On The Shuffle

Ballad Of The Baconsfield Miners.  Australian bluegrass?  It's not bad.

Through These Eyes - Lynch Mob.  Too much Zep in the vocals for my liking.  Not enough shredding for a Lynch Mob song.  Gonna be generous with a C-.

Cold Desert - Kings Of Leon.  Dang, what is it with the ballads tonight, iTunes?  Definitely my least favorite track on Only By The Night.  Even at that, I'm gonna listen intently and enjoy.  Hoping the next song is a rocker though.

Beautiful Homes - Chris Isaak.   Love me some Isaak but he's not what you want when wishing for a rocker.  Luckily this is on the harder end of the Chris Isaak rock spectrum.  Fingers crossed for some straight up thrash now.

Seven Days - Corrosion Of Conformity.  Not thrash but really good, intense hard rock.  C.O.C. is always good for a rock fix.

Self-Righteous Wall - Ryan Bingham.  This is a gruff voiced fella for being in his 20's.  He'll be the greatest country & western singer of all time at 40 if he keeps up his current pace of living.  There was mention of a new album on his FB page the other day.  I was giddy.

Desensitized - Mighty Mighty Bosstones.  More straight up metal from these fellas.  I dig it.

Euphoria - School Of Fish.  Ah, my Sr. year shoe gaze song.  Good stuff.

Fortress Around Your Heart - Sting.  I love Sting almost as much as Phil Collins.

Sixteen Saltines - Jack White.  This album has completely sold me on Jack White.  I've held off on the adoration as long as I could, dude is fantastic.

Treasure - The Cure.  The Cure-iest song on Wild Mood Swings.  Plenty of sad strings and cry-singing.  

This I Love - Guns N' Roses.  By far the most hate-able track on Chinese Democracy.  It probably ruins the perception of the entire album for a lot of people.  Yuck.

Harelip - Tomahawk.  I've known a few of hairlips and they all dislike being called hairlip.  They should lighten up and listen to this song.

Trinkets Of Pale Moon - The Mars Volta.  Weird whining on top of a spooky guitar track and some kind of tribal chanting.  The singer says the word "umbrage" and it turns into a Radiohead rip off, completing the ultimate hipster track.

Hellbound 17 1/2 (Theme From) - Primus.  LOOK OUT BELOW!!!!  Grade A filler but filler nonetheless.

Ugly In The Morning - Faith Now More.  4.5 out of 5.3

Ah Ha - Butthole Surfers.  8.9 out of 9.8

Serbia - The Cult.  Three Tesla's out of four The Cults.

Crossfire - Scorpions.  Two cuckoo clocks out of one French invasion.

Shackler's Revenge - Guns N' Roses.  A tumbler of Old Crow at an all Wild Turkey 101 bar.

Decadance - Living Colour.  Really hoping for a new album from these guys soon.  The last one was their best, maybe they can top it.  This song is one of the better on that album too.  I could never figure out why a bunch of black dudes from the US would use the English spelling of color in their name.  Weird.

Even You Brutus? - Red Hot Chili Peppers.  I kinda like Anthony trying to be Bob Dylan more than shitty rap Anthony.  This is way out of the usual for RHCP.  Good stuff.

Peach - Prince.  Off hand, I don't know this song.  Seems uninspired, maybe a little cheesy.  Gonna finish  it out but I'm not in love with it.  Prince does say "titty bounce" so I don't hate it.  I'm a fan of the titty bounce.

Esta Noche - The Twilight Singers.  The opened up with this song when I saw them last year.  Great choice as an opening song.  Hopefully I'll get to the Afghan Whigs later this year!  Missed them in NY last week and gonna skip the European…

What I Got - Sublime.  !  This song makes me want to smoke a cigarette.  Damn you Sublime.  It's been nearly two years.  I'll stay strong though.  That's me.  Strong.  I can squat 500 pounds.  Temptation is a bitch though.  

Guns Blazing - UNKLE.  More than a minute of intro kills a song, no matter how funky fresh the beat my ultimately be.  Too bad, as this song is indeed funky and fresh.  I'll just fast forward through the intro next time.

Lies - Baby Cake.  I usually skip the novelty stuff on the Shuffle but I love Baby Cakes.  I say bullshit to pizza not being funnels as well.  Contrary to what Mr. Cakes says, I have found that women love the giant dongers.  That's me, a dude that can squat 500 and has a giant donger.

Had Enough - Tesla.  A little heavier tune from Tesla to enjoy.  Psychotic Supper isn't their best effort but still superior to most everything else.

The Broken - Coheed & Cambria.  Saw these guys…

Break So Easy - Mighty Mighty Bosstones.  By far my favorite from these guys.  It pushes the bounds of metal with a horn section.  The guys are comfortable away from ska.  Good.

Kneeling Drunkard's Plea - Johnny Cash.   Having Tom Petty do the back up vocals automatically makes it a Tom Petty song.  I like the bouncy sadness.

Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers.  I am legitimately sick of this song.  You can see the evidence if you really want to.

The Twilight Kid - The Twilight Singers.  Mood music for sexually aggressive depressives.  It could be my theme song.

I Would Die 4 U - Prince.  Second best song on the movie soundtrack.  It's got Purple Rain's back in case Morris Day shows up being an asshole bully.

Where Dragons Dwell - Gorjira.  The Zakk Wylde pitch harmonics screechy shit can ruin a song even when he's not playing.  Minus that musical misstep, this is full on aggressive metal.  Can't believe I like a French band.  It makes me question everything I believe in.  Oh, I will be starting season one of Game Of Thrones this week sometime.  I hear that dragons dwell on that show.

Littlething - Jimmy Eat World.  Oh Jimmy.  I wish you would find it in your heart to knock off the emotional stuff and just rock.  He sounds like he's cry-singing on this one.  Ugh.  I will not be buying the next album.

The More I See - Metallica.  Not the best track on Garage Inc. but it rocks nonetheless.  Its not a full on rock fiesta mind you.  C+

Test For Echo - Rush.  This flavor of Rush isn't as tasty as I remember it.  Maybe I'm hungry for something more substantial, possibly a heaping helping of YYZ or a whole plate of 2112.

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Roll The Bones - Rush.  Minus the rappy slappy crappy in the middle, this is a great Rush song.  Can't fault the fellas for wanting to try something new.  The "ya dig?" part is absolutely cringe worthy though.

Sir Yes Sir - Tomahawk.  Second best song on the self titled disc.  Gotta love a Patton freak out!

Fade - King's X.  Dang, it's been more than two Shuffles since the last King's X song popped.  Glad it was this one that broke the streak.  Good harmonies, great low end, unique time signature.  Me gusta!!!

Computer Blue - Prince & The Revolution.  Wendy and Lisa were quite the boner makers.  It this song were a candle, I'd blow it.  Wendy and Lisa can watch.

Halo - Foo Fighters.  Yay!  Thoroughly enjoy this song. Don't think this has ever been on the Shuffle.  They're gonna be on SNL this weekend.  I will be recording it.

Desertion - Sevendust.  Sing-songy but I like the guitar.  It's outside of the normal tone for these guys.  It ends nicely.

Never Bought It - Dinosaur Jr.  The flute adds, not detracts.  The female vocal is a nice touch as well.  This and I'm Insane are a couple of my favorites because they sound like Dinosaur Jr. without sounding too much like Dinosaur Jr. Odd instruments used in a less than traditional way always intrigues me.

Soul To Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers.  It's not Under The Bridge quality bit I like it nonetheless.  I like the bass line. The Coneheads was a piece of shit movie.

The World You Love - Jimmy Eat World.  Meh, Emo Jimmy is and unlikable asshat. Seriously, these guys are almost 40.  They should have shit figured out by now.  Luckily Rock N' Roll Jimmy stands up and lets himself be known about a minute into this track.  6.5 out of 10 cheese burgers.

A Man Needs A Maid - Neil Young.  Now this is a…