Listen To This Too | GoozerNation

Welcome to episode 2 of Listen to This. Last week we talked about guys that can shatter glass with their vocals and this week we'll talk about genres… and how I don't believe in them.

The era we live in now is full of products that blur the line between different functionalities and mediums. Take smartphones for example: calling and texting have been standard for cell phones for a while now but we have the added convenience of the internet, games, email, and so much more on the go. I see music the same way -- sure an artist may fit into one or another genre, but styles have become so muddled and merged it's hard to tell where one ends and another begins. This week we'll look at bands that don't believe in falling into any particular sound.

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Incepticons: More Than Meets The Mind

Am I dreaming
Or is this real
I can’t remember
The last time
I saw you here

All the pieces
To this puzzle
Have fallen into place
Every word
You whisper
Invades my brain
And I know
These thoughts
Are not my own
But I can’t help
Feeling
Like singing
Or screaming
Them all
Out
Loud

Build me a coffin
Of this city
So I can rest in peace
Pieces of skyline
Bend and break
Entomb me within
Walls of stone and
Steel girders
Line my lead casket
Dirt domed lid
Dipped beneath the Earth
Food fit for worms

Muscle memory
Replaced with
Robotic reassurance
Capabilities beyond
My control.
Desperation
Traded for
Protection
Perfection
Servitude?

Listen to This | GoozerNation

Welcome to Listen To This. I'm hoping this becomes a weekly, bi-weekly, or at least a monthly column in which I introduce you to music you might not know and should definitely give a chance. I listen to a lot of music and I'm sure there will be artists you're already familiar with and artists that aren't your taste but I'm hoping to cover everything and that you'll be able to pick up something new that you enjoy. The way it works is that I will give you the name of an artist and album (as well as the year it was released), a very quick blurb about the sound/style, and then three tracks to test drive. If you don't like any of the three tracks then this album is most likely not for you.

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Guillotine Whalers

Busy as a bee
I should have left you for the
Birds
Vultures
Like beer
Desire
Death of the Liver

Baby
If you live through
This, it's the same story
Tomorrow
And the next day and the next day and the next day
And the next
Until your end
Of the bargain is upheld
Hold up
The world upon your
Shoulders
Doesn't look like the
Earth I remember
Don't
Let it slipslide
Down your back
Like that black dress
Breaking waves on
The carpet of
His bedroom floor
Rugs like the rising tide

Cargo nets are not safety
Clinging to
Driftwood won't bring you to
Shore and
Seashells
Won't call the merfolk
Swim with the fishes
And don't come up for air
You won't need it where you're
Headed.

EA Online Pass - Non-Sequitor | GoozerNation

EA has an online pass program. We all know of it, in the media it is portrayed in a mostly negative light - "Either buy your game new or we'll charge you 10 - 15 dollars to access our online content."

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(Anti)Gone Fishing

Say farewell
From afar and
Let the dead bury the dead
Unfit for foxholes and
Bird nests
Underwater clouds
Carry the current
Upstream
Downtown deserts
And dusty dirt roads
Decorate the desolate
Jungle
An empty tundra

Please excuse the
Fear I feel
My Faith is fighting
To show itself
Touched
I'm undone and
Breathless
Breathing gets harder
As the miles get longer
Quickly quickly
I crawl
On hand and knee
Humbled to be
Seen by one
Such as yourself
Your
Grace
Knows no bounds

Stop
Drop
And roll
Your a forest fire
But I'm out of control

Come Again

Be still
And know your God

Awake and arise
When the time comes
Will I have
Enough oil
To burn this lamp
Don't let me be a fool
I want to see your face
Please don't say
Please don't say
I knew you not
You know me not
Don't look away

Am I clean
Am I clean
Am I clean
Show unto me
Where the lepers lay
Send me away
Outcast
I am
Refuse and waste
Show me
Show me
Father here's my gift
Am I clean
Am I clean
Am I clean