My Rifle, My Pony And Me – Dean Martin – From the soundtrack to Howard Hawks excellent cowboy movie “Rio Bravo”, this is a pure Western song, with Martin’s slow sweet, snoozy end of the day singing. Besides which, he is right. Who needs anything else? – Grade: B+
As a songwriter, he is unfocused and is often a bore on record. Overwriting and over arranging, his world music lacks so much that made the Clash great. He was a great singer, a great great live performer and a great man. And now he is St. Joe.
MTV just premiered their version of The Inbetweeners. I love the UK version- the characters are perfect, they all are wonderfully matched and the show’s chemistry is what makes it one of the funniest shows ever.
I have a hard time taking the Del Rey princess seriously, she is just too much in the news for stuff unrelated to music. When she is not modeling for fashion brand H&M, she is launching a new Jaguar car
When you are young and beautiful every musician will want you. Your wish is there command theres jewelry cars and gifts access to elite clubs and backstage antics. Then you marry them then you age and then you realize that some younger model has replaced you
“A Hard Day’s Night” is about a family outsiders and you can join em if you’re cool enough to love them. Who couldn’t buy into that? That will sell. That did sell. It ended the Second World War and Paradise Postponed in one fell swoop and lead directly to MTV.
That’s sure a lot of stuff, but it got even better for the US release since the EP will be expanded with six more songs and issued as a standard 12-inch LP.
Ariel Pink actually tries (and succeeds) to get every single girl he meets after being dumped by the first one! It may be the dirty look under the pink bangs, but I am not sure what they all could find in him
A sound beyond newness: a terrific modern techno plus SB scape. It’s like a very old fashioned, completely update old school-new world hybrid. All scratching, backing tapes, and steady and heavy drumming.
Due out Oct. in both the U.K. and the U.S., the AA single will be released on CD and as a download with five live tracks as B-sides. This is pretty confusing since the A sides then become B sides yet its digital so there are no sides. I have no idea why the release is being announced in such obscure terms. Let’s simplify shall we?
Madness – Muse – I know, I am even more shocked that this burnign soul rock song, which uses the simplest of bass licks for the entire song, even replaying it on synth, even maintaining it through a fuzzy guitar solo, to all the rewards imaginable. This takes U2 in the late 80s and maintains it for a song. I have never come close to liking Muse till now – Grade: A
It is as if he was translating his thoughts into music, skipping through soul music and switching, changing, impressing and deprecating in a moment, in a second. When he lost the thread the band sounded like somebody that had lost its train of thought, and when he felt the moment, sometimes only for a couple of words while the band vamped all the scattered threads were tied together.
As cool as these things are, what sucks is when you go to their concerts, you can only buy the band’s shirts and the band’s accessories. At least at old FOB shows there would be a shirt or two, and at some BMTH shows they have other merch.
inton Sparks is a Boston based DJ who manages a thump like a good stripper. This thing has the perfect dance beat for a club hit currently being pushed by P Diddy on Twitter.
Yeah that’s where I found about it.
‘He tries to get into a talent show that Bart is playing piano in and they won’t admit him, Draw your own conclusions.’ That’s funny and I hope the teen star gets what he deserves
I would say the decline in songs have been a landslide of crappaola. But it wasn’t always this way, over half a century of spy and sex thrillers, there have been the occasional masterpiece. PS the Chrissie Hynde song wasn’t the theme. So here is the Bond theme songs, the best first.
This is the coolest promotion EVER… Like seriously, NEVER EVER has there been a cooler promotion than Taylor Swift’s one where you can nominate your High School and Taylor Swift will play a concert there (if you win…)
Who is responsible of this? I am sorry but when you have such a beautiful little gem you don’t use it in an ad joking about a romance between a pair of breasts on legs and some head of hair on legs!
Ghouls are more effective when emaciated and his aging jowl really takes away from the spook. The good news? There are tons of boobies if you’re interested, some real some fake but boobies galore! That must be for Mansons 14 year old boy fans, a gift!
Despite your positive efforts while incarcerated, your release at this time would greatly undermine respect for the law and tend to trivialize the tragic loss of life which you caused as a result of this heinous, unprovoked, violent, cold and calculated crime
the book contains thousands of concert and tour photos from Kiss archives, especially from the early days of the band, but the price is humongous… the huge thing, which may just break your coffee table
The releases will include a repackaged version of the album and documentary and unreleased demo tunes, remixes and concert footage. All of the essentials for a hefty price tag on a recycled product. Made for the diehard fans who simply cannot get enough of Jackson (and there are many)
It is not genius to assume the new Taylor would be big, but 623,000 units in its first week? That’s a mindboggling number. Actually the most digital downloads for a woman ever.
The two rap hits? Rap history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce. Based albums are really astoundingly ordinary enterpresis. yep, the farce portion of modern pop.
Coma Girl – Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros – Ear deep into the Strummer retro with various variations on pain and pleasure, this first song off his post-humous Streetcore needs no damning with faint praise. It’s as good as good Clash. PS: the EP included a cover of “Blitztrig Bop” – Grade: A-
-Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.
– Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I’d never know ’cause I wouldn’t eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That’s a filthy animal. I ain’t eat nothin’ that ain’t got sense enough to disregard its own feces.
We’re going to take our one last break that we would get for a month, come back and do Glastonbury, then immediately jump in the studio. Our record will be done by the end of the year. We have enough songs.’
And, if rock stars can’t make money on their music, hey, try downloading their latest fashions… it can’t be done. Makes you think that if somebody is unique enough they can sell fans on becoming them
Hidden track: ‘I Waved at You and You Never Said Hello, So I am Writing A song About You’
There’s still speculation about whom this one is about though.
Take her recent issues with People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals, an ‘Animal Rights’ organization that dukes it out all the time.
I got a call from Creem Editor Dave DiMartino the day after Kate rushed back to England, telling me they hadn’t been sure when i was doing the interview and were certain it was me who upset them!
here have been hints and allegations and, Monday night, at a private gig for Sony in L.A. Pink invited Lily on stage to duet on “True Love” -I’m guessing the Cole Porter classic. The song is on Pink’s upcoming album and apparently the 5 month old Lily is having a much easier time of it as she not only made the commute from London to L.A. with baby Ethel and husband Sam. She did so in heels.
Robbie Robertson didn’t merely burn that bridge, he blew it up, repaved it and blew it up again. Leon Helms was furious at Robbie for hogging all the glory and loudly decried it. Robbie shrugged and said he was only telling the truth.
They first got together in February to write a song for Lavigne’s upcoming fifth album, and just six months later, they are getting married! The ‘Sk8er Boi’ girl likes her men a little older than her (she is 27, he is 37) as she was previously married to Sum 41’s frontman Deryck Whibley.
Reggaetoneros earned their salt when the authorities cancelled a Zona Rose concert and they let all hell break loose, don’t mess with a show- simple as that
At the time, the song sounded like hokum, a commercial move. But today, it seems to define something, both the hippie down pattern coolness and all, perhaps equally, a revolutionary spirit
Some will claim it is better with close ups and quips but I still have a problem with Jumbo Trons at concerts. Live is live and should remain as such or it simply isn’t live.
my opinion remains constant: as a rapper she was born to be a Foxy Brown team player and her pop songs are as good as the manufacturers warranty on them
After actively disliking Justin for years a funny thing happened on my way to the “C-“, a couple of songs began to infiltrate my consciousness and next thing I know… well this remiz has bowled me over with its atmospheric elongation – Grade: B
The beats are thumping, the little sounds thrown in either fit or don’t at all, and that’s what makes them so interesting. I can’t think of any other musicians who’ve done this. It’s like going to see a musical, and the songs with lyrics are the dialogue, and everything else is one of the musical numbers.
This kind of lyrically reflective performance is exactly the kind of thing that music videos are for. Well, that and to show the artist performing their song. In this case, the Brian Buckley Band achieved both. “I Am Human” is off the band’s latest album Hysterical Blindness
Inbetweeners- offer up the standard fare. The nerd, the stud, the fat kid and the social mess. The issue is can it play to the US kids? No. Not to any who have seen the BBC version. But there is hope in those who have nothing to compare it to
A two-song ‘Wreckage’ EP, produced by Ben Lee, will feature the song, called ‘From the Snow Tipped Hills’, as well as another one written by New Pornographer A.C. Newman, and set to be released on September 18.
Michael is thisclose to signing a lease for a new premises to house the popular supper club.
Carrie Fisher and Yoko Ono are to be among the 250 attendees and, incidentally, I wasn’t invited. This could be because they don’t know I exist and could be based upon my anti-Aryan remarks at the start of this post.
Geri Halliwell, Melanie Brown and Emma Bunton struted their stuff with Beckham at the closing ceremonies of the London Olympics. Adorable enough with their 80’s bubblegum pop, the crowd adored them. The tabloids went nuts, could a reunion be forth coming?
‘We just don’t know what’s going on in America. It’s all about the new catchy thing and that’s always changing. America is driven by record sales. It’s the home of corporations. We’re just Limp Bizkit, so we don’t know how to do anything but Limp Bizkit…’
The problem here wasn’t the extended double CD, which is better, it is the original, that sinks sputtering with “God’s Comic”. A terrible, terribly overwritten track that is the weakest link right in the middle of the album . “Veronica”, El’s most successful song to date, doesn’t help in the slightest. It is too composerly, too self righteous, too testing the waters as a serious composer. McCartney’s presence didn’t help at all. Grade: C+
Dr Michael Zuk (known as the Crazy Dentist) has a sister Kirsten who is a rather accomplished sculptress. She took a bit of that tooth, incorporated it into her piece and now touts it as in possesion of Lennons DNA.
“Moonlight Becomes You” is a perfect creation: a gorgeous form of seduction, with da Bing crooning “If I said I love you I want you to know, it’s not just because there’s moonlight although, moonlight becomes you so”.
