cheerful cynicism

Reggae ghosts. Emphasis on beats 2 and 4, creepy backing vocals, and classic horror instruments (be it organ or harpsichord). "Ghost To...

I know y'all couldn't get enough of the late 60s early 70s rock flute movement videos I posted earlier . Here's one more. This i...

A case study to bring back the rock flute. Much like everything else that was good in fashion, film, and ethics, the 80s swept away the rock...

FIRE! While I do have a propensity for the pyrotechnic, fire doesn't always make for good lyrics. Or maybe they really are the best lyri...

Weird chord progressions and crazy lyrics. Sometimes I don't know whether I hate or love a band because they're just so weird. Maybe...

Nothing makes me giggle in delight more than a song that decides to take it up or down a notch with a key change at the last minute. I know ...

Tone it down and build it up. A surefire way to make any song way more exciting: drop out some instruments, either in volume or entirely, an...

Rock and the spoken word. I'm a fan of random words inserted in songs. It's haunting and confusing all at once. "Us and Them...

Why leave on really awesome song alone when I can tack on a clearly inferior second half? Do you ever listen to songs and love them, but th...

90s R&B never goes out of style . It's nice to know that emo is carrying to torch of drum machines and synth. Wait, they're actu...

Let's hear it from the kids. The addition of children into a song can either be creepy or endearing. Those are the only two results. ...

Let me negate your great instrumentals with my voice. Some people's voices inexplicably drive me crazy, as in make me want to drive a kn...

Stealing girls from guys. It's a well documented fact that the presence of a guitar instantly makes a guy 7x more attractive than withou...

I'll show you how I hard rock with my double bass pedal and screaming vocals. Thrash metal reached its heyday in the early 90s, and yet ...

Vanilla flavored rock. You know the bands. They get a lot of air play, have a lot of fans, but you have no idea why. They don't rock har...

Saturday night! Rock music has long held that Saturday night is the night that things happen and is really fun. In reality, it's a night...

The not-live live video. It's time for another video analysis comparison. While most music videos show a band playing "live," ...

Amount of hair proportionate to the rocking. Rock 'n' roll has had a long history of long/huge hair that somehow got lost in the 90s...

Boys and girls together . It's too bad there aren't more bands that have guys and girls together because I love the combination of m...

I'm totally going to get a girl with this song. Since the dawn of music (probably), men having been writing songs for the ladies. The mo...