WRITE YOUR OWN DAMN BLOG
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My wife was demanding a new post.
Unpopular Popular Artists
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People under 30 buy a lot of music, and music is closely tracked, that means there are GREAT statistics available for who buys what music and how much of what music is sold etc. You see I have this problem with people. They like to pretend they’re too cool for popular music. So take a look down this list and as you scroll along think about how many of these bands have something you like listening to, at least once in a while but you probably wouldn’t mention in a list artists you like.
- ABBA
- AC/DC
- Ace of Base
- Aerosmith
- Barbra Streisand
- Barry Manilow
- Beach Boys, The
- Beatles, The
- Bee Gees
- Billy Joel
- Bob Dylan
- Bob Marley
- Bob Seger
- Bon Jovi
- Boney M.
- Boyz II Men
- Brooks & Dunn
- Bryan Adams
- Carlos Santana
- Carpenters, The
- Celine Dion
- Cher
- Chicago
- Creed
- Cure, The
- Dave Matthews Band
- Deep Purple
- Def Leppard
- Dire Straits
- Doors, The
- Drifters, The
- Eagles, The
- Earth, Wind & Fire
- Elton John
- Elvis Presley
- Eminem
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- Enya
- Eric Clapton
- Frank Sinatra
- Genesis
- Greatful Dead, The
- Green Day
- Guns N’ Roses
- Iron Maiden
- James Taylor
- Janet Jackson
- Jefferson Airplane
- Jethro Tull
- Jimi Hendrix
- John Denver
- John Mellencamp
- Johnny Cash
- Justin Timberlake
- KC and the Sunshine Band
- Kenny G
- Kenny Rogers
- Kiss
- Kylie Minogue
- Led Zeppelin
- Linda Ronstadt
- Linkin Park
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Madonna
- Mannheim Steamroller
- Meat Loaf
- Metallica
- Michael Bolton
- Michael Jackson
- Neil Diamond
- Neil Young
- Nirvana
- Oasis
- Pearl Jam
- Phil Collins
- Pink Floyd
- Police, The
- Queen
- R. Kelly
- R.E.M.
- Radiohead
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Rod Stewart
- Rolling Stones, The
- Roxette
- Sting
- Stone Temple Pilots
- TLC
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- U2
- No seriously, U2, admit you like them.
- Van Halen
- Whitney Houston
- Who, The
- Yes
You see, forgot that you like those bands didn’t you? How many did you say “Man I’d never tell my friends I like that song by that artist!” Now go buy some of their music and stop pretending you only like indie bands.
Getting a Better Shave for Less Money.
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I’ve decided those fancy five blade razors are a waste of money. I’ve never been super happy with how they work, although shaving with one is fast, I find I still get a considerably amount of ingrown hair. But they’re also ~$18 for 6, that makes them $3 each and since each one lasts only 3 days for me before it becomes unacceptably dull that means I’m spending $1/day for the razor alone. Never mind pre-shave, shaving soap or cream, brush, aftershave or whatever else. However the typical two blade swivel head disposable razor is $3 for 10 razors, and each lasts one day, seriously don’t push. Still, that’s only $0.33 for the blade. I’ve found the shave is every bit as good, and maybe better. That said it could be that I’m more willing to do it because I know I’m not using up such an expensive blade as with the five blade system.
As a side note, I’ve also switched to using a brush to apply my shaving cream, I tried shaving soap with it but it was a lot of work and the results weren’t great. So now I spray foam into the brush and work it in. This has two advantages, one the brush is excellent at helping the little hairs to stand up in the foam, rather than be smoothed down by the hand, and two it means I don’t have to get shaving cream on my hands.
I’ve also tried a number of foams, gels, soaps and creams and have found Barbasol’s Beard Buster is an excellent product at half the price of some of the others. Although I’ve not been able to find a quality English soap to try, just the cheap $3/bar type. I have had the “freshly stropped straight razor with expensive soap preformed by a barber” shave before, and it’s spectacular. However that route is time consuming and expensive.
If you know me well you may say “But Noah, you’re not a well shaved man, and you have red bumps and pimple!”, and that’s true, but you should see what happened before I got this under control, now I get maybe 4 ingrown hairs when I shave, I used to get 50 or more when using an electric razor and when just using a 5 blade razor with foam I’d get 10 or so.
