Kill In The Spirit World
Black Sabbath, off the really rather good Headless Cross album
Been waiting quite some time for this....
King Herod's Song
Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Rescue Me
K.X.M.
what if George Lynch and dUg Pinnick got together and jammed?
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That was really good. Thanks!
The Headless Children
W.A.S.P.
Blackie Lawless at the height of his powers. I played this LP so much the grooves wore out.
We are 138
By The Misfits
Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber; Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber
Voodoo Chile
(not slight return)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
...And Justice for All
Metallica
Uurrgh... Nomad got in while I was browsing videos. Try this instead...
Enter Sandman
Metallica
Maiden Astraea
Shunsuke Kida
Everyday People
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts covering Sly and the Family Stone
Windmills
Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy
Eyes Waterfalling
Level 42
That bass. Damn.
Love Bites (So Do I)
Halestorm
I'm enjoying their last album... anyone else a fan?
Half Measures
The Prize Fighter Inferno
People Of The Sun
Rage Against The Machine
I had never heard of Halestorm (and then I thought you meant these guys), but they were pretty good. 'd try catching them if they came to town.
Vattnisse wrote: I had never heard of Halestorm (and then I thought you meant these guys)... That was wicked, Vatnisse! I'll have to put these guys on rotation next game night; makes me want to run Freeport.
Piece of My Heart
Janis Joplin
Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy
For a very different pirate music thing, these guys are pretty good. And if you like Alestorm, you might like Flogging Molly as well.
Truck Drivin' Girl
Danny Jacob
This is one of my favorite animated shows, despite the Disney imprint. Thanks again for the suggestions, Vatnisse!
I'm on a roll here. If you want gaming music, these guys are obligatory:
Jaktens Tid
Finntroll
The above track is awesome, but the big classic is this jolly tune (fun video, too). Finally, though Nile is a bit too extreme for most, this song is atypical, and a fantastic mood-setter.
Did somebody say "gaming music?"
Fortress of Regrets
Mark Morgan
Love Halestorm! Been to two of their shows. Lzzy is great as the singer/guitar/riot grrl in the Joan Jett vein. Her brother drums like a mofo. The other guys in the band...meh. They do a KICKASS Skid Row cover...a decent Priest cover and they picked a great song for the Dio tribute. Lzzy shows up on a couple tracks of Device's self titled disc (Disturbed side project). The track theyve written are pretty good too!
I thought Vattnisse was going to link to these guys!
o and gaming music:
Mr Torture
Helloween
I havent heard the Planescape soundtrack in FOREVER! Thanks, man. New thing for the amazon wishlist!
You've heard about Tides of Numenera, yes?
Rolling on....
Hill Top Zone
Masato Nakamura
Exciter
a Judas Priest classic, covered here by Canadian geniuses/nutcases Strapping Young Lad
Semi-Automatic
Twenty One Pilots
Tarzan Boy
Baltimora
Relax, your computer is OK - the video really did look that crappy.
A Boozehound Named Barney
Alf Clausen, Al Jean, and Mike Reiss
When I'm Gone
3 Doors Down
Not my favorite band or song, but anything done with the intent of honoring our troops is fine by me...
Catch Me I'm Falling
Pretty Poison
This is what happens when you are still trying to ride your one hit twenty years later...
Readerbreeder wrote:
Not my favorite band or song, but anything done with the intent of honoring our troops is fine by me...
Whose troops are they, anyways? The road to Hell is paved with good intentions; I'm not okay with anything that makes people more comfortable with, or even endears them to, a perpetually-militarized "way of life" we could have and should have sloughed off decades ago. There are those (including people I like a lot, like Garry Trudeau) who talk about "honoring the warrior while condemning the war;" unfortunately, I don't think that actually works. "Our troops" have been made into factory-built Christ-figures hanging on a cross of iron - and with them, all of us.
Anyways: This too, shall pass, and there shall be a new beginning....
Prologue
Michiru Yamane
Readerbreeder wrote: Not my favorite band or song, but anything done with the intent of honoring our troops is fine by me... I don't want to seem like I'm piling on here, but this and songs like Destiny's Child's "Soldier" just seem like cynical pandering to me. And the Closetman is right - the US attitude towards its military is unlike anything you see in any country it would like to compare itself to. I spent time in uniform and tried my damndest to make a career out of it, and I still find it weird and creepy how the military shows up at sporting events, mall openings and, yes, in this kind of pop culture stuff.
My Father's Gun
Elton John
Okay, *deep breath* I'll make an attempt at clarification here, and after that I suggest that if we want to continue the conversation we do it in a thread of its own (which I'm amenable to, if there's interest).
I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote: Whose troops are they, anyways? You're right, Hiding, I said "our" troops without taking into account that we have an international clientele on these boards. If I offended, I apologize.
That was an interesting article, Hiding. It came from a viewpoint far to the Left of my current political orientation, but it did make some good points. The "support our troops" slogan is open to leading into jingoism and all the other awful things detailed in the article.
I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote: There are those (including people I like a lot, like Garry Trudeau) who talk about "honoring the warrior while condemning the war;" unfortunately, I don't think that actually works. I respectfully disagree. I think we must be willing to honor the soldier even if we disagree with the uses to which those soldiers are put (which the soldiers themselves obviously have little control over). Otherwise, we risk ending up in a mindset expressed most frequently (at least in the US) during the Vietnam War (and some times since), where rather than "honoring the warrior while condemning the war", many chose to "condemn the war by vilifying the soldier". Soldiers, many of whom had no choice about their service (there was a draft on at the time), were treated as if all soldiers represented the worst of their collective group, spat upon, called "baby killers" - pretty much the opposite of the mindset warned against in Hiding's linked article. (I hope)we don't want either; one of the basics of a working democracy is enlightened self-interest, and mindlessly following any idea of another does not demonstrate that.
I choose to support the individuals who serve in my country's armed forces in the hopes that, by seeing them as individuals, they will remember that, at least in their most ideal iteration, it is me and my interests that he or she is defending and/or fighting for. The situations they find themselves fighting in (assuming combat situations) are rarely of their own making, and putting the sins of the military-industrial complex upon them (another can of worms entirely) is not fair. *deep breath* Well, there it is, and hopefully if anyone still disagrees with me, they will do so respectfully. In any case...
The Joker
Steve Miller Band
I'm fairly satisfied with what I've said. However, the subject having been raised, let me close by recommending a rather important book which most people still have never heard of (having only heard about it within the past few years, myself): The Spitting Image by Jerry Lembcke.
Mystic Cave Zone
Masato Nakamura
Fair points on a touchy subject, all around (having said that, I still question the timing and taste of Destiny's Child donning camo and developing an interest in the troops right after the invasion of Iraq). By contrast, here's some good music with no possible political implications:
No One Like You
Scorpions
Their best song? If not, it's pretty close.
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