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Writer's pictureKrk Nordenstrom

Who knew research about music I love could be so boring?

Childhood 3-7 in Minnesota

Albums

Night At The Opera

Destroyer

The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Houses of the Holy


Childhood 8-12 in San Jose

Albums

Ghost in the Machine

Screaming For Vengeance

Shake It Up

The Wall

Shout at the Devil

Blackout

Van Halen



Teen Years 12-17 in San Jose

Albums

Master of Puppets

Kill 'Em All

Close to the Edge

Allied Forces

Exit Stage Left

Powerslave

Appetite for Destruction

Mania

Truth and Soul

Uplift Mofo Party Plan


Teen Years 17-18 in San Jose (post swimming)

Albums

Louder than Love

Frizzle Fry

Duckstab

Nothingface

The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste

The Real Thing

Wrong

Reign in Blood

Nothing Shocking


Young Adulthood in Santa Cruz 18-21 (college)

Albums

Badmotorfinger

Mr. Bungle

Blood Sugar Sex Magic

Reality of My Surroundings

Angel Dust

Little Earthquakes

Security

Vulgar Display of Power

Discipline

Fear of a Black Planet

Nevermind

Temple of the Dog

Ten


The Failed San Francisco experiment (21)

Albums

The Sound of White Noise

Skin

Dieselhed


Young Adulthood in Santa Cruz (21-23)

Albums

Undertow

Rage Against the Machine

Humongous

Stinky Grooves

Transmutation

Bucketheadland

Bone Machine

Guest


Young Adulthood in Seattle 23-25

Albums

Host

Houdini

Disco Volante

Bedtime for Democracy

Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy

Tales of the Brown Dragon


Adulthood in Seattle 25-29

Albums

Bumpa

Monsters and Robots

Toward the Within

The Construkction of Light

From the Choirgirl Hotel

Ace of Spades

California

Live in Amerika


The Big Career Change 29-30

Albums

The Joy of Molybdenum

FUCC The INS

Kultura Diktatura

Lateralus

Colma

Purple Onion


The Big Struggle 30-33

Albums

Stoner Witch

Living Daylights

Animals Should Not Try To Behave Like Humans


Gaining A Foothold and the Bad Decisions 33-37

Albums

Songs for the Deaf

Them Crooked Vultures

Crack the Skye


I'm Never Having a 9 to 5 Ever Again 37-39

Albums

Integration

Looking for Landmarks

Seasons in the Abyss

London Calling


The Big Shift 39-41

Albums

The Hunter

Stinky Grooves

Learning to Adult 41-43

Growing Again 43-46

Dealing With Loss and Finding a Sense of Self 46-present


SONG QUOTES

Queen

"I dreamed I saw on a moonlit stair

Spreading his hands on the multitude there

A man who cried for a love gone stale

And ice cold hearts of charity bare

I watched as fear took the old men's gaze

Hopes of the young in troubled graves

I see no day, I heard him say

So grey is the face of every mortal" - Queen, The Prophet's Song

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"So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye

So you think you can love me and leave me to die

Oh baby, can't do this to me baby

Just gotta get out just gotta get right outta here" - Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody --------------------------------------

"Is this the real life or is this just fantasy." - Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody

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Metallica

"Emptiness is filling me

To the point of agony

Growing darkness taking dawn

I was me, but now he's gone" - Metallica, Fade to Black

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"Not dead which eternal lie

Stranger eons death may die

Drain you of your sanity

Face the thing that should not be

Fearless wretch

Insanity

He watches

Lurking beneath the sea

Great old one

Forbidden site

He searches

Hunter of the shadows is rising

Immortal

In madness you dwell" - Metallica, The Thing That Should Not Be

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"Never hunger

Never prosper

I have fallen prey to failure

Struggle within

Triggered again

Now the candle burns at both ends" Metallica, The Frayed Ends Of Sanity

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"Old habits reappear

Fighting the fear of fear

Growing conspiracy

Myself is after me

Frayed ends of sanity

Hear them calling

Frayed ends of sanity

Hear them calling

Hear them calling me" - Metallica, The Frayed Ends Of Sanity

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And I've drunk that, I've drunk this

I've spewed up on a pint of piss

So what, so what

I've had skank, I've have speed

I've jacked up until I bleed

So what, so what

So what, so what, you boring little cunt - Antinowhere League, So What?

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Triumph

"Something's at the edge of your mind, you don't know what it is

Somethin' you were hopin' to find but your not sure what it is

Then you hear the music and it all comes crystal clear

The music does the talkin' says the things you want to hear

I'm young, I'm wild and I'm free

I got the magic power of the music in me" Triumph, Magic Power

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"The days grow shorter and the nights are getting long

Feels like we're running out of time

Every day it seems much harder tellin' right from wrong

You got to read between the lines

Don't get discouraged, don't be afraid, we can

Make it through another day

Make it worth the price we pay" Triump, Fight The Good Fight

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King Crimson

"mmy skin is metallic now, no longer an elegant powder blue... my body

unhinged and sleeping in the jungle of motor block manifolds and metal

relics... what was deluxe becomes debris, I never questioned loyalty,

but this dead end demolishes the dream of an open highway...

dig me...but don't...bury me" King Crimson, Dig Me

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"Well, first of all,

I couldn't even see his face.

I couldn't see his face.

He was holding a gun in his hand.

Umm... I was thinking...

This is a dangerous place..

This is a dangerous place.." King Crimson, Thela Hun Gingeet

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"Talk, talk, it's only talk

Debates, discussions

These are words with a D this time

Dialogue, dualogue, diatribe

Dissention, declamation

Double talk, double talk" King Crimson, Elephant Talk

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Tori Amos

"Excuse me but can I be you for a while

My dog won't bite if you sit real still

I got the anti-Christ in the kitchen yellin' at me again

Yeah I can hear that

Been saved again by the garbage truck

I got something to say you know

But nothing comes

Yes I know what you think of me

You never shut up

Yeah I can hear that" - Tori Amos, Silent All These Years

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The Melvins

"This is for cows

It's not for the size of me

Into my mouth

Nine hundred and fourteen

Try some force try to lead

The foundling die is close determinate

Raise head and stomp the blood

I'm not even sound raid

I'm alive, I got the silver

And I wonder, what will you follow?

When your head, is not in order

And I'm stomping, your little

How can you laugh

How can you lie awake

Making me drive

Making my heart a

Not too fat, not too lean

The foundling die is close excitedly

Raise head and stomp the blood

I'm not even soundly" The Melvins - The Bit

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Dead Kennedys

"Punk ain't no religious cult

Punk means thinking for yourself

You ain't hardcore cos you spike your hair

When a jock still lives inside your head

Nazi punks

Nazi punks

Nazi punks-Fuck Off!

Nazi punks

Nazi punks

Nazi punks-Fuck Off!" Dead Kennedys, Nazi Punks Fuck Off!

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"Punk's not dead

It just deserves to die

When it becomes another stale cartoon

A close-minded, self-centered social club

Ideas don't matter

It's who you know" Dead Kennedys, Chickenshit Conformist

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Pantera

"To see

To bleed

Cannot be taught

In turn

You're making us

Fucking hostile" Pantera, Fucking Hostile

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Rush

"Cast in this unlikely role

Ill-equipped to act

With insufficient tact

One must put up barriers

To keep oneself intact" Rush, Limelight

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"Sprawling on the fringes of the city

In geometric order

An insulated border

In between the bright lights

And the far unlit unknown

Growing up it all seems so one-sided

Opinions all provided

The future pre-decided

Detached and subdivided

In the mass production zone

Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone" Rush, Subdivisions

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Primus

"Hello all you boys and girls

I'd like to take you to the inside world

It's quite an irregular place to be

But never fear you're safe with me

Well, maybe" Primus, Frizzle Fry

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"I just can't seem to blend

Into society

I have no hope for this dim

Simplicity of law and order

By whose rules I see no rhyme in

the reason

I hold no hope for this holy treason

Of love and so soft

By whose standards

They tell me, they tell me

Who are they, who is they" Primus, Eleven

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Slayer

"Trapped in purgatory

A lifeless object, alive

Awaiting reprisal

Death will be their acquittance

The sky is turning red

Return to power draws near

Fall into me, the sky's crimson tears

Abolish the rules made of stone" Slayer, Raining Blood

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Mr. Bungle

"Now I'm finding truth is a ruined, nauseous end that nobody is pursuing

Staring into glassy eyes, mesmerized

There's a vintage thirst returning, but I'm sheltered by my channel surfing

Every famine virtual

Retrovertigo" Mr. Bungle, Retrovertigo

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The Ramones

"Ooo-whee, do it one more time for me!

Ooo-whee, do it one more time for me!

Can't stop stop that girl there she goes again I really really love

To watch her watch her headbangin' Suzy is a headbanger

Her mother is a geek

Do it one more time for me Ooo-ooo-whee! Ooo-ooo-whee!

Headbanging, Headbanging, Headbanging, Headbanging!

Headbanging, Headbanging, Headbanging" The Ramones, Suzy Is A Headbanger

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Motley Crue

"He's the wolf screaming lonely in the night

He's the blood stain on the stage

He's the tear in your eye

Been tempted by his lie

He's the knife in your back

He's rage

He's the razor to the knife

Oh, lonely is our lives

My heads spinnin' round and round

But in the seasons of wither

We'll stand and deliver

Be strong and laugh and

Shout-shout-shout

Shout at the devil" Motley Crue, Shout At The Devil

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Queens of the Stone Age

Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol

Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol

Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol

Nicotine, valium, vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol

Co-co-co-co-co-cocaine" Queens of the Stone Age, Feel Good Hit of the Summer

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Fishbone

"Coming up from the sound

It's got you swimming around

Metal's crushing your bones

As you hit the ground

No blood no foul

Back into the pool

No diving from here

Fuck that rule

I like to swim

Into the mosh" Fishbone, Swim

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"Fight the Youth--

The Youth with poisoned minds

Ignite the truth--

Restore sight to these blind

Fight the youth--

The youth with poisoned minds

And if they suffer it's no fault but their own" Fishbone, Fight The Youth

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