Top 5 Excuses
- The discovery/exploration of a secret underground tunnel
- 6 day Heroin binge
- Grease Party + Fifty Pound Rooster
- Obama's Elitism
- Writing/releasing a full length Rock Opera entitled One on One Against the World, Left-Handed: The Basketball Jones Story
Also, today we're going to try something different: a combo Dime. We're doing a Top 5 awesome beers SLASH Top 5 shitty beers. See, when you make the rules, you can bend them as such.
Bennett's Top5 Awesome/Shitty Beer
- Guinness
- Yuengling
- Sea Dog Blue Paw Wild Blueberry Wheat Ale
- Fat Tire Mothership Wit
- Sam Adams Cherry Wheat
- Schlitz
- Gulden Draak
- Pabst Blue Ribbon
- Beer 30
- Natty Ice (Chad bro.... chiiiiiillll)
- Guinness
- Sea Dog Blue Paw Wild Blueberry Wheat Ale
- Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat
- Newcastle
- Red Stripe
- A Le Coq Imperial Extra Double Stout
- Milwaukee's Best
- Schmidts
- Colt 45
- Star
- Newcastle Brown
- Young's Double Chocolate Stout
- Pabst Blue Ribbon
- Warsteiner
- Lindeman's Framboise Lambic
- Busch Light (Dubuque water)
- Olde English 800
- Pabst Blue Ribbon
- Beer 30
- Natural Ice
3 comments:
I wasn't sure exactly where to post this, but I thought of this when I read it
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/17793/the-ten-most-annoying-singers
and was fairly interested to hear bennett's take
I'll copy in the list for everyone's sake. Then I'll comment on the one's I have something to say about.
Top 10 Most Annoying Singers:
10) Celine Dion (Agree)
9) John Mayer
He said: Young people are impressionable. I'm not sure where John Mayer learned his vocal craft. I hesitate to call it singing. It's more like whimpering. And for some reason, this has become a trend not stopping anytime soon. As you'll sadly learn as we go further down this list.
I say: I like where John's voice has been going (check out Continuum or the John Mayer Trio). He's finally getting out of the boy pop market and into something you can tell he really enjoys. I fully support his move to a bluesier sound, voice and all.
8) Conor Oberst
He said: As the wunderkind who leads Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst was given a certain amount of leeway since he was a young teen when he started out and his precious singing--so sensitive and intimate you could hear the post-nasal drip--was mistaken as precocious. Well, he's in his 20s now and he still sounds like he's swimming back to the womb for protection from this hard, harsh world. Come on buddy, stand up straight and stop trying to imitate the Cure's Robert Smith. He got there first. And even he must know he sounds a little silly.
I say: I mostly agree. Conor's voice is an acquired taste. Some are predisposed to enjoying it, others not. I would throw him in the list of others with similar vocal characteristics like Tom Waits and Bob Dylan. Curiously enough, the author admits to leaving out Dylan because "Hey, I like Bob Dylan's voice and kept him off this list because I could!" Just saying...
7) Lily Allen
6) Devendra Banhart / Tiny Tim
5) James Blunt: This was complimentary music for our Bose system at the Hay Adams. Not my thing but tolerable.
4) Frankie Valli..
3) Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins)
They said: Yes, despite all his rage he's still just a rat in a cage. Unfortunately, that cage came with a microphone for him to transmit his Smashing Pumpkins hits to a helpless, hapless world at large. While Billy could orchestrate grand walls of guitar and write albums of endless tuneage, he insisted on singing it himself. Except this is not singing in any conventional sense, but rather the sound of a petulant, whiny child. This is what happens when parents don't tell their kids to shut up often enough. Children need to know you don't like them.
I say: this reviewer is lazy. I would venture to guess that he's about 29 and never developed past his grungey pretentiousness. With that said, I don't particularly like or dislike Billy's voice. I know I'm not a fan of singing it on Rock Band. That Cherub Rock is a bitch.
2) Scott Stapp (Creed): anytime anyone has anything bad to say about Creed, I'm all for it.
1) Michael Bolton
I listened to fevers and mirrors last night while I baked cookies. It was great to watch Andrew as different songs would come on. That end "interview" gets me laughing out loud pretty much everytime. I don't know that it's meant to invoke outright laughter but I try to picture connor there. Good times. I do agree bright eyes i aquired but this isn't about "aquired" champaigne is considered an aquired taste I think it tastes like rancid ass but I don't know that I could include it on a list of the 10 most annoying flavored things. I guess annoying or not I like basically all bands on that list (I own "The Power of Celine" - eat me) I will roll with him on Tiny Tim (although I do have tip toe through the tulips) and Michael Bolton. Now my list would have included AT LEAST one 1960's country singer - probably one that I have on alubum... Conway twitty maybe?
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