Snakester's 10 Worst Beatles

Yes, even the greatest have their faults. Although these could be minor and at times is really just nitpicking because of the higher expectations most of the Beatles' work is held to. Still some of this make my ears hurt at times.

10. Hello Goodbye - Magical Mystery Tour: Ok maybe I should blame Target for this one. Still even before the annoying commercials came on I never did get this song. It is just corny nonsense to me. I do enjoy Ringo's drumming, that is about the only redeeming quality.

9. Blue Jay Way - Magical Mystery Tour: I promise I am not going to rip on MMT the whole time although it is by far my least favorite album, if you can even call it that they way it was thrown together. George's voice is just overdone through the mixing board sounding way too eerie in a very bad way. To me this is a drug trip without the usual enlightenment. The lyrics make me laugh cause it sounds like a 4th grader wrote the rhymes.

8. She's Leaving Home - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: I don't like the orchestration in the background, too much cheesy sounding strings (even though that is probably what Paul is most known for). It is a pretty song but it isn't the Beatles. The backing vocals through the chorus/refrain are over the top. This just added to a disappointing mid section of Sgt Pepper and part of the reason I would never consider it their best work.

7. Good Morning - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: Not exactly the model of creativity starting off a song called Good Morning with a rooster sound effect (not to mention the other animals on the outro). I thought this was a rock band? All I here the whole time is keyboard and horns until the guitar solo finally hits. It is basically a scaled back childish version of A Day in the Life.

6. She Said She Said - Revolver: I think this was about some gypsy/voodoo woman John ran into once. Don't quote me on that but it is something similar. It is a little to cryptic even for John. The She Said, I Said stuff is a little annoying. It is like a 5 year old is telling me a story about something that happened on the playground. "She said you don't understand what i said, I said no no no you're wrong" what??

5. Glass Onion - The White Album: There is no substances to this song. Basically he just name drops like everything from Magical Mystery Tour and then tells us to look into a Glass Onion. I read somewhere that a glass onion was an old casket that had glass where the face is so that when people were buried visitors could look down and still see their face. That is creepy on its own. There is probably more cryptic symbolism in this song that we will never understand.

4. Get Back - Let It Be: This song makes absolutely no sense. Get Back? Like get out of here you aren't welcome cause the one lady is really a transvestite? The tune is catchy and holds the song together and probably makes it a favorite to many people. But really listen once and try to figure out what he is saying.

3. Yesterday - Help!: It isn't the Beatles, it is Paul McCartney pre-Wings. I never bought Paul's story about dreaming up this melody and still do not understand the fascination about this song. It is a beautiful song but it isn't great. Sappy little love song. Does it reach the same status if it was just released as Paul rather than The Beatles?

2. Across The Universe - Let It Be: This song has just always bugged me. I don't like the guitar part and John's voice is unappealing. I have no idea what he says in the chorus before "Nothings gonna change my world". Seriously to me it sounds like nails on the chalkboard.

1. Within You Without You - Sgt. Pepper: It is very hard not to think this is the worst song under the Beatles name. Although I will admit when it comes on now, I can actually make it through the song with hitting something. It is way too much Indian influence that most of the western civilization can handle. The Sitar playing sounds horrible and I am sure it is because George isn't doing it right. I don't even know what most of the lyrics are cause you can't really hear them over the obnoxious noises. How can anyone say Sgt Pepper is the greatest Beatles album with this sitting right in the middle of it?

YTCracker - Nerdrap Entertainment System

This is something I had been meaning to tell Big Red about. But then we did lists on our favorite video games and we are always talking about music, so I figured this would be a good entry. I found out about YTCracker when one of his songs was featured in commercials for G4's X-Play. It was catchy sampling from an old Nintendo game DigDug with a sound byte from Gauntlet, I think. I searched the Internet and found all kinds of info on YTCracker. (his name still makes me chuckle)

You can go to his website http://www.ytcracker.com and download alot of his music for free, including Nerdrap Entertainment System. It features 7 songs with the background rhythm being supplied by music from classic Nintendo (NES) games. I still haven't quite been able to place them all and have even searched the net for help. So if anyone out there can help me figure them out, drop me a note. The subject matter of his raps revolve around nerdy subjects: video games, computer programming, hacking, file sharing and most of all revenge against the stupid jocks.

The opening to my favorite track, N.E.S., starts out with the famous Contra code: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start! For someone who grew up with the NES, that is like crack man! Another one of my favorites is Surgerunner in which he talks about his longing affection for Surge, super sugar soda that was the answer to Mt. Dew. I wondered whatever did happen to that?

Anyone, take a walk down memory lane and see if you can get all the references. I know I probably fit into this category a little more than Big Red but it is a good time and it is free. So you got nothing to lose! Go download it!

List of the Day - 25 Best Metal Bands

Rob O'Connor writes a music blog for Yahoo! called 'List of the Day'. In honor of Metallica's new album, he publish the 25 Best Metal Bands. I am not going to recap the list or anything. You can & SHOULD read it for yourself (Click to the title of this entry for the link). I wanted to comment mostly on his preface in which he talks about what is considered Heavy Metal. That is probably the most open to interpretation genre there is in music or any other art form. I, myself, often use the term Hard Rock and Heavy Metal to distinguish between bands but I know I don't always use the same criteria. Not only is there Heavy Metal, but there is all the sub genres that were created by record labels and the bands themselves to help them standout among the metal scene. There are some questionable calls in his list as to be expected with such an open title. With that comes some of the stupid comments ('Where is this band' or 'That band isn't Metal' etc.) as if the writer purposely left off your favorite band just to piss you off. That is why Big Red and I enjoy making lists, they are open to interpretation. They are neither right nor wrong (although sometimes they can seem very wrong). They are just our thoughts and feelings. Of course, even our lists can bring out the idiotic comments too.