I’ve been a fan of Green Day for many years. And, as controversial as it may be, I just might like their newer music more in comparison to their earlier work.
Today is primary day here in North Carolina, where I live. My vote has been cast to decide on our next Democratic presidential candidate. And I’m thinking he will make it all the way to the presidency. If you are in one of the remaining states, be sure to cast your vote. Every one counts.
I usually don’t do these types of things, though they pop up on LiveJournal and MySpace pretty often. This one seemed like something that would interest me, however. I’m including either mp3 links or embedded videos for each of my choices as well…
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions along with your 7 songs…
mc chris, “reese” - This is one of the tracks mc chris leaked for his upcoming album, mc chris is dead, which can be preordered on his site. The song is about the candy Reese’s Pieces, somewhat of a documental song telling a brief history of the candy in the form of a rap song. One of the key reasons why I’m digging this track in particular is that, according to mc chris himself, the first line “You can have a Skittle, a Mentos, or a Sweet Tart” is a nod to me. You know, seeing as my online alias and what many folks know me as is Skittle. So I thought that was pretty special. This video was made by a fan recently.
Ego Likeness, “Second Skin [2007]” - This has been my favorite Ego Likeness song for a long time, so needless to say I was excited that it was redone when I got my hands on a copy of the self-released South EP. The CD has since sold out, however, so fans wait patiently for the following three CDs in the compass EP series as well as a full-length album which is in the works now.
Arrested Development, “Mr. Wendal” - I really don’t know much about this band. I know they were a hip-hop band most popular in the early 90’s and that, listening to their music in modern times, they were much better than most anything mainstream hip-hop can kick out today. This song occasionally comes on Sirius radio while I’m at work and, after it caught my ear one day, I always make a point to pause and turn the volume up while this song plays. I just love it.
The Beatles, “I’ve Just Seen a Face” - This is one of my favorite earlier The Beatles tracks. My love for it was renewed when the film Across the Universe was release recently. It’s just a fun song. I’ve uploaded the mono recording of the song.
Brad Paisley, “Online” - I loveBrad Paisley. Normally I’m not a huge fan of country music, modern country in particular, but I can’t help but love this guy’s music. Every song I hear by him is just… great! This song is hilarious, the video too. There’s a guest appearance by William Shatner too!
Les Claypool’s Frog Brigade, “Ding Dang” - This is a track I’ve loved since I first heard it and it has recently popped back into rotation for me. The term “ding dang” spawned into somewhat of an inside joke and my workplace (we get bored), and so I let my co-workers hear this song. It’s my favorite track on The Frog Brigade’s Purple Onion album.
Rick Astley, “Never Gonna Give You Up” - Face it. Rickrolling people is hilarious. As dumb as it may sound, I find it very, very amusing.
Feel free to post your list of seven songs that you’re into on your personal blog. If you do, leave me a comment here and I’ll be sure to check it out.
Has it really been a year since the last Star Wars Day? You know… “May the 4th Be With You!”
Last year I posted a music video for mc chris’ “fett’s vette” made by a fan. Why not start up a tradition? This year I bring you the new Snobots remix of the song which you may have heard before if you’ve caught mc chris live lately. He also posted it on his MySpace at one point.
Another month of having my own web hosting plan and domain name complete. I was accepted to Elbo.ws, by the way. Hype Machine seems to be about my biggest hit referral now, it’s up there with Google. Not much has really changed with the site over the past month. I’ve been working my butt off at my job lately, so posts have been flowing a bit less frequently than I would prefer.
Hopefully I will be able to bring a good amount of posts to the blog in May. I wouldn’t get my hopes up though, I’m still working overtime at my job and… well… Grand Theft Auto 4did just come out…
You Sound Like A Robot’s one year older, one year wiser, a rock and roll star, king, czar, and a kaiser. A room full of friends, a mouth full of cake, every present is for You Sound Like A Robot and it feels pretty great. You Sound Like A Robot’s the man of the hour, the V.I.P., You Sound Like A Robot gets the first slice of the P-I-E. But first blow out the candles and make a wish, put a smile on because it’s You Sound Like A Robot’s birthday, BITCH!
Today officially marks You Sound Like A Robot’s first birthday. One year ago today I created this blog and made my first post. 167 posts later, it’s still kicking and has come a long way. Here’s to another year!
This mp3 is a sound clip from an episode of Sealab 2021 when Hesh, a character portrayed by mc chris, raps a birthday song for Quinn. Enjoy!
Part of running a music blog is dealing with many e-mails from assorted musicians and bands who want to send you their music. Don’t misinterperate me and think that I disapprove of this, however! I love it! Keep sending me your music! Send me more, in fact! Some of the music I get sent is… well… eh. Most of it is good though. And some, just a few of the e-mails that I get, are enjoyable enough that I just have to repost. I can’t be posting about every band that e-mails me, of course, so don’t be offended if you e-mailed me and your band never pops up here.
Heartbeeps, a band out of the United Kingdom, is one of the bands that I dig enough to show you guys. They sent me a copy of their latest EP, Canton EP. It’s only four tracks, but it has been repeated quite a few times. It’s very good chill music. You can download the disc on the HeartbeepsMySpace too if you like. The singer sounds a little bit like Ringo Starr at times, which may be my naturally ignorant American ears associating everyone with an English accent with a member of The Beatles. We all do it. We Americans are an interesting species at times.
I’ve mentioned Kail before, in this post to be precise. Well it appears he went and released his new full length album without me posting it here. We’ll have to remedy that…
Much of the album is the same or similar to previous releases, but it’s a fun album which jumps genres pretty much every track. The most notable difference is the incorporation of a full band on certain tracks. Oh, and there’s a Paul Stanley cover too. You can download the album here or on Kail’s official site. High resolution album art is available on his site too… not to mention his previous albums. Enjoy!
I, for one, am insanely excited for the upcoming video game Grand Theft Auto IV. As with the past releases in the series this game seems to have an awesome soundtrack available. More so than the past game, actually. Check out this little widget which samples some of the stations from GTA4 that I found on Xbox.com…
According to the soundtrack list on Wikipedia, many more stations are going to be in the game than what this widget so far has. A noteable station on the list is Tuff Gong Radio which I can only assume is a reggae radio station. Bob Marley has two songs featured on the list so far, “Rebel, Rebel” and “Get Up, Stand Up”. To celebrate the game, I bring you the latter.
Years ago I was doing some online research for WWII. No reason really, it’s just something that interests me. I remember being curious as to why Adolf Hitler’s voice was able to have such an impact on so many people, and so I was searching for audio files of him speaking. I found a number of his speeches and noticed a few random files that popped up with “DJ Adolf” in the title. I downloaded some out of curiosity. Someone had taken various recordings of Hitler speaking and put it to a techno beat. I shared the music with a few of my friends and it became somewhat of an inside joke until the DJ Adolf mp3s were eventually lost in an epic hard drive crash and pretty much forgotten.
Cut to a few years later. I find myself bored and staring at the computer. I’m not sure what exactly went through my mind, but I decided to Google DJ Adolf to see if anything would come up. I remembered that years earlier nothing tangible was found by searching for the DJ, but I decided to try it again. I found out that an entire collection of music had been released, an album named Hatesampler! I was disappointed that the music had been put together as a racist extremist gesture and not out of amusement as I had originally taken it, but I hastily hunted down the album and any other mp3s that I could find.
Today, April 20th, is commonly known as Adolf Hitler’s birthday (among other things, heh heh). As such, I have decided to post the album on my blog. I post it not out of support for the whack job right-wing extremists who support bigotry but because… well… I think it’s funny. Something about Nazi propaganda synced with upbeat electronic music which at times tinges on disco just amuses me. It’s nothing phenomenal, the music itself is mid-grade, but I do hope you can get some amusement out of it and party like it’s 1939. Just don’t bump it in your car around town!
P.S. It is far from my intention to offend anyone or bring any misguided idolization to Adolf Hitler. Use your brain, guys.
Edit: I fixed the two links that were broken, thanks to those who pointed it out to me. Sorry if you were offended by the post, by the way. And I had no idea it was Passover, bad timing on my part! My bad!
You know, this blog would be a lot easier to keep up with if it weren’t for my real life obligations. Working seven to three, three to eleven, and eleven to seven for example. This song by Kenny Chesney, featuring George Strait, is something that I can relate to.
I’ve mentioned that Ego Likeness and Voltaire are touring together before in this previous entry. Well, I just wanted to chime in to remind all of you lovely readers, the tour has already started. Their next stop on what has been dubbed the “Maiden Voyage Tour” seeing as it’s Voltaire’s first real tour is in Los Angeles, CA at The Knitting Factory on April 17th where The Last Dance will also be playing. So that promises to be a pretty sweet show. Here is the poster made for the tour, click the image for a full size version…
Steven Archer of Ego Likeness has been keeping video footage from all of the mundane adventures that happen between shows on the tour, so far two videos have been posted. You can see the first video here and the second video here. They’re pretty amusing.
This show at San Francisco’s DNA Lounge took place nearly a year after their last show there with The Crüxshadows and Ayria which I posted in this previous entry. This time, however, Ego Likeness was the headliner with Jessica Vale and Equilibrium as the supporting bands. This show features 14 tracks ranging throughout nearly their entire career as a band. Though it’s only been a few months since this show was recorded Ego Likeness’ set on the Maiden Voyage Tour promises to be unique and worth attending. Steven had this to say on the matter…
“To celebrate the tour, we are busting out a new song, and bringing some stuff out we haven’t done in a while. So if you saw us earlier this year, chances are you will hear at least a couple things you didn’t hear last time.”
Not to mention Voltaire will be there to put on one of his zany shows! Download links for the concert follow after the break. The files are 128kbps mp3, as they were originally transmitted. Click the flyer image for full size. Enjoy!
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Part of running a music blog is dealing with many e-mails from assorted musicians and bands who want to send you their music. Don’t misinterperate me and think that I disapprove of this, however! I love it! Keep sending me your music! Send me more, in fact! Some of the music I get sent is… well… eh. Most of it is good though. And some, just a few of the e-mails that I get, are enjoyable enough that I just have to repost. I can’t be posting about every band that e-mails me, of course, so don’t be offended if you e-mailed me and your band never pops up here.
Years ago I was doing some online research for WWII. No reason really, it’s just something that interests me. I remember being curious as to why Adolf Hitler’s voice was able to have such an impact on so many people, and so I was searching for audio files of him speaking. I found a number of his speeches and noticed a few random files that popped up with “
Cut to a few years later. I find myself bored and staring at the computer. I’m not sure what exactly went through my mind, but I decided to Google 
Today, April 20th, is commonly known as Adolf Hitler’s birthday (among other things, heh heh). As such, I have decided to post the album on my blog. I post it not out of support for the whack job right-wing extremists who support bigotry but because… well… I think it’s funny. Something about Nazi propaganda synced with upbeat electronic music which at times tinges on disco just amuses me. It’s nothing phenomenal, the music itself is mid-grade, but I do hope you can get some amusement out of it and party like it’s 1939. Just don’t bump it in your car around town! 
This show at San Francisco’s 
