More Driving

Today's Music from Grand View College Radio, as brought to you by the morning commute of one man:

Blur - "Song 2" - might get old, but not yet. Not quite the '90's that I want to remember, but still two minutes of fun.

Ramones - "Texas Chainsaw" - not my favorite Ramones tune, but let's face it, there isn't that much difference between them. They're still pretty fun, though.

Chemical Brothers - "Let Forever Be" - this song and I go way back. When I was working for the county one summer in College, doing some kind of ridiculous GPS-related survey project, one of my regular radio stations played this song almost every day. I never quite got into the Chemical Brothers, but I do like this song, even if it's a little too tightly controlled.

Some other band I didn't recognize but wasn't bad - instead, let's just say this is Cheap Trick - "Surrender". Fun! It always bothered me that Cheap Trick had to reference KISS in this song, though, as Cheap Trick didn't need to drop names and definitely reached a greater point of musical relevance than KISS. Also, Gene Simmons will put his name on anything.

WAIT. There's more!
Today's Music That Ended Up Being A Pleasant Surprise is The Heroin Diaries, by Sixx A.M. Apparently this is what Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue (? I can never keep all those godless hair-band pansies straight) is doing now. It was loaned to be as an afterthought in a Satanic ritual gone awry that involved a good deal of blood and also some rocks in my pocket.

Now, my contempt for hair bands and their ilk is well-documented, so normally I probably would have passed over this without a second thought. But because it was placed in my hands, I felt some obligation not to treat it lightly. As it turned out, this probably isn't my favorite album, but it turned out to be much better than I expected.

Some of the tracks are mostly spoken word with some instruments - these are the tracks I didn't care for as much. I'm sure they were done with dark, brooding, sinister, black metal intent, but they just came off as adolescent Tom Waits-ish posturing. However, there are a number of straight-forward rock songs that are decent! About half of this album has made its way onto my iPod shuffle, which sees exclusive use in the gym, and I don't regret adding those songs there. I suppose the moral of the story is that everything deserves a chance. The songs I like? I think "Pray For Me", "Tomorrow", and "Accidents Can Happen" are pretty tolerable. There are some others, but I'm not about to go through the album now to figure it out.

In Other News:
I love rainy days, moreso when the rain is warm enough to walk around outside.

I think yesterday was the first day in a week, maybe more, that I didn't get some kind of new bruise or scrape. Sad!

Let's go to Ledges this weekend if the weather is tolerable. Come on!