Playlist 17/01/2015

1. Lamb Of God (2004) - "Ashes Of The Wake"
2. The Hounds Of Hasselvander (2011) - "The Ninth Hour"
3. Ministry (1999) - "Dark Side Of The Spoon"
4. Butthole Surfers (1993) - "Independent Worm Saloon"
5. Puscifer (2011) - "Conditions Of My Parole"
6. Tool (2006) - "10.000 Days"

Playlist 18/01/2015

1. Overkill (2014) - "White Devil Armory"
2. The Crown (2015) - "Death Is Not Dead"
3. Big Business (2013) - "Battlefields Forever"
4. The Company Band (2007) - "Sign Here, Here And Here"
5. Doomriders (2009) - "Darkness Comes Alive"
6. Acid Bath (1996) - "Paegan Terrorist Tactics"

More cowbell - less cowpunk

Eddie baby,

Before The Supersuckers suffer a long and suffocating death from misplaced spurs, while drinking tequila from their cowboy boots, please do a cover version of "Hangin' Out With Me". No cowpunk, country, alternative country or anything like that. Hard Punk Rock. Big chorus and even bigger hooks. Use a "Misfits tempo change" around the minute mark: the cover should go on for 110 seconds tops.

Thank you. Piss off!

P.s. Cowbells are allowed.

Dogs'n'booze'n'pee with blues!

A basset or a bloodhound,
                                                                       fooled around,
in a pond of spilt beer he found on the ground;

from his cosy spot he later had to flee,
                                                                     because you see,
he couldn't aim when he went to pee.

                                                                                   Weeeeeeeheeeeee!!!

       
                                          

We fucking love christmas! No shit!

I've been digging the new Stones tune, "Doom and Gloom", for a little over a month now. Needless to say, they've written this song before; a couple of times in fact. But it doesn't really matter. Let's hope that the mainstream radio stations and the shopping malls pick it up before the holidays ("Hi there! What says you we got some shelter and coffee in a pub before you headed home?").

If only they could release a proper full-length album's worth of material this good... it would be their best record since, ooh, I dunno... "Some Girls" (see what I did there?).

The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

       1996 was the year Nevermore's sophomore record was released. Meshuggah's ''Destroy Erase Improve" was already a reality. Metal music (done properly) had more things to offer than bands ripping off and ''poping up, the 90's way''  the various 60's eras (say, '64-'66 and '66-'68) of the British Invasion(s). Nevertheless, on the top of my head, I can't find an explicit, valid argument in order to throw The Brian Jonestown Massacre's ''Take It From The Man!" into the basket of history. Other than embarassing yours truly by reminding her just how bad her memory has become, that is. Not being able to name The Rolling Stones' singles that they intentionally copy the vocal lines and the music from is sad. Were they tagged as brit-pop back in the day Oasis were popular? 

Ruth Rendell.

I was not afraid of the house, at least not then. I was too sore for that. All my misery and fear derived from humanagency, not the supernatural. If I thought of the `bad room' at all, it was with that recklessness, that fatalism, which comes with certain kinds of unhappiness: things are so bad that anything which happens will be a relief - disaster, loss death. So I climbed that stairs and explored the house, looking into all the rooms, without trepidation and without much interest.

This is an excerpt from Ruth Rendell's novella ''The Strawberry Tree'' . It is probably short, simple, by-the-by ''psychological life-wisdom-isms'' like the one above, used in a more generic crime fiction environment of course, that make Wikipedia pieces of information, like the following, accurate: Many credit her and close friend P. D. James for upgrading the entire genre of whodunit, shaping it more into a whydunit.

Formula for the needs of a post by The Veteran Kara'o'lides. I finally managed to make $\LaTeX$ "code" work! The algorithm for the end-of-the-year-lists is an ongoing project. It should be completed by November 28, 2012.



\[ TRV(r_j) =\sum_1^n w_i \cdot Ind_i (r_j) \, , \]
where $TRV(r_j)$ is the total record value of the $j^{\text{th}}$ record, $1 \leq j \leq k$, with respect to the $n$ in number indexes of your choice. $Ind_i$ is the $i^{\text{th}}$ index, $w_i$ the weight corresponding to the $i^{\text{th}}$ index and $k$ is the total number of records entering the competition.