What am I listening to?

So I did a variation on this post a while back, but thought I would revive a variation of it. I will take my iPod on shuffle and go through the first 5 songs that show up and talk about the songs and what they mean to me.

"Ain't None of your Business" by Wendy O. Williams

Live version with intro by Wendy O. where she gives her graphic opinion of what she terms 'straight people' and what they are like. Wendy O. was really and amazing person, she is one of the few people who lived their life exactly as they wanted. Her band, the Plasmatics was a punk band that actually played a mix of Punk and Metal and mixed with her unabashed sexuality that made for an interesting mix.

"Blood and Iron" by Cirith Ungol

I got this song from a compilation of late 1980's Speed/Death Metal. The song itself is not extraordinary, it has a cool, albeit pretty formulaic hook. But hearing songs from that compilation always takes me back to my last year or 2 of college when I was listening to a lot of Metal, and walking back and forth to work at 7-11.

"Iron Man" by Black Sabbath

I first heard this song in elementary school when my friend Alex took me into his brothers room and played it. At the time for us all we could imagine it being about was the comic book action hero Iron Man. It wasn't until later that I listened to the lyrics and thought it might be about something else. But it is one of the classic Black Sabbath songs and it's tone is still unlike almost anything else you hear.

"Want somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane

A classic song off the Surrealistic Pillow album. This song always take me back to my teen hippy years, when I had long hair, listened to a lot of 60's music, Jim Morrison was my idol and I spouted quotes from the Communist Manifesto. The song itself is a good one and the vocal range of Grace Slick is just amazing.

"Orgasmotron" by Motorhead

Another 'crunch metal' song like Black Sabbath. I kind of slow death march like song, full of dark disturbing images. And if you care to actually care to listen to the lyrics you will hear a kind of anti-war message. A story that always comes to mind when I hear this song is that when this album came out I bought one of those big patches you sew on the back of your Jean jacket. Not knowing how to sew very well I asked my step mother to sew it on. Well a day or 2 later my Dad came to me and said that she decided she just couldn't sew something that graphic on my jacket. Here is the color image (the patch is all white thread on black background):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Orgasmatron.jpg

So there you have it, today's the post was a little heavy on the Metal side, but that could change next week.