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Thursday, March 10, 2016

My Top 100 Favourite Songs 2010-14 Edition: #71

#71. “Go Right Ahead" – The Hives

Released: 3/4/12

Album: Lex Hives

The Hives came back in 2012 after five years with their fifth album... and barely anyone noticed. Which is a shame. For me The Hives have already produced great singles and "Go Right Ahead" is another cracker. If you like The Hives generally over the years, their style of garage rock, then give this song a listen. Honestly it's just as good as anything else they've done over the years, and the video has its funny moments too. Why no one paid any attention to this track I don't know. But I've always liked it, hence why it features on my list of favourite music singles of the last half decade.

Here's the music video if you want to hear it!

If you missed #72 go here.

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Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Rock and Metal Double Feature Show 16/3/14

Hey, and welcome to the newest entry of The Rock and Metal Double Feature Show. I'm starting to put these up intentionally a week late, so it reminds people to tune into the next show later today. Speaking of the show on later today, that's actually going to be up at around 3:30pm as I have plans this evening.

Last week's show I promoted a local band for the first time. It was Lucy Was a Decoy, who were based in North Wales. Check out their other stuff at www.facebook.com/lucywasadecoy. I'll be promoting another local band on today's show and I actually have an interview with them. If you want to listen to the show at 3:30pm check out www.mixcloud.com/johnnymercyside.

Here's last week's show:

The Rock and Metal Double Feature Show (16/3/14) by Johnny Mercyside on Mixcloud

The Rock and Metal Double Feature Show: 2/3/14
Track listing:
The Rock Show
Coffee and TV - Blur
Nobody Told Me - John Lennon
Heroes and Ghosts - The Coronas
Kathleen - Catfish and the Bottlemen
Guilty Pleasure - Lucy Was a Decoy
Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
Love Rollercoaster - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Sweet 16 - Feeder
Comfort Eagle - Cake
Little Monster - Royal Blood
Tick Tick Boom - The Hives
Bad Blood - Beck
Psychosis Safari - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

The Metal Hour
Johnny - System of a Down
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
I'm Not Okay (I Promise) - My Chemical Romance
Children of the Korn - Korn feat. Ice Cube
Stand for Something - Skindred
Voices - Disturbed
Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag - Marilyn Manson
Beneath Black Skies - Paradise Lost
Don't Fear the Reaper - HIM
A Bed of Roses - QueenAdreena
Dragula in the Deep - Rob Zombie vs Adele
For Fucks Sake - Nailbomb
Born to Raise Hell - Motorhead
Total running time: 02:00:00

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Sunday, February 02, 2014

The Mercyside 100: #55 to #41

Before I talk about the next part of The Mercyside 100 I had some great news on Thursday. A few weeks ago I made The Metal Hour, and sent it as a demo to a Northern Irish FM radio station to try and get a slot on there. Well, I got the gig! It's only for four weeks in June, but to say I'll be appearing on an FM radio station is amazing. To read more about this amazing news go here.

Okay back to The Mercyside 100. I posted this show o Wednesday and it's the halfway point of the series. I cover from #55 to #41 in counting down the 100 songs I played more than any other on my personal media player.

You can listen to this in DJ show format here:

The Mercyside 100: #55 - #41 (29/1/14) by Johnny Mercyside on Mixcloud

So here is the fourth part of the Mercyside 100, from #55 to #41! I'll also recap from #100 to #51 further down the list!

#55: Gold on the Ceiling

Artist: The Black Keys

Album: El Camino

Released: 2011

#54: Scentless Apprentice

Artist: Nirvana

Album: In Utero

Released: 1993

#53: People = Shit

Artist: Slipknot

Album: Iowa

Released: 2001

#52: Redneck

Artist: Lamb of God

Album: Sacrament

Released: 2006

#51: Sucked In

Artist: Jerk

Album: When Pure is Defiled

Released: 2003

Okay, so here's a recap of the list so far, from #100 to #51:

#100: Hey, Cruel World… - Marilyn Manson (Born Villain, 2012)
#99: Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown - Rob Zombie (Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor, 2013)
#98: My Curse - Killswitch Engage (As Daylight Dies, 2006)
#97: Babylon - Skindred (Babylon, 2002)
#96: Supremacy - Muse (The 2nd Law, 2012)
#95: Ayo Technology - 50 Cent feat. Justin Timberlake and Timbaland (Curtis, 2007)
#94: 212 (feat. Lazy Jay) - Azealia Banks (1991, 2012)
#93: Right Now - PSY (PSYFIVE, 2010)
#92: YYZ - Rush (Moving Pictures, 1981)
#91: Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd, 1973)
#90: Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll - Blue Oyster Cult (Blue Oyster Cult, 1972)
#89: I Put a Spell on You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins (At Home With, 1956)
#88: Verta Ja Lihaa - Turmion Katilot (Hoitovirhe, 2004) - Most Played Song November 2013
#87: Get Up! (feat. Skrillex) - KoRn (The Path of Totality, 2011)
#86: Low Hangin' Fruit - Tenacious D (Rize of the Fenix, 2012)
#85: Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath (Master of Reality, 1971)
#84: Holy Diver - Killswitch Engage (As Daylight Dies, 2006)
#83: Drivel - The Union Underground (…An Education in Rebellion, 2000)
#82: The Ritual - Saul Williams (The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!, 2007)
#81: Tarantula (feat. Fresh) - Pendulum (Hold Your Colour, 2005)
#80: Dracula - Basement Jaxx (2011)
#79: Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-a-lot (Mack Daddy, 1992)
#78: Sax Man (feat. Jack Black) - The Lonely Island (Incredibad, 2009)
#77: Bom Bom - Sam and the Womp (2012)
#76: Korea - PSY (2012)
#75: Pussy Liquor - Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses Soundtrack, 2003)
#74: Pull Me Under - Dream Theater (Images and Words , 1992)
#73: Vicarious - Tool (10,000 Days, 2006)
#72: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - Disturbed (Asylum, 2010)
#71: House of the Rising Sun - The Animals (The Animals, 1964)
#70: My Wall (feat. Excision and Downlink) - KoRn (The Path of Totality, 2011)
#69: Closer - Nine Inch Nails (The Downward Spiral, 1994)
#68: I'm on a Boat (feat. T-Pain) - The Lonely Island (Incredibad, 2009)
#67: Bad Girls - M.I.A. (Matangi, 2012)
#66: Last Child - Aerosmith (Rocks, 1976)
#65: White Limo - Foo Fighters (Wasting Light, 2011)
#64: Fishfingers - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster (Horse of the Dog, 2002)
#63: Holy Wars... The Punishment Due - Megadeth (Rust in Peace, 1990)
#62: Fukken Über Death Party - Hanzel und Gretyl (2012: Zwanzig Zwölf, 2008)
#61: Jus' a Rascal - Dizzee Rascal (Boy in da Corner, 2004)
#60: Death By Diamonds and Pearls - Band of Skulls (Baby Darling Doll Face Honey, 2010)
#59: Slipping Away - Nine Inch Nails (Things Falling Apart, 2000)
#58: Fire Like This - Hardknox (Hardknox, 1997)
#57: Go Kindergarten (feat. Robyn) - The Lonely Island (The Wack Album, 2013)
#56: Crying Lightning - Arctic Monkeys (Humbug, 2009)
#55: Gold on the Ceiling - The Black Keys (El Camino, 2011)
#54: Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana (In Utero, 1993)
#53: People = Shit - Slipknot (Iowa, 2001)
#52: Redneck - Lamb of God (Sacrament, 2006)
#51: Sucked In - Jerk (When Pure is Defiled, 2003)

Let's start the second half of this listing! At #50 is...

#50: Pass Out

Artist: Tinie Tempah

Album: Disc-Overy

Released: 2009

#49: All Time Low

Artist: Nine Inch Nails

Album: Hesitation Marks

Released: 2013

#48: Low

Artist: Flo Rida (feat. T-Pain)

Album: Mail on Sunday

Released: 2007

#47: If I Had a Tail

Artist: The Queens of the Stone Age

Album: ...Like Clockwork

Released: 2013

#46: Broken Out in Love*

Artist: Mark Crozer and The Rels

Album: None

Released: 2012
*Note: The song is called "Broken Out in Love", but the WWE purchased it, renamed it "Live in Fear", and used it as a theme for their WWE superstar Bray Wyatt.

#45: Talk Dirty

Artist: Jason Derulo (feat. 2 Chainz)

Album: Tattoos

Released: 2010

Most played song of December 2013

#44: Wretches and Kings

Artist: Linkin Park

Album: A Thousand Suns

Released: 2010

#43: Go Right Ahead

Artist: The Hives

Album: Lex Hives

Released: 2012

#42: Enough Space

Artist: Foo Fighters

Album: The Colour and the Shape

Released: 1997

#41: YOLO

Artist: The Lonely Island (feat. Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar)

Album: The Wack Album

Released: 2013

So next week I'll be posting #40 to #26 where the songs start heating up... or at least naturally I think so!

The Mercyside 100: #55 to #41: 29/1/14
Track listing:
Gold on the Ceiling - The Black Keys
Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana
People = Shit - Slipknot
Redneck - Lamb of God
Sucked In - Jerk
Pass Out - Tinie Tempah
All Time Low - Nine Inch Nails
Low (feat. T-Pain) - Flo Rida
If I Had a Tail - The Queens of the Stone Age
Broken out in Love - Mark Crozer and The Rels
Talk Dirty (feat. 2 Chainz) - Jason Derulo
Wretches and Kings - Linkin Park
Go Right Ahead - The Hives
Enough Space - Foo Fighters
YOLO (feat. Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar) - The Lonely Island
Total running time: 01:06:10

See other parts of this listing!

#100 to #86 | #85 to #71 | #70 to #56 | #55 to #41 | #40 to #26 | #25 to #11 | #10 to #1

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Saturday, February 02, 2013

Mercy Licks - January 2013

Hey there, and welcome to a new section of my website. Due to not posting much at the moment this may well be the only section I might actually update regularly going forward. I just don't have the motivation to write much at the minute, I have a lot of other things I'm enjoying in life. I do have this to fall back on whenever I get some motivation, or something to do though. It's a hobby not a job!

Anyway, this section is basically me revealing to you the ten songs I've been listening to the most every month. I've started tracking songs and how much I play them now, I'm a statistical nerd like that you see. Why have I done this? I really don't know, I just find it quite interesting to see what songs I listen to the most and when, and of course, to recommend them to you if you haven't heard them before. If this goes my way I might do an "end of year" list as well, but we'll see.

So what are the Ten Mercy Licks of January 2013? Let's find out...

#10: "Sixteen Saltines" - Jack White
This is definitely one of the best tracks of 2012. Jack White finally branches out on his own and his stuff sounds as fresh as anything he's ever done in honesty. The side projects he has done have been hit and miss, usually more hit to be fair, but still, this is a belter track that really shows the true talent of Mr White. Keep it going sir!

#9: "She Bangs" - Ricky Martin
Really Johnny Mercyside? Really? Ricky Martin? You? Listened to this very often last month? Yes, it's true. I have to be honest I have no shame in liking some cheesy pop nowadays. I used to avoid pop and RnB like a house on fire but now I've really relaxed my refrainment for the genres of music I usually dislike. This song came on in the pub when I went out for a drink with some awesome friends and we danced terribly to it. Since then I've enjoyed putting it on once in a while. It's a very catchy pop song. No embarassment about it!

#8: "Gangnam Style" - PSY
...but of course. Yes I love "Gangnam Style" and yes I've played this song possibly more than any other song in the past half year. And yes, I still play it in January 2013. I can't help it. I just love the song, love the video and to be honest, love PSY. You have to hear some of his other stuff. "Gangnam Style" will probably be a one hit wonder for PSY but it really shouldn't be, because he's actually a lot more talented than that. Check his other stuff out if you get a chance.

#7: "Blackout" - Linkin Park
I love this song. It's become one of my favourite ever by Linkin Park. It's also another of the songs I've been playing a lot over the past few months. I first heard it on FIFA 11, like a lot of people. It's arguably the song responsible for me reigniting my interest in the band, as I wasn't really too high on their most recent stuff. It's just a brilliant track, and well worth a listen if you haven't heard it before.

#6: Zerstoren - Rammstein
One of my favourite all time Rammstein songs. I recently got all of the Rammstein discography and was playing their stuff on random. I hadn't listened to of "Rosenrot" before then, so I'd never heard this song. When it came on random the song just blew me away. It's just such a fricking cool song, and is definitely one you need to hear if you haven't before.

#5: "Gold on the Ceiling" - Black Keys
Another band I can thank FIFA for igniting interest in. I was never big on the Black Keys until I heard "Tighten Up", then of course, I heard the amazing "Lonely Boy" and decided to get El Camino, and of course, this is one of the best songs on the album. It was released as a single too. It's just really cool, and shows why the Black Keys take a slightly different approach to their alternative rock than a lot of the other bands around nowadays.

#4: "Salt in the Wounds" - Pendulum
Read what I said about Rammstein and copy and paste. I recently got all of Pendulum's stuff and was pleasantly surprised to really like a lot of it, considering I'm not really into my drum 'n' bass, which a lot of the album material is. But "Salt in the Wounds" is just amazing. I even love the dubstep section towards the end of the song. I love blasting this track and adding some of the bass to it. It's just excellent.

#3: "Electric Worry" - Clutch

I'd be lying to you if I told you I'd heard of Clutch more recently than the turn of the new year. Somehow the band have gone over my head. A friend suggested I look them up and this track was the first to be played. I later found out it was actually used in a lot of Left 4 Dead 2 advertising, so it's very possibly I'd heard this before. It's a really cool country/hard rock hybrid track that sounds fantastic. I'm definitely looking into getting into more Clutch soon.

#2: "Go Right Ahead" - The Hives

I'm surprised to reveal I've listened this song the second most last month. But I must have done. It's a good track, it's a very safe track to be honest, for The Hives to release. It's nothing really special, but it still kicks enough ass to be noticed. I'm not trying to say it's a bad song, it's not, it's very good, and incredibly catchy, but in honesty The Hives have released far better than this in the past.

#1: "We Like Them Girls" - Your Favourite Martian

Ah... Your Favourite Martian. If you've not heard, YFM are Ray William Johnson's music group. RWJ is the most subscribed man on Youtube, showcasing the best viral videos two days a week on his show "Equals Three". He's a very good presenter of the show, but I've found his group to be lacking in quality. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people aspiring to go into different fields, try different things and if you have the time, money and know the right people to do it, go for it. I'm not a big fan of YFM though.

But... I do LOVE this track. I love "We Like Them Girls", it's a very funny track, the video is not bad either, and it just sounds so good. The electronic music, RWJ's rapping ain't too bad on this song, but the best thing is the lyrics. The lyrics are just really funny. To be fair, I also love a girl with a functioning vagina.

So, that's a wrap for today. I hope you've enjoyed this list. I shall be doing it every month. I'm sorry I don't post as much as I used to, but I'm in a very good place in my life right now, and just don't feel up to writing as much. I'm sure I'll return to a more frequent schedule in the future. Until next time, take care!

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Monday, March 07, 2011

Noughtie: Best of 2008 (Mixtape)

Welcome to the penultimate Mixtape! We're so close to the end now, well, in terms of parts of the series. The last two as I've said before, are very long parts. So there's a long way to go yet!
But this is a Mixtape for the year 2008. Which, going on a similar vein to 2007, wasn't a great year. Music was getting much harder to find in terms of good quality music, at least for me anyway. But I have compiled enough material for a Mixtape, and that's below, but first, the Mixtape rules.

A Mixtape is a playlist of a certain genre, band or era. The list is generally 80 minutes long, the same length of a blank CD, with further recommendations if some of the songs aren't to your taste. Remember kids, downloading is wrong!

So what songs have I chosen, and in what track listing order? Let's find out!

Given Up - Linkin Park
Psychosocial - Slipknot
Discipline - Nine Inch Nails
Cyanide - Metallica
Mastermind - Mindless Self Indulgence
Sunday Bloody Sunday - Saul Williams
Paper Planes - MIA
Another Way to Die - Jack White and Alisha Keys
Just - Mark Ronson and Phantom Planet
Pork and Beans - Weezer
Mistress Mabel - The Fratellis
T.H.E.H.I.V.E.S. - The Hives
Ghetto Love - Spinnerette
Kiss With a Fist - Florence and the Machine
Dig! Lazarus! Dig! - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Grounds for Divorce - Elbow
Lucid Dreams - Franz Ferdinand

Don't like some of these? Try these five:

Propane Nightmares - Pendulum
Gives You Hell - The All-American Rejects
The Shock of the Lightning - Oasis
Time to Pretend - MGMT
I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You - Black Kids

So there we go, 9 gone, 1 left to go. But before that, we have a teaser listing. The next listing, which reveals what I think the most important artists are of the decade, will be a taster of what artists you will expect to see in the Top 100 Unbiased listing. I haven't done much unbiased work so far in this series, but the main chunk of work, the grand finale, is all unbiased. So this will be the preview of it. That will be posted on Wedneday. Have a good night.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Noughtie: Best of 2004 (Mixtape)

Welcome to Part 10 of the Noughtie series. This is the fifth Mixtape, celebrating the year of 2004 in rock and metal. 2004 was, in my opinion anyway, a big turning point for the decade. Emo was starting to rise. It wasn't quite here officially yet, but it the roots were sown by now. Here are the Mixtape rules as usual.

Without further delay, let's look at my favourite songs from 2004!

The Unnamed Feeling - Metallica
Y'All Want a Single - KoRn
Hotride - The Prodigy
Roses - OutKast
She Wants to Move - N.E.R.D.
Mosh - Eminem
Mass Destruction - Faithless
Reptilia - The Strokes
Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse
Pressure Point - The Zutons
Processed Beats - Kasabian
Massachusetts Murder Medallions - Kill Kenada
Hey You - The Exies
Two Timing Touch and Broken Bones - The Hives
Fever - Pink Grease
Rise of the Eagles - The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Beating Hearts Baby - Head Automatica
Michael - Franz Ferdinand
Romantic Rights - Death From Above 1979

Don't like some of these songs? Try these five:

Step Up - Drowning Pool
Banquet - Bloc Party
My Band - D12
(s)AINT - Marilyn Manson
Wanna Be That Way - Ikara Colt

So those songs represent my favourite singles of the year 2004. It wasn't my favourite year but some good songs did come out. I shall be back on Tuesday for an article dedicated to the guitar and it's wonderful noise.