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A line from U2′s 1992 hit One has been voted the UK’s favourite song lyric. The line “One life, with each other, sisters, brothers” came top of a poll of 13,000 people by music channel VH1. The song reached number seven in the UK chart when it was originally released, but a new version featuring [...]

Website: Queensryche The Inside Pulse: What has been heralded as one of the greatest concept albums ever made — never mind one of the top-tier metal albums in its era — Operation Mindcrime fueled an entirely new universe of metal back in 1988. Even the band itself had revamped its focus from previous work to [...]

Friday night, John, Alex and I went to the awesome cajun place for all-you-can-eat catfish. I’m not a big catfish fan but Frank’s Red Hot fixes everything. We then headed out to The Rock to see some metal bands; apparently Alex has some hot chick neighbor who slips flyers under his door, so he figured, [...]

Pitchfork Media posted a most lovely interview with Neko Case this week. Read the whole thing and its brilliance when you’re done here, but if only for this: When I hear auto tune on somebody’s voice, I don’t take them seriously. Or you hear somebody like Alicia Keys, who I know is pretty good, and [...]

I frequent a very obnoxious forum. It’s pretty separate from everywhere else that I interact, with only three people from there being on my LJ. Someone on the boards is having a contest. Now, they do contests all the time and they are silly and I have never participated. I’m one of two girls on [...]

Since we picked up the laserdisc player yesterday, I’ve been doing way too much research into it. See, my primary motivation was because there are some songs on karaoke that were only released via laserdisc. (Yes, I have a problem.) Other than that, it just seemed like a neat oddball relic to have. Perhaps eBay [...]

I’ve written a lot about work, but not fun! It’s been show-mania in my world. Last Friday night we snagged Alex and went to a cute little party where OBCT, UCKF, Thosquanta, and Envy Is Blind played. Alex and I ran around investigating things while dodging some terribly drunken chick who was SO DEPRESSED. We [...]

NEWS ITEM (captured from Blabbermouth): DREAM THEATER Drummer: QUEENSRYCHE Singer Is A ‘Two-Faced Douche Bag’ – Apr. 2, 2006 DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy has slammed QUEENSRYCHE frontman Geoff Tate as a “two-faced douche bag” for “consistently bashing DREAM THEATER and even [Portnoy] personally in the press. When a DREAM THEATER fan suggested in a [...]

I have quite a few reviews to write up this week, but I’ve only made one pass through my current list. After a couple more, I can start to scribble. But just in case anyone was wondering, here are some first impressions. QUEENSRYCHE: Operation Mindcrime II: eh. Loads better than their last few offerings but [...]