Sorry Crispin...

According to this list, My Band Got Yours by "One", which is ironic because both bands have a song called "One".

To celebrate their pending tenth anniversary on July 1, 2006, AVRev.com has compiled its list of the Top 100 Rock Bands of All Time. Unlike past lists that are based on mere opinion, the AVRev.com "Top Rock Bands" list uses the same type of analytical tools employed by sports franchises and applies them to rock bands to objectively determine which bands are the best. Among the categories considered were: U.S. Sales (100 points), Songs/Songwriting (100), Technical Ability (100), Live Performance (50), Consistency vs. Longevity (50) and Random (50). Random is a category that allows a judge to vote on how likely he or she is to want to hear a band's songs on their iPod playlist.

Topping the list with a total of 525 points was LED ZEPPELIN. All of the judges gave LED ZEPPELIN high marks not only for their songs/songwriting ability, but also their consistency as a band through the years.

The Top Ten is as follows:

01. LED ZEPPELIN - 525 points
02. THE BEATLES - 514 points
03. PINK FLOYD - 506 points
04. THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE - 503 points
05. VAN HALEN - 496 points
06. QUEEN - 493 points
07. THE EAGLES - 479 points
08. METALLICA - 468 points
09. U2 - 455 points
10. BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS - 454 points

The 100 band nominees range from the usual suspects that make up classic rock playlists, but also include more out-of-the-box sleeper bands from the 1950s through today's most popular bands. The list doesn't include solo artists such as MICHAEL JACKSON or ELVIS PRESLEY.

Voting on the list was done by an esteemed panel of judges including: former DIRE STRAITS guitarist Jack Sonni, University of Southern California Thornton School of Music professor Ken Lopez, Xhifi desktop speaker company president Howard Schilling, as well as AVRev.com founder and publisher Jerry Del Colliano Jr. and AVRev.com's music editor Charles Andrews.

A downloadable form allows you to create your own list and a link on the page allows you to email AVRev.com the names of bands you would have liked to have seen in the nominee list.

Results for the entire 100-band list of nominees can be found at this location.

Relevant Tidbit

The RIAA—remember, they are the recording industry organization that was suing grandmothers when their grandkids downloaded Britney Spears’ songs on home computers—has triumphantly announced that illegal file sharing in America has been “contained.” This is great news for the music industry; now if only they could figure out why album sales are still declining. Obviously it has nothing to do with the variety of mainstream music.

Or quality thereof...

It looks like digital sales are up 77%, seems to me they could have achieved the same result without all the scare tactics and hoopla. I think this is due more to the advent of the IPOD and ITUNES as opposed to the efforts of the RIAA. If you provide a logical, practical and legal alternative to file sharing, people will gravitate towards it. Not that you're going to stamp out file sharing altogether, because you won't, but people want digital alternatives for music and when it's not provided by the antiquated RIAA they'll get it elsewhere.

I'm psyched for the emergence of the IPOD and ITUNES. New technology is good for the music industry and for the music fan, but as the RIAA has demonstrated quite unobtrusively, change is never easy.

Flameout

So, in honor of a buddy of mine's post in response to my top 5 current chilled tracks, I'm going to post my current top 5 FLAMEOUT tracks of all time.

To quote my boy, "When life goes too fast, I like to punch the afterburners until flameout..."

And here they are (in no particular order):

1. "Martyr" - Fear Factory
2. "Stein's Theme" - Project 86
3. "Liarsenic" - Norma Jean
4. "Incisions" - Remembering Never
5. "Davidian" - Machine Head

Bonus - "In the Meantime" - Helmet

\m/

Like a Villian

Just an update, I'm feeling better than I did yesterday. Got some prayer, some love and apparently I got a danish from my buddy Lee. But my last post was an interesting segue into what I really wanted to talk about.

For STRESS relief or just fans of good relax music in general, here's a sort of random top 5 of mine for you to enjoy. No genre, time or any other restriction to this list.

My current top 5 chilled, stress relieving tracks (in no particular order):
1. "The Sky is Broken" - Moby
2. "Feelin' Love" - Paula Cole
3. "Trip Like I Do" - The Crystal Method
4. "Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)" (Studio Acoustic) - The Deftones
5. "War of the Hearts" - Sade

6(Bonus). "X&Y" - Coldplay

Let me know what are some of your fav chilled tracks, I'm always up for new chilled recommendations.

\m/

Yikes

Bear with me...I'm going to ramble.

I'm STRESSED. I'm completly spent. Physically & emotionally, I'm dragging. I can't tell you the absolute direct cause for my stress because there are probably a gaggle of factors involved but as of this moment, this blog is the only thing I have that's barely shaving off the top of my stress so I don't go into convulsions. I'm exaggerating but it's how I feel.

I feel like I'm mad at everything lately. I feel like everthing gets on my last nerve. Even the people that I love the most make me want to scream. I loathe this of myself. Why can't I control it? Why can't I redirect, realign or reconnect? I have no answers lately. I feel like a worthless human being lately. I feel I have nothing at all positive to contribute to my God, my family, my church or my friends lately. I want badly to pick up and leave for 3 weeks. And I feel like because I can't do that physically, I pick up and leave mentally, which sucks.

I'm sure this is not as bad as it really is because it's emotional for me right now. I wish I didn't have to be on my toes all the time. I wish I didn't have so much expectations laid on me by me.

I want to sleep for 48 hours straight. I want to go someplace that's 69 degrees, lay in the middle of a grassy field and listen to music for 12 hours straight. I want to lay in my wife's lap while she massages my temples.

I want God to refesh me from head to toe. I want to feel his holy spirit move over my mind, my body, my spirit. I'm not going to be able to do this without God. I need to be refilled and restored...soon.