B. Brian Brunzell

Devin Townsend- Infinity "Truth": 6 "Christeen": 10 "Bad Devil": 8 "War": 7 "Soul Driven": 7 "Ants": 8 "Colonial Boy": 5 "Dynamics": 8 "Unity": 6 "Noisy Pink Bubbles": 10 Type O Negative- World Coming Down "Skip It": 5 "White Slavery": 7 "Sinus": 3 "Everyone I Love is Dead": 8 "Save the Sane": 9 "Liver": 3 "World Coming Down": 8 "Creepy Green Light": 9 "Everything Dies": 6 "Lung": 3 "Pyretta Blaze": 7 "All Hallow's Eve": 10 "Day Tripper/I Want you (She's so Heavy)": 8

Jeff Buckey- Grace: "Mojo Pin": 7 "Grace": 8 "Last Goodbye": 10 "Lilac Wine": 8 "So Real": 6 "Hallelujah": 10 "Lover, You Should've Come Over": 8 "Chorpus Christi Carol": 5 (only for the PERFECT falsetto) "Eternal Life": 7 "Dream Brother": 9 Local H- Here Comes the Zoo: "Hands on the Bible": 9 "Half-Life": 7 "Son of 'Cha!'": 5 "5th Avenue Crazy": 6 "(Baby Wants to) Tame Me": 10 "Rock N' Roll Professionals": 6 "Keep Your Girlfriend": 6 "Creature Comforted": 8 "Bryn Mawr Stomp": 5 "What Would You Have Me Do?": 10

That makes two of us who feel that way.

THANK YOU METAL FANS!!!!! I figured for sure that Nevermind would be in the top 5 or top 10, and to see it not even crack the top 100 brings me great joy. I bow to this book.

Nothign says "Peace, love and togetherness" like my Saviour of Metal and yours, Devin Townsend belting out "Oh My Fucking God", "Rape Song", and "Far Beyond Metal." Still, I'd pay to see it. Not only for evy Devy, but to see all the kids looking around wondering who this balding mad genius is. I could just imagine seeing him screaming and being brutal to a totally unaware crowd being led to Devy's powerful words like a moth to a flame. Oh yeah, he'd convert hundreds of thousands of the kids over to the darkside, and metal would rule all once again with an iron fist. All thanks to Hevy Devy.

The new one is DEFINITELY no Book of Shadows. Back then, Zakk could still sing, due to his voice no being destroyed due to endless amounts of beer and touring. Honestly, BLS shouldn't release another album for AT LEAST two years. Zakk needs to give his voice time to rest. It's reaching mid-80s level of Robert Plant on the badness scale.

"Fuck and Run"- Liz Phair

"Demise of Sanity" is definite ownage, but the groove throughout "Mass Murder Machine" just puts it above everything else for me.

Be fair, Agent. 1919 Eternal is a great fucking album, complete with more melody and less of the typical Zakk pitch harmonic screeching cat guitar sounds. I think it's the best BLS album, also having the best BLS song in "Mass Murder Machine."

Ok, I lied. Used copy of Outkast's ATLiens. I had to do it. Well, that's perfectly understanble. After all, I think ATLiens their best album, and possibly the best hip-hop album of the 90s, with the exception of The Low-End Theory. Very surprisingly I find myself coming around to this way of thought, now that I’m listening to it just about daily. ATLiens really gets the hooks in quickly; “You May Die” is totally off-the-charts as an intro, and between that, “Two Dope Boys in a Cadillac,” and the title track, it’s off-and-running faster than anything else they’ve done. ATLiens definitely feels like an Aquemini prototype; similar atmosphere and production, but this one is tighter overall (under an hour, zounds!) while Aquemini has the genius skits and a real sense of sprawl, for better and for worse. In the end I think it’s probably recency and I’ll probably go back to Aquemini as my favorite (despite “Senorita,” woof), but ATLiens is really fighting hard for that spot these days. Then, of course, there's "Elevators." When I bought ATLiens for the second time, I knew how great it was, but I got all sentimental. When I was in junior in high school, that album was just released, and my buddies and I would sit around and do bong rips for HOURS listening to it, and "Elevators" was always the last song we listened to. Now that I've grown older and stopped doing drugs, I can listen to that album and appreciate it for what it is: The perfect step-up from Southernplayalisticcadillacmuzik, and like you stated, the perfect precoursor to Aquemini. I can't really find any faults with that album. Andre and Big Boi both have perfect flow throughout, and Organized Noize does a fabulous preduction job, coming up with beats never heard of before. I love the lack of skits, as I think they take away from the music, fo the most part, though the ones on Aquemini are done just right, and alwys have something to do with the next track on the album. There's meaning behind them, which pleases me greatly.

"Big Dumb Sex"- Soundgarden Best. Chorus. Ever.

I smoke, and I make no excuses for my habit. I've been smoking since 1996, and am completely addicted. When I'm with friends who don't smoke, I either don't smoke, or go off somewhere else as to not bother them( I know, I'm letting the rest of us down). My dad's talk with me when he found out that I, like him, am a smoker was fucking wonderful. It went a little something like this: Dad: "You know they're bad for you, right? Brunzell: "Yeah." Dad: " You know they're expensive, right?" Me: "Yeah." Dad: "You knwo they can kill you, right?' Me: "Yeah." Dad: "Alright. Just as long as you know." I love my daddy.

I got a fever, and the only prescription, is MORE COWBELL~! That's the best fucking line in the sketch.

Nothign says "Peace, love and togetherness" like my Saviour of Metal and yours, Devin Townsend belting out "Oh My Fucking God", "Rape Song", and "Far Beyond Metal." Still, I'd pay to see it. Not only for evy Devy, but to see all the kids looking around wondering who this balding mad genius is.

I jsut wanted to add my two cents on the Purple Genius. I've been a HUGE fan of his since I was a kid growing up in the 80s. From the first time I heard "Little Red Corvette", a fucking GREAT song about pussy, maybe the greatest ever written, I was hooked. I had alot of his stuff on TAPE back in the day, but then kind of stopped listening to him for a bit when I got into my grunge/metal phse in the early-mid 90s. I recently started listening to his stuff again, and honestly, I feel horrible for excluding him for all of those typical teenage, angst-ridden years of listening to bands whine about how they were picked on as kids. If I were to do a top 10 list of songs, I honestly couldn't do him justice. There's been SOOOO much great material over the years that to make just a "best of" top 10 would be an insult to all of the other tracks that he's written/played/produced, etc. Now, a favourites list is a different story. I'll just leave it at five: 5. "Darling Nikki" 4. "If I Was Your Girlfriend" 3. "Little Red Corvette" 2. "Alphabet St." 1. "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man"

"Crazy Mary" -Pearl Jam

Anyone know if this tour is coming to Pittsburgh? The one time I had a chance to see Dream Theater, the bill was DT, King's X and Fates Warning (or possibly Queensryche, I can't remember). The show was at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago, which is a small venue, and it sold out rather quickly.

I'd throw my own mother down the stairs to see Black Label Society and Clutch on the same bill. Modest Mouse and The Mars Volta on the same bill would be another dream show, as would a Tool/Dream Theater co-headlinging tour.

"Queer"- Garbage

Understandable. But still, it's sooooo Rock N' Roll.

"Mack the Knife"- Ella Fitzgerald

I"m drinking a nice glass of milk.

Now THAT'S how you end a fucking set. Fuck trashing the stage and your equipment. Just barf everywhere. Classic.

"If You Knew"- Jeff Buckley

3. Flogging Molly- Dublin Irish Festival, Dublin, Ohio: I went to the fest just for the purpose of seeng them live, and they did not disappoint. Easily the loudest band I've ever seen, and I've seen Motorhead. Unbelieveable energy from the band as well as the crowd, and the Jameson was flowing like water. The best part was seeing all of the older folks with confused looks on their faces whenever they someone walk by with a mohawk and a Dead Kennedys t-shirt. 2. Roger Waters- New World Music Theater, Tinley Park, Illinois: What can I say about this one? It's Roger FUCKING Waters. No opening act, just he and his AMAZING band, including the always wonderful Doyle Bramhall on guitar playing Floyd classics, along with some solo material. Highlights were "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", "Southampton Dock", and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" in its entirety, complete with videos and still of Syd Barrett. Then, after what seemed like an easy 45 minutes of pure euphoria, Rog let us know that "OF course you know, that one was for Syd." 1. B.B. King- Capitol Music Hall, Wheeling, West Virginia: See #2 for the simple explanation. This was easily the finest thing I have ever witnessed. From beginning to end, B.B. sounded incredible, bantered back-and-forth with the audience, giving off the vibe that he, after all the years of playing, was still loving every second of being on stage. I can't say enough good things about him and the show he puts on. I hope that when I'm 78, I sound and look HALF as good as he.