What Do You Think About Halloween?
October 31st, 2007 . by contemptster
Our friends at Burn Tees were none too happy with my snide remarks about Halloween. If you missed them it went something like this: “Halloween, blah blah blah grow the fuck up.”
I’m a Halloween grump as you can see, but I’m probably in the minority so here’s a quick poll asking the tough question: What Do You Think About Halloween? Just so you know I would not vote “stupid” I would vote for the slutty costumes. I’m a grump but I’m not dead, ya know what I mean?
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I’ve been having a lot of acid flashbacks recently, mostly to my elementary school days. After school I’d come home, eat Campbell’s Alphabet soup and plop down in front of the TV to watch cartoons and the public service announcements that accompanied them. God, I miss those PSAs. 
The world hates Boston sports fans. I can accept that. There’s a whole cottage industry on these here internets that just love to give it to New England fans. I’d be lying if this 
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Not to take the fun out of a good Indians win last night. Well actually, that’s exactly what I want to do (Jhonny Peralta chan gho tho hhell!) Fan bias aside, can someone please tell me why painting your face red with a cartoonish smile is an acceptable thing to do and not completely racist? It sure looks like a form of black face to me. I understand that it’s the Indians logo and all, but isn’t the Indians logo a blatant racial stereotype to begin with? It strikes me as pretty offensive, but I’m a bleeding heart draft dodger who wants to 
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I was wrong. Although, I believe these guys hail from Seattle too. This song reminds me of Empire Records and Liv Tyler being in a school girl outfit and not putting out. Its funny that she is the same person who last week that she “had to get plastic surgery after having her kid” because her body is her meal ticket. Its good to see that despite being the forgotten daughter of one rock star, and being raised by another one, and being borne by a groupie you can still be well-adjusted, and having high self esteem and self worth. These guys are the definition of One Hit Wonder. I guess this song is pretty catchy 
Although REM disowned this song, I still enjoy it. Its so catchy and happy. Its the opposite of 98% of what you usually hear. Reminds me of upstate New York. When I was 11, I spend my summers upstate, and we one day passed by the local radio station and went in. We met the DJ, and he said he’d play a song for us. Sure enough, a half-hour later, he said hello to all of us, by name, over the air, and played this song. I will now get up and groove and dance. 
This station plays Far Behind nearly every day, a song I absolutely love. I actually enjoy this song. This song doesn’t remind me of junior high, or high school. I don’t remember hearing this song until I started to listen to SIRIUS daily. Prototypical Seattle early 90’s sound. (Editor’s note: I always thought Candlebox was pretty damn gay.)
This song has the creepiest video on planet earth. An animated video that culminates with a government official of some kind hacking off his arms and his legs, and falling off a bridge and being rescued by big breasted topless mermaids who leave him in a tree. We can put that aside for a moment. This song is creepy too. Sounds like what I’d hear in my head if I were a morally questionable protagonist in a John LeCarre novel taking place in Ecuador. Also reminds me of the first summer I had my drivers license (97), and I think this song actually was on the radio minutes before my first car, an 1987 Fort Escort, died on my way back from a summer league game at Bridgewater Sports Arena. Car lasted 6 glorious weeks. Also reminded me of a female once putting this song on a car ride that I thought was going somewhere, but really was going nowhere. Weird that a creepy song would have such memories. This song actually marks the moment when Radiohead went from making music by playing instruments for humans beings to enjoy to making noise, using appliances and electrical humming for aliens to enjoy when they landed to take over our fascist corporatist planet. 
Awesome, Nirvana! This song is awesome. I feel like breaking stuff and walking out my job. I won’t though. I know there is this contrarian debate that Nevermind is overrated, or Nirvana isn’t all that good. I know there have to be two sides to every debate, but this is what I call a false debate. I don’t really see how you can say Nirvana isn’t awesome. Its like arguing against gun control. Let me guess, there wouldn’t have been a massacre at Virginia Tech if everyone had guns. Huh? You thin that Korean psychopath still would’ve killed 35 people if he had to stab them or sneak up on the them and break their necks? You people who think Nirvana sucks are on crack, and are the same people I run into who try to tell me the everything is orgasmically wonderful in Iraq or believe gun control is useless. I dare you to listen to this song, and not get amped up. I often find myself wondering if Nirvana would be playing at Giants Stadium this summer if Courtney didn’t have Kurt murdered so she could show some Celebrity Skin in the People vs. Larry Flynt, and try to become America’s Sweetheart. 
I can’t tell if I feel nostalgic because of the song itself, or because the song makes you want to feel nostalgia about something. This song reminds me of the end of high school when this song hit the airwaves. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end”. I desperately wanted to believe that college would be a brand new start, but the song was right. You can’t just become Casanova overnight. Ironically, I remember hearing this song about 2 months from the end of high school, when things were actually getting fun. For the most part I hated high school, but not as much as I hate junior high. Of course, college is the best 4 years you’ll ever have. I once told my girlfriend that “comparing high school to college is like comparing a weekend in rikers island to a weekend at Mardi Gras”. High School winding down was the best part for me, probably because I couldn’t wait to move on, and had not I threw the keg I always dreamed of throwing, and most of my social experiences with my classmates at that point involved alcohol. All in all, good times. (Editor’s note: how does Semisonic have a Millennium Collection and Greatest Hits?)
This station plays a lot of Soundgarden, at least once an hour. I dig them and they do certainly rock. Since I started listening to SIRIUS I have started to enjoy Soundgarden more, and Alice in Chains a lot less. I am not sure why. Song reminds me of Sophomore year of high school, when this album came out. I remember I was with a friend in the Wiz, and he shoplifted this CD, and I was worried he’d get busted, and I’d get in deep shit too. Luckily, that didn’t happen, and I became an accomplice to the crime because he taped a copy for me. I love Ty Cobb from the same album. Such an angry bitter song. I guess I can’t hold out for Alice in Chains. The lead singer of Alice in Chains couldn’t wait around either.
Reminds me of freshman year of college, and the movie American Pie. I believe this is the song when rookie of the year is going down on Tara Reid. Sweet irony that Tara Reid wouldn’t put out. Anyways, I’m actually a huge fan of Hole. Malibu, which people say sounds like a Gogo’s song, is actually a far superior effort to this song. I have no idea what she is singing about. I guess it is about the spoils she has received from Kurt’s death, or the 11th reinvention of her persona or something. By the way, Courtney should date Puff Daddy. They were both clearly lucky enough to cling to a talented person, and then use their death to get famous and rich, even though they were extremely untalented, and they may both be responsible for the death of said talented person who was beloved by many including myself. Vote or Die, thats what I say. 
I actually have no idea who this group is. This is a damn catchy song, probably on college radio in 92 or 93, and then on good rock stations that no longer existed after Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act in 96. Its not a coincidence that my hero, the former President Clinton, signed this awful awful bill that let people own unlimited amounts of media, and that suddenly we were surrounded by acts that were the exact opposite of talented like Backstreet Boys, N’SYNC, Limp Bizkit, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, etc, etc, etc. 
A good song from a great album. This song is chill. Reminds me of sophomore year of high school, a time that didn’t go so well, for reasons I can’t get into. Ok, I will. Me and my friends didn’t hang out with any girls that year, and played roller hockey and sock hockey and Xband almost all that year. We had fun, but it easily set us back 5 years with regards to socializing with chicks. 
This song makes me want to play Mortal Kombat. Its a sensory overload of weird words, and the sound of someone hammering iron. I feel like I suddenly feel into a coal mine. 
I have never heard this song in my life. There must be someone new in charge today at the Lithium station, which actually has no DJ’s. Sounds a little tiny bit like Temple of the Dog though. 
This song is great but depressing. I thought it was about taking someone to Chemotherapy, but I found out last night from the Ben Folds Live album that its about Ben knocking up his girlfriend in high school, and taking her for an abortion. Talk about a mood killer. In essence, Ben does the opposite of what Bruce Springsteen does in the song “The River”, and yet they are both filthy rich rock stars, who seem to be doing ok. I am not sure what the moral of the story is. Also reminds me of seeing Ben Folds Five at Central Park early in college with a moderator from this site, and how I have never seen so many hot 17 and 18 year old girls in one place my entire life. I guess they are ironically unaware of what Brick is about either. 
My 4th or 5th favorite band in 9th and 10th grade. This song had an awesome video. Who would’ve thought Greenday would be popular in the mid 2000’s, and that they’d still be pissed off and unhappy? Even I outgrew my angst for God’s sake. Everyone loved Greenday in 1995, and I find it funny that a band that hated everybody and everything was so beloved by everyone.
I have no idea what this song is about. I mean, I guess it could be about love. Michael Stipe says something like “you will be mine” over and over. I said that to a chick in 1995 and she slapped me in the face, and got a restraining order against me. I guess when you have millions of dollars, chicks don’t really care what kind of weird shit you say. Again, if I had known that in 1995, I would’ve worked harder in high school and college. I’m convinced this song has the same bass line/ background riff as “Everybody Hurts”. 
Probably the least known song on Ten, stuck way back at the end of the album. This song reminds me of the end of the 8th grade for some reason. I had just gotten my first CD player, a Discman, and this was the 5th CD I bought with my confirmation money. I had this on tape (who didn’t) and felt like I needed to make the upgrade on this album. My first Discman was like $400 back in 1994, but I was in CVS the other day, and they now sell for $10. Its good to know that in the year 2020 that I can probably get an iPod for $2.56. 
This song is damn catchy, and remains so to this day. I think this song is about being dumped by a chick, something I didn’t know about when this song came out when I was 17. However, I think I made the song become about rejection in my mind, and being friends with a chick who wouldn’t make out with you. Is this song about 2 chicks? The one who dumps him, and the one who doesn’t “stick to the master plan”? I am not sure… song reminds me of senior year of high school for various reasons, and I’m sure it will come as no shock that it reminds me of chicks I never made out with. 
(Editor’s note: Yeah I didn’t know what these guys looked like either.) One of my favorite albums ever, (even though an elitist would mock me) the Collective Soul self titled CD. This is actually one of my least favorite songs on the album, but thats not the point. Reminds me of the wasteland time period at the end of sophomore year of high school. A time filled with NHL 96 for Genesis, and studying for the Chemistry regents. Whats funnier is that on that particular album, Collective Soul had a song that made fun of Billy Corgan called Smashing Young Man. I mean, come on. Thats like Jimmy Fallon telling Robert DeNiro he’s a shitty actor. I mean, I find Collective Soul to be enjoyable music, but don’t believe for a minute that you actually rock, like Billy Corgan fucking does, Mr. Lead Singer of Collective Soul who’s name I don’t know. 
Sophomore year of high school. Was impressed that these guys were like 15 when this song came out, like I was. I’m not enjoying this song, mainly because when this song came out 11 years ago, I didn’t realize that when tomorrow came, and I would’ve actually waited, and I’ve become a Fat Boy. 
(Editor’s note: admire the impeccable mustache grooming) A great song by a great song writer. This song reminds me of the first semester of sophomore year of college. After a friend from home of one of my college buddies showed up and told us about Napster, and installed it, it was the first song I searched for. And I found it, and stole from Chris Cornell. He never did show up to kick my ass. Reminds me of a period where everyone I knew was pairing off, and getting consistent action, and I was getting no action whatsoever, save occassionally hooking up with a prudish virgin. I vaguely remember being unhappy during this period hearing this song. Wait, I was in college, how unhappy could I have been? I think I played this song constantly during that period, so chicks stopping by my dorm room would think I was mysterious, and worth coming in to bullshit with. And worth making out with, and eventually going down on. I thought chicks would think I was different if I didn’t listen to Sublime, 311 and Limp Bizkit. Sadly, chicks weren’t impressed by my liking of this song, and never stopped into give me oral sex. In the end, Chris Cornell failed me, probably because I was stealing from him and taking food out of his mouth every time I played this song. 
Funny, this song reminds me of that same period of sophomore year, and was another song I played constantly to project what I called “depth of character”. Needless to say, the times where I got no action, and had no action coming were fairly miserable times. I feel like I believed this song was depressing at that time, but isn’t depressing now. This song is of course from 1993’s Siamese Dream, a great great album. However, this song doesn’t remind me of 8th grade, probably because I wouldn’t listen to this song ever, because it
I actually wasn’t aware of this song until I started listening to this station. This song makes me want to get ultra-drunk in a pub in Montreal and jump up and down and dance around for some reason. I think these guys are British, but I’ve been to Canada, so it gives me a reference point. These guys were a precursor to the Daft Punk’s and The Streets of the world or something. Perhaps you are more familiar with their bigger hit “Rush”. This is some fun music either way, like how I feel when I listen to They Might Be Giants. I am smiling, if you can believe it. It also samples some “Should I stay or should I go?” in the background. While I get on rappers for doing this (I’m looking at you Diddy, P.Diddy, Puff Daddy, Doucheface) I am not mad, because these guys are talented, unlike you. 
I never really listened to this band at any point in my 27 years. However, they are cool because they opened for Pearl Jam in April 94 at the Paramount Theater. Because of the feud with ticketmaster, you could only get tickets to that show as a member of the 10 club, or by calling one of 5 new york radio stations, and getting through and buying them. I spent 3 days on the phone, trying to call, and I never got through. Oh, and I’m still pissed off about this.
While this song now reminds me of Johnny Cash and a fucked up Kermit the Frog, it reminds me of poseurs in high school. I realize now that it’s a great song, but when I was 14, if you liked Nine Inch Nails, you were a kid to be reckoned with. In fact, you might have had a screw loose if you knew all the words to Terrible lie or Ringfinger when you were 13 like I did. When I was in 9th grade, and this song was playing on Z100 (yes, thats what top 40 station do, they play what is perceived to be cool, and thus uncool it, even if it is a song about suicide by one of the most seemingly dark and disturbed musical acts on planet earth), suddenly nine inch nails was accessible to everyone. Bubbly cheerleader types and moronic shallow asshole dudes were into nine inch nails. They loved a song about suicide, and I actually secretly wished that many of them would commit it. I actually find this funny now, but back then, I was mad that consumer culture subverted something only a few people should enjoy. Of course, I think pretty hate machine sold like 5 million copies. 
Everytime some corny song comes on the radio, I joke “is this Rob Thomas”? But a few weeks ago I downloaded Yourself or Someone like you, and it turned out I liked it that I still really really liked it. I think this song is about being dumped, or being about to be dumped. Just like every other Matchbox 20 song that isn’t about drugs or depression. I guess you can put Matchbox 20 in a group with Bon Jovi of acts that can really write a widely appealing rock song. Ironically, when this song came out during my junior year of high school, when it was 3AM, I wasn’t lonely, I was usually sleeping. Its later on, usually in college, that being lonely at 3AM when you are drunk is bound to occur.
I heard this song a bajillion times in the last 10 years or so. FM 106.3 (later GRock Radio) used to play this song constantly, and I never knew who sang it. Thanks to SIRIUS displaying who the songs are by, I finally found out. I could’ve used the internet to find out, but that would’ve been too easy. Now, the only thing that I have been wondering about for 15 years is whether or not Saddam Hussein really gave Sgt. Slaughter those boots he wore when he fought in Wrestlemania VII and how David Copperfield made the Statue of Liberty disappear. It is pretty damn catchy though. Sounds like the kind of song a 13 year old skater kid would enjoy doing some Ollies to in 1998. I didn’t skate, but boy, did I want to be a Bandito! Stealing loot and shit sounds awfully fun when you are wasting away drinking a 40 oz of Olde English 800 on a street corner in the suburbs
(Editor note: no video for this, but it was played endlessly for about 3 years straight so I’ll save you. You can thank me later.)
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