Still not feeling too well, but at least I made it into work today.  During my commute, which I hadn't made since Friday, I was playing the Smiths CD The Queen is Dead.  I've come to the conclusion that that is the best Smiths album by far.  And it's really not close.

The album's title track is just so amazingly cool.  There may be better guitar players than Johnny Marr, but no one writes and arranges guitar parts like he does.

Hear "The Queen is Dead" on YouTube.  The user who posted this opines thusly:  "I don't know WHY I like this, but i KNOW i DO"  Dude, I know exactly why you like this.  Because it kicks ass.

Yes, I'm home sick again.  I honestly can't remember the last time I felt this lousy for this long.

So, here is what may well be the crappiest song FNM ever recorded.  Perfect for feeling crappy.

Watch a fanvid for "Home Sick Home" on YouTube.

Watch a live performance.

Stayed home again.  Man, I just cannot seem to shake this thing.

YouTube live performance of "Sick Again"

Stayed home today.  I still feel like crapola.  So here's a relevant Weird Al tune.

I would kill you all for a bottle of NyQuil that I didn't have to leave the house to go get.

Hear "Callin' In Sick" on YouTube.

Meh, I feel like complete sheet today.  I obviously came down with something.  But I'm gonna finish this theme, dammit.

But would I be a good messiah with my low self-esteem?
If I don't believe in myself would that be blasphemy?

Hee hee.  "Thou shalt not worship false Billy Idols."  God, I love these guys.

YouTube fan-made video for "Hell Yeah"

This is part of a week-long series on "hell" songs.

It's been three days short of a year since I did Joe Jackson week.  Back then I posted "Cancer" his 1982 album Night and Day.  That's the album that also gave us two of his biggest hits, "Steppin' Out" and "Breaking Us in Two."  I loved that record when it was new.  I played it like crazy in high school, and I even picked up a book and tried to learn the songs on the piano.  I still enjoy a lot of the filler tracks.  But I've soured on the more well known ones, "Steppin' Out" especially.  I can't hear that song now, and as such, Night and Day doesn't get played much, if at all.

While I was doing Joe week, I wasn't familiar with the album's "sequel", 2000's Night and Day II.  Eventually I downloaded it from Amazon and started 'er up... and was nearly knocked out of my chair by its supreme awesomeness.  God, I was blown away by this record.  I burned a disc (didn't have the iPod yet) and played it in the car almost non-stop for a whole week, maybe two.  Just one searing gem after another.  "Why."  "Glamour and Pain." (probably the gayest sounding song I own, and I love it)  "Happyland."  "Love Got Lost", with Marianne Faithful.  I don't even like her voice, and I still love that song.

None of the recordings from that album had ever appeared on the Tube of You until recently, and it just happens to have the word "hell" in it.  So here's "Hell of a Town."

Hear "Hell of a Town" on YouTube.

This is part of a week-long series on "hell" songs.

Even though it wasn't one of Megadeth's stronger releases as a whole, 1988's So Far, So Good... So What! featured this kickass opening instrumental.

I kinda wish this song did have words, seeing as how "lungs of Hell" could generate such a wide variety of mental images.  How would you describe Hell's lungs?  What would they look like?  How would they resemble actual lungs?  Perhaps instead of air, they move BLOOD!! (sinister laughter) Wait, no, then it would probably be the "heart of Hell."  But no, Hell is supposed to be totally HEARTLESS!!  MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!  So if the lungs of Hell move blood instead of air, then how does Hell breathe?  Maybe it doesn't breathe air at all, it breathes nothing but FIRE!!  HAHAHAHA!!!  DEATH TO THE NON-BELIEVERS!!!  OK, so there's no air in Hell, only fire.  And blood.  And brimstone.  Oh jeez, where does the brimstone fit into all this?

Now I think I understand why Dave Mustaine drank so much.

YouTube handmade video for "Into the Lungs of Hell"

This is part of a week-long series on "hell" songs.

Yeah, I suppose posting this song is merely a formality at this point.  So, here it is.

Watch the video for "Hell Hole" on YouTube.

This is part of a week-long series on "hell" songs.