Just checked my top artists on Pandora, what a spread!
1) In This Moment
2) Korn
3) Tech N9ne
4) Gorillaz
5) Ado
6) System of a Down
7) DMX
8) Creepy Nuts
9) Paramore
10) Falling In Reverse
11) Melanie Martinez
12) Wu Tang Clan
13) Cypress Hill
14) LiSA
15) Slipknot
16) Black Sabbath
17) Ces Cru
18) The Pretty Reckless
19) Ikimonogakari
20) Icon For Hire
My thumbprint radio station is all over the place. It'll go from modern metal to old school hip hop to pop rock and suddenly it's an anime opening. So what's in your playlist?
Pandora? :-|
My Spotify 'On Repeat' playlist has:
Destroyer - Static-X
Words As Weapons - Seether
Sun Doesn't Rise - Mushroomhead
Dragula - Rob Zombie
Push It - Static-X
FMLYHM - Seether
Brainiac - Chevelle
Pushing Through - Mudvayne
Spookshow Baby - Rob Zombie
Haunted - Disturbed
Trouble - Cage The Elephant
Uneasy Hearts Weigh The Most - Dance Gavin Dance
Come Out and Play - The Offspring
Light - KMFDM
Not Falling - Mudvayne
Poem - Taproot
Cold - Static-X
Figure.09 - Linkin Park
Remedy - Seether
Bring Me To Life - Evanescence
Lit Up - Buckcherry
The Last Time - All That Remains
World So Cold - Mudvayne
Intoxication - Disturbed
Nobody's Listening - Linkin Park
Bad Apple!!- English Remaster - RichaadEB, Christina Vee
You're Going Down - Sick Puppies
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
Bullet With a Name - Nonpoint
Well, I guess I've gone back in time by about 10-15 years. Who know I was so musically nostalgic recently?
I'm typing a bunch of stuff that doesn't actually have anything to do with anything because the spell checker wrecked me pretty hard. Is this enough?
Spoiler alert: it wasn't enough. So here is some more. How much of the post needs to be approved by the dog gone mod-bot, anyway?
Still not enough. Maybe I should just remove the last 5 or so tracks, that would probably cut down on the misspelled content enough to slide past the algorithm.
DracoNub
July 27 10:19 PM EDT
Watched the Vans warped tour recently, brought back a lot of nostalgia. Jimmy eat World, 3rd Eye Blind, Papa roach. Was a blast watching them all perform again.
"Ignoring this advice and simply padding your post with extra words to get above the 0.2 threshold without an exceptionally good reason will result in a fine."
Get 'em, edy!
Nah, but for real, I love some of the names I saw on your list. The greatest mosh pit I've ever been involved in was to Mudvayne's 'Death Blooms' It was right after I had made my post as TheHatchetman, asking for female-fronted recs because I realized I had nearly 400 songs in my mp3 player (remember when those and limewire were a thing?) and only 3 were female-lead (two Evanescence and one Flyleaf song). DrAcO recommended the band that would become my favorite, to this day, in In This Moment. Looked up their tour schedule and they were coming to Soputh Florida soon, as a part of "Locofest", headlined by Mudvayne, Nonpoint, Hed PE, and In This Moment. I only went to the show because ITM was potentially becoming my favorite band (spoiler alert: they succeeded). A bunch of local bands and Indie groups I never heard of before (or since) opened for the first several hours, but the whole event was a vibe.
I remember a band from Texas called "In The Trench" being leagues above any of the other openers. I could've sworn they'd be massive by now (I literally can't find them via google, even if I narrow it down by knowing personal information about them) because their set was great. Their singer (who I won't name) bought drinks for underage me, my underage brother, and his underage girlfriend (not on some Diddy vibe, we were 19 and 20 in a 21+ state, and nobody made it wierd.) But wow am I getting sidetracked...
Anyways, there were 3 stages at the event. Main performances were alternating between the two main stages, and minor actors were given the third stage... Most festival goers were just shuffling back n forth between the two main stages (which were side by side). I did the same for most of the show until it was headliner time... I caught the Hed PE show at a peripheral glance because I was occupied, front row and center, watching a bunch of roadies set up the stage for In This Moment. I stood there with like 6 other people, in front of an empty stage as Hed PE put on an amazing set. Anyway, Maria blew me a kiss (back before she knew me by name. We're not exactly homies, but I've been to enough events that her and Chris both greet me by name when they come around.) because I was obnoxiously large, front and center, and wearing my "The Dream" Tshirt. I was just enjoying the moments until they ended with "Prayers", at which point I couldn't not join the mosh pit... After their set, Nonpoint took the next stage, and put on probably the greatest set I've seen in my life (close second to both ITM and Korn when they did the "Return of the Dreads" tour in 2016. After they finished their set, they just joined the crowd like no big deaL... I was in a garage band that practiced about 2.5-3 blocks away from the house they played out of. I heard them before they were anybody, and they had actually heard us (clear juxtaposition of talent differential. We weren't "terrible, but we weren't very good either, and hearing a "real band" kinda put things in perspective for us), I remember hanging out with Robb (their drummer) and trying to pretend I wasn't starstruck as Mudvayne began their set. We were all hyped for it. There were mosh pits and all, but I had had my fill of dominating them and was more interested in hanging out with one of my favorite bands. Then they started 'Death Blooms'... As soon as the first nine notes hit, I went into autopilot while the pit immediately swelled from about 12' to 50' in diameter. I immediately ripped all my merch off and wrapped it in my new ITM shirt, threw it at my brother's gf like "hold this please" and started wrecking house (for the record, at 19 when I went to the show, I was 6'6" and about 260 lbs)... I was launching bodies left and right, as I had done all day (because nature gave me a cheat code). I only wished I had a challenge. Then as dude is bridging the song ("I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming hooooooome!!!!!") I locked eyes with a dude I hadn't seen all day. Dude looked a little shorter than me, but twice as big around (Complete guess: 6'3", 300 lbs. Imagine The Incredible Hulk, but brown instead of green). With a melee all around us, we ignored everyone but each other, and immediately charged the other at full clip. On impact, I put everything I had into flinging this dude as hard as I could, and I honestly hope he did the same (because I was absolutely LAUNCHED. I went at least 7 feet before landing on my shoulders. Immediately, 3 people pulled me up and put me back on my feet, but buddy was gone. Part of me thinks he was an angel sent by the metal gods because I had been moshing, completely unchallenged, all day (in between hackeysack rounds)... Was kinda cursing being big, until someone "my own size" showed up.
Left that show with no voice, a pounding headache, and even though I'm double-jointed and can typically touch either elbow to the opposite shoulder behind my neck, I couldn't raise either arm over my head... Battered, bruised, and broken, it was the single most fun day of my life. I easily rank that day above my parents taking me to Disney World when I was 8, or when TheHatchetboy became TheHatchetman when I was 14... Meanwhile, I never would have made the effort to even go to that show (3 teenagers travelling 46 miles back in the days before Uber was quite the task) if not for DrAcO putting me on to greatness
@DrAcO, I saw Papa Roach last year. They were opening for Shinedown at the Hard Rock in Miami (with Spiritbox). I always loved that band and Jacoby's vibe. It was hilarious during their set, he demanded a mosh pit (knowing that casino venue rules explicitly prohibit that) and then proceeded to walk into the crowd, up and down the aisles, shaking hands and hugging people as they all played 'Between Angels and Insects'
I was semi-torn. As a metalhead rebel, I loved how he encouraged everyone wild out and ignore the venue rules as he drew 70+% of the security staff with him into seating while General Admission and standing room absolutely WENT OFF... But as a guy with several years of event security and bodyguard experience, it was like "bro, you're making their job so much harder!" Of course, in the moment, I was definitely leaning towards the first side xD
@se7en: Yup, Pandora. I've been there since Pit_Spawn introduced me to it, back when it was just an idea by some college kids for a class experiment called "the music genome project". It's actually pretty amazing for introducing you to artists you haven't realized you like yet. I prolly never would've checked out Halestorm or The Pretty Reckless if my In This Moment channel hadn't spammed them, and I never bothered to see who made those absolutely amazing tracks from the 'One Piece: Red' movie until Creepy Nuts dropped two absolute OST bangers for Dan Da Dan and Mashle s2. Made a Creepy Nuts station, and it turns out they ONLY know how to make bangers, but the station also plays a lot of other Jpop and whatnot. Heard "Tot Musica" one day, and my first thought was "Hey, that's Uta!" so I gave it a thumb up. Sudden;y I'm hearing more of her, and giving more thumbs. Turns out the artist goes by "Ado" and she's probably a top 5 vocalist of this generation. Every song is amazing, and her range seems limitless.
Fun fact: buy premium pandora with a prepaid card with nothing left on it. They'll try to charge the card for like a year before they cancel the premium. I have an ad that pops up when I first open the app, offering a free trial to premium (cuz I haven't had it for 15 months at this point). Once I close the ad, I get no commercials, no other interruptions, unlimited skips and repeats, and all the benefits of premium. Meanwhile for the several years I've had Pandora premium, I've only paid for several months.
Excited to see Wu-Tang Clan in 6 weeks. Then found out they have BTNH opening for them!!! Gonna be such a good time. Tour is called 'The Final Chamber' and lawn tickets are $36. I doubt that's a coincidence. I've learned from experience that regular seating tickets are not worth the money or the experience... You either gotta go VIP with a meet n greet, or go general admission and be able to freely mingle with little-to-no security interference.
Budget was tight, so I could only afford regular seating tickets for my sister's birthday when I took her and her oldest son to see Shinedown (her favorite band) with Papa Roach (his favorite band) and Spiritbox opening for them. I had to teach my nephew about mosh pits from a distance like a national geographic documentary like "watch that guy, Chris. BOOM! see how he got rocked?! Now everyone in the immediate area makes it their personal responsibility to ensure he reaches his feet again safely." I felt like Nigel Thornberry up in that [lady dog]... "Smashing!" I'd say, in my precarious seating, unable to responsibly hit anyone... It was so mentally distressing to me that I actually tried doing the math on the odds of me being able to jump down from seating into floor GA (~25-28 feet) and being able to get up and throw people (my math said it was about 10 years past being worth the attempt).
Fun sidenote: All of the bands performed spectacularly. Papa Roach, despite being an "opening act" did way better. I also have split feelings about a part of their set. Jacoby (their singer) decided to rile the crowd up, and demand a mosh pit (at the Hard Rock Casino, where such behavior is EXPLICITLY not allowed) before playing 'Between Angels and Insects'... Security gets all on high alert, because it's their job. As the music starts, Jacoby starts walking off stage, and into the crowd. By the first chorus, he's literally being carried by the audience, with both legs and one arm in the air as the other arm holds the mic to his face. 90% of security is following him like "idk what to do here" and the other 10% is hopelessly outnumbered as several hundred people in the floor GA are absolutely going off. If they try to intervene, they're now part of the pit... The metalhead in me was cheering them on. The part of me with a decade of experience in event security was like "Dawg, what the [hell]?"
Seating was a huge mistake... I should have either found and spent $400 more to get us into floor GA, or spent $90 less to get into upper-level GA
The first concert I ever went to was a Nickelback concert, they were opened by Daughtry and Staind played a set in between them. It was alright, but we were seated in, like, the furthest possible corner of the audience, in the bleachers, the bands all looked like straight up ants.
I liked the music, I was excited because it was still my first concert, but man was I wishing I could've got closer. Staind performed their set without any hub bub, came to stage after their roadies were finished, rocked their tushes off, said "thank you," and walked off without any further words.
I appreciated the brevity.