All Hallow's Eve Eve

Last night I was having trouble sleeping after Bret Favre's remarkable OT toss on Monday Night Football, so I turned on some tunes to digest. I was listening to the Korn Unplugged CD and got to the part where Robert Smith from The Cure comes out with them and they do Korn's Make Me Bad and The Cure's Inbetween Days and it really got me in the mood for the lush, dark tracks of The Cure. I then proceeded to blast through their greatest hits collection and was thinking how forgotten these guys are for such a great band. Their songs like Love Song, Friday I'm In Love, Just Like Heaven, Lullaby and Close to You are as powerful today as they were back when these guys moped their way into millions of homes in the 80s. Revisit them if you haven't lately. Make your first visit if you've no idea who I'm talking about and go find their Trilogy DVD.

So... back to modern times. Well, sort of I guess. A band that hasn't had an album of new material in 28 years is back on the shelves. Yes, 28 years since I starting cranking the Eagles The Long Run CD back in middle school. Today at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club only you can get their 20 song double-CD set of new material called Long Run Out of Eden. Go ahead, say you hate them and they suck and all that. They have 4 #1 albums and 5 #1 singles, 2 of the biggest selling CDs of all-time and the best selling American artist of all-time, with their Greatest Hits Volume 71-75 being the biggest selling album in the history of the U.S. They practically invented a whole genre of music.

Also out today on CD:

Avenged Sevenfold's self-titled
Bobaflex's Tales from Dirttown
Endeverafter's Kiss or Kill
Otep's The Ascension
30th Anniversary Motorhead self-titled debut 1977 CD with 4 bonus tracks
Britney Spears' Blackout
Backstreet Boys' Unbreakable (heh heh)

and in the DVD world:

Spiderman 3 (if you don't know what this is... I pity you)
License to Wed (comedy with Robin Williams)
Captivity (horror)
Day Watch (horror... sequel to Night Watch)
CSI Miami Season 5
Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume Five (I love these!)
Twin Peaks: The Complete Series

and if all that wasn't enough... there's a new Simpson's game out for most game systems aptly titled The Simpson's Game and also the big one for this Christmas, Guitar Hero III for pretty much all formats of games, including the Wii. Guitar Hero III is subtitled Legends of Rock and has tracks from The Rolling Stones, Tenacious D, Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, KISS, Alice Cooper, Iron Maiden and Metallica and has in-game characters Slash, Bret Michaels and Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine, Audioslave). It's also the first game in the series to feature online play. This thing is gonna be big. I sense that a world where every home has a Guitar Hero game is not far away... and that's a world I want to live in.

Now crank this!