Readers Poll Results 2010

Voting is over for the DistortedNews readers poll 2010! Thanks to everyone who voted!

Here are the results:

Lostprophets

So, this isn’t the kind of thing I normally post, but I think some of you may enjoy reading it, if you dont, please complain to SamStowe@IDontGiveAFlump.com 🙂

So, recently I posted on my Facebook that I was listening to Lostprophets – Start Something. Thankfully, some people can appreciate that Lostprophets are a good band and that is an utterly stunning album, but there are always a few who complain, calling them “a baaaaad band” and saying “They sound more and more like Youmeatsix and All Time Low and all that crap every time they release an album… I never noticed how bad they were getting until their latest album, half of which is mainstream conformist bullshit and the other half sounds like gospel or something…?”

what follows is an edited version of my reply.

Ronnie James Dio

The world has lost a legend, Ronnie James Dio has passed away…

The first time I heard Dio was on a Black Sabbath compilation album. at the time I was still quite young and didn’t know as much as I do today, I didn’t know that Sabbath had any singers other than Ozzy, so imagine my surprise at a track called Heaven And Hell. Opening with an epic riff from Tony Iommi and a catchy bassline from Geezer Butler. Then this voice, this amazing voice booms out of my CD player. “Sing me a song, you’re a singer…”

This track instantly caught my attention. Who was this voice, Looking through the booklet that came with the CD… Ronnie James Dio!

I spent hours listening to Dio tracks online and fell in love with this man’s voice. Tracks like Holy Diver, Dream Evil, We Rock… what a beautiful voice.

I remember downloading (legally) the Dio Years album the day it came out. Neon Nights, The Mob Rules, such amazing songs.

I never got the chance to meet Dio, I always wanted to. Me and a friend were going to buy tickets for his last tour, but days before we did, it got cancelled.

I remember rummaging about in my loft, looking at my dad’s old records, to my surprise I found Heaven And Hell and The Mob Rules. These albums sounded so good… Dio had one of the greatest voices in metal and he created so many classic albums.

The last album he recorded, The Devil You Know with Heaven And Hell, such a great album, it was because of that album I inducted Heaven And Hell into the DN Hall Of Fame.

RIP Ronnie James Dio, \m/