must be made to rules and stuff, and these guys would be one of those exceptions.

Basically they were a defining role of Nu-Metal.  There's a slip point where some went in the Limp Bizkit direction and some went the KoЯn direction, and this is definitely in my opinion, the better option.

One fun little thing is that the singer, Jonathan Davis, is a huge conspiracy theorist.  He think the Illuminati control everything and that Obama is using Miley Cyrus as a tool toward world domination.  Kinda crazy if you ask me to be honest.

This track unfortunately is off of the "drum machine" days they had.  Before they got a new drummer, David, their original, get very lazy.  Most of the drums on the album were actually played by Jonathan Davis, and thus sound just a little repetitive.  It fits their sound, but it shows that some of the care as gone.

This is probably my favorite song they did, so I hope you like it.

Green Day - Warning

As fun as the Week Of Evil was, I kinda like the fact that we're slowing back down to normaler music.  It was hard dredging through music I don't listen to as much to try and find the evil and "evil" music for ya.

Back down to earth again, (or climbing back up.  Whatever) we have Green Day with Warning.

Green Day has been around for a very long time now.  Since about 1987 ish if memory serves.  You have probably heard something off of the album Dookie, since that has at least 4 singles on it.  We're playing one of the lesser publicized works though, so that we can be a bunch of freaking hipsters.

Warning was released in 2000, which seems to be the middle of when Green Day was in a pile of anonymity.  Quite honestly, they dropped off of the radar for a lot of people till American Idiot came out in 2004.

One thing I like about this song is it keeps a good pace going without sounding like it's trying.  The fact that it's played on an acoustic helps this a lot, and during the more intense parts it has a really cool sound to it.

It's a really funny video too.  You get to watch a guy literally break all the rules.