10 Songs I’m Cranking Up (11/9/14)

Busier than a one-armed paperhanger lately, so sometimes just cranking it up loud is about the only relief I get from the stress.

Every week I share several playlists of hard rock here on the blog … my Spotify Top 40, my current YouTube playlist, there’s even a Spotify “Back Forty” for those who are really in the know.   Those are determined in various ways which I’ve explained elsewhere here on the blog.

Despite all that, I don’t say much about what I’m actually listening to and enjoying the most. You know, the songs that I immediately crank up whenever they come on Sirius Octane or that I make sure to play when I start building a queue in Spotify or that I sing (badly) randomly as I go about my day.

Whatever the case, I just thought it would be fun to occasionally forget about charts and singles vs album cuts and anything other than just plain ol’ “what I’m loving right now”.  Of course there’s more songs than just these that I’ll turn up if you try to talk while they’re on but I figure I have to have some sort of limit to how long this post gets.

In no specific order, here are 10 songs that I’m definitely cranking up a lot right now

Dangerous – Shaman’s Harvest
Breaking Skin – Nonpoint
The Devil In I – Slipknot
Heart Of Fire  – Black Veil Brides
Something Different – Godsmack
Villainy Thrives – Trivium
Heavy – Glorious Sons
Moth – Hellyeah
Satellite Hotel – One Bad Son
Wish You Hell – Like A Storm

J3C College Football Top 25 (after week eleven)

Separation Saturday might have provided more clarity on the 2014 college football season.  Instead, I think it just created more confusion.

So much happened on a busy day that it might be easiest to start from the top.  I’ll do that by noting FSU’s unimpressive win over Virginia because Mississippi State playing UT-Martin isn’t worthy of comment … Michigan State gets routed by Ohio State, leaving me to wonder whether I had overrated the Spartans or underrated the Buckeyes.  I still tend to lean toward the former … Texas A&M survived Auburn because it looked like karma decided to balance the Tigers out for that field goal return last year.  Bad loss in my book, a very bad loss … Oregon might have been in trouble, if not for one of the great bonehead plays of all-time by Utah … Alabama did that Alabama thing to LSU … K-State got steamrolled and made TCU look very good in the process … Baylor beat the stew out of an increasingly unimpressive Oklahoma squad … Arizona State exposed Notre Dame for most of the game before allowing the Irish to make it interesting … Ole Miss must have gotten scheduling advice from their in-state rival … A week after playing dead on the road, Georgia made roadkill out of Kentucky … Georgia Tech impressed me, sort of, by turning a slow start into a cakewalk.  Wasn’t against anybody worth a damn but that usually doesn’t stop the Jackets from making a mess of things, this time they didn’t.

All in all, just another week in the topsy turvy world of college football, so let’s shuffle up & deal a brand new J3C Top 25 .

1. Mississippi State (1)
2. Florida State (2)
3. Oregon (5)
4. TCU (8)
5. Baylor (9)
6. Alabama (6)
7. Arizona State (11)
8. Ohio State (14)
9. Nebraska (13)
10. Michigan State (3)
11. Kansas State (7)
12. Auburn (4)
13. Ole Miss (12)
14. Georgia (17)
15. UCLA (18)
16. Arizona (19)
17. Notre Dame (10)
18. LSU (16)
19. Clemson (21)
20. Wisconsin (23)
21. Duke (24)
22. Georgia Tech (Un)
23. Oklahoma (15)
24. Louisville (Un)
25. Marshall (25)

Dropped from this week’s poll:  Utah (20), West Virginia (22)