the red jumpsuit apparatus

I try to give artists a fair shake these days.  Usually I can find something vaguely likeable about them, something that paints a small blank spot in my overall musical genius aspect.  While I'll always have my favored standbys, I do give most artists their fair shakes, even if I never listen to them again because Cop Shoot Cop's Ask Questions Later is more entertaining to hear for the 20th time than most albums are to hear a second time.

But jesus, I cannot find anything to reccomend about Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.

I downloaded it randomly, and despite its apparent massive popularity among massive faggots, I had never heard of it.

I'll give them this much:  they made their shittiness apparent from the beginning.  There's no mistaking their sound, and its specific targetting of kids with dyed hair and those utterly retarded big belt things.  The first song has the prereqs of all terrible modern rock:

1) SCREAMING

2) Choruses that are all long-distance crooning competitions

3) Utterly retarded hooks that are designed for very bad mix CDs to inspire.

I think the most damning thing I can write about this band is that in order to listen to this shit to get a handle on the pure awful, I made sure to turn off last.fm's scrobbling to make sure that no one would ever get the indication that I ever listened to this for any reason besides trying to understand that in a world where vast scads of likeable pop music exist, millions of kids are totally grooving to this utter bullshit.  At least Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana have a genuinely appealing production sound that I can good-naturedly mock.  A proper review of this bullshit would just be a stream of curses, and maybe some retard noises.

OH WAIT there's a song about domestic violence that totally redeems things 

ha ha no

THE SPARKLE FINALITY

Session 10, Part I: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mlnfz1nnynm

Session 10, Part II: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?z4mr4yhjmhv

Session 11, Part I: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?idfoiyjte2j

Session 11, Part II: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gmgje3w23yl

The usual drill applies.  The first parts of each session includes a playlist, the second part of Session 11 includes the song played while CDs were changed.

Also, if you're looking for Session #9, it was awful.  The lesson learned is that I have a ways to go before I try to do a coherent narrative through an entire show.  Eeeesh.

Session 10 was played early at night, which meant the FCC was fully in force, which consequently meant that playing stuff from a good part of my collection was a risky gamble, unless I just played the famous singles which I was totally sure were clean.  And where's the fucking fun in that?  As a result, I just decided to play all my nerd music, though it's still actually a fairly rocking mix, as even the video game music I played was almost completely from different hard rock remix covers.  Still, you probably shouldn't listen to this unless you are interested in listening to things that would please weeabos.

Session 11, however, is easily my best mix.  It took a goddamned semester, but I'm finally comfortable talking into the microphone, to the point that I almost sound natural between sets.  In fact, if there was any problem with this show, it was probably that I rambled a little too much.  Music wise, I'm pretty fucking satisfied.  The theme tends a little towards noise music, but there's an insane amount of variety overall, and all of it kicked ass, in my hateful little opinion.  If you actually want to know how Sparkle Death Die! sounded in my idealistic soul when I first decided FUCK MY GRADES I WANT TO DO A RADIO SHOW, this is the place to start, sadly enough.  It also pumps me up for the next semester, as the learning period is over, and I can finally start bringing this destroyer of shitty music tastes to bear.

So, stay tuned for next year, Sparklenauts, Deathnauts, and Die!nauts.

Hee.