We're all to blame, Sum 41

I would like to explain my personal system of rating the value of various songs. My system is extremely simple, but as you may expect, extremely personal. The method is (1) listen to said song, (2) evaluate reaction to song, (3) rate song. Now, the system revolves around number (2), namely if I get goose bumps (or for those in TN, goose flesh), then it goes right up to the top echelon of songs worth listening to.

After this extremely subjective value rating of a song, it goes into one of three catagories; keeper, trial, and trash. Keepers are those that time after time provoke my body hairs to stand up and applaud. Trial songs are those that are not yet consistent in either body hair applause, nor boredome. Trash songs are pretty much worthless. This is all subjective you understand, but its a system I've used for nearly a decade, and it has greatly enhanced my music listening pleasure. It keeps me from feeling that my time is being wasted, which is the one feeling in life I try to avoid like the plague.

(If I'm bored with life, I might as well be dead, and I don't want to be dead yet, so I avoid anything that brings those morbid thoughts to mind.)

Anyway, back to the task at hand.

Sum 41 - New Music - More Music Videos

We're all to blame, Sum 41

Its not so much that I'm listening to Sum 41 at the moment, as I am listening to one of their songs, We're All to Blame. After working night shift one night, I had the radio scanning for some of my favorite songs, and when out of the air waves came this tune of haunting, hair raising, "keeper" proportions. I immediately fell in love with the mix of heavy metal riffs, chanting rythms, and melodic interludes. Right away I placed it up in the upper echelons of the "keeper" category.

After viewing the video, it solidified its place as a "keeper". The 80's dancers, the enthusiasm of the band members, the looks the bass player gives the girls, the dedication of the dancers. Awesome.

I hope you too can enjoy my current listening favorite, Sum 41 and their masterpiece We're all to blame.