Have I spent enough time talking about music lately? According to the posts\u00a0filed under the “music” category, no, I have not. \u00a0I loves me some WordPress magic.<\/p>\n
I’ve been playing a lot\u00a0more Rock Band <\/strong>over the last two months than I’d been since\u00a0Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock<\/strong>\u00a0came out (Don’t worry, I prefer RB to GH overall, but that’s another post entirely) and I’ve recently\u00a0tried out a few songs that came with that free pack of 20 songs that you could download with a code from RB2. Until now I’ve ignored all of those songs but the one by Shaimus (“Tie You Down” I think?), because I’d never even heard of any of the other bands and I\u00a0heart Shaimus. But now I’ve played a few thanks to the Mystery Setlists, and I was surprised at how much I liked a couple of them. Other than this nice little surprise, I still hate the Mystery Setlists with a firey passion though.<\/p>\n The first song is “Forever” by In This Moment. Metal with a fairly strong female lead vocal? Sign me up! I listened to one of their albums (The Dream<\/span>) afterward, and I was moderately impressed. Not Lacuna Coil impressed, but it’s certainly earned its place on my iPhone.\u00a0It’s also worth mentioning that “Into the Light” is soooo<\/em> sad.<\/p>\n The other song I really liked is “Ashes to Fire” by Ghost Hounds. And good luck finding anything at all relating to Ghost Hounds. I’m not a pirate for piracy’s sake, but I\u00a0admit to illegally downloading albums before I buy them, just to make sure. Ghost Hounds, I could not find a torrent for, so I sucked it up and gave iTunes my $10. Best ten bucks I’ve spent this week.<\/p>\n Ghost Hounds are not<\/em> a band you’d really expect me to like. But the secret is that overall, I\u00a0enjoy funk\/soul almost as much as\u00a0punk or metal. Ghost Hounds\u00a0are a\u00a0little heavy on the guitars, but they’re still funkier than anything else in the RB music store. The best way I can describe them is a\u00a0mash-up of Jimi Hendix, Colin James and\u00a0Ray Charles. Perhaps with\u00a0a\u00a0smattering of Jonny Lang. Fantastic stuff, them Ghost Hounds.<\/p>\n I’m not sure why, but suddenly I’m overcome with an urge to go watch The Blues Brothers<\/em>. Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have I spent enough time talking about music lately? According to the posts\u00a0filed under the “music” category, no, I have not. \u00a0I loves me some WordPress magic. I’ve been playing a lot\u00a0more Rock Band over the last two months than I’d been since\u00a0Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock\u00a0came out (Don’t worry, I prefer RB to GH … Continue reading Rocking Bands<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-plastic-guitars","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}