Sadchild's "high fives" (every artist I like at least five songs from)
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I have songs from about 2,600 artists, but yep this has been everyone I like 5 of more songs from!
IdRatherBeSkiing
Sherbet is NOT and NEVER WILL BE ice cream.
Lowering one's standards will fix almost any situation.
With 2022 behind us, some artists are ready to join the high five club!
A Day To Remember
Genre: metalcore meets pop punk (but in a very bipolar kind of way)
Discovered: Looking for new music while writing a weekly music column for 411mania.com
Other: One moment they're heavy as hell, the next moment it's danceable rock to clap along to. They're all over the place in pretty much every song. Oh, and these guys sued their record label and won, walking away with $4 million!
HIGH FIVE:
1. The Downfall Of Us All
2. Last Chance To Dance
3. Right Back At It Again
4. Mindreader
5. Paranoia
A Day To Remember
Genre: metalcore meets pop punk (but in a very bipolar kind of way)
Discovered: Looking for new music while writing a weekly music column for 411mania.com
Other: One moment they're heavy as hell, the next moment it's danceable rock to clap along to. They're all over the place in pretty much every song. Oh, and these guys sued their record label and won, walking away with $4 million!
HIGH FIVE:
1. The Downfall Of Us All
2. Last Chance To Dance
3. Right Back At It Again
4. Mindreader
5. Paranoia
Crobot
Genre: 'dirty groove rock' (their own label) 'heavy stoner rock' (my label).
Discovered: don't remember how, but it was early 2015.
Other: Kinda like Soundgarden, Wolfmother, etc.
1. Low Life
2. Electrified
3. Keep Me Down
4. Kiss It Goodbye
5. Night Of The Sacrifice
Genre: 'dirty groove rock' (their own label) 'heavy stoner rock' (my label).
Discovered: don't remember how, but it was early 2015.
Other: Kinda like Soundgarden, Wolfmother, etc.
1. Low Life
2. Electrified
3. Keep Me Down
4. Kiss It Goodbye
5. Night Of The Sacrifice
Architects
Genre: metalcore/post-hardcore
Discovered: don't remember how, but it was early 2021.
Other: Not much to say except that I dig them.
HIGH FIVE:
1. When We Were Young
2. Meteor
3. Little Wonder
4. Tear Gas
5. Black Lungs
Crobot
Genre: 'dirty groove rock' (their own label) 'heavy stoner rock' (my label).
Discovered: don't remember how, but it was early 2015.
Other: Kinda like Soundgarden, Wolfmother, etc.
1. Low Life
2. Electrified
3. Keep Me Down
4. Kiss It Goodbye
5. Night Of The Sacrifice
Good tune.
And both of them are playing Reverend Guitars.
Architects
Genre: metalcore/post-hardcore
Discovered: don't remember how, but it was early 2021.
Other: Not much to say except that I dig them.
HIGH FIVE:
1. When We Were Young
2. Meteor
3. Little Wonder
4. Tear Gas
5. Black Lungs
Now here's a conundrum. If one of THESE guys died, would they be allowed in the CDT?
Julian Lennon
Genre: pop rock, A/C
Discovered: probably "Too Late" on MTV.
Other: I've liked the four songs below for a long time (forgot about #2 & #4 for a couple decades then rediscovered them). Just last year he released his first new album in over a decade and the lead single is pretty good (#5 below).
1. Too Late For Goodbyes
2. Say You're Wrong
3. Valotte
4. Stick Around
5. Lucky Ones
Genre: pop rock, A/C
Discovered: probably "Too Late" on MTV.
Other: I've liked the four songs below for a long time (forgot about #2 & #4 for a couple decades then rediscovered them). Just last year he released his first new album in over a decade and the lead single is pretty good (#5 below).
1. Too Late For Goodbyes
2. Say You're Wrong
3. Valotte
4. Stick Around
5. Lucky Ones
Logic
Genre: hip hop
Discovered: probably because he did a song with Eminem, which made me want to check it out
Other: He somehow makes geek cool
1. Homicide (with Eminem)
2. Bleed It
3. Perfect
4. Paradise II (with Norah Jones)
5. Wake Up
Genre: hip hop
Discovered: probably because he did a song with Eminem, which made me want to check it out
Other: He somehow makes geek cool
1. Homicide (with Eminem)
2. Bleed It
3. Perfect
4. Paradise II (with Norah Jones)
5. Wake Up
Monster Truck
Genre: heavy southern rock
Discovered: don't remember but it was the #1 song below in 2013.
Other: Like Skynyrd on steroids. My band's new guitarist likes this band, and a bunch of other bands with this sound. Heavy rock with a groove (and side of grits).
1. Sweet Mountain River
2. Golden Woman
3. Don't Tell Me How To Live
4. Old Train
5. For The People
Genre: heavy southern rock
Discovered: don't remember but it was the #1 song below in 2013.
Other: Like Skynyrd on steroids. My band's new guitarist likes this band, and a bunch of other bands with this sound. Heavy rock with a groove (and side of grits).
1. Sweet Mountain River
2. Golden Woman
3. Don't Tell Me How To Live
4. Old Train
5. For The People
Saliva
Genre: heavy rock
Discovered: probably FM
Other: #1, #3 and #5 are from their major label debut (2001). The others are from 2013 and 2021. There's a lot of stuff from them I don't care about from 2002-2022.
1. Click Click Boom
2. Crows
3. Superstar
4. In It To Win It
5. Your Disease
Genre: heavy rock
Discovered: probably FM
Other: #1, #3 and #5 are from their major label debut (2001). The others are from 2013 and 2021. There's a lot of stuff from them I don't care about from 2002-2022.
1. Click Click Boom
2. Crows
3. Superstar
4. In It To Win It
5. Your Disease
Spiritbox
Genre: post-metal (intense, but experimental with elements of ambient/prog/etc)
Discovered: don't remember how but it was summer 2021.
Other: The #1 below is the least heavy, and has no metal-growl-scream vox (most radio friendly). Also, never a good idea for a husband and wife to be in the same band:
When Courtney LaPlante and husband Michael Stringer were finally given the time and space to form the band of their dreams, they had more disagreements than their years of marriage combined. What should the artwork look like? Fire or flowers? Black or blue? Working through those nitty-gritties felt much like marriage therapy, or even parenting for the first time. "We disagreed on so much," LaPlante reflects, "I'm talking, like, the color of the corner of a piece of artwork. All of the little things." While fundamentally aligned on all the big-picture stuff, LaPlante and Stringer weren't prepared for all the hours spent bickering over color palettes on Photoshop that were in store for them.
1. The Summit
2. Secret Garden
3. Sew Me Up
4. Hurt You
5. Rule Of Nines
Genre: post-metal (intense, but experimental with elements of ambient/prog/etc)
Discovered: don't remember how but it was summer 2021.
Other: The #1 below is the least heavy, and has no metal-growl-scream vox (most radio friendly). Also, never a good idea for a husband and wife to be in the same band:
When Courtney LaPlante and husband Michael Stringer were finally given the time and space to form the band of their dreams, they had more disagreements than their years of marriage combined. What should the artwork look like? Fire or flowers? Black or blue? Working through those nitty-gritties felt much like marriage therapy, or even parenting for the first time. "We disagreed on so much," LaPlante reflects, "I'm talking, like, the color of the corner of a piece of artwork. All of the little things." While fundamentally aligned on all the big-picture stuff, LaPlante and Stringer weren't prepared for all the hours spent bickering over color palettes on Photoshop that were in store for them.
1. The Summit
2. Secret Garden
3. Sew Me Up
4. Hurt You
5. Rule Of Nines
Warning
Genre: heavy rock, radio metal
Discovered: Metallica Blacklist - a 4 CD set of bands covering songs from The Black Album. I was disappointed in pretty much all of it, except their cover.
Other: This is one of those "dreams do come true" cool stories. In 1994. three very young girls did a cover of "Enter Sandman". Seven years later they were asked to cover it again by Metallica for the 30th anniversary of The Black Album. The following year they opened for Foo Fighters in front of a zillion people.
1. Enter Sandman (with Alessia Cara)
2. Choke
3. Error
4. Money
5. Disciple
THAT'S IT FOR 2023!
Genre: heavy rock, radio metal
Discovered: Metallica Blacklist - a 4 CD set of bands covering songs from The Black Album. I was disappointed in pretty much all of it, except their cover.
Other: This is one of those "dreams do come true" cool stories. In 1994. three very young girls did a cover of "Enter Sandman". Seven years later they were asked to cover it again by Metallica for the 30th anniversary of The Black Album. The following year they opened for Foo Fighters in front of a zillion people.
1. Enter Sandman (with Alessia Cara)
2. Choke
3. Error
4. Money
5. Disciple
THAT'S IT FOR 2023!