A New Series of 25 Song Reviews to Be Posted: 12 at the beginner level, 13 at the intermediate level.

I remember what it was like when I felt like I just couldn’t take in all the songs of an album.  It seemed as if there was just too much to listen to.  However, that changed when I started playing guitar.  When I picked up my guitar, I started to be able to listening what people where doing on it, such that I was able to take in whole albums and learn every note from start to finish.  I admit, sometimes I have forgotten how some songs go, but usually it quickly comes back to me.  Thus, this is my attempt to get beginners and intermediate level players to see how I view songs individually, as someone that is very experienced in listening to music.

In my experience, by calling the beginner songs what they are, I will probably make many people who are at the beginner level angry.  However, I am writing this blog for the purpose of helping people by giving them the list of 20 songs, such that they might consider listening to the song, or considering how I see the song from my perspective.  What I expect from the harshest critics, if there are any is that they will want to defend the level that these songs are at as the best songs, or perhaps the best songs ever.  Some people will move on, but some people never graduate to the intermediate level.  These people at the beginner level are also likely to say that the songs I say at the intermediate level suck.

For those at the intermediate level, they will probably be able to recognize the beginner songs, but they will be angry at me for deeming the intermediate level songs as being anything but the best of the best.  That is, to someone at the intermediate level, he or she is likely to not like songs at the beginner level, as songs at the intermediate level, and an intermediate level player will likely deem their music as the best, such that they will be angry that I say that it is only at the intermediate level.

At the advanced level, you should be able to take in a whole album, learn every note, and likewise as the beginner says that the intermediate level sucks, and the intermediate level player recognizes the beginner level, but says that the advanced level sucks, music that is below the advanced level will most likely not be able to hold the attention of an advanced musician.

See the pattern?  The simpleton deems the next level up as indiscernible, and generally praises music that is at his or her level of play, but not much beyond.  Thus, it is such that a beginner usually defends beginners music as the best, and an intermediate player usually defends intermediate level songs as the best, and beginner level and intermediate level music generally doesn’t hold the attention of advanced players.  That is to an advanced player, he or she is able to recognize simpler music, and may even be able to remember when the simpler music seemed better or more complex.

12 Selected Beginner Songs to Be Reviewed

·         Push by Matchbox 20

·         How’s It Going to Be by Third Eye Blind

·         Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls

·         Machinehead by Bush

·         Man In the Box by Alice in Chains

·         Give It Away by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

·         Losing My Religion by REM

·         There Goes My Hero by the Foo Fighters

·         Sober by Tool

·         Lightning Crashes by Live

·         The Freshmen by The Verve Pipe

·         Hero of the Day by Metallica

 13 Selected Intermediate Level Songs to Be Reviewed

·         Defender by Manowar

·         Resurrection by Fear Factory

·         End of the World by God Forbid

·         I Found a Voice by Rebound

·         Of One Blood by Shadow’s Fall

·         Ghost of Perdition by Opeth

·         Reroute to Remain by In Flames

·         Angel of Disease by Morbid Angel

·         fff by Megadeth

·         Chaos A.D. by Sepultura

·         Expendable Youth by Slayer

·         Hollow by Pantera

·         I Walk Beside You by Dream Theater