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Song of the Week – Foreclosure of a Dream
I am talking a trip down memory lane with this week’s Song of the Week. Foreclosure of a Dream comes off Megadeth’s Countdown to Extinction album; a classic regarded as one of their best. Recently, it passed the 20 year mark and it held up quite well over the years. I also find it interesting that a song written 20+ years ago still applies today…says something about the state of our nation. Though I don’t think it is as bad as some people make it out to be, I do not wish foreclosure on my worst enemy; maybe a tornado, but not a foreclosure. All joking aside, this is a great Megadeth song with one of Megadeth’s strongest lineups ever (other than the current one). I bid you a great day with this Song of the week.
Monday Metal Madness – Grammy Nominations 2012
Last year, for the 2011 Grammy Awards (click here for our 2011 poll), there were some cool deserving bands nominated for an award. Dream Theater received their first nomination and Mastodon and Megadeth were also nominated. However, it was Foo Fighters who swept anything and everything related to Rock/Metal. Nothing bad on them, they deserve to be awarded for their work, they are a great band. But, it’s painfully obvious that the Grammy Committee is still unable to draw the line between Rock, Hard Rock, and Metal. They need to separate these categories completely. Incidentally, A Metal State of Mind voters wanted Dream Theater to win.
Video of the Week – Good Mourning/Black Friday
For those in America, today is affectionately known as Black Friday…the biggest shopping day of the year. Personally, I went to one Black Friday early bird event several years ago and it was absolute insanity. I vowed never to do it again. Today we went to Target for some necessities and it was well past the morning surge. It was still pretty crazy and quite stressful. One thing that upset me the most is that one thing I wanted to buy for my kids was sold out. Come to find, they only had 3 or 4 of those items anyway. They draw you in with the sales, but if you aren’t int he door at the butt-crack of dawn, you will miss out.
What does Megadeth’s Good Mourning/Black Friday have to do with this stressful American shopping day? Nothing. I just like the title and thought it would make for an appropriate Video of the Week even though it is just live footage. Below that, you can see some post-Thanksgiving shopping madness if you have never seen it before. And it doesn’t paint a pretty picture of this American (kind of) tradition.
Here are some actual Black Friday festivities caught on tape.
Reggie’s Top 100 Favorite Albums of All Time #5-1
It’s over! Here are my last five in the long journey of my Top 100 Favorite Albums of all time. As much as I look at my list I don’t think I would change anything for some time to come. If you have been following along, you know that a bunch of us at The History of Metal on facebook have been sharing our favorite albums over the course of several months. Some of us are complete while others joined in fairly recently. So, we are all still sharing. If you are new to this, it’s never too late to throw down your favorite albums. Enjoy!
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Reggie’s Top 100 Favorite Albums of All Time #10-6
As we journey down the path to my number 1 favorite album of all time, we have finally breached the top 10. From here on out, you will likely see more and more classic metal albums appearing on the list except for one or two that are relatively new (to me) compared to the rest. This all-time list is an ongoing effort started by our friends at The History of Metal page on facebook. Each day we list another album until we get to the end. Below is my next list of five as we near our way to #1. Enjoy!
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Reggie’s Top 100 Favorite Albums of All Time #20-16
As we journey down the path to my number 1 favorite album of all time, we have finally breached the top 20. From here on out, you will likely see more and more classic metal albums appearing on the list except for one or two that are relatively new (to me) compared to the rest. This all-time list is an ongoing effort started by our friends at The History of Metal page on facebook. Each day we list another album until we get to the end which should take us close to the end of the year. Below is my next list of five as we near our way to #1. Enjoy!
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Theme Thursday – Concert DVDs
Personally, I am huge fan of a live show. I love the energy, the performance, the roar of the crowd, and most importantly the decibel level of my favorite songs being played by talented metal musicians. I like being in a crowd of peers; people who have at least one big thing in common with me…the band! I like looking at all the band shirts and sparking up conversation about the shirt you are wearing. It is all well worth going to work the next day red-eyed and ears ringing. The only bad thing about a live show is that the things I love about them rarely translate well to film. Some concerts have serious production value which is always cool, but in the end a DVD/Blu-Ray concert just does not do a show complete justice. Does that stop me from buying them? Hell no, it’s the next best thing to being at the show. The theme this week is about some concert DVDs that I think are so well made that, if you are a fan of the band, these are must buys.
