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So Admiral Dan over at the Whinerack has tagged me with some music jumbly, which is the blog equivilent of Peekaboo, I See J00! It's several steps above such 'riveting' online quizzes as omg whhich napoleen dinomite quote r u i am the liger one lol!, so I'll play along. Sorta.

See, you're supposed to choose your six (6) favorite songs of the moment and explain why you like them, which is pretty straightforward, but I am going to let the iPod randomizer choose 6 songs out of around 650 and deliver scintillating commentary on each. They might rock or they might suck, I dunno. And you won't know either, unless you keep reading! So let's go.

1) Portishead - Mysterons >> Okay, this isn't a bad start. Dummy is a solid album, but I have the unfortunate tendency to always think "Gee, I wish I was listening to Roads (the song) instead of Mysterons," every time I'm actually listening to Mysterons. But woe, I am listening to Mysterons and not Roads. The randomizer has spoken! My knees are shaking a little bit from the bass and I have Pavlov-conditioned myself to pass out whenever I hear Portishead - it's good sleeping music. It's good sexxxing music too. The instrumental outro to this song is way too long.

2) Funeral For A Friend - Bend Your Arms To Look Like Wings >> Straightforward, catchy post-hardcore. The only problem I have with bands like this are that they are fucking abysmal live, and all the intricate guitar riffs that make the album so good mysteriously turns into the sound of cats being beaten with a sack of doorknobs on stage. Ooooh, a big breakdown and a slow part at the end of the song! Wait for it... wait for it... ooooh yeah, the chorus again, only slower. And a delightful fade-out. Conclusions? Meh.

3) Coheed and Cambria - 33 >> Holy shit, good job randomizer! The first Coheed song I ever heard, and the one that convinced me that high-pitched singing isn't necessarily The Devil. Coheed and Cambria features some very weirdo lyrics in the vein of "so convoluted, only Claudio the singer and his psychiatrist know what the hell is going on here." Here is a sample from 33:

hold on to the things you favor most
shift right and let it run down
if my peace could find a way up
let go of the youthful honesty

Yes. Go Claudio go!

4) Pink Floyd - Speak To Me/Breathe In The Air >> I really hate how this song takes so long to get going. If you're a stonebag hippie you will probably argue that "the discordant screams of fury juxtaposed with the cool, mellow jams that eventually ensue from the madness merely provide a sense of categorical relief and acceptance of the gorgeous rock that follows," but to them I say "Shut the fuck up and stop wasting half the track with your bullshit."

5) Death Cab For Cutie - Tiny Vessels >> I like this song because it's about shallowness and fucking somebody even though you know it won't amount to anything in the end, mixed with a little bit of regret. Nice lite tune with surprisingly heavy words: "So one last touch and then we'll go, and we'll pretend that it meant something so much more. But it was vile and it was cheap, and you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me." This reminds me of an x-girlfriend and I'll just leave it there. Nobody call me emo!

6) Affinity - My Name Is Jonas >> This is the poorest cover in the history of modern rock. Rivers Cuomo must be crying like a little bitch right now.

Okay done. What? There's more? I have to choose six more people to curse with this task, you say? No. I won't do it!

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