The Vegas Quintet

To the many artists who made the 5 hour car ride home from this weekends Vegas NBA All Star-weekend, i tip my hat to you! This is a blog in so many words to thank you for keeping my sanity! Its also a blog to tip the hat to the fact that i found another place to finalize my words on a public site that will hopefully gain some attention. And last but not least to show someone who shall remain nameless that there is a band out there that actually thanks radiohead publicly for the inspiration of their music!
Whether you like Radiohead or not is your own thing, but say what you will and Radiohead will still be by far one of the best British bands that has lead the way for 90's and now generation of rebellious quasi electronic rock. Now at this point you are probably wondering which band in their right mind could say that the formed a band in the light of these 80's Cure/ New Order wanna Be's.......
And that band would have to be.......none other than........Muse
That's right folks. The band that brought you such sounds as Sing for Absolution and others gives thanks to Radiohead for the inspiration behind lyrics and music! AWESOME.......I now consider this case SOLVED!
Now to the Countdown of Las Vegas Sanity
1.) Gymclass Heros - Papercut Chonicles
Any band who can be original enough to write lyrics around any and every relationship, that has either lasted and failed, or had a humorous outcome and then failed and had the balls to sing it to the public has my up most respect. There are very few bands out there who can have such originality to do so and still be somewhat popular.
2.) T.V on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
This c.d. and/ or band was described to me as nothing but a bunch of no talent garage band members who had no idea what talent of music was. In all actuality, i find that once you give them a chance that a lot of the music beyond the crazy lyrics are actually no that bad. You have to give them credit that they have a lot of faith in the public to put out something so different sounding, when a large mass of the populous is accustom to the same sounding loop over chords every other band plays!
3.) Radiohead- Hail to the Thief
What can be said about Radiohead that i haven't already said in previous above paragraphs, other than the fact that HttT had to be one of the better sounding cd's they put out since Kid A. Now a lot of critics said that this album(Kid A) was rather crazy and quite remnant of past 80' sounding punk bands....whether that's true or not...i don't know....don't really care, but that's that !
4.) 311 - Grassroots
A(n) much older cd from the 311 catalog, this album seems to bring back so many memories of high school events. So many from the times of Friday night away football games and the bus rides with the guys (Sanjay and Shane). Good time and GREAT music, which most would say if this sophomoric album would have been heard by more than a handful: "probably one of the greatest they've made so far!''
5.) Silversun Pickups- Lazyeye
Whilst i have not heard the entire cd, i have to say that this song as particularly caught my undivided attention for the pure fact that they just may be the best new (publicly mtv introduced) band of 2007. The fact that the song starts out rather mellow and then picks up to a fast paced tempo, only to slow back down makes me rather amped!. This is the first band i think i can happily say can take a mellow song....start to scream...then calm it down, that can keep my attention and make me enjoy their music. That and the video is not that shabby while still keeping the low key aspect of the band!
AWESOME!