Sunday, January 2, 2011

Day 1 and 2

I need a challenge for the new year, and not just losing weight or quitting smoking or something. And besides this has the potential to be more annoying than not quitting smoking (I don't smoke, duh). At the risk of overwhelming myself and devoting less time I don't have to silly facebook games like Mafia Wars and Farmville, here we go with what needs to be 5.50958904109589 songs per day.

Theme 1: Who songs used as CSI Themes.
CSI Vegas: "Who Are You?"


CSI: Miami -
"Won't Get Fooled Again"

Lot going on in this, one been a while since I've seen it and youtube can sometimes cause you to focus in areas you wouldn't normally focus on. Keith seems to be playing the whole Who catalog at once and Roger looks like an autobot in that shirt while Ox is so cool, calm and collected. And see below for random connection.

CSI: New York - "Baba O'Reilly"

More from Kids...Was somewhat disappointed that CBS didn't use the Who's Superbowl XLIV performance as kind of a prelude to another 3-way crossover CSI (especially since the game was held in Miami). Undercover Boss seemed to epitomize the idea of a show that might be cheesy good when drunk and dreadful when sober.

Theme 2: My own triumvirate of melodic hardcore bands that seemed pretty positive overall.Generation 1: Minor Threat
"Bottled Violence (Demo Version)"
"Salad Days"


Generation 2: Gorilla Biscuits

"Hold Your Ground"

"Start Today"

object> Generation 3: Avail "March"

"West Wye"

If anything Avail might have stayed around a bit too long. The first two albums and most of the third still hold true...later on it peters out a bit. The two biggest post-Minor Threat bands, Dag Nasty and Fugazi carried on at least some of the original band's meaning musically and culturally. I always kind of think that if GB stuck around it would have ended up something like Quicksand mixed with Civ, might have worked and might have been yucky. And three songs from the band that just missed: If they didn't put out a few albums that tried to sound like U2 and weren't led by a singer who named a side project after a basketball reference after having a song called "I Hate Sports" this blog entry would have been a Mount Rushmore, but we're stuck with a triumvirate. "Skins, Brains & Guts"

The aforementioned "I Hate Sports"

The best later song "New Wind"


Non-themed songs: The end of this version of "Won't Get Fooled Again" reminds me of this 1982 semi-hit: Dire Straits - "Industrial Disease"


Running count: 13 songs for 2011.


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