🎵 Music 🎵

I'm one of those dodos that say they listen to everything. By default, I'll probably put on 70's-80's dad rock and grandpa metal. Otherwise I'm not too picky.

I liked reading musician biographies in my high school days. The context of a band is almost as important as the music to me. For example, I like the way that Rob Halford influenced a bunch of straight dudes into dressing like leather bottoms.

Some musicians:

• Dad rock
  • Queen
  • KISS 🍌
  • Alice Cooper 🍌
  • Van Halen
  • Guns n' Roses 🍌
  • Def Leppard
  • Warrant
  • The Darkness
  • Steel Panther 🍌
  • Judas Priest
• Heavy metal
  • Strapping Young Lad
  • Devin Townsend
  • Mayhem 🍌
  • Megadeth 🍌
  • Metallica 🍌
  • Rammstein
  • Queens of the Stone Age
• Pop, Hip-Pop:
  • Prince
  • Michael Jackson
  • The Cure
  • Bobby Brown
  • Depeche Mode
  • Anal Del Rey
  • The Weeknd
  • Ying Yang Twins
  • Pretty Ricky
  • Lil Jon

🍌 = I'll know a lil band trivia. You should talk to me about them and we can have an intellectual conversation about their spandex.

Important artists

As Chop Top once said, music... is my life. After all, it's how I met my wife.

Steel Panther:

I bought Balls Out the day it was released. I remember taking the bus after school to a Rasputin record store... Ah, da good ol' days. I spent a good amount of high school and college drawing fanart of Steel Panther!

Of all places, Reddit was how I got into Steel Panther. Someone linked a video of Justin Hawkins playing with them, and I already liked The Darkness. I believe they were doing a cover of "Photograph" by Def Leppard, and going progressively higher into a dog-whistle squeal with the chorus.

I ain't gonna lie, Steel Panther and Metalocalypse heavily influenced my heavy metal ocs. I like the smooth-brained masculinity and stupid sexuality filtered through wigs and nail polish.

They're the main reason I joined Tumblr all those moons ago, to post fanart and save images of them! And they were the subject of my first zine... and my first DIY screenprinted shirt... being a groupie is ACTUALLY artistically sound.

I've seen them live close to 10 times overall. I saw Michael eat some weird food (like pretzels and yogurt or something) backstage once. Satchel asked if I had a boyfriend and I said YEAH Shane, he lives on a farm and I'm gonna MARRY him. Once I saw a show in San Francisco, then right the next day in Los Angeles so I could give them my screenprinted shirts lol.

Covers

I love covers of songs that highlight each artists' styles. Here are some of my favorites. Click the titles for youtube links!