Ahh... Counting Crows' "Mr. Jones". Here's the scoop on this infectious ditty. If this song were released today, I'll be honest, I wouldn't be too impressed (or at least I wouldn't like it as much as I do). So why do I give it 4.5 stars?

Easy... there is no way possible (at least not for me) that you can hear this song and not be reminded of the mid-90's (1993-94 in particular). And those were the happiest days of my life (thus far). This song was all over the radio back then... I even remember riding home with my neighbors from third grade, hearing it on the radio, like it was last week. (that was a decade ago already) The opening bars of the song are enough to send me in a time warp back to the days of endless summer days as a little kid, playing Sega Genesis all day long, going to Jimmy's Ice Cream stand, playing tackle football with my friends, watching Tiny Toons and Nicktoons (REN & STIMPY!!!) religiously, et cetera. Ahh... the memories. For that, this is a good song.

Oh yeah, and it's catchy too. "Sha-la-la-la-la, la..."

I'm always in the mood...
The rythym is always right...
I can always move to the music...
with this song, I can roll all night!

(Sorry if that sounds cliche, but it's true)

From the foot-stomping drum beat intro to the finale, this classic rocker from '75 is definitely awesome, and worthy of turning to eleven! "Slow ride, take it easy..." If you've never heard this song before, it's okay, don't be shy, now come on out from underneath that rock now. There you go. Now go listen to this song, and try not to sing along, tap your foot, and bob your head to the rythym. Go on, I dare you!

I love this song. It's great to slap "La La" by that dreadful Milli Vanilli wannabe Ashleeeeeeeeeeeee Simpson in the face with!

Most people know ZZ Top from their '80s hits, such as "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man". Good songs, but let's not be forgetting their earliest work from the '70s. I think this song is easily ZZ Top's best.

It's short, sweet, and memorable. It's just a really good, classic rock, 70's foot-stomper with a great hook. It's also great for cruisin'. And it's great to sing along to. "I ain't askin for mu-uch.. mm-hmm..." Songs like this are what keep ZZ Top in rock history's pages, as opposed to goofy little insignificant asterisks like Good Charlotte (blecch).

Check it out, and crank this mother up!!!

...they're done!

(Please note I only give them half a star because I can't give them zero.)

These days, most kids are saying "Limp Bizkit Who?". Fred Durst is a talentless, vacuous, god-awful, ghastly, absymal, poseurish, maddening, frustrating, immature, whiny, annoying kwijibo (see the Simpsons episode "Bart The Genius", season one) who can't dance. No one cares about Limp Bizkit anymore. The kids who liked them in the late nineties (which I am ashamed to have been a part of) have grown up and out of it. Their last album was a complete flop. The rest of their catalogue will soon be found in the 49-cent bin, and Limp Bizkit will end up in the same category as Right Said Fred and Gerardo. So the question arises...

Why won't Fred just accept defeat and go away?

It's got to be his huge ego. Why does he have such an ego? Because people supported him once upon a time. But they don't any longer. Limp Bizkit was/is a fad. No more, no less. They cashed in on the nu-metal/rap-metal craze (and I use the term "metal" *very* loosely) of the late nineties, and that came and went.

So, Fred, please, for all our sakes, give it up. It's never gonna happen. No one cares about you anymore. No one's interested in the next ghastly album you and the other talentless hacks in your band are spewing out. No one wants to hear you cuss and bleat over music a group of baby gorillas could produce with limited difficulty (if any at all). It's not gonna be "soo hevvie it hurtzz". It's just gonna be so stupid, insipid, and just plain flat-out BAD that it hurts... for the two people that hear it.

Limp Bizkit will now just be a trivia question in the world of music, while actually *talented* bands like Led Zeppelin will go down in that little thing they call "music history".

In an era where 99% of the modern rock we get force-fed down our throats is just generic, boring, bland, flavorless, three-chord schleps like Breaking Benjamin, I am now turning to eras past for my rock 'n' roll fix. (Like I said before, we need the next Nirvana... NOW) Most of it is from the '70s; Zep, Floyd, Sabbath, Foghat, the Cult, etc. But some of it is from the '80s, as well. And Living Colour's "Cult Of Personality" is one of them.

This is a great song. Simple, but it rocks, and it's catchy, with one hell of a hook. If you have San Andreas (I do), it's on Radio X, it's the one that starts out with "Look In My Eyes / What Do You See? / The Cult Of Personality..." Corey Glover's singing actually has some soul, as well. Listen to it, and you'll be singing along in no time. Check it out!