It’s hard to
change. It’s hard to get out of a
rut. It’s hard to do anything in the
face of difficulty, or convention, or reason, or even in light of one’s own
mind. Hard, but not impossible; as you
know, the right song can make all the difference.
So it was that I
decided to take the first post of Cross-Up’s brand spankin’ new Manly Song
Repository. It’s a side project that’ll
likely bring with it plenty of unforeseen problems, but it’s one that I’m
willing to undertake if it means building manly bonds between us all -- and of
course, creating THE MANLIEST PLAYLIST IN
THE UNIVERSE . The problem was that
I needed the right song to start things off.
I needed a song that said, “Hey!
This is what being a man is all about!”
It would have been too
easy to post a song from Gamma Ray or Stratovarius or Hammerfall, or any number
of metal bands (though I will eventually).
It would have been too easy to post a guitar-heavy track from an RPG
(though I will). It would have been too
easy to dip into any one of Daisuke Ishiwatari’s shredding masterpieces (though
I will). I needed something unexpected. Something that would raise eyebrows. Something…godly.
And I think I might
have found it.
