Today in English class I finally received a blog assignment that I'm excited to write about: Music! Music plays an extremely important part in my life. My iPod headphones are almost always in my ears, and the music I listen to helps me deal with things like stress.
I was raised listening to two kinds of music- country and rock. As contradictory as that sounds, those are the two primary music genres on my iPod. I also listen to a lot of Alternative, Punk, Metal, and a small amount of Pop (nothing new). The music that is very popular now like Justin Beiber, Miley Cyrus, Kesha, Lady Gaga- I hate just about all of it. And I hate rap and hip-hop, with the exception of a few old rap songs from the 90s (I like the song "Just the Two of Us" by Will Smith for example).Anything newer than say, 2000, that is rap or hip-hop is generally on my hates-to-listen-to list.
Rock/Alternative/Metal/Punk:
I have many bands that I love in the Rock/Alternative/Metal/Punk genres. I love (in alphabetical order because that's the order they are on my iPod lol)
AC/DC (who doesn't?) ("Hells Bells")
The All-American Rejects ("Dirty Little Secret", "Gives You Hell")
Anberlin ("Feel Good Drag")
Apocalyptica ("I Don't Care")
Avril Lavinge ("Nobody's Home", "Forgotten", "Keep Holding On", "My Happy Ending")
Blue October ("Hate Me")
Boys Like Girls ("Thunder", "Hero/Heroine")
Breaking Benjamin ("I Will Not Bow", "Diary of Jane", "So Cold")
Bush ("Machinehead", "Glycerine")
Candlebox ("You", "Far Behind")
Creed ("My Sacrifice", "What's This Life For", "With Arms Wide Open")
Crossfade ("Cold")
Evanescence ("Bring Me To Life", "Call Me When You're Sober", "My Immortal", "My Last Breath")
Fall Out Boys ("Hum Hallelujah", "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs")
Five Finger Death Punch ("Bad Company")
Flyleaf ("All Around Me")
Green Day ("Wake Me Up When September Ends", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams")
Hinder ("Lips of an Angel")
The Killers ("When You Were Young", "Mr. Brightside")
Korn ("Freak on a Leash", "Alone I Break")
Linkin Park ("In the End", "Numb", "New Divide")
Live ("Lightning Crashes")
Matchbox Twenty ("How Far We've Come", "Long Day", "Real World")
Metallica ("Sandman", "Unforgiven", "Nothing Else Matters")
Muse ("Time is Running Out")
Nickelback ("Photograph", "Rockstar")
Nirvana ("Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Lithium", "In Bloom", "Heart Shaped Box")
Oasis ("Wonderwall", "Don't Look Back in Anger")
The Offspring ("Gone Away", "Self-Esteem", "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid")
Papa Roach ("Last Resort", "Lifeline", "Time is Running Out")
Paramore ("Ignorance", "Brick By Boring Brick", "That's What You Get", "Misery Business")
Pearl Jam ("Last Kiss")
Radiohead ("Creep")
Red Hot Chili Peppers ("Dani California")
Seether ("Broken", "Fake It")
Seven Mary Three ("Cumbersome")
Shinedown ("Sound of Madness", "Second Chance")
Sixx: A.M. ("Life is Beautiful")
Skillet ("Whispers in the Dark", "Hero", "Monster", "Falling Inside the Black")
Smashing Pumpkins ("Bullet with Butterfly Wings")
Staind ("All I Want", "Mudshovel", "Outside", "So Far Away")
Stone Temple Pilots ("Plush", "Interstate Love Song")
Three Days Grace ("Never Too Late", "Over and Over", "Riot", "Break", "I Hate Everything About You")
Weezer ("Troublemaker", "Say It Ain't So")
3 Doors Down ("Here Without You", "Kryptonite", "When I'm Gone")
30 Seconds To Mars ("This Is War", "Night of the Hunter")
That's not all, but those are the major ones...
Pop:
The bands/signers in the Pop genre that I like are closer to Alternative/Punk than anything else. For example, Jem is a singer I absolutely love. I posted about her music in November. Others I love (In alphabetical order also) :
Cascada ("Everytime We Touch")
Jem ("24", "They", "Falling For You", "Missing You", "Flying High", "Save Me", "Stay Now")
Lenka ("Trouble is a Friend")
Michelle Branch ("All You Wanted", "Everywhere")
P!nk ("U+Ur Hand", "Sober")
That's not all, but those are the major ones...
Country:
There are many country bands that I love also. I love (In alphabetical order, of course lol) :
Alison Krauss ("When You Say Nothing At All", "Whiskey Lullaby")
Brad Paisley (She's Everything", "Whiskey Lullaby", "The World")
Brooks & Dunn ("Believe")
Bucky Covington ("A Different World")
Carrie Underwood ("Before He Cheats", "Just A Dream", "So Small", "Jesus, Take the Wheel")
Chris Cagle ("Wal-Mart Parking Lot")
Craig Morgan ("That's What I love About Sunday")
Deana Carter ("Strawberry Wine")
Dixie Chicks ("Cold Day In July", "Cowboy Take Me Away", "Without You", "You Were Mine")
Faith Hill ("This Kiss", "I Can't Do That Anymore", "The Way You Love Me")
Garth Brooks ("This Dance", "More Than A Memory", "We Shall Be Free", "In Another's Eyes")
George Strait ("Check Yes Or No")
Gretchen Wilson ("Here For The Party, "Redneck Woman", "Homewrecker")
Jamey Johnson ("In Color")
Jaron and the Long Road to Love ("Pray for You")
Julie Roberts ("Break Down Here", "Wake Up Older")
Martina McBride ("Concrete Angel", "Independence Day", "I Love You", "Wild Angels")
Miranda Lambert ("Gunpowder and Lead", "White Liar", "The House that Built Me")
Reba McEntire ("Fancy")
Sara Evans ("Suds in the Bucket", "Backseat of A Greyhound Bus")
Sherrie Austin ("One Solitary Tear")
Steve Wariner ("Holes in the Floor of Heaven")
Sugarland ("Baby Girl", "Stay")
Taylor Swift ("Change", "Enchanted", "Fearless", "Love Story", "Speak Now", "Tim McGraw")
Terri Clark ("Girls Lie Too")
Tim McGraw ("Don't Take the Girl", "Indian Outlaw", "It's Your Love", "My Little Girl")
Toby Keith ("Courtesy of the Red, White, And Blue", "We Were In Love", "Beer for my Horses")
Trace Adkins ("Arlington")
The Wreckers ("Leave the Pieces")
Zac Brown Band ("Chicken Fried")
That's not all, but those are the major ones...
Wow, that's a really long post. Lol, Oh well. Now everyone has an idea about my taste in music :-)
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| This is a picture of my Mamaw last year <3 |
Now....That was the post I was required to do today. I also wanted to post today about my Grandma's Birthday! :-) I usually call my Grandma "Mamaw" and today she is the big 65! She was born on January 25, 1946 in Gallia, Ohio. She's kind and sensitive, and is very religious. I love her <3
My Mamaw's name is Becky Wallace. Before her hair was gray it was an aburn color, almost red. She said she used to get teased for being a red-head. Now her hair is primary gray and white, but she does have a bit of auburn left.
Whenever I need help, she always gives good advice, and she always seems to know what to do. She's helped me with my driving, and has helped me to become a better person. She's always concerned about her grandchildren, and loves to spoil us :-) She also loves to bake us her famous No-Bake Cookies (On which I posted about at Thanksgiving). So Happy Birthday Mamaw!
