Album: Black Ice

4/5
I'll admit that despite the enormous fame that the band AC/DC has, this was the firts album by them I ever bought. But let me tell you, it was a good choice. The album starts with "Rock N' Roll Train" and that sets the tone for the album. The band has been around for over 30 years, and they still sound the same as they did back when they were just 5 Australians. The album is also a value for its money, with a full 15 tracks for around 10$, considering albums have only 9-12 tracks and are around the same price (see "No Line" by U2 as a perfect example). Tracks like "War Machine", "Black Ice" and "Big Jack" are fully loaded, and they unlease themselves upon you with no hesitation. It's too bad there arn't many bands like that, but that's what makes AC/DC special. They have survived all that has destroyed bands like Nirvana, The Beatles and thrived during a musical recession. Black Ice proves this.

Set List for (Band)

Well, well well, here we are. We have arrived 8 months later and we have this many songs down: And Your Bird Can Sing, Nowhere Man, In My Life(The Beatles), Come as you are, All Apoligies, Something in the Way(Nirvana), Peggy Sue, I Fought the Law(Buddy Holly, though played the John Lennon way/Clash way), and a few unnamed creations of my own. But other then that, I got nothing. Zip. And that's not the worst part. The worst thing is out of the whole 8 months, this "band" has only had one member: me. No-one else. But then again, that's from lack of searching, but seriously, if anyone shares my views/lookimng to join a band, drop me a line at my email (alecwheeler346@gmail.com), if your interseted.

Movie: The Reader

1.5/5
Okay, okay, so sue me. This is a Academy Award Winning movie, as well as having numerous other nominations. Well, in my personal opinion, this movie gets what it deserves, and that's a long overdue Oscar for the lovely Kate Winslet, who I think should've got that for Revolutionary Road. But anyway, this movie is fairly straight forward. This kid bangs this older women, she's a Nazi, he's confused, he reads to her, she learns to read, she dies, he cries, he's still confused. Praise for Ralph Fiennes(for being able to act interested in such a boring role), and of course to Kate Winslet, one of the most talented actresses I've seen in all my years(all 17 of them). Anyways, so even with all this praise, why only 1.5??, Well to be quite honest, there is a ton of sex and nudity in this movie, and I mean tonz!! You see boobs, asses, dicks, the whole nine yards. That's about the only raeson to be honest that I even bought this movie, and even that doesn't save it. Oh well, some things are better left to being a book, and some things are better left to porn.

Album: Nevermind

3.5/5

Much has already been said about this album, the enormous impact it has had on pop culture, and how it turned one band into what everyone wants to be: famous. Now, I've listen to this album a few times, since I only got it for Christmas this year. But I gotta say, 15 years later, I was just as drawn into it as everyone else. "Smells Like" the most famous song off the album, and Nirvana's signature song, had as much effect on me as it did to teens back in '92. But to me, it wasn't my favourite song(at least now in retrospect). I loved the song "Polly, Territorial Pissings, Something in the Way", all different songs, but to me, these were the better songs, the ones with deeper meaning. Later on, I got into the big gun songs, like "Come as you are, Lithium, and In Bloom", key tracks that everyone should listen to, regardless if you know anything about Nirvana, or you even like them. Because 15 years later, these songs still have an amazing effect on me, and they have stood the test of time, and unlike "Smells Like", they haven't been played to death, and people still tend to enjoy them, because this album is an album everyone can get, whether you dig punk, metal, pop, rock, it doesn't matter. "Nevermind" is a landslide, and even though people know this, from a guy who was just a baby when Nirvana was huge, that's saying something.

New Thing for the Blog

Okay, I know its been over 3 months, but let it be known, I have a brand new idea for the blog: album review. Every so often, I will review an album, giving my personal opinions towards it and so on and so on. With a vast collection of CDs, this shouldn't be too much of a problem. So, let the magic of typing with your fingers, on a keyboard, at a desk, in a room, in a building, in a town, in a city, in a province, in a country.....begin