What Makes You Turn Up The Volume?
What makes you instinctively grab that volume knob and turn it up to "ear bleed"? There are a few songs where this happens with me.
I think for the most part it's the beat and rhythm of the music. I don't do it at home very much. But in the car? GAME ON!!!
It really doesn't matter that it's no my favorite genre of music.
Or if it's the only song from an artist. If I like it, I'm going to try to blow some speakers.
And forget PC.
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So many to choose from.
Old school - still has to be Meatloaf, Paradise by the Dashboard Lights.
Kix - Blow My Fuse. That would get me dancing on my dashboard if I possibly could. Yeah, it's a Baltimore band made almost famous .. deal with it.
Foghat - Slow Ride. That band sounded live on their studio songs. I never got a chance to see them.
Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides (not the Willie and Waylon Outlaws).
REO Speedwagon -Riding the Storm Out
Metallica - their cover of BOC's Astronomy. If only they'd do a cover of Last Days of May.
Now, to the new stuff!
Bad Wolves - just did an amazing cover of Zombie. Dolores was supposed to sing her vocals for it on the day she passed away.
Halestorm - Apocalyptic
In This Moment - Whore
Corey Taylor/Dave Grohl - From Can to Can't (anyone who loves music will probably at least like this one)
Avenged Sevenfold - which one to choose - probably Bat Country, but Hail to the King might be a better fit for newcomers to their music
Shaman's Harvest - Dirty Diana
Highly Suspect - Lydia
Stone Temple Pilots .. so hard to choose.
This came on as I turned onto our street about 15 minutes ago. I just sat in the driveway and pissed off the neighbors.
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For the genres of music I listen to, much is played loudly. But there are a few that gets me to instinctively reach to turn it up even more.
What songs have that effect on you?
If I'm driving and I can't drive 55 comes on I will both turn it up and speed up.
Everyone does that, LOL... it's mandatory.
Every body likes Hagar. The red rocker.
but people that like VanHagar are weird.
Jeremy,
I just gotta ask you.. and you are under no obligation to respond, but your name says retired... How old are you, 'cause you are rocking it.
I'm 45. I am retired. But only from my 1st career. I retired from the Army in July after 26 years.
I still go to concerts with my youngest son. We just saw Anthrax (finally after listening to them for over 30 years) with Killswitch Engage and Havok about a month ago.
Well, I went to an Anthrax concert 30 years ago... so I guess we have something in common, LOL. I think I might have been the only female there. It was actually and Ozzy and Anthrax concert and one of the first dates I had with the hubby.
I wanted to go to that show so bad. Just didn't have the money for the tickets.
When I saw Anthrax last month, and Testament, Sepultura and Prong last April I was shocked that the majority of the crowd was around my age. Even in the pit at both shows. And there were a lot of women at both as well. It was a pretty mixed crowd.
I completely forgot about Stevie Ray Vaughn. Good one.
Ever seen these guys?
I like this one loud!!
I haven't heard of them. I like it. THANKS!!!!
Mustang Sally, Wilson picket
mustang Sally
And I continue to date myself:
Brown eyed girl, Van Morrison
Brown eyed girl
and Suzi Q, CCR:
Suzi Q
That come on my wife's Pandora and she turned it up.
I like these...especially the voices on the last one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8 The last part of course, but the whole piece is awesome.
I think what I admire about the symphonies is that, unlike most other music genre's, the people who write that have to think about EVERY single aspect of the music and how each instrument compliments the others LIVE. As where rock, metal, R&B, Raggae and the others aim for that kind of sound for a recording.
It's much more difficult to be part of a symphony than a band. It's so much more dynamic.
I beg to disagree. I've plaid in orchestras and three piece power trios. Much less pressure to be perfect in an orchestra (unless Hannibal Lector is in the audience).
I've never played in an orchestra. I'm looking in from the outside seeing how large some are and what it takes to be part of one. Thanks.
I can see how there would be less pressure. And I'm not sure I'd even show if I knew Hannibal Lector was in attendance.
This was the first version I ever heard.
lol. The selection is vast. I'll go with these ones though, since they're literally in the playlist I have on right now.
I just heard of Jinjer today via a react video.
Lost in Vegas?
But yeah, they're a stellar band. At one point I binged on their stuff for like a month straight.
I binge music, too. The family hates me for it.
Actually yes. The look on their faces when she changed from clean singing (which is spectacular) to the growl is hilarious.
I do it relentlessly. Drives my family up the wall.
Had to punch out ginger baker one night. The best drummer ever.
lol
I love watching their reactions. A lot of times, it reminds me of when I first heard the same songs and my own reactions to them lol.
I like that they stepped out of their comfort zone for music.
All great stuff, thanks for posting
Just one more.
Excellent choice Special K
Cream is one that will get a boost from me and a few songs from Zeppelin. I wasn't a U2 fan until I saw them live in 1997 in Bosnia. One of the best show's I've been to.
Seeing U2 in Bosnia must have been amazing. I've been a fan of theirs since the beginning when I saw them in the "New Wave"clubs.
At the same time, I was part of a hard rock copy band. I played bass for them, and we did a ton of Zep, Pink Floyd, Bad Co, etc. on Sat nights... Sundays we played weddings and Bar Mitzvahs, LOL! But it help pay those college tuition bills, and it was fun.
I was deployed as part of the peace keeping force. The US offered up some 400 tickets for the multi-national forces and I was selected to go. They had us all grouped in one area inside the Sarajevo Olympic arena. I lost my voice for about 3 days.
I played drums in a band when I was in high school. Really wouldn't call it a band. We got together and pretty much just made noise.
Saw some USO shows here and there. Always better to hear a band live.
Cried the night that Lowell George died.
I submit every track on Waiting For Columbus.
I like Metallica's version, but I still like original Anti-Nowhere League recording better. Just something about the raw recordings of Punk that has always grabbed me.
Fair enough. Just trying to contribute.
I'm not knocking it. I would have never heard the original if it weren't for Metallica's version.
I do like what they did with the 3 Mercyful Fate songs.
In 1992 I made the mistake of taking my 15 year old son and 3 of his friend to a Metallica concert in Tulsa the boys absolutely love it head banging to every song, all I got out of it was a throbbing headache lol
I love their cover of this!
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last one
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Just saw Todd about 6 months ago, and he was great. Has a wicked sense of humor, too.
yrics
I fuckin shit my pants
So smell me bitch, I stink
I am smellin' like the rose
That somebody gave me on
My birthday deathbed
I am smellin' like the rose
That somebody gave me
'Cause I'm dead & bloated
Yeah, and she says it's
Natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run
You can't swallow what I'm
Thinkin'
You can't swallow what I'm
Thinkin'
I run through the world
Thinkin' 'bout tomorrow
I am trampled under sole of
Another man's shoes
Guess I walked too softly
Oh yeah, and she says it's
Natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run
You can't swallow what I'm
Thinkin'
You can't swallow what I'm
Thinkin
Songwriters: DEAN DELEO, ROBERT EMILE DELEO, ERIC KRETZ, SCOTT RICHARD WEILAND
© Universal Music Publishing Group
For non-commercial use only.
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STP though....
I haven't heard that for years!!!!!! Brings back a lot of memories.
I totally forgot about them... which is so weird, since I was just listening to "Sour Girl" and "Interstate Love Song".
Also I would add this to my list... and this one is for the author of this fun article and oddly kind of timely:
I never really could find much in that genre that I liked. Nirvana's first release and a few songs. I do like Jeremy. The story it tells is depressing though. There is a thrash band from England called Acid Reign with a song called Thoughtful Sleep with a similar story. Kind of depressing now that I think about them both.
DUDE GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!! Been listening to D.R.I. all day today.
Their new singer works, from what little I've heard .. just Meadow so far.
There I fixed it!! To embed videos got to the icon next to the smiley, chose "Youtube" and put just the video's url into the blank spot and hit embed. Done!
Sick lyrics - the old meaning of sick - but I've never been emotionally attached to the lyrics of every single song, and I love that one.
Just like Nirvana's Polly song.
What Makes You Turn Up The Volume?
Agreed!
Maybe it's Mick's drumming or the USC Marching Band, well for what ever reason, when Tusk comes on I tend to turn it up to 11.
Same thing happens to me with much of their other stuff as well like, "The Chain", and much of their work from back to their early, "raw blues" days.
I never heard Shake Your Money Maker. I'm going to have to try to find it now.
Just look for any Fleetwood Mac from the late 60's, right after Peter Green and Mick left John Mayall's, "The Bluesbreakers" , to form Fleetwood Mac.
There was a slide guitarist named Jeremy Spencer that gave the original Fleetwood Mac a lot of its energy.
I didn't get to see Fleetwood Mac live until Bob Welch was their lead, (twice with Buckingham and Nicks fronting), but I did hear that during the Spencer years he would do a 2 or 3 song set as an Elvis Presley impersonator, suit and all, and that Mick had a dildo tide to the front of his bass drum just to get the bar crowds they were playing to back then a JUMPING . (lol)
A little Spencer in Elvis voice;
Some early Fleetwood Mac stuff where Jeremy Spencer is ether reeving it up or just having fun like his song, "Blood on the Floor", a tongue in cheek tribute to country and western music. These I like to play loud.
Ark,
There are too many Fleetwood Mac songs that I love to list. Great choice.
Well, my donation met with ridicule....So, I shall add another....so I can be ridiculed more...
Why would you be ridiculed for a classic like that? There is very little that comes close to combining two legends like that.
My daughter says I embarrass her when I crank Under Pressure up and sing (ok it's closer to screaming) at the top of my lungs.
Is it the music, or you singing to it?
I have twin 23 year olds and the love our Music. They even love vinyl and have turntables. Of course I do have one that loves Rihanna, so have taken to just mocking her. Call it role reversal.
I think it's my "singing" along with me dancing (looks more like somebody having a seizure) while driving.
My daughter (21) like Black Veil Brides (and she is the reason I do as well), Black Sabbath, Ozzy, 21 Pilots, Pierce the Veil. My oldest son (18) like dubstep. To this day I still don't know how. My youngest son (16) listens to much of what I listen to. He's the one that got me going to concerts again and lets ME know when a new album is coming out. My wife listens to damn near EVERYTHING. Regardless of when it come out. Everything from The Comodores to Metallica. My taste is like hers but also extends to Black Metal (Mayhem, Satyricon), Death Metal (Deicide, Sinister) and Symphonic Metal (Xandria, Delain)
There is always music playing in our house.
Hey there! I was about to post a link to one of my favorites ... Chris Cornell doing one of his last new songs, Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart.
Then while I was logging into NT, it went into his solo of Nothing Compares 2U ... damnit. I need a glass of wine and a couple of Chris Cornell songs and a few tears, then I'll be back to chime in more and see what others crank up.
The Day I tried to live, I wallowed in the dirty mud,
with all the other pigz
Listening to it now
I saw STP live once with Scott Wieland, and once with Chester Bennington (where I also saw Nothing More for the first, and hopefully nowhere near the last, time). I hope I get a chance to see them again with their new singer - and that's pretty rare, that a band so unique can find different singers who can work. One of my favorite things about STP was that their songs didn't all sound the same - more than once, I heard a song and thought, "umm, STP .. maybe? Nah .. maybe?"
One of my all time favorite songs by two of rocks greats. I am a huge fan of classic rock.
I close my eyes and feel that song everytime I hear it. Makes driving a little more difficult at times....
Everyone has been listing some really great stuff. I'm probably gonna take some grief for this one but can anyone not turn up pretty much anything from NIckleback?
Animals - that's the main one for me, for turning up Nickelback. Makes me want to wreck my car
I have some Nickleback on my iPod. Not sure why everyone dislikes them so much.....I guess it's trendy to hate them.
Me neither, sure their music isn't an insightful societal statement but it is fun (sort of like old Van Halen)
So, as a Zep fan, what do you think of Greta Van Fleet?
I would like to see more bands emulating the 70's giants.
Pretty much anything by Disturbed. The Little Nicky Soundtrack has a bunch of good mussic on it. I have a Metal list for when I'm working out that I keep cranked.
BTW, I can't drive 55? I don't need no song for that.
Sound of Silence - Disturbed Cover .. omg.
Finally saw them live 2 years ago.
There's a new group out of Toronto, not much play in the states yet, there's something about them-I think you'll be hearing them more and more...........I haven't heard a song I don't like from them yet......it's a dfiferent type of music, but it's is a volume knob turner.......
I can't seem to insert the links, but there are two that just steel my wool.
Vehicle - Ides Of March
Magic Man - Heart