“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.
“Indestructible” by Disturbed.
It sounds better really, really loud.
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.
Madhouse “6″. From before many of you kids were born.
Another week, another war. Or at least another heroic sacrificial holding action.
“Wars” by Hurt.
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.
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.
Puscifier, "The Mission":
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.
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?
It’s both a fairy tale of lies, but you still must go Faster, from Within Temptation’s 2011 album The Unforgiving.
Who amongst us hasn’t been a bad, bad boy? Ozzy Osbourne with "Flying High Again" from the 1981 album Diary of a Madman.
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.
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:
A little QA power ballad from Soundgarden:
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.
Remind me again, why are we here?
“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.
Sorry, I meant Cain and Abel, “Retribution”:
Full disclosure: One of those guys is my cousin. Probably the angry one.
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.
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