Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1995

you'd have to say Green Day's "animals engaged in popular pastimes" concept album's probly got a 50/50 chance of appearing eventually

only if the animals lived in red states

where poker is mostly legal, strangely enough.

have to give the dogs something to do

they should title it Doggystyle, a concept album about being alienated and homosexual in a red state

That list of songs is 83 wasted mouse-clicks.

in re: "Every Rose":

To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife

all responsible for these words finding public purchase should be taken out to sea and cast into the watery depths, fuck "every rose" forever

Not a good start to the long weekend: I reread the 21st Century Breakdown thread this morning because I forgot that Green Day released another album after 2004 and it was called 21st Century Breakdown.

― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, May 25, 2012 10:14 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

put your big boy pants on, because Green Day is set to release THREE ALBUMS this year

have we ever polled one of those "monster ballads" hair metal comps they used to advertise on tv?

To hear that tears me up inside
And to see you cuts me like a knife
oh it's called love
and it's cuts through life like a broken knife
it's called love love love love love

put your big boy pants on, because Green Day is set to release THREE ALBUMS this year

Thought you were kidding on this, but wow. Creatively titled ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!.

I loled.

hahaha wait

this is my favorite stupid album conceit since Sweat/Suit

¡Catorce!

hahahahaha omg

Thought you were kidding on this, but wow. Creatively titled ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!.

Please tell me that is going to be like the KISS solo albums from the 70s.

please tell me that these are going to be salsa reinterpretations of the first two Led Zepplin albums and the third Chicago album

i do hope the third one is just a Tre Cool solo album, his stupid showboating drum solos >>> Billie Joe's songs at this point

grunting in a more sincere register
might break my no new usernames rule for this

do you realize that if someone had just dropped a giant boulder on Poison back before "Talk Dirty To Me" came out, the world would be a much better place today

"Talk Dirty To Me" is hilarious, silly fun, I cast you out demon, etc.

DJP! Talk dirty to me is fuckin great.

CC pick up that guitar!

it's no "Nothin' But a Good Time."

I guess I should thank Poison for being so indescribably terrible that they drove me away from pop radio and into industrial and indie when I was 13

thanks Poison, you sad sack of shit for a band!

DJP this anti-Poison stance is not OK!

the one thing I will grant Poison is that Bret Michaels is a better singer than Axl Rose

although really a dead turtle is better than Axl Rose, so I guess my stance is "Poison: about as good as a dead turtle"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Open_Up_and_Say_Ahh_Cover.jpg

The album sucked, but that cover was like the "Yesterday & Today" of my youth.

my favorite Poison story:

as teenaged guys are wont to do, a bunch of us were hanging out talking about female musicians we thought were hot and one guy said "the drummer from Poison, man she's GORGEOUS"

hahahaha

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/RikkiRockett.JPG/800px-RikkiRockett.JPG

since when was the drummer even a hot chick?

Shades of Family Guy:

Peter: If you could be stranded on a desert island with any woman in the world, who would it be?
Glen Quagmire: Taylor Hanson.
Joe Swanson: Taylor Hanson is a guy.
Glen Quagmire: [Laughs] You guys are yankin' me. "Hey, let's put one over on Quagmire."
Peter: No, he's actually a guy, Quagmire.
Glen Quagmire: What? That's insane. That's impossible.
[Pause]
Glen Quagmire: Oh god. Oh my god. I've got all these magazines. Oh god.

he was going off of this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Poison-Look-What-the-Cat-Dragged-In.jpg

when we told him that was a guy, his response was "well if he was a chick I'd totally do her"

that whole LA school of "Liking the NY Dolls But Not Understanding What Made Them Good" was a toxic moment in music...you might even say it was...poison

Wow. That's a LOT of makeup on those dudes. I can see it (not sure which is the drummer there.. based off prettiness, bottom left?)

re the Poison album sleeve: are those their nicknames?

Wow. That's a LOT of makeup on those dudes. I can see it (not sure which is the drummer there.. based off prettiness, bottom left?)

I think that's CC? My guess is bottom right because that makes the story even more hilarious

Quoting lyrics to discredit good-to-great pop songs is really kind of dead end...

You'll burn the house down, then you'll do it again, and again, and again still.

hey wait are Poison to blame for the 2012 duckface epidemic? Hmmm..

that whole LA school of "Liking the NY Dolls (Insert Band) But Not Understanding What Made Them Good" was a toxic moment in music

Fixed. I mean, this is pretty descriptive of a whole slew of the shittiest music in the world.

drummer is bottom dude on the right side, cece is bottom dude on left side, bret is top left

"bottom dude" of course an homage to http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=77&threadid=79985

Quoting lyrics to discredit good-to-great pop songs is really kind of dead end...

I disagree strongly with this and offer as exhibit A for the defense Holland/Dozier/Holland's immortal run in the 60s. Exhibit B is Ashford & Simpson's arguably even greater run. Great pop songs have great lyrics for decades, I'm not quite sure exactly when that goes south but it doesn't have to be wordy nerdy stuff to be great: it just has to not be quantifiably bad & horrible. Acts that go "well, pop isn't really about the lyrics" and write garbage are shitty acts imo. A really really great song can get a pass on some clams, the Stylistics write really effective songs whose lyrics are but fuck "hey, I've got a not-terrible melody so "to hear that tears me up inside/and to see you cuts me like a knife" is an acceptable payoff line. One can comb through the greats listed above and say "well, here's a line where they stumbled" but most of the time they were writing fun killer pop tunes whose lyrics didn't suck. Literally all it takes is 1) not being a dumbass and 2) taking a minimal amount of pride in your work

Stylistics...whose lyrics are "not always at the level of the musicianship"

& actually I've never looked at the writing credits on a Stylistics record and for all I know it's some in-house dude writing "Stone In Love With You"

Hugo and Luigi mate.

Just noticed that these are the same font:

http://i.imgur.com/AvZPS.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/SKVR2.jpg