Prepare yourselves Mortals, for you are about to enter the realm of the Verbose Geek. Brace yourself for his musings.
Let's do this.
Ok, so i'm just gonna warn peropl at the outset of this post, it's gonna be a very all over the place one, and there's going to be more music stuff than there has been both in the past and recently. So, f you dont read my music sections, you may want to skip this week.
Also, I may stop linking to my posts in notes on facebook, but i may not we'll see i am inivisible over there so yea. anyway, onwards!!
Firs tup on the docket this week is a bit of shameless pluggage. So for anyone who follows this, i have another blog now, well its an older blgo that was orignally gonna be this one, but i stopped really using it after i set it up. That, and it was always in the docket here on blospot when it showed my the blogs i have linked to my e-mail. So, over on facebook,'ve been positng notes and such about transformers a bti recently, and i got tired of doing that as much as i was, so i took the onld blog, cleaned it out, changed the layout and repurposed it as a Transformers editorial blog, it was very busy this past weekend with botcon (the main transformers convention) and the news releases this past weekend, so its got a good base number of posts. If you feel inclined to read abotu how much of a geek with that fandom i am, go ahead and head over there, the link is right after this sentence.
Link: www.zackec2011.blogspot.com <---please follow it if you have the time, i'll be posting there fairly often and news stuff comes out i want to comment on
So, as i'm writing this i'm still in the carrribean and its been a very fun vacation. I always love comign down here cause its always so calm and relaxing. We leave saturday afternoon to go home, and then ifinally start my summer job on Tuesday. So with that, wednesday's post will be up probably in the afternoon my time (remember, always ignore the timestamps on here, they're wonky and i dont know how to change them). anyhow, i'm looking forward to work this summer. I'm returning to the same place i worked at last summer, a school for kids with learnign issues. The kids are a handful, but theyre fun and the job is very fun. So i'm looking forward to that.
Ok,now to the music stuff, so if you wanna skip this, go ahead. I will say here though, that what follows is my opinion, albeit maybe a bit harsh, so if you read it are angry, leave feedback or soemthing.
first up for the music section is breaking benjamin. one of my favorite bands i've been into for the past 5 years or so, there's been rumors from the band's managment and the label that the band is breaking up for the past two days. As such, the music forums site i frequent (tunelab.com) essentially exploded. I was sad to see hte band go, and was getting really fed up with all the mixed opinion commetns on the post. from there, there was reports of a break-up, a hiatus, or just nothing. Now, late yestersday, we get a statement from the lead singer saying the band is still together, but they're takign a hiatus this summer while he does 2 acoustic shows and then deals with helth issues that have come back over the past year or so. Now, people are coming out of the woodwork and saying things like "well its only the lead singer saying that and he doesnt mention the other guys, so are they just "hired musicians" like he said or is the band over with those people, making him "breaking benjamin". there's also people being thrown off by the fact that on the official statemtn from the lead singer, he signed essentially his full name, which apparnetly he's never used when talking to the fans. and people are calling shenanigans on that? come on people, if theryre over its sad, but deal. if there's gonna be a brief hiatus let it happen. If theyre not dead and takign a quick break so the lead guy can fix his health than so be it. and he probably used his full name to sound more professional, regardless of if he typed the statement or he told the management to. Also with that, it was a statement on the band's official site, which i'll take wiht more weight than allegedly confirmed source infor posts on an esteemed music forum site like Tunelab. I'm just saying. So, calm down people, give it time, and we'll find out whats happened wiht the band
last thing in the music. Serj Tankian, the lead vocalist of system of a down is slated to finally release his second solo album this fall. Now, his solo debut i liked initially, but i grew very tired of it, very fast, because on the physical record, the post production attempted to harmonize his voice with a pre-recorded version, lower octave version of his voice. And it failed, the mixing was bad and it really dragged down the album. That and there's this style he writes in that annoys me. It's essentially hammering out a few phrases that seem to have poltical ro thought provoking weight and slapping them into a verse and chorus and then repeating that strutre and words for the enitre song. Those two things made me not really care for his first album, whcih came out in 2007, and he milked ti for 2 years at least and then released a version of it he did with the Auckland new Zealnad ORchestra, which was fine and dandy, but the writing issues still plagued it.
recently, he's released two singles. 1: "The charade" This song isnt bad, but its spastic as it starts of calm and then all the vocals speed up for the line with "you are strong at preching violence" or whatever it is before they slow down on the counter point. this structure is repeated and then they go to the chorus, which is "If love is the answer, when are we gonna stop this charade?" what's the charade, the violence versus the the silence (the counter point?)? if thats it, elucidate it better. and i dont ven know if this is a randomly released b-side, or if its gonna be on his next album "imperfect harmonies", but i dont see how it can be cause its more of along the line of his first album. IT's been siad the upcoming one is more orchestral and working with that sound. the seocnd single is one actually off the album called "borders are". there's less of the aformentioned writing issue on this for sure, and the backing music is vwery nice, but still, i get the vibe that with Serj's solo stuff, he writes half of a song, and then repeats various other phrases to get his point out. ANd thats not the most effective way to be a voice abotu the issues in the world you dont like.
Now Serj is the lead guy from System of a down (SOAD) as well, and they've been on hiatus since 2006. the other members are either producing stuff or are in a band wiht the main guitarist from SOAD, whose name slips my mind right now, called Scars on broadway. their first album was good, but appraently there was a lack of passion in the band, and now theyre just comign back off their own hiatus. SO i want to hear more.
I'll stand by where i've been since year 3 of SOAD's hiatus, they need to come back. They could have so much fuel for commentary on recent politics, and recent popular emo/hipster music. and given the medium prominence of that music, there needs to be a strong, controverisla band like SOAD back in music. Speaking of this, there's been a hint dropped by SOAD's bassist that is posted on the wikipedia that was posted on his offical site i believe, which hints at something big next year maybe. it's eessentialy about a piece of graphic art he relased, that was tied to the band, as he's odne alot of their artwork. he says at the end "see you next year..." or somethign similar, which may subtly hint a reunion in 2011. or not, it is wikipedia. all credit to the page though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_of_a_Down.
Ok music session is done.
And i dont really know what else to post here so yea. thats it ofr this week.
--Zack
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment