Song Title: Come To My Window Artist: Melissa Etheridge Play Count: 8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8H926Hmaw

Great vocals. thats all you can really say about this guilty pleasure. anyways, melissa got me to thinking...

people think the are way too cool. picture this scenario: you are in a relatively good mood, not dressed up but not dressed down, some friends are coming over to your place to have a few drinks to start off the evening. before you know it, its 10pm and your sitting alone listening to melissa etheridge. all of your "friends" are still getting ready or trying to find better more important things to do. i've done it, you've done it, sometimes there are extenuating circumstances, so on and so forth.

i guess i just don't understand. besides blatantly lying to your friend (my #1 pet peeve, liars) you are wasting perfectly good bonding time (my number #3 pet peeve, wasting time). the best days start when you crack a beer at 3pm with a small number of people...4 hours later everyone is 12 beers deep and some new soul mates are belting out "--pause--- I wanna come over, to hell with the consequence, you told me you loved me, thats allll i belieeve". thats another melissa etheridge song for those of you that didn't make the connection.

my point. people think that they are way cooler than they actually are. its like they truly believe that if they dress to the nines, start drinking at 10:30pm, go to the local bar/tavern/club they will end up grinding with paris hilton. newsflash, that never happens. its more like: you suck at dancing so you stand awkwardly with your entourage, you drink too much, too fast because you feel like an idiot, then you end up fighting some dude because he saw you dancing like perez hilton (my #2 pet peeve).

don't be a douche. show up when you make plans. believe me, you will have more friends and you might learn to appreciate melissa etheridge.

Repeat Offender: I Wanna Come Over, I'm The Only One

BRYtunes Genius Recommendation: If It Makes You Happy- Sheryl Crow, Play Count 15

some more pet peeves: toe stubbing, slow drivers, the drips of pee that get on your pants no matter how many tugs you give, foreigners, nascar fans claiming nascar drivers are athletes, hats that fit when you buy them but the don't later, driving while trying to eat nuggets with sweet and sour sauce, cutting your fingernails too short, when people leave that gross last sip of beer in the can so it gets the returnables bag all sticky, slow internet, miss-spelled (sp?) words, white hockey players that pick up a canadian accent, myspace profiles, bad wind-shield wipers...this could be a whole new blog (great word)

Song Title: The Cause of Death Artist: Immortal Technique Play Count: 54

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWh077_Ed3w

i'm not a huge fan of rap or hip hop/rap in general. it makes me mad that people dumber than me are making millions of dollars...especially near-retarded pseudo-gangster-rappers (or real gangsters, even worse) with laughably elementary lyrics (50 cent, lil' wayne, t-pain, insert the artist you just heard on the radio here).

i guess you have to respect the likes of biggy, 2pac, nas, and dre if not for any other reason they are idolized by their peers, and there is no greater accomplishment in life than respect of your peers...that being said there are only a handful of songs from these guys i can listen to. let's face it, dealing cocaine, killing people, and the hood-life aren't really relevant to a middle-class white kid from maine.

as with mostly everything there are exceptions. jay-z and eminem are icons. the elite of the elite. comparable to only the best ever in their respective fields (babe ruth- baseball, joe montana- football, michael jordan- basketball, paris hilton- whores). they make you decipher lyrics (challenge your intellect) while still being catchy enough to stay mainstream (idiots still like them) which is truly amazing.

to the point at hand--immortal technique. if you have never listened to immortal technique i highly urge you to buy The Revolutionary Volume II. the man is inferior to no rapper talent wise and he raps about issues that are actually relevant to society. he knows his shit. to keep the metaphor going, immortal technique is the josh gibson of baseball.

some of my favorite lines from this track (The Cause of Death). "i doubt there could ever be a more wicked mc/because aids infested child molesters aren't sicker than me"-- breathtaking! "...with skills unused like fallopian tubes of a dyke/my words will expose george bush and bin laden/as two separate parts of the same seven headed dragon"...great lines. some interesting facts about conspiracy theories in this track too (a guilty pleasure of mine).

i will leave you with one of the greatest verses ever found on a rap album:

"And just so Conservatives don't take it to heart

I don't think Bush did it, 'cuz he isn't that smart
He's just a stupid puppet taking orders on his cell phone
From the same people that sabotaged Senator Wellstone
The military industry got it poppin' and lockin'
Looking for a way to justify the Wolfowitz Doctrine
And as a matter of fact, Rumsfeld, now that I think back
Without 9/11, you couldn't have a war in Iraq
Or a Defense budget of world conquest proportions
Kill freedom of speech and revoke the right to abortions
Tax cut extortion, a blessing to the wealthy and wicked
But you still have to answer to the Armageddon you scripted
And Dick Cheney, you fuckin leech, tell them your plans
About building your pipelines through Afghanistan
And how Israeli troops trained the Taliban in Pakistan
You might have some house niggaz fooled, but I understand
Colonialism is sponsored by corporations
That's why Halliburton gets paid to rebuild nations
Tell me the truth, I don't scare into paralysis
I know the CIA saw Bin Laden on dialysis
In '98 when he was Top Ten for the FBI
Government ties is really why the Government lies
Read it yourself instead of asking the Government why
'Cuz then the Cause of Death will cause the propaganda to die.."

Repeat Offender: The Fourth Branch, Obnoxious, Leaving the Past

BRYtunes Genius Recommendation : Eminem- Mosh, Play Count: 26

Song Title: Justify Artist: Scott Stapp Play Count: 94

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbU1CEAprWg

Scott Stapp is the lead singer from Creed and this song is from his solo album The Great Divide...i know, kind of ironic the first song that came up comes from the lead singer of a christian rock band but i don't discriminate music, *i only discriminate in real life...anyways love the lyrics to the chorus in this song "i do not have to justify/the way i live my life/i don't not have to justify/the reason i'm alive/no more, no more"...my take (different lyrics may be interpreted differently by different people, and thus my opinions in no way reflect those of scott stapp): nobody's belief's or opinions trump those of another...if you don't agree with me and my decisions, leave me alone...i don't have to prove to you that my life choices are suitable.

weirdly i find some of the most religious people to be ridiculously hypocritical with this one. don't judge, don't sin, don't lie...what? you don't believe in my religion/god/rituals? well you're wrong, let me try to convert you before you rot in hell. silly, but whatever floats their boat.

i think mr. stapp realizes the uselessness of trying to justify one's actions also. "yeah i've been that man/who lives deceit/surrounds himself with worldly things"--i mean the guy was a rock star-- and later, "let me change the timber of this section/add a little booze to ice/i guess you probably noticed/i've been living a double life"...awesome--he acknowledges the hypocrisy between his lifestyle/actions and his religion.

BRYtunes Genius Recommendations (similar meaning): Tommy Lee- Hold Me Down, Play Count: 68

Repeat Offender (same artist, other 5stars of interest)- Surround Me, Broken

Humor Moment: my biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics textbook made me giggle today: "statistics are an INTEGRAL part of pharmacokinetics blah blah blah"...get it, calculus- integral-statistics..i thought it was a humorous word choice

*j/k

good question, more background

i have been rating on the 5star system for upward of 5 years now. the argument you present initially left me unusually distressed as would it any level-headed obsessive compulsive freak that would actually take the time to accomplish such an enormous (futile?) chore to begin with. that being said..
mesmerize by ja rule is a damn good song that i will certainly not skip and if i'm having an average to above-average day probably text "i got a fetish for *thugging you with your skirt on the backstreet in the backseat of the yukon" to an unsuspecting male counterpart for giggles (highly encouraged, try it). now our catch-22, even morons of the world realize that giving ja rule mesmerize and jay-z/eminem renegade the exact same rating is nonsensical and discredits any and all merit behind the formula to begin with.
my thought process: this is immensely irritating and i will not stand for such injustices on my laptop. my solution came in next few weeks while eating starburst. all four traditional starburst are 5star in my book but yellow can rot in hell if i have to choose between it and red. thus all starburst are 5star compared to say skittles, but there is a fundamental difference between each of the flavors: red=renegade, yellow=mesmerize. if you were to look at the bag of candies say 15 minutes after i open it and have successfully upset my stomach, there will be 60% yellow, 15% pink, 15% orange, and 10% red remaining. thus i frequented the red opposed to the yellow. the simplicity of the answer blindsided me like a blitzing linebacker being blocked by jason peter: the play count can supplement the rating and solve my problem!
it works for me for the most part. renegade is 5stars with 112 plays while mesmerize is 5stars with only 12 plays. albeit you still must consider genre- and this i consider personal preference. second tier 5star alternative rock songs get more love from me than do the gold-standard 5star electronica. its not perfect by any means but it gets me through the day.
as for the definition of a 5star song- in my book its pretty lenient. especially when listening to new stuff from other folk. when i get new stuff, if i even remotely like whats going on i will slap a 5star on it so that it is likely to be played again. after 5-6 plays i usually edit my rating to what i feel appropriate. it is long, it is painstaking, and i almost committed suicide when transferring songs to a new computer but hey i guess thats just the way it goes for the anal individuals of the world (the janet reno kind fools, not the raven riley kind *wink*)

*this lyric is wrong. the explicit lyric may be googled but it is not included here in case someone important is really bored and technically savvy enough to discover this blog (great word)

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