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Top 10 Worst Types of Football Fans
Football fans can be an odd bunch. They can be your favorite people in the world or they can be people you can get into actual blows with, depending on which team they like, and how they like them. There are fans of teams you don’t like but nonetheless respect because you can talk football with them objectively, and then there are other morons who feel the need to shove their team down your face even if they didn’t make the playoffs, and will talk about how good their team will be next year. There’s also the fickle football fans who don’t really like football but pretend to because it’s America’s new past time. It’s time to take down the wrong football fans with this 80 yard completion of an article.
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Top 10 Quarterbacks of All Time
Old-Wizard is at it again, changing it’s direction as quickly as it changes which retro video game we want to play at night. This list will highlight the premiere quarterbacks of all time. These next QB’s changed the game and had stats to back it up. Beyond the stats though, championships are a vital part of this list. We all know about Marino. Just one championship would have probably upped his place by 5 numbers. As Ron Harper of the 90’s Chicago Bulls said “It don’t mean a thing if you ain’t got the ring”. Ron Harper was not just talking about his best record Chicago Bulls either, he was talking about anyone wanting to immortalize themselves in their respective sports lore. The QB’s who changed the game with the best stats and most championships were considered here. Here then is OW’s top 10 QB’s of all time.
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Ask Old-Wizard: Star Trek Part 2
This week we answer some more of our reader’s Star Trek related questions. If you haven’t already, check out the first AOW Star Trek.
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Top 10 Worst Types of Music Fans
The music fan has the most deleterious effect on the music they want to represent. They can bring good music down to the worst music in the blink of an eye. It’s hard to be open to style of music when you go to a show for the first time and have to endure these buffoons who take the culture behind the music and give it an excess it’s not in need of. Sometimes it’s just the fans fault, but most of the time it’s the music genre that spawns these identity thieves. The fans of these next genres are noticeable, leading to the sense that the genres are idealized over the substance. It’s with a hint of nausea that one will pursue these shows enduring the crowd while trying to actually listen to the music, unless of course you want to be part of the crowd, the crowd that defines the band, rather than the other way around.
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Top 10 Guitarists of All Time
Old-Wizard’s Top 10 Guitarists of all time will not be your traditional Top Ten Guitarists of all time list. There won’t be obvious choices on here. Just because a guitarist can wank to no end doesn’t mean anything to us here at Old-Wizard. We could go into a guitar shop, turn on a Marshall Stack, plug in any guitar, and sound like we’re good wankers. So fuck the Stevie Ray Vaughn’s and Eric Clapton’s with their boring ass blues wanking. This list isn’t for the old farts whose conception of good guitar playing is limited to the most banal modes of style. This list of the more adventurous at heart who don’t hear just plain technical musicianship, but aesthetically pleasing sounding styles and innovative work that influenced guitarist past their own records. Certainly there was a history of guitar after the Blues. This list’s focus is on those great guitarists who did something else with the guitar.
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Top 10 Overrated Songwriters
Overrated Songwriters are a dime a dozen. Usually these songwriters are in a band that’s considered good (which means publicly covered in any way shape or form). These bands usually suck too because of the poor songwriter. Regardless, along with the band appearing as quality comes the harangues on why the songwriter is brilliant. The reasons for songwriting greatness is scarce when defined by anyone who goes off on these tangents. Relying on expressible gestures, these “music enthusiastic” appear more as monkeys than a more appropriate stoic gesture that conveys a tacit understanding of quality. These next songwriters are marks of men (and one female) who often arouse these identity masturbations. These songwriters are all generally considered as great songwriters, but a closer look at these songwriters will hopefully relegate the “music enthusiasts” gestures to the scrap heap.
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Top 10 Underrated Songs
We just made the ultimate Top 10 Most Overrated Songs of all time list, so it seemed fitting to do a Top 10 Underrated Songs list. As always, it’s a list; of what we think are the most underrated songs ever of all time, this time around. The usual suspects are on this list. Maybe a couple new ones are on here for you to check out. Maybe even a couple of new bands are on here for you the check out that might become your favorite band after listening to them. Then you can tell everyone that you learned of them from Old-Wizard, and maybe even buy one of our T-shirts where we list the Top 10 underrated Songs of all time on it. Basically, we just want you to make us popular.
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Top 10 Shoegazing Songs
What happens when you take the production of Phil Spector, drench in pyschadelic 60’s reverb and match it with breathy and harmonious vocal melodies all done in a seemingly effortless fashion? You get the grandiose genre of Shoegazing that has been one of Pop’s best subgenres in it’s history. The original impulse for these creative masterpieces came from many different places. With Kevin Shields in My Bloody Valentine it came from wondering what it would sound like to put 50 Marshall stacks in one room and have a guitar connected to all of them with 5-10 different delays and reverbs pedals going. For Andy Bell formerly of Ride it came from an epiphany one day listening to The Beatles with a loud fan on. Combining the over layered fan with the melodies he heard on the radio gave him an impulse for noise and melody. Wherever the creative impulse came from, it always seemed to work in creating new musical experiences upon every listen.
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Top 10 Wrestlers of All Time
Who are the greatest wrestlers of all time in WWF history? A just as important question is why does Old-Wizard even care? What, has Old-Wizard become Old-Wrestler now? Our love for Retro extends past video games, it even extends to wrestling! In this list, we will place who we think are the top 10 wrestlers of all time. This isn’t just some arbitrary list. This is a list created with passion for the pseudo-sport of professional staged-wrestling. We spent the past weeks getting ripped watching old Royal Rumbles and Summer Slams arguing who was more perfect, Mr. Perfect himself, or the Undertaker? We compared stats as if the stats actually meant something; like how long a Royal Rumble participant lasted, and how many times The Intercontinental Belt was won by a certain wrestler. Finally we came down to a list that was partially based on stats and partially based on fame. Here then is Old-Wrestler’s (sorry, I meant Old-Wizard’s) top 10 wrestlers of all time.
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Top 10 Reasons British Music is Better Than American Music
Not many people understand that British music is better than American music. They don’t understand this because of the political hegemony that America occupies in the West and “The Blues”. It’s time to dig out the reasons why British music has always been better than American music. It’s obvious to us here at Old-Wizard, and has been since we started getting into music and realizing the patent difference in quality between the two countries. Hopefully this list will only act as a preface to one’s actions of going back through the great music that the British made and realizing where the quality is. If all else fails, then one will just be in a position of admitting that they have bad taste in music.
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