Can't Stop

I was going through MLB players walk up songs the other day and I ended up watching the music video for Can't Stop by The Red Hot Chili Peppers. They're pretty awesome. They're so high energy and their music rocks. The music videos are weird, but not so weird that it's annoying to watch. My cousin kinda tried to turn me on to them when I was in middle school, but at that point he was a High Schooler and I wasn't ready for the music of the Peppers. I think I've matured enough by this point to truly enjoy them. Unfortunately, my cousin moved on and is no longer much of a Chili Peppers fan. He's now a DJ of the Regis College Radio station in Denver and listens to the most absolutely indie hipster music possible. He's still a cool dude though. He's studying to be a neurosurgeon and works in a coffee shop/bike repair shop/ yoga studio. 

Grey Album

This one is a mixed blog for me. Half class half social. My friends love listening to really shitty, beat heavy, ghetto rap that only appeals to wannabes and white kids. I don't like that as much. I prefer listening to good music if I'm going to listen to music at all. The Grey Album excites me because it's a mix of some good old melodic rock, and some pretty tolerable rap. I liked the few songs we listened to. I've listened to some of Girltalk's mashups and some of those are pretty gnarly. I think mashups may be the key to my party music problem. 

Led Zepplin

Led Zepplin is a weird one for me. They've got some songs I love, and I can sing along to a lot of it, but I never go out of my way to listen to them. I stop flipping through channels when I find them on the radio, but I never turn it up. It's a relationship I have with no other band. I also think my favorite song is one that isn't considered essential Zepplin or in their usual style (I know they experiment a lot). Hey Hey What Can I Do is my favorite, but they don't have many other songs that sound anything like that. This is really causing me internal conflict even as I write this. 

Road Tripping with a few of my favorite friends

We aren't listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers, but the looming 120 minute ride to Tuleta (BFE), Tx got me thinking about the best road trip music. I think it's very dependent on your location, but I think it's safe to say if you're in Texas at any point, your number one band to listen to has to be ZZ Top. ZZ Top isn't always the easiest to listen to, but it's gonna keep you awake and keep your blood flowing. ZZ Top is also some essential Texan tunage. Speaking of tunage, as REO Speedwagon said "You can tune a guitar but you can't tuna fish". I think if I ever try drugs that'll be something I think about for a long time. Speaking of REO Speedwagon, Golden Country is one of my favorite pregame baseball songs. Pretty politically charged, but a great song.