Morning Stream of Consciousness Ramble

nbbmom and I once discussed how Fuel has basically one good song per album, and the rest is junk. And, I'm thinking that "Falls On Me" isn't the good one from this new album yet. So, I'm driving into work this morning, which means I'm actually sitting still because it's Atlanta traffic and it's 34 (1) and raining so everyone in Atlanta leaves their brains home so they won't get wet and there are all sorts of crashes and wrecks. Anyway, on the radio comes an Atlanta Thrashers (hockey) commercial and they say that Fuel will be playing after the game. Or maybe it's during, but I don't know what would be less boring -- a Thrashers game with this year's team, or listening to Fuel. Anyway, for the background music for this commercial, do they play a Fuel song from the new album? Nope, it's Hemorrhage, which was the good one from the last album. And, like, the last 5 seconds of the commercial, when the announcer is doing the rapid-talk-disclaimer thing, they play something like one lyric from "Falls on Me". Guess no one else likes their new stuff either.

And, speaking (writing?) of music, I am getting this strange fascination with the song "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by The Darkness. Check it out, it's this weird cross between rock and that stuff we called (with the political incorrectness of youth) "EuroFag" back in the mid-80s. You know, bands like Depeche Mode, Yaz, Bronsky Beat, Erasure. Ah, those were the days. But anyway, that's what The Darkness sounds like to me, except with more electric guitars and maybe even a little upbeat instead of drink-yourself-to-death depression.

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Okay, theashifaction just directed me to watch the video for that Darkness song "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" I was talking about in the last post.

It's here, if you have the courage to sit through it: http://www.thedarknessrock.com/video/

It's...weird. For instance, I was completely unaware that Freddy Mercury and Tiny Tim had a love child. Or that commercial videos could be made with concepts involving foam aliens.

But the video didn't ruin it for me. I still have an increasingly unnatural attraction to the song.