May 16, 2025 • 15 mins
Mike runs his mouth about the bands you forgot you loved, the covers that hit harder than the originals, and why glam, grunge, and post-grunge all deserve a second listen. From 3 Doors Down and Nickelback to Emphatic, Black Stone Cherry, and rock covers of Adele — it’s a chaotic tribute to riffs, nostalgia, and the anthems that still slap.
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Mike (00:10):
All right.
So last week's episode waspretty heavy Serial killer
groupies, broken men, falseaccusations it was just a lot.
So this week we're going tokeep it simple Nothing but music
this week.
All right.
But with that said, I got tosay we're going to start off
with some tough news Brad Arnold, the lead singer of Three Doors
(00:31):
Down.
He recently announced that hehas stage four cancer.
So prayers up to Brad.
And if you're sitting there likewait, who the hell's Brad
Arnold?
He's the voice behindKryptonite, a karaoke classic
and the unofficial anthem ofdudes who peaked in middle
school.
And while Kryptonite might havebeen their biggest hit, it's
(00:54):
not even close to the onlybanger that they had They'd hear
Without you.
When I'm Gone, let Me Go.
Even their newer stuff, like Inthe Dark, all bopsops.
And if you stop listening tothem post 2010, do yourself a
favor and dive back in, becausethey do have some good stuff
that they came out with a fewyears ago or maybe 10 years ago.
(01:15):
At this point I have no idea.
I have no concept of time.
Dude, fucking work has beenkicking my ass.
But honestly, a lot of thosepost-grunge bands they all still
kind of slap like.
Take nickelback, for example.
I don't care what anyone says,I love that band.
Everyone just jumped on the hatetrain because it's the first
big internet meme.
(01:36):
But think about it.
I think part of the hate wasthat people said that their
songs all kind of sound the same.
But then you got ACDC.
That's been cranking out thesame three riffs about sex for
50 years and no one gives a shitabout that.
Well, some people do, but Idon't, because I love them and I
mean, hey, they must have beendoing something right, because
(01:58):
they got inducted into the Rockand Roll Hall of Fame back in
2003.
Then again, the Rock Hall's abigger joke than this podcast.
So back in 2003.
Then again the Rock calls abigger joke than this podcast.
So do what you will with that.
And I think I said this in oneof my earliest episodes.
But ACDC's got two songs calledShoot the Thrill, and If you
Want Blood, you Got it, andthey're the exact same guitar
(02:18):
riff.
But I do have a theory on that,because the album Back in Black
, which Shoot the Thrill was on.
You have a theory on thatbecause the album back in black,
which shoot to throw was on,was in honor of bon scott, so
angus and malcolm probablyrecycled the riff on purpose, I
don't know.
But if acdc can get away withhaving the same songs over and
over again, then why can'tnickelback and honestly, figure
you out how you remind me burnit to the Rain Bottoms Up.
(02:42):
These songs all sound nothingalike, even seeing Quentin and
Side Of A Bullet go friggin'hard and if I'm not mistaken, I
think Side Of A Bullet wasactually a tribute to Dimebag
Daryl and it's way more metalthan people give them credit for
.
And whoever their guitarist is,he actually, I think, also does
a little bit of a tribute toDimebag with a solo.
(03:04):
So if you haven't heard that,give that one a listen.
But I also saw this interviewrecently with john resnick from
the google dolls I think that'show you say his last name and he
was talking about chad krogerfrom nickelback, and john
resnick pretty much juststraight up said that chad is
just a hit machine like the dude, writes three hooks in every
(03:26):
song and is a brilliantsongwriter.
So maybe the internet justneeds to kind of chill a little
bit and maybe it's time that westop roasting Nickelback just
because it's trendy and startadmitting that photograph hits
harder than most of ourchildhood memories.
But I gotta say I don't thinkpost-grunge bands really got the
love that they deserve, becauseeveryone's either obsessed with
(03:49):
the real grunge era or theyjump straight to the pop punk
stuff like Blink-182.
But there's a whole pocket ofmusic from 2003 to like 2011
that absolutely holds up.
Bands like Trap 12, stones,default Red, even Hinder oh my
god Hinder.
Everybody knows Lips of anAngel, which is like the
(04:10):
ultimate cheating song.
But you guys gotta check outsome of their other stuff, like
Another Way Out, get Stoned andBurn it Down.
They even did a rock cover ofBorn to Be Wild by Steppenwolf
and the cover is actuallyfreaking fantastic.
They also did a collab with aband called no Resolve and did a
version of Unstoppable thathonestly hits harder than the
(04:31):
original Sia track.
But you know what?
Speaking of underrated, let'stalk about a group called
Emphatic.
If you've never heard of them,don't worry, I don't think most
people have.
But they were just this rawpost-grunge band that rebranded
as a new group called ThroughFire, and Through Fire leans a
little bit more metal.
To me.
They kind of sound a little bitmore in the realm of Skillet,
(04:54):
but the first time I heardThrough Fire I was driving home
from work one day and their songStronger popped up on the radio
and this is back in themid-2010s and once I heard that
that song just became my go-togym anthem and honestly it still
is.
But once I heard that song Ikind of dug into their catalog a
little bit like who the hellare these guys?
And the more I dug into themthat's when I realized that they
(05:16):
were actually originally calledemphatic.
So then I started listening tothat stuff and I was like holy
crap, this stuff is great.
Like they got a song calledtonight low-key, it's a great
wedding song but you also mightcry out your demon with frosted
tips.
And then they also have a songcalled bounce, which I don't
know how the hell this hasn'tmade the strip club circuit
(05:38):
because it's literally aboutbouncing on a dick.
But you can also hear hints ofwhere they're headed with their
song called another life.
It's not as metal, but it wasdefinitely a stepping stone
towards their through fire sound.
But you know what, since webrought up some covers earlier
with the band no resolve, modernbands have been turning pop and
(06:00):
country songs into straight uprock anthems, like no resolve
has a cover of easy on me byAdele and I actually like that
version more than the original.
And don't get me started ontheir version of Last Night by
Morgan Wallen.
I'm not even kidding.
Their version of Last Nightmakes the original sound like a
pregame for a church service.
(06:20):
Sorry, I'm also still dealingwith this fucking cough.
But then there's another bandcalled State of Mind and they
covered God's Country by BlakeShelton and let me tell you it
sounds like that song was meantto be played in a truck that's
on fire, driving through atornado.
And their version of Somethingin the Orange by Zach Bryan.
(06:42):
It's gritty and haunting in allthe right ways, like state of
mind covering God's Country orSomething in the Orange.
It's like those songs weresupposed to be metal all along.
It's kind of like if someoneasked what would this pop hit
sound like if it was played atoz fest?
But it fucking works.
And while we're talking aboutcountry and rock crossing paths,
(07:03):
how about this?
Did you know that the song stay?
Yeah, that big florida georgialine hit it's actually a
blackstone cherry original.
Yeah, my friend told me thatthey were a band that I might
like.
So I looked into them and Iheard that song.
I was like why the hell do Iknow this?
And then it clicked like holyshit, this is a Florida Georgia
(07:23):
Line song.
But then when I looked up whodid it first, florida Georgia
Line put their version out ayear after Blackstone Cherry's
version and of course, theirversion blew up because in 2010,
slapping a country accent onanything was the musical
equivalent of printing money.
But Blackstone Cherry's versionis actually so much better and
(07:44):
they weren't a one-hit wondereither.
They have tracks like Me andMary Jane Blame it on the Boom
Boom White Trash Millionairethat I swear they just read
about Jordan Belfort and waslike, yeah, there's a song in
here somewhere.
But they weren't trying toreinvent the wheel, they just
made sure the damn thingsteamrolled over you.
Plus, they also have an awesomecover of what's Love Got To Do
(08:06):
With it that they put out intribute to Tina Turner when she
passed away.
So give that a listen if youhaven't, because it fucking
slaps.
But speaking of modern artists,don't sleep on what the old
heads are still doing, becauseslash had a solo album back in
2010 and did a track with fergiecalled beautiful, dangerous,
(08:28):
and we saw that combo live.
If memory serves me right, itwas when the Packers and the
Steelers were playing in theSuper Bowl that year and Black
Eyed Peas did the halftime showand then they brought Slash out.
I remember being at my buddy'sSuper Bowl party back then.
He was just like why the hellis Slash here?
And then they went intoBeautiful, dangerous.
And it wasn't until a coupleyears after where I actually
(08:50):
heard the song.
I was like, oh, now that tracks, but that super bowl
performance.
That's when we also found outyeah, fergie is beautiful but
her singing is dangerouslyhorrible.
Like that man deserves a grammyand a patience award.
Like, how do you make somebodywho sings like a malfunctioning
(09:13):
car alarm and still drop abanger?
But still, slash made it workand just like ACDC still makes
it work.
Sure, every song is about sexand sounds the same, but how
many times have you screamed?
You shook me all night long onkaraoke night, exactly.
Hair metal kind of gets clownednow, especially nowadays,
(09:34):
because you got those old actsstill running around on stage in
leather pants trying to be likehow they were in their like
what?
Early the mid-20s and it justdoesn't work nowadays.
I mean vince neal trying tobelt out girls, girls, girls.
Dude's got to change his nameto Vince Meele.
I mean, my God, that dude justcannot seem to get his weight
(09:57):
under control.
Holy hell, he should justchange his name to Vince Meele,
because food apparently hasbecome his newest addiction.
Even David Lee Roth I don'tknow if you guys saw that video
of him singing after beingdormant for five years, but he
probably should have stayed thatway.
I mean, he hasn't had a voicein like 30 years, but he himself
(10:22):
had an eye for talent, even ifhis lacked, because he found
guys like steve vai and on hissolo album a little ain't enough
in 91.
That's when you could kind ofhear that his voice was starting
to go.
But he found a guitarist namedjason becker who could shred
like hell, but sadly that wasbefore he was tragically
diagnosed with ALS.
So that was the one album thathe did with David Lee Roth.
Sorry, I'm like all over theplace here, guys.
(10:42):
I'm sorry.
I've just been working so muchlately at the new restaurant
that I just haven't really hadmuch time to think of this stuff
.
So this is what you're gettingthis week.
But since I brought up motleycrew, I also just got to say
this I think there was a betterband out there called rat that
really didn't get the love thatthey deserved.
I mean, warren de martini isprobably one of the most
(11:05):
underrated guitarists I've everheard and that dude just never
gets his love.
But I also think that rat weremuch better musicians than
motley crew, like motley crewhad the image in the chaos but
rat could actually play roundand round, lay it down.
They've got a great song calleddance which I feel like should
(11:29):
be at every dive bar staple.
Even their stuff in the 90slike love and use, a dirty job
or all or nothing.
Those songs are fucking bops.
Like they weren't just powerchords and pyrotechnics.
That band had actual chops likeyeah, motley crew might have
partied harder but rat playedtighter and if you listen back
(11:52):
it kind shows.
And a lot of those bands mightsound cheesy now but they did
lay the groundwork for what thehard rock, post-grunge and even
some alt-metal acts are liketoday, like people clown on glam
for its image.
But they forget that a lot ofit was just blue-collar guys
playing loud music about sex,drugs and escapism, which is no
different than half the rockcoming out today.
(12:13):
All of those songs from the 80slike Girls, girls, girls or Lay
it Down laid the groundwork forsongs like Figure you Out by
Nickelback, or Crazy Bitch byBuck Cherry, or Love is a Gun by
no Resolve.
Yeah, they got their own songstoo, not just covers.
And that's what I kind of likeabout those early 2000s bands is
(12:34):
they had the sound of thegrunge, like that darker,
heavier sound, but they kind ofhad the themes or the lyrics of
those fun 80s songs thateverybody used to party hard to
like.
I don't know what happened inthe 2000s, but everybody was
just so tired of being sodepressed.
So they're like hey, maybe wekeep the heavier sounding music,
(12:58):
but let's make the lyrics alittle bit more fun here.
Unless you were a group likestained, I mean, aaron lewis
just didn't get the freakingmemo here.
Unless you were a group likestained, I mean, aaron lewis
just didn't get the freakingmemo.
But again, even he went countryand his country song slap.
I actually think he did it as ajoke.
I could be totally wrong aboutthis, but he wrote one of the
best country songs I've everheard called granddaddy's gun.
(13:18):
Like go check that song out.
Like all these rock countrycrossovers are freaking awesome.
But then even those really heavymetal acts of the 80s and 90s.
Like Metallica, pantera, dreamTheater, tool.
They were even kind of inspiredby different branches of that
same tree, because I thinkMetallica initially started
(13:38):
because they hated glam metaland they were like where's the
punk aspect to metal that weseem to have lost?
So they brought it back.
So, arguably, without hairmetal or glam metal, whatever
you want to call it, we don'tget Metallica.
So there we go, but all of thosebands influence modern bands,
(13:59):
getting all the love nowadayslike sleep token Okay, I could
clearly go on about this forhours, so I got to make like a
condom and wrap it up.
Go listen to something thatslaps.
Tell nickelback that you'resorry for all the hate and if
you've only heard back in blackbecause of your dad's truck
radio, go educate yourself.
Stop sleeping on older bands,stop ignoring the newer ones,
(14:21):
trying to keep the spirit aliveand, for the love of God, stop
acting like you're discoveringrock through TikTok.
All right, that's all I got.
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Tell them to follow the pod onSpotify, apple or wherever they
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(14:45):
com.
All right, have a great weekand we'll catch up next time.
All right.
So last week's episode waspretty heavy Serial killer
groupies, broken men, falseaccusations it was just a lot.
So this week we're going tokeep it simple Nothing but music
this week.
All right.
But with that said, I got tosay we're going to start off
with some tough news Brad Arnold, the lead singer of Three Doors
(00:31):
Down.
He recently announced that hehas stage four cancer.
So prayers up to Brad.
And if you're sitting there likewait, who the hell's Brad
Arnold?
He's the voice behindKryptonite, a karaoke classic
and the unofficial anthem ofdudes who peaked in middle
school.
And while Kryptonite might havebeen their biggest hit, it's
(00:54):
not even close to the onlybanger that they had They'd hear
Without you.
When I'm Gone, let Me Go.
Even their newer stuff, like Inthe Dark, all bopsops.
And if you stop listening tothem post 2010, do yourself a
favor and dive back in, becausethey do have some good stuff
that they came out with a fewyears ago or maybe 10 years ago.
(01:15):
At this point I have no idea.
I have no concept of time.
Dude, fucking work has beenkicking my ass.
But honestly, a lot of thosepost-grunge bands they all still
kind of slap like.
Take nickelback, for example.
I don't care what anyone says,I love that band.
Everyone just jumped on the hatetrain because it's the first
big internet meme.
(01:36):
But think about it.
I think part of the hate wasthat people said that their
songs all kind of sound the same.
But then you got ACDC.
That's been cranking out thesame three riffs about sex for
50 years and no one gives a shitabout that.
Well, some people do, but Idon't, because I love them and I
mean, hey, they must have beendoing something right, because
(01:58):
they got inducted into the Rockand Roll Hall of Fame back in
2003.
Then again, the Rock Hall's abigger joke than this podcast.
So back in 2003.
Then again the Rock calls abigger joke than this podcast.
So do what you will with that.
And I think I said this in oneof my earliest episodes.
But ACDC's got two songs calledShoot the Thrill, and If you
Want Blood, you Got it, andthey're the exact same guitar
(02:18):
riff.
But I do have a theory on that,because the album Back in Black
, which Shoot the Thrill was on.
You have a theory on thatbecause the album back in black,
which shoot to throw was on,was in honor of bon scott, so
angus and malcolm probablyrecycled the riff on purpose, I
don't know.
But if acdc can get away withhaving the same songs over and
over again, then why can'tnickelback and honestly, figure
you out how you remind me burnit to the Rain Bottoms Up.
(02:42):
These songs all sound nothingalike, even seeing Quentin and
Side Of A Bullet go friggin'hard and if I'm not mistaken, I
think Side Of A Bullet wasactually a tribute to Dimebag
Daryl and it's way more metalthan people give them credit for
.
And whoever their guitarist is,he actually, I think, also does
a little bit of a tribute toDimebag with a solo.
(03:04):
So if you haven't heard that,give that one a listen.
But I also saw this interviewrecently with john resnick from
the google dolls I think that'show you say his last name and he
was talking about chad krogerfrom nickelback, and john
resnick pretty much juststraight up said that chad is
just a hit machine like the dude, writes three hooks in every
(03:26):
song and is a brilliantsongwriter.
So maybe the internet justneeds to kind of chill a little
bit and maybe it's time that westop roasting Nickelback just
because it's trendy and startadmitting that photograph hits
harder than most of ourchildhood memories.
But I gotta say I don't thinkpost-grunge bands really got the
love that they deserve, becauseeveryone's either obsessed with
(03:49):
the real grunge era or theyjump straight to the pop punk
stuff like Blink-182.
But there's a whole pocket ofmusic from 2003 to like 2011
that absolutely holds up.
Bands like Trap 12, stones,default Red, even Hinder oh my
god Hinder.
Everybody knows Lips of anAngel, which is like the
(04:10):
ultimate cheating song.
But you guys gotta check outsome of their other stuff, like
Another Way Out, get Stoned andBurn it Down.
They even did a rock cover ofBorn to Be Wild by Steppenwolf
and the cover is actuallyfreaking fantastic.
They also did a collab with aband called no Resolve and did a
version of Unstoppable thathonestly hits harder than the
(04:31):
original Sia track.
But you know what?
Speaking of underrated, let'stalk about a group called
Emphatic.
If you've never heard of them,don't worry, I don't think most
people have.
But they were just this rawpost-grunge band that rebranded
as a new group called ThroughFire, and Through Fire leans a
little bit more metal.
To me.
They kind of sound a little bitmore in the realm of Skillet,
(04:54):
but the first time I heardThrough Fire I was driving home
from work one day and their songStronger popped up on the radio
and this is back in themid-2010s and once I heard that
that song just became my go-togym anthem and honestly it still
is.
But once I heard that song Ikind of dug into their catalog a
little bit like who the hellare these guys?
And the more I dug into themthat's when I realized that they
(05:16):
were actually originally calledemphatic.
So then I started listening tothat stuff and I was like holy
crap, this stuff is great.
Like they got a song calledtonight low-key, it's a great
wedding song but you also mightcry out your demon with frosted
tips.
And then they also have a songcalled bounce, which I don't
know how the hell this hasn'tmade the strip club circuit
(05:38):
because it's literally aboutbouncing on a dick.
But you can also hear hints ofwhere they're headed with their
song called another life.
It's not as metal, but it wasdefinitely a stepping stone
towards their through fire sound.
But you know what, since webrought up some covers earlier
with the band no resolve, modernbands have been turning pop and
(06:00):
country songs into straight uprock anthems, like no resolve
has a cover of easy on me byAdele and I actually like that
version more than the original.
And don't get me started ontheir version of Last Night by
Morgan Wallen.
I'm not even kidding.
Their version of Last Nightmakes the original sound like a
pregame for a church service.
(06:20):
Sorry, I'm also still dealingwith this fucking cough.
But then there's another bandcalled State of Mind and they
covered God's Country by BlakeShelton and let me tell you it
sounds like that song was meantto be played in a truck that's
on fire, driving through atornado.
And their version of Somethingin the Orange by Zach Bryan.
(06:42):
It's gritty and haunting in allthe right ways, like state of
mind covering God's Country orSomething in the Orange.
It's like those songs weresupposed to be metal all along.
It's kind of like if someoneasked what would this pop hit
sound like if it was played atoz fest?
But it fucking works.
And while we're talking aboutcountry and rock crossing paths,
(07:03):
how about this?
Did you know that the song stay?
Yeah, that big florida georgialine hit it's actually a
blackstone cherry original.
Yeah, my friend told me thatthey were a band that I might
like.
So I looked into them and Iheard that song.
I was like why the hell do Iknow this?
And then it clicked like holyshit, this is a Florida Georgia
(07:23):
Line song.
But then when I looked up whodid it first, florida Georgia
Line put their version out ayear after Blackstone Cherry's
version and of course, theirversion blew up because in 2010,
slapping a country accent onanything was the musical
equivalent of printing money.
But Blackstone Cherry's versionis actually so much better and
(07:44):
they weren't a one-hit wondereither.
They have tracks like Me andMary Jane Blame it on the Boom
Boom White Trash Millionairethat I swear they just read
about Jordan Belfort and waslike, yeah, there's a song in
here somewhere.
But they weren't trying toreinvent the wheel, they just
made sure the damn thingsteamrolled over you.
Plus, they also have an awesomecover of what's Love Got To Do
(08:06):
With it that they put out intribute to Tina Turner when she
passed away.
So give that a listen if youhaven't, because it fucking
slaps.
But speaking of modern artists,don't sleep on what the old
heads are still doing, becauseslash had a solo album back in
2010 and did a track with fergiecalled beautiful, dangerous,
(08:28):
and we saw that combo live.
If memory serves me right, itwas when the Packers and the
Steelers were playing in theSuper Bowl that year and Black
Eyed Peas did the halftime showand then they brought Slash out.
I remember being at my buddy'sSuper Bowl party back then.
He was just like why the hellis Slash here?
And then they went intoBeautiful, dangerous.
And it wasn't until a coupleyears after where I actually
(08:50):
heard the song.
I was like, oh, now that tracks, but that super bowl
performance.
That's when we also found outyeah, fergie is beautiful but
her singing is dangerouslyhorrible.
Like that man deserves a grammyand a patience award.
Like, how do you make somebodywho sings like a malfunctioning
(09:13):
car alarm and still drop abanger?
But still, slash made it workand just like ACDC still makes
it work.
Sure, every song is about sexand sounds the same, but how
many times have you screamed?
You shook me all night long onkaraoke night, exactly.
Hair metal kind of gets clownednow, especially nowadays,
(09:34):
because you got those old actsstill running around on stage in
leather pants trying to be likehow they were in their like
what?
Early the mid-20s and it justdoesn't work nowadays.
I mean vince neal trying tobelt out girls, girls, girls.
Dude's got to change his nameto Vince Meele.
I mean, my God, that dude justcannot seem to get his weight
(09:57):
under control.
Holy hell, he should justchange his name to Vince Meele,
because food apparently hasbecome his newest addiction.
Even David Lee Roth I don'tknow if you guys saw that video
of him singing after beingdormant for five years, but he
probably should have stayed thatway.
I mean, he hasn't had a voicein like 30 years, but he himself
(10:22):
had an eye for talent, even ifhis lacked, because he found
guys like steve vai and on hissolo album a little ain't enough
in 91.
That's when you could kind ofhear that his voice was starting
to go.
But he found a guitarist namedjason becker who could shred
like hell, but sadly that wasbefore he was tragically
diagnosed with ALS.
So that was the one album thathe did with David Lee Roth.
Sorry, I'm like all over theplace here, guys.
(10:42):
I'm sorry.
I've just been working so muchlately at the new restaurant
that I just haven't really hadmuch time to think of this stuff
.
So this is what you're gettingthis week.
But since I brought up motleycrew, I also just got to say
this I think there was a betterband out there called rat that
really didn't get the love thatthey deserved.
I mean, warren de martini isprobably one of the most
(11:05):
underrated guitarists I've everheard and that dude just never
gets his love.
But I also think that rat weremuch better musicians than
motley crew, like motley crewhad the image in the chaos but
rat could actually play roundand round, lay it down.
They've got a great song calleddance which I feel like should
(11:29):
be at every dive bar staple.
Even their stuff in the 90slike love and use, a dirty job
or all or nothing.
Those songs are fucking bops.
Like they weren't just powerchords and pyrotechnics.
That band had actual chops likeyeah, motley crew might have
partied harder but rat playedtighter and if you listen back
(11:52):
it kind shows.
And a lot of those bands mightsound cheesy now but they did
lay the groundwork for what thehard rock, post-grunge and even
some alt-metal acts are liketoday, like people clown on glam
for its image.
But they forget that a lot ofit was just blue-collar guys
playing loud music about sex,drugs and escapism, which is no
different than half the rockcoming out today.
(12:13):
All of those songs from the 80slike Girls, girls, girls or Lay
it Down laid the groundwork forsongs like Figure you Out by
Nickelback, or Crazy Bitch byBuck Cherry, or Love is a Gun by
no Resolve.
Yeah, they got their own songstoo, not just covers.
And that's what I kind of likeabout those early 2000s bands is
(12:34):
they had the sound of thegrunge, like that darker,
heavier sound, but they kind ofhad the themes or the lyrics of
those fun 80s songs thateverybody used to party hard to
like.
I don't know what happened inthe 2000s, but everybody was
just so tired of being sodepressed.
So they're like hey, maybe wekeep the heavier sounding music,
(12:58):
but let's make the lyrics alittle bit more fun here.
Unless you were a group likestained, I mean, aaron lewis
just didn't get the freakingmemo here.
Unless you were a group likestained, I mean, aaron lewis
just didn't get the freakingmemo.
But again, even he went countryand his country song slap.
I actually think he did it as ajoke.
I could be totally wrong aboutthis, but he wrote one of the
best country songs I've everheard called granddaddy's gun.
(13:18):
Like go check that song out.
Like all these rock countrycrossovers are freaking awesome.
But then even those really heavymetal acts of the 80s and 90s.
Like Metallica, pantera, dreamTheater, tool.
They were even kind of inspiredby different branches of that
same tree, because I thinkMetallica initially started
(13:38):
because they hated glam metaland they were like where's the
punk aspect to metal that weseem to have lost?
So they brought it back.
So, arguably, without hairmetal or glam metal, whatever
you want to call it, we don'tget Metallica.
So there we go, but all of thosebands influence modern bands,
(13:59):
getting all the love nowadayslike sleep token Okay, I could
clearly go on about this forhours, so I got to make like a
condom and wrap it up.
Go listen to something thatslaps.
Tell nickelback that you'resorry for all the hate and if
you've only heard back in blackbecause of your dad's truck
radio, go educate yourself.
Stop sleeping on older bands,stop ignoring the newer ones,
(14:21):
trying to keep the spirit aliveand, for the love of God, stop
acting like you're discoveringrock through TikTok.
All right, that's all I got.
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com.
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