As the resident new music guy here at the X, I feel it’s necessary to mention that it’s OK for an artist to change their sound. Just as you and I do, a band may change direction over the course of time. Their thoughts, tastes, influences, beliefs, etc. change. It’s called evolution and I appreciate when a band goes through that process.
Tonight’s Organized Chaos was all about the evolution of a band. We picked songs from each band’s first album directly followed by a song from their latest album. Not all of the songs made it onto the show, but here’s how the full playlist looked:
Metallica – Hit the Lights (Kill ‘Em All, 1983)
Metallica – Spit Out the Bone (Hardwired, 2016)
Nirvana – Negative Creep (Bleach, 1989)
Nirvana – You Know You’re Right* (Greatest Hits, 2002) *Last song Kurt Cobain ever recorded
Korn – Blind (Korn, 1994)
Korn – Can You Hear Me (The Nothing, 2019)
Staind – Mudshovel (Dysfunction, 1999)
Staind – Something to Remind You (Staind, 2011)
Seether – Gasoline (Disclaimer, 2002)
Seether – Against the Wall (Poison the Parish, 2018)
Pearl Jam – Once (Ten, 1991)
Pearl Jam – Dance of the Clairvoyants (Gigaton, 2020)
Sevendust – Black (Sevendust, 1997)
Sevendust – Risen (All I See is War, 2018)
Stone Temple Pilots – Dead and Bloated (Core, 1992)
Stone Temple Pilots – Between the Lines (Stone Temple Pilots, 2010) *Last album w/ Scott Weiland
Slipknot – Wait and Bleed (Slipknot, 1999)
Slipknot – Nero Forte (We Are Not Your Kind, 2019)
A Perfect Circle – The Hollow (Mer de Noms, 2000)
A Perfect Circle – TalkTalk (Eat the Elephant, 2018)
Linkin Park – Papercut (Hybrid Theory, 2007)
Linkin Park – One More Light (One More Light, 2017) *Chester Bennington’s last album
Sublime – 40oz to Freedom (40oz to Freedom, 1992)
Sublime – Doin’ Time (Sublime, 1996)
Breaking Benjamin – Polyamorous (Saturate, 2002)
Breaking Benjamin – Tourniquet (Ember, 2018) or Dear Agony (Aurora, 2020)
Disturbed – Voices (The Sickness, 2000)
Disturbed – Hold on to Memories (Evolution, 2018)
Foo Fighters – This Is a Call (Foo Fighters, 1995)\
Foo Fighters – The Line (Concrete and Gold, 2017)
Alice in Chains – We Die Young (Facelift, 1990)
Alice in Chains – Get Born Again (Nothing Safe: Best of the Box, 1999) *Last song w/ Layne Staley
