Music Artists: A to Z

 DISCLAIMER: The following is subject to change as my opinions continue to evolve. 

So recently the Red Hot Chili Peppers subreddit started playing an “A to Z” game, asking fans to pick on Chili Peppers song to represent each letter of the alphabet. Considering that the Peppers are one of my favorite bands, I thought it’d be fun to do my own version for this blog, as well as do the same for some of my other favorite music artists. I’ll probably come back and add to this post as I think of more artists to dissect in this way…

So without further ado, here you go:

The Beatles

And I Love Her, Back in the U.S.S.R., Come Together, Day Tripper, Eleanor Rigby, For You Blue, Get Back, Hey Jude, I Am the Walrus, Julia, Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey, Let It Be (Single Version), Magical Mystery Tour, The Night Before, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Paperback Writer, Revolution, Strawberry Fields Forever, Ticket to Ride, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Yesterday

The Rolling Stones

Angie, Beast of Burden, Connection, Dead Flowers, Emotional Rescue, Far Away Eyes, Gimme Shelter, Honky Tonk Women, It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll (But I Like It), Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Keep Up Blues, The Last Time, Miss You, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Out of Tears, Paint It Black, Ruby Tuesday, Sympathy for the Devil, Tumbling Dice, Under My Thumb, Ventilator Blues, Wild Horses, You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Jimi Hendrix

All Along the Watchtower, Burning of the Midnight Lamp, Castles Made of Sand, Dolly Dagger, Ezy Ryder, Foxey Lady, Gypsy Eyes, Highway Chile, I Don’t Live Today, Johnny B. Goode, Killing Floor (BBC Sessions Version), Little Wing, Machine Gun, Night Bird Flying, One Rainy Wish, Purple Haze, The Queen, Red House, Stone Free (Valleys of Neptune Version), Third Stone from the Sun, Voodoo Child (Slight Return), The Wind Cries Mary, You Got Me Floatin’

Led Zeppelin

All My Love, Battle of Evermore, Communication Breakdown, D’Yer M’Ker, The Epic (Carouselambra), Friends, Good Times Bad Times, Heartbreaker, Immigrant Song (Live), Jennings Farm Blues (Bron-Y-Aur Stomp), Kashmir, Living Loving Maid (She’s Just a Woman), Moby Dick, No Quarter, Out on the Tiles, Poor Tom, Ramble On, Since I’ve Been Loving You, Trampled Under Foot, When the Levee Breaks, You Shook Me

Black Sabbath

After Forever, Back Street Kids, Children of the Grave, Don’t Start (Too Late), Electric Funeral, Fluff, Gypsy, Hole in the Sky, Iron Man, Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots, Killing Yourself to Live, Looking for Today, Megalomania, A National Acrobat, Odin’s Court, Paranoid, Rat Salad, Supernaut, The Thrill of It All, Under the Sun / Every Day Comes and Goes, Valhalla, War Pigs / Luke’s Wall, You Won’t Change Me, Zero the Hero

Queen

Another One Bites the Dust, Bohemian Rhapsody, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Don’t Stop Me Now, Escape from the Swamp, Friends Will Be Friends, God Save the Queen, Headlong, I Want It All, Jealousy, A Kind of Magic, Love of My Life, The Miracle, No One But You (Only the Good Die Young), One Vision, Play the Game, Radio Ga Ga, The Show Must Go On, These Are the Days of Our Lives, Under Pressure, Vultan’s Theme (Attack of the Hawk Men), We Will Rock You, You’re My Best Friend

Kiss

All the Way, Black Diamond, Creatures of the Night (1985 Remix), Detroit Rock City (2012 Remix), Easy As It Seems, Firehouse, Goin’ Blind, Hard Luck Woman, I Stole Your Love, Jungle, King of the Night Time World (2012 Remix), Love Her All I Can, Modern Day Delilah, Nowhere to Run, The Oath, Parasite, Rocket Ride, Strange Ways, Tears Are Falling, Unholy, Watchin’ You, X-Ray Eyes, Young and Wasted

Van Halen

Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love, Best of Both Worlds, Can’t Stop Lovin’ You, D.O.A., Everybody Wants Some, 5150, Good Enough, Hang ‘em High, I’m the One, Judgement Day, Little Dreamer, Mean Street, Not Enough, Outta Love Again, Panama, Runaround, Somebody Get Me a Doctor, Tattoo, Unchained, Women in Love, You Really Got Me

U2

Acrobat, Bullet the Blue Sky, City of Blinding Lights, Desire, Even Better Than the Real Thing, The Fly, Get On Your Boots, Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, Jesus Christ, Kite, Love is Blindness, Mysterious Ways, New Year’s Day (Video Version), Original of the Species, Pride (In the Name of Love), Red Hill Mining Town, Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of, Tryin’ to Throw Your Arms Around the World, Until the End of the World, Vertigo, Walk On, Yoshino Blossom, Zoo Station

Metallica

Atlas Rise, Battery, Creeping Death, Die Die My Darling, Enter Sandman, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The God That Failed, Hardwired, Inamorata, Jump in the Fire, King Nothing, Lords of Summer, Master of Puppets, Now That We’re Dead, Orion, Phantom Lord, Ride the Lightning, Seek & Destroy, Through the Never, The Unforgiven, The View, The Wait, You Really Got Me

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Around the World, Backwoods, Cabron, Dark Necessities, Especially in Michigan, Funky Monks, Give It Away, The Heavy Wing, I Could Have Lied, Johnny Kick a Hole in the Sky, Knock Me Down, Look Around, Minor Thing, Never is a Long Time, On Mercury, Parallel Universe, Quixoticelixer, Right on Time, Scar Tissue, This is the Kitt, Under the Bridge, Veronica, Whatchu Thinkin’, Yertle the Turtle, The Zephyr Song

Faith No More

Ashes to Ashes, Blood, Cuckoo for Caca, Digging the Grave, Everything’s Ruined, From Out of Nowhere, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Helpless, Introduce Yourself, The Jungle, Kindergarten, Land of Sunshine, Midlife Crisis, Naked in Front of a Computer, The Perfect Crime, Quiet in Heaven (Faith. No Man), Ricochet, A Small Victory, Take This Bottle, Ugly in the Morning, We Care a Lot (Introduce Yourself Version), Zombie Eaters

Guns N’ Roses

Ain’t It Fun, Better, Civil War, Dead Horse, Estranged, Fall to Pieces (Velvet Revolver), The Garden, Hard Skool, I.R.S., Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Acoustic), Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Live), Live and Let Die, Mr. Brownstone, November Rain (2022 Version), Out ta Get Me, Pretty Tied Up (Live), Rocket Queen, Sweet Child o’ Mine, This I Love, Used to Love Her, Welcome to the Jungle, You Could Be Mine

White Zombie

Acid Flesh, Blur the Technicolor, Creature of the Wheel, Disaster Blaster II, Electric Head Part I (The Agony), Feed the Gods, Grindhouse (A Go-Go), I’m Your Boogieman, Kick, Love Razor, More Human Than Human, The One, El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama, Ratmouth, Super Charger Heaven, Thunderkiss ’65, Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/ Psychoholic Slag

Soundgarden

All Your Lies, Burden in My Hand, Circle of Power, The Day I Tried to Live, Eyelid’s Mouth, Fell On Black Days, Gun, Holy Water, I Awake, Jesus Christ Pose, Kickstand, Limo Wreck, Mailman, Never the Machine Forever, Outshined, Pretty Noose, Room a Thousand Years Wide, Superunknown, Taree, An Unkind, Worse Dreams, Zero Chance

Nirvana

All Apologies, Blew, Come As You Are, Dumb, Even In His Youth, Floyd the Barber (Live), Grey Goose, Hairspray Queen, I Hate Myself and Want to Die, Jesus Don’t Want Me for a Sunbeam, Lounge Act, Milk It, Negative Creep, On a Plain, Polly, Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, Sappy, Territorial Pissings, Very Ape, Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, You Know You’re Right

Alice in Chains

Angry Chair, Bleed the Freak, Check My Brain, Dirt, Fear the Voices, God Smack, Heaven Beside You, It Ain’t Like That, Junkhead, The Killer Is Me, A Looking in View, Man in the Box, Nutshell, The One You Know, Put You Down, Queen of the Rodeo, Rooster, Sunshine, Them Bones, Untitled (Iron Gland), Voices, Would?, Your Decision

Green Day

American Idiot, Basket Case, Coming Clean, Deadbeat Holiday, Extraordinary Girl / Letterbomb, Father of All…, Geek Stink Breath, Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams, In the End, Jesus of Suburbia, Know Your Enemy, Longview, Minority, Nice Guys Finish Last, Oh Love, Pulling Teeth, A Quick One While He’s Away, Redundant, She, 21 Guns, Uptight, Viva la Gloria!, Whatsername, X-Kid, You Lied

The Smashing Pumpkins

Anti-Hero, Bullet with Butterfly Wings, Cherub Rock, Drown, Eye, Farewell and Goodnight, Geek U.S.A., Hello Kitty Kat, I Am One, Jellybelly, Knights of Malta, Landslide, Mayonaise, 1979, An Ode to No One, Pissant, Quiet, Rhinoceros, Siva, Thirty-Three, Untitled, Violet Rays, Where Boys Fear to Tread, X.Y.U., You’re All I’ve Got Tonight, Zero

Buckethead

Abominable Snow Scalp, Big Sur Moon, Claymation Courtyard, Dawn at the Deuce, Electric Umbrella, Final Wars, Griffin’s Spike, Headless Reflection (The Coats of Claude Version), I Love My Parents, Jump Man, Kick Ass, Last Light, Mind Train, Nottingham Lace, Our Selves, Pink Eye, Revenge of the Double Man, Soothsayer (Dedicated to Aunt Suzie), Toy Store, Unemployment Blues, Vacuum Tube Implant, Whitewash, Yokohama

Oasis

Acquiesce, Bring It On Down, Champagne Supernova, Don’t Look Back in Anger, Eyeball Tickler, Falling Down, Go Let It Out, Half the World Away, I’m Outta Time, Just Getting Older, Keep the Dream Alive, Live Forever, Morning Glory, The Nature of Reality, One Way Road, Part of the Queue, A Quick Peep, Rock ’n’ Roll Star, Supersonic, Talk Tonight, Up in the Sky, Whatever, You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away

Outkast

ATLiens, B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad), Crumblin’ Erb, D.E.E.P., Elevators (Me & You), Funkin’ Around, GhettoMusick, Hey Ya!, In Your Dreams, Jazzy Belle, Knowing, A Life in the Day of Benjamin Andre (Incomplete), Ms. Jackson, Nathaniel, Ova da Wudz, Player’s Ball, Rosa Parks, SpottieOttieDopaliscious, Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac), Unhappy, Vibrate, The Way You Move, Xplosion, Y’all Scared, Zora (Interlude)

Foo Fighters

Aurora, But Honestly, Come Alive, Dear Rosemary, Everlong, February Stars, Generator, Hey Johnny Park, I’ll Stick Around, Kids In America, Low, My Poor Brain, No Way Back, Ozone, The Pretender, Run, Stranger Things Have Happened, Times Like These, Up In Arms, Virginia Moon, Wind Up, X-Static, You Should Be Dancing (Dee Gees)

Slash

Anastasia, Bad Rain, C’est La Vie, Dime Store Rock, Far and Away, Good to Be Alive, Halo, Iris of the Storm, Just Like Anything, Killing Floor, Life’s Sweet Drug, Mind Your Manners, Nothing to Say, One Last Thrill, Papa Was a Rolling Stone, The River is Rising, Standing in the Sun, Take It Away, The Unholy, Wicked Stone, You’re a Lie

Daft Punk

Aerodynamic, Beyond, Contact, Da Funk, Emotion, Fragments of Time, Get Lucky, Harder Better Faster Stronger, Instant Crush, Lose Yourself to Dance, Motherboard, Nightvision, One More Time, The Prime Time of Your Life, Robot Rock, Starboy (The Weeknd), Too Long, Voyager, Within

Slipknot

All Out Life, The Blister Exists, Custer, Duality, Eyeless, Finale, Gently, The Heretic Anthem, Iowa, Killpop, Left Behind, My Plague, Nero Forte, Only One, People = Shit, Red Flag, Solway Firth, Three Nil, Unsainted, Vermillion (Single Mix), Wait and Bleed, XIX, Yen

The White Stripes

Apple Blossom, Blue Orchid, Catch Hell Blues, The Denial Twist, Effect & Cause, Fell in Love with a Girl, Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine, Hotel Yorba, I’m Bound to Pack It Up, Jimmy the Exploder, Little Bird, My Doorbell, Offend In Every Way, Prickly Thorn But Sweetly Worn, Rag and Bone, Seven Nation Army, Truth Doesn’t Make a Noise, The Union Forever, Why Can’t You Be Nicer to Me?, You’ve Got Her In Your Pocket

Linkin Park

Across the Line, Blackout, Castle of Glass, Don’t Stay, The Emptiness Machine, Faint, Good Things Go, Heavy Is the Crown, In the End, Jigga What / Faint (Jay-Z), Kyur4 th Ich, Lying from You, More the Victim, No More Sorrow, One Step Closer, A Place for My Head, QWERTY, Runaway, She Couldn’t, Two Faced, Until It Breaks, Victimized, What I’ve Done, X-Ecutioner Style, You Ain’t Gotsta Gotsta

The Orwells

Amy, Bar Fly, The Consumer, Double Feature, Evil Ed, Friendly Fire (Alternate Version), Gotta Get Down, Halloween All Year, In My Bed, Let It Burn, Mallrats (La La La), Norman, Parade of Legs, The Righteous One, Southern Comfort, They Put a Body in the Bayou, USA, Vacation, What’s So Entertaining?

And with that, let’s do some bonuses:

60’s Songs

All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix), Babe I’m Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin), Come Together (The Beatles), Day Tripper (The Beatles), Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles), Foxey Lady (Jimi Hendrix), Gimme Shelter (The Rolling Stones), House of the Rising Sun (The Animals), Incense & Peppermints (Strawberry Alarm Clock), Jumpin’ Jack Flash (The Rolling Stones), Keep On Lovin’ Me Honey (Marvin Gaye), Living Loving Maid (Led Zeppelin), Magic Carpet Ride (Steppenwolf), 19th Nervous Breakdown (The Rolling Stones), Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (The Beatles), Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones), Quarter to Three (Gary U.S. Bonds). Revolution (The Beatles), Sympathy for the Devil (The Rolling Stones), Ticket to Ride (The Beatles), Under My Thumb (The Rolling Stones), Voodoo Child (Jimi Hendrix), While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles), Yesterday (The Beatles), Zip Code (The Five Americans)

70’s Songs

Angie (The Rolling Stones), Beast of Burden (The Rolling Stones), Crazy on You (Heart), Detroit Rock City (Kiss), Ezy Ryder (Jimi Hendrix), Firehouse (Kiss), Goin’ Blind (Kiss), Hotel California (The Eagles), I Stole Your Love (Kiss), Just What I Needed (The Cars), Killer Queen (Queen), Let It Be (Single Version - The Beatles), Message in a Bottle (The Police), No Quarter (Led Zeppelin), Out on the Tiles (Led Zeppelin), Parasite (Kiss), Queen Bitch (David Bowie), Rocket Ride (Kiss), Supernaut (Black Sabbath), Trampled Under Foot (Led Zeppelin), Unchained Melody (Elvis Presley), Vehicle (The Ides of March), When the Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin), X-Ray Eyes (Kiss), You Make Lovin’ Fun (Fleetwood Mac), Zanzibar (Billy Joel)

80’s Songs

Ace of Spades (Motorhead), Backwoods (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Creatures of the Night (Kiss), Dirty Diana (Michael Jackson), Edge of the Blade (Journey), From Out of Nowhere (Faith No More), The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough (Cyndi Lauper), Home Sweet Home (Motley Crue), I’m Still Standing (Elton John), Just the Two of Us (Grover Washington Jr.), The Killing Moon (Echo & the Bunnymen), Limelight (Rush), Mr. Brownstone (Guns N’ Roses), New Years Day (Video Version - U2), Orion (Metallica), Purple Rain (Prince), Queen of Hearts (Juice Newton), Rocket Queen (Guns N’ Roses), Sweet Child o’ Mine (Guns N’ Roses), Tears Are Falling (Kiss), Unchained (Van Halen), Venus (Bananarama), What I Am (Edie Brickell), Xanadu (Olivia Newton-John & ELO), You’re No Different (Ozzy Osbourne), Zaar (Peter Gabriel)

90’s Songs

Angry Chair (Alice in Chains), Burden in My Hand (Soundgarden), Come As You Are (Nirvana), The Day I Tried to Live (Soundgarden), Everything’s Ruined (Faith No More), The Fly (U2), The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (Faith No More), Heavy (Collective Soul), Intolerance (Tool), Jump (Kris Kross), Kindergarten (Faith No More), Limo Wreck (Soundgarden), More Human Than Human (White Zombie), November Rain (Guns N’ Roses), The One (White Zombie), The Perfect Crime (Faith No More), Quiet (The Smashing Pumpkins), Rearviewmirror (Pearl Jam), Scar Tissue (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Through the Never (Metallica), Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Very Ape (Nirvana), Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/ Psychoholic Slag (White Zombie), X.Y.U. (The Smashing Pumpkins), You Could Be Mine (Guns N’ Roses), Zero (The Smashing Pumpkins)

00’s Songs

Away & Anywhere (John Frusciante), Better (Guns N’ Roses), Can’t Fight the Moonlight (LeAnn Rimes), Death of a Martian (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Electric Feel (MGMT), Fell in Love with a Girl (The White Stripes), Go with the Flow (Queens of the Stone Age), Hips Don’t Lie (Shakira), Island in the Sun (Weezer), John the Revelator (Depeche Mode), Kids (MGMT), Like a Stone (Audioslave), Minor Thing (Red Hot Chili Peppers), No One Knows (Queens of the Stone Age), Original of the Species (U2), The Pot (Tool), Quixoticelixer (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Reptilia (The Strokes), Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes), This I Love (Guns N’ Roses), Umbrella (Rhianna), Violet Hill (Coldplay), What I’ve Done (Linkin Park), X Gon’ Give It to Ya (DMX), Your Decision (Alice in Chains), The Zephyr Song (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

10’s Songs

Alexander Hamilton (Hamilton), Blackout (Linkin Park), Close Your Eyes (Run the Jewels), Dark Necessities (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Edge of Darkness (Greta Van Fleet), Freedom at 21 (Jack White), Goodbye Angels (Red Hot Chili Peppers), He Won’t Go (Adele), I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift), Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Acoustic - Guns N’ Roses), Killpop (Slipknot), Look Around (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Meadow (Stone Temple Pilots), Next Girl (The Black Keys), Our Selves (Buckethead), Perfect (Acoustic - The Smashing Pumpkins), Quasar (The Smashing Pumpkins), Rolling in the Deep (Adele), Standing in the Sun (Slash), This is the Kitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Unsainted (Slipknot), Violet Rays (The Smashing Pumpkins), When the Curtain Falls (Greta Van Fleet), X-Kid (Green Day), You’ll Be Back (Hamilton), Zebra (Beach House)

20’s Songs

Archbishop Harold Holmes (Jack White), Black Summer (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Cyr (The Smashing Pumpkins), Dance the Night (Dua Lipa), Echoes of Laughter (Jerry Cantrell), Friendly Fire (Alternate Version - The Orwells), Good Things Go (Linkin Park), Heavy Is the Crown (Linkin Park), It’s Only Natural (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Jimmy Cooks (Drake), Killing Floor (Slash), Levitating (Dua Lipa), Mad Visions (Royal Blood), No Time to Die (Billie Eilish), Old Scratch Blues (Jack White), Protect the Land (System of a Down), Queen of the Bees (Jack White), Roulette (Red Hot Chili Peppers), The Shape I’m Takin’ (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Throw Me a Line (Jerry Cantrell), USA (The Orwells), Veronica (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Whatchu Thinkin’ (Red Hot Chili Peppers), X Out (Extreme), You Must Burn! (Metallica), Zen (X Ambassadors)

Songs in general

Angry Chair (Alice in Chains), Backwoods (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Come As You Are (Nirvana), Dark Necessities (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Everything’s Ruined (Faith No More), The Fly (U2), The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (Faith No More), Home Sweet Home (Motley Crue), Island in the Sun (Weezer), Jump (Kris Kross), The Killing Moon (Echo & the Bunnymen), Limo Wreck (Soundgarden), More Human Than Human (White Zombie), November Rain (2022 Version - Guns N’ Roses), The One (White Zombie), People = Shit (Slipknot), Quixoticelixer (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Rocket Queen (Guns N’ Roses), Scar Tissue (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Through the Never (Metallica), Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Very Ape (Nirvana), Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/ Psychoholic Slag (White Zombie), X.Y.U. (The Smashing Pumpkins), You’re No Different (Ozzy Osbourne), Zero (The Smashing Pumpkins)

Other songs in general

All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix), Burden in My Hand (Soundgarden), Cemetery Gates (Pantera), Detroit Rock City (2012 Remix - Kiss), Electric Head Part I (White Zombie), From Out of Nowhere (Faith No More), Grindhouse (White Zombie), Hips Don’t Lie (Shakira), Immigrant Song (Live - Led Zeppelin), Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Acoustic - Guns N’ Roses), Kindergarten (Faith No More), Let It Be (The Beatles), Midlife Crisis (Faith No More), Nobody Rides for Free (Ratt), Our Selves (Buckethead), The Perfect Crime (Faith No More), Quiet (The Smashing Pumpkins), Rearviewmirror (Pearl Jam), Supernaut (Black Sabbath), Tornado of Souls (Megadeth), The Unforgiven (Metallica), Violet Hill (Coldplay), When the Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin), X Gon’ Give It to Ya (DMX), You Could Be Mine (Guns N’ Roses), Zoo Station (U2)

Albums in general

Appetite for Destruction (Guns N’ Roses), Blood Sugar Sex Magik (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Dressed to Kill (Kiss), Elephant (The White Stripes), Foo Fighters (Foo Fighters), The Getaway (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Hotter than Hell (Kiss), In Utero (Nirvana), Jar of Flies (Alice in Chains), King for a Day (Faith No More), Led Zeppelin III (Led Zeppelin), Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness (The Smashing Pumpkins), Nevermind (Nirvana), One Hot Minute (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Paranoid (Black Sabbath), Queens of the Stone Age (Queens of the Stone Age), Ride the Lightning (Metallica), Superunknown (Soundgarden), Ten (Pearl Jam), Undertow (Tool), Van Halen (Van Halen), What’s the Story Morning Glory? (Oasis), X&Y (Coldplay), Yield (Pearl Jam), Zooropa (U2)

Artists in general

Alice in Chains, Black Sabbath, Coldplay, Depeche Mode, The Eagles, Faith No More, Guns N’ Roses, Heart, Ice-T, Jimi Hendrix, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, U2, Van Halen, White Zombie, Xzibit, Yaz/ Yazoo, ZZ Top

Guitarists

Ace Frehley, Buckethead, Carlos Santana, Dimebag Darrell, Eddie Van Halen, Frank Sidoris, George Lynch, Herman Li, Izzy Stradlin, John Frusciante, Kurt Cobain, Lou Reed, Mike Riggs, Nile Rodgers, Orianthi, Paul Stanley, Randy Rhoads, Slash, Tom Morello, Uli Jon Roth, Vinnie Vincent, William Duvall, Zakk Wylde

Singers

Axl Rose, Billy Corgan, Chris Cornell, David Lee Roth, Eddie Vedder, Freddie Mercury, Gene Simmons, Huey Lewis, Idina Menzel, Jack White, Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Mike Patton, Neil Young, Ozzy Osbourne, Paul Stanley, Q-Lazarus, Rob Zombie, Shannon Hoon, Taylor Swift, Uncle Kracker, Weird Al Yankovic, Zack de la Rocha

And just for fun, let’s also throw in a few non-musical lists:

Movies

Alien (either version), Back to the Future, Casino Royale (2006), Dune (2021), The Empire Strikes Back (any version), Fury Road (either version), Game Night, Home Alone, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Jaws, Knives Out, The Last Jedi - Score-Only Version, The Martian, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Office Space, Pulp Fiction, A Quiet Place, Rogue Nation, Star Wars (any version), True Lies, Up, Venom, The Way of Water, X-Men, Young Frankenstein, Zoolander

South Park Episodes

Awesom-O, Butters’ Bottom Bitch, City Sushi, The Death of Eric Cartman, Elementary School Musical, Funnybot, Go God Go, HumancentiPad, Insheeption, The Jeffersons, Krazy Kripples, Last of the Meheecans, Major Boobage, Night of the Living Homeless, Over Logging, Poor and Stupid, Quintuplets 2000, The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers, Super Fun Time, Tsst, Up the Down Steroid, Volcano, World War Zimmerman, You Got F’d in the A

Star Wars Characters

Anakin Skywalker, Ben Kenobi, Chopper, Din Djarin, Ezra Bridger, Finn, Grogu, Han Solo, IG-11, Jecki Lon, Kylo Ren, Luke Skywalker, Maul, Neeku Vozo, Omega, Poe Dameron, Qui-Gon Jinn, R2-D2, Sheev Palpatine, Tobias Beckett, Vernestra Rwoh, Wrecker, Xi-an, Yoda, Zeb Orrelios

Peace!

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Causality: A Sci-Fi Short Story

CAUSALITY

Henry N. Silva

Mars, 2157

Dr. Evelyn looks upon the wasteland…

Mars wasn’t meant to still be like this. It’s been a century since colonization began. And yet, nothing much has changed. Still a red desert planet, still too cold, still too hostile…

The young scientist keeps her eyes fixed on the horizon. Another dust storm is coming, the size of a mountain, thick enough to prevent her from seeing the strong lights of the other colony towers…

With a sigh, she turns around, making her way out of her chrome apartment and into an elevator, descending to one of the community floors below. Soon enough, she finds herself sitting at dark bar, it’s walls drizzled with strands of neon. She orders her usual, synthbeer and a 3D-printed burger, and sits quietly, tuning out the hustle and bustle of other colonists all around her, as she waits for her order…

And then, a voice appears from behind her, “Dr. Evelyn?”

The young woman swings herself around, only to find standing there an aging military general, his uniform covered with flair.

He speaks again, “I need you to come with me.”

***

General Victor leads Evelyn across the wasteland…

She does her best to keep up, unused to wearing her bulky breathing suit for such a long period of time.

“Couldn’t we have taken a travel rover?” She asks, pantingly.

Victor briefly turns around, his face completely hidden by reflection, and then faces forward once more, resuming to lead the way.

Eventually, the pair reach a small, manhole-sized cave entrance. Victor steps aside, motioning for Evelyn to jump in, “After you.”

She follows his orders, finding herself leaping straight into a large, underground chamber of some kind, her fall broken by the planet’s weak gravity. She then proceeds to examine her surroundings. Plenty of other suited colonists have already set up camp there, all of them government officials and military personnel, no doubt.

Evelyn takes immediate notice of all the equipment scattered about, before refocusing her attention on the towering walls around her, illuminated by UV light-stands. Her jaw drops as she realizes that the walls are covered in hieroglyphs… Ancient hieroglyphs…

Victor lands on his feet behind Evelyn.

She immediately turns to face him, “I don’t understand! What is this place?”

“This place,” the general begins, “needs to stay off-record. You’re here for a very important assignment, Doctor. One that must be kept secret, at all costs.”

She points to the markings on the wall to her left, “Who put those there?”

“Who do you think?” The general’s tone suddenly deepens, becoming more serious than even before, “You don’t believe this planet has always been dead, do you Doctor?”

Evelyn doesn’t respond. Instead, she proceeds to make her way slowly to one of the walls, taking a much closer looks at the glyphs. Quickly, she is able to make out depictions of Martians, or whatever she’s supposed to call them, “They look much more humanoid than I would’ve expected.”

She walks a little further, stumbling upon a much larger glyph depicting two faceless figures, wearing armor of some kind.

“Doctor,” the general calls to her.

She turns back around, unable to find him in the sea of suited officials, until he waves his arm to get her attention.

Evelyn heads back towards Victor, who then leads her into one of several dark, narrow catacombs there in the underground. Soon enough, they find themselves in another illuminated area, much smaller than the main chamber. Only one other colonist is there, a man.

“This is Dr. Alan,” the general announces.

“I’ve been looking forward to meeting you, Dr. Evelyn,” Alan says with a wave. “I’ve heard great things about your work.”

“What work, exactly?” Evelyn asks, still processing everything.

“Those fancy seeds of yours, I mean.”

“Oh, the genesis seeds.” She pulls out a handful of small, rather normal-looking seeds from her travel sack, strapped around the left shoulder of her suit, “Yes, just a handful of these seeds can generate an entire forest, but it takes centuries. I’m still trying to find a way to speed up the process.”

“Which is exactly why you’re here,” Victor explains. “We think we can help you, Dr. Evelyn, and that you can help us. Dr. Alan here has been trying to better understand what the ancient Martians were like, and we imagine that you yourself would like to learn the causality of Mars’s long lost ecosystem, would you not?”

“It would certainly help with my research, yes. But how exactly can we do either of those things?”

Alan takes a deep breath, before answering her question, “We can… We can go there, Dr. Evelyn.”

“Go where? What do you… Oh!” Evelyn nearly faints, as she begins to understand, “But isn’t that… Dangerous?”

“Not at all,” Victor chimes in. “Our research and previous experiments confirm that time is, in fact, a closed loop. Everything that is meant to have happened has happened, and everything that is meant to still happen will indeed still happen.”

Evelyn breathes in heavily, doing her best to calm her own nerves, “Well, if you say so… But how do we even… How do we get there?”

Without saying a word, Alan picks up a strange, metallic device off a nearby table, wrapping it around his forearm. A touchpad plate on the device suddenly springs to life, which Alan proceeds to click away at. He then reaches out his other arm to Evelyn, “Grab on.”

She wraps her arm around his.

General Victor takes a few steps backwards, saluting them both, “Best of luck.”

With a deep inhale, Alan presses the touchpad once more. Instantly, Evelyn’s vision is consumed by white, electric light, which then vanishes as quickly as it came…

She and Alan find themselves above ground, surrounded by lush, green forestry.

“Wow,” Evelyn looks around, in awe at the sight of it all. “How far back did we go?”

“Far,” Alan nods. “Very far… You think this air is safe to breathe?”

“We might as well keep our helmets on,” Evelyn answers. “Just to be on the safe side.”

Suddenly, the pair hear a cluster of footsteps, not too far away.

“Come on!” Alan motions for Evelyn to follow.

They make their way through a series of trees, before arriving at a handful of bushes. Carefully, they crouch down, peering their way through. On the other side, they find a dozen or so primitive humanoids, dressed in furry animal skins. The Martians, no doubt.

“Amazing,” Alan whispers. “If I didn’t know any better, I would almost say they were human.” His curiosity getting the best of him, he slowly begins to stand back up, “I’m gonna try to get a closer look.”

“No!” Evelyn rises with him, trying to pull him back down, but it’s no use. For in that very moment, the natives suddenly look over, noticing them both.

“Ah!” One of the Martians screams. He and all of his companions there proceed to run away, howling in fear.

Evelyn scoffs, “Nice going!”

“Sorry,” Alan lowers his head, sighing with shame. “Should we head back home?”

“No, not yet. I still need to get a better understanding of how all this green got here in the first place. We need to go back even further.”

Alan lets out another heavy sigh, “If you say so.”

They lock arms again, as Alan clicks away at the touchpad on his arm. A familiar white light overtakes their vision, vanishing within seconds…

The two scientists-turned-explorers now find themselves in a familiar red desert, still above ground.

“I said to go further back!”

“This is further back,” Alan clarifies. “You don’t see any settlement towers around, do you?”

“Ah, right,” Evelyn acknowledges.

Suddenly, they both notice a familiar, mountain-sized dust storm, closing in on them.

Alan turns to his travel companion, “We gotta go home, now!”

She nods in return, “Okay!!”

He begins to set the return controls on his touchpad, as the winds pick up exponentially. In the mist of all the chaos, Evelyn’s travel sack blows open. Before she has time to react, several dozen genesis seeds are blown out of the bag, taken away by the wind…

“No!” She tries to go after them, but then Alan wraps his arm around hers, slamming down on the touchpad.

The same white light from before overtakes their vision, for another second or two, and then, the pair find themselves back in their underground base. The roaring winds of the storm replaced by sheer silence…

General Victor clears his throat, “So… Did you find the answers you were looking for?”

Evelyn lowers her head and sighs, “Yeah… I think we did.”

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