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Besides that, what is really up with this love theme in music? There is around zero pop songs that isn't about sex, love, boyfriends, breakup etc. If you name one I will give you a cookie.

I've often thought that, myself. On reading your comment, I decided to find out.

Billboard's Top 40 track #2 (was #1 last week) is Nickelback's "If Everyone Cared". It's some hippy crap, saying "everybody be nice to eachother and cooperate and the world will be a better place". It does seem to mention romantic love but that isn't the main theme.

LOL! #3 is Maroon 5's "Makes Me Wonder" and it is about sex and/or love, but the lyrics are so funny that I have to share them.

For comparison, I googled for Pantera lyrics and got this, an album with ten songs, one of which is not about love or sex. Okay, a newer album has not a single song about love.

Metal kicks ass, partly because the usually incomprehensible lyrics can sometimes be interesting, but mostly because of the music. Since you're into non-love lyrics, you might want to consider some alt country music too. There's quite a bit of metal crossover. Hank Williams III has been in lots of metal and punk bands, and has his own metal band Assjack, but his country music with his Damn Band is hardcore. Listen to the song "Bad Magick" by Shooter Jennings to feel like you're hearing a dusty old recording of Led Zeppelin collaborating with Bad Company. Shooter Jennings effortlessly segues from country to metal and back in the song "Busted In Baylor County", playing part of Black Sabbath's "Sweet Leaf" (the Live At Irving Plaza version has a much longer portion of "Sweet Leaf" than the album version). Rebel Meets Rebel is said to be the last project Dimebag Darrel did before he was killed; it has The Cowboys From Hell playing and aging country outlaw David Allan Coe on lead vocals (and the song "Get Out Of My Life" has Hank III in it too). Jay Berndt of Kilgore Smudge now fronts a country band called The Brimstone Assembly, which offers a style of hardcore country similar to that of Hank III.

Holy shit. I need to get a life.

this law + pipe in some Rage Against the Machine = Revolution

It'd be a Red Barchettaof course.

Or 'It's hard out here for a PMP'

I don't know what you heard about me
But you can't get your video out of me
High quality video you can't see
Because I've got uncracked PMP.

Or 'It's hard out here for a PMP'

I don't know what you heard about me
But you can't get your video out of me
High quality video you can't see
Because I've got uncracked PMP.

Or 'It's hard out here for a PMP'

I don't know what you heard about me
But you can't get your video out of me
High quality video you can't see
Because I've got uncracked PMP.

So I guess you can say Skype is the #1 STUNna?

Jigga what?

Phah! Bubbles? That's lame. Tenacious D seemed to have an even better idea when they toppled City Hall

The second decree: no more pollution, no more car exhaust, or ocean dumpage. From now on, we will travel in tubes! Get the scientists working on the tube technology, immediately!

I ran this on our rack at work and got this out of it: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4052361410 218663660

It even wrote the lyrics for us! http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pinkfloyd/setthecon trolsfortheheartofthesun.html

Is that Solaris you're runinng?!? Then turn it up man!!!!

Actually it's a reference to a recent Audioslave song about Katrina and Bush. It doesn't mention global warming at all.

It's easy to say only listen to indie bands, but the musicians aren't the enemies, the labels are. It's easy to tell who's a sellout by their statements on downloading. Anti-P2P public service announcement? Sellout. Give away MP3's on the website like Offspring or write an anti-label song like The Ataris, Radio #2, or Korn, Y'all Want a Single? Not a sellout.

You can support bands by buying concert tickets or t-shirts, if you don't mind support other evil monopolies (Clear Channel and Ticketmaster).

It's easy to say only listen to indie bands, but the musicians aren't the enemies, the labels are. It's easy to tell who's a sellout by their statements on downloading. Anti-P2P public service announcement? Sellout. Give away MP3's on the website like Offspring or write an anti-label song like The Ataris, Radio #2, or Korn, Y'all Want a Single? Not a sellout.

You can support bands by buying concert tickets or t-shirts, if you don't mind support other evil monopolies (Clear Channel and Ticketmaster).

I thought it was supposed to be hamsters!

Let's not get used to it without making some noise. To skip network neutrality is obviously a horrible thing to do from both the customer rights and freedom of speech point of view, and it will be a big step towards "totalitarian" corporation control of information and knowledge. Today's society is slowly defeloping towards this, but this has at least in some European countries been slowed down by strong consumer rights legislation. Those of us in europe who have grown up in real democracies don't want to live in satellite states of the american media Oligarchy (Coca Cola, sometimes War), so please, giving up like this becouse "it's completely natural" is not acceptable, no matter what the people with kinder gentler machine gun hands tell us.

"The only think worse, is when they have an odd shape so that a CD case slides off the top. If it is going to be ugly you might as well be able to stack stuff on it."

Well you're going to hate the Sir Mix-a-Lot computer case.

who would seriously take their ipod into a combat situation?

Well, I did hear that At least at the beginning of the war Drowning Pool's "Bodies" was popular to pump up soldiers heading into combat.

I'm guessing they were using ipods.

.. I'm sure The Bloodhound Gang's A Lap Dance Is So Much Better When The tripper Is Crying has a snowball's in hell, then.

There's nothing "ironic" about a dictator censoring media while putting out their own. It isn't even contradictory. "Dictator" means "commander", as in "speaking a command", as in "word is law". What they say is the official truth, they define reality by speaking it. Other people saying different "versions" of reality gets in the way, so they stop it.

The popular sense of the word "irony" has been ruined. People don't even blink while Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" asks "isn't it ironic?" about a list of situations that aren't ironic. It's not ironic if its words don't contradict the reality. Just because two events are inconsistent or surprising doesn't make irony.

I think irony has just been overloaded in our modern age, where lies outnumber truth, but reality stubbornly persists. When people's reality is defined by faith in lies rather than their own personal experience, there is no irony, because there is only irony.

He's waxin' his modem, tryin' to make it go faster. - Wierd Al.

One of the tracks they used seems to fit well in a battle among iPod speaker systems:

"Lyrical Gangbang"
(feat. Lady Of Rage, Kurupt, RBX)

[Intro:]

This should be played at high volume
Preferably in a residential area

[Lady Of Rage]
Now I'ma kick up dust
As I begin to bust
On the wick-wack, fucked up suckers you can't trust
When I pick up I lick up, ya face get smacked up
when I rack up, so all you motherfuckers just pack up
Or get slapped with the swiftness
If you think you're swift then forget Merry Christmas
Now stuff that in your stocking
I'm knockin em out the box 'n'
Knockin em out their sock 'n'
Cuz Robin is rockin
Breakin em down to the slab
Takin em down on their ass
Now what you wanna do? Ya wanna battle, huh?
See ya watch and creak without a motherfuckin paddle
Rattle that brain, I'm not that same ol' plain Jane
We're on you like a border, you're nothin more than a crane
Or a pebble, take it from the real rap rebel
Not Bushwick Bill but I can take it to that other level
You think you got pull then pull it, uhh!
I got the trigger so I figure you'll bite the bullet
Then bite the dust and wipe the fuck
Do what I must and what I must is bust
The bubble or choose some trouble, forty-due's
So stick to my Luger, Lady of Rage is comin thru

[Dre] - (Some cool shit, some cool shit)

You get the idea.

Actually, I've got it on good authority that the CIA has had an active interest in identifying the roots of the effect of music on America's youth -

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blondie/thejamwasmo vingchrissteinanddebbieharryremix.html

Bill or George! Anything but Sue, I mean Ghyslain! I still hate that name!

Johnny Cash, RIP.

If you still don't get the joke, read the last line of the song

I rocks in the East and I rolls in the West

There were four main British clearing banks operating at the time:

• National Westminster
• The Midland / HSBC Bank (they renamed themselves after merging with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank; for some reason, the marketing people thought 'HSBC' would be better received by the British public;
• Barclays
• Lloyds

(Sidenote: these companies were commemorated (before the Midland / HSBC name change) in the second track on the Manic Street Preachers' first album: Natwest-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds). Since then things have got much more confusing; various Building Societies have de-mutualised and converted into banks, legally speaking (and they now offer the same current account / chequebook / cheque guarantee / ATM / credit / debit cards.) There's also First Direct, an early phone-only bank pitched up-market - and owned by HSBC, the Scottish banks have tried to enter the UK market, American and European banks have their own chunks of the market, there are now internet-only banks (also owned to varying degrees by other banks and/or building societies (or ex-building societies that are now banks.) Then there's my bank, the Co-Operative Bank, who make a big deal of their ethical policies, their normal banking services and their terrible shortage of bricks-and-mortar branches without making up for it with a good phone banking service...

Anyway, 'R.B.' is presumably supposed to point to 'Royal Bank of Scotland'. Or are there others with those initials?

Damn, this story's three days old, I'll never know :)

It's a joke. ^_^ Then again, after the whole Amish Paradaise, Gangsta Paradise, Pastime Paradise debacle, it's not that unreasonable. Heck, I almost modded you informative without doing the fact checking...

I assume I'll be sued if I ask whether you meant to quote the Radiohead line from Lucky :

"It's gonna be a glorious day".

is that the file-sharers in question are avid Jane's Addiction fans!

She broke the radio with the board of education...

Political correctness point: many Canadian radio stations have stopped playing the Tragically Hips' song "New Orleans is Sinking" to show sensitivity for the disaster victims.

FWIW, I do agree with the parent posting in most points.

While TFA does use the "very unsafe planet" quote [/me suppresses comment with difficulty], it also points out that there are technological measures which can effectively mitigate natural events. The quote that should have been used is at the bottom of the story:

"We always have resource constraints," she [Barbara Carby, Jamaica's disaster coordinator] said. "That's not a problem the U.S. has. But because they have the resources, they may not pay enough attention to preparedness and awareness, and to educating the public how to help themselves."

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tragicallyhip/newor leansissinking.html

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/davidbowie/imafraid ofamericans.html

"I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him "Money" for short/ I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support"

> Stuff that matters: circuit-breakers vacuum-cleaners coffee makers, calculators generators matching salt&pepper shakers

What about automatic circumcisers?

MTV Get Off the Air!

FYI

"average lifetime" 60 x 60 x 24 x 11000[*1] = 9.504e+8

"people killed by Stalin" 60 x 60 x 24 x 11000 x 13,000,000[*2] = 1.23552e+16

Those numbers are off by several orders of magnitude! Next you'll be accusing spammers of genocide.

[*1] Moody Blues
[*2] http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html

This is simply not true, and has not been for years (k5 link). It has been known in the independent music community for quite a while that signing with a major label is career suicide 90% of the time. Volumes have been written on the subject (google around a little bit), it just seems that the prospect of success in the music industry is alluring enough that most artists are willing to take that chance. Most of those that do end up owing a major for the remainder of their life. Why, might you ask, would someone take such a chance? Jello Biafra answered this question:

"I ain't no artist, I'm a business man
No ideas of my own.

I think Alanis Morisette has a different oppinion.

From Demons:

Honest is easy.
Fiction is where genius lies.

It's a neat song, all about how much fun it is to lie. It's good. Go download it.

My gf said it's a No Doubt song. I don't listen to them but that track was really catchy! I think it's called What You Waiting For? or something? No really, I just googled that, I'm not really a fan of Gwen Stephani. :)

Plastic Surgery!

Something I wrote a couple of years back.

To the tune of Blurry by Puddle of Mudd.

(Still a work in progress)

My wife is mostly plastic
everything's so fake
Her tits are full of saline
now they are in perfect place
Filled her lips with fat
They sucked out of her thighs
Her teeth were stained and yellow
but now they are pure white

If only I had said no
to plastic surgery
I would still be with you
and you'd still be with me
I use to be your world
I use to be your man
But now I'm just this guy
who pays for all your tans

Chorus:
I paid for everything
But you left me anyway
You slapped me in the face
You sprayed me with some mace
I paid for everything
But you left me anyway
You slapped me in the face

Everything has changed now
There's nothing left that's you
You wear a ton of makeup and
clothes that are see through
It wasn't always this way
You use to be a troll
But now all men adore you
And want to tag your hole

But I know all about you
I know who you are
You're just a gutter rat
who grew up in the park
You're just a dirty tramp now
using guys for cash
I hope someone rapes you
so I can have a laugh.

"We got a thousand points of light
For the homeless man
We got a kinder, gentler,
Machine gun hand
We got department stores
and toilet paper
Got styrofoam boxes
for the ozone layer
Got a man of the people,
says keep hope alive
Got fuel to burn,
got roads to drive."

- Neil Young, Keep On Rockin' in the Free World"

I wonder what that Crash Test Dummies song Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm sounds like? Would your head simply shatter and explode?

This reminds me of a great song from the '80s written and performed by The Dead Kennedys. "Blow it out your ass Jerry Falwell!" Probably not as relevant as 1st Amendment discussions, but I thought I should share this insight. The whole song's lyrics can be found here: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/deadkennedys/moralm ajority.html

That might not be such a good idea:

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sherylcrow/crashand burn.html

But I guess we know who's strong enough to be her man.
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/sheryl_crow/strong-enou gh.html

Unfortunately, that's the way we geeks get treated a lot of times.

Too bad Turning didn't chose a different approach to dealing with ungrateful masses.

GMD

MS Air, the most breatheable air you can find arround

That would be their next bold move.

The Eiffel language may be a good choice for GNOME apps, but wouldn't running a Windows app written in Eiffel 6.5 result in the Blue Da Ba Dee Screen of Death?