Stick It Up Your... Nose

To start this off I will mention that I now rip songs onto my computer using a different service. Up to a few days ago I used Roxio. But, I grew tired of it and I mainly used Nero to make burned CD's or DVD's of videos/data. So I uninstalled Roxio… before thinking about what I would use to rip songs onto my computer.

But, I realized that Windows Media Player, which I of course have, has the option of ripping music. So, I tried that and that's what I should have been using all along. I mean, more often than not it'll recognize the song, artist, and album that is being ripped, which is handy in various ways, including putting stuff on your hard drive so that you can play it in Audiosurf. Trust me on this.

Anyway, with that out of the way… I was inspired to upload this tune after I heard a rumor somewhere that a music producer for Queen had passed away. However, using resources such as this, it seems to be untrue. When I heard that tidbit, I wondered if it was Roy Thomas Baker, a producer of many artists and albums who arguably had the most success with the group led by Freddie Mercury. Thankfully he's still alive and kicking.

This leads into how The Darkness used him on the album One Way Ticket to Hell… and Back, their second (and last) album. Now, I thought they were a pretty kickass band that were a throwback to awesome 70's acts, with the novelty of a high-pitched frontman. Well, most Internet opinions seemed to suggest that The Darkness were one of the worst bands of all time! I never found out just why these assclowns thought this way. Then again, most of those fools seemed to like douche-y music, so… that's why I didn't pay much attention to those people, if their tastes were so terrible that they'd support awful music such as that.

I'm sure many of you have heard I Believe in a Thing Called Love, but I'm sure you haven't heard anything from their second album. I'll introduce you to the lead track from the album, called One Way Ticket. It starts off with a one minute section where you have what sounds like Gregorian chants, a sitar, pipes, and other "mystical" shit. Then, you hear someone snorting a like, making it obvious what the tune's about; Justin Hawkins singing about it is awfully ironic, considering his usage of that drug led to the band dissolving! Yep, the white powder. After that, the song rocks out real awesomely. This is the type of stuff I wish would have been on the rock stations instead of the aforementioned douche-y music.

The Darkness-One Way Ticket (6.08 MB, 192Kbits/second)

I'll be back around this time next week.