#Captain John Sprocket

[honkula]

Captain John Sprocket!

[ranmagender]

this song is such a banger and quite topical

[lazarus---rising]

hi you wanna get into my silly little steampunk bands so bad [mini guides on where 2 start getting into the cog is dead , steam powered giraffe , and the mechanisms] [they call me the normaler]

the cog is dead: it doesnt really have a set story as much as the other 2 bands , you can kinda just shuffle em . Or listen to the albums in order or whatever you decide to do !! The band's backstory which you can find on their website [but im explaining it here cuz im normal] is the lead singer , john sprocket , was a clockmaker in the late 1800s . then a guy named hamilton invented the electric clock [causing the death of the cog] , so sprocket and a mechanic named renate goodwin made a time machine to see what effect the electric clock had . During their journey they find someone , bradley harrington III , in an apple barrel . They decide to make him the ship navigater . They arrive to the 21st century and are shocked to see the cog is completely wiped out , so they decide to devote their lives to bringing back the cog through musical entertainment

Steam powered giraffe: their story is on their website's lore page , only one of their albums is centered around one story . That album is the vice quadrant which you should probably save for after you figure out their main story . You dont have to do this really , but i HEAVILY recommend you listen to all of their albums in order from release date [album one [both versions] -> the 2 cent show -> etc etc] . Their backstory is pretty long so im not gonna explain it here but its on their website you should read it . :3 . they have alot of mini stories inside the bigger story [ie: rex marksley , airheart , captain albert alexander] .

The mechanisms: you Have to listen to their albums in order for this one . my suggested order is: once upon a time in space -> ulysses dies at dawn -> high noon over camelot -> the bifrost incident -> death to the mechanisms . You can switch up the order however but make sure death to the mechanisms comes last . You can put tales to be told 1 and 2 + frankenstein anywhere in there it doesnt really matter . Tales to be told 1&2 dont tell one story its a ton of story songs mixed together . Frankenstein is a single . Their albums tell different stories based on different things [ie: once upon a time in space is based on fairy tales , high noon over camelot is based on aurthurian legend] , the band members each have their own backstories but they each have 2 things in common: 1, dying somehow and 2, getting mechanized after dying . Getting mechanized is where you get the/an organ that caused your death replaced with a metal version , that also grants you immortality . for example , gunpowder tim died from his eyes getting burnt out and his mechanism is his eyes . theres a ton more lore on their website you should check out , theres little stories about their album characters and the band members . Theyre so good im normal

[dergeistvond]

Captain John Sprocket announced there shall be no more dvd's, cd's or bluerays of TheCogIsDead after June 4th due to people preferring streaming services over physical belongings and Amazon createspace shutting down. (Hopefully I got it right)

Suppose the cog is truly dying tragically.

[solesurvivorkat]

Get to Know Me!/About Me/The Self Care Tag Game

Tagged by @the-dubstep-strawberry and @ja-crispea, thank you guys!  <3  :-)

(This is long, so I put it under a tag)

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Who were you named after?: My maternal aunt (Kathy), middle name from my other maternal aunt.

Last time you cried?: (snorts) ...Okay... there’s this book that my toddler son has, called ‘Love You Forever’ - and the damn thing always makes me cry and I HATE it, lol. It’s basically a mom that watches her son grow up from a baby to an adult, and she rocks him to sleep his whole life saying, “ "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living My baby you'll be." “. ...IT’S A MENACE. He asked me to read it to him the other day & I couldn’t say no, so my husband was kind of sympathetically laughing at me (not in a mean way) b/c I was definitely crying by the end. IT’S EVIL. 

Do you like your handwriting? Ehhh.... sometimes? When I CONCENTRATE on it, it’s fine. When I scribble something out in a hurry, I don’t love it so much (though it’s still a million more times legible than my husband’s ‘chicken-scratch’ handwriting, LOL).

What is your favorite lunch meat?: Roast beef. I don’t buy it often b/c it’s usually expensive, but a good roast beef deli meet? Oof.

Longest relationship?: The one I’m in w/ my husband. We’ve been together since 2008, married in 2011 (for those who hate math like me {lol}, that’s together for 12 years in August, married for 9 years in December).

Do you still have your tonsils? Yes.

What is your favorite kind of cereal?: Don’t really have a favorite, but I like Lucky Charms (I know, I’m a stereotype, LOL), Captain Crunch, one of the Post ones w/ cranberries in it (forget what it’s called), Honey Nut Cheerios, Frosted Flakes, Peanut Butter Crunch, and a bunch of others.

Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?: Right now my sneakers are the slip-on kind (though I really need to buy new ones sometime), but I have to untie my boots when I wear them b/c they have roller skate laces in them and they stay put (don’t move around a lot, which is what they’re supposed to do), so if I didn’t untie them I’d never be able to get them on/off, lol.

Do you think you’re strong willed?: Oh my GOD, yes. ...Almost to a fault, lol.  *XD

Favorite Ice Cream?: Don’t really have a favorite, but I tend to go for either Oreo, Cookie Dough, or chocolate & peanut butter.

What is the first thing you notice about a person?: Usually their eyes. I think I mention eyes a lot in my writing (again, almost to a fault, lol), but it’s b/c eyes are so expressive. ‘Eyes are the window to the soul’, as they say.

Football or baseball?: Neither - I’m really not a sports person. But if I HAD to choose one, I’d say baseball (Red Sox!).

Favorite donut?: Chocolate frosted donut with sprinkles (...yes, I like the sprinkles on it, I ‘donut’ know why. HA!!! .....I’ll show myself out. LOL)

Last thing you ate?: Chocolate-frosted Pop-Tarts, & currently, gradually drinking water flavored w/ store-brand caffeinated fruity drink mix (need this at work to keep me going b/c I don’t like coffee).

What are you listening to?: Nothing right now - quiet at work (I love when it’s peaceful at work... I don’t really get peace at home often, lol)

If you were a crayon, what color would you be?: Cerulean. ...Shut up, I like that color. (lol)

What is your favorite smell?: Don’t have one favorite... I love the smell of cookies/brownies baking, woodsmoke, cedar, Old Spice (my husband wears it, and yes - my grandfather actually DID wear it, lol!), freshly mowed lawn, mulch (I know that might sound weird, but it smells nice to me - earthy!), that smell that happens before it’s about to start raining (...I’m weird, I know lol)

Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?: Probably my husband... (thinks) ...well technically it was my boss, actually. He calls us every morning when we go in to work just to check-in (not in a condescending way, just to make sure we’re doing okay & to let us know if anything’s new).

Hair color?: Medium/honey blonde. (I’m not allowed to color it b/c of work, but I would love to try a funky color again, like pink or purple... or maybe rainbow! <3 )

Eye color?: Blue on the outside/edge, brownish-green on the inside/around the pupil (I have ‘central heterochromia’ - look it up, I’ve mentioned it on my blog before, lol) 

Favorite food to eat?: Don’t have one favorite, but I tend to go for pizza, Italian, or American food 

Scary movies or happy ending?: Happy ending. I know it’s lame of me, but if a movie doesn’t end happy it bother me.  

Last movie you watched in a theater?: I... honestly don’t remember, lol. I think it was ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’.

What color shirt are you wearing?: It’s a purple-y, mulberry kind of color.

Favorite holiday?: Christmas, hands down. Halloween is a close second. 

Beer or wine?: Neither (don’t like the taste - you’ll usually find me drinking Diet Pepsi, lol. I know, I’m a dork.)

Night owl or morning person?: Used to be a morning person when I was younger, but now I’m kind of a mid-day/twilight kind of person (I usually veg at night, lol).

Favorite day of the week?: Probably Friday or Saturday

Favorite animal?: LOVE Red Pandas, they’re so cute! I would totally get one for a pet if I could. I would also love a Husky/Shiba Inu/Klee Kai (dog), but I don’t have the time to devote to one right now, unfortunately.  :-(

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Rules: answer 17 questions and tag 17 people you’d like to know better!

Nickname: Kat, Sprocket, Kit-Kat

Zodiac: Aries

Height: 5′5″ (technically a hair under, but it’s 1/4″ or less so I round it up lol)

House: Hmm... either Gryffindor or Hufflepuff, I think

Last thing I Googled: (thinks) Ugh, I just did something this morning, too... I totally forget what, though.  x__x*

Song in my head: Nothing, for now.

Followers and following: Currently followed by 259 awesome people, for which I am VERY grateful.  <3  Following 80 people.  (...I am NOT trying to insult people if I don’t follow you - I swear it’s nothing personal, I just don’t have time to catch up on the people that I’m following now.)

Amount of sleep: Usually anywhere between 6-8 hours

Lucky number: 4, 7, 13 (yup lol)

Dream job: Hmm... honestly not sure. As long as I get a paycheck & don’t hate/dislike my job, I’m usually pretty happy, lol.

Wearing: Slide-on sneakers, socks, black capri leggings, short-sleeved shirt, hair braided & clipped up

Fave songs: Don’t have a lot, though I always like ‘The Sound of Silence’ covered by Disturbed. I know there’s a bunch more that I like, but none are hugely standing out to me right now.

Instruments: Played the clarinet for a year in 5th grade, played the acoustic guitar in the 12th grade, don’t currently play any.

Random fact: One of my ancestors signed the Declaration of Independence, and there’s a town in NH named after him that I’ve never gotten to visit (heard that one before? Well I only have so many facts about me, lol)

Favorite Authors: Don’t really have one

Fave animal sounds: My chinchilla makes some cute noises, lol. I like hearing cats meow too, even if I’m more of a dog person. Ever hear a Husky ‘talk’? Hilarious. I love hearing guinea pigs ‘purr’ too, so cute!

Aesthetic: Woods, rustic, ‘comfy’

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Favorite comfort food: Chocolate (shocker, I know), particularly Lindt brand

Favorite drink: Diet Pepsi

Favorite relaxing activity: Relaxing on my couch, surfing the ‘net

Favorite fluffy/feel good fic: 

Favorite calming scent: fresh laundry, the ocean, woodsmoke, mulch (I know, I know, mentioned above)

Favorite white noise: Maybe the sound of ocean waves or birds chirping in the woods

Favorite relaxing (or uplifting) song: ...Can’t think of one off the top of my head.

Favorite book to get lost in: Reading friends fanfics

Favorite TV show to chill-out: Don’t usually watch a lot of TV (usually put something on to entertain my toddler)... maybe Kitchen Nightmares, or anything w/ Gordon Ramsey - not that I really like cooking shows, I just find him fun to watch, lol. (Or Bar Rescue - John Taffer is fun to watch too lol)

The best advice you’ve ever had: Hmm... I guess just variations on being true to yourself. The people that matter the most will love you no matter what and will always be in your corner, even when you’re having a bad day. Don’t try to impress people that aren’t worth your time/don’t truly care about you - it’s not worth your time and energy. Find and be with people that make you happy, that accept you for who you truly are. Be the best person you can be, but also remember that everyone has ‘off’/bad days. You’re not perfect, you’re not meant to be perfect. Do what makes YOU happy (...assuming it doesn’t hurt anyone else, obviously, lol).

Tagging whoever would like to be tagged in!

[captaintoomanybattles]

Stucky Playlist: Part III

Part III: After the Thaw

I’ve separated Steve and Bucky for this one, since they’re sort of experiencing different things during this period. Steve’s bit covers him waking up in the ice to saving Manhattan with the Avengers, with lots of angst in between. Bucky’s covers his recapture by HYDRA, and becoming the Winter Soldier. “Why We Build the Wall” is related to HYDRA’s attitude in general, and the way they’ve brainwashed Bucky to think. “Wake Me Up When September Ends” refers to Bucky being put into cryo.

Steve:

“Last Night, I Had the Strangest Dream”, Simon & Garfunkel

https://open.spotify.com/track/6HFlrUeCo9BwRvhlYkDbn6?si=_2hekEyySQa782mgC0fv2Q

“Ghost”, Indigo Girls

https://open.spotify.com/track/2MEeX1MIF33VUw15pTmBfR?si=dUT98OyoQA6nH33ybzldIA

“Cold Hands from New York”, Gordon Lightfoot

https://open.spotify.com/track/52h8r69VAJECeZjvWP676h?si=2drjP_dFS4uBxlqVILtT5A

“Empty Chairs at Empty Tables”, from Les Miserables

https://open.spotify.com/track/323CUuvw8L3nDkFV3Idkcw?si=ghHZfED9SIuzXjOg2lCfdw

“Souvenirs”, Dan Fogelburg

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Cv7ylOY3viEFP2IpRmysS?si=7GNBE8c5RcKYqxfrwoN5nQ

“Iris”, the Goo Goo Dolls

https://open.spotify.com/track/6vrUTGn5p8IrfTZ0J6sIVM?si=43Q7IU52Rv2T1QJL10mC6g

“Owner of a Lonely Heart”, Yes

https://open.spotify.com/track/0GTK6TesV108Jj5D3MHsYb?si=hf5DyGkoTIWenB8bQouPEg

“Carry On”, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

https://open.spotify.com/track/4bjvLvKovcWqZwDbXT5QQX?si=NyRUegf0S2CCJ7ViTSyp9Q

“America”, Simon & Garfunkel

https://open.spotify.com/track/6dfhF1BDGmhM69fnCb6wSC?si=jk6uy2hRQ7e0OaJfAnsV7g

“Changes in Attitudes, Changes in Latitudes”, Jimmy Buffet

https://open.spotify.com/track/3G1YszHk5uITNwQeApFd0K?si=ewvcv7DzQKCrlFF3iBhGjA

“Little Bit of Emotion”, the Kinks

https://open.spotify.com/track/4fvctzE2uDVTXtAQCXKP33?si=LMBBZIoBQW-VEglq3bepIQ

“Doctor My Eyes”, Jackson Browne

https://open.spotify.com/track/3QcuZo6WLcFkqqLmDs0d95?si=SfEfEsJBTUWA0c6-NEhPfw

“Message in a Bottle”, The Police

https://open.spotify.com/track/3bN4tg6rnNPy9GCkGhym4T?si=makJDKzmRKSyFlqaRY_HZg

“You Say that the Battle is Over”, John Denver

https://open.spotify.com/track/4d0j2ozLu6gJ6w9dPpnJjW?si=nEg9iLpNR8emCYz8PqoRxA

“Time in a Bottle”, Jim Croce

https://open.spotify.com/track/561F1zqRwGPCTMRsLsXVtL?si=agWCW7b-Tr6MsO-_gLfbHA

“Broadway”, the Goo Goo Dolls

https://open.spotify.com/track/0RZuCBV900eNA2FXCQ3uUM?si=Lw8PXJgwR2G5xGCG53mF4w

“Everybody’s Fool”, Evanescence

https://open.spotify.com/track/4Gy2IBlYAHZL2q0yx4O6SF?si=5y2l2fueTsiFRWgrlE3Rbw

“I am a Rock”, Simon & Garfunkel

https://open.spotify.com/track/0byOqNZN9ailhoORv5Ps0Z?si=YPtl0RvyQVS0PhlgRxUm6g

“Life is Confusing”, Langhorne Slim

https://open.spotify.com/track/16lPj311efhVdbwPrTgTHl?si=g3XCFn0BTl-REQoNhBFu3Q

“Déjà vu”, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

https://open.spotify.com/track/3O4VF8UYD6CCuhj6d4TQPa?si=-_zI658VTQqs7eqcpVPELA

“Creep in a T-shirt”, Portugal. The Man

https://open.spotify.com/track/1lpN3qsugqtMR49xwzHYnt?si=Kzmmfth6RqGCgf6l1Q2pkw

“Light Years”, Pearl Jam

https://open.spotify.com/track/1Tnixg8lMEydzmBsZzxQpR?si=G8qV8Z-JSg6vFOA4_CyPSw

“Shadow Captain”, Crosby, Stills & Nash

https://open.spotify.com/track/0iMoRMfWBgJVEFS4dfkNXg?si=u2F8PTIXQDKlO4uffe_SzA

“Wait For It”, from Hamilton, Lin Manuel Miranda

https://open.spotify.com/track/7EqpEBPOohgk7NnKvBGFWo?si=G8iZIlrCS3WlNaukZz_4hA

“While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, The Beatles

https://open.spotify.com/track/389QX9Q1eUOEZ19vtzzI9O?si=ftpld9n8Q6WPzRAoDjtxWA

“Right Between the Eyes”, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

https://open.spotify.com/track/2d0l1nUvvECLlQOCHTHHG8?si=EtKHGN8wTUOqqBysIImZvQ

“Two Ten, Six Eighteen”, The Kingston Trio

https://open.spotify.com/track/3JcIdmiIBteBuLj9wv4W51?si=2RZtDNiGQRWF1uqWLLJICA

“Radioactive”, Imagine Dragons

https://open.spotify.com/track/62yJjFtgkhUrXktIoSjgP2?si=kF51jVcLSDalGXHLa2qdLQ

“American Idiot”, Green Day

https://open.spotify.com/track/6nTiIhLmQ3FWhvrGafw2zj?si=uVXGHdBUQmeNQG1MQs4PAA

“Eve of Destruction”, Barry McGuire

https://open.spotify.com/track/1Zi2ezNOqt9y9irC11xYpN?si=myEk7rjATH6e7bsyd-LAOQ

“Merry Little Minuet”, the Kingston Trio

https://open.spotify.com/track/3Sg1NtabMNEexN3NIFxVC3?si=zWVIEhFDRHKZAwEgThgRNg

“On With the Song”, Mary Chapin Carpenter

https://open.spotify.com/track/6GsMKwcl7syNbheq1qOvW1?si=pKWw5vyKQcuIkZoC2K_Atw

“Closer to the Heart”, Rush

https://open.spotify.com/track/4u3oXuVeOGoByIMz9pnOKf?si=HUXYR2WxQICTN8ICWMdHyw

“Glitter and Gold”, Barns Courtney

https://open.spotify.com/track/0ROFv9HBdafq5r6jg36sGM?si=-TfjfdhtSS6XmnE3o1YQuQ

“I Saved the World Today”, Eurythmics

https://open.spotify.com/track/0GLXgCKh1O4YVvigbnRA5B?si=uWtAeYhxSvaLBGdoxEQNYQ

 Bucky/Winter Soldier

“I Wanna Be Free”, The Monkees

https://open.spotify.com/track/3NWugRPdW0HIzmFXMlBmDO?si=_-Hjyy8gRUSgnHfeCtlUdA

“I am a Man of Constant Sorrow”, The Soggy Bottom Boys

https://open.spotify.com/track/5AhDb4oM6f4YmHPXW123Fg?si=uykAzLv4TMGxJXPBDLxb-Q

“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”, Sam Cooke

https://open.spotify.com/track/6g9uN89pIVbpvE6m9C3PQ3?si=rZk4OzgYRL-Xa0FQJbwdyg

“Folsom Prison Blues”, Johnny Cash

https://open.spotify.com/track/0Avmi9t3sOcaGSs1DSbgDg?si=RTAL5L4TTMyUevhg8iVTLw

“King of Pain”, Sting

https://open.spotify.com/track/2PcOjiz52Q0ink53o1bT5U?si=IHg_9P_7QZ-j3nHIdYIluw

“Enough”, Toad the Wet Sprocket

https://open.spotify.com/track/7D7J2tKNktTQ1oSea3sGr0?si=-qh8tkTWRoG0o9gh3cIPDw

“905”, the Who

https://open.spotify.com/track/7sMMv9Suj2lrOwrfuPNknE?si=sBK1YYZySwmOIJo_4K4rMA

“Dust in the Wind”, Kansas

https://open.spotify.com/track/6zeE5tKyr8Nu882DQhhSQI?si=EYJey7hTRbagjDgCu0vCcA

“Why We Build the Wall”, Greg Brown

https://open.spotify.com/track/6RhYrQhJKmXPR5TRooFeMI?si=27KWTSPQSAqEq35QhCh3wA

“Comfortably Numb”, Pink Floyd

https://open.spotify.com/track/7Fg4jpwpkdkGCvq1rrXnvx?si=TfITK31bTaaE73Gx1jIcQA

“Wrapped Around Your Finger”, The Police

https://open.spotify.com/track/57ljIAuzZgBSzHr3hLYzLZ?si=n8dwbjVPQKunRHroNZalJw

“Haunt Me”, Caravan of Thieves

https://open.spotify.com/track/6cvi2L5lnRdGzWyaDYLroj?si=5COKw2ygTSGBcof-07E5jw

“Heart of Stone”, Rolling Stones

https://open.spotify.com/track/6HDakUMdK2KcQZZ4TwyAbB?si=6M2ZKz31T7eTeM9ZvCs5Eg

“Sympathy for the Devil”, the Rolling Stones

https://open.spotify.com/track/5Ff6Zg5Bw1nm6bK8dzIXmQ?si=O3YuvOebSUSPtYvDMfreJg

“Best of You”, Foo Fighters

https://open.spotify.com/track/5FZxsHWIvUsmSK1IAvm2pp?si=Nbut9SkJSMKNrFZ7K3FBKw

“Psycho Killer”, Caravan of Thieves

https://open.spotify.com/track/5bis6R4xKHUsRv6Pg4utph?si=E7rNvQQ-R4Cm6sL5Kbm9uw

“Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette”, Moving Hearts

https://open.spotify.com/track/3UArrCeP3imUR3MgYsIOZv?si=GPWxIVOJTFyajPZsphLsTA

“Six Blade Knife”, Dire Straits

https://open.spotify.com/track/7n13S0lBOEXLx6duwghCUM?si=oKB5OpdZS7i5bcSrW-D7-w  

“Wake Me Up When September Ends”, Green Day

https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZffCQKLFLUvYM59XKLbVm?si=jKxcgs35T6GulkCJtRGF-g

Part 1  2  3  4 5

[st-riley-the-brave]

[ Tune'age Tuesday / Confessions of a Music'phile, part 2 AND part 3! ]

...in which Jenn answers questions from @petticoatsandturncoats, @miss-loonylove and @sidyancy... AND digs a bit into YouTube for the sake LOT of references! If you missed part 1, it's on this post right here!

+ Great music videos! / "Take On Me" by Aha! - "Tonight, Tonight" by the Smashing Pumpkins! - "Voices Carry" by 'Til Tuesday! - "Need You Tonight/Mediate" by INXS! - "True Faith" by New Order! - "People Are People" and "Enjoy the Silence" by Depeche Mode! - "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel!

+ Spelling! / "Don't Let's Start" by They Might Be Giants!

+ I think Noel Gallagher should cover / "Be Still My Beating Heart" and/or "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" by Sting!

+ Right now I am loving on / "Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans)" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark!

+ I like no longer like / "Ours" by Taylor Swift!

+ I (still) like / "Overkill" by Men at Work! (Also I just discovered the version Colin Hay did with Choir! Choir! Choir!, and it's BAE AF!) - "Red Rain" by Peter Gabriel!

+ Please laugh at me for liking the following! / "One" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by the Bee Gees! - "Piano in the Dark" by Brenda Russell! - "This Is the Time" by Billy Joel! - "We May Never Pass This Way (Again)" by Seals and Crofts! - "Coming Out of the Dark" by Gloria Estefan! - "Right Down the Line" by Gerry Rafferty! - "Africa" by Toto! - "I Go Crazy" by Paul Davis! - "The Captain of Her Heart" by Double! - "If You Go" by Jon Secada! - "Heartbreaker" by Dionne Warwick (and the cover by the Bee Gees)! - "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc! - "Sara" by Starship! - "Come Back To Me" by Janet Jackson! - "Infatuation" and "Downtown Train" by Rod Stewart!

+ And, Love Songs (--wait, WHAT?)! / "I Only Have Eyes For You" by the Flamingos! - "Wild Horses" by the Sundays! - "Someone to Love" by Jon B. and Babyface! - "Nite and Day" by Al B. Sure! - "Why Don't We Fall In Love" by Amerie! - "Sittin' Up In My Room" by Brandy! - "Crush On You" by the Jets! - "I Will Not Take These Things For Granted" by Toad the Wet Sprocket! - "Þau hafa sloppið undan þunga myrkursins (And they have escaped the weight of darkness)" by Ólafur Arnalds! - "Will You Still Love Me?" by Chicago! - "Stellar" by Incubus! - "Please Forgive Me" and "This Year's Love" by David Gray! - "Call Me" by Go West! - "When We Dance" by Sting! - "I Don't Want to Live Without You" by Foreigner! - "This Letter" by Material Issue! - "Don't Give Up" by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush (and the cover by Herbie Hancock, P!nk and John Legend)!

[tessatechaitea]

Wonder Woman #13

Apparently Wonder Woman cries out of her eyes and ears.

Wonder Woman quickly gets better. I don't mean all the way better. I just mean out of a coma better.

I think Steve Trevor and Wonder Woman have wound up on the island from Lost in their search for Themyscira. That must be why there's a Dharma logo on the cover for the Sprocket Station. Did anybody ever do an I Ching reading of the Dharma logos? I should ask Lord Google about that. Here's a reading by NewSuez on losteastereggs, a blogspot blog: "I chose these symbols for a reading on the internet and this is what it came up with... The time is not yet right for you to act, so be patient: the transition from chaos to order is not yet complete. You are following the right path, but avoid disputes, and success will come to you in time. Equal partnerships benefit. Act with humility to all people; restore balance between excess and dearth in order to be successful. This is a good time for increased activity and prosperity, and maybe travel over water. Make the most of this time because it will pass. Be generous and do not seek unfair advantage over others. Do not follow someone else's path. Be careful of dangerous situations: deceit and hidden objectives will be harmful, although honesty and honourable actions could be beneficial. Learn from these situations for the future. There is good fortune, but this is not a time to relax. Be sure to consolidate what you have, or have gained. Act with caution and strive to maintain balance. Everything is as it should be! Take opportunities as they arise, and act with conviction, but make sure you do not appear over-confident or 'immodest'. Avoid excesses, and preserve what you have. You may need to accept a loss, but do so easily: greater benefit will replace the loss. Be restrained but flexible, and act with sincerity. There is danger which must be acknowledged, and actions taken in quiet ways with the support of others. Greater prosperity will follow if you act fairly and with honour, and are cautious in your actions." I would do an I Ching reading of the logo on the cover except I don't think it has entries for tentacles. The theory that they're on the island from Lost isn't just a joke! The caduceus on Maru's face was one of the Dharma stations. In fact, all of the Dharma stations have some connection to Apollo. Which probably means something if I cared to spend any more time thinking about Lost than I already have in this lifetime.

That's what the captain of the Black Rock probably said! Oh! Steve Trevor keeps thinking about how they're trapped on a "rock" in the middle of the "Black" sea! Totally on the Lost island!

This island is also an island that can't be found and shouldn't be where it is. Coincidence? The island might also be a gateway to another place. This one to Themyscira, the island of Lost to Heaven (since it was, you know, Purgatory). Maru (who is a Marina and not a Piper) lands on the island with her team, Poison. They rock the fucking faces off the hair band kids and then get their asses beat by jock Steve Trevor. He might kick the asses of Poison but not their leader, Marina Maru. She gets the drop on Wonder Woman and ends the battle because Steve Trevor hasn't seen the comic by Kerry Callen

Why the bracelets? Click through to find out!

Steve and Diana are rescued by some of Steve's or Etta's or Jack's or Locke's or Ben's friends. They leave the Island and escape although they'll probably have to come back later to finish finding Themyscira and Diana's past. Diana is locked in a mental ward until she can metamorphose into Rebirth Wonder Woman. Right now, she's still really confused by all of that history between Crisis on Infinite Earths and now. The Ranking! -1! This was just a stupid love letter from Steve Trevor to Diana! Romance is stupid! And dumb! That might not be a fair assessment of this comic book but it's a completely biased assessment, which is all you'll ever get from me! I promise!

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6 Bands That Totally Reinvented Themselves To Get Famous

For many people, musical genres are personality-defining lines that can never be crossed. For instance, cool people listen to thrash metal, but anyone who listens to speed metal has their former dungeon master’s head in a freezer. Sometimes it gets complicated, like how emo music is for crying into your diary, while gothic rock is for crying into your cupcake.

However, many genre-defining artists started out playing the exact kind of music their fans are required by social law to loathe. For example …

#6. Kid Rock Was A Hilarious ’90s Rapper

In the popular consciousness, there have already been two versions of Kid Rock. There is the current Kid Rock, who sings country-rock anthems, and there’s the more popular rap-rock/nu-metal Kid Rock of the late ’90s. He has a personality easily summed up by reminding you he’s a man from Michigan who loves the Confederate flag.

“And if black people don’t like it, they can continue to have very little interest in my music!”

The Artist He Was Before That:

We really should just stop the article here.

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Kid Rock was the funkiest, flyest rapper all the way to the extreme. Admittedly, it was an awkward time for everyone, but Kid Rock’s head looked like a racist Halloween costume. He looked like a Disney film about two boys swapping bodies after a magic basketball bounced into a magic chess tournament.

In Hell, this album art is downloaded for every song in your iTunes.

But Kid Rock’s early stuff wasn’t some trashy chimera of country, rock, and hip-hop. He was trying for the real deal, with songs like “Wax The Booty,” a description of an erotic encounter that seems like it was written by a virgin and performed by an aging sea captain selling breakfast cereal.

Using the term “puddy” for female genitals? Definitely a virgin.

With little to no encouragement, Kid Rock continued to make rap songs like this for seven years. His musical career was already a decade old when he released his breakthrough hit “Bawitdaba,” which was accidentally written when he tried to spell “badminton instructor” on a job application. That song and album blew up, and Kid Rock’s incredible flat top was never seen again.

If it seems like Kid Rock was adopting culture that wasn’t his, it’s because he was. He wasn’t learning how to rhyme on the tough-rhyming Detroit streets like Eminem. Kid Rock grew up in a beautiful suburb in a nice house. So this guy ..

… and this guy …

… and this guy …

… all come from the same upper-middle-class childhood spent in one of Michigan’s loveliest homes. His childhood job of selling apples from his father’s orchard sounds like a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. So he’s gone from rich suburbanite to street rapper to hillbilly rapper to just regular hillbilly. At this rate, Kid Rock should be performing as a Syrian refugee as early as next year.

#5. Radiohead Were A Cheesy Top 40 Band

Radiohead helped define the term “alternative rock” by continually pushing the boundaries of popular music and being forever played by lonely men with acoustic guitars on open mic nights in coffee shops around the globe.

Just because they dismissed “Creep” as juvenile and stupid decades ago doesn’t mean the rest of the universe has to.

They are known for their creative risks and their ability to redefine themselves, even after decades. Albums like OK Computer helped drive mid-’90s music away from traditional pop structure, and Rolling Stone named Radiohead’s Kid A the best album of the 2000s. It should tell you something about Radiohead’s talent and influence when here, in an article making fun of artists trying to redefine themselves, we are praising their ability to redefine themselves. Frontman Thom Yorke even has the courage to spell the name “Tom” with an H.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Radiohead started with the name On A Friday, which they were forced to change immediately after being signed by EMI, presumably because on a scale of band names from Hoobastank to Sex Pistols, On A Friday rates a firm Toad The Wet Sprocket.

“We’re On A Friday, because my mum only allows us to use the garage on Fridays while she’s at the gym!”

It wasn’t only their shitty name, though. Their early music was the exact opposite of “alternative.” It was generic Britpop that sounded like a sloppy karaoke version of U2.

They presumably wrote “How To Disappear Completely” after being reminded that they made this.

Instead of a calculated effort to evolve, On A Friday was locked in a desperate struggle to sound exactly like everyone else. And the transition from “dumb high school band that thinks it’s clever” to “genius new artist” wasn’t an immediate one, either — the band’s first album as Radiohead was titled Pablo Honey, which is the name of a goddamn Jerky Boys bit.

#4. The Songwriter Behind Taylor Swift And Katy Perry Started In A Ridiculous Hair Metal Band

You may not remember how you know Max Martin’s name, but he’s the man behind dozens of the most overplayed pop songs from the past 25 years. He was responsible for Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl,” Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time,” and Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.” In fact, that last one was his 20th No. 1 single, meaning — except for Paul McCartney and John Lennon — Martin has more No. 1 singles than anyone who has ever lived.

On top of his three Billy Ray Cyrus lookalike contest trophies.

The Artist He Was Before That:

Before Martin was a hitmaking superproducer, he was a high school dropout named Martin White, which, confusingly, also wasn’t his real name. Karl “Max (Martin White) Martin” Sandberg started a group in the late ’80s called It’s Alive. It’s Alive combined glam metal with grunge in a way that provoked one of two reactions from everyone who ever heard them: “This sucks,” or, “Who?”

“We want the most adorable album cover of all time.”

Somehow, It’s Alive managed to record two whole albums, and their sophomore effort, 1993’s Earthquake Visions, sold only 30,000 copies. More people picked up Bret Michaels’ herpes than It’s Alive albums that year. It was apparent the group wasn’t destined for international superstardom, but it did link Martin with producer Denniz Pop (also not that guy’s real name).

Their moms must be wondering why they even bothered to fill out the birth certificate at all.

Pop heroically saw through all the feathered-hair bullshit of It’s Alive enough to notice that Martin had an incredible ear for catchy melodies, so he put Martin in the studio without the rest of his dipshit bandmates. Martin was trained in pelvic thrusts and nothing else, so he spent his first two years in the studio just “trying to learn what the hell was going on.” He definitely got the hang of it, though. From every one of Taylor Swift’s No. 1 hits to writing every hit single on the Backstreet Boys’ Millennium, Martin knew how to create songs tailor-made to get stuck in millions and millions of heads. So, now you know who to thank for “Blank Space.”

#3. The Go-Go’s Were A Hardcore Punk Band

The Go-Go’s are the most successful all-female group ever, a fact stated definitively on the band’s own website. Their dancey songs about having the beat and going on vacation saturated pop culture in the 1980s, and they’re still used today to detect the number of bachelorette parties inside karaoke bars. If evil scientists found a way to turn liquid cheerleaders into music, it would sound exactly like The Go-Go’s. Now that we mention it, it would sound suspiciously exactly like that.

What are you hiding?

The Artists They Were Before That:

If you clicked the song link above or just have a perfect memory, you may have noticed “We Got The Beat” opens with weirdly pounding drums and staccato guitar sounds. It’s kind of punk rock for a song about clapping and loving to clap, right? That’s because The Go-Go’s actually started as a grimy, fuck-you-in-your-face punk rock band.

The only beat they cared about was beating on any promoters that stiffed them.

The group started in the L.A. punk scene of the late ’70s alongside other seminal punk acts like The Motels and The Germs.

“What makes you think you can just come into The Bronx Upside Downsies turf, Warriors?”

In fact, The Go-Go’s lead singer, Belinda Carlisle, actually started out as the drummer for The Germs. She called herself Dottie Danger while with the group, but ditched The Germs after catching mono, because Belinda apparently doesn’t appreciate willful strokes of cosmic irony.

“I feel really sick. The Germs isn’t just a cute name, is it?”

That’s Belinda wearing the bloody swastika, making the exact face she would make if she saw her future self walk into the club.

“Ahoy, fellow Nazis! Fuck the establishment, right?”

#2. Kraftwerk Were A Terrible Jam Band

Kraftwerk are the godfathers of electronic music. They were the first popular band to utilize nothing but electronic instruments to create songs full of driving, repetitive bleeps, like a Nintendo game you can dance to. Basically, they’re the nerds who made robot sounds into a legitimate musical genre.

When not attempting to exterminate all of humanity, Skynet loves to get funky funky fresh.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Before they switched their sound to C-3PO translating funk for R2-D2, Kraftwerk were a psychedelic jam band. You really, really couldn’t dance to it. It was like a pile of sound an art major would make to start a conversation about what music, like, is, man. It was a sonic port-o-john of flutes, guitars, and random sound effects, with all the focus of a frightened cat scrambling over a piano. Even libraries in the early ’70s categorized it under “Bullshit, Hippie.”

“Oh yeah? Well, your grandpappy’s hippie bullshit didn’t have a traffic-cone solo!”

Founding members Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider were initially interested in creating free-form experimental rock, and that’s what they did, clonking and flooping for several years. Kraftwerk’s music seemed designed specifically for LSD trips and advanced LSD trips, until 1974, when they released Autobahn and defined the electronica genre of robomusic. Apparently, even robots have to go through an angsty phase before they come into their own.

Even the guys in Phish wanted them to get to the fucking point already.

#1. Ministry Started Out As A Synth-Pop Knockoff Of The Cure

Since the mid-’80s, Chicago-based Ministry have been helping angry teens demonstrate their misunderstoodedness, with aggressive heavy metal far too noisy for their parents. Their scrotum-kicking sound includes albums like The Land Of Rape And Honey, which is both an awful pun and a terrible sentiment, and From Beer To Eternity, which is only an awful pun.

They clearly didn’t have time for anything more.

Ministry helped elevate its downtrodden fans with powerful lyrics, letting them know that someone out there understood what it was like to have no one understand you. For instance, here is a selection from their song “Filth Pig”:

Filth pig, filth pig He sleeps with both eyes open Filth pig, filth pig He sleeps all right because he’s a Filth pig

It’s not clear if this was translated into Pig and then back to English, or if this is the first song pieced together from the dying words of stroke victims. The point is, the music of Ministry is better suited for random ax slaughter than slow-dancing.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Ministry started off the 1980s as a new-wave synth-pop outfit. And we don’t mean a little bit ’80s, like every other band at the time. They looked like a Broadway musical about the ’80s.

“Filth pig’s sleeping or something. Psh. Whatever.”

In 1983, Ministry released their first album, With Sympathy, and it was like a greatest hits compilation of every song Joy Division decided was too shitty to record. To put it another way, it’s exactly the soundtrack you hear in your head when you quote Nietzsche to some clueless sheep — dark synth-pop about impotent despair. And lead singer Al Jourgensen performed the entire album with a fake British accent. It’s the official soundtrack for avoiding gym class because it makes your mascara run. A conformist like you just wouldn’t get it, man.

CSI: Gothika

After the band went more industrial and metal, Jourgensen claimed he was pressured by management into making With Sympathy into the fussy wusspop it was, and he seemed determined to keep it out of print. He even claimed to have destroyed the master copies, yet the album was eventually reissued in 2012. It definitely doesn’t have much in common with their modern sound, but Ministry music from any era is always the perfect way to tell a hitchhiker this is the last van ride they’ll ever take.

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6 Bands That Totally Reinvented Themselves To Get Famous

For many people, musical genres are personality-defining lines that can never be crossed. For instance, cool people listen to thrash metal, but anyone who listens to speed metal has their former dungeon master’s head in a freezer. Sometimes it gets complicated, like how emo music is for crying into your diary, while gothic rock is for crying into your cupcake.

However, many genre-defining artists started out playing the exact kind of music their fans are required by social law to loathe. For example …

#6. Kid Rock Was A Hilarious ’90s Rapper

In the popular consciousness, there have already been two versions of Kid Rock. There is the current Kid Rock, who sings country-rock anthems, and there’s the more popular rap-rock/nu-metal Kid Rock of the late ’90s. He has a personality easily summed up by reminding you he’s a man from Michigan who loves the Confederate flag.

“And if black people don’t like it, they can continue to have very little interest in my music!”

The Artist He Was Before That:

We really should just stop the article here.

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Kid Rock was the funkiest, flyest rapper all the way to the extreme. Admittedly, it was an awkward time for everyone, but Kid Rock’s head looked like a racist Halloween costume. He looked like a Disney film about two boys swapping bodies after a magic basketball bounced into a magic chess tournament.

In Hell, this album art is downloaded for every song in your iTunes.

But Kid Rock’s early stuff wasn’t some trashy chimera of country, rock, and hip-hop. He was trying for the real deal, with songs like “Wax The Booty,” a description of an erotic encounter that seems like it was written by a virgin and performed by an aging sea captain selling breakfast cereal.

Using the term “puddy” for female genitals? Definitely a virgin.

With little to no encouragement, Kid Rock continued to make rap songs like this for seven years. His musical career was already a decade old when he released his breakthrough hit “Bawitdaba,” which was accidentally written when he tried to spell “badminton instructor” on a job application. That song and album blew up, and Kid Rock’s incredible flat top was never seen again.

If it seems like Kid Rock was adopting culture that wasn’t his, it’s because he was. He wasn’t learning how to rhyme on the tough-rhyming Detroit streets like Eminem. Kid Rock grew up in a beautiful suburb in a nice house. So this guy ..

… and this guy …

… and this guy …

… all come from the same upper-middle-class childhood spent in one of Michigan’s loveliest homes. His childhood job of selling apples from his father’s orchard sounds like a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. So he’s gone from rich suburbanite to street rapper to hillbilly rapper to just regular hillbilly. At this rate, Kid Rock should be performing as a Syrian refugee as early as next year.

#5. Radiohead Were A Cheesy Top 40 Band

Radiohead helped define the term “alternative rock” by continually pushing the boundaries of popular music and being forever played by lonely men with acoustic guitars on open mic nights in coffee shops around the globe.

Just because they dismissed “Creep” as juvenile and stupid decades ago doesn’t mean the rest of the universe has to.

They are known for their creative risks and their ability to redefine themselves, even after decades. Albums like OK Computer helped drive mid-’90s music away from traditional pop structure, and Rolling Stone named Radiohead’s Kid A the best album of the 2000s. It should tell you something about Radiohead’s talent and influence when here, in an article making fun of artists trying to redefine themselves, we are praising their ability to redefine themselves. Frontman Thom Yorke even has the courage to spell the name “Tom” with an H.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Radiohead started with the name On A Friday, which they were forced to change immediately after being signed by EMI, presumably because on a scale of band names from Hoobastank to Sex Pistols, On A Friday rates a firm Toad The Wet Sprocket.

“We’re On A Friday, because my mum only allows us to use the garage on Fridays while she’s at the gym!”

It wasn’t only their shitty name, though. Their early music was the exact opposite of “alternative.” It was generic Britpop that sounded like a sloppy karaoke version of U2.

They presumably wrote “How To Disappear Completely” after being reminded that they made this.

Instead of a calculated effort to evolve, On A Friday was locked in a desperate struggle to sound exactly like everyone else. And the transition from “dumb high school band that thinks it’s clever” to “genius new artist” wasn’t an immediate one, either — the band’s first album as Radiohead was titled Pablo Honey, which is the name of a goddamn Jerky Boys bit.

#4. The Songwriter Behind Taylor Swift And Katy Perry Started In A Ridiculous Hair Metal Band

You may not remember how you know Max Martin’s name, but he’s the man behind dozens of the most overplayed pop songs from the past 25 years. He was responsible for Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl,” Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time,” and Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.” In fact, that last one was his 20th No. 1 single, meaning — except for Paul McCartney and John Lennon — Martin has more No. 1 singles than anyone who has ever lived.

On top of his three Billy Ray Cyrus lookalike contest trophies.

The Artist He Was Before That:

Before Martin was a hitmaking superproducer, he was a high school dropout named Martin White, which, confusingly, also wasn’t his real name. Karl “Max (Martin White) Martin” Sandberg started a group in the late ’80s called It’s Alive. It’s Alive combined glam metal with grunge in a way that provoked one of two reactions from everyone who ever heard them: “This sucks,” or, “Who?”

“We want the most adorable album cover of all time.”

Somehow, It’s Alive managed to record two whole albums, and their sophomore effort, 1993’s Earthquake Visions, sold only 30,000 copies. More people picked up Bret Michaels’ herpes than It’s Alive albums that year. It was apparent the group wasn’t destined for international superstardom, but it did link Martin with producer Denniz Pop (also not that guy’s real name).

Their moms must be wondering why they even bothered to fill out the birth certificate at all.

Pop heroically saw through all the feathered-hair bullshit of It’s Alive enough to notice that Martin had an incredible ear for catchy melodies, so he put Martin in the studio without the rest of his dipshit bandmates. Martin was trained in pelvic thrusts and nothing else, so he spent his first two years in the studio just “trying to learn what the hell was going on.” He definitely got the hang of it, though. From every one of Taylor Swift’s No. 1 hits to writing every hit single on the Backstreet Boys’ Millennium, Martin knew how to create songs tailor-made to get stuck in millions and millions of heads. So, now you know who to thank for “Blank Space.”

#3. The Go-Go’s Were A Hardcore Punk Band

The Go-Go’s are the most successful all-female group ever, a fact stated definitively on the band’s own website. Their dancey songs about having the beat and going on vacation saturated pop culture in the 1980s, and they’re still used today to detect the number of bachelorette parties inside karaoke bars. If evil scientists found a way to turn liquid cheerleaders into music, it would sound exactly like The Go-Go’s. Now that we mention it, it would sound suspiciously exactly like that.

What are you hiding?

The Artists They Were Before That:

If you clicked the song link above or just have a perfect memory, you may have noticed “We Got The Beat” opens with weirdly pounding drums and staccato guitar sounds. It’s kind of punk rock for a song about clapping and loving to clap, right? That’s because The Go-Go’s actually started as a grimy, fuck-you-in-your-face punk rock band.

The only beat they cared about was beating on any promoters that stiffed them.

The group started in the L.A. punk scene of the late ’70s alongside other seminal punk acts like The Motels and The Germs.

“What makes you think you can just come into The Bronx Upside Downsies turf, Warriors?”

In fact, The Go-Go’s lead singer, Belinda Carlisle, actually started out as the drummer for The Germs. She called herself Dottie Danger while with the group, but ditched The Germs after catching mono, because Belinda apparently doesn’t appreciate willful strokes of cosmic irony.

“I feel really sick. The Germs isn’t just a cute name, is it?”

That’s Belinda wearing the bloody swastika, making the exact face she would make if she saw her future self walk into the club.

“Ahoy, fellow Nazis! Fuck the establishment, right?”

#2. Kraftwerk Were A Terrible Jam Band

Kraftwerk are the godfathers of electronic music. They were the first popular band to utilize nothing but electronic instruments to create songs full of driving, repetitive bleeps, like a Nintendo game you can dance to. Basically, they’re the nerds who made robot sounds into a legitimate musical genre.

When not attempting to exterminate all of humanity, Skynet loves to get funky funky fresh.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Before they switched their sound to C-3PO translating funk for R2-D2, Kraftwerk were a psychedelic jam band. You really, really couldn’t dance to it. It was like a pile of sound an art major would make to start a conversation about what music, like, is, man. It was a sonic port-o-john of flutes, guitars, and random sound effects, with all the focus of a frightened cat scrambling over a piano. Even libraries in the early ’70s categorized it under “Bullshit, Hippie.”

“Oh yeah? Well, your grandpappy’s hippie bullshit didn’t have a traffic-cone solo!”

Founding members Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider were initially interested in creating free-form experimental rock, and that’s what they did, clonking and flooping for several years. Kraftwerk’s music seemed designed specifically for LSD trips and advanced LSD trips, until 1974, when they released Autobahn and defined the electronica genre of robomusic. Apparently, even robots have to go through an angsty phase before they come into their own.

Even the guys in Phish wanted them to get to the fucking point already.

#1. Ministry Started Out As A Synth-Pop Knockoff Of The Cure

Since the mid-’80s, Chicago-based Ministry have been helping angry teens demonstrate their misunderstoodedness, with aggressive heavy metal far too noisy for their parents. Their scrotum-kicking sound includes albums like The Land Of Rape And Honey, which is both an awful pun and a terrible sentiment, and From Beer To Eternity, which is only an awful pun.

They clearly didn’t have time for anything more.

Ministry helped elevate its downtrodden fans with powerful lyrics, letting them know that someone out there understood what it was like to have no one understand you. For instance, here is a selection from their song “Filth Pig”:

Filth pig, filth pig He sleeps with both eyes open Filth pig, filth pig He sleeps all right because he’s a Filth pig

It’s not clear if this was translated into Pig and then back to English, or if this is the first song pieced together from the dying words of stroke victims. The point is, the music of Ministry is better suited for random ax slaughter than slow-dancing.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Ministry started off the 1980s as a new-wave synth-pop outfit. And we don’t mean a little bit ’80s, like every other band at the time. They looked like a Broadway musical about the ’80s.

“Filth pig’s sleeping or something. Psh. Whatever.”

In 1983, Ministry released their first album, With Sympathy, and it was like a greatest hits compilation of every song Joy Division decided was too shitty to record. To put it another way, it’s exactly the soundtrack you hear in your head when you quote Nietzsche to some clueless sheep — dark synth-pop about impotent despair. And lead singer Al Jourgensen performed the entire album with a fake British accent. It’s the official soundtrack for avoiding gym class because it makes your mascara run. A conformist like you just wouldn’t get it, man.

CSI: Gothika

After the band went more industrial and metal, Jourgensen claimed he was pressured by management into making With Sympathy into the fussy wusspop it was, and he seemed determined to keep it out of print. He even claimed to have destroyed the master copies, yet the album was eventually reissued in 2012. It definitely doesn’t have much in common with their modern sound, but Ministry music from any era is always the perfect way to tell a hitchhiker this is the last van ride they’ll ever take.

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6 Bands That Totally Reinvented Themselves To Get Famous

For many people, musical genres are personality-defining lines that can never be crossed. For instance, cool people listen to thrash metal, but anyone who listens to speed metal has their former dungeon master’s head in a freezer. Sometimes it gets complicated, like how emo music is for crying into your diary, while gothic rock is for crying into your cupcake.

However, many genre-defining artists started out playing the exact kind of music their fans are required by social law to loathe. For example …

#6. Kid Rock Was A Hilarious ’90s Rapper

In the popular consciousness, there have already been two versions of Kid Rock. There is the current Kid Rock, who sings country-rock anthems, and there’s the more popular rap-rock/nu-metal Kid Rock of the late ’90s. He has a personality easily summed up by reminding you he’s a man from Michigan who loves the Confederate flag.

“And if black people don’t like it, they can continue to have very little interest in my music!”

The Artist He Was Before That:

We really should just stop the article here.

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Kid Rock was the funkiest, flyest rapper all the way to the extreme. Admittedly, it was an awkward time for everyone, but Kid Rock’s head looked like a racist Halloween costume. He looked like a Disney film about two boys swapping bodies after a magic basketball bounced into a magic chess tournament.

In Hell, this album art is downloaded for every song in your iTunes.

But Kid Rock’s early stuff wasn’t some trashy chimera of country, rock, and hip-hop. He was trying for the real deal, with songs like “Wax The Booty,” a description of an erotic encounter that seems like it was written by a virgin and performed by an aging sea captain selling breakfast cereal.

Using the term “puddy” for female genitals? Definitely a virgin.

With little to no encouragement, Kid Rock continued to make rap songs like this for seven years. His musical career was already a decade old when he released his breakthrough hit “Bawitdaba,” which was accidentally written when he tried to spell “badminton instructor” on a job application. That song and album blew up, and Kid Rock’s incredible flat top was never seen again.

If it seems like Kid Rock was adopting culture that wasn’t his, it’s because he was. He wasn’t learning how to rhyme on the tough-rhyming Detroit streets like Eminem. Kid Rock grew up in a beautiful suburb in a nice house. So this guy ..

… and this guy …

… and this guy …

… all come from the same upper-middle-class childhood spent in one of Michigan’s loveliest homes. His childhood job of selling apples from his father’s orchard sounds like a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. So he’s gone from rich suburbanite to street rapper to hillbilly rapper to just regular hillbilly. At this rate, Kid Rock should be performing as a Syrian refugee as early as next year.

#5. Radiohead Were A Cheesy Top 40 Band

Radiohead helped define the term “alternative rock” by continually pushing the boundaries of popular music and being forever played by lonely men with acoustic guitars on open mic nights in coffee shops around the globe.

Just because they dismissed “Creep” as juvenile and stupid decades ago doesn’t mean the rest of the universe has to.

They are known for their creative risks and their ability to redefine themselves, even after decades. Albums like OK Computer helped drive mid-’90s music away from traditional pop structure, and Rolling Stone named Radiohead’s Kid A the best album of the 2000s. It should tell you something about Radiohead’s talent and influence when here, in an article making fun of artists trying to redefine themselves, we are praising their ability to redefine themselves. Frontman Thom Yorke even has the courage to spell the name “Tom” with an H.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Radiohead started with the name On A Friday, which they were forced to change immediately after being signed by EMI, presumably because on a scale of band names from Hoobastank to Sex Pistols, On A Friday rates a firm Toad The Wet Sprocket.

“We’re On A Friday, because my mum only allows us to use the garage on Fridays while she’s at the gym!”

It wasn’t only their shitty name, though. Their early music was the exact opposite of “alternative.” It was generic Britpop that sounded like a sloppy karaoke version of U2.

They presumably wrote “How To Disappear Completely” after being reminded that they made this.

Instead of a calculated effort to evolve, On A Friday was locked in a desperate struggle to sound exactly like everyone else. And the transition from “dumb high school band that thinks it’s clever” to “genius new artist” wasn’t an immediate one, either — the band’s first album as Radiohead was titled Pablo Honey, which is the name of a goddamn Jerky Boys bit.

#4. The Songwriter Behind Taylor Swift And Katy Perry Started In A Ridiculous Hair Metal Band

You may not remember how you know Max Martin’s name, but he’s the man behind dozens of the most overplayed pop songs from the past 25 years. He was responsible for Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl,” Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time,” and Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.” In fact, that last one was his 20th No. 1 single, meaning — except for Paul McCartney and John Lennon — Martin has more No. 1 singles than anyone who has ever lived.

On top of his three Billy Ray Cyrus lookalike contest trophies.

The Artist He Was Before That:

Before Martin was a hitmaking superproducer, he was a high school dropout named Martin White, which, confusingly, also wasn’t his real name. Karl “Max (Martin White) Martin” Sandberg started a group in the late ’80s called It’s Alive. It’s Alive combined glam metal with grunge in a way that provoked one of two reactions from everyone who ever heard them: “This sucks,” or, “Who?”

“We want the most adorable album cover of all time.”

Somehow, It’s Alive managed to record two whole albums, and their sophomore effort, 1993’s Earthquake Visions, sold only 30,000 copies. More people picked up Bret Michaels’ herpes than It’s Alive albums that year. It was apparent the group wasn’t destined for international superstardom, but it did link Martin with producer Denniz Pop (also not that guy’s real name).

Their moms must be wondering why they even bothered to fill out the birth certificate at all.

Pop heroically saw through all the feathered-hair bullshit of It’s Alive enough to notice that Martin had an incredible ear for catchy melodies, so he put Martin in the studio without the rest of his dipshit bandmates. Martin was trained in pelvic thrusts and nothing else, so he spent his first two years in the studio just “trying to learn what the hell was going on.” He definitely got the hang of it, though. From every one of Taylor Swift’s No. 1 hits to writing every hit single on the Backstreet Boys’ Millennium, Martin knew how to create songs tailor-made to get stuck in millions and millions of heads. So, now you know who to thank for “Blank Space.”

#3. The Go-Go’s Were A Hardcore Punk Band

The Go-Go’s are the most successful all-female group ever, a fact stated definitively on the band’s own website. Their dancey songs about having the beat and going on vacation saturated pop culture in the 1980s, and they’re still used today to detect the number of bachelorette parties inside karaoke bars. If evil scientists found a way to turn liquid cheerleaders into music, it would sound exactly like The Go-Go’s. Now that we mention it, it would sound suspiciously exactly like that.

What are you hiding?

The Artists They Were Before That:

If you clicked the song link above or just have a perfect memory, you may have noticed “We Got The Beat” opens with weirdly pounding drums and staccato guitar sounds. It’s kind of punk rock for a song about clapping and loving to clap, right? That’s because The Go-Go’s actually started as a grimy, fuck-you-in-your-face punk rock band.

The only beat they cared about was beating on any promoters that stiffed them.

The group started in the L.A. punk scene of the late ’70s alongside other seminal punk acts like The Motels and The Germs.

“What makes you think you can just come into The Bronx Upside Downsies turf, Warriors?”

In fact, The Go-Go’s lead singer, Belinda Carlisle, actually started out as the drummer for The Germs. She called herself Dottie Danger while with the group, but ditched The Germs after catching mono, because Belinda apparently doesn’t appreciate willful strokes of cosmic irony.

“I feel really sick. The Germs isn’t just a cute name, is it?”

That’s Belinda wearing the bloody swastika, making the exact face she would make if she saw her future self walk into the club.

“Ahoy, fellow Nazis! Fuck the establishment, right?”

#2. Kraftwerk Were A Terrible Jam Band

Kraftwerk are the godfathers of electronic music. They were the first popular band to utilize nothing but electronic instruments to create songs full of driving, repetitive bleeps, like a Nintendo game you can dance to. Basically, they’re the nerds who made robot sounds into a legitimate musical genre.

When not attempting to exterminate all of humanity, Skynet loves to get funky funky fresh.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Before they switched their sound to C-3PO translating funk for R2-D2, Kraftwerk were a psychedelic jam band. You really, really couldn’t dance to it. It was like a pile of sound an art major would make to start a conversation about what music, like, is, man. It was a sonic port-o-john of flutes, guitars, and random sound effects, with all the focus of a frightened cat scrambling over a piano. Even libraries in the early ’70s categorized it under “Bullshit, Hippie.”

“Oh yeah? Well, your grandpappy’s hippie bullshit didn’t have a traffic-cone solo!”

Founding members Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider were initially interested in creating free-form experimental rock, and that’s what they did, clonking and flooping for several years. Kraftwerk’s music seemed designed specifically for LSD trips and advanced LSD trips, until 1974, when they released Autobahn and defined the electronica genre of robomusic. Apparently, even robots have to go through an angsty phase before they come into their own.

Even the guys in Phish wanted them to get to the fucking point already.

#1. Ministry Started Out As A Synth-Pop Knockoff Of The Cure

Since the mid-’80s, Chicago-based Ministry have been helping angry teens demonstrate their misunderstoodedness, with aggressive heavy metal far too noisy for their parents. Their scrotum-kicking sound includes albums like The Land Of Rape And Honey, which is both an awful pun and a terrible sentiment, and From Beer To Eternity, which is only an awful pun.

They clearly didn’t have time for anything more.

Ministry helped elevate its downtrodden fans with powerful lyrics, letting them know that someone out there understood what it was like to have no one understand you. For instance, here is a selection from their song “Filth Pig”:

Filth pig, filth pig He sleeps with both eyes open Filth pig, filth pig He sleeps all right because he’s a Filth pig

It’s not clear if this was translated into Pig and then back to English, or if this is the first song pieced together from the dying words of stroke victims. The point is, the music of Ministry is better suited for random ax slaughter than slow-dancing.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Ministry started off the 1980s as a new-wave synth-pop outfit. And we don’t mean a little bit ’80s, like every other band at the time. They looked like a Broadway musical about the ’80s.

“Filth pig’s sleeping or something. Psh. Whatever.”

In 1983, Ministry released their first album, With Sympathy, and it was like a greatest hits compilation of every song Joy Division decided was too shitty to record. To put it another way, it’s exactly the soundtrack you hear in your head when you quote Nietzsche to some clueless sheep — dark synth-pop about impotent despair. And lead singer Al Jourgensen performed the entire album with a fake British accent. It’s the official soundtrack for avoiding gym class because it makes your mascara run. A conformist like you just wouldn’t get it, man.

CSI: Gothika

After the band went more industrial and metal, Jourgensen claimed he was pressured by management into making With Sympathy into the fussy wusspop it was, and he seemed determined to keep it out of print. He even claimed to have destroyed the master copies, yet the album was eventually reissued in 2012. It definitely doesn’t have much in common with their modern sound, but Ministry music from any era is always the perfect way to tell a hitchhiker this is the last van ride they’ll ever take.

source http://allofbeer.com/6-bands-that-totally-reinvented-themselves-to-get-famous/ from All of Beer http://allofbeer.blogspot.com/2018/02/6-bands-that-totally-reinvented.html

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6 Bands That Totally Reinvented Themselves To Get Famous

For many people, musical genres are personality-defining lines that can never be crossed. For instance, cool people listen to thrash metal, but anyone who listens to speed metal has their former dungeon master’s head in a freezer. Sometimes it gets complicated, like how emo music is for crying into your diary, while gothic rock is for crying into your cupcake.

However, many genre-defining artists started out playing the exact kind of music their fans are required by social law to loathe. For example …

#6. Kid Rock Was A Hilarious ’90s Rapper

In the popular consciousness, there have already been two versions of Kid Rock. There is the current Kid Rock, who sings country-rock anthems, and there’s the more popular rap-rock/nu-metal Kid Rock of the late ’90s. He has a personality easily summed up by reminding you he’s a man from Michigan who loves the Confederate flag.

“And if black people don’t like it, they can continue to have very little interest in my music!”

The Artist He Was Before That:

We really should just stop the article here.

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Kid Rock was the funkiest, flyest rapper all the way to the extreme. Admittedly, it was an awkward time for everyone, but Kid Rock’s head looked like a racist Halloween costume. He looked like a Disney film about two boys swapping bodies after a magic basketball bounced into a magic chess tournament.

In Hell, this album art is downloaded for every song in your iTunes.

But Kid Rock’s early stuff wasn’t some trashy chimera of country, rock, and hip-hop. He was trying for the real deal, with songs like “Wax The Booty,” a description of an erotic encounter that seems like it was written by a virgin and performed by an aging sea captain selling breakfast cereal.

Using the term “puddy” for female genitals? Definitely a virgin.

With little to no encouragement, Kid Rock continued to make rap songs like this for seven years. His musical career was already a decade old when he released his breakthrough hit “Bawitdaba,” which was accidentally written when he tried to spell “badminton instructor” on a job application. That song and album blew up, and Kid Rock’s incredible flat top was never seen again.

If it seems like Kid Rock was adopting culture that wasn’t his, it’s because he was. He wasn’t learning how to rhyme on the tough-rhyming Detroit streets like Eminem. Kid Rock grew up in a beautiful suburb in a nice house. So this guy ..

… and this guy …

… and this guy …

… all come from the same upper-middle-class childhood spent in one of Michigan’s loveliest homes. His childhood job of selling apples from his father’s orchard sounds like a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. So he’s gone from rich suburbanite to street rapper to hillbilly rapper to just regular hillbilly. At this rate, Kid Rock should be performing as a Syrian refugee as early as next year.

#5. Radiohead Were A Cheesy Top 40 Band

Radiohead helped define the term “alternative rock” by continually pushing the boundaries of popular music and being forever played by lonely men with acoustic guitars on open mic nights in coffee shops around the globe.

Just because they dismissed “Creep” as juvenile and stupid decades ago doesn’t mean the rest of the universe has to.

They are known for their creative risks and their ability to redefine themselves, even after decades. Albums like OK Computer helped drive mid-’90s music away from traditional pop structure, and Rolling Stone named Radiohead’s Kid A the best album of the 2000s. It should tell you something about Radiohead’s talent and influence when here, in an article making fun of artists trying to redefine themselves, we are praising their ability to redefine themselves. Frontman Thom Yorke even has the courage to spell the name “Tom” with an H.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Radiohead started with the name On A Friday, which they were forced to change immediately after being signed by EMI, presumably because on a scale of band names from Hoobastank to Sex Pistols, On A Friday rates a firm Toad The Wet Sprocket.

“We’re On A Friday, because my mum only allows us to use the garage on Fridays while she’s at the gym!”

It wasn’t only their shitty name, though. Their early music was the exact opposite of “alternative.” It was generic Britpop that sounded like a sloppy karaoke version of U2.

They presumably wrote “How To Disappear Completely” after being reminded that they made this.

Instead of a calculated effort to evolve, On A Friday was locked in a desperate struggle to sound exactly like everyone else. And the transition from “dumb high school band that thinks it’s clever” to “genius new artist” wasn’t an immediate one, either — the band’s first album as Radiohead was titled Pablo Honey, which is the name of a goddamn Jerky Boys bit.

#4. The Songwriter Behind Taylor Swift And Katy Perry Started In A Ridiculous Hair Metal Band

You may not remember how you know Max Martin’s name, but he’s the man behind dozens of the most overplayed pop songs from the past 25 years. He was responsible for Katy Perry’s “I Kissed A Girl,” Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time,” and Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood.” In fact, that last one was his 20th No. 1 single, meaning — except for Paul McCartney and John Lennon — Martin has more No. 1 singles than anyone who has ever lived.

On top of his three Billy Ray Cyrus lookalike contest trophies.

The Artist He Was Before That:

Before Martin was a hitmaking superproducer, he was a high school dropout named Martin White, which, confusingly, also wasn’t his real name. Karl “Max (Martin White) Martin” Sandberg started a group in the late ’80s called It’s Alive. It’s Alive combined glam metal with grunge in a way that provoked one of two reactions from everyone who ever heard them: “This sucks,” or, “Who?”

“We want the most adorable album cover of all time.”

Somehow, It’s Alive managed to record two whole albums, and their sophomore effort, 1993’s Earthquake Visions, sold only 30,000 copies. More people picked up Bret Michaels’ herpes than It’s Alive albums that year. It was apparent the group wasn’t destined for international superstardom, but it did link Martin with producer Denniz Pop (also not that guy’s real name).

Their moms must be wondering why they even bothered to fill out the birth certificate at all.

Pop heroically saw through all the feathered-hair bullshit of It’s Alive enough to notice that Martin had an incredible ear for catchy melodies, so he put Martin in the studio without the rest of his dipshit bandmates. Martin was trained in pelvic thrusts and nothing else, so he spent his first two years in the studio just “trying to learn what the hell was going on.” He definitely got the hang of it, though. From every one of Taylor Swift’s No. 1 hits to writing every hit single on the Backstreet Boys’ Millennium, Martin knew how to create songs tailor-made to get stuck in millions and millions of heads. So, now you know who to thank for “Blank Space.”

#3. The Go-Go’s Were A Hardcore Punk Band

The Go-Go’s are the most successful all-female group ever, a fact stated definitively on the band’s own website. Their dancey songs about having the beat and going on vacation saturated pop culture in the 1980s, and they’re still used today to detect the number of bachelorette parties inside karaoke bars. If evil scientists found a way to turn liquid cheerleaders into music, it would sound exactly like The Go-Go’s. Now that we mention it, it would sound suspiciously exactly like that.

What are you hiding?

The Artists They Were Before That:

If you clicked the song link above or just have a perfect memory, you may have noticed “We Got The Beat” opens with weirdly pounding drums and staccato guitar sounds. It’s kind of punk rock for a song about clapping and loving to clap, right? That’s because The Go-Go’s actually started as a grimy, fuck-you-in-your-face punk rock band.

The only beat they cared about was beating on any promoters that stiffed them.

The group started in the L.A. punk scene of the late ’70s alongside other seminal punk acts like The Motels and The Germs.

“What makes you think you can just come into The Bronx Upside Downsies turf, Warriors?”

In fact, The Go-Go’s lead singer, Belinda Carlisle, actually started out as the drummer for The Germs. She called herself Dottie Danger while with the group, but ditched The Germs after catching mono, because Belinda apparently doesn’t appreciate willful strokes of cosmic irony.

“I feel really sick. The Germs isn’t just a cute name, is it?”

That’s Belinda wearing the bloody swastika, making the exact face she would make if she saw her future self walk into the club.

“Ahoy, fellow Nazis! Fuck the establishment, right?”

#2. Kraftwerk Were A Terrible Jam Band

Kraftwerk are the godfathers of electronic music. They were the first popular band to utilize nothing but electronic instruments to create songs full of driving, repetitive bleeps, like a Nintendo game you can dance to. Basically, they’re the nerds who made robot sounds into a legitimate musical genre.

When not attempting to exterminate all of humanity, Skynet loves to get funky funky fresh.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Before they switched their sound to C-3PO translating funk for R2-D2, Kraftwerk were a psychedelic jam band. You really, really couldn’t dance to it. It was like a pile of sound an art major would make to start a conversation about what music, like, is, man. It was a sonic port-o-john of flutes, guitars, and random sound effects, with all the focus of a frightened cat scrambling over a piano. Even libraries in the early ’70s categorized it under “Bullshit, Hippie.”

“Oh yeah? Well, your grandpappy’s hippie bullshit didn’t have a traffic-cone solo!”

Founding members Ralf Hutter and Florian Schneider were initially interested in creating free-form experimental rock, and that’s what they did, clonking and flooping for several years. Kraftwerk’s music seemed designed specifically for LSD trips and advanced LSD trips, until 1974, when they released Autobahn and defined the electronica genre of robomusic. Apparently, even robots have to go through an angsty phase before they come into their own.

Even the guys in Phish wanted them to get to the fucking point already.

#1. Ministry Started Out As A Synth-Pop Knockoff Of The Cure

Since the mid-’80s, Chicago-based Ministry have been helping angry teens demonstrate their misunderstoodedness, with aggressive heavy metal far too noisy for their parents. Their scrotum-kicking sound includes albums like The Land Of Rape And Honey, which is both an awful pun and a terrible sentiment, and From Beer To Eternity, which is only an awful pun.

They clearly didn’t have time for anything more.

Ministry helped elevate its downtrodden fans with powerful lyrics, letting them know that someone out there understood what it was like to have no one understand you. For instance, here is a selection from their song “Filth Pig”:

Filth pig, filth pig He sleeps with both eyes open Filth pig, filth pig He sleeps all right because he’s a Filth pig

It’s not clear if this was translated into Pig and then back to English, or if this is the first song pieced together from the dying words of stroke victims. The point is, the music of Ministry is better suited for random ax slaughter than slow-dancing.

The Artists They Were Before That:

Ministry started off the 1980s as a new-wave synth-pop outfit. And we don’t mean a little bit ’80s, like every other band at the time. They looked like a Broadway musical about the ’80s.

“Filth pig’s sleeping or something. Psh. Whatever.”

In 1983, Ministry released their first album, With Sympathy, and it was like a greatest hits compilation of every song Joy Division decided was too shitty to record. To put it another way, it’s exactly the soundtrack you hear in your head when you quote Nietzsche to some clueless sheep — dark synth-pop about impotent despair. And lead singer Al Jourgensen performed the entire album with a fake British accent. It’s the official soundtrack for avoiding gym class because it makes your mascara run. A conformist like you just wouldn’t get it, man.

CSI: Gothika

After the band went more industrial and metal, Jourgensen claimed he was pressured by management into making With Sympathy into the fussy wusspop it was, and he seemed determined to keep it out of print. He even claimed to have destroyed the master copies, yet the album was eventually reissued in 2012. It definitely doesn’t have much in common with their modern sound, but Ministry music from any era is always the perfect way to tell a hitchhiker this is the last van ride they’ll ever take.

from All Of Beer http://allofbeer.com/6-bands-that-totally-reinvented-themselves-to-get-famous/

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We've just released a new single!  The song "Savior of the Skies" was written for the soundtrack to G.D. Falksen's novel "The Hellfire Chronicles: Blood in the Skies" and it is on Volume 2 of the soundtrack cds.  It will also be appearing on our next album when it is released.

Steampunk Vol. 2 is available here: http://www.amazon.com/Steampunk-Vol-Soundtrack-Falksens-Chronicle/dp/B006IY1NNU/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1323863061&sr=1-1

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