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Hey guys. Happy new year everybody! I meant to do a top 10 thing but I think I still need to put some thought into it. What are your favorite purchases/memories/etc from the past year? Least favorite? Predictions for the next year?
I don’t know how to say this. Where do I even begin?
I have found perhaps the greatest piece of music.
One of Zach’s favorite sub-genre descriptions – butt rock – gets some exposure in Paste, from Barry Blasengame’s review of the Midlake album, The Courage of Others:
“The disappointing thing about most Molly Hatchet albums – beside the fact that they’re horrible – is the blatant deception of their covers. During the band’s heyday, Hatchet albums featured a hulking, wide-eyed barbarian swinging a massive battleaxe as sinew and bits of bone fell about him like crimson snow. It was, in a word, badass. But when you dropped the needle, out came a sickening bilge of chuggin’ boogie blues and butt rock. The only thing hemorrhaging was your ears.”
There was one scene in Twilight: New Moon where Bella is running away from the bad vampires (I think) and I remember thinking in the movie, a little guilty, “This song is pretty sweet..” Ever since then I’ve been meaning to check out the soundtrack and I finally did the other night. I can’t say that it’s solid all the way through, but there are some definite standouts and daring choices on a soundtrack that could definitely have just gotten some My Chemical Romance tracks and been done with it. You can listen to the soundtrack via youtube playlist here – so load it up and let’s get started.