Quick Notice...
Just thought I'd take time out from my annoyingly busy and shite exam revision (Marx, Durkheim and Weber suck big floppy donkey dick!!) to let you all know that you can comment on my blog now because I've made it so that anyone can comment, not just blogger users. So yay!Jamie's already commented on my list and has made me realise I missed a whole lot of great songs from my list. Got any others I really shouldnt have left out but did? Let me know!Tah tah for now xxP.S. I think the green is quite fetching too, better than my old pink one anyway!
The hills are alive, with the sound of Indie....
If you had to make a CD of the 10 greatest rock songs of all time, what would you put on it?Something I've been thinking of for a while, while I've been trying to make a CD to put on at work ("It can't have swearing in it, it can't be too heavy, it can't be too dancey, it can't be...." the list is almost endless) I began to think of CDs to make for myself. I often find with compilations I make myself that, after a while, I get royally bored of them and want new stuff. And that led me to ponder on the greatest CD in the world, and what would be on it. Well, here goes...My personal top ten greatest rock songs of all time:10. Blink 182 - What's My Age Again?:- I wanted to put a Blink song in cos I think they are/were classic as a band. I almost put "All The Small Things" cos it has the classic formula. But then I remembered the video for this, that will be remembered!9. My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay:- I wasn't sure whether to put this here or not cos it's so new. But it has everything neccesary to make it a classic. The great guitar riff, the angsty lyrics, the very beauty of the "I'm not o-fucking-kay!" One to scream out, a classic for me definately. 8. The Who - My Generation:- It's just one of those songs where you know all the words, despite it being some thirty years before your time. Another good one to air-guitar to. A very memorable song.7. Lostprophets - Fake Sound of Progress:- I can see so many people disagreeing with this one! But I don't give a shit. It's a great song to jump around to, the music is awesome and of unquestionable classic standard. No one will persuade me otherwise!!6. System of a Down - Chop Suey:- It was the first SOAD song I heard and it converted me away from pop-shite. That was some four years ago, and I still love them. So it deserves a place here.5. Undertones - Teenage Kicks:- Nice and easy to play, lyrics about teen lust. It's so cute! But classic cos everyone knows it, it's catchy and it still gets played all the time. Every unsigned band covers it. Ok, well, most do. 4. Greenday - Basket Case:- Pick a Greenday song. Any. It will be great. It was hard choosing between Basket Case and American Idiot, both are awesome. But I decided that since Basket Case was the first Greenday song I heard, it would be my choice for this. No other reason than that. 3. Guns n Roses - Sweet Child of Mine:- A somewhat inevitable choice. You can't escape it. Everyone recognises it within three seconds. Even chavs. And I suppose it is great. Unfortunately for me, ze German played it too much last year and i grew to hate it. I like it again now though.2. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody:- Hard choice. Couldn't decide between this and "sweet child..." But given the time it was written, and the nonsensical words I think it's well placed. My dad would agree anyway!1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication:- It's awesome. And you can never hear it too may times. And the guitars are great and I love the bass and the lyrics are great. What more do you want??That was actually quite hard to do! I thought of loads of songs that I considered worthy of the list but then found better ones. So here are a few that didn't quite make it:No Doubt - Just a girlRage against the machine - Killing in the nameRammstein - SonneStereophonics - Bartender and the Thief.ACDC - Back in Black...and many more I can't remember now.You see, the problem with the music industry today is that you don't get many good songs in the charts, let alone any classics. I read today that that Crazy Frog stupid fucking ringtone thing is going to make number one. What does that say about the british music charts?? That it's only chavs that buy the music for it, that's what. The top ten in the charts at the moment is crammed full of repetitive dance music, r n b shite that all sounds the same, and poncy girl and boy bands, covering old songs. What ever happened to real music? "Music" now is full of novelty and repetition.And each week more of the same "musicians" release a "song"... and then disappear. Thank fuck for the thriving rock industry. But if only we could stop cloning our bands, creating bands who are all copying each other like razorlight and the Killers and "indie" like that (not that I have a problem with them, some of their stuff is fine...), maybe we could do something to make people realise that there is more to music than dance and R n B (i.e. Shite). We need more new music, we need more variety, only then can classics evolve.By the way, anyone else loving SOAD's new song?? Come on Download!!!Feel free to comment!
What I've Learned In The Past Year (Beware: Very Soppy!)
Ok so me and Dave have been together a year and a day now. So a lot of stuff has happened right?? Hell yeah. So what have I learned??1. That I'm actually a lot more independant than I thought - like the fact that i consider myself able to go and live in france for 7 months, and that I'm a lot more confident than I was this time last year.2. That it's still nice to have someone to depend on when times are hard. Or when I need a cuddle. 3. That living with someone so soon in a relationship is not neccessarily a bad thing...4....but that individual space is needed sometimes. Just to remind myself that i can be alone.5. What a luxury sex in the afternoon is.6. That we can be just as comfortable going out somewhere together as we can be reading the papers, being silent, doing nothing in particular. 7. How weird it feels to be the only stable couple in our house - feels like we're the mom and dad. Except we act like the kids.8. That even though I trust him, I will always be edgy about his relationship with a certain friend of mine. Even though I know there's nothing there. 9. That no matter how bad a mood I'm in, he'll still be able to make me laugh/do soppy things (like buying me a giant Eeyore!) to cheer me up.10. That there's nothing more soothing than watching him sleep - even if he is snoring and drooling (He'll tell me off now for saying that - and implying that I'm some crazed stalker who watches him sleep!) There are a lot more than ten things i've learned but some are a lot more soppy and a lot more personal so I don't think you wanna go there! I'm glad we made it this far, we sorta struggled through the arguing-all-the-time phase (not that dave will have noticed it even happened!) and we're back in the comfy zone. This year's gonna be a bit trickier though, but I'm hoping we'll be fine. I was looking at our notice board (cos we have a board in our room and on it's all the tickets and stuff for places we've been and stuff like that) and there is so much stuff on it now! London underground tickets, tickets from Lion King and We Will Rock You, gig tickets from Greenday, Ash, Inme, Rammstein, Velvet Revolver, Avenged Sevenfold, England tickets, science museum stuff, Natural history museum stuff, London zoo stuff, Sea life centre stuff, London aquarium stuff, a beer mat from the Cavern, a slipper from our hotel, there must be more stuff but you can just get a idea of what we've been doing as a couple for the past year. And yesterday for our anniversary we went to West Midlands safari park which was really really good and I got to touch a giraffe, yay me! it was so cute and it came looking for food, sticking it's head in my window. It didnt find any food so it drooled all over Dave's mirror instead. But it was lovely. This huge lion walked right in front of our car too which was pretty awesome. Got some really good photos that i'll try and put up on here some time.Today we were supposed to be going to the doctors because dave's had bad headaches for the past week or so. But useless doctors couldnt give him an appointment till monday so we went to a nice restauraunt by the canal for lunch instead. I had chicken and mushroom thai spicy noodles and I swear it was the most amazing thing I've tasted in a while. And then Dave made me drink half a bottle of wine cos he had a headache again and couldnt drink anymore (grrr!) We planned to go home then but instead thought "I know, lets got to the Sealife Centre!" So we did. And it was great. They've got two huge turtles there and they are so amazing and graceful and it just makes you stop and wonder at the beauty of animals and wonder how some fuckers could kill something as pure and innocent as a turtle. And then you wonder, wouldn't it be great to be a turtle in a sea life centre? No one trying to kill you, get fed every day without having to catch it yourself, no stress, get people to come and gawp at you and say how amazing you are....yeah, that'd suit the narcissist in me.Oh to be a turtle....
What's that? You're going to see Rammstein again...?
Yes indeedy I am!! Hell fucking yeah. After our road trip to see them in Nottingham in february, and witnessing the awesomeness that was a Rammstein performance, we literally leapt at the chance to see them again. Especially as they will be playing at the NEC, so we won't have to drive home for an hour and half afterwards (at 115 mph, in the pitch black, nipping into tescos for sweeties...)So there we go, adding another event to my seemingly never-ending schedule. I can't fucking wait :D
