Superband Topic

[Mysterious F.]

Twilight Wolf totally gets it. 4x4=12 is one of my favorite albums.

deadmau5 is a totally cool guy, too. He's a huge video game nerd (he has a Zelda tattoo) and make loads of YouTube videos, among other things.

[MasterKeyX]

I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but I'd like to bring up fun. for consideration. They've been one of my favorites since early 2010.

A lot of people probably know them from their hit We Are Young, but they have more music that's honestly a lot better.

Aim and Ignite is one of my favorite albums ever, and Some Nights, while a bit different, offers a new sound.

I personally recommend these songs:

• 1) At Least I'm Not as Sad (As I Used to Be)
  2) Stitch Me Up
  3) Walking the Dog
  4) Some Nights
  5) Stars
  6) Carry On

If anyone actually gives them a shot, lemme know what you think!

[Mysterious F.]

I've currently only heard their two hits. I don't care for "We Are Young" for reasons that Todd in the Shadows covered perfectly. It's just kind of rambling and it's stuck in an awkward area where it's too light to be a party song but too loud and fast to be a quiet reflection. Just meh. I like "Some Nights" but it loses points for the awful auto-tune solo, which is unbearable.

[MasterKeyX]

I've currently only heard their two hits. I don't care for "We Are Young" for reasons that Todd in the Shadows covered perfectly. It's just kind of rambling and it's stuck in an awkward area where it's too light to be a party song but too loud and fast to be a quiet reflection. Just meh. I like "Some Nights" but it loses points for the awful auto-tune solo, which is unbearable.

The actually edited the radio version and I think it's far worse than the CD version. It still has the auto tune solo, though, which I understand why you may dislike.

[Mysterious F.]

I don't dislike autotune, but there are some ways that you Just Shouldn't use it, and that was one of them.

Also, I'll post this here since it's music related. I watch VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 00's special last night. (Don't ask.) The complete list can be found here:

http://blog.vh1.com/2011-09-29/the-100-greatest-songs-of-00s-complete-list/

Mixed bunch, in my opinion. Some really great stuff, some really terrible stuff, and a lot in between as well. Most of what I really don't like is in the bottom half, and most of what I really love is near the top, which is nice. I'll just rate all of the songs to save y'all the trouble:

100. Sisqó / Thong Song – 1/5
99. Carrie Underwood / Before He Cheats – 1/5
98. 3 Doors Down / Kryptonite – 3/5
97. Shaggy / It Wasn't Me – 1/5
96. Pussycat Dolls ft Busta Rhymes / Don't Cha – 2/5
95. James Blunt / You're Beautiful – 2/5
94. Daughtry / It's Not Over – 3/5
93. OK Go / Here It Goes Again – 4/5
92. Flo Rida ft T-Pain / Low – 2/5
91. Creed / With Arms Wide Open – 1/5
90. Mystikal / Shake Ya Ass – 0/5
89. M.I.A. / Paper Planes – 1/5
88. Fountains of Wayne / Stacy's Mom – 2/5
87. The Darkness / I Believe in a Thing Called Love – 1/5
86. Aerosmith / Jaded – 4/5
85. Macy Gray / I Try – 2/5
84. Linkin Park / In the End – 2/5
83. D'Angelo / Untitled (How Does It Feel) – 5/5
82. Matchbox Twenty / Unwell – 4/5
81. Bruce Springsteen / The Rising – 4/5
80. Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz ft Ying Yang Twins / Get Low – 1/5
79. Enrique Iglesias / Hero – 2/5
78. Plain White T's / Hey There Delilah – 3/5
77. Nickelback / How You Remind Me – 1/5
76. T.I. ft Rihanna / Live Your Life – 1/5
75. Gavin DeGraw / I Don't Want to Be – 2/5
74. Chamillionaire ft Krayzie Bone / Ridin' – 2/5
73. Nelly Furtado ft Timbaland / Promiscuous – 3/5
72. Jet / Are You Gonna Be My Girl – 4/5
71. Colbie Caillat / Bubbly – 1/5
70. Chris Brown ft Juelz Santana / Run It! – 2/5
69. Evanescence / Bring Me to Life – 4/5
68. Ludacris ft Shawnna / Stand Up – 2/5
67. Leona Lewis / Bleeding Love – 3/5
66. Snoop Dogg ft Pharrell / Drop It Like It's Hot – 2/5
65. Aaliyah / Try Again – 4/5
64. Jennifer Lopez ft Ja Rule / I'm Real (Murder Remix) – 1/5
63. Andrew W.K. / Party Hard – 1/5
62. Avril Lavigne / Complicated – 2/5
61. Kelis / Milkshake – 3/5
60. Ke$ha / Tik Tok – 1/5
59. Justin Timberlake / Cry Me a River – 5/5
58. Jason Mraz / I'm Yours – 2/5
57. Mary J. Blige / Family Affair – 4/5
56. DMX / Party Up (Up In Here) – 1/5
55. The Killers / Mr. Brightside – 5/5
54. Norah Jones / Don't Know Why – 4/5
53. Blink-182 / All the Small Things – 3/5
52. Shakira ft Wyclef / Hips Don't Lie – 2/5
51. Natasha Bedingfield / Pocketful of Sunshine – 1/5
50. Taylor Swift / You Belong With Me – 3/5
49. Lady Gaga / Bad Romance – 5/5
48. Kings Of Leon / Sex On Fire – 2/5
47. Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink / Lady Marmalade – 4/5
46. Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow / Picture – 3/5
45. Eve ft Gwen Stefani / Let Me Blow Ya Mind – 4/5
44. Red Hot Chili Peppers / Californication – 5/5
43. Katy Perry / I Kissed A Girl – 2/5
42. Train / Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) – 4/5
41. R. Kelly / Trapped In The Closet – 1/5 (∞/5 for the videos, though)
40. Fall Out Boy / Sugar, We're Goin Down – 3/5
39. Adele / Chasing Pavements – 3/5
38. Miley Cyrus / Party In The U.S.A. – 1/5
37. Britney Spears / Oops! ...I Did It Again – 4/5
36. *NSYNC / Bye Bye Bye – 3/5
35. John Mayer / Daughters – 5/5
34. Janet Jackson / All For You – 2/5
33. Johnny Cash / Hurt – 5/5
32. Maroon 5 / This Love – 2/5
31. Amy Winehouse / Rehab – 5/5
30. Gwen Stefani / Hollaback Girl – 4/5
29. Foo Fighters / Best Of You – 5/5
28. Madonna / Music – 4/5
27. Usher ft Lil Jon and Ludacris / Yeah! – 4/5
26. The White Stripes / Seven Nation Army – 5/5
25. Nelly / Hot in Herre – 5/5
24. Missy Elliott / Get Ur Freak On – 5/5
23. Pink / Get the Party Started – 2/5
22. Alicia Keys / Fallin' – 5/5
21. Jay-Z / 99 Problems – 5/5
20. Britney Spears / Toxic – 2/5
19. Destiny's Child / Bootylicious – 4/5
18. Christina Aguilera / Beautiful – 5/5
17. Coldplay / Clocks – 4/5
16. Beyoncé / Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) – 5/5
15. U2 / Beautiful Day – 4/5
14. Gnarls Barkley / Crazy – 5/5
13. Green Day / American Idiot – 5/5
12. Black Eyed Peas / I Gotta Feeling – 3/5
11. Rihanna ft Jay-Z / Umbrella – 5/5
10. 50 Cent / In Da Club – 5/5
9. Mariah Carey / We Belong Together – 3/5
8. Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys / Empire State Of Mind – 5/5
7. Justin Timberlake ft Timbaland / SexyBack – 5/5
6. Kanye West ft Jamie Foxx / Gold Digger – 5/5
5. Kelly Clarkson / Since U Been Gone – 4/5
4. Eminem / Lose Yourself – 5/5
3. Lady Gaga / Poker Face – 4/5
2. OutKast / Hey Ya! – 5/5
1. Beyoncé ft Jay-Z / Crazy In Love – 5/5

And five songs that almost made the cut were also mentioned:

Kanye West / Stronger – 5/5
Sean Paul / Get Busy – 2/5
Pink / So What – 2/5
The Fray / Over My Head – 4/5
Katy Perry / Hot n Cold – 3/5

Including the five close calls, that is 27 5/5's, 22 4/5's, 15 3/5's, 22 2/5's, 18 1/5's, and 1 atrocity got a 0/5.

[Twilight Wolf]

That entire list is a fantastic representation of why I hate the modern music industry.

[Mysterious F.]

Oh come on, it has "Hurt." Obviously it isn't so bad.

[Twilight Wolf]

One great song does not a mostly horrible list of 100 justify.

The problem is that the only reason most of that stuff is there is not because it was actually good -- it's only what was chosen from the mass-marketed, lowest-common-denominator, popular music. There was a good deal of excellent music made during this time, but you'd never know it based on lists like this.

[MasterKeyX]

One great song does not a mostly horrible list of 100 justify.

The problem is that the only reason most of that stuff is there is not because it was actually good -- it's only what was chosen from the mass-marketed, lowest-common-denominator, popular music. There was a good deal of excellent music made during this time, but you'd never know it based on lists like this.

Basically sums up all of my feels on the matter. I'd be lying if I said I hate Lady Gaga though. She really isn't THAT bad.

[Mysterious F.]

Well, it's VH1. It's practically the television channel version of the radio station that only plays the current hits.

Anyway, there are certainly other great songs besides "Hurt," and by the way I will never stop being amazed that it actually made it. "Crazy" and "Hey Ya!" are probably the two most critically respected songs of the previous decade, and others, like "Crazy in Love" and "99 Problems" and "Rehab," also received almost entirely positive reception. A few others, like "Seven Nation Army," can't even accurately be described as hits - that only peaked at 76 on the Billboard Hot 100. And some of them are just plain fun, like "Hot in Herre" and "SexyBack." Sure, the number of great songs is inexcusably low, but they are there.

Besides, it's not like the other decades were perfect either. You know what topped the Billboard Year-End Hot 100 in 1996? "Macarena!" The 70's had it's fair share of duds, like "Afternoon Delight." A lot of the slower stuff from after WWII up until the mid 60's is as dull as watching molasses slide down the side of the Empire State Building. It's only the great stuff that we remember. And some of the bad stuff doesn't seem quite as awful now because we're looking at it from a different era. "Sure, that's how they did it back then." we think to ourselves. Meanwhile, we're stuck in years of our own era, whereas we tend to look at other eras, which makes the number of great songs from the era seem greater in comparison.

VH1 also did lists for the 90's and 80's. I think they would both get more or less the same number of 5/5's that I gave to the 00's list. I mean, the 80's list had "She Blinded Me with Science!"

Also, Lady Gaga is amazing. <3

[MasterKeyX]

She Blinded Me With Science is so fun to listen to that I can't even describe it.

[Mysterious F.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HKoqNJtMTQ

Adele's theme song for Skyfall has been posted online. It's the best Bond theme since Tina Turner did one for GoldenEye.

[Mysterious F.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPFGWVKXxm0

New single from The Rolling Stones, "Doom and Gloom." It's kind of great.

[Darth Wyndisis]

I purchased Koi No Yokan by the Deftones yesterday.  Great album, especially the last song on the album, it just owns everything in the universe on so many levels.

[Twilight Wolf]

Oh hell yeah! I preordered KNY, so in addition to the CD I also got a matching T-shirt and lithograph. And honestly? This is my new favorite Deftones album, hands-down. I love everything on it, but those last three tracks in sequence are my personal favorite at the moment because they work together so well. Worth the wait, this album.