Best of 2013?
Saturday, November 2, 2013 at 12:01AM It's hard to believe but it's already November and 2013 is winding down fast. Before you know it, the holidays will be here and we'll be looking toward 2014.
As part of my gig with Dayton City Paper, I've been tasked with doing a "best of Glam and Metal 2013" list for the end of year issue. Since such lists always take some thought, I figured I better get started now. This is where you come in: I'd like your suggestions. Provide me your opinions on the best of the past year and I'll consider adding to the list. If the band is super obscure, give me a couple tidbits of info. Remember - writing for a newspaper is a different audience than this blog, so I'm going to have to be either a little more general or super descriptive in my best of choices!
I'll spoil the suspense and tell you that Black Veil Brides is definitely making the cut. Now, give me your choices!
Reader Comments (55)
As for Christian/Metalboy ?
Christian, don't lower yourself, just be yourself. We all can't agree with Metalboy! He's obviously tone deaf if he doesn't dig Tesla :)
GNR, I tend to agree, I'm done with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQJO1klSB9Q
(No matter what he does he can't help but bring it.
And the same goes with bands who take themselves too seriously...
Example: Mustaine, a complete and total nutter, but putting his bizarrely extremist right wing politics aside, knows how to have a good time with the genre in the music, in his lyrics and in his performance. Lars Ulrich, on the other hand is the most boring one dimensional jerk you could ever meet and I did. It comes through in his music as it does through his mouth when interviewed.
And I guess you're right, I can't really give an honest assessment of your darling Stonesourpuss and A2X4 because I frickin' fell asleep within the first minute of listening to 'em.
As for Heaven's Basement, now you're talking.
Aside from that, Christian, if you placed your entire CD collection in a time capsule and aliens dug it up and opened it, they'd simply yawn, reseal it and promptly bury it back into the ground where it was always meant to be.
Oh, and don't forget to let G'n'R throw his Tesla sh*t in there, too. I know you're into buying every version of the same old boring CD so now you can add his crap into the same steaming pile of your super special Tesla section.
Your comments are dead on. That's why I got "13" at #1!
p.s. Winery Dogs is a borefest, though, sorry.
And I can only dream of a Super Special Tesla Section ! That must only exist in heaven.
Must suck not liking a band that's been rocking since mid the 80s to now. And with *GASP* almost all the original members still. Sorry that Franky Hannon busted your balls once upon a time, but some of us have had nothing but great experiences with the band. And I may be wrong, but you can't be friends with everyone.
Can't wait to see them in January at a great venue in the Twin Cities. Unitl then (something that isn't a MTV video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpIa_H6mG2g
Christian- when I am on a site that is called bringbackglam.com, my bands listed are going to be glam. I'm funny that way. You say that some of us are in the past with our musical preferences!? That's why I'm HERE! I do get in the mood for other things, but I try to keep my comments focused on the task at hand.
P.S. The "other things" are not Stone Sour or A7x. They suck. I have proof. I think Metalboy was being nice with "boring" & "hookless" & such.