Top 100 singles of all time: 69 – Slipknot – Vermillion

Everybody hates Slipknot. At least until they hear Slipknot. They’re stupid, trashy nu metal for people who don’t understand music, right? It comes a bit of a shock to find that Vol 3 (The Subliminal Verses) is a sophisticated blend of thrash metal and psychedelia that drummer Joey Jordison described as being like “Slayer tapping on Radiohead”. The drumming is addictive. The vocals are absolutely sublime.

Vermillion is the obvious highlight of an excellent album, and really showcases everything I like about the band. 

The Age of Clank: Why Genres are Important

Written for Collapse Board

A few weeks ago, Chris Razor wrote about clank – a new genre title he’d coined, and I was grateful, because I’d been trying to think of a word for it for ages. I was getting fed up of saying “experimental electronica”, because that makes it sound like it sounds more like this and it doesn’t. Instead, it sounds like this.

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30 day song challenge: day 07 – a song that reminds you of a certain event

Oooh, tricky one. OK, here’s one. I don’t remember “first hand” industrial music prior to the late 1980s – anything I heard that dates back further I heard many years later. There were many sub-categories, of course, but broadly if you asked me what “industrial music” sounded like I’d have said something like this:

#musicmonday – Slipknot, and other quirky metal

We were arguing about music generally, and then J linked me to a band he’d been listening to recently called Mastodon. This isn’t the actual song he linked to, but I think this otherwise fairly generic metal song does have some interesting bits, and I’d stand to hear more.

#trendingtopics – Music Shuffle

From Facebook:
Time for another one of these.
Write down the first 25 random songs that come up on your MP3 player, iPod etc. I used Last.fm set to My Library station.
No cheating!
No editing!

I thought I’d give it a go, using Last.fm, just to see what would happen. I found it interesting because it was forcing me to listen to things that I hadn’t heard in a while or given a particularly fair listen, and playing things out of the context of how I usually hear them. There’s some good songs here …

1. Foetus – Verklemmt

Bit of a no-brainer for me, considering how much I’ve been listening to this lately. I find the video hard-going (made by Alex Winter from Bill & Ted, it’s got literally thousands of cuts), but it’s a great song from the album GASH.

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2. The Kinks – Dead End Street

Ah, I never tire of this song. I used to play it a lot when I was unemployed and starving-broke, living in a miserable bedsit in one of the rougher parts of South London.

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