Ronald Jenkees - Try The Bass

Artist:  Ronald Jenkeees
Genre:  Electronic, EDM

Yo yo, I'm in Baltimore today for my cousins wedding!  It's gonna be a good time I'm sure, cause this os one of my favorite cousin's weddings here.  He and his brother are always a blast so I can't imagine that his wedding is gonna be dull, ya know?

Anyway though, as we were driving down yesterday we all started talking about music that we had been shown recently and such.  Somebody my mom works with had showed he this guy a little bit ago apparently so he was basically the talk of the trip with how cool his stuff is.  Like, who actually manages to play stuff that complicated live the whole way through?  Not too many.  Most live Electronic artists will play parts of their songs, but with how complicated a lot of the tracks turn out as they generally rely on a lot of loops and such.  This guy had the drums on a loop in the background but that's it, the rest was a single live take.  That impresses me a lot and that's why he made the post today.

Bye bye, gonna go enjoy my cousins wedding now, catch ya tomorrow!

Betraying The Martyrs - Out Of Egypt

Band:  Betraying The Martyrs
Genre:  Deathcore, Symphonic Deathcore

I was looking through some of my playlists deciding on a song today and I got distracted by the internet.  You know, as ya do.
Anyway I was browsing reddit and as I scrolled down my feed wasting my time I found this song.  I already have enjoyed the music from this band that I've heard before but I hadn't heard this before.  You may remember these guys, they covered Let it Go?  I posted it ages ago, but I'm banking on you not remembering it.

Anyway though, it's a good song as far as Deathcore goes.  If you don't like that then ya may as well skip this one, we'll catch ya on the flip side.

DMX - Slippin'

Artist:  DMX
Genre:  Rap

This song really speaks to me.  Through the chorus at least, not the verses.  I'm just really freaking tired cause I'm getting sick.  Wednesdays are long already and since I'm gonna be out of town this weekend for my cousin's wedding I'm a little stressed about getting all my work done.

Also it's another late night that I wasn't able to make the time to get this written earlier in the day.  I need to be awake in about 6 hours but since I'm *Slippin* with my time management I'm stuck doing this now.

Get it?  I just complained about all this for the sake of a stupid joke?  No?  Ok, I'll stop.

Enjoy DMX and be excited that he's coming out with a new album soon.  Especially since he almost died in February.  Talent like this guy doesn't come around all the time.  Not joking either , I really love DMX's voice.

Scorpions - Big City Nights

Band:  Scorpions
Genre:  Hair Metal, Power Metal, Hard Rock

"Ah hem..  *cough*  Ah...  The 80s."  *drop mic*

I feel like that's one of the primary feelings toward 80s music.  Some people call it the worst stuff on planet earth but I'd say that a large portion of the community is head over heels obsessed all over 80s music.

Don't get me wrong, I really enjoy a lot of 80s music.  It's got a very defining sound though that just sounds like the 80s in a way that nothing today has.  Even bands that try to mimic the sound like Steel Panther don't always manage to nail it.  Technology has simply advanced to the point that the crappy synths that we had back then just are gone.

Actually it's just the synths that we can kill.  The rest is killer and all that.

Anyway, please enjoy one of the anthems of the 80s, the glory of Hair Metal.

Reflections 2016: Queen - We Are The Champions

Band:  Queen
Genre:  Classic Rock

We're gonna do a lovely thing here where I ramble about how I bumbled my way through another year of the A to Z.

I managed to not have the time to visit almost anybody's blog this year.  It really bummed me out actually cause I really liked the visiting aspect of last year's adventure.

Post wise though I feel like I'm a better writer than I was last year.  Yeah, my grammar sucks.  Yeah, my punctuation sucks.  Yeah, these short little sentences suck.  It's the way I talk, I was never really good with writing.  My bad.

Theme wise I liked this year's theme of going with a band and a music video as opposed to the albums from last year.  I think  it was a better idea that was more streamlined in its execution.

Honestly though I already blog every day.  Daily blogging is something I'm used to so the hardest part of the challenge was actually managing to keep it all in order.  I ended up keeping a running list of all the stuff I wanted to post but couldn't cause it didn't fit the theme.  That would be a load of Death Metal, Rap, and a few album reviews if you're interested.  Soon........

I've gotta go though, I'm writing this on 4 hours of sleep rom the show on Sunday and I have to be up in 5 hours.  Still though, thanks for reading and if you visited, thanks for visiting.  I'll still be here, so swing by again some time, eh?

EDIT 5-9-16:  Well dang, this sounds so much weirder reading it again.  I don't really know what I was thinking trying to write this at like, 11:30 at night instead of earlier in the day, but I suppose that really manages to sum up how I had been managing from the rest of the A to Z as well.

Congrats to all else who made it by the way, forgot to say that.  Cheers!

The Clash - London Calling

Band:  The Clash

Genre:  Punk Rock

Talking about Sex Pistols last week made me remember a "lot" (read 2) of Punk bands I liked.  One of them is The Clash.

Actually it reminded me enough that I decided to actually learn to play a few of their songs.  This is a big deal for me since I never actually follow through with learning almost any songs that I think "Hey, I should learn this song".  #Goals.

So yeah.  I didn't learn this song, but I wouldn't mind it some time, ya know?  This is probably one of the most well known songs by The Clash though, and as such you might have heard it before.  It's a really solid tune with a catchy as crap bass line that rocks through the song.  I almost learned that line, but it turns out that a different one was easier for me and my brother to knock out.

The guitars in this song are really cool though.  The way they just keep hitting over the melody of the rest of it and it's a really cool sounding thing.  I really need to upgrade my wording so that it doesn't sound so freaking copy and pasted all the time.

Ah well, eventually.

Honestly I picked this song because London is foggy and right now is the foggiest I've ever seem Erie.  Like, total white out of fog at 5pm.  It's intense.

Dark Sermon - Rat King

Band:  Dark Sermon
Genre:  Blackened Death Metal, Deathcore

Yo man, got through that A to Z like it was nothing, right?

Ok, not really.  Wasn't as prepared this year so it was rough.  Hey though, I delivered and that's all you can ask, right?

So I decided to change up my usual hum drum one job straight to the other thing I've been doing and go do something fun today.  I'm going to see a pile of Deathcore bands live and it's gonna be awesome.

There's this show which should be sweet, and another one in a couple weeks that, in my opinion, will make this month about a million times better than last month.

I've never seen Dark Sermon before, but my brother says they put on a fantastic show so I've got high hopes.  Good times and all that cause live music is always good.

For real.  I really don't like Country music but I don't mind seeing it live, ya know?  Even if it's stuff I really don't like the live aspect is always something I can get behind.  And I like this, so that'll make it better.