B. Brian Brunzell

'5 Green Queens and Jean"- The Pogues

And that's the biggest problem with Rock music these days. Fuck, be original. At least groups like The Mars Volta don't really sound like anybody. Of course, that's why they're BRILLIANT.

Hmmm...Wheeling is only like, 1 1/2 hours north of Huntington. I just may have to head down there and check it out. I haven't been to a Meatl show in AGES.

My CD collection is easily my most prized possession. Music means more to me than just about everything else.

Going into my senior year, my GPA was at 2.7 or so. I did less my senior year than all other three years COMBINED and raised my GPA up to a 3.3, with a final rank of about 100 out of 216. I had a pretty (book)smart class.

Most of the guys/girls in my graduating class were into classic rock and The Rolling Stones, since Bridges to Babylon was realeased at the beginning of my senior year. It was all Stones, all year long, and the majority of the quotes in the yearbook were "You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need." Mine was taken from "Dazed and Confused." I used Wooderson's classic line that I still use to this day, which is "You just gotta keep on livin'. L-I-V-I-N."

"Random Analysis"- The Devin Townsend Band

LIstening to it now, Nevermind is a incredibly polished, mainstream sounding album, which can't be said for albums like Dirt or Vitalogy.

"Still My Bleeding Heart"- Steve Vai I LOVE Sex & Religion. You've got the unmatched guitar prowess of Vai coupled with the awesome vocal skills of Devin Townsend. You just can't go wrong here.

Well, if you've got the loot, go for a Taylor, Guild or Martin. Top-notch acoustics, my man. Yamaha and Fender have decent acoustic guitars as well.

We have a TON of musical intruments at my house right now. I have a 66 key Yamaha keyboard with more effects and sounds than I can count right now. My uncle has 2 Strats, a '65 and a '75, a '78 Les Paul, a Martin acoustic, which is BEAUTIFUL, an Ibanez classical electric, a Mesa Boogie amp that he's had for about 15 years and still sounds perfect. There's pedals galore, including a SWANK Zoom GFX-8 pedal board/processor. We've got drum pads, a mandola, a charango, a weird looking keyboard-type thing that has bellows required to get any sound. It's not an accordion, I jsut don't know what its actual name is, but it's damn cool. Ay my parents home outside of Chicago, there's a nice Baldwin upright plus all of my brother's equipment. Playing music OWNS.

That's one of my all-time favourite music quotes. I think it was Malcom who said that, or something very similar.

Agent, you basically semmed up my feelings about AIC and Nirvana as far as vocals and music goes. The other thing I loved about AIC and Layne was the presence he had. Layne seemed like a dark, brooding character onstage who this ominous aura around him. Watching live footage of Alice In Chains, I can't help but focus everything on Staley. He just pulls you in, whether it be with his stature, his voice, or those craxy Bono-style fly glasses.

Brunzell's Top Five: 5. "Dead Presidents"- Jay Z 4. "Into the Void (Rapture's Delight)"- KRS-One 3. "Street Dreams"- Nas 2. "By the Time I Get to Arizona"- Public Enemy 1. "Rock Box"- Run-DMC

I LOVE Jazz. I'm big on Miles, Coltrane, Brubeck, Parker, and especially Thelonious Monk. I play piano, and only wish I could play like him. He's just awesome on the ivory. Bela Fleck is another favourite, and Pasorius owns as well, as does Pat Metheny. When it comes to the female vocalists, Ella Fitzgerald trumps them all.

How does clutch get way more drunk and stoned? I didn't think that was possible. I'll no doubt be picking it up come payday, though. After all, it's CLUTCH. Anyway, I got Accelerated Evolution by the Devin Townsednd Band yesterday. My sister came to visit me from Chicago and brought it for me. I really like it alot so far, and it may be Hevy Devy's best work to date.

"8 Million Stories"- A Tribe Called Quest

I also can't listen to "Oh Danny Boy" anymore. When I was a kid, I loved the song, then my grandfather died. The day he was buried, it wsa cold, rainy and foggy. Before we put him in the ground, we could hear bagpipes in the distance. Slowly, a man wearing a kilt and Tam O'Shanter could be seeing walking towards the family through the fog playing "Oh Danny Boy" on the 'pipes. It was so surreal, knowing my family's love for the song (Grandpap used to sing it all the time), and here we were burying him listening to perhaps his favourite song.

The only album I have ever regretted was paying $28 for a Pink Floyd import entitled Stranger than Fiction. It's supposedly a soundboard recording from 1972, but I tend to disagree. The sound is horrible and the lyrics are practically inaudible. Total waste of my loot.

Seeing Sonic Youth and The Flaming Lips makes the show worth going to, I think.

Definite "nay" for me. I can't stand them. The music is nothing special, typical Pop guitars, drums, lyrics, etc. The singer's voice gets on my fucking nerves to no end. If their tour bus were to somehow drive off a cliff, rendering the band unable to ever play or record another album, I wouldn't shed a tear.

Well, I feel like I'm getting smarter and crazier by the minute. Zappa can do that to you.

"I Wish I was Queer so I Could Get Chicks"- The Bloodhound Gang

"Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey"- Sly & the Family Stone

I picked up 5 more on Friday: The Essential Sly & the Family Stone Apostrophe(')- Frank Zappa Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Robert Johnson Aquemini- OutKast (re-purchase) Swagger- Flogging Molly (re-purchase) Kristyles- KRS-One