You know, over on another message board, I'm working on revealing their top 100 music artists. I'm also doing the writeups for it…at #81 on the list was Queens of the Stone Age. Now for each band, I have to dig through youtube to find 4 videos of the band and their song…I wanted to choose vids evenly from each era, so I decided first to focus on Feel Good Hit of the Summer…but the official video had a pair of…you know…and that message board well…post nudity and bye-bye…so I settled for a live video, and whaddya know,…

http://www.spinner.com/2008/03/25/dr-pepper-to-give-away-free-product-if-axl-rose-releases-chine/

Dr. Pepper is imploring Axl Rose to put out his album that's been an astounding 17 years in the making. The creators of the curiously candy-like beverage have promised that if Rose releases Guns N' Roses' 'Chinese Democracy' at any point in 2008, everyone in America will receive a free can of Dr. Pepper.

But free soda aside, the best part about the proposal might just be the way the company is not only relating to, but sympathizing with, the 46-year-old singer. "It took a little patience to perfect Dr Pepper's special mix of 23 ingredients that our…

We've spawned a lot of clones, but let me explain… Well, I hate the nu metal term. We have always just been a band that rocks. We didn't like when people called us a metal band, we are just Korn. People just use these terms when they cannot describe something, but nu metal… when so many bands started making music that sounded like us, that is when nu metal was born. We don't have anything to do with it for real, I feel. I wouldn't wanna call Red Hot Chili Peppers a funk band, and we are not metal…

Recently it's been brought to my attention that The Offspring's new song Half-Truism has striking similarities to Helena by MCR. This has already been causing some commotion with Offspring fans, the majority of wish have no interest in associating themselves with MCR or the emo scene. Offspring fans have come out can claimed that the style MCR did on Helena wasn't original either and it's been done several times before.

But no one's brought up any examples…

Take a look at this vids and decide for yourself. First, the new song by The Offspring:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7GnyNEtkD4Y

And MCR's song…

That's right…I'm reviving it since I'm now loaded with high speed internet. Here are the rules.

RULE #1: Only 1 youtube vid at a time. The vid can feature a band playing a live performance, their music video, an "uploaded" song on a youtube vid, or…*sighs* music accompanied by scenes of something

RULE #2: They can be any genre…I will be lenient. They can be mainstream, they can be underground. They can be sung by males, they can be sung by females, they can be sung by dogs…I don't care

RULE #3: My taste will differ from…

What the fuck?

SLIPKNOT is a similar artist to…RATM? SLIPKNOT? A "heavy" nu metal band is similar to a funk/hip-hop/punk influenced rap rock band? Don't tell me that similar artist charts are based on what RATM listeners listen to most…most RATM listeners listen to these bands based on the chart for Rage Against the Machine:

#2 Red Hot Chili Peppers
#3 System of a Down
#4 Metallica
#5 Foo Fighters
#5 Queens of the Stone Age
#7 Nirvana
#7 Radiohead
#9 Audioslave
#10 Incubus
#11 Tool
#12 Muse
#13 Led Zeppelin
#14 The Beatles
#15 KoRn

Where is…

bla bla Nirvana did this, Nirvana did that…Nirvana killed Def Leppard, bla bla bla bla bla.

Seriously, give it up. Nirvana is not indeed the greatest band in the world nor the greatest grunge band in the world. They may have paved the way for some of the band you call "shitty" today, but they also paved the way for a lot of other bands during the alternative rock era. Bands like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden all took off shortly after Nirvana went to fame with Nevermind….each of these bands had one big album.…

The 1970s saw rock music become influential. Bands like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, The Clash, Aerosmith, and Black Sabbath helped make rock a driving force in music. All the way into the 80s. But in the 80s when metal began to dominate, so did a style known as hair metal…bands like Motley Crue, Poison, Bon Jovi, and Whitesnake began reiging…or were the milking the supposed "glam metal"/"glam rock" genres to hell. It was nothing but power ballads and rock anthems that were repeating itself. Even metal/rock legends like Def Leppard and…

Could have written something better, but there's just something on my mind.

1). What is mallcore?

To me, it's just a paranoic term. Supposedly, mallcore was given to bands that kids that hang out in the mall liked and was claimed to be metal. Let me point it out. It doesn't exist. It's just metalers being paranoia. For some, this nu metal (or metalcore) trend was a way to bring kids away from what was a declining pop industry into harder forms of music. To me, mallcore doesn't mean a thing…it's the same as other dumb terms like post-grunge, melodic…

They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself. That's basically what it's all about.

–Maynard James Keenan of Tool on the grammies.

Well, I watched the 50th grammy awards last night…supposed to be a "celebration" of 50 years of awards show. One must wonder though if we were better off without a show due to the writer's strike. Because honeslty, this show has been watered down to a point where nothing is left.

The opening act featured R*B singer Alicia Keys performing with the late Frank Sinatra a duet.…