Slayer -- Reign In Blood

  I secretly like this album, it's definitely filed under guilty pleasure, as much as the lyrics are sick, twisted and depravingly disturbing, I honestly don't believe that they're really into all this satan bullshit, meaning it's not them who worships the devil it's the modern world that is tolerant of evil and this is their  interpretation of it.  The frantic speed punk gives me nostalgia, and Rubin executes a perfect sound production for the piercing musical assault, but goddamn do I ever hate the guitar solos!!

Why my obsessions with love songs has possibly ruined my life!

  Ever since I can remember I was always a sucker for the love song, the magic that is depicted in these numbers and how I feel inside are one and the same, from the woman I glanced at for just a second to my favourite coffee shop babe to the lady I was with for 5 years, my deepest passionate love is always there.  Question is, if I never heard the thousands of love songs that has soundtracked my heart, would I be such a hopeless romantic?  Personally I think no, for the sole reason that the poetry laced in these tracks has tattooed in my mind that such loving feelings could exsit ... or maybe I've become cynical with the help of heartbreak tunes, 'cause things haven't been working out for me so much lately ... point is, well, I guess there isn't one, other than I'll probably keep getting trampled on until I find someone I can spend the rest of my life with!  Awwwwww ... barf puke vomit!!

The Minutemen -- 3 Way Tie (For Last)

  Maybe not their greatest release, but their last, just as they were on the cusp of moderate success, inventing the future of Alternative music along with REM, Husker Du and The Replacements.  Musically the album is all over the place from artsy, to almost classic and even a tad folk like rock.  Watt's side being stronger than Boon's, otherwise save your money for Double Nickels On The Dime!!

The maximum life span of a band is 10 years

  I don't care who you are, how talented you can be or how cutting edge your sound is, when it comes to music you have a decade of greatness ... no more, if you can even make it that far!  Just think of all the great groups who went past their eras, two things can happen, they either become completely obsolete playing a sad version of their heyday music, or they attempt to jump on the next band wagon that are rebelling away from the old and becoming the new, like rock 'n' rollers trying to be hippies or punks playing new wave ... It just doesn't work.  Who in the f*ck wants to go on forever, shaking their old wrinkled asses on stage for screaming wasted weirdos ... only one type of person, the ego moniacle whoring rock giant that needs constant undeserving worship to keep their spoilt baby world from tearing apart, forgetting what made them initially brilliant in the first place ... but I get it, they're artists, there isn't much else that they can do but play music and try to stay relevant!

Gram Parsons -- Grievous Angel

  I have truly become heartbroken, why you ask, the answer is simple, I think I'm starting to understand country music, it's beautiful acceptance of misery, unlike blues which is more aggressive, seems to be speaking to me, and Parsons found a way to make it cool again, much like Neil Young, but with a more tortured martyr style.  

American vs. British Punk: The final word!!

  Ok I'm just going to get down to the brass tacks, forget all the exceptions and rationals, there's good and bad on both sides of the fence, I'm doing an overall generalization.  In the end, with NO arguments allowed, the Americans take it all by a landslide, not only for being the forerunners from way back, but for playing a more rhythmic, relatable version that stood the test of time, the Brits are just too robotic, political and pseudo-glamorous ... case closed ... America (fuck ya)!

1966 the REAL year Punk broke!

  By '66 the world was already over folk rock and getting sick of beat groups, at that time there were already new cool fuzzed out sounds pumping out of America, so by 1966 rock had found a new bad ass phase, Garage punk, which showed up, took over, and disappeared for 10 years.  You had groups like The Seeds, The Count Five, The Standells, The Music Machine ... etc, playing a faster, louder, more primitive version of rock 'n' roll than any other band at the time ... Even The Beatles did a their infamous butcher babies cover for Yesterday And Today that featured a couple of fuzztoned numbers showing that the masses were possibly ready for the punk rock ethos, but then the summer of love hit, setting us forward again, but as the years passed the hippie bullshit piled up too high and it was back to basics a decade later!