So here's what I bought today:
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins
Here's the track list. I will highlight the tracks that I especially like.
Disk 1:
1. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
2. Tonight, Tonight
3. Jellybelly
4. Zero
5. Here Is No Why
6. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
7. To Forgive
8. **** You (An Ode To No One)
9. Love
10. Cupid De Locke
11. Galapogos
12. Muzzle
13. Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
14. Take Me Down
Disk 2:
1. Where Boys Fear To Tread
2. Bodies
3. Thirty-Three
4. In the Arms of Sleep
5. 1979
6. Tales of a Scorched Earth
7. Thru the Eyes of Ruby
8. Stumbleine
9. X.Y.U.
10. We Only Come Out at Night
11. Beautiful
12. Lily (My One and Only)
13. By Starlight
14. Farewell and Goodnight
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I was a bit disappointed by the packaging of the album. I expected a thicker and bigger case; in stead it was a simple one-cd case which had a two-faced plastic sheet in it for the two disks.
Does anyone else own the album? Was the packaging "special" for any of you guys?
Anyway the music and the album though, as well as the cover art, the booklet and the several paintings the case has inside, are absolutely beautiful.
Here are some shots I took with my camera. Enjoy (I guess).
Hi there. This is the folow up to my previous Scorpions blog where I tried to "educate" you on my favourite band.
Last time I covered almost all of the 70's era.
This time I will show you my two favourite albums of the Scorpions.
1979's "Lovedrive" and 1980's "Animal Magnetism".
"Lovedrive" was the band's first album without Uli Jon Roth as the lead guitarist (replaced by Matthias Jabs - member of the band even up until now!). To me the sound is more "solid" and more full.
On with the links:
Loving You Sunday Morning (from Lovedrive)
This song is so relaxed and laid-back, with a steady rhythm and a wonderful opening track for the album.
Coast To Coast (from Lovedrive)
Epic. Thats all I will say.
Lovedrive (from Lovedrive)
The title track. Hard-rocking song. I love Klaus Meine's vocals here.
Holiday (from Lovedrive)
This is kind of a known ballad from the Scorpions. Good song - melancholic. Especially the one and only chorus.
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Hold Me Tight (from Animal Magnetism)
This song has the most simple riff there is, and its so awesome!
Lady Starlight (from Animal Magnetism)
A very "peaceful" ballad. No tears to be shed but its a sweet song.
Falling In Love (from Animal Magnetism)
Again a very groovy riff and just an overall great Scorpions song.
The Zoo (from Animal Magnetism)
The Zoo. Nuf said. 
Animal Magnetism (from Animal Magnetism)
The heaviest track of the album.
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I hope you enjoy and DO tell me your impressions/opinions etc. 
So using this thread as an excuse I would like to point out something for discussion.
Here I recite the threads OP. And here is the full article.
| Threads_Article wrote: |
As Sen. John McCain recently remarked, "elections have consequences." President Barack Obama signed the "Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act" into law on Thursday, fulfilling a campaign promise and handing the gay rights community one of its most sought-after achievements. The bill, named for two men killed in vicious attacks, extends the definition of federal hates crimes to include attacks "based on a person's race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or mental or physical disability." |
Right so... let me get in the mood... *clears throat*.....
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OMG, I mean thats so wrong! More support for gay people! Why would we want to prevent someone from killing them due to their sexual orientation?!?! Seriously why?!?! Why should they be allowed to have extra protection when clearly they should be considering taking some therapy to get over the demons of homosexuality? If anything, crimes against them are there to show them that they should not be gay so why should we take away the reasons many homosexuals hate themselves for who they are? I mean they should hate themselves, right?
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/sarcasm
Possibly some people dont want gay people to feel comfortable with themselves, at least not through added measures, and that things had best stay the way they are in order to not change the rigid worldview they have adopted.
So we can all see that somehow, added protection for a very well known hate crime, has "(negative) consequenses". To whom, and in what way is still a mystery to me.
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I havent read the whole article, and if someone will and sees that there are parts in it that show that this part I am quoting is taken out of context then please inform me. I dont wanna be whining in the wrong.
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