"Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" - The Hollies

Some things just keep getting better with age ;)
Oh yea, this song too. Going old school here.

"You're Going Down" - Sick Puppies

This is a really cool song that came out this year. Listen to that opening bass riff, sweet.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd "Blue On Black" Live

If you've never heard of Kenny Wayne Shepherd, you're missing out on one great guitarist. This particular song is one of my favorites by him.

Excerpt from Wikipedia: Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst, on June 12, 1977, Shreveport, Louisiana[1]) is an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released several studio albums and experienced a rare level of commercial success both as a blues artist and a young musician.[2] In 1997, Guitar World ranked Shepherd #3 after B.B. King and Eric Clapton on their list of popular blues artists.[3]

Eric Clapton - Layla (Unplugged).avi

I don't know about you, but I'm in the mood for a little slow hand.
Clapton just exudes passion for music.

Apocalyptica featuring Corey Taylor - "I'm Not Jesus"

Here is a great tune from Apocalyptica.

"Hard Sun" by Eddie Vedder

You ever just have a song hit you a certain way? I have not heard this in at least a year and just had the urge to listen to it. It just goes right through you, I don't know how to explain it, though I tried.

Tool - "Sober" [hq - fullscreen]

How do you pick one song from a group when you like so many? Decisions, decisions. This has always been a favorite of mine and one that turned me into a Tool fan.

I've always been about the music, but there is something incredibly intriguing about this video that I absolutely love. The stop-motion, lighting, camera angles, and visuals, combine to give a fascinating, yet eerie performance. As always it helps to be accompanied by a great song.

Hey all

Just wanted to let you know that I have added all the past music picks from my Internal Pathways To Contention blog, over to the music player play list.

Soundgarden - "Burden In My Hand"

I've always been a big Soundgarden fan, actually anything with Chris Cornell at the helm is usually good. This is one of their less heavy, but very catchy, tunes.

Avenged Sevenfold - "Bat Country" (Video)

A good heavy one for a shitty Monday morning. Enjoy

Seether- "Hang On"

As you know I'm a huge Seeter fan, I really just love this song.

Candlebox - "You" (Live)

Another great band from the 90's, Candlebox had some great breakout hits, including this one.

Stone Sour - "Bother" & "Through The Glass"

Believe it or not, this is the same lead singer of the band Slipknot, along with some other members. This has always been his side project predating Slipknot, and this band really shows his range as a singer and songwriter.

A great song.



What the hell, I'll put up "Through The Glass" as well. Enjoy

Mudvayne - "World So Cold"

Make no mistake, these guys are hard core. I have one of their albums and it is for the serious metal/thrash fan only. This is a softer side of them if you can believe that. This was the song that drew my attention to them.

Cage The Elephant - "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked"

This song hit the scene sometime last year. Its a very catchy and cool tune that I like a lot.

Flyleaf

Flyleaf fiasco this weekend. Click to read about the ass hat that let me down.

Finger Eleven - Paralyzer

Another really cool song, unfortunately another disappointment of an album, its the only good song on there in my humble opinion.

Cinderella - Gypsy Road

I'll give you another one of my 80's favorites for the weekend. Cinderella is just one of those great bluesy sounding bands. I had the chance to see them a few years ago, opening for Poison, they put Poison to shame.

Five Finger Death Punch- Bad Company

I have to put this up now, especially after SoccerMom mentioned it to me.  I heard it a few weeks ago and it is a great remake of a great classic.  The video is also a great show of troop support from the band, going overseas to provide some well deserved entertainment.

Also seems fitting for 9/11

Violent J "Yellow Brick alleyway"

And now for something completely different...

A friend of mine turned me on to this guy. This album is a stoner's take on The Wizard Of Oz, if you ever have a chance to hear it beginning to end, its definitely worth it. This particular song always had me rolling just because of the chorus. This song picks up as his house just landed in Oz after the storm.

P.S. Don't have any kids around listening to this. Have a good laugh.

Seven Mary Three - Cumbersome (Video)

This song just plain, flat out, absolutely, fucking rocks...
at a time when there weren't a lot of stand out acts. But don't even try to understand some of the lyrics.

Saving Abel - Addicted (Edited)

Ok, so I bought this CD because of this song, sad to say it's this and one other song on the whole CD that I like. Good video, sadly its the edited version of the song.

Saliva "Ladies and Gentlemen"

Here is another great band. Saliva has had quite a bit of air play in the past years, but I think they are still an under-appreciated group.
Here is one of my favorites by them. You will be seeing more of their music up here.

Godsmack - Voodoo

The song that started it all for me with this band. Some local New England boys that just plain rock. Sully just has such a distinctive voice, coupled with the great music, pure rock highness.

Britny Fox "Girlschool"

I'm going 80's flash back on ya today. This is a great song, the band had way to much teased hair, but you know what, it was the 80's, they all did. I love the guitar work in this song, right from that opening riff, sounds good to me. It also doesn't hurt that the video has a ton of cute girls.
I used to have this on cassette and was recently trying to find it on CD, but it looks like I'll only be able to get it on line, as all the local stores don't carry it new or used.

Everlast "What It's Like" & "White Trash Beautiful"

Everlast was originally the front man for House Of Pain, you all know the song "Jump Around". This first video is off his 1998 album which would meet with critical acclaim for his combination of rap, acoustic and electric guitar work. The video for "What It's Like" is a great comentary on how we can be blind to those around us.

Unfortunately the video is the edited version, cutting about a minute from the actual song, the full length song is on the media player to the right. The second video is the lead track off of his 2004 album. Both are good songs. Enjoy.

"What It's Like"



"White Trash Beautiful"

Thank You

I need to thank Ms Scarlett publicly for letting me know that the comments were not working on this blog. This past week I was thinking no one liked my choices ;).

So, it's all better now. Feel free to let me know what you think or if you have some opinions on the matter.

Chevelle - Send The Pain Below

These guys have a few songs on the air waves, but this was the one that turned me on to them.

Slipknot "Snuff" & "Dead Memories"

This is such a great song, the slowly rising tempo coupled with powerful lyrics, just a great song.

"Snuff"


Excerpts from Wikipedia:

"Snuff" is a song by American heavy metal band Slipknot, Released as the fifth single from their fourth album All Hope Is Gone on September 28, 2009,[1] the song charted at number two on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, their highest charted single to date, surpassing Dead Memories.[2]It was not included in the All Hope Is Gone World Tour setlist but the band performed the song live at the October 11, 2009 performance in Kennewick, Washington.[3]
Roadrunner Records placed Snuff at No. 6 for its greatest music videos of all time.[4]The song was also nominated for "Best Single" at "The 2010 Kerrang Awards",[5]but lost to Liquid Confidence by You Me at Six.[6]

On the background and themes of "Snuff", vocalist Corey Taylor said the following: "This is the slow one. It's another personal one. Again, not naming names, it's about someone who helped me through a lot and I thought she felt the same way that I did and then she really let me down. At the same time, it was good that she did, because it was that final push to me figuring out myself. The lyrics are pretty self-explanatory.[7]


And just so you know, Slipknot is a very heavy band normally, so I included another favorite of mine off the same album, which is more akin to their sound.
"Dead Memories"