A revelation

A couple days ago I listened to Awake by Godsmack. It wasn't a bad album or anything, but I just found myself bored after a few songs.

It was then I had a sort of revelation. I've always loved nu metal, which kind of puts me on the not-metal map. But after listening to this, I realized when nu metal is good, it dominates; but anything just ordinary is mediocre.

Now, you may accuse me of hypocrisy for having this sudden change of heart. But just listen. A few months ago (well, more than that) I picked up The Darker Side of Nonsense by Dry Kill Logic, a perfect example of nu metal. I had previewed it on iTunes and really liked it. However, when I got home and played it, I found myself disappointed. So, I played the ol' parental advisory trick.

The Darker Side of Nonsense had tons of curses in the lyrics- but no warning sticker. Uh-oh! My mom had done this before with the self-titled Slipknot album. She had gone up, demanded a refund (well, she did it nicely). When I had opened up the disc in the car and read the lyrics, my mom snatched it from me when she saw there were about 20 instances of the f-bomb just in the first two songs or so (I was much younger at the time). At first, the clerk refused, but my mom asked to speak to the manager, and the manager granted my mom a refund. At the time, I wasn't happy about it.

So I asked my mom to return Nonsense. I felt kinda bad about it, but hey. I heard it was much harder for her this time. Why? I could've burned it to my computer. (I deleted it from there- I don't steal)

Anyways, the point here is that nu metal only stands out when it's done correctly. Otherwise, it's garbage.

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I also listened to Iron Maiden's self-titled debut. I liked it a lot. It sounded like a really heavy classic rock record. They're pretty similar to Judas Priest, too.

Let's see, this guy's got 246 songs in Iron Maiden's discography. Not too bad compared to the Beatles (850 songs). But then again, he's got every studio album, compilation, and live album. For the Beatles he had every single too...

I don't think this will take me too long, I managed to listen to every Beatles studio album during Thanksgiving break, which was three days off school, and the weekend. (By the way you can read my reviews of every studio album on my other blog) Besides, I've only got one more exam, day left, and then I've got two weeks off for Christmas break.

I'll keep you tuned.

-Ben