Bayside Gets Snubbed!

On this page - https://loudwire.com/trivium-matt-heafy-pop-punk-past-covers-blink-182-dammit-anthony-vincent - there is a section called 50 Greatest Pop-Punk Albums of All-Time and to say I'm disappointed is an understatement. Why? No Bayside album is included, not even their Sirens & Condolences, their debut. It's true that other pop-punk bands I like are excluded - Bigwig? Count the Stars? Somehow Hollow? Spitalfield? - but none of those bands have really made any actual impact on the pop-punk landscape. The albums I have listened to are in bold/italic.

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1. No Use For a Name, 'Leche Con Carne' (1995)
2. Lagwagon, 'Duh' (1992)
3. Millencolin, 'Life on a Plate' (1995)
4. Screeching Weasel, 'Boogadaboogadaboogada!' (1988)
5. The Queers, 'Don't Back Down' (1996)
6. Slick Shoes, 'Wake Up Screaming' (2000)
7. Rufio, 'Perhaps, I Suppose' (2001)
8. Brand New, 'Deja Entendu' (2003)
9. All Time Low, 'Nothing Personal' (2009)
10. Taking Back Sunday, 'Tell All Your Friends'
11. Less Than Jake, 'Hello Rockview' (1998)
12. Man Overboard, 'Man Overboard' (2011)
13. Knuckle Puck, 'Copacetic' (2015)
14. Set Your Goals, 'This Will Be the Death Of Us' (2009)
15. State Champs, 'Finer Things' (2013)
16. The Bouncing Souls, 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation' (2001)
17. The Story So Far, 'What You Don't See' (2013)
18. Neck Deep, 'Life's Not Out To Get You' (2015)
19. The Wonder Years, 'Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing' (2011)
20. The Academy Is..., 'Almost Here' (2005)
21. Cartel, 'Chroma' (2005)
22. The All-American Rejects, 'Move Along' (2005)
23. All Time Low, 'So Wrong. It's Right' (2007)
24. Descendents, 'Everything Sucks' (1996)
25. Acceptance, 'Phantoms' (2005)
26. Motion City Soundtrack, 'Commit This to Memory' (2005)
27. Blink-182, 'Take Off Your Pants and Jacket' (2001)
28. Say Anything, '...Is a Real Boy' (2004)
29. Fall Out Boy, 'Take This to Your Grave' (2003)
30. Something Corporate, 'Leaving Through the Window' (2002)
31. New Found Glory, 'Sticks and Stones' (2002)
32. Yellowcard, 'Ocean Avenue' (2003)
33. Good Charlotte, 'The Young and the Hopeless' (2002)
34. Blink-182, 'Dude Ranch' (1997)
35. Sum 41, 'Does This Look Infected?' (2002)
36. MxPx, 'Life in General' (1996)
37. Alkaline Trio, 'From Here to Infirmary' (2001)
38. A Day to Remember, 'Homesick' (2009)
39. Midtown, 'Living Well Is the Best Revenge' (2002)
40. Green Day, 'American Idiot' (2004)
41. Saves the Day, 'Through Being Cool' (1999)
42. The Starting Line, 'Say It Like You Mean It' (2002)
43. Jimmy Eat World, 'Bleed American' (2001)
44. Paramore, 'Riot' (2007)
45. New Found Glory, 'New Found Glory' (2000)
46. Sum 41, 'All Killer No Filler' (2001)
47. Fall Out Boy, 'From Under the Cork Tree' (2005)
48. Descendents, 'Milo Goes to College' (1982)
49. Blink-182, 'Enema of the State' (1999)
50. Green Day, 'Dookie' (1994)

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Somehow Hollow and Others

Why the hell do all the good bands break up?!? Like this style of music better than Metallica on most days.

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36 Crazy Fist is coming out with a new DVD. Here's the lead-off track on their CD:

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I went in search of a Megadeth video and found a drummer playing along to "Symphony of Destruction." Turns out he's in a band called "Black Metal Box." Kick BUTT!!

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This is the first time I saw the drummer.

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Here's some Dead Horse Trauma!!!!

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Call it a Wrapper

The end of 2008 is upon me like a wet blanket.

This year was pretty good for me. There were a lot of ups and downs. One of the ups was seeing Rush in May. That rocked. Another up was getting some extra freelance moonlighting technical writing assignments. I am uncertain if they will be repeat customers but I hope they will be in 2009. I also got to mow the neighbor's yard. Of course, one of the downs is that all that extra $ was used for one thing or another. It doesn't really matter. Another sad thing is the disappointing losses Alex's Dudes basketball team went through.

Musically, I am still entrenched in Somehow Hollow, Spitalfield, Ten Foot Pole, and Metallica. Count the Stars also got a lot of listens. I liked the new Offspring and the new Puddle of Mudd. I liked the new Bayside release and I also liked Death Cab for Cutie. I also got a Who DVD and listened to more of their material than I ever have before. I'm not rushing out to buy their releases, but I probably have a deeper understanding as to why Keith Moon is considered such a legendary drummer. On the opposite end, I heard a lot of crappy death bands that couldn't play a decent riff if they were taught it.

2009 looks to be a good year for me. I am hopeful that I will continue to be happy at work and make good decisions there. I am hopeful that I will actually get to do some tech writing the first week of January. I have about 8 weeks stockpiled up and I think my next cut is going to be early February so there's not a lot of time to do a lot of things. I just have to make the best of it.

So with that, and a glasses prescription to be filled tomorrow, I bid farewell to 2008. No crazy plans tomorrow night, which is kind of strange.

Best website of the year still is: http://www.freearcade.com/SuperCrazyGuitarManiacDeluxe3.flash/SuperCrazyGuitarManiacDeluxe3.html