Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Best Album Art



First, I want to fire a little bit at the doofuses who critisize my list, listen to your garbage, you never gave me a reason why it sucked. Going back I realized I forgot Possum Kingdom by the Toadies. I decided to tackle another part of music, The Album Cover. In the days of digital music, album art has become less important. I still buy albums for the album art. It is part of the package. Without further ado...my 10 favorite album covers.


10.Cake- Prolonging the Magic


Cake's album covers almost all look the same but this on is the best. Maybe I am a sucker for pigs.

9. Led Zepplin--IV


This classic album cover was alway my favorite Zepplin Cover.

8.Dropkick Murphys--The Gang's All Here


The album art fits the title perfectly. I love the WWII look to it.

7.The Clash--London Calling


I support the destroying of instruments.
6. Pearl Jam--Yield The art reminds me of a journey. It is simple but really good.
5. Punk Rock is Your Friend Sampler Punk Rockers just want to be friends with everyone. The back is even better showing them playing on a teeter-toter.
4. Pink Floyd--The Wall Classic Album--Classic Cover
3. NOFX--Punk in Drublic I am still trying to figure out what that kid is doing at the bottom.
2. Punk-o-rama Vol 6


Angry baboons--need I saw more
1. Ted Nugent--Weekend Warriors How can you not look at theis cover and thing, man this kicks butt. I laugh everytime I see it

























































































Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Super Bowl Thoughts

I went into the Super Bowl season not really certain about watching it. I really can't stand the Giants or the Patriots. But continuing with tradition I decided to watch the game. The game itself was probably one of the best NFL games I have watched in a long time. The crowd was actually into the game. Usually the crowd is very ho-hum but you could actually feel energy at a nuetral site game. I am glad Tom Brady lost. But the main thing I want to talk about is Eli Manning. All of the sports "experts" were talking about his poise and big play ability and blah, blah, blah. I looked at Eli on that last drive and thought "this is Peyton's dumb brother". He really looked like he had no clue out there. He made big plays but if you looked at him, he had the deer in headlights look in his eyes. I was completly shocked when he threw the touchdown. I kept thinking, he come a foolish interception throwing into triple coverage, etc.

The commericials for the Super Bowl were completly lame. With teams you did not care about you would think that at least we have commericals to look forward to. Again we struck out. I can't really think of a good commerical during the game. Usually beer commericials come up clutch but they were even bad.

Tom Petty rocks!! Better in concert but I would rather see him than Prince, Aerosmith, or almost anyone else any day of the week.

Later
Tobin