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Defenestrate the Genome
Sep. 23rd, 2008 11:13 amDoes anyone know how, exactly, those popup things that appeared on Livejournal about a year ago that I never got around to turning off choose the links that come up in the preview windows? I couldn't help noticing that whenever I hovered over the link I made to the map of Worcester in my previous post that it helpfully suggested "Silent Hill".
But I'm going to continue to sort of talk about music for now, because a while ago I listened to a piece of song that some dreadful moron had uploaded directly on to one of the art sites where I post music, despite the giant red warning sign on the submission form saying "Don't submit music that wasn't made by you or we'll come round to your house and eat your dog" (it's strange how difficult a concept this is for a surprisingly large number of people). But unusually this upload was almost welcome because I thought that they sounded rather a lot like Crush 40, the band that had indirectly started this whole power metal thing for me in the first place.
The trouble was that once I closed the window and left somebody else to find and exterminate the submission, I had no idea what their name was, only remembering that it was some sort of nonsensical Japanese-English title - after asking the Clickteam chatroom if they knew any Japanese bands on the off-chance that sounded like Crush 40, and got the helpful but misguided suggestion "Squish 39", I had to search for myself. I knew the name involved a verb doing something to a noun, but how do you search for something where you only know that? Reverse the Polarity, Disintegrate the Goat, Splice the Mainsail, Save the Elephants - the possibilities are endless. I did vaguely recall some sort of biological theme to it, but even knowing it was something about a Genome or Membrane didn't help.
In the end it was Wikipedia's very arbitrary lists that came to the rescue, and after a cunning search on " the ", I eventually found that they were called Maximum the Hormone (Maximum not even being a verb or a word that makes any sort of sense in that context, which threw me off a bit). So I put that into Youtube and eventually found a song title that seemed familiar.
It turned out that apart from the chorus I'd heard they're actually pretty appalling. So sorry to put you through all that.
But I'm going to continue to sort of talk about music for now, because a while ago I listened to a piece of song that some dreadful moron had uploaded directly on to one of the art sites where I post music, despite the giant red warning sign on the submission form saying "Don't submit music that wasn't made by you or we'll come round to your house and eat your dog" (it's strange how difficult a concept this is for a surprisingly large number of people). But unusually this upload was almost welcome because I thought that they sounded rather a lot like Crush 40, the band that had indirectly started this whole power metal thing for me in the first place.
The trouble was that once I closed the window and left somebody else to find and exterminate the submission, I had no idea what their name was, only remembering that it was some sort of nonsensical Japanese-English title - after asking the Clickteam chatroom if they knew any Japanese bands on the off-chance that sounded like Crush 40, and got the helpful but misguided suggestion "Squish 39", I had to search for myself. I knew the name involved a verb doing something to a noun, but how do you search for something where you only know that? Reverse the Polarity, Disintegrate the Goat, Splice the Mainsail, Save the Elephants - the possibilities are endless. I did vaguely recall some sort of biological theme to it, but even knowing it was something about a Genome or Membrane didn't help.
In the end it was Wikipedia's very arbitrary lists that came to the rescue, and after a cunning search on " the ", I eventually found that they were called Maximum the Hormone (Maximum not even being a verb or a word that makes any sort of sense in that context, which threw me off a bit). So I put that into Youtube and eventually found a song title that seemed familiar.
It turned out that apart from the chorus I'd heard they're actually pretty appalling. So sorry to put you through all that.
