Hum Along With Herman

• Sins of the Flesh by Sister Machine Gun
• The greatest industrial rock band to not get plastered all over the radio in the mid-nineties... ummm... second.... KMFDM is first. Their early stuff (Sins of the Flesh, the Torture Technique) was deemed as being NIN rip offs, although both bands had been around, NIN and Trent just hit radio first. Every subsequent album has been different. Heavy usage of Saxophone on some songs, some songs seeming more appropriate for techno than industrial rock, with Chris Randalls vocals not even being a link, as sometimes he screams, and sometimes he sounds like he could be in depeche mode.
  
• Mechanical Animals by Marilyn Manson
• Manson... We all know of him. My first impression was "guy who paints himself up to shock people, the music can't be good." Heard sweet dreams, but it was before I was a covers of songs freak. Passed on the disc. The Beautiful People came out. I passed. Still not a fan of that song. I then heard some old Manson, and the Mechanical Animals CD came out. I was hooked. I figured out, finally, that there was some good music behind the gimmick.
  
• Rappers Delight by the Sugarhill Gang
• Now, if you wanna talk about old school, how about a 15 minute hip hop song, done to a disco beat?
  
• Buckwheats Beat by Spider D
• This one a rare person will remember. This is OLD SCHOOL. This was in the fledgling time of hip hop and rap. A lot of songs found a gimmick. Impersonate someone, and rap over a beat. This one is Buckwheat. (There is another song out there, that is John Wayne rapping.)
  
• Need To by Korn
• Korn... I miss the old days. I remember listening to Q101 when I was 18 years old (94/95), driving home one night. The DJ (Zoltron (?), the brother from another planet) would play unknown bands, and a LOT of industrial. This is when I heard "Blind." I was at Heguish records the next day, scouring through cd's till I finally found the disc. Six months later... shoots and ladders hits the radio. I was distraught. My unknown band made it big on a gimmicky song.
  
• Dead and Bloated by Stone Temple Pilots
• First song I ever heard by STP. I didn't listen to rock radio much. This was a period where I was transitioning from r&b and rap as my mainstays, to rock, as I wasn't big on the Glam rock scene. I borrowed an STP tape, took it home, made a "high speed tape dub" cuz my brother had a dual deck boombox. I then listened to STP for the first time, and was hooked. A few months later, I saw them a the Aragon Ballroom playing BEFORE the Butthole surfers, who had yet to record their one hit wonder song.
  
• I Gotta Get Drunk by George Jones and Willie Nelson
• Old school country. Happy upbeat song about getting drunk, doing stupid stuff, and beer goggles.
  
• Pudding Time - Thieves by Primus
• Live Primus performance I downloaded from the official primus website. They do an interesting medly of their own song, Pudding time, with Thieves by Ministry. I wish more bands followed Primus's lead, and threw some free downloads of live stuff on their sites. Might not make em money, but it keeps some die hard fans happy and loving the band that much more.... and wishing they could see a live show again.
  
• I Do Not Want This by NIN
• Trent is a musical genius. Plus the man does things right. NIN cd's are many years in between. Shows a lot of work and craft goes into their discs. I did have a brief anti-NIN spree, after closer. I was never a big fan of that song. Probably because I had a few too many preppy, non rock listening friends that were on Trents cock over that song. The same people that asked me to change the music when I had "march of the pigs" on, were buying the disc.
  
• Rose by A Perfect Circle
• Maynard is one of my top three vocalists EVER. He's shown his range of vocals and style between APC and tool. The only two people I put at the man's level are Layne Staley (Alice In Chains, Mad Season) and Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog). Can ya tell I'm a child of the Grunge era now?