Rock Rock, Planet Rock

In this upload I decided to post something a little different from what I've put up as of late. This time around I am uploading a dance remix of a famous early hip-hop song. The song is Planet Rock, by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force. Even today that song is awesome, in my opinion.

The remix I'm putting up was done by Paul Oakenfold for the movie Swordfish. Yes, it's the movie where Halle Barry showed her... well, you know. Having seen it, that's really the only reason TO see the movie! It wasn't too good, although the soundtrack was pretty groovy. In particular, his remix of Planet Rock was pretty awesome. He didn't really change it but rather enhanced it, and you can listen to both this and the original and enjoy either/or.

Planet Rock (Swordfish Mix)-Paul Oakenfold vs. Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force (192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/392238361d67ef/

I'll be back Tuesday night.

It's The Remix

I wasn't sure until the day before what song I would upload next, but while listening to a random burned CD, I remembered a remix of a song that was the shiznit for about a week or two back in 2003. As I listened to the remix of the song Hell Yeah by Ginuwine, Baby (or Birdman), Clipse, and the famed R. Kelly. The remix happens to be on the same album as the original, The Senior.

The main reason why I downloaded the remix was that I could not find a non-mono version of the original song. I found the remix, downloaded it, and thought it was better than the original. Of course, in this day and age of shitty Top 40 radio and hip hop-R&B radio, popular songs get way overexposed than after a week or a month, you're lucky if you ever hear them again. Who knows how many people remember this 2003 tune, but hey, that's why I don't listen to those stations as much as most people do.

Ginuwine/Baby/Clipse/R. Kelly-Hell Yeah (Remix) (5.68 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3865495d13e1d8/

I'll be back Saturday afternoon, kids.

Crankin' That

I wasn't sure what I would post on here for my latest upload... at least until last night, when I returned to the grand old place known as Mako's and and a blast there. Speaking of that place, if you want to experience a taste of what the place is like-although this is more about MTV promoting it's usual bullshit and stereotypes-check out video from MTV filming some footage there for a pair of specials so you at least have some idea of what goes on there, although visiting the place in person is a much better way of understanding and experiencing all the debauchery that takes place there on a nightly basis. By the way, I have never seen any of the "All-Stars" work there in my life and I only recognized one or two employees there, and that was in brief shots.

How this ties into this upload is how during the night they played an already infamous song that people either love or hate; I'm talking about Crank Dat (Soulja Boy), from Soulja Boy. I'm in the latter camp, although I still admit the dance and the song is far better than that Chicken Noodle Soup shit from last year! Plus, I can't forget that the song was pretty over last night and you had quite a few people doing the dance... or at least attempting to do so.

In a totally roundabout way I found a download where the song has a dance beat added to it, and this version ends up being far better than the original, IMO. It's from a dude known as Cousin Cole and he deserves mad props for this.

Crank Dat (Soulja Boy) (Cousin Cole Remix) (10.74 MB, 320Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3811283c533f96/

I'll be back Wednesday night with another rap song.

Kickin' It Old School

After I finished with the Led Zeppelin block of songs I wasn't sure what song I would put up next, but then I saw a new Honda Accord ad that uses an ELO song. Kevin Spacey doing the voice-over for it was even more surprising for me; Kevin's a great actor, yes, but after I heard the rumor that he was gay, his role in American Beauty took on a new meaning.

Anyway, back to Electric Light Orchestra, a band that I think is awesome, even if other people don't. The song used in the Honda Accord ad was Hold On Tight (To Your Dreams), something that sounds like it is from the 50's or 60's, even though it was a 1981 album, "Time" to be exact. It's a cool song to use but there's a similar-sounding tune that I like even better. It's from 1983's "Secret Messages" album, but I'll get to it in a moment.

Electric Light Orchestra-Hold On Tight (To Your Dreams) (2.86 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3759611723716d/

Here is the song I was referring to from Secret Messages. It is not Four Little Diamonds, as made famous in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, but instead Rock 'n' Roll Is King. I think it's even better than Hold On Tight. Unlike the other tune, I have it on CD. The 3 CD collection was Rockin' 80's, which proved to be a steal at 9.99. The Final Countdown, Working For The Weekend, AND Cum On Feel The Noize? Sold! The best song I had not heard of before I bought it proved to be the ELO track.

Electric Light Orchestra-Rock 'n' Roll Is King (192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/37597495f43262/

I'll be back Sunday night.

It's A Real Fine Place To Start

In this final post where I post Led Zeppelin songs-although in the future I am sure I will post another track or two-I am posting two tunes, one of which is another one that is atypical of them, but the other one is a rocking tune.

The first is the atypical song. It's a track from their Houses of the Holy album. It is known as The Crunge and as you can read in its Wiki entry, the song is their version of a James Brown song. James Brown! Talk about strange, and yet it turns out well. I remember chatting about this with a friend back in my college days and when I mentioned the style of the song, my friend was shocked and wondered if Zep was particularly heavy into drugs at this point in their career. I would not be shocked if that proved to be true. I mean, I'm not even sure what a crunge is supposed to be.

Led Zeppelin-The Crunge (4.52 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/37213976ca7443/

The second song is a live track from the "How The West Was Won" album. The tune is "The Ocean", which in original form was also on Houses of the Holy. Now here's a rocking tune for you guys that has one of the most memorable riffs from Zeppelin, and that says a lot. It's been sampled by the Beastie Boys, among others. It's one of my favorite tunes from them, and the live version does a great job of mimicking the original.

Led Zeppelin-The Ocean (3.94 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/37211830b8fece/

I'll be back Thursday night.

You're Supposed To Make Love To The Second Side of Zoso!

For the second Led Zeppelin song, I will put up something that is atypical of their usual work. Most people expect their songs to rock out and kick you right in the balls. Yes, there's Stairway, but at the end it gets rockin'.

However, here is a track from the album Physical Graffiti (which is one I own and is awesome)that is more blues-y in nature and is another song that sounds like it could be from the 50's. It's Boogie With Stu, a song with an interesting story by it that you can read about if you click on the Wiki entry I have associated with it. They tried to do something nice for Ritchie Valens and they ended up getting in trouble with it. Those damn record companies. Anyway, this is a tune that you should probably enjoy even though there's no electric guitars involved.

Led Zeppelin-Boogie With Stu (5.34 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3683735168af34/

I'll be back Tuesday night.

Led Zeppelin Is Something Else

I apologize for getting this up late, as Thursday was just not the best day to upload a tune, so that's why instead I'm posting it now. I always feel like an ass for not living up to my word, even with something that everyone else would feel is inconsequential. That's just how I am.

The major music news for the week doesn't have anything to do with Kanye vs. 50 Cent or any of that nonsense. Instead, for the first time in 19 years Led Zeppelin is going to perform in concert. It's November 26th in London at a benefit concert which will include Foreignor, which I found to be odd until I realized that Jason Bonham, who will be drumming for Zeppelin in place of his famous father, has been in Foreignor for the past few years, so there you go.

Picking just a few songs to upload here is a difficult task as all of their albums have songs that you usually don't hear on the radio (unless you live in an area where the local classic rock station spends about 20 minutes a night playing all Zeppelin tracks, as Orlando's 96.5 does every Monday through Friday night with "Getting The Led Out" segment) but yet are still awesome.

For example, on Getting The Led Out I've been able to listen to some tracks from the BBC Sessions album, released 10 years ago. The one I'm putting up is a track done live in the summer of '69, which was between their first and second albums. The song is Something Else, originally done by Eddie Cochran, best known for his writing and performing of the classic Summertime Blues. Zeppelin's version is a quick (barely over 2 minute) ditty where they rip through it in an aggressive manner. It also includes a heavy piano part, so I presume-given that I haven't heard the original-that it does a great job of capturing the spirit of the original version.

Led Zeppelin-Something Else (3.58 MB, 234Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/36408285632d54/

I'll be back Sunday afternoon (I promise!) with another tune from Zeppelin's library of songs.

Whoops

I got wrapped up in too many things so I will be back in 24 hours time with the update I had planned, which does have to deal with the big music news that came out a few days ago, and no I'm not talking about Kanye vs. 50 or Britney.

You Can Stick It Up My...

I know I've been farting around with this for awhile, but finally I feel like putting this up. No, I won't be doing a blog about Britney's new songs as they are pretty easy to find if you Google them, but via a messageboard I found out that she performed tonight at the VMA's, which needless to say I did not watch, and her performance was rather listless and boring, as you can see for yourself. 50 Cent's reaction summed it up quite well.

What I'm putting up instead is a pair of songs from an artist who is best known for a curio from the 80's; how the song became popular is mystifying to me as it's more of a joke track than anything else.

That's right, it's Strokin', by Clarence Carter, a guy who actually was a well-known R&B musician in the 70's. I don't know much about his career except that he's someone who you would not have thought back in his heyday to end up singing bawdy (at least for the time period) tunes about having sexual intercourse with women... and with himself!

It's not a song I've really heard often and I never downloaded it until just a few days ago. Boy was I surprised when I listened to this version of the tune and found out why it was labeled as being uncensored. In the last lyric, he says that his woman gets so excited when they do the deed that she goes "Ooh shit!", then even better, states that his woman told him if her pussy is too lose, he can stick it up her ass.

No, really. He stated it less bluntly than that, but it did not mean that I wasn't stunned when I first heard those lyrics. I mean, wow.

Clarence Carter-Strokin' (4.19 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3567805c569632/

To demonstrate that he used to sing more traditional R&B songs, here is a tune known as "Patches", originally by the Chairmen of the Board before Carter covered it and it became among his best-known tunes. It's a nice song about a man who lived a hard blue-collar life and it's quite the contrast to Strokin'.

Clarence Carter-Patches (3.09 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3567848d0d58f2/

I'll be back on Thursday night unless something pops up suddenly and I feel like updating sooner.

Criss Cross

This week I've had some interesting ideas for my next song to put up here. By the way, I found the master list of all the songs posted on my blog and it's updated, so nothing will encumber what I upload.

It'd be too easy to post "Love Hurts", as I'm sure many of you already know that it's part of an infamous scene in the new Halloween movie; Christ, I haven't even seen the new movie and I already know about it! It appears that most people are upset that it was a poor choice for song in the scene it was used in, rather than the song itself; that's good, as I'd raise hell if people had problems with the song!

Rather, I will upload the song that was probably new to most of you if you heard it being used during a new McDonalds ad that debuted last night; it was with an African-American lady and you see the young boy in the family dressed up in 80's hip-hop clothes and doing breakdancing-like moves with his food while the song plays in the background. I'm sure that most of the millions who saw the ad had zero clue what the song was. Well, I knew what it was, as I had heard it every time I've been to Motion at Disney World's Pleasure Island. Yes, they play it every night so that everyone in the club has a chance to dance along with it. It's pretty popular, and no I've never participated in it.

The tune is "Cha Cha Slide", from Chicago's own Mr. C The Slide Man, otherwise known as DJ Casper. I don't really have any other comments to make except that it's a great tune, even if only it's at clubs, where you can watch the video for it and get instructional tips on how to do the dance.

Mr. C The Slide Man-Cha Cha Slide (128Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/35309696df5393/

Since my schedule changed, my next tune will be up Sunday night.

You Don't Have To Hide Nothing No More

First off, I just realized that with stuff uploaded to zshare.net, it gets deleted 15 days after its last use, so if you're ever looking through my archives or whatnot and notice that a file I put up via zshare, megaupload, or another service is currently down, leave a comment on my page or send me a message another way and I can put it back up for you.

Today I am going to do something a little different. I'm going to put up the original version of a song (which is well-known as it's not that uncommon on the oldies stations) and a cover version that I heard on one of the music channels on my digital cable service; that cover version is pretty obscure, and even online it's hard to find info on the band.

The song I'm talking about is "Little Girl", originally done by the Syndicate of Sound. It was their only hit, really, but what a memorable song to have as your only song of note. It's a very groovy and catchy song that you'll probably recognize if you listen to the oldies station… or rather, "have listened", given that they are hard to find these days. At least in some spots across the country there's "The True Oldies Channel". In Orlando it's on an AM station, but north of Tampa it's on an FM station, so usually I can only hear it on FM when I'm traveling west, like to a wrestling show in a small town or some sort of event in the Tampa Bay area. Also, there's satellite radio and if nothing else, downloading MP3's and burning your own oldies CD's, as I've done a few times myself for me and my parents; I know, what a nice son I am.

Anyway, awhile back on one of the digital cable music channels I heard The Banned cover Little Girl and do a great job of it. It sounds different, yet carries the same spirit of the original. It was a great job, and yet it was a bitch and a half trying to find it. I finally found it online, so I downloaded it and here it is for your listening pleasure. Unfortunately, I can't tell you much about The Banned except that they were a British New Wave band and the song is from the late 70's.

Syndicate of Sound-Little Girl (3.44 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3489322c74b884/

The Banned-Little Girl (3.25 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/3489408b55629e/

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

You Better Learn How To Kneel-On Your Knees, Boy

For this Labor Day weekend post, I will upload a song that doesn't really have anything to do with the holiday itself (although what COULD I post that would tie in, unless it was some song having to do with work? As none come to mind at the moment that would work well here…) but instead is yet another cover of a popular song.

One of U2's most popular songs is "Mysterious Ways". Funnily enough, it took me awhile to realize it, but U2 indeed is pretty good. I don't know why I used to think differently, but I will admit that in my life, my musical tastes have been known to change. Anyway, that also applies to a cover done of "Mysterious Ways" done by industrial rock band KMFDM for an obscure 1993 compilation album of cover songs mostly done by bands I have never heard of before. For the most part, their "music" isn't really to my tastes, and when I first heard their version of the song way back when, I didn't care for it at all. But with time, I for some reason changed my mind and realized that it's just about as good as the original. It's certainly different, though, after you get past the almost identical opening. You have a guy with a strange-sounding voice singing most of the song but the chorus is done by a female singer.

As an aside, I think this version of the song would make for nice entrance music for a female professional wrestler. Don't ask me why-my mind works in mysterious ways... by the way, last night I was at a real small-time wrestling show and saw a heel tag team use the song Kashmir, which I thought was awesome as more wrestlers need to use it. Of course, though, the team was a RUSSIAN tag team, so I don't know how a Middle Eastern influenced song would work for them, but alas... it's not like I know of any Russian black death metal songs they could use, though...

KMFDM-Mysterious Ways (4.33 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/34428353cfc79d/

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