I was reading over what I wrote about being a true fan of an artist yesterday and I thought to myself, “You need to chill out.” Greatest hits fan or otherwise, it is all about supporting the artist so who cares. Lets put our false sense of pride behind us and dance.

When I was younger I used to watch The Kids In The Hall.  It is funny how the littlest thing can change the world view of a child. I saw this skit when I was probably 10 years old, but I still remember its message til this day.

After watching this I made the decision that if someone is familiar with only the greatest hits of an artist, they are not a real fan. A real fan knows every song a band plays during their set.  To be a real fan, your knowledge has to go beyond the greatest hits. There is nothing wrong with being a greatest hits fan, just admit it. This happens two different ways. Either you just never got around to listening to anything else or you just dislike the other material. I mean I LOVE the Band’s greatest hits, but I haven’t check out any of their studio albums.  Their greatest hits is all I need and therefore I am not a real fan.  I am a greatest hits fan for plenty of bands and I find they are more often bands from the 1960′s, 70s, and 80s. To name a few Queen, The Band, Prince, Cream, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cat Stevens, The Doors, Elton John, Hall n’ Oats, Stevie Wonder, and Wham!.

There are those times when someone makes the leap of faith from on type of fan to another. That happened to me today.  I have been a greatest hits fan of Leonard Cohen for a very long time.  Last week I got two of his studio albums Songs of Leonard Cohen and Recent Songs. I am finding that all songs are equal (at least so far).  So, I am on my way.

The point of all this is that Leonard Cohen is a genius and everyone should listen to his music.

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A couple of days ago I was record shopping and I came across this little gem.  I was unfamiliar with the album but I knew I liked Stan Getz and for 50 cents I couldn’t really go wrong. I put it on my LP player and immediately I was the classiest guy in town. Literally.

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Isn’t that wonderful? After listening to this I started to research Laurindo Almeida.  Check out his rendition of “One Note Samaba”

And the original

If you like death metal then you’ll love this. I know I do.

Ahhhh…all moved in!! I’ll post some pictures of the new place soon. It is super adorable. On another note, Dax Riggs is amazing. Like Freddie Mercury, he was put on this earth to sing.

There used to be a fan website called http://www.skeletalcircus.com/ that is no longer up. It was really great. It basically was a collection of live bootlegs from Dax’s career starting with Acid Bath and ending with his solo career. Unfortunately the site was taken down. Not because it was illegal, but because the the owner didn’t want to manage it anymore. Luckily I downloaded some shows off the website when it was up. I have a couple of Acid Bath and a few Deadboy and the Elephantman. I will be posting them tomorrow for your listening enjoyment.

I know I have been bad about updating this thing. Well I am moving into a new place and I don’t have the interwebs hooked up yet. So until then my posts are going to be slow coming and short. Like this one! When I am not posting, I’ll be in the same state of mind as the lovely woman featured in the picture above. I am fragile just like she is.

So I guess the whole Black Metal thing was a little ruse by the band and Metalsucks. I was pretty excited about this, but they new song still kills. Check it.

IWRESTLEDABEARONCE is an avant-garde metal band.  Their music is described as a “blasting blending of genres.”  Which I would say is true.  Listen.

Just recently one of the members of the band announced that they are changing shifts in their music and becoming a black metal band!!! YAY!!!

Their black metal debut comes out on Thursday. We’ll see how it is.

I have seen a bunch of these videos now and this is by far the best one. It is really good. Check it out.