Auditory Abominations: "Funky Man" - Dee Dee King (80's Marathon Part 1/6)

You know what? Let's do a marathon. Yeah, I've been more interested in the 1980s this year, so I figure I may as well do a bit of an 80's marathon, which should consist of four Abominations and two Aces. The 80s as I have stated previously, is both the best and worst decade for music, the best because of all the awesome music that we got from this decade, to numerous to name but for a small list, "Master of Puppets", "Learning to Fly", "Tom Sawyer", "Take on Me" and "Welcome to the Jungle", amazing classics that every fan of music at least know. It is also the decade that gave us the four chord pop song, the decade that gave us Synth Pop and the decade that gave us plenty of stinkers from "I Want to Know What Love Is", "Nothing's Gonna Change my Love for You" and "We Built This City". Since I already covered those songs, I think I'm going to branch out a bit, and start with a terrible song, from an artist who should know better, this is Dee Dee King, or as he is better known as Dee Dee Ramone.

Yes, Dee Dee Ramone had a hip-hop career, and no, we are just getting started with how bizarre the 1980s were for music. My next abomination is going to be a dance song that is sung like a news report, the funny thing is you think I'm kidding! However, staying focused, this is only one of the weird pieces of crap from the 1980s, you know, the decade that gave us "Physical" and "Agadoo" and yes I am going to get to those songs eventually. However, I want to start with this one because, the Ramones were one of the most important bands in the world, and one of the members, decided to start a rap career. It's just bizarre and I won't get over that fact, you can say that punk rock is overrated, but we can all agree that this song is shite.

The opening drum beats are simple, I hate it when drums are used this way. When used correctly drums can add a new layer of mood to the song, think "Lazarus" or "The Sound of Silence" (either version). The other opening instrument, which I'm going to assume is some kind of guitar, doesn't work for me. It may be the sound, but it just doesn't work. Also, there those effects like from the opening of "Tom Sawyer" which is an actual good song and one of my favourite songs ever. This kind of sound worked their because they only used it once.

I'll give the instrumentals credit though, they sound a hell of a lot better than Dee Dee does. His voice is raspy and nasally, like if Marilyn Manson and Bob Dylan were singing coaches to the same person. The vocals also nearly drown out the instrumentals, but on other times Dee Dee's rapping style moves to fast it's like he is mumbling his lyrics. For comparison, Macklemore and Busta Rhymes both rap fast, but they're style is smooth and flowing. Dee Dee Ramone sounds like he is forcing every word out of his mouth, and the lines are delivered about as smooth as a nail bed.

The lyrics are also utter shite, and not just the part where he goes "fu-fu-fu-fu-funky!". No, Dee Dee sang worse lyrics than that, arguably though that may just be the best line in the whole song though because, Dee Dee King is a bit of an egocentric. He loves to tell people he was the bassist in a punk rock band, and his name is Dee Dee Ramone. Yeah, I know he calls himself Dee Dee King, but even he just says he is Dee Dee Ramone. Does he want to be called his stage name, or by his original stage name, wow this just got confusing.

The instrumentals somehow deteriorated. This is a large problem with doing these kind of text reviews because, I can't describe with 100 percent accuracy how bad the song actually sounds, so if you want to hear the guitar work around this portion, that is the reason why the song and video are posted up at the top. So, if you want me to describe the instrumentals, you know that trick that some guitarists do, where they play a not but it sounds kind of blocked or something, that's what is happening. I could end this review here, but we aren't even two minutes in, and this is a four minute song.

There is this odd part of the song (Saying a lot I know), where it almost sounds like somebody else is singing. Which begs the question, if he can lower his voice like that, than why does he sing with all that rasp? The song does practically end with him doing the same thing, with the same lyrics over and over again.

This song was awful. If Dee Dee Ramone wanted a rap career, fine more power to him, but he did so in such a horrible way that he never released another single afterwards. Everybody knew this song was terrible, and it was still released. Dee Dee's poor vocal work, painful flow, the awful instrumentals and the bad and repetitious lyrics, Dee Dee King definitely made one of the worst songs of all time.

Look, the 80s were an amazing time for music, but this is the kind of garbage you would get if you tried to make fun of the 80s by mixing together two genres that should not go together, punk rock is a very messy, rough and uncut genre, hip-hop is a stylized and smooth genre that requires rhythm and flow, the two can be mixed as we have seen with Rage Against the Machine, but the band knew what they were doing and how to properly mix the two genres, and they aren't even punk rock.

I'm done, next time will be an Ace on one of the most iconic songs of the 1980s.

Ace Audio: "Take Me to Church" - Hozier

If you were to ask me what my favourite song of the decade is so far, I would probably choose "Eyes Wide Open" or one of Aurelio Voltaire's songs. Yet, at the same time I could very well place this song up there as well. Back in my review of "I Hate U, I Love U" or as I call it, "Drone on and on the song", I called this song "Drone on the song done right". Well, the more I thought about the more I thought that this would be a good review to do, because in a decade that gives us so many amazing gems, it's always fascinating how we focus on one gem over many others.

This is going to be a difficult song to talk about because, I know that some people don't like this song, and that it can make some people uncomfortable, and yeah, it does make me a bit uncomfortable too, although I think it is more the music video rather than the actual song. Yeah, if I do a list on the best music videos, telling you right now I'm not going to be talking about this one. However, to me the feeling of discomfort is not a strong one, and dare I say, it is an interesting one.

The sound of this song is very depressing, and that makes sense, as the song came from a place of anger and frustration, with the Catholic Church specifically. This isn't the first song I've talked about with religious themes, I did a review on the musical atrocity "Dorbees - Making Decisions" a while ago, and I've done "Hero" by Skillet as well. However, those were both abominations, as they were both songs I took a dislike towards. The songs from Dorbees were annoying and poorly done, Skillet is bland and dull. Notice how neither of those criticisms were based around the fact that they were religious songs. However, this is my first Ace review where I talk about a song that is against the Catholic Church.

The lyrical content is not entirely based around this though, and if it was then it would most likely be an Abomination. It actually uses clever metaphor of comparing somebody's lover to religion, and when you analyze the lyrics, you see how demanding the lover can be. Lines like "To keep the goddess on my side/ She demands a sacrifice/ Drain the whole sea/ Get something shiny..." are all things people have said they would do for their loved ones, you know "Grenade" by Bruno Mars, but that song tried to use that in earnest, and this song more uses it to show the compassionless lover, or the demanding nature of religion. This is one of those lyrics over music songs like "Innocent".

The great thing about lyrics over music songs is that they are essentially poetry put to music, or maybe even poetry made for music. The problem is that they can usually be either too simple, or too complex, which is tricky to gage because everybody understands things differently. Have any of you read the poem "Introduction to Poetry"? I'm not going to give away what it's about, but it took me until I was eighteen to understand what it actually was about, and I read it while in middle school. It's not that it's a difficult poem to understand, but I can be a bit slow on the uptake. On the flipside, some songs and poems, and even movies get a little too close to home with their metaphors, symbols, and personifications. See the Nostalgia Critic's review of The Matrix to truly understand. I think this song strikes a middle ground, once you get the main idea of the song, the metaphor and meaning come easily.

Since I'm talking about a song and not poetry, I should mention the musical aspect itself, because in honesty, this is the part that really ties it together. I know I criticized the piano in "I Hate U, I Love U", and although it is kind similar here, it works because 1). It is not just one key left to drone, 2). It fits with the mood of the song and 3). importantly, it isn't the only instrument in the song. The piano only opens the song, and then before the chorus, we get some nice drums that come into full swing by the chorus. There is also some kind of droning "Ooh!" in the background, but it adds to the song instead of detracts from it. Letting sounds drone on is not immediately a bad idea, much like how using all your speed boosts at the beginning of a Time Trial is not immediately a bad idea, but it can become one if you don't know what you're doing.

Hozier's voice is very nice on this song, I can't really explain it, his voice just sounds nice on this song. It's also much more different than some of the whispery or whiny male voices we have in pop like Ed Sheeran, Passenger and Lukas Graham.

Although this is not in my top 10, I do think that it's in my personal top 20. If you want to make a song that sounds like it's droning on, this may be a good place to start. On the other hand, if you want a song that has strong lyrical content and some really good instrumentals, than you may want to add this song to your collection, but then again with all the success it has gotten, I think you already have.

I'm the Entity of Darkness, and I'm feeling in a bit of an 80's mood next time.

Ace Audio: "Johnny B. Goode" - Chuck Berry

Holy shit! Did you guys hear that Chuck Berry died on the 18th? Oh boy, I know that I promised another review, but Chuck Berry is one of the most important figures of Rock and Roll. I couldn't do this for George Michael, but I can do this for Chuck Berry. I'm going to look at his 1950's classic "Johnny B. Goode" to showcase how he defined what rock and roll meant. How fitting, my first review of a 1950s song is in memorial to one of the most influential men, not just in the genre, but in the industry.

The 1950s were an interesting time for the music industry, in fact it may have been the most important time. You see, before the 1950s, we still had music, but we didn't have mainstream music like we do today, most of the music before the 1950s was blues artists like Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson. This lead into the 1950s where we got rock and roll thanks to many artists, notably Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats who made "Rocket 88" which is often considered to be the first rock and roll song, being released back in 1951 predating "Rock Around the Clock" which was released in 1954. The rock and roll sound was derived from the blues sound prior, hence why Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters are important names in rock history. From this, we got teenagers, yes the teen age group actually dates back to the 1950s, maybe a touch further back or so. Of course, just like today, marketers found dollar signs in their eyes and started making more music that was different from the Doo-wop and Jazz that was popular at the time. This is really where the advent of rock and roll, teen idols and pop stars begins.

Of course, in 1959 we got the iconic Billboard Hot 100 that has become the measuring stick for charting popular music for future generations, and before than it was Top 50 or Top 40. Believe it or not, Rock and Roll was one of the first, if not the first popular genre of music. Rock and Roll is an ever changing genre, there was a time when Johnny Cash was considered Rock and Roll, and The Everly Brothers and Fats Domino even though by today's standards they are not really rock and roll. Rock and Roll reflects the time period it was in, but sometimes a song falls out of that time period and into the realm of being timeless.

With all of that context, remember that rock in the 1950s, sounds more like "Jailhouse Rock" instead of "Twist and Shout", the use of the electric guitar didn't become a staple of rock and roll until the 1960s, even though it existed since the 1930s. This is where Chuck Berry comes in, because although it was the Blues and Skiffle that made Rock and Roll popular in England, it was mostly Chuck Berry who helped it come through in America. Without Chuck Berry, we wouldn't have gotten many of the groups we have today.

"Johnny B. Goode" is Chuck Berry's most well known song, and although I would usually avoid talking about it, I may as well cover it now, it would feel wrong to do this at any other point.

The song is partly autobiographical, mostly about Chuck Berry himself, although he also noted somebody else when it comes to song inspirations. The lyrics don't make this to much of a big deal though, and mostly just talk about this "Country boy" who plays a guitar "like ringing a bell", which can either mean the guitar sounds like a ringing bell, or that playing the guitar to him is as easy as ringing a bell. I also like the ending verse, "His mother told him 'someday you will be a man'/ 'And you will be the leader of a big ol' band/... Maybe someday your name will be in light/ Saying Johnny B. Goode Tonight." and the chorus itself also is on the same lines. Although the song may be partly autobiographical, the song itself can actually be pretty uplifting if you listen to it.

Chuck Berry is also a master guitarist. Just listen to the opening riff and you can practically hear rock and roll history. It's amazing to think that hundreds, if not thousands of bands and songs can trace their inspiration all that way back to this opening riff. Although his vocals are not the greatest, this was the 1950s, so I do give it a little bit of leeway, and besides he didn't have the worst voice at the time, and there are vocalists who should not be singing at all. Let's just say, Chuck Berry isn't the best singer, but neither is John Mellencamp and both are pretty good.

I don't care if you are a rock fan, a rap fan, a pop fan or a fan of any other music genre, you have to hear "Johnny B. Goode" at least once. Yeah, this is similar to my "Back in Black" review, where I talk about why the song is important over the actual song itself, but you know what? Rock and Roll needed a place to start, and Chuck Berry defined so many things about the genre, that he has earned the status of rock god.

I'm the Entity of Darkness, and Chuck, you will be missed. Rock in Peace man, rock in peace.

Auditory Abominations: "Glycerine" - Bush

You know how music nerds like myself say that the 90s died with Kurt Cobain? Well, the issue was that even though the grunge scene was starting to die at that point, many bands were still kicking and trying to keep the scene moving. Some bands like Pearl Jam, ditched the sound and tried new things, after all "Jeremy" sounds nothing like "Do The Evolution". Soundgarden broke up in '97, but reunited in 2010 so there isn't entirely bad news. Layne Staley of Alice in Chains had substance abuse issues, causing the band to be inactive up to his death in 2002, they are still around though, and Stone Temple Pilots were going strong until 2013 when they kicked Scott Weiland out and replaced him Chester Bennington, which does not sound like a good replacement at all. Oh yeah, Scott Weiland also passed away in 2015 so yeah, the grunge genre is not the most long lasting genre is what I am saying. The only two bands of the bunch that are still around are Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, oh and I guess Bush too.

I'm going to admit, I'm not the biggest fan of Bush, because listening to their early stuff is not to dissimilar to listening to a slower, sludgier Nine Inch Nails and their newer stuff is not very interesting. So, forgive if I seem to be stepping in hot water right now, but I was really struggling to find songs to do for this blog and I think I should go into a song that I don't like, that I think the majority of people do enjoy, again.

The opening instrumentals are sludgy, not terrible but very slow and messy. It does create an interesting sound, but I can get a similar and better sound from "Alive". For some odd reason, the instrumentals are louder than the opening vocals, which causes a lot of them to be lost in a sea of noise. It also doesn't help at all that the vocals are practically mumbled through the opening verse.

Gavin Rosedale, for some reason, practically whispers in the opening, which combined with his near mumbling, makes him nearly inaudible, you can hear what he is saying, but just barely. He does pick up his voice, and being fair, he doesn't have terrible vocals, these just sound tired.

That is until the chorus though, which I don't get. "Don't let the days go by/ Glycerin", glycerine, or glycerol, is a polyol compound, what does it have to do with this? You may as well sing "Don't let the days go by/ Birthday cake" and it makes about as much sense, or maybe I'm missing something. Let's check the lyrics.

Okay, "If I treated you bad/ You bruise my face/ Couldn't love you more/ You got a beautiful taste" is, he addicted to some glycerol-based substance? because if he is than this song makes perfect sense, but if he isn't and this is just a love song, than it makes less than no sense.

Lyrics aside, the song itself is also very boring, the combination of Gavin's vocals and these instrumentals are tiring and dull. Even when the song picks up, with a slightly louder guitar and Gavin sounding like he's suffering constipation, it only lasts a couple seconds, and the songs just kind of ends with, an orchestra? Well, that's strange and out of place.

I guess the song hasn't aged very well, and if that is the case it is a more interesting specimen of out-dated... ness than "We Built this City", granted that one is a much worse song, but this had more problems than it being predominantly outdated. I don't like the droning nature of this song, I don't particularly enjoy the vocal performance and I don't get why he is just dropping "Glycerin" on us like Scott Stapp screaming "SEX" randomly.

I'm the Dark Entity and, since I talk about a song I dislike that everyone else likes, I'll talk about a song I like that a lot of people dislike.

Auditory Abominations: "Doris" - Suicide Silence

So, how about that new Suicide Silence huh? Yeah, as I can definitely say that I don't think the band thought this one through that much. I mean, if it was just the fans who despised the album, that would be one thing because, fans often give knee-jerk reactions that are often unfair, but give them time and they often warm up to the product, see The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker for example. No, when everyone hates your new direction, that is another thing, and I don't think I have found a single person who actually likes their new album. Granted I don't like them that much because I hate the genre they're a part of, so I don't really care. However, I chose one of their newer songs because, one; it seems like some of the fans won't insult me over it, two; I'm always willing to cover more current songs, and three; gotta ride the wave when it's high man, although I may be a bit late to the party though. Oh well, let's talk about "Doris".

So, how about this song eh? it is not an easy beast to slay that is without question, because I don't like Grindcore I doubt I can remove a lot of bias, but I understand that it is such an acquired taste. So here is my compromise, I'll talk about the Grindcore elements, but I'll more focus on the song as a whole.

The song itself though is, not really good. The opening riff begins, kind of like a Hair Metal Ballad, Then transitions into a more hard rock sound, before finishing with heavy distortion. If this is what we are in for than I think I can end the review here. Almost sporadically does the song actually begin, like those songs that don't have fade ins or build ups and just dive straight into harsh instrumentals or vocals, except this did have some kind of build up, and if it didn't, what was the point of that bit in the opening?

OK, so my distaste for Grindcore. Overall, my biggest problem with it is that is sounds similar to me. I could exchange one Suicide Silence song for a F*ck the Facts song and I wouldn't tell the difference. The vocals often make the lyrics very muddled and confused and the instrumentals follow no real rhythm. Over all the genre to me sounds like what happens when you throw death metal into a blender and chose to record the sound. I am glad that the genre appeals to some people, but it just isn't my thing. So it's a good thing that they don't focus on the style for very long.

The opening bit barely even sounds like Grindcore, there is a rhythm I can follow, and I don't even know if that is a positive because the vocalist still sounds like a goat suffering from laryngitis while being mutilated and gutted alive. It also doesn't help that the song shifts into a different style, sort of. The vocals change pitch and there is a different style for some of the instrumentals, but the drums barely sound like they changed, they may have but they sound the exact same.

I don't get why they keep shifting from style to style, I understand they wanted to try new things, but the styles aren't explored in this song, like what Between the Buried and Me does with a song like "Telos", or like with what Tool does with a song like "Lateralus", I mean we get a slower instrumental piece, for less than half a minute, I'm not expecting them to give me five minutes with this slow piece, but at least thirty seconds, and for a four minute song I think you can expend at least eight more seconds in this part before you go back to you loud style.

About now what we should have as a good solo, ends up being a solo that has some kind of sound over it, I want to say it's feedback, but whatever it is, it's just as annoying. It also doesn't last, and then goes into another slow part, each of these pieces could serve as the end of the song and I doubt anybody would care, but we are only three and a half minutes in. Where is the Aspirin?

This slow part has frontman Hernan "Eddie" Hermida growling into the microphone, and then goes back to the Grindcore-light stuff. I don't think Suicide Silence really wanted to expand a bit more, because every time they do, they just go back to their sound before they have any chance to explore the new direction they're taking.

Wikipedia labels this album as Nu Metal and Alternative Metal, which I would never categorize Suicide Silence as, but you know what? Whatever you want to label this as, it's a mess. It's to afraid to try a new genre and still tries to step outside with slower segments that don't last very long, a vocalist who sounds awful and the strangest opening instrumental ever.

If they wanted to make a Grindcore album, they could have and I probably would have let it be, but what they gave us was, messy and not in a good way. Be a fan of what you like and keep yourself open to the opinions of others, if you like this song, that is fine. However, I think that this song could have used a few more rewrites and play tests to get it right.

Actually it's like Metallica's "St. Anger". Oh no! this is the "St. Anger" of the decade, a big name band releasing something that should have been one of the best things the band released, but ended up being one of the most hated.

I'm the Dark Entity, and if you excuse me, I have to go listen to something easier to wrap my brain around.

Auditory Abominations: "Bananaphone" - Raffi

Is it seriously too late to start regretting?

Oh boy, a children's song that I have to cover. So now I not only have to explain why kids deserve better, but why most children's songs suck. I think the main problem is that they have absolutely no appeal to anybody who has grown passed the age of five, maybe six. I mean I do enjoy my fair share of simple songs, but a lot of these are beyond simple, and I get it, children and very young children on top of that, so obviously they won't have any appeal to people outside of that demographic, and even though some would say that they should, Suicide Silence released an album where they tried to appeal to people outside of their genre, and I'll get to that soon, but first "Bananaphone", which by the way should be two words and not one, and no I am not misspelling it myself, it is a literal Google search.

I understand that this is a children's song first and foremost, however, I hate when people use that as an excuse to pretty much say "You can't criticize this", because here is the thing, Avatar the Last Airbender, SpongeBob Square Pants, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Animaniacs all of those things were made for kids, and all of them are amazing. Just because something is for kids doesn't mean it can't be criticized, if that were the case than we wouldn't have those amazing cartoons. However, what makes those shows amazing kids shows is that they also appeal to adults, the people who watch these things with there children. This is the happy balance that people often miss, you don't just have to entertain the children, you have to also entertain the adults. Which is the first problem with this song right off the bat.

This is song might be good and fun for young children, but for anybody else, it gets grating fast. It's funny to hear Raffi sing the opening bit once, but after that you start to realize what you're listening to. I didn't grow up with this song, so I don't have the nostalgic immunity from it, but I can tell you that a lot of the songs I listened to as a child, still hold up. I re-watched a VeggieTales special on their Silly Songs, and I enjoyed all of the ones they presented.

The problem with this song is prevalent in the first couple seconds, it opens with just a bunch of random noises that you use to entertain babies. The first ten seconds of this song already feel like the equivalent of waving your keys in front of an infant's face. Look, shiny!

Although Raffi is a good singer, which actually makes this one double hard since I criticizing children's music from a guy who seems to be genuinely nice, but the novelty of hearing "Ring-ring-ring Banana Phone" wears off after the first time it's heard. It doesn't help at all that this is the majority of the lyrics, alongside other "humorous" ways of saying the same thing, see, he changed the lyrics to Ping-pong-ping "Panana" phone, isn't that humorous? I can't believe I'm saying this but, um... Richard Cheese, you know that guy who I criticized in the past for not being humorous with his covers and expecting the novelty of lounge jazz covers of heavy metal to be humorous enough to sustain a career, you know that guy? Well, his cover of "Chop Suey!" A song from one of my favourite bands of all time, is a funnier song than this.

We do get a decent instrumental solo, and since I'm on positives, the instrumentals themselves are good, I mean they are upbeat and would make any child jump around, but I feel as though this song would lose it's ap-peel to anybody over the age of five.

What also makes this worse is the lyrical content, I mean it starts off amusing with some old, but still clever wordplay, then it gets a little to complicated for a children's song. Not that I'm saying that we should talk down to children, hell no, but I doubt children will understand the words "Cellular, modular, interactivodular", I mean I read Dr. Seuss as a child, but just because I could read big words too (like Constantinople and Timbuktu) did not mean I understood them.

The song ends with more wordplay which may or may not entertain a child, I don't know it depends on the child because around the age I would have been listening to this song, I was watching Looney Tunes and waiting for the Coyote to get squished by his next failed attempt to catch the roadrunner, it wasn't until later that I really started to get into wordplay.

This, is not a terrible song, and I guess it's fine for little kids, which was the intent. However, the novelty wares off quickly and if you're a parent or older sibling and have to heard this song on repeat over and over again, I'm sorry. Really, there are worse songs to have your kids listen to, I would much sooner take this over "Mr. Blobby" any day of the week, but this song is only for the really little kids, and that is probably it's biggest issue.

If your kid wants to hear this song, go ahead, but don't teach them how the repeat button works.

I'm the Dark Entity and I think it's weird how in a review of a children's song, I talk about a grindore band... I am such a musical nerd.

Auditory Abominations: "Break Stuff" - Limp Bizkit

Is it too late to start regretting?

I know it might be a moot point to say that Limp Bizkit is not a good band, but this is about analyzing what makes a song bad and what to avoid when making music. Maybe I should include a what-we-learned portion for these blogs, I guess that would mostly consist of don't drone on, don't be utterly pointless and don't be a cover that misses the point.

Anyway, Nu Metal is kind of a genre that has two separate parts to it, on the first side are groups like Korn and Slipknot who are definitely more metal centric than the other part, which include groups like Linkin Park and Rage Against the Machine, who are more rap centric. I think it is unfair to lump both sides together as one genre because they really are different, although mirror on each other a lot. It's like difference between Pop-tronic and EDM, they are in the same boat, but are still different genres. The whole Nu Metal and Rap Metal craze began with groups like Korn and Rage Against the Machine, but it really took off after Limp Bizkit entered the scene, spawning off goups like P.O.D. and the like.

Some people would say that this band started off good, and then became utter shite, but personally I think they were hit or miss to begin with, I mean I don't hate "Nookie", is it a great song? No, but at the same time it isn't awful. I can see why people like that song at the very least, and from the opening guitar riff, I can see why people would like this song. Then, Fred Durst begins rapping, which sounds as if you castrated Eminem. Also something I'm noticing quick is that, the vocal track and the instrumental track don't really connect properly. By that I mean, they sound as though they were just thrown together from completely different songs.

The instrumentals are actually pretty good, as in really good, like I could hear some of this on legitimate metal tracks, Alt. Metal for sure, but still metal. The guitar just hits that right spot and sounds great, and those drums keep nice rhythm. With a different song, these instrumentals could work nicely.

However, one bad apple can spoil the whole patch, and in this case that rotten, squishy apple that you don't understand how it got into the bin and made you have to toss away some potentially good apples, is Fred Durst.

However, the consistent swearing isn't helping, I listen to all this music on YouTube, because why would I want to buy a song I don't like? The problem with that is, often times the channels, for some reason, censor a lot of swearing in songs, which in some cases really hurts the song such as in "Killing in the Name", and I'll get to the censored version of the song "F*ck You" eventually. I understand radio edits, but why YouTube? I literally heard the AVGN drop the C word once and that remains uncensored. These censors are really noticeable and stick out like a sore thumb. Sorry, just had to rant a bit.

Then we get the chorus, and by all things dark and mysterious, they managed to screw it up. How? By making it too repetitive and monotonous. It may not last long, but that doesn't matter when listening to it feels like the Wrath of Kahn. Except without the humorous screaming of his name.
DUUUUURRRRRSSSSSTT!!!!!

I tried, anyway, after the chorus we get some slower part that is sadly the only bit that actually feels as though the vocal track and instrumental track actually mix. It still sucks because it is just Fred Durst sing-speaking about, what else, calling somebody to a fight, or warning them to back-off. Although I will admit, the build-up is pretty nice, and then it actually becomes a half-way decent song. I'm serious, this part of the song should have been made into the whole song, I mean you can still have the awful rap verses, just ditch the chorus and make it this whole "Give me something to break" bit and this might have been a Meh level song.

Actually, the ending chorus isn't that bad either, although this one is mostly because of the instrumentals. Seriously, the instrumentals are really good, and it's a shame that they were wasted on a song like this. While there are good things about it, it does not stand on it's own.

I can see why people enjoy this song, and I'll even go so far to say that I even get why people like this song. However, I myself just can't get passed Fred's annoying voice, the repetitive chorus, the excessive swearing, even if it wasn't censored it would still be an issue, and how poorly the vocal track and instrumentals mesh together, the two are like oil and water.

Well, glad that this nightmare is over, let's see what's next. How did this Banana get into my pocket?