These two “holidays” should be abolished from history books because they narcissistic as fuck and falls under the category of Valentine’s Day, aka all commercials day, a day when candy and card places get together to make you buy unnecessary crap, because you were too self absorbed the rest of the year to appreciate your lover.
There’s nothing wrong with loving your parents or even appreciating them, however, just because you forgot to pull out isn’t a good enough excuse to party. Nor should your kids be forced to worship you. If you’re a good parent, you kids will, at minimum, mostly appreciate you during the year.
Can kids be moderately ungrateful? Sure! I know there were times I might not had been the most grateful, but that doesn’t make the kid bad. Any level of appreciation for what you do for them is better than none, but it still doesn’t deserve a day to itself.
If the day was for the government to appreciate the family unit, you would not have woman fighting for paternity leave and you would make it a bank holiday and make allowance for it, whilst giving people the day off. We do it for Veterans Day and for Memorial Day and isn’t family equally as important?
Speaking of which, ever notice it’s called paternity? It comes from the Latin, pater, or father. It’s all about us men, which is interesting, because some people consider kids a legacy, and well, wouldn’t a woman potentially desire that too? I doubt they wanted to be over glorified incubators for nine months out of the sheer pleasure. Although, I’m sure they enjoyed the nine months of judgement free eating that comes with it. Much like weddings are all about the woman, because it’s called holy matrimony. Which, as you guessed, comes from the Latin “mater” or mother. Because historically, within our nation, it was socially acceptable to parade your future gendered slave in front of each other’s families before you chained them to the house to basically be an over glorified surrogate mother for the boomer man-child.
Instead of caring about just the mother or father’s, I think we should consider combining them into family day. It’s like Thanksgiving, but without the historical bugaboo of slaughtering an entire race of people, like the fuckin Nazi’s, to celebrate it.
I know some of you will say “What about people who are family displaced?” To those unfortunate few, appreciate your friendships more, because that’s your family.
A riff that goes heavy. Iron Maiden were probably the ones that popularized the metal gallop in guitar, however, Heart used it, in this 70s hit, combining that with high strings, you got something iconic. Apparently it’s based around a Nazareth song. There is slightly a bit of truth that they sound the same, but legally they’re vastly different. This one definitely gets the nod for giving you a dank riff to satisfy that metal craving.
4.) Neil Young, Hey Hey, My My
Moody, atmospheric and dark, this song is a key change away, or a distortion pedal away, from being one hell of a metal song.
3.) One more time, Brittney Spears
Ok hear me out before you scoff. New Found Glory already showed this song could fit into the rock category, but could you imagine the chugging with distortion on the opening beat? It would have made nu-metal dudes creaming their pants.
2.) Taylor Swift-Look what you made me do
Leap Frog Studios already proven this song could go hard as fuck! That how I even found out this song existed. The dark lyrics with straight up gansta vibes, would be having people starting mosh pits in the streets. definitely should have been in the genre from the start.
1.) Coolio Gangsta’s Paradise
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this song was never rap and always in line with the metal genre. Gritty realism, deaths, loss and more and you got a song that sounds like it could have been part of the Melodic Swedish death metal music. plenty of YouTube guitarist have proven this correctly.
I’m not a professional musician. Fuck, I don’t even aspire to be. I love playing guitar, even if it’s badly. I’ve been blessed in this life to be pretty good at 99% of the things I touch, so maybe it’s helpful to me to be more intrigued by things I can improve upon vs things that you could say “come naturally.”
I learn fairly fast too. Guitar though, isn’t something I just became even moderately good at overnight. I had to keep at it.
However, I’ve deeply learned by shit when it comes to this and think that knowledgeable is relevant. Insert Giamo(sp?) a dude who wasn’t even on my radar until the autistic brigade made him a even bigger star by bitching about how successful he was. They complained his videos were mimed, as if anything short of a live recording has never been super authentic. one watch of Money Talks by AC/DC when Angus Young was spinning around the stage would help put it to perspective for you.
So someone faking a guitar video means shit to me, because you need that type of content to be a more seasoned musician. If you’re a guitar player and you didn’t know his videos were mimed, you probably not as good as a player as you think you are. I didn’t get a chance to observe him prior to this, so I didn’t get to make a decision one way or the other on that.
What I do know is that 99% of the music industry, since the 90s, is fake as fuck, so why do we care about the rando YouTube vid? This dude fits into the music industry and “Generation Fit in or Die” is mad out of professional jealousy. Otherwise he be praised for being a fraud. Which he was, until he cut into the autism brigades profit margin, whilst exposing YouTubers for being equally as fraudulent.
I normally sit out of this Bullshit, because YouTube isn’t the real world. It’s mostly misfits who think they’re cool and they’re not, hoping beyond hope their “popularity” will fill a hole inside them, because they filled with nothing but short comings. However, since I’ve seen this bullshit one too many times before, especially in my teenage years, which caught these assholes a beat down and deservingly so.
So here is the most damaging charge. He ripped off other people’s music. Ok, that is pretty bad, however, there is an insufficient amount of evidence to this claim. One video used to slander this man, was someone pointing to a Japanese Keyboard player that ripped off a 80s pop tune and added one note. That’s not how this works, that not how any of this works.
Here’s a list of mis used terms in music and what they actually mean.
Sampling: To lift the tune to another’s work and use it to reconstitute a new song. Famous examples of this are Ice Ice Baby vs Under pressure.
Lick: a small amount of music, that uses a scale of notes, that are open to be used by multiple musicians because they are public domain. Famous examples of this are nearly every song from 1940-2025.
So some people are saying he stealing licks, which seems impossible from what I’ve taken time to understand on music in general. It’s like chord progressions that Ed Shareen was famously sued for, but acquitted because they’re common as all hell.
I like Kirk Hammett, but a lot of this solos haves ripped off a dozen other musicians, even by his own admittance. Enter Sandman uses Hendrix Foxy lady in a small part. Master of Puppets uses a lot of classical licks. Non of these are rip offs. Except for maybe The Unforgiven being a large majority of classical gas. How about Slayer, raining in blood which uses In The Hall of the Mountain King as an opening riff? Hendrix also used licks. However, by YouTube logic, a part of all proceeds of his music are owned by Vox, simply because the way his way pedal filtered it.
The other part comes in that he is tabbing other people’s music and selling the tabs. Watch out ultimate guitar, you’ve been doing that for years. A lot of YouTube teachers will be out of work without that as well. Cause there’s no money in teaching open chords. Tabs is not selling the music as your own, it an interpretation, normally a very wrong one, at that. If he’s talented enough to make Tabs, he is clearly got musical instincts. So you have to give him that.
So unless there is some real damaging evidence that I’m missing, I have to assume that this isn’t about the music, because you don’t really care for music, do you? No, you care that Giamo was getting pussy, one of which was probably a celebrity that the autistics felt entitled to, and it nerd raged you into killing his career. Hopefully he lawyers up and sues each YouTuber for all .25 cents of their earnings, like Diddy to Sting for the next 20 years of your Pathetic lives.
So back in 2004 I got this from the local Walmart. We were spending the summer “camping” from place to place. What really happened was the landlords were atrocious alcoholics, and were about to go through a horrible divorce that my family and I got accidentally caught up in. So I spent my 18th year listening to a lot of music that summer. This is what is left of those and what I bought up until 2014.
Insane Clown Posse Hell’s Pit.
I found ICP, accidentally in the 90s. Never a big fan of rap, but I enjoyed the styling they did. I’ve had most of their albums over the years. This one was awesome. 4 stars
Coolio Gangsta’s Paradise
Bought this just for the title track. Gangsta’s Paradise is a metal song done in rap styling. The rest of the album is so-so. I don’t like rap much and the LA vibe was even worse than the east coast. Never been a fan of laidback sounds for the most part. Misfits and Black Flag are an exception to this rule. 3 out of 5 stars
Ozzy’s greatest hits
I had we sold our soul for rock and roll in the 90s, and I even saw the reformation of Sabbth in the 90s when my family and I went to OzzFest 99 for my 13th birthday. Naturally, the prince of darkness was right up my alley. I loved the 2001 album he did with Dreamer. This is all the best in one place. 5 out of 5
Dream 2001
Ok, So pop isn’t my thing. However, back in 2001 Sprite had points. You saved so many you got something. Well, after upteen nose bleeds from Sprite up’ing my blood pressure, this was the only album they had that seemed ok. It wasn’t worth it, but it’s not a horrible album. I haven’t had a sprite since then for a reason. 3.5 out of 5
Rob Zombies Hillbilly Deluxe
Second time I bought this album. Loved it in the 90s, dug it even more in 2004. Saw him at Ozzfest 99 and he upstaged sabbath. Not an easy accomplishment. 4 out of 5 stars.
Iron Maiden Number of the beast.
First heard of Iron Maiden thanks to the Tony Hawk games. Bought this in 2004 and loved it. Sadly I haven’t listened to this album since, just Run to the hills and Number of the beast. Interesting side note, We were at the Wendy’s in Saco, Maine and I had this album playing. I turned around while my family was ordering the food and when I turned back around, a bunch of ambulances were across the street. In between the time I started listening to the album and turned about some guy on a bicycle was hit by a semi truck. Horrible tragedy and still sticks with me to this day. 4 out of 5 stars on the album though.
Van Halen Best of both worlds
Can’t pick between Hager and Roth? Well, now you don’t have to. Besides, no one bought this album for either, well, if you’re a guitarist anyways. You bought it for Eddie’s guitar playing. Great album. Fun fact, this album almost had a tour for it. Roth and Hager could not get along, so even though I had the money to go, it never manifested. Leaving me with a 80s style sad musical story instead of the “I was there one.”4 out of 5
Lynard Skynard Thirty
I never listened to much Skynard back in the 90s. I knew of them because my parents liked a few of their songs. So expanding my musical horizons, I bought this. Lots of really good tunes and a few are more fun to play on guitar than it might seem. 4 out of 5
Best of The Rolling Stones
Another I didn’t listen to much in the 90s. Great stuff. 4 out of 5
The Ramones Greatest hits
My sister bought this and she ended up giving it to me because she got another copy. It’s the Ramones, do you really need a reason? Nothing but bar chords and down strumming on every song, but it paved the way for the genre. Gababa hey! 4 out of 5
Life after Death, BIG
Big up to Brooklyn! Gave this a listen back in the 90s, bought it again in 2004. Not a horrible album and a dark concept is so metal. Haven’t listened to it since though. 3.5 out of 5
Dre 2001
Listened to this a couple times in 2001. Not horrible, but i also haven’t listened to this or many tracks out it since. My favorite being Murder Ink, for sampling the Halloween theme. John Carpenter is great even in Rap. 3 out of 5
Rammstien
It’s a Rammstien. Du hast is an epic song! Couldn’t understand any of it back then, and now that I know German, thanks to Duolingo, it’s even better. 4 out of 5
Marylin Manson Smells like children
First Manson album I ever bought. Not the last. Sweet Dreams was dope. Kinder grinder remix went hard as fuck. If you weren’t moshing, you weren’t paying attention. 5 out of 5
Marylin Manson Antichrist superstar
Another album I bought twice. Worth it in every single way. Varies from Smells like Children, but interesting nonetheless. 1996 is my favorite from the cd. 4 out of 5
Marylin Manson Mechanical Animals
The cover was worth buying this to see the look on the Best Buy employees face. First got it for my 12th birthday in 1998, along with a copy of Parasite Eve that I would play on my brother’s PlayStation. Good album, but not his best. 3.5 out of 5
Eminem The Eminem Show
One of the very few rappers I actually have enjoyed over the years. Eminem’s various stylings in the key of rap has always made for him to be relevant and interesting to us non rap folk. 4 out of 5
The Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium
Never been a fan of the RHCP. It’s was too laid back for my taste. I did like Flea from Back to the Future. Caught a single off the radio in 2007 and bought this. My first and only RHCP album. It’s a magnum opus. Nearly every song is a hit. Still a 5 out of 5.
Lord The Arocklypse
They won Eurovision and boy was it amazing. Naturally I had to run to eBay and buy some of there albums from Europe. This is the 2008 American Release that I bought day one. 5 out of 5
Van Halen 5150
Police code for a crazy person. Had this on vinyl as well, which I picked up at a yard sale. Got it on cd too. Very good, albeit pretty retro synth. Still fun. 3.5 out of 5
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Not pictured because I lost them over the years, Metallica The Black Album, Guns and Roses Greatest Hits, Tom Perry’s Greatest hits. Bought all those around 2004 and I bumped The Black Album the most and now I can play a majority of the album on guitar too.
Overall an interesting time frame.
Edit: minor update to the text, corrections and added said link.
INTRODUCTION: So a fun fact. When I was born, my father actually considered naming me Rambo, after this movie. Interestingly enough, I wouldn’t see any of them until I was in my early 20’s, in preparation for Rambo 4, in 2008 ish. While I didn’t review Rambo 4 back then, I decided to give this one a review.
PLOT: an aging baby boomer actor, needs a comeback, er, I mean, John Rambo, retired and living on a ranch near Mexico, finds himself up against Mexican Drug Cartels, after losing someone close to him.
CHARACTERS: Glib as fuck villains, but the depth between John Rambo and a young woman whom isn’t his daughter, but treats in a similar fashion, is there and a great part to the set up.
DIALOGUE: Very good, including a great part right before the finale. It’s as good as as the “When you’re pushed, killing is as easy as breathing” from part 4.
VISUALS: Stunning.
FX: Excellent
MUSIC: Works, but not necessarily Iconic. In fact, some of it reminds me of the Terminator films.
SUBTEXT: None
CONCLUSION: The original Rambo is an iconic and poignant movie about a young Vietnam veteran that had trouble reintegrating into society, post war and spoke to the ills of the US government to do better for their men and woman on the front lines. It then delved into a mediocre action series that was the butt of jokes. If you ever played GTA:Vice City you’ll fondly recall the soundbit of Rockstar games mocking Rambo “your wife needs you.” Says his commander. He replies with “I’m not married” and then the officer says “You are now, to America!” Which I believe was making fun of part 3. Among other mockery of this character. Which is sad, given how good part one is. However, what could have been another boring addition to a needed action series like part 4, they bring back John’s PTSD affliction, as he pops his medicine out the bottle. It’s good they recon’d this. Making Rambo very sympathetic to the audience, that he isn’t a one dimensional action character. Mixing with the chemistry Sly had with the actress that is a sort of daughter, it hits you and makes you seeing Rambo go, well, Rambo on everyone’s sorry ass worth every second, especially the last kill. Worth every second!
INTRODUCTION: Jimi doesn’t need a introduction, but this review needs to be prefaced by something, because this isn’t really an album, so much as an audio scrapbook of Jimi’s various attempts at creating his music. As such, this can’t really be reviewed in a traditional sense, since we have the complete versions of most of these songs already released.
ALBUM: This album is for anyone that is interested in Jimi. However I think the primary appreciative audience of this album is musicians or budding musicians that want to learn more. Listening over the course of three days gave a small glimpse into a great mind and some of what he was thinking when it came to music. A lot of the changes to songs are very subtle. One of the more interesting aspects of this is the small snippets of Jimi and his crew bantering before laying down a track. While an interesting look behind the man who captured audiences for generations, it would be time and money better well spent buying the deluxe edition that comes with a dvd detailing more on Jimi. Just the album alone, while worth the $29.99, will leave you wanting more like I did. Overall a cool concept in general.
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