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Jessie has proven to be an early lover of music, even more than we recall Porter being.

There are 2 musical things that will get her to boogie, the Beatles and hip hop (Goin’ Back To Cali and Shake Your Rump are favs).  She also loves to hear Darth Vader’s theme from the Holy Trilogy and smiles and grooves when I hum the saxophone part to Madness’ ‘One Step Beyond’.  You get the idea.  Baby girl loves her music.

So to broaden her horizons I thought it would be interesting to see how she reacted to some Metallica.  First I played her some old Metallica.  Pre-Black Album, the themes dark and music complex.  After that I played her some post-Black Album Metallica.  Themes not as dark as the band may think, music not very complicated.  I prefer 80′s Metallica far and away.

Does Jessie feel differently?  You can see her opinions here.

Emotional reaction to old Metallica   
Emotional reaction to new Metallica

I think she’s got them figured out.

Thanks to Shag for the inspiration.

As many of you know, I’m a big ‘ol Pearl Jam fan. Aside from a song here and there they aren’t a part of my regular listening though. I prefer to save up my energy for week long personal Pearl Jam fests. And I sense one fast approaching.I came across this Pearl Jam Family Tree on my hard drive and thought it would be fun to post it. As into PJ, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains (and others less so) as I was it’s interesting to see how incestuous a local scene can be. Seattle in isn’t the only town where that happened (St. Louis in the mid-90’s comes to mind) but seeing how intertwined such an influential scene was provides some additional perspective. Full disclosure, I didn’t create this tasty tidbit but don’t remember where I got it from.

If you donned your flannel and followed that scene you’ll see a lot of names you recognize. A former GNR member pops up as well as a drummer called Matt Chamberlin I mentioned in my recent Tori Amos post. He was Pearl Jam’s drummer for only 1 month, but it was the right month! He appears on this live version of Alive done in Seattle 8-3-91.  I got this from a Japanese import EP.  See how I created a logical reason to post one of the best rock songs ever?

Maybe more to come, maybe not.  I hope.

Enjoy.