Metal Mayhem Monday

Ok, so Monday is almost over, or may even be completely over by the time you read this, but I liked the title. :) Just something off the beaten path. (Not that I never post odd videos)!

In the last day or two I've been in an email exchange with John Fincher in which we're sharing "religious" lyrics with each other (from bands such as Jethro Tull, Soundgarden, etc). I mentioned to him that I had heard the song "Whatever" from Godsmack 3 times in the past week, and I had thought about posting the video here, but wasn't too sure how far I wanted to push things. LOL. Anyway, I heard the song one more time today, so I thought, OK, let's do it! It's a song from 1998, so it's kind of 'weird' that I would hear it so many times in one week, especially when I'm only a very casual (not daily) listener to the two rock stations that I heard the song on.

I've also got a couple more songs to share as well... both are comical in their own ways, and they're songs I heard on the radio today.

Godsmack - Whatever (click link - embedding disabled) (radio version: swear words edited out)

I don't know if there is any 'religious' intent in this song, but to me it smacks of religion. There is angst in the lyrics that seems to me to come from a place in which someone has been under the pressure of religious performance. By the way, the name of the band supposedly comes from an incident in which one of the band members was making fun of someone with a cold sore. The next day he himself got a cold sore, and someone told him that that was a godsmack (God getting him back for making fun of someone else). Talk about a sad religion!

I won't post all the lyrics because they even make me blush, but the chorus goes:

I'm doing the best I ever did
I'm doing the best that I can
I'm doing the best I ever did
Now go away!

Drowning Pool - Bodies (Let the Bodies Hit the Floor) (Benny Hinn)


I heard this on the radio this week. A while back this Benny Hinn version was posted on Meeting of One and it gave me a good laugh. :-D

Steel Breeze - You Don't Want Me Anymore


Keeping with the "metal" theme (Steel Breeze)... This is a song from the 80's that I loved singing along to. Heard it on the radio today for the first time in many, many years. Something that will never be true of God: "You don't want me anymore." :)