Archive for the ‘QA music’ Category

QA Music: Bullet in My Hand

Monday, May 21st, 2012 by The Director

“A Bullet in My Hand” by Redlight Kings.

Caution: The song has fewer f-bombs in it than the first chapter of my novel John Donnelly’s Gold, but that is a nonzero number, so if you insist upon turning it up in your workplace, HR might like to have a word with you.

QA Music: Indestructible

Monday, May 14th, 2012 by The Director

“Indestructible” by Disturbed.

It sounds better really, really loud.

QA Music: Gimlet Suggests

Monday, February 6th, 2012 by The Director

Poor Gimlet. All the time, he a-send me Scandinavian and German death metal songs hoping to entice me to post them as QA music, and what sticks?

Super Mario Brothers: The 8-Bit Opera

and Conan: The Musical

I can’t help it if Finnish dark metal sounds all the same to me (well, except there are more double-a vowel sounds than American dark metal), but these dang things stick in my head.

Bonus assignment for the week: Explete “Crom!” when your project manager announces something at a stand-up this week.

QA Music: It’s a Madhouse

Monday, January 30th, 2012 by The Director

Madhouse “6″. From before many of you kids were born.

QA Music: Wars

Monday, January 23rd, 2012 by The Director

Another week, another war. Or at least another heroic sacrificial holding action.

“Wars” by Hurt.

QA Music: Mood Music for the Client Meeting

Monday, January 16th, 2012 by The Director

Here’s a little music for the meeting where you unveil the product to the client, and they get that stricken look on their faces because they don’t remember asking or signing off on that.

“Everything” by Divine Sorrow.

QA Music: Last Chance

Monday, January 9th, 2012 by The Director

Today might be your last chance.

Personally, I’m logging a defect about a potential boundary issue: “Your life is short as hell”? I am no theologian, but I understand hell was considered eternal. Unlike life.

QA Music: What Do You Know About The Ways Of The Underside?

Monday, January 2nd, 2012 by The Director

Puscifier, "The Mission":

QA Music: Epoch

Monday, December 26th, 2011 by The Director

I’ve done Faith No More’s “Epic”, so here’s Narrow Heart’s “Epoch”:

Kid punk bands are so cute, thinking that the twenty-two years of their lifetimes comprise any sort of long-time noun.

QA Music: The Annual Wish List

Monday, December 19th, 2011 by The Director

Stan Freberg, “Nuttin’ for Christmas”:

And for today’s testing exercise: Is QA more like the poet-narrator of the song or more like the snitch?

QA Music: About Those Timelines

Monday, December 12th, 2011 by The Director

It’s both a fairy tale of lies, but you still must go Faster, from Within Temptation’s 2011 album The Unforgiving.

QA Music: Flying High Again

Monday, December 5th, 2011 by The Director

Who amongst us hasn’t been a bad, bad boy? Ozzy Osbourne with "Flying High Again" from the 1981 album Diary of a Madman.

QA Music: 30 Seconds Short Of A Rock Anthem

Monday, September 5th, 2011 by The Director

Say what you will, but I think the intro to the television series Hardcastle and McCormick rocks.

Another 30 seconds, and that would be an awesome rock anthem.

Here are the lyrics if you can’t make them out.

QA Music: Nintendo Metal

Monday, August 29th, 2011 by The Director

How was I not informed of the genre of music called Nintendo metal?

DragonForce: Through Fire and Rain

Yeah, you know you’re going to need some of that. Here are some handy links:

QA Music: Fell On Black Days

Monday, August 22nd, 2011 by The Director

A little QA power ballad from Soundgarden:

QA Music: I’ll Be Mellow When I’m Dead

Monday, August 15th, 2011 by The Director

Into every life, some Weird Al must fall:

Not to put too fine a point on it, but that song is from his debut album from 1983, which is 28 years ago. That would make it a, what’s the word I’m looking for here, oh, yeah, oldie. It’s like listening, in 1983, to “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” or Dinah Shore sing.

That would make me, what’s the word for it, oh, yeah, old.

QA Music: Doesn’t Matter Anyway

Monday, August 8th, 2011 by The Director

Remind me again, why are we here?

QA Music: More of The Lonely Island

Monday, August 1st, 2011 by The Director

“Cool Guys Don’t Look At Explosions”:

Oh, like I’m the only one who imagines myself walking away in slow motion from a stack trace I just caused.

QA Music: QAin’ and Abel

Monday, July 4th, 2011 by The Director

Sorry, I meant Cain and Abel, “Retribution”:

Full disclosure: One of those guys is my cousin. Probably the angry one.

QA Music: Your Friends Define You

Monday, June 27th, 2011 by The Director

Couch Flambeau, straight outta Glendale, Wisconsin, with “Satan’s Buddies”:

I actually owned the Models EP on vinyl. There, I’ve admitted I’m out of the target demographic of all marketeers.