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Rewind the week, with songs featured in TSB Sound Like

I’m sure you know…visit the bands pages on Garageband.com and purchase any CD’s you would like!

There is not much to say, but listen to this disc on AOL before you buy it. Korn “See you on the otherside”, They blow there load on “Twisted Transistor” and the next song they TRY to sing with harmony. I don’t know if they are trying to do a System of the Down thing but…
they didn’t do it!
I forgot I was supposed to be reviewing this disc and listening intently. Instead it became white noise and I was surfing all over…I even got up to eat dinner!
If you buy this disc you will be disappointed!

Beck Offers Unreleased Music Online

[ via Pitchforkmedia.com ]

James Gregory reports:
Dancefloor Scientologist Beck is ending 2005 with a bang, ensuring his dominance of the usually quiet December music news headlines. Of most interest to fans is the revamping of his website, the highlight of which is an exclusive musical housewarming gift. A stop by the “Discobox” section of Beck.com yields a quartet of unreleased tracks: “Untitled Song 2″, “Sorrow”, “Premonition”, and “Day for Night”.

The online fun doesn’t stop there, as the site is also showing Beck’s latest video, “Hell Yes”, which features extremely cool, extremely creepy robots.

Your inner Geek will thank you if you visit the Beck site. I checked out the songs, I wished he would have released them, very original and eclectic sound, everything you would expect from Beck. That is why I have been a fan. Not a psycho fan because I didn’t not know he had Cd releases as far back as 1993.

The Darkness, a band you will love or hate. I personally love the band. Their new release “One Way Ticket to Hell…And Back” rocks!. The Darkness reminds me of all the big hair, glam rock bands of the 80’s and 90’s. Some of those old bastards are still hanging on to their “stage”, Bret Micheals [ Bret shot at…MTV.com ] of Poison and Jon Bon Jovi of (of course) Bon Jovi [ Surprise Entry on Country Charts…AOL Music ].

So yeah, they remind me of glam rockers but that doesn’t mean they suck! like glam rockers. Actually, their sound is very ecletic and infectious with head banging riffs and solo’s. Sure they’re like the classic ballads, but the lyrics remind me of quirky bands like Weezer.

A power ballad about cafeteria workers’ wobbly appendages? A five-and-a-half minute hair metal melange? An anti-cocaine glam rock anthem? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s all included in your “One Way Ticket to Hell … And Back,” the sophomore CD from The Darkness, a ragtag band of English lads who throw light on irony with the rockstar flash of Queen and multifaceted panache of Led Zeppelin.
[ Review: the Darkness’ ‘One Way Ticket …’ 11/28/2005 12:08 PM, AP Derrik J. Lang ] [ Yahoo! Music ]

So if the glam rockers of the 80’s would have expanded their talents from power chords and porn chicks rubbin poles, The Darkness would be it. So, have I got you hooked? That is why I stick by my statement “The Darkness, a band you will love or hate” holds true. When you describe them, they sound lame. I thought this when I heard about “One Way Ticket” because I had down loaded what ever I could when I first heard their song “I believe in a thing called love” and I thought they were a one hit joke. But that is what a close minded person would do. Instead I went to AOL Music and listened to the whole disc. This is my third time in the two days since it’s release, and I still rock with it.

Read another opinion.

Darkness More Concerned About Hair Loss Than Coldplay, James Blunt

Flamboyant band addresses male-pattern baldness on new LP, denies tabloid rumors.
[ by James Montgomery ] [ via VH1.com ]

TSB Sounds Like

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15 Tickets to Live : “Growing Up is Hard (But it’s not that bad)”
Disposition of : “Breathe” or “Broken Future”
7″ Rockers : “Seventeen”
Crush : “Make Me Feel (Alive)”