{"id":806,"date":"2004-07-28T03:27:20","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T08:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=806"},"modified":"2011-10-18T14:41:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T19:41:48","slug":"best-cd-evar-and-some-other-issues-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"BEST. CD. EVAR. And some other issues, too."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The title really says it all. I don’t buy a lot of CDs. Not to say that I burn them all (only OC Remix CDs these days…), but music just isn’t that big of a priority for me. I do listen to it a lot, but I’m rather satisfied with the library I have now. All I really want for it is to complete my Queen and HIM collections. And a couple days ago, I got one step closer. This here, if you can’t read the text on the pic, is HIM’s greatest hits CD, entitled “And Love Said No”. I can easily say that it is the best CD that I own, and possibly one of the best CDs that I’ve ever listened to. If you haven’t ever listened to HIM, go check them out right now. I know you have the tools to do so.<\/p>\n

So why is this CD so great? Well that’s obvious. The music rocks. HIM is in a tied spot for my second favourite band (competing with Rammstein, Queen is #1) and there is nothing that could please me more than a CD comprised entirely of their best songs. “Razorblade Romance” was damn near close enough, but it does lack a couple of my favourite songs, particularly The Funeral Of Hearts<\/span>. “Love Metal” was excellent too, but they both had their weaker points. This CD, as you might expect from a greatest hits CD, is indeed the finest bunch of their songs that you can find. It’s even got my three favourite songs; the aforementioned The Funeral of Hearts<\/span> as well as Your Sweet 666<\/span> and Heartache Every Moment<\/span>.<\/p>\n

What’s even better, is that there are some totally new songs on the disc as well! Or at least that’s what I’ve been told. The title track, And Love Said No<\/span>, is in my opinion one of the best songs ever, being possibly the catchiest rock song ever. And that’s quite a feat, as rock songs aren’t normally “catchy”. This is one you’ll probably be humming\/singing for days on end, if you’re anything like myself. The other new track, a Neil Diamond cover by the name of Solitary Man<\/span> is equally great. The original song is pretty good as far as old-type stuff goes, and HIM’s cover just totally blows it away. The only thing that could have possibly made the CD better would have been the inclusion of Endless Dark<\/span>.<\/p>\n

And that’s my two cents. Take a penny, leave a penny, whatever. I suggest going out to buy the disc if you know the band and like them at all, or just downloading a song or two listed above to see if you like them and then going to pick up the CD. It’s definitely worth the cash, but while I was searching for the cover, I found that there is also a 2 disc version that includes an extra track and a DVD bonus disc. I never saw this while I was looking around at music, but it’s not that big a deal. I got what I wanted, and even if I do miss out on a couple videos, I don’t mind. I still love this CD.<\/p>\n

As for other things that I need to blab on about, I’ve noticed a couple defects in the site. For one, I don’t have a proper logo image. If anyone with any Photoshop-type skills feels like taking a little time out of their day to whip something simple up for me, I’d be very appreciative. I’d prefer to do it myself (I take great pride in being able to create great art), but I don’t have the necessary skills to make anything half decent through a digital medium. You’ve seen my art gallery.<\/p>\n

Secondly are some things that I have absolutely no control over. The first is a little trouble that seems to pop up in the Opera browser. When I’ve table’d an image to the side of some text, it goes back to red, rather than that nice yellowy colour it is supposed to be. I’m not sure if it’s got this issue in any other browsers, but it works fine in Internet Explorer, and I’m not about to comprehend the stylesheet just so I can fix a problem that would affect a minimal amount of surfers. and the next problem stems from me using Angelfire as a web host. They’ve gotten rid of the ads, and instead have forced IE to open the search window on the side of the browser. It’ll happen each time you open a page, so you can’t close it and be done with it. Me, I’ve just pushed it as small as it will go and cope with it. After a while, it’s not so bad. I’m not sure if this affects other browsers, but it’s not such a big deal that it’ll cause mass disarray. And that’s really about it for today. I’m thinking about posting a nice review of Tales of Symphonia<\/em> either tomorrow or soon and getting the rest of that Disney stuff out of the way, so make sure to check back regularly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The title really says it all. I don’t buy a lot of CDs. Not to say that I burn them all (only OC Remix CDs these days…), but music just isn’t that big of a priority for me. I do listen to it a lot, but I’m rather satisfied with the library I have now. … Continue reading BEST. CD. EVAR. And some other issues, too.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}