THE GAZETTE -- REGRET

https://youtu.be/AL31KFyU8JA

"Anything is good, literally anything. I like most things tbh."

Okay, cool.

How about ....

MUCC -- RYUUSEI

https://youtu.be/ihiqQfut86Y

People say that "Robo's Theme" from Chrono Trigger sounds like "Never Gunna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, but I don't hear the similarity at all. It feels like kind of a stretch....

Radio / MTV is the McDonald's of Music. Oh wait, MTV doesn't even play Music anymore, just stupid Reality TV shows.

I don't ~hate~ Coldplay, they're ok. But I wonder if they are aware that their song "Speed of Sound" rips off a synth melody from the 1981 song "Mechanical" by a New Wave band called The Quarks.

https://youtu.be/4YbeyYn5SQA

You can't tell me that it don't sound like the same melody. Lol....

Bah-doop-booba-dah doop.

Bah-doop-booba-dah doop.

https://youtu.be/0k_1kvDh2UA

Also "Clocks" ....

https://youtu.be/PFW2uSCZ0uE

I dunno -- my music taste is pretty all over the place, and my brain is constantly cycling from lyric to lyric.

I like Hip Hop, Japanese Metal, Video Game OSTs, some 70s and 80s music (Men At Work, Duran Duran, Kate Bush, Pat Benatar)...

Industrial (NIN, Manson, Mindless Self Indulgence)

Japanese Speedcore (DJ Sharpnel)

J-Pop (Ayumi Hamasaki, Utada Hikaru, Camui Gackt)

I think the only genre I'm not super fond of is Country Music, but despite my dislike of the genre I still enjoy some Reba McEntire songs.....

Oh hell yeah....

THE FEAR OF BEING ALONE....

https://youtu.be/vrL_epBY87o

I feel wierd liking this kind of stuff, this is like... My mother's style of music. But damn it just hits, ya know????

An underground gothic band called Ophelia Rising does an AMAZING cover of "The Speed of Pain" it may not be ~every~ Manson fan's cup of tea, but it's been one of my Go-To breakup songs since I first found it on a p2p client back in the early 2000s. (I think I found it on Grokster or Morpheus or one of those Napster-like things).

https://youtu.be/Z9lKtuMsOGs

Still gives me chills.

Where do we gooooooo from heeeere.

I'm just giving O.P. suggestions.

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DREDG -- HUNGOVER ON A TUESDAY

https://youtu.be/6lcTEOTofxY

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So long to the hurt and stormy weather.

It's time for a cleansing....

Nice try, but you can't avoid this forever.

You know it makes you feel good.

Feeding on your soul.

You'll search for a cure.

You'll want to be sure.

You don't lose control.

You'll want to be sure.

That this is really you.

So long since I can't even remember.

It's time for renewal....

You know that you won't have fun after.

You know it makes you feel good.

Feeding on your soul.

You'll search for a cure.

You'll want to be sure.

You don't lose control.

You'll want to be sure.

That this is really you.

I fell towards the fire...

Shielding myself from sin.

Things are looking brighter.

This is the way I want to live.

So long to the hurt and stormy weather.

It's time for a cleansing....

Nice try, but you can't control me forever.

Feeding on your soul.

You'll search for a cure.

You'll want to be sure.

You don't lose control.

I'll always be sure.

You'll want to be sure...

So long to the end...

You'll always be there ---

.

#But you are gone to me!

....

DAVID BOWIE -- SUNDAY

https://youtu.be/PjyC4pzOsOg

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Nothing remains.

We could run when the rain slows.

Look for the cars or signs of life.

Where the heat goes.

Look for the drifters.

We should crawl under the bracken.

Look for the shafts of light on the road.

Where the heat goes.

Everything has changed.

For in truth, it's the beginning of nothing.

And nothing has changed.

Everything has changed.

For in truth, it's the beginning of an end.

And nothing has changed.

And everything has changed.

In your fear....

Of what we have become.

Take to the fire.

Now we must burn.... All that we are.

Rise together.

Through these clouds.

As on wings.

In your fear, seek only peace.

In you fear, seek only love.

In your fear, seek only peace.

In you fear, seek only love.

In your fear, in your fear.

As on wings.

This is the trip.

And this is the business we take.

This is our number.

All my trials, Lord.

Will be remembered.

Everything has changed.

Pink -- Who Knew....

https://youtu.be/GhtoxUuV-C4

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THE CRANE WIVES -- CAN'T GO BACK

https://youtu.be/tKaWFHhj0B8

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It's time to learn to be...

More forgiving of yourself.

And your sins.

And those mistakes you made.

You've gotta try to take...

The lessons away from them.

And leave the rest behind.

Oh, regret, put it out, put it out of your mind.

All the self-loathing in the world...

Won't change a thing.

'Cause you can't go back, darlin'

The time has come for moving on.

You can't be always trying to dig up....

What you've already buried.

You've got to carry, carry, carry on.

Carry on.

It's not fair.

It's not fair.

It's not fair.

(When have you ever known the world to be a fair place?)

It's not fair.

(All things end and all things change)

It's not fair.

(You'll go back and laugh someday)

It's not fair.

(Or at least you'll learn to be okay)

'Cause you can't go back, darlin'

The time has come for moving on.

You can't be always trying to dig up...

What you've already buried.

You've got to carry, carry, carry on.

Carry on.

It's time to learn to be.

More forgiving of yourself.

...

VNV NATION -- "Gratitude"

https://youtu.be/CFeHyWxuPcI

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It is not love, if love is cold to touch.

It is not belief, when there's nothing there to trust.

Could not submit, would never bring myself to heel.

Determination grows, as each truth's revealed.

Torn and repaired, just to endure it all again.

Without a reason, for my place in all this pain.

Though well concealed, the scars, they just compound.

Until there's nothing left -- of what once was my former self.

My god, look at what we are now.

Without regret for all the things that we have done.

Thank you for all the doubts, and for all the questioning.

For all the loneliness and for all the suffering.

For all the emptiness, and the scars it left inside.

It inspired in me -- an impetus to fight.

For the conviction, for the purpose found along.

For the strength and courage, that in me I've never known.

And if it seems to you, that my words are undeserved.

I write this in gratitude -- for whatever good it serves.

Sometimes I wish, that you could see me now.

In the rightful place, where I knew that I belonged.

Sometimes I wish, that you might someday understand.

And close the chapter, and lay to rest the past.

But nothing would change, we make the best of what we have.

For we are measured by the actions of our lives.

We bide our time, let the future unfold.

Like immortals, in great legends to be told.

My god, look at what we are now.

Without regret for all the things that we have done.

Thank you for all the doubts, and for all the questioning.

For all the loneliness and for all the suffering.

For all the emptiness, and the scars it left inside.

It inspired in me -- an impetus to fight.

To all who stood with me, when we stood as one.

Thank you for guiding me, for bringing me home.

And if it seems that I'm obliged to say these words.

I write this in gratitude, the least that you deserve.

Here's a really good one.

DIR EN GREY -- Footsteps In The Lonely Valley

https://youtu.be/davLLY1X1ig

.........

"The echos pile up, breaking my heart over and over.

I shake off the pain I’ve become used to, I can no longer feel you.

The ugliness and the laughter in the memories which flood over me...

Should I just forget them?"

https://direngreytranslation.tumblr.com/post/103541252958/%E7%A9%BA%E8%B0%B7%E3%81%AE%E8%B7%AB%E9%9F%B3-footsteps-in-a-lonely-valley

For me, a good angry purge song helps.

Fleetwood Mac -- Planets Of The Universe ("Rumors" Demo, 2004).

https://youtu.be/OjKoWFh3oj0

To me, this one is a million times better than the fully fleshed out song that Stevie did on the "Trouble In Shangri-La" album.

......

And how about Eminem -- Stronger Than I Was.....

https://youtu.be/OilFXaRuD_o

On September 2, 2010, Hesta Prynn and Shawn Crahan of Slipknot released a cover of "Pepper" as a 7-inch vinyl single.The B-side of the single is the previously unreleased track "Seven Sisters"

Ponch from CHIPS (Erik Estrada) is in the video.

Pepper is from 1996. I had the tape of Electric Larry Land when I was 12. In 8th or 9th grade, I think.

Oh, and son... When you see your mother.... Tell her I said..... SATAN!

https://youtu.be/n-fE5NbilMw

I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my clothes.

Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoken lies.

You never know just how you look through other people's eyes.

I bought a pair of Sennheiser 280 HD Pros in 2007, they lasted me way up to 2016 -- the only thing I needed to be able to keep using them was to buy replacement Ear Pads and a fresh new Headband on EBay.

Good Over Ear Cups = One Odio A71 ($35)

Good In Ear Buds = Skullcandy Ink Plus. ($15)

And they are good to my particular tastes, sure some fancy $300 thing might be better, but I'm more concerned with "bang for buck."

Fantastic song, also "If You Could Read My Mind" - Johnny Cash did a really haunting and painful cover of that song...

Go look for "Someone Else, Not Me" off the Pop Trash album.

Smashing Pumpkins -- This Time