Having played Guitar Hero II for more than a fair amount of time I found myself in the odd situation where the only new song I liked was "what the hell is this cheezy electro pop synth thingie doing here" Less Talk More Rokk by Massachusetts based cheezy electro pop synth band Freezepop. I downloaded their songs. I signed up for the newsletter. Hell, I even bought the t-shirt. Freezepop was the way to go. There. I said it.
The good thing about being 26 in 2007 vs. 16 in 1997 is that nobody judges you by what music you listen to. Or, well they do, but it doesn't really matter. So instead of deeming anything that isn't either a) Metallica, b) Pink Floyd, or c) Sepultura as uncool without any further thought, you just listen to whatever sounds cool/fun/good/dark/dirty/whatever when you want to.
That said, I do have limits of my own. But to conclude this boring digression, my point is that it's pointless to say that something sucks just based on genre and artist. (Except r'n'b, the "good vs. boring" ratio is so low, just ignoring the whole thing saves you a lot of time. But you didn't hear that from me.)
So, back to Freezepop. Their next album is featured on
MySpace, go check it out. It includes the song from GHII along with a whole bunch of fun songs that might hit a dance floor in your neighborhood in a not too distant future. Instant fave: Ninja of Love. For some reason it makes me want to play hyper addictive flash game
SwapJob (massive pop-up alert, but it's worth it...).
Now, you might consider doing the obvious thing and paint a megalomaniac Purple Tentacle all over the place. Then again you could just head over to Blik Surface Graphics and pick up everyone's favorite Threadless print, wall style. Your girlfriend's gonna be just as impressed. Honest.
