B. Brian Brunzell

Paragon, have you heard much Faith No More besides "Epic" and other songs off of The Real Thing? Patton got away from the rapping after that album, and topped with nasal vocals. From Angel Dust on, his vocals improved greatly. His singing, his pitch, his AMAZING growls, grunts, screams and other tricks were like nothing I'd ever heard. It's like I say Agent say once, "He has perfect control of his voice at all times." Post- [/i]The Real Thing[/i]. there are few vocalists I hold in higher regard than Patton. I have to agree with redbaron about Led Zeppelin IV. Aside from a couple of tracks, there really isn't anything incredible about that album. [/i]Led Zeppelin III[/i] is where it's at, if you ask me. Now there's and under-appreciated album.

Can't say that I'm a tequila fan. The only kind I'll drink is Cuervo Gold 1800, and that's on a VERY rare occason. I"m more of a beer and whiskey kind of guy.

Yeah, but there's some GREAT Buh-Buh insults on the Dudleyz DVD. The one I quite like is from the Madhouse of Extreme when Buh-Buh goes off on some fat guy and proclaims "You couldn't get laid in a whorehouse with a pocketfull of $50's, motherfucker!" Great stuff. Brunzell's favourite ECW moments: Taz's heel turn at November to Remember '95. He just fucking goes off on everyone, including Paul E's dad. I miss the days when Taz was a badass. Benoit/Snow from Double Tables. Benoit stops in the middle of the shitkicking, looks up and yells "Is this (pointing at a dead Al) the best that the United States has to offer?" And of course, the chairshot heard 'round the worl. Actually, the entire Raven/Dreamer feud was marvelous.

There's a couple that I have that most folks don't own. First is Jeff Buckley s Songs to No One 1991-1992 and the other is Ocean Machine feat. Devin Townsend's Biomech. Both are GREAT albums and should be listened to by all fans of good music.

I just wanted the Devin Townsend "Tonight Show" incident to be on the list. Telephones were never meant to be used that way...

Three of 'em this week: Beautiful Garbage- Garbage Reflections Eternal- Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek Classic Masters- Blind Melon The area in which I live has NO REAL RECORD STORES, so I'm forced to buy my music at either Circuit City or Sam Goody, both of whom have shit for selection and variety. The only thing I miss about living in Chicago is Crow's Nest, the greatest record store of all-time. Their import section is bigger than the ENTIRE selection at Goody or Circuit City.

Three words: Best. Interview. EVER. And Metal-Sludge has had ALOT fo great interviews.

Pink Floyd- "Corporal Clegg" The Rolling Stones- "Rock and a Hard Place" U2- "Beautiful Day"

I can't listen to Tool while on a long trip. I get too into the music every time and lose focus on the road. I listen to fast, loud, heavy, aggressive tunes when on road trips. Tool and Pink Floyd spell doom for me on the road.

I saw them at OzzFest '98 and they were easily the best band on the bill. They opened with a slower, heavier vesion of "Stinkfist" and went right into "Sweat", and colsed with "opiate", which was one of the best things I've ever seen live. I tried to get tickets back in '02 for their show at the Meto in Chicago, but it sold out in literally 30 seconds. I'm hoping that the new album will be out by Christmas like Danny Carey said it should be.

I also have one of those huge memory cards for my Gamecube. For my PS2, I have2. I used to have five, but I seemed to have misplaced the other three. The one card is strictly for Madden and Fight Night. I save all my other games on memory card #2. Don't need a memory card for my XBOX. I still have about 45,000 blocks of memory left.

Type O Negative are masters of quality over quantity. Just about all of their albums teeter on 80 minutes, and I never have trouble listening to them from beginning to end. The filler stuff doesn't stick out as being a waste of time, and the actual songs, many of which are over 8 or 9 minutes, don't get overly repetitive. Peter and Co. have not disappointed me once in the dozen years that I've been listeing to them, so I give them a "thumbs up" on making incredibly long albums.

Well, that makes three of us. My only beef with Tool is that sometimes, their segueway tracks don't really segue into anything. "Intermission" is a perfect example. It follows the barrel-full of awesome that is "Hooker with a Penis" and leads into "Jimmy" with no real sense of flow. It seems to me like they added it because they were shooting for a certain time-ength for the album. "Die ere von Satan" (sp? on the entire title) isn't as bad, especially if you know what the track means, just because it's funny. They seemed to stray away from the off-beat filler on Lateralus, and it really adds to the flow and continuity of the opus. Speaking of Lateralus, I think the title track is the perfect blend of the old and new styles of Tool's music, as I think I've stated before. Maynard switches nicely from the slightly higher pitch that he's been using on the last two albums to the older, more raw vocal style of Opiate and Undertow for the chorus. The music itself is also a nice hybrid. The opening melancholy riff sound like something from Aenima, but once you hit the full-on opeing and the chorus, you get the heavier, edgier side, complete with bottom-feeding bass that was so prominent on te early albums. Simply fucking AWESOME.

Now that'd be a fucking SHOW. Lamb of God is pretty fucking cool, but Slayer and SYL on the same bill? I'd be in metal Heaven.

But he'a an American, DAMMIT. And he loves this country, and insulting Toby Keith means that you hate freedom!

What are the ***** albums that you all own. I'm not talking about albums that you like and listen to because they're popular at the moment, I'm, talking albums that most critics and any real fan of music would rate at the ***** level. Mine: Kind of Blue- Miles Davis London Calling- The Clash Exile on Main Street- The Rolling Stones The Low-End Theory- A Tribe Called Quest The Final Cut- Pink Floyd The Wall- Pink Floyd Disintegration- The Cure: I know some will disagree with me on this one, but I think it's a perfect album. There may be one or two more, but I'll have to look through my collection. Those are just one off of the top of my head.

It's not hard to notice her. Her singles from her last couple of albums have been all over mainstream radio, and the videos have been played countless times on VH1. There's nothing "country" about her music anymore. It's all pop with a little bit of twang here and there.

The Irish band edition: 5. "The Ol' Beggar's Bush"- Flogging Molly 4. "Moondance"- Van Morrison 3. "Cowboy Song"- Thin LIzzy 2. "Angel of Harlem"- U2 1. "Young Ned of the Hill"- The Pogues

GREAT song with dual meanings. I like the fact that it can be taken as a love song, but the stalker aspect to it is even better.

Well, one out of three ain't bad, I guess.

I like McCartney, I really do. But I cannot stand "Maybe I'm Amazed." it comes off as a typical cheesy 70s love song. The lyrics aren't bad, but they're not great either. The music just wrecks the song for me though.

Best. Love song. Ever. LOTC: Givin' respect to the old-school Soul

From the recent interviews I've read(recent being in the last 6 months to a year), Phil wants to be seen as the God of Metal, and that if it weren't for him, metal never would have caught on like it did in the 90s, and that Pantera would be nothing if not for his presence.

I totally agree. I've been listening to Blind Guardian since I was about 16 or 17 and have always been a fan. The only album that really comes close to being near ***** is Nightfall in Middle Earth, though Somewhere Far Beyond is stellar as well.

25 May 1980: "Call Me" by Blondie was #1 in America. Well, now I feel just a tad cooler.