I'm Radioactive

You know, somewhere in a Word file I have a list of all the songs I've put up on my blog. I need it now as I want to double check to make sure that I hadn't put a tune up on there already, but of course at this time I don't know which Word file it is in and I can't find it at this exact moment so that's why I'll put up another tune instead-one that I know hasn't been posted before. No, I'm not drunk right now, before you ask. That was the night before.

This song is by The Firm. No, not the supergroup album with those hip-hop artists. Rather, it was a rock and roll supergroup with Paul Rodgers of Bad Company and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. As with many supergroups the total was less than the sum of its parts but they did have a good song that I once in awhile hear on the classic rock stations in this part of Florida (although I have no clue if the tune is popular where you readers may live; I know that I don't remember hearing it in my time in Illinois), known as Radioactive. It's pretty catchy and not too long, at a hair under 3 minutes in length. It's certainly more of a song you'd expect from Bad Company than Zep, in case you were wondering. No matter what I think it's a good tune from the 80's, where in rock you usually expect a lot of hair metal.

The Firm-Radioactive (3.87 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/33974907b889a1/

I'll be back Sunday night with my next tune. This time around I should have more than a few minutes of time to figure out what the song will be.

Let Me See What You Got

Yes, this is another upload that has to deal with my night out on the town. In particular, this past Saturday night I went back to Mako's and had quite the wild time.

When I heard a particular song I realized it had to go on here. I had heard it a few times before, whether it was at a bar/restaurant in Ocoee, where I heard it for the first time, or at the former club known as Fusion. They played it at Mako's as it's perfect for a bar/club setting.

It is known as "Shake That Ass Bitch" and is from the Splack Pack. Even online it's hard to find info on that group, and I certainly can't add anything to the discussion, except that I presume they are a Florida group. It's a Miami bass song, and boy, depending on your car's system, it should sound great on it. The lyrics aren't that great, sure, but it's more about the music and how catchy it is (along with the great bass) than lyrical quality; they do get the job done, so that's the most important thing for a song that's really meant for listening in a bar or club setting, as I 've stated already.

Although, it apparently also goes along well with a Teletubbies video... it still isn't THE video of the moment, which of course is of Miss South Carolina and how her IQ is the same as what plankton possess! By the way, Aimee Teegarden is on the show Friday Night Lights.

Splack Pack-Shake That Ass Bitch (5.49 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3347574d82ba9d/

I'll be back on Thursday night with my next song.

My Name Is… Labi Siffre?

I am going to go ultra-obscure in today's upload.

It is a song that I first found on the great website known as Sample FAQ. I don't remember how, but I stumbled upon a song known as "I Got The" (or sometimes known as "I Got The Blues"; I believe the former is correct, although that's not for certain), by a guy known as Labi Siffre, who is someone I had never heard of before, and really knew nothing about at all.Recently I looked him up again and saw his Wikipedia page and discovered that he was a homosexual, which made the famous rap song that came out 8 years ago that sampled the tune quite shocking.

The song... "My Name Is", by Eminem! I don't know how Dr. Dre found the song, but it turned out to be a great sample to use. It's just interesting given Labi's background. For the record, the first 2 minutes of the 6 1/2 minute tune sounds like a total 70's lounge love song (not the best description, but that's all that comes to mind; you can almost imagine Barry White singing over the music) and then there's an instrumental part that was used in the My Name Is sample. Then, the last part of the song is a combination of the two.

Labi Siffre-I Got The (6.01 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/33050565e9fc36/

Speaking of Eminem, back when I mentioned in a previous post that his rapping career after the 8 Mile soundtrack was pitiful when before that it was so amazing, I had completely forgotten about how he sampled one of the worst songs of the 80's, "Toy Soldiers", and sampled it and somehow made it even worse than the original. Yikes. It's a shame, but maybe with his new album which is allegedly going to come out "soon", he can turn it around and make us forget how terrible "Encore" was.

I'll be back on Monday night with another song.

"Well, funny thing about my back, is it's located on my..."

Here is a post that is part movie review and part music discussion.

Yesterday, I drove to Tampa as I did a goofy double-header in movie watching that only I'd attempt. In the afternoon I watched I Know Who Killed Me, which yes, is the movie starring Lindsay Lohan that was released a few days after her second DUI a few weeks ago. I heard from several different sites that the movie is so preposterous it had to be seen to be believed. If you want to know the entire plot then read this review. I told you it was absurd.

I decided to see it for myself. Foywonder was right, it is a film that has to be seen to be believed. It's just batshit insane. I mean, even the soundtrack was wonky, although the song that played during her sex scene with that boyfriend was ridiculously awesome and sounded like a new reworking of a late 70's Eurodisco trashy song. If only I knew what it was, but one of these days I hope to find out.

Then, at night I went to a drive-in theatre to see the movie Superbad, a movie I've been interested in seeing since I first saw the trailer for it back in April. Part of the reason that it caught my attention was its 70's theme and its usage of good old funk music, something that I should spend a little more time talking about on here.

The movie lived up to my high expectations, and more. I agree with the millions that are praising it, as it was awesome and totally hilarious. McLovin is the man.

For those of you that have seen it, if you want to know what the opening credits song is-which has a passing resemblance to "Shining Star"-it is Too Hot To Stop, by The Bar-Kays. They've had quite the interesting career, sure, but they've had many quality songs, including this one, Soul Finger (also in the movie) and Holy Ghost, a song I'll have to upload one of these days, as it's an 8 minute monster.

The Bar-Kays-Too Hot To Stop (5.92 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3265529e90757e/

I'll be back by Saturday afternoon with my next upload.

Remembering Elvis, Part 3

For this last edition of my tribute to Elvis, I decided to go campy and not because I want to be an ass and disrespect the memory of this great icon (after all, I have a t-shirt with him on it that I got in Memphis in 2003 when I went there with two people I knew for spring break.) but rather for curio reasons and to show that even he sang bad songs, so here are a trio of tunes from an infamous bootleg album known as Elvis's Greatest Shit. Nevermind how I found it, although it's not difficult if you Google the term… but yeah, nevermind how I found it.

The first song is known as "Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce". Yes, that's what it's called! The reason for picking it out should be obvious. It's a song sung in the film Girl Happy. I mean, a tune that's supposed to be a jingle from a spring break town plugging itself… you have to feel sorry for how Elvis had to act in many films, most of which were genial and innocent enough, but still forgettable (I've only seen a few, but that's a general rule with the majority of his films). The song itself doesn't have the best lyrics, but the tune itself isn't that bad, which actually applies to all three songs here.

Elvis-Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce (2.72 MB, 256Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/32205655f3a7f6/

The second song has another incredible title... Yoga Is As Yoga Does! Yes, this was long before Stupid Is As Stupid Does. This is from Easy Come, Easy Go. Just WHY there is a song about yoga, I don't know, although from what I understand (I haven't seen this particular film) Elvis is a frogman this is probably not the best film in his filmography. Special notice has to be placed on trying to rhyme "serious" with "posterious". Yes, posterious is the word, rather than "posterior". Yikes.

Elvis-Yoga Is As Yoga Does (3.87 MB, 256Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/32206058bafc9a/

The third tune has another great title, although at least the song itself is a double entendre. It is known as "No Room To Rhumba In A Sports Car", "rhumba" being a code word for "fuck your brains out", to state it as plainly as I can. It makes the song better if you make that substitution. It's from the film "Fun in Acapulco", a flick where Elvis never actually went to that tropical locale. Figures.

Elvis-No Room To Rhumba In A Sports Car (3.42 MB, 256Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/32206263f4010d/

I'll be back Wednesday afternoon with a new tune.

Remembering Elvis, Part 2

It turns out that I won't have a lot of time to write on this blog so instead I will talk about some of Elvis's worst songs on Sunday and today I will actually show you guys a link to another blog which has an incredible find: All the songs from a bootleg recording done of Elvis's last ever concert, done at the old Market Square Arena in Indianapolis on June 26, 1977. The blog even has a review of the concert done by some hardcore Elvis-philes. You can either download any of the songs the typical right clicky way or you can download them via a Zip file. I'm sure all of you know this, but to open a Zip file you need a program like WinZip to do the deed.

From the brief listen I had of a few songs, I can tell you that the sound quality is acceptable enough for a bootleg and as for Elvis's performance... let's just say it was better than some of the horror stories I've read on how during the final years, his concerts featured him barely coherent at best. You should download it for its historical value.

Like I said, I'll be back on Sunday with the third and final part of my remembering this American icon.

Remembering Elvis, Part 1

We all know that today is the 30th anniversary of Elvis's death, with many people paying tribute to him. One sobering aspect of this is that the final years of Elvis's life were wrought with drugs... and well, more drugs. It was sad that Elvis's handlers allowed him to descend into a life this painful and terrible, but then when you realize that there are several current celebrity ladies out there (who do not need to be named) who have experienced problems in the past year or two with drugs and scandal and other calamities... it's clear that the handlers for, say, Britney, Paris, or Lindsay are not doing a lot to help curb their wild ways and a lot of people fear that they could end up turning out like Elvis's last days... it's sad, but anyway, onto happier things, which is putting up several Elvis songs in order to remember him properly instead of as a celebrity who met a horrific end. I just noticed a moment ago that there are many other bloggers who are doing the same thing. I haven't had a chance to really look at the tunes they put up, so maybe this will end up being a 3 part thing instead of a 2 part thing. I'll figure it out by tomorrow, I know that.

The first song is one that most people know (don't worry, the other two are obscure). It's Suspicious Minds, a song that is still common on the oldies stations (at least, when you can find an oldies station on your dial; in Orlando the only oldies station is on an AM station. The nearest FM one is a little north of Tampa so I usually can only hear it when I'm traveling towards Tampa or a wrestling show that is north of the area). It's a really good song about relationships and love and all that, and is sung in the one of a kind Elvis style, as it's a tune made for him. As it says in the liner notes to the great album "Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits", "A marked departure from much of Elvis's previous work, this time by virtue of its emotional complexity, musical maturity, and fresh take on blue-eyed soul... Elvis delivers a performance that is both passionate and self-contained."

Elvis-Suspicious Minds (6.29 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/317107028add70/

The second and third songs are live tunes that I found on the file-sharing services. This tune, which is a cover of one of the greatest rock songs of all time, Johnny B. Goode, is from, I believe, his 1973 "Aloha From Hawaii" concert special. The musicians he had for this performance just ripped through the tune at a breakneck pace and Elvis kept right up and delivered a blistering performance. Of course it's not as good as Chuck Berry's original, but hey the original is an all-time classic so that's not really fair.

Elvis-Johnny B. Goode (live) (2.83 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3171334249845e/

The third song, which I'm mainly putting up because it happens to be on the same CD as the Johnny B. Goode song, is Elvis covering yet another song that became another American musical chestnut. This song is known as Proud Mary, and is of course the most famous song from Creedence Clearwater Revival. Oddly enough, I've never really cared for the Ike & Tina version of the song, even though I know a lot of people do. It's nothing against them... I mean, their "Nutbush City Limits" is a song I'll have to upload sooner or later, as it's awesome. Anyway, the file says the song is a bootleg from January 26, 1972, which as far as I know is true. It's a song that isn't especially notable, but is still what you'd expect an Elvis version of the tune to be, and nothing's wrong with that, I say. An official version of the song can be found on his 1972 concert at Madison Square Garden.

Elvis-Proud Mary (live) (3.84 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3171458f8c55fa/

I'll be back on Friday afternoon with some unfortunate songs from his legendary career.

An Unusual Case Of A "Diss Track"

I know, it's not common for me to talk about popular, current singles on here as this is really a place for more obscure tracks, but it's possible that there are others out there who have had trouble in the past trying to find a stereo version of the song "Give It To Me". No, not the song from the J. Geils Band or the song by Rick James. Rather, the new tune from Timabaland, Nelly Furtado, and Justin Timberlake, from Timba's "Timbaland Presents Shock Value" CD. If you look at the Billboard Charts for the number one songs in the U.S. this year so far… this ranks up there with the "best" song, IMO. I mean, compared to garbage like Beautiful Girls, Girlfriend, Glamorous, and Umbrella, Give It To Me and Makes Me Wonder are the two best. I only realized now how the year looks bad when you just look at the number ones, but beyond that you see it's not too shabby.

I should've tried to do this a little earlier, but I was only inspired a few days ago to try and find a stereo version of the song, as on the music search sites you pretty much can only find a crappy mono version of the tune. I used Project Playlist, an underrated spot to look for music. Hey, when they give you the URL to the songs you put on your playlist, you're not going to listen to their suggestion of using iTunes to download it! I was able to find a stereo version, which I downloaded ASAP and that's what I'm uploading for y'all.

Reading the Wikipedia entry cleared up for me the big mystery of who exactly the singers were dissing in the song. Hey, I don't watch MTV or read any of the music sites. Furtado disses Fergie, which is fine by me, except that the start of their "feud" is rather insipid, to say the least. So is Justin ripping on Prince just because he made a sarcastic reference to Sexyback. I mean, they come off as being whiny and petty to me. I guess I'm too used to the rap beefs such as Tupac vs. The Notorious B.I.G. More interesting to me is the feud between Timbaland and Scott Storch. I prefer Timba to Storch quite a bit, so I'll take his side in it… but hopefully Scott is the one lying in the situation!

Anyway, no matter what you think of the lyrics, the beat is scorching hot and I figured a few people out there would want to have a stereo version of the tune.

Timbaland/Nelly Furtado/Justin Timberlake-Give It To Me (192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/31586500378c4a/

Thursday being the 30th anniversary of Elvis passing away, I will post a few songs of his.

Saturday Night's Alright For Partying

Sunday and Monday were not so great for me, as Sunday I found out that someone I used to talk with and was a fellow wrestling fan passed away at the age of 25 in a car accident. Monday was a dentist appointment, finding out I will need to have a crown put in my mouth (the bill will crown my ass!) and then finding out I have a bruise on the back of my leg and yet having no clue how I ended up with the bruise... but Saturday was a lot of fun. From my blog:

Saturday night the plan was to meet up with the same friend that I saw on Friday night. But, he never called, which I took to mean that he wasn't available to go out; that was disappointing, yeah, but beforehand I was planning on going out this weekend… I mean, that was the plan even before the arrangements to meet up with my pal on Friday night. So, I decided to go back to downtown Orlando and return to the fantastical place known as Mako's. Even for that place it was a wild time while I was there.

As it should go without saying, the female employees there looked fantastic in their lingerie outfits. Hell, more than one lady wore nothing more than tiny straps of tissue paper on her boobs that covered her areola and not much else! Oh what a fantastic place this is…

The one female employee that I mentioned last month during my blog about my previous trip to Mako's happened to be there again. She seemed to remember who I was, although maybe I was just being played like a fiddle again… ok, I'm sure that when I chatted with her I WAS being played like a fiddle, but if you could have seen what she was wearing (or rather, not wearing) then you probably would've done the same thing! Wow die she ever look fantastic on this night.

Several pairs of fake boobs. They were spectacular fake boobs… whether I'm saying that they were "spectacularly fake" or "the fake books looked spectacular"… I'm not quite sure myself. The most noteworthy thing about that was that even though the chick wasn't supposed to do so, a few times one of the ladies with the implants decided to lift up her shirt and expose her large breasts. I didn't complain! Neither did many of the guys there.

Speaking of two girls being attracted to each other, there was a moment where a male bartender convinced a pair of girls to give each other bodyshots. Not to continue the crass demeanor of this particular blog, but I did in fact enjoy seeing each girl lick the booze off of each other's stomach and chest, and seeing it happen a few feet in front of me… memories that will last a lifetime!A guy that I've talked about last year (and was at Mako's the last time I was there last month),

The guy I refer to as Not F. Murray Abaraham, as no shit he looks like the Academy Award winning actor who was Salieri from Amadeus and was in Scarface… and that's really it for movies I knoew he was in… anyway, he was there again on Saturday night and sometimes, his exuberant and unique dancing got the ladies' attention, and that was the case here. It looked as if he had a chance to score with a lady-she was full figured, but nothing wrong with that-and I hope he was able to do so.

But, to get to today's upload... also from my blog:

They always play an interesting mix of tunes there, but even I was taken aback by one tune being… a Lords of Acid song known as "Pussy". I'll never forget the day way back during my sophomore year at ISU when I was in a friend's dorm room and at random he downloaded the song, mainly because of its title. The opening seconds of the song is a 2 Live Crew-esque beat and then a cat meowing, which shocked me and him on first listen. Then, the lyrics concern a girl singing about her own cat and her friend's cat… at least that's what they want you to think, but it's clear that the girl is singing about, to be blunt, vagina. Believe it or not, one line actually goes, "My pussy's always hungry for a big chunk of meat." I swear, it's true!

To share with you the great experience of listening to this classic tune, here is the upload.

Lords of Acid-Pussy (5.67 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3138631eba07f9/

I'll be back on Wednesday with a quick entry on something you probably wouldn't expect me to post, and then Thursday and Friday I will put up some Elvis songs, due to it being the 30th anniversary of his passing.

Orlando, Jump On It

My weekend turned out to be a lot of fun and different from the norm also. I went out both nights to downtown Orlando and its nightlife. Tomorrow night I'll talk about what happened on Saturday, but Friday night… bits and pieces taken from my MySpace blog:

I just got back minutes ago from a night out with someone I know from living in Belvidere (he's also from the town... hell, we graduated the same year, 2000). He happens to be down here in Orlando on an internship for a construction company. We were able to get into contact with each other via the power of the Internet so I drove over to his place and from there we went to downtown Orlando.

First, we ended up at a tiki bar (of all places) in downtown Orlando on that strip of bars on Wall Street. It was known as the WaiTiki. It wasn't too shabby. Many of the female patrons there were far from being shabby… From there we ended up at a nearby bar known as Casey's.

From there we went to Lattitude's, a bar that's literally on the roof on Church Street-yes it's a place I've never been to either-and that was a lot of fun too. Sure, if you're a dude and you expect one of the MALE bartenders to wait on you then you're shit out of luck-finally a female one waited on me-but other than that, no complaints. There was also the added bonus of seeing one girl stick her face into her friend's rather sizeable breasts... they were freaks! They weren't the only ones there, though. As you can see it was a night filled with fun and LOL's.

Anyway, I did discover a song while at Latitudes that I had not heard before, amazingly. It's a song from Sir Mix-a-Lot. No, it's not THAT song... it was played a little earlier in the night at Latitudes. Rather, it's a rap that samples the Grandmaster Flash song Apache. It's known as "Jump On It" and it was pretty popular at Latitudes. I liked it too, although nothing will quite top the Tommy Seebach Band version of Apache, as most of us can only dream of being as awesome as Tommy Seebach.

As you can see from the lyrics it is a song that talks about various cities and areas across the country, including Orlando and namechecks the great DJ Magic Mike. It's from '96, meaning it was after Baby Got Back became a certifiable classic. To be honest I've never known a whole lot about his career besides that one song, but I'm glad I heard "Jump On It" as he did a great job enhancing what was already an awesome song.

Sir Mix-a-Lot-Jump On It (128Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/31226519534b03/

I'll be back tomorrow night with the second part of my weekend recap, plus a song I heard this past Saturday night that I knew from years ago but never thought I'd hear in public. Trust me, it's tremendous.

Love Is The Drug And I Need To Score

Note: I wrote the below early on Friday. I wanted to wait until Friday night to post it, but of course during the late afternoon-early evening hours, the cable was out. As a digital cable subscriber, that meant no cable Internet either. That is why this is being posted now, after I got back from my night on the town. I consumed a large Red Bull drink infused with alcohol (rum, to be exact; yes, rum and not vodka; it's good, actually) so that's why I'm still up.

Today I decided not to spend a lot of time with this blog. Hey, I have other things planned, including writing something for my Livejournal page and hopefully meeting up with a person I know from my Illinois days who happens to be in the area at this time.

But, I still want to upload a song, and one that is the usual you would expect from me, and something that's a little different from what I've put up this week, which has been rock tunes from the 80's. This one is what may be considered an "art rock" song from a band that frequently was well known for this genre. It's the English rock band Roxy Music and their song Love Is The Drug.

I've heard of Roxy a long while ago but I didn't really feel like checking out any of their music (and after I found the song, I listened to a few other tunes from them and it's usually not the type of tunes I listen to) but the one tune of theirs that I do like I originally found on... a vinyl album that my parents have. No, they're not art rock listeners. Rather, it was a compilation album of totally random 70's songs (I mean, it had You Sexy Thing, I'm Easy, and a single version of Green Grass & High Tides). I listened to the song, from Roxy's Siren album and thought it was pretty good... the lyrics are well-done and do a great job of explaining how powerful love really is. It IS like a drug, IMO. Funnily, the lyrics also sound like the start of a beautiful... one night stand!

As an aside I'm surprised that this tune is one of the 500 that receive special attention in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The website doesn't explain how the tunes were chosen, so one of these days when I visit the Hall of Fame building in Cleveland I'll have to look at that and I should finally know how the tunes were chosen. I mean, some of them I haven't even heard of before, and others I really don't know why they were included.

Funnily enough I burned the song from a CD that was part of a collection I bought last year. The CD's were advertised as being copyright-protected, but Roxio said "Hardy har har!" to that claim and burned it with no problem.

Roxy Music-Love Is The Drug (5.47 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3083482c1e06fd/

I'll be back on Monday afternoon (barring any further cable problems) with a new upload. This time it will be a catchy rap song.

Van Freakin' Halen!

This week so far has been interesting. I mean, there is interest brewing concerning how next week will mark the 30th anniversary of Elvis's death. Next week I will commemorate that by posting several lesser known songs of his. Then, last night was Barry Bonds becoming the Home Run King (at least when it comes to baseball in America; in Japan, Sadaharu Oh, who music-wise was name-checked in the Beastie Boys songs "Hey Ladies", set the record in that country's version of major league baseball by hitting 868 home runs. Yeah, their baseball isn't as good as over in America but it's not THAT bad and it's still one hell of an achievement that deserves a lot of credit) by hitting 756.

But, to me the story that relates to this entry is how a story that was reported a month ago was confirmed when it was announced that Van Halen, WITH DAVID LEE ROTH, will embark on a North American tour in the fall. To many that's a shock considering how bitter their split was over 20 years ago and the problems that resulted when a few years ago they tried to have a reunion but it broke apart only days after it was made public.

Along with many people, I prefer the David Lee Roth era of Van Halen (I hope no one thought I'd upload a tune from Van Halen III, i.e. the album with Gary Cerrone; I wouldn't punish you blog readers in that manner!) and plus I will be putting up a lesser-known track from the Roth era and then a solo song from Roth.

First, the song from Van Halen's second album, creatively titled Van Halen II, as it was the second album they ever did. The song is a cover of a tune written by Clint Ballard Jr. (not related to Russ Ballard) that may be best known to your readers for the version done by Linda Ronstadt. Yes, it's You're No Good. The version done by Van Halen has a great bass opening that returns near the end of the tune and nice harmonies in the chorus, which is good enough for me to post on here. I realize that depending on where you live you may hear it once in a blue moon on your local classic rock station (or heck, maybe even one of the satellite radio channels if you have that) but it's certainly not as well-known as their classic rock staples (truth be told, I mostly know their classic rock staples and that's it) so that's why I want to share it with all of you.

Van Halen-You're No Good (3.02 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/304544128a19d2/

The solo song from David Lee Roth is NOT one of the bluegrass tunes he did last year. Holy shit no I would not subject you guys to that either. Just seeing a YouTube video of it is bad enough. After seeing him cover one of their tunes with a bunch of guys picking on a guitar and banjo, I wonder if the Van Halen brothers decided, "Awww fuck, his career must REALLY be in the shitter... we'd better show him some sympathy and let him back into the group." I swear, that must've happened. I mean, his extremely unwise career move of trying to be the next Howard Stern was bad enough, but bluegrassing broke the camel's back.

Anyway, the tune is not from his first EP or his first album*. Now, Yankee Rose is pretty good, I will admit, but as it's in the Vice City game, I'll instead post a song that is from his second album, Skyscraper. It was a song pretty popular at the time but you rarely hear it anymore. Yes, it's Just Like Paradise... no, that's the name of the song, not how I feel about the song. While it's not like a song from his days with Van Halen, it's still very catchy.

* The revelation that a SPANISH version of that album was recorded... it blows my mind. If I ever find that, you know very well that it will be posted on here.

David Lee Roth-Just Like Paradise (3.71 MB, Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3045474c1040e5/

I'll be back Friday night.

M.Z.A.!

I am not quite sure how I decided to pick this tune, but I only first heard it a few weeks ago. I was looking at a messageboard that I have a love/hate relationship with and in their music section there was a discussion on Japanese music. One band brought up was Loudness. I understood that it was a Japanese version of a heavy metal group, which sounds so strange that I had to try and find a song or two of theirs.

I decided to go with their most famous tunes. The one I like the most is Crazy Nights, a tune that like all on the Thunder In The East album was sung in English. The random chant of "M.Z.A." was used in the song, even though it really means nothing. For you heavy metal fans (and don't deny it, I know you are!) you will have to download this if you don't already have it in your collection. I don't know a lot else about music from the land of the Rising Sun, but at least I know that Loudness is cool.

Loudness-Crazy Nights (4.69 MB, 160Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3018352e62a788/

I'll be back on Wednesday night.

Bratz... Come Out To PLAY-AY!

While looking through a new layout for my MySpace page, I came across a layout for the 1979 classic film The Warriors. I added it to my page as that film is awesome. Sure, it's cartoony in the fact that, for example, how the gangs dress, but if you don't put that much thought into it, it's an awesome action film with scads of great scenes.

Then, last night I happened to be in a store and saw that the Warriors PS2 game was on sale for 20 bucks so I bought it. I heard that it was a quality game so that's why I made the purchase. I've only started playing it but it does appear to be a sweet-ass disc.

They also have music from the move in the game. For example, the cover of Nowhere To Run. The original is by the famed Holland-Dozier-Holland writing stuff at Motown and sung by Martha Reeves & The Vandellas. The disco-sounding cover of the song that is in the film is from the R&B singer Arnold McCuller. If you've seen the film you'll probably remember the song. I was able to find it with little trouble. However, it's been a bitch trying to download the instrumental that's in the opening credits of the film. When I can get it I'll post it sometime in the future.

Before I post the song, though, I have to mention the epiphany that shot into my brain late last night. I don't know if you've seen the trailer or any ads to the hideous Bratz movie, based off of the line of dolls that are popular with young girls... and possibly pedophiles too! I mean, just look at the Baby Bratz line.

Awhile ago I saw a high quality version of the film's trailer which shows in details just how bizarre their cliques are (one is of "dino-students"; um, what?) but just by seeing the link I provided you can understand that the cliques they have in the film (which plays into the entire plot of the flick, which is that the ladies are pressured to try and join one but in the end they have to "remain real" or whatever and just be themselves) are portrayed rather broadly and stereotypically, to say the least. I mean, what high school as a "disco group" in it?

I probably only realized this due to buying the game, but the cliques in here come off as being EXACTLY like the gangs in The Warriors! I mean, the disco people, the "dino-students", the "sk8ters"... I can imagine the Baseball Furies, The Lizzies, and The Punks (the rollerskaters) also sitting at individual lunch tables in this bizarre high school world. Hell, Bratz has a mime clique (judging by its trailer) and there was also a mime group in The Warriors! If it's just a bizarre coincidence, it's still more than a little freaky to me.

The only way that I'd see Bratz was if it was a remake of The Warriors and the Bratz faction had to fight the "dino-students", the nerds, the jocks, and the band members in order to head back to their home turf. Oh would I ever love to read or even see that vision come to life...

Arnold McCuller-Nowhere To Run (2.98 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/2971497987cefb/

I'll be back sometime on Monday (probably in the evening) where I probably won't make any further connections between films that appear to have nothing in common... and hopefully have no problems with the font in my entries either.

Take Your Woman With You & Put Your Mind At Ease

First off, here is what I promised to have up the last time. Check out this page, which has the now famous video of 1,500 Filipino prisoners doing an incredible simulation of the Thriller video. Many different pages have the video, but here is the original page that uploaded it; plus, you have other videos involving the prisoners, such as them doing Radio Ga Ga and The Village People!

Now, up to today's upload. Stanley Clarke and George Duke are famous jazz musicians who put out several albums together of fusion music. The song I'm spotlighting is a cover of a song that is one of the most famous in rock history and has been covered who knows how many hundreds of times. Yes, it's Louie Louie. While the lyrics as sung by the Kingsmen are impenetrable, the other versions of the song make the lyrics rather clear. Trust me, the lyrics are not vulgar! As for this version, off of the "Clarke/Duke Project, Vol.1" album, they of course make it pretty funky and do a great job of it. They do an intro and an outro where George & "Uncle Stanley" tell the song as a story to his son. Trust me the song turns out better than it may sound. I mean, from what I've heard of their tunes this is more "mainstream" than

Stanley Clarke/George Duke-Louie Louie (7.14 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/294409906c648e/

I'll be back Friday night. I'm not even sure yet what kind of tune I'll put up, but as you can see by the tunes I've put up as of late, I'm rather eclectic so you never quite know what to expect from moi.