Wednesday, August 19, 2009
An Important Announcement
As you can tell from recent history, it became harder and harder for me to do this, so I decided to change things around and I'll stop updating this blog. I won't take this down, though; I'll keep it up for perpetuity for people to look at and download stuff at anytime. My new movie blog is here, so please check that out.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Referencing An Earlier Post
If you’re wondering why I’m posting this now when I said that I was going to be on my trip, it got bumped from me leaving yesterday to me leaving this Sunday; don’t ask for the full story, but complications happened which prevented me from leaving when I was scheduled to; in hindsight the new days I’m gone may work out better for me anyhow. I’ll keep it short and sweet.
Remember this entry, where I talked about how I found out about a cover of a popular alternative song by The Oak Ridge Boys? Well, the album came out in May but I didn’t think of looking for it until recently. It was a bitch and a half to try and find the tune, so me posting it is an especially good idea. The rest of the album is the type of country you’d expect from them (don’t ask how I know this) but this song is SO much better than the original.
The Oak Ridge Boys-Seven Nation Army (5.94 MB, 213Kbits/second)
As my trip starts on the 2nd I'll be taking much of this month off. My next post here won't be until the weekend of August 22nd.
Remember this entry, where I talked about how I found out about a cover of a popular alternative song by The Oak Ridge Boys? Well, the album came out in May but I didn’t think of looking for it until recently. It was a bitch and a half to try and find the tune, so me posting it is an especially good idea. The rest of the album is the type of country you’d expect from them (don’t ask how I know this) but this song is SO much better than the original.
The Oak Ridge Boys-Seven Nation Army (5.94 MB, 213Kbits/second)
As my trip starts on the 2nd I'll be taking much of this month off. My next post here won't be until the weekend of August 22nd.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Cash... Johnny Cash
I know, a day late, a dollar short, and all that…
Remember when I talked about how Alice Cooper did a song for a Bond movie but it wasn’t used? Well, there’s another case of a pretty rad song being in the running for a Bond flick but it being eschewed for something else.
In this case, Tom Jones did the title song for the 1965 movie Thunderball. You can listen to it here. It’s what you’d expect a theme song from that franchise in the 60’s to be, for better or for worse. At least at the time Jones was a pretty big star. But, another big star did another song with the same title. It’s a late singer who became a favorite of hipsters and college kids but don’t let that turn you off.
None other than Johnny Cash did a song also entitled Thunderball in ’65. The lyrics are different and it definitely has the one of a kind Cash sound to it. Admittedly, I’m not a big fan of the country music genre and I don’t really have too many of his songs anywhere in my collection… but given that I enjoy his sound, that’s something that I need to rectify one of these days. No matter what you think of Cash, you should enjoy this tune.
Johnny Cash-Thunderball (3.26 MB, 160Kbits/second)
I'll be back to do one last one for July before I leave for my Illinois trip. That will be up by Tuesday night the 28th.
Remember when I talked about how Alice Cooper did a song for a Bond movie but it wasn’t used? Well, there’s another case of a pretty rad song being in the running for a Bond flick but it being eschewed for something else.
In this case, Tom Jones did the title song for the 1965 movie Thunderball. You can listen to it here. It’s what you’d expect a theme song from that franchise in the 60’s to be, for better or for worse. At least at the time Jones was a pretty big star. But, another big star did another song with the same title. It’s a late singer who became a favorite of hipsters and college kids but don’t let that turn you off.
None other than Johnny Cash did a song also entitled Thunderball in ’65. The lyrics are different and it definitely has the one of a kind Cash sound to it. Admittedly, I’m not a big fan of the country music genre and I don’t really have too many of his songs anywhere in my collection… but given that I enjoy his sound, that’s something that I need to rectify one of these days. No matter what you think of Cash, you should enjoy this tune.
Johnny Cash-Thunderball (3.26 MB, 160Kbits/second)
I'll be back to do one last one for July before I leave for my Illinois trip. That will be up by Tuesday night the 28th.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Revisiting Zappa
Way back when (re, 14 months ago) I spent some time talking about Frank Zappa. As I'm tired now I'll keep this brief; out of the blue I thought about him tonight and figured that posting another song from his oeuvre would be a good idea; here's another "radio-friendly" song rather than a wild and/or vulgar one.
It's from the greatly named 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti. It's a sarcastic song about the disco craze and yet it became popular enough to get a Grammy nomination and didn't do badly on the charts either. It's Dancin' Fool. Due to catchy songs like that, it was the second-best selling album of his career.
Instead of uploading the song myself you can find it here at this Spanish blog I found, along with other tunes. A Babelfish translation tells me that the wide variety of songs you can find there are meant to be relaxing.
I'll be back next weekend.
It's from the greatly named 1979 album Sheik Yerbouti. It's a sarcastic song about the disco craze and yet it became popular enough to get a Grammy nomination and didn't do badly on the charts either. It's Dancin' Fool. Due to catchy songs like that, it was the second-best selling album of his career.
Instead of uploading the song myself you can find it here at this Spanish blog I found, along with other tunes. A Babelfish translation tells me that the wide variety of songs you can find there are meant to be relaxing.
I'll be back next weekend.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Wait Until This Upcoming Weekend
Unfortunately yet another calamity happened to me this past weekend; remember how I got a cheap computer around Thanksgiving due to problems with the old one and how it would be a temporary fix until the summer when a new one could be bought? Well, the 4th of July the cheap computer crashed and as it was a holiday I had to wait until Sunday to get a new one; I got a Hewlett-Packard and that should be better than the cheap one. But, that screwed up my schedule and thus I'll have to post something new this upcoming weekend.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
RIP Sky Saxon
Lost in the hoopla of you know who passing away on Thursday was the fact that another musician passed away; even I'm not too familiar with him but he deserves mention here.
Sky Saxon of the 60's garage rock band The Seeds passed away. Admittedly, I only knew of him and the band for their biggest hit, Pushin' Too Hard, but it's a gritty yet catchy drug-fueled tune; at this link you can download their three most popular tunes and decide if you want to hear more from that group or not; hopefully you'll enjoy it if nothing else as something different and I'm glad I got to mention him.
I'll be back the weekend of the 4th of July with some sort of related tune.
Sky Saxon of the 60's garage rock band The Seeds passed away. Admittedly, I only knew of him and the band for their biggest hit, Pushin' Too Hard, but it's a gritty yet catchy drug-fueled tune; at this link you can download their three most popular tunes and decide if you want to hear more from that group or not; hopefully you'll enjoy it if nothing else as something different and I'm glad I got to mention him.
I'll be back the weekend of the 4th of July with some sort of related tune.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Remembering Michael Jackson, Part 3
Here is the last post that I’ll do for the time being on MJ. As it’s easy to find songs that were done by him and many of his tunes are well-known already, I’ll pick a pair that I haven’t spotted on the blogs as of now.
The first one is a cover of a song that you wouldn’t think The Jackson 5 would end up doing, but it was an inspired choice, even though the obvious reason it was done was due to the name; it’s Doctor My Eyes, from Jackson Browne. Like I said, a unique choice but the Motown band that accompanied them on the 1972 album Lookin' Through the Windows did a great job making it sound like the original radio staple with an added dose of funk and soul to it.
The Jackson 5-Doctor My Eyes (5.76 MB, 256Kbits/second)
The second song is Say Say Say, by MJ and Paul McCartney, from the latter's Pipes of Peace album, although this is a longer 12 inch mix of the album cut. I found it on a French public website, of all things. I'll directly link to it as it's still up and it saves me the effort of uploading it myself.
Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney-Say Say Say (12 inch mix; 4.9 MB, 128Kbits/second)
I'll be back by late tomorrow night with a song from another musician who passed away late last week.
The first one is a cover of a song that you wouldn’t think The Jackson 5 would end up doing, but it was an inspired choice, even though the obvious reason it was done was due to the name; it’s Doctor My Eyes, from Jackson Browne. Like I said, a unique choice but the Motown band that accompanied them on the 1972 album Lookin' Through the Windows did a great job making it sound like the original radio staple with an added dose of funk and soul to it.
The Jackson 5-Doctor My Eyes (5.76 MB, 256Kbits/second)
The second song is Say Say Say, by MJ and Paul McCartney, from the latter's Pipes of Peace album, although this is a longer 12 inch mix of the album cut. I found it on a French public website, of all things. I'll directly link to it as it's still up and it saves me the effort of uploading it myself.
Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney-Say Say Say (12 inch mix; 4.9 MB, 128Kbits/second)
I'll be back by late tomorrow night with a song from another musician who passed away late last week.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Remembering Michael Jackson, Part 2
I'm pressed for time now so all I have to say is that for a wide variety of songs from MJ you can either look at BeeMP3 or at this particular Hypem link for a wide collection of bloggers posting their own tunes in honor of him and his career.
I'll be back tomorrow and I promise that'll be more substantial than this post.
I'll be back tomorrow and I promise that'll be more substantial than this post.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Remembering Michael Jackson, Part 1
Well, I certainly wasn’t planning on doing another one of these so soon but of course with the big news that broke early yesterday evening for me, it’s something that I feel I have to do. Now, without taking into account how he was in real life-and it’s obvious that whether or not you believe those charges against him (I probably should look more into those cases before deciding one way or another, but I’ve heard that those accusers and their families were less than credible, so who knows what the truth actually is), he had obvious mental problems-you have to say that he made some incredible music. I have no idea whether or not those child molestation charges were true but either way it’s sad that he had an abusive father and ended up being messed up in the head from spending most of his life being a celebrity; as it’s been proven MANY times before, being a celebrity, especially these days with those awful cockroaches known as the paparazzi, seems like it’s not even worth it as it’s caused many casualties and people dying way too young with all the press and attention forcing people to do-as Michael did-to turn to drugs and alcohol and that along with whatever mental illnesses he always had, and it’s unfortunate that someone who was so talented and made some great music in the 70’s and 80’s lost his mind, allegedly did some horrific things, and even without that, just acted *strange* and his music career wasn’t the same. I don’t know if I can faithfully say “RIP” to him for obvious reasons but I’m still shocked that one of the most important figures in music history passed away unexpectedly.
Between that, Farrah Fawcett passing away on the same day after having to fight cancer for the past few years, Ed McMahon a few days prior, David Carradine dying and the way that happened, the death of Japanese wrestling legend Mitsuharu Misawa (a big deal to me) and the fake rumors yesterday about both Jeff Goldblum *and* Harrison Ford passing away, and it’s been quite the unfortunate month.
So, for today and up till Monday, I’ll be posting songs. No kidding. Today through Sunday will be songs from MJ and Monday will be devoted to another artist who passed away on Thursday but that’ll be ignored as his band was really a one hit wonder and of course it’ll be overshadowed by what went on yesterday. The song I’ll be posting today is the tune State of Shock, which is what I know what the world is still experiencing at this moment. It’s two versions of the song… the original on the album and an earlier demo, and it’s shameful that I didn’t know this until last night while looking on Wiki, but that song was written by MJ and a famous rock frontman but it was not Mick Jagger, who sang on the album but rather someone else.
The song appeared on The Jacksons album Victory. That was long after their days of Motown, when they were known as The Jackson 5 and they had to change their name. In fact, it was 1984, when Michael was the biggest star in the world and he decided to do this one last album before leaving the group. On the album, Michael sang the song with Mick Jagger, which is one hell of a coup and it’s still amazing to me that those two titans were able to come together on a song. I enjoyed the song ever since I heard it and I still listen to it time to time. However, I just found out last night that another famous rock frontman was the one who co-wrote it with.
The Jacksons-State of Shock (6.19 MB, 192Kbits/second)
Back in 2002 a demo version of the song surfaced that the band did with the guy who co-wrote the song. That guy? FREDDIE MERCURY. I legit had no idea until last night; it’s something I should’ve known as Queen is f’ing awesome and without a doubt Mercury will forever be the best rock vocalist that they has ever been. The demo is just that and who knows how it would have turned out if he did the album version; I don’t know why Jagger sang the song on Victory instead of Mercury, but whatever the reason, now you can hear it for yourself.
Jacksons/Freddie Mercury-State of Shock Demo (6.5 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back tomorrow with at least one more song.
Between that, Farrah Fawcett passing away on the same day after having to fight cancer for the past few years, Ed McMahon a few days prior, David Carradine dying and the way that happened, the death of Japanese wrestling legend Mitsuharu Misawa (a big deal to me) and the fake rumors yesterday about both Jeff Goldblum *and* Harrison Ford passing away, and it’s been quite the unfortunate month.
So, for today and up till Monday, I’ll be posting songs. No kidding. Today through Sunday will be songs from MJ and Monday will be devoted to another artist who passed away on Thursday but that’ll be ignored as his band was really a one hit wonder and of course it’ll be overshadowed by what went on yesterday. The song I’ll be posting today is the tune State of Shock, which is what I know what the world is still experiencing at this moment. It’s two versions of the song… the original on the album and an earlier demo, and it’s shameful that I didn’t know this until last night while looking on Wiki, but that song was written by MJ and a famous rock frontman but it was not Mick Jagger, who sang on the album but rather someone else.
The song appeared on The Jacksons album Victory. That was long after their days of Motown, when they were known as The Jackson 5 and they had to change their name. In fact, it was 1984, when Michael was the biggest star in the world and he decided to do this one last album before leaving the group. On the album, Michael sang the song with Mick Jagger, which is one hell of a coup and it’s still amazing to me that those two titans were able to come together on a song. I enjoyed the song ever since I heard it and I still listen to it time to time. However, I just found out last night that another famous rock frontman was the one who co-wrote it with.
The Jacksons-State of Shock (6.19 MB, 192Kbits/second)
Back in 2002 a demo version of the song surfaced that the band did with the guy who co-wrote the song. That guy? FREDDIE MERCURY. I legit had no idea until last night; it’s something I should’ve known as Queen is f’ing awesome and without a doubt Mercury will forever be the best rock vocalist that they has ever been. The demo is just that and who knows how it would have turned out if he did the album version; I don’t know why Jagger sang the song on Victory instead of Mercury, but whatever the reason, now you can hear it for yourself.
Jacksons/Freddie Mercury-State of Shock Demo (6.5 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back tomorrow with at least one more song.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
No This Is Not Dave Grohl
This post comes from me randomly finding a song that I already burned onto CD a few years ago but this one was of better-sounding quality; I thought I posted it on here long ago but looking through what I have written down plus a Google search says no, so here it goes.
If you’ve ever played NHL 2002 on your gaming system or computer, then you’ll recognize this tune as the one that plays when the opening comes up. It’s I Hear You Calling, from the Canadian band known as Gob. Now, if you haven’t heard the song, it’s like the best song that The Foo Fighters never did, as not only does it sound like the type of tune that they’d do, but the lead singer of Gob almost sounds *exactly* like Dave Grohl. No lie. So, if you like Foo, you should enjoy this song from their 2001 The World According to Gob (named after an early 80’s movie).
Gob-I Hear You Calling (3.65 MB, 160Kbits/second)
I'll be back a week from Friday to present to you a song or two revolving around the 4th of July and America (Fuck Yeah!)
If you’ve ever played NHL 2002 on your gaming system or computer, then you’ll recognize this tune as the one that plays when the opening comes up. It’s I Hear You Calling, from the Canadian band known as Gob. Now, if you haven’t heard the song, it’s like the best song that The Foo Fighters never did, as not only does it sound like the type of tune that they’d do, but the lead singer of Gob almost sounds *exactly* like Dave Grohl. No lie. So, if you like Foo, you should enjoy this song from their 2001 The World According to Gob (named after an early 80’s movie).
Gob-I Hear You Calling (3.65 MB, 160Kbits/second)
I'll be back a week from Friday to present to you a song or two revolving around the 4th of July and America (Fuck Yeah!)
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Check Back Tomorrow Night
The latest thing to impede my doing this on time is that on a whim I decided to head on down to the Miami area on Friday, mainly due to boredom and me needing to do something out of the norm. I got back Saturday night, only to go to a wrestling show, so on Sunday and Monday I had to write about both experiences for my other pages, and then today I was occupied with something else, but I got some unexpected good news so in a bit I'll be going out on the town... point is, I'll be back tomorrow night to do this, I promise.
Monday, June 15, 2009
In The Space
This post has to do with the fact that for the most part, when it comes to hip-hop/rap I care more about the beat rather than what is being rapped. I know that’s the antithesis of what most hardcore fans of that genre think, but hey whatever. That’s just me. I was reminded of that when I came across a post on a messageboard that’s a hangout for a bunch of people that I don’t like. I know, why would I want to follow them? Well, it’s the old “Keep your enemies closer” sort of thing.
So yeah, that post dealt with a leaked song from Jay-Z’s newest album. It’s called Death of Auto-Tune, an idea that I think is swell. I mean, it’s something I’ve actually talked about on my MySpace page, but Auto-Tune is WAY overused and I’m tired of it. That new Black Eyed Peas song is pretty atrocious, although hearing Fergie Auto-Tuned is hilarity.
The song (the Jay-Z one, although I’ve heard way too much praise for the BEP tune too) is apparently highly praised in some circles, but I have zero idea why. What Jay-Z says is weak sauce all the way and he should’ve buried the people who abuse it the most but as he’s friends with those guys, he says it’s ok for them to use it. Pathetic, but not as bad as the fact that according to what I hear, the new album was going to be heavily Auto-Tuned before Jay changed his tune, so to speak. And didn’t he retire a few years ago… so yeah, it’s not an album that I’ll be buying. I know that some will groan when I say that I prefer listening to the rap that you hear on a nightly basis at, say, Mako’s rather than some underground act or a “hip” act that all the pompous hipster assholes love to slobber over, but that’s honestly how I feel. Sorry!
To cut to the chase, someone in that thread asked where the groovy sample came from, and no one responded. I guess none of them have the mental capability to use GOOGLE to find this answer. That's what I did and I saw that the song is In The Space, by Janko Nilovic. I sure as heck haven't heard of him but that 1970 song is pretty awesome and well-done, so that's the best part of that Auto-Tune song; the rest of it I can do without. Below is a Sharebee upload that someone did of the tune. It means that once you get to the page you have the option of several different services that you can use to download the song. Very handy.
Janko Nilovic-In The Space (5.24 MB, 256Kbits/second)
I'll be back next weekend with another song to spotlight.
So yeah, that post dealt with a leaked song from Jay-Z’s newest album. It’s called Death of Auto-Tune, an idea that I think is swell. I mean, it’s something I’ve actually talked about on my MySpace page, but Auto-Tune is WAY overused and I’m tired of it. That new Black Eyed Peas song is pretty atrocious, although hearing Fergie Auto-Tuned is hilarity.
The song (the Jay-Z one, although I’ve heard way too much praise for the BEP tune too) is apparently highly praised in some circles, but I have zero idea why. What Jay-Z says is weak sauce all the way and he should’ve buried the people who abuse it the most but as he’s friends with those guys, he says it’s ok for them to use it. Pathetic, but not as bad as the fact that according to what I hear, the new album was going to be heavily Auto-Tuned before Jay changed his tune, so to speak. And didn’t he retire a few years ago… so yeah, it’s not an album that I’ll be buying. I know that some will groan when I say that I prefer listening to the rap that you hear on a nightly basis at, say, Mako’s rather than some underground act or a “hip” act that all the pompous hipster assholes love to slobber over, but that’s honestly how I feel. Sorry!
To cut to the chase, someone in that thread asked where the groovy sample came from, and no one responded. I guess none of them have the mental capability to use GOOGLE to find this answer. That's what I did and I saw that the song is In The Space, by Janko Nilovic. I sure as heck haven't heard of him but that 1970 song is pretty awesome and well-done, so that's the best part of that Auto-Tune song; the rest of it I can do without. Below is a Sharebee upload that someone did of the tune. It means that once you get to the page you have the option of several different services that you can use to download the song. Very handy.
Janko Nilovic-In The Space (5.24 MB, 256Kbits/second)
I'll be back next weekend with another song to spotlight.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Do Goody-Good Bull...
Here is the story that I promised from the last time. It concerns a song I found the first two minutes of online but at the time I wasn't able to find the rest of it. Then again, it didn't take long for me to forget about it and it was on a whim that I decided to look for it and there it was in full.
The song is Money. Yep, the song originally by Pink Floyd. Now, recently I saw the original Italian Job movie on the big screen, an experience you can read about here. This song happens to be from the soundtrack to the remake of that flick, which I haven't seen but as it almost always is, the original I hear is clearly the superior flick.
On that soundtrack was the cover to the song by Velvet Revolver, a modern rock act that I dig; ironic, considering that the lead singer is from Stone Temple Pilots and I've never cared for most of their work. Both of their albums I enjoyed and so I liked the first two minutes of this cover; but, it wasn't until just days ago that I found it, much to my delight. I saw that they did their own thing with it; for example, the second verse is gone (the one with "do goody-good bullshit" in it) and the final two minutes is them grooving along. From what I understand it's not on the CD soundtrack to the movie and it was only put on a b-side version of the Slither single, so noting that hopefully you don't mind it sounding all mono and shit.
I found the song on BeeMP3 so I'll just direct you there. It's here.
I'll be back next weekend with something new.
The song is Money. Yep, the song originally by Pink Floyd. Now, recently I saw the original Italian Job movie on the big screen, an experience you can read about here. This song happens to be from the soundtrack to the remake of that flick, which I haven't seen but as it almost always is, the original I hear is clearly the superior flick.
On that soundtrack was the cover to the song by Velvet Revolver, a modern rock act that I dig; ironic, considering that the lead singer is from Stone Temple Pilots and I've never cared for most of their work. Both of their albums I enjoyed and so I liked the first two minutes of this cover; but, it wasn't until just days ago that I found it, much to my delight. I saw that they did their own thing with it; for example, the second verse is gone (the one with "do goody-good bullshit" in it) and the final two minutes is them grooving along. From what I understand it's not on the CD soundtrack to the movie and it was only put on a b-side version of the Slither single, so noting that hopefully you don't mind it sounding all mono and shit.
I found the song on BeeMP3 so I'll just direct you there. It's here.
I'll be back next weekend with something new.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Social Networking
Just to let you know, for purposes of MySpace/Facebook blogs and Livejournal wrestling posts (although probably once in awhile I'll mention the music pages) go to twitter.com/blairpac to check out my thoughts; I'm still not a big fan of that site and a lot of it is BS (especially with the "celebrity tweets", most of whom are by their handlers rather than the celebrity themselves) but I'll still try it out, if only for a little bit.
Still, I'll be back this weekend.
Still, I'll be back this weekend.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Boom Boom
I know I know, me not being prompt yet again, but obstacles were put in my way so that’s why I have to do this now. My bad, my peeps! The latest thing was that I had to finish a wrestling review from a show I saw on Saturday night, but only after I finished scanning photos and doing other stuff for a relative that relates to an upcoming family reunion; no joke.
It’s difficult to find info on the artist I will discuss in this post, but I will note that I found out about the song in an odd way. I randomly stumbled upon a video that some chick made of herself and she was dancing to a rockabilly song sung by a woman, as odd as that may sound. Even odder, I looked online to find out who sang it, and imagine my surprise when it was a song from this decade and the lady is from Ireland.
Imelda May is a dame who I don’t know much about and like I said it’s hard to find a whole wealth of info on, but she’s from the land of shamrocks and Gaelic football and unlike most vocalists in recent years I actually *like* her voice and I don’t hate it. Besides, the song is SO much cooler than the crap I’ve heard on the top 40 radio stations for most of this decade (although I really haven’t listened to those kinds of stations in at least a year; I couldn’t stand it anymore); really, if you’re tired of the pop/rap/R&B/whatever popular modern music scene, check out this fresh-sounding tune entitled Johnny Got A Boom Boom, from her Love Tattoo album.
Imelda May-Johnny Got A Boom Boom (128Kbits/second)
This upcoming weekend I'll be back with a cover of a popular song that I had only heard the first two minutes of, then just a few minutes ago I finally found the full version of it.
It’s difficult to find info on the artist I will discuss in this post, but I will note that I found out about the song in an odd way. I randomly stumbled upon a video that some chick made of herself and she was dancing to a rockabilly song sung by a woman, as odd as that may sound. Even odder, I looked online to find out who sang it, and imagine my surprise when it was a song from this decade and the lady is from Ireland.
Imelda May is a dame who I don’t know much about and like I said it’s hard to find a whole wealth of info on, but she’s from the land of shamrocks and Gaelic football and unlike most vocalists in recent years I actually *like* her voice and I don’t hate it. Besides, the song is SO much cooler than the crap I’ve heard on the top 40 radio stations for most of this decade (although I really haven’t listened to those kinds of stations in at least a year; I couldn’t stand it anymore); really, if you’re tired of the pop/rap/R&B/whatever popular modern music scene, check out this fresh-sounding tune entitled Johnny Got A Boom Boom, from her Love Tattoo album.
Imelda May-Johnny Got A Boom Boom (128Kbits/second)
This upcoming weekend I'll be back with a cover of a popular song that I had only heard the first two minutes of, then just a few minutes ago I finally found the full version of it.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
I'll Be Back This Sunday
Don't ask, but I will tell that I'll be back by Sunday night, the last day of the month.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
RIP Wayman Tisdale
First off, no concert recap, as I never saw 2 Live Crew at that club. However, it was still quite a night... quite a week, as a matter of fact. Check out my MySpace blog for a detailed recap of all the madness and insanity.
It’s not always true but I at least try to have a variety of tune-age on here sometimes. The more variety the better, right? Well, the next few songs I plug will definitely be varied and genres that I haven’t really covered on here in a long time, if at all. The first one comes up now due to unfortunate circumstances.
On Friday, Wayman Tisdale passed away after bravely fighting against the ravages of cancer. If you don’t recognize the name, he was a really good basketball player who happened to retire and focus on his career as a jazz bassist, which he may have been even better at. A 6 foot 9 basketball player turned jazz bassist may sound like a cheap gimmick but he isn’t like most famous athletes who turn to a music career… he was great in the music field and received a lot of respect for his works.
I’ll post a song that for an easy-listening jazz tune I heard an awful lot a few years ago, whether it was randomly on a radio station or even at a Cheesecake Factory one time. It’s from 2006’s Way Up! album and it’s his cover of Kool & The Gang’s Get Down On It. It’s not too different from the original but it is awfully funky and it’s something you can tap your toe to; furthermore, it’ll prove my point about how good he was at what he did.
Wayman Tisdale-Get Down On It (3.57 MB, 128Kbits/second)
I'll be back next weekend with another tune to spotlight.
It’s not always true but I at least try to have a variety of tune-age on here sometimes. The more variety the better, right? Well, the next few songs I plug will definitely be varied and genres that I haven’t really covered on here in a long time, if at all. The first one comes up now due to unfortunate circumstances.
On Friday, Wayman Tisdale passed away after bravely fighting against the ravages of cancer. If you don’t recognize the name, he was a really good basketball player who happened to retire and focus on his career as a jazz bassist, which he may have been even better at. A 6 foot 9 basketball player turned jazz bassist may sound like a cheap gimmick but he isn’t like most famous athletes who turn to a music career… he was great in the music field and received a lot of respect for his works.
I’ll post a song that for an easy-listening jazz tune I heard an awful lot a few years ago, whether it was randomly on a radio station or even at a Cheesecake Factory one time. It’s from 2006’s Way Up! album and it’s his cover of Kool & The Gang’s Get Down On It. It’s not too different from the original but it is awfully funky and it’s something you can tap your toe to; furthermore, it’ll prove my point about how good he was at what he did.
Wayman Tisdale-Get Down On It (3.57 MB, 128Kbits/second)
I'll be back next weekend with another tune to spotlight.
Friday, May 8, 2009
As Nasty As I Wanna Be
I’ll be posting two songs tonight, as they both tie into each other in an odd sort of way.
You see, tonight I’ll be attending Club Antigua in downtown Orlando as today is the birthday of the local legend, DJ Magic Mike, who literally has been doing music for at least 20 years now.
Anyhow, Magic Mike is celebrating his birthday there, and there will be some famous guests there. The guys I’m talking about… 2 Live Crew! No kidding. Also, this wouldn’t be the first time that I’ve seen them live, if you can believe it, but I’ll tell you that story and how this experience was early next week. I mean, I hope to get in. Last month, I was hoping to see the DJ known as Sharam* perform live at Club Firestone, but complications prevented that, mainly that club being terrible and somehow them not having enough room, so there was a huge line of people waiting to get in, and I wasn’t going to wait in line, dammit.
• Whom I’ve talked about before; one day I’ll post the full almost 11 minute album version of the song as the two links don’t work anymore.
The first song is a rather interesting tune they did with another famous group that’s known for sleaziness; Motley Crue! Yes, they did a song together. It was on Crew’s 1997 best-of album, Goes to the Movies: A Decade of Hits, and well, to be honest it was when both groups weren’t exactly at their peak (if it would’ve been recorded in, say, 1990, then it may have been awesome), but it’s still interesting as a curio. I mean, it’s really a version of Dr. Feelgood with rapping over it.
2 Live Crew & Motley Crue-Crew to Crue (4.1 MB, 128Kbits/second)
The second song is about partying, so it goes well with tonight, even though in all honesty the song has an apocalyptic little ditty. Most people probably know the single version of the tune and have never heard the full album version. It’s 1999, the title song from that 1982 album by Prince. It’s a famous song from that decade that everyone knows; now you’ll get to hear it in full, with added stuff that shows how dark it actually is. It also ends abruptly, I know, but it transitions right into the next song on that album, Little Red Corvette, so that’s why that happened. At least for tonight, I’ll focus on its party aspects rather than any “end of the world” stuff that the song also contains.
Prince-1999 (5.72 MB, 128Kbits/second)
I’ll be back early next week with a recap of my Crew experience.
You see, tonight I’ll be attending Club Antigua in downtown Orlando as today is the birthday of the local legend, DJ Magic Mike, who literally has been doing music for at least 20 years now.
Anyhow, Magic Mike is celebrating his birthday there, and there will be some famous guests there. The guys I’m talking about… 2 Live Crew! No kidding. Also, this wouldn’t be the first time that I’ve seen them live, if you can believe it, but I’ll tell you that story and how this experience was early next week. I mean, I hope to get in. Last month, I was hoping to see the DJ known as Sharam* perform live at Club Firestone, but complications prevented that, mainly that club being terrible and somehow them not having enough room, so there was a huge line of people waiting to get in, and I wasn’t going to wait in line, dammit.
• Whom I’ve talked about before; one day I’ll post the full almost 11 minute album version of the song as the two links don’t work anymore.
The first song is a rather interesting tune they did with another famous group that’s known for sleaziness; Motley Crue! Yes, they did a song together. It was on Crew’s 1997 best-of album, Goes to the Movies: A Decade of Hits, and well, to be honest it was when both groups weren’t exactly at their peak (if it would’ve been recorded in, say, 1990, then it may have been awesome), but it’s still interesting as a curio. I mean, it’s really a version of Dr. Feelgood with rapping over it.
2 Live Crew & Motley Crue-Crew to Crue (4.1 MB, 128Kbits/second)
The second song is about partying, so it goes well with tonight, even though in all honesty the song has an apocalyptic little ditty. Most people probably know the single version of the tune and have never heard the full album version. It’s 1999, the title song from that 1982 album by Prince. It’s a famous song from that decade that everyone knows; now you’ll get to hear it in full, with added stuff that shows how dark it actually is. It also ends abruptly, I know, but it transitions right into the next song on that album, Little Red Corvette, so that’s why that happened. At least for tonight, I’ll focus on its party aspects rather than any “end of the world” stuff that the song also contains.
Prince-1999 (5.72 MB, 128Kbits/second)
I’ll be back early next week with a recap of my Crew experience.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Happy Cinco de Mayo
Yes, I've finally returned. I apologize for all the non-posts and breaks during the past 6 months or so, but it was due to my zany schedule. But, things should be more normal now.
I decided to wait until tonight as today is Cinco de Mayo. Sure, the past few weeks have been disastrous to the lovely country of Mexico for obvious reasons, but let's not worry about that today. I'll direct my attention towards this page, which is a post I did this past September. If you haven't already, you can download two versions of the song called The Mexican; what better day to do so, right?
Before I get to the song I'm about to post, I'll present you a video that is a song about to come out to album later in the month. It's a cover of Seven Nation Army. To me, just about every cover I've heard of that song is an improvement on the original, as the original is cursed with the GOD-AWFUL vocals of Jack White, but I don't want to digress there. The video is here and you'll see that the cover is by... The Oak Ridge Boys. Yes, the country group (formerly a gospel group) that's been together in some form since THE FORTIES and to me is best known for cheeseball stuff like Elvira. I found it on a messageboard and I thought, "What the hell is this?", but once I listened to it, it's pretty badass! A definite improvement on the original, even though you are able to get a good listen to the lyrics with this one and you realize just how crappy they really are and it's the beat that's the only thing that's good about the song... but anyway, they did a great job with it.
The song I want to put up is one from the 80's that you all know, but I bet that almost everyone knows the single version and has never listened to the full album version. That also describes the song I'll post this Friday, but that's all I'll give for a spoiler.
Tonight's song is Let's Dance, from David Bowie. It's the title song from that 1983 album. Given that the album version is almost twice as long as the single version, a lot was edited out. I mean, you get to hear extra trumpet work and even a percussion breakdown. So, I think it's worth hearing, especially if you like the single version.
David Bowie-Let's Dance (8.8 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back Friday night, like I promised already.
I decided to wait until tonight as today is Cinco de Mayo. Sure, the past few weeks have been disastrous to the lovely country of Mexico for obvious reasons, but let's not worry about that today. I'll direct my attention towards this page, which is a post I did this past September. If you haven't already, you can download two versions of the song called The Mexican; what better day to do so, right?
Before I get to the song I'm about to post, I'll present you a video that is a song about to come out to album later in the month. It's a cover of Seven Nation Army. To me, just about every cover I've heard of that song is an improvement on the original, as the original is cursed with the GOD-AWFUL vocals of Jack White, but I don't want to digress there. The video is here and you'll see that the cover is by... The Oak Ridge Boys. Yes, the country group (formerly a gospel group) that's been together in some form since THE FORTIES and to me is best known for cheeseball stuff like Elvira. I found it on a messageboard and I thought, "What the hell is this?", but once I listened to it, it's pretty badass! A definite improvement on the original, even though you are able to get a good listen to the lyrics with this one and you realize just how crappy they really are and it's the beat that's the only thing that's good about the song... but anyway, they did a great job with it.
The song I want to put up is one from the 80's that you all know, but I bet that almost everyone knows the single version and has never listened to the full album version. That also describes the song I'll post this Friday, but that's all I'll give for a spoiler.
Tonight's song is Let's Dance, from David Bowie. It's the title song from that 1983 album. Given that the album version is almost twice as long as the single version, a lot was edited out. I mean, you get to hear extra trumpet work and even a percussion breakdown. So, I think it's worth hearing, especially if you like the single version.
David Bowie-Let's Dance (8.8 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back Friday night, like I promised already.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
A Brief Sabbatical
Unfortunately, the excu.. er I mean reason why this is going up at this time is because of Internet problems. Yes, I just had them this past November and I thought I'd be done with them for months, but I was mistaken. But, it's working fine now. Problem is, for the rest of the month I will just not have the time to do this, so the next time I'll post a song here will be on Monday evening, May 4th. By then things will calm down for me and be much less hectic, I promise.
Monday, April 13, 2009
No More Standing Along The Side Walls
To start things off randomly, I was looking at the website for the House of Blues in Orlando and at first I didn’t notice it, but then I saw that they indeed still had Service Industry Night there, which is a Sunday night get-together where electro music is blasted and you can have a few drinks without spending a lot. I don’t even remember the last time I went to one of them, as another club in Orlando has taken my focus as a place to go to, although SIN is sure as hell a lot cheaper than that club on Church Street… anyway, I’ll be back at SIN sooner or later.
Anyhow, I was wondering what I could upload here and I realized that it makes sense to mention Marvin Gaye, as last week was not only would have been his 70th birthday, but unfortunately, also the 25th anniversary of his death, at the hands of his own father. What a sad way to go, but amongst all the personal drama he had to deal with, he also had an amazing career.
Instead of talking about that sad stuff, let me upload a happy song from him, about a guy who gets the courage to stop being a wallflower at a party and start getting down and having a good time. Yep, I’m talking about Got to Give It Up, and not the single version, but the full album version that was included as the one studio track on his Live at the London Palladium album. It’s great stuff, both the song and the album itself.
Marvin Gaye-Got To Give It Up (16.3 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back sometime next weekend with something new.
Anyhow, I was wondering what I could upload here and I realized that it makes sense to mention Marvin Gaye, as last week was not only would have been his 70th birthday, but unfortunately, also the 25th anniversary of his death, at the hands of his own father. What a sad way to go, but amongst all the personal drama he had to deal with, he also had an amazing career.
Instead of talking about that sad stuff, let me upload a happy song from him, about a guy who gets the courage to stop being a wallflower at a party and start getting down and having a good time. Yep, I’m talking about Got to Give It Up, and not the single version, but the full album version that was included as the one studio track on his Live at the London Palladium album. It’s great stuff, both the song and the album itself.
Marvin Gaye-Got To Give It Up (16.3 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back sometime next weekend with something new.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Free Bird!
I’ll keep it simple this time around and I’ll post a pair of songs from a famous southern rock band, as I don’t talk about that genre of music on here really all that much.
The most well-known band in that genre is-obviously-Lynyrd Skynyrd. In the middle of March, I was able to drive up to Jacksonville on my own for the first time, and I heard Free Bird while I was up there. It was appropriate, as that’s where they are from. You hear their songs on the radio often, especially in the Sunshine State, but they have quality songs that you don’t hear on the radio and yet deserve to be heard by you if you haven’t experienced them before.
The first tune is Swamp Music, from the Second Helping album. It is a catchy boogie about being home on the swamp, hanging out with a hound dog and name-checks Son House too. It’s a good old time.
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Swamp Music (4.85 MB, 192Kbits/second)
The second tune also happens to be on the Second Helping album. This one is called Workin’ for MCA and is an autobiographical tune as MCA is the company that released their albums and they talked about their history and how they were signed by that label. It’s another incredibly catchy tune that you probably will enjoy.
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Workin’ for MCA (6.59 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back sometime next weekend with something else to spotlight.
The most well-known band in that genre is-obviously-Lynyrd Skynyrd. In the middle of March, I was able to drive up to Jacksonville on my own for the first time, and I heard Free Bird while I was up there. It was appropriate, as that’s where they are from. You hear their songs on the radio often, especially in the Sunshine State, but they have quality songs that you don’t hear on the radio and yet deserve to be heard by you if you haven’t experienced them before.
The first tune is Swamp Music, from the Second Helping album. It is a catchy boogie about being home on the swamp, hanging out with a hound dog and name-checks Son House too. It’s a good old time.
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Swamp Music (4.85 MB, 192Kbits/second)
The second tune also happens to be on the Second Helping album. This one is called Workin’ for MCA and is an autobiographical tune as MCA is the company that released their albums and they talked about their history and how they were signed by that label. It’s another incredibly catchy tune that you probably will enjoy.
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Workin’ for MCA (6.59 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back sometime next weekend with something else to spotlight.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Catching Up
All I've got to say is that my March has been completely manic, which is why I haven't been able to keep up with my self-imposed timetables. But, my April will be more normal. It's just that now I'll do a short blurb here and then the next time I'll be more lengthy.
In the past I've talked about The Rolling Stones; I've uploaded some songs, most of which are downloads that aren't operative now, but maybe in the future I'll re-up them.
Then again, I randomly found a website which provides the links to 14 Stones albums. The link's here. As it's impossible to tell which song's what, use this resource to find out what each track is.
I'll be back this Friday, and as my April looks to be less hectic, I should be more punctual.
In the past I've talked about The Rolling Stones; I've uploaded some songs, most of which are downloads that aren't operative now, but maybe in the future I'll re-up them.
Then again, I randomly found a website which provides the links to 14 Stones albums. The link's here. As it's impossible to tell which song's what, use this resource to find out what each track is.
I'll be back this Friday, and as my April looks to be less hectic, I should be more punctual.
Monday, March 23, 2009
I'll Be Back Wednesday Night
Unfortunately, I had a zany weekend which included an incident that I'll mention below, so you'll have to wait until Wednesday night, as the next 48 hours for me, I'll be swamped with a variety of things. To copy and paste (and note that this was written while I was intoxicated at the time):
I had quite the bizarre night tonight. I went to a wrestling show in Orlando and then to you know where (yes, that one nightclub) afterwords. The show was entertaining and my time at Mako's was rather odd, but independent of that, my night was strange due to the fact that at the wrestling show, a famous actress/singer (famous enough that she recently won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar!) was there and I saw her there but I did not know who she was until after I got home.
The show I went to was Florida Championship Wrestling, which is like the minor leagues to World Wrestling Entertainment. They usually have shows around their home base of Tampa, but tonight they had a show in Orlando. Anyway, one of the wrestlers there has the real name of Dave Otunga. He was on the VH1 reality show I Love New York 2 (at least from what I hear; I never watch those shows). I don't know what his wrestling name was as the sound system there wasn't the best, so I wasn't able to catch it, but he indeed is a wrestler in FCW and he wrestled in a match on this show. In case you don't know, Mr. Otunga happens to be engaged to a name that all of you should know. In fact, I saw that lady walking around during the show, but I did not recognize her as a celebrity, but believe me, she is.
Once I got home after the wrestling show (and my time at the happiest nightclub on Earth) I was looking at the local wrestling messageboards, which talk about shows such as Florida Championship Wrestling. There was a thread on one of the boards, and a guy who I don't get along with (don't ask) started a thread where he bragged about meeting that girl and he had photographic evidence of that meeting. Once I saw the photo and made sure that it was her (and yeah, it was who he said it was), I put it together, and I feel like a total jackass now.
Folks, tonight at the wrestling show I went to, JENNFIER HUDSON (yes, the American Idol contestant from 2004 who went on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Dreamgirls, not to mention the success she has had in the music field) was there, and I saw her walking around, but I did not know at the time who she was, thus I was not able to take a picture of her to post online and brag about me hobnobbing with a celebrity.
EPIC FAIL on my part.
From what I understand, she doesn't usually show up at the wrestling matches of her fiancee Dave Otunga, so it was a special night for that couple. I'll probably forever shake my head and regret being such a boob and not realizing that I had an opportunity to hob-nob with such a famous person. Oh well, though.
I had quite the bizarre night tonight. I went to a wrestling show in Orlando and then to you know where (yes, that one nightclub) afterwords. The show was entertaining and my time at Mako's was rather odd, but independent of that, my night was strange due to the fact that at the wrestling show, a famous actress/singer (famous enough that she recently won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar!) was there and I saw her there but I did not know who she was until after I got home.
The show I went to was Florida Championship Wrestling, which is like the minor leagues to World Wrestling Entertainment. They usually have shows around their home base of Tampa, but tonight they had a show in Orlando. Anyway, one of the wrestlers there has the real name of Dave Otunga. He was on the VH1 reality show I Love New York 2 (at least from what I hear; I never watch those shows). I don't know what his wrestling name was as the sound system there wasn't the best, so I wasn't able to catch it, but he indeed is a wrestler in FCW and he wrestled in a match on this show. In case you don't know, Mr. Otunga happens to be engaged to a name that all of you should know. In fact, I saw that lady walking around during the show, but I did not recognize her as a celebrity, but believe me, she is.
Once I got home after the wrestling show (and my time at the happiest nightclub on Earth) I was looking at the local wrestling messageboards, which talk about shows such as Florida Championship Wrestling. There was a thread on one of the boards, and a guy who I don't get along with (don't ask) started a thread where he bragged about meeting that girl and he had photographic evidence of that meeting. Once I saw the photo and made sure that it was her (and yeah, it was who he said it was), I put it together, and I feel like a total jackass now.
Folks, tonight at the wrestling show I went to, JENNFIER HUDSON (yes, the American Idol contestant from 2004 who went on to win a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Dreamgirls, not to mention the success she has had in the music field) was there, and I saw her walking around, but I did not know at the time who she was, thus I was not able to take a picture of her to post online and brag about me hobnobbing with a celebrity.
EPIC FAIL on my part.
From what I understand, she doesn't usually show up at the wrestling matches of her fiancee Dave Otunga, so it was a special night for that couple. I'll probably forever shake my head and regret being such a boob and not realizing that I had an opportunity to hob-nob with such a famous person. Oh well, though.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
7-Up Fizz, Baby
Well, this is up a little later than even I had planned, but among other things, tonight I had to listen to part of ISU’s mens basketball postseason game online (from a Kansas radio station), where they lost to Kansas State in OT in the first round. It doesn’t mean they didn’t have a fabulous season, though.
Anyway, last week I was randomly looking at videos on YouTube and through much clicking I viewed some videos and I got an idea for this entry. It’s about Daft Punk… or rather, two songs that they sampled for their classic Discovery album.
The first tune is from a band that happens to be going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year but the tune isn’t from their heyday, but rather the late 70’s. It’s Little Anthony & The Imperials. The song is Can You Imagine; the only part that Daft used for the song Crescendolls was the opening few seconds. It’s a catchy enough ditty from that time period, although it’s certainly different than songs like-say-Tears On My Pillow.
Little Anthony & The Imperials-Can You Imagine (7.22 MB, 320Kbits/second)
The second tune is from Edwin Birdsong, an R&B artist who worked in several different areas in the music field and a few different genres. The tune is also from the late 70’s and is an R&B ditty known as Cola Bottle Baby. You hear just a few seconds of it and you’ll know that it was used liberally for the tune Harder Better Faster Stronger (and then Stronger), so at least Mr. Birdsong should be getting some decent royalties for this tune being used and it becoming much more famous than it was back then.
Edwin Birdsong-Cola Bottle Baby (7.1 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back this Friday, March 20th.
Anyway, last week I was randomly looking at videos on YouTube and through much clicking I viewed some videos and I got an idea for this entry. It’s about Daft Punk… or rather, two songs that they sampled for their classic Discovery album.
The first tune is from a band that happens to be going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year but the tune isn’t from their heyday, but rather the late 70’s. It’s Little Anthony & The Imperials. The song is Can You Imagine; the only part that Daft used for the song Crescendolls was the opening few seconds. It’s a catchy enough ditty from that time period, although it’s certainly different than songs like-say-Tears On My Pillow.
Little Anthony & The Imperials-Can You Imagine (7.22 MB, 320Kbits/second)
The second tune is from Edwin Birdsong, an R&B artist who worked in several different areas in the music field and a few different genres. The tune is also from the late 70’s and is an R&B ditty known as Cola Bottle Baby. You hear just a few seconds of it and you’ll know that it was used liberally for the tune Harder Better Faster Stronger (and then Stronger), so at least Mr. Birdsong should be getting some decent royalties for this tune being used and it becoming much more famous than it was back then.
Edwin Birdsong-Cola Bottle Baby (7.1 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back this Friday, March 20th.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Breaking It On Down
I had some ideas as to what I could post here, but the plans changed once I came across a video on the main page of MySpace Thursday afternoon. It was up on there as it has become so popular. But, it apparently was on YouTube first; the original video is here. Sure, there are videos out there of bootleg Mickey Mouses and Elmo's doing the Soulja Boy, but that pales in comparison to this find.
I swear, I can’t stop watching the video! It’s so bizarre, seeing Mickey Mouse breaking on down at Eurodisney… whoops, I mean Disneyland Resort Paris. I’ve never done it before, but if I ever ingested some acid, I imagine I’d see Mickey Mouse breakdancing!
Speaking of that, the video with its original audio is great, but it’s pushed over the edge if you play just about any breakdancing (i.e. electro) tune. I haven’t seen anyone online do the natural thing yet, and if I knew how to, then I’d do it and post it to YouTube, but since I don’t have that knowhow, I’ll just continue to do what I’ve done, which is to mute the original video and play the electro song on my headphones either via another streaming video, on my Windows Media Player, or on my CD player.
Two obvious songs that you could play are Planet Rock and Rockit, but I’ll give props to two tunes that you may not have heard of, but are on the album Street Jams: Electric Funk Part 4.
The first one is from Miami producer Tony Butler, who recorded the tune Don’t Stop the Rock under the pseudonym Freestyle. It’s a tune that I’ve heard used by more than one pro wrestler, as odd as it may sound. If you start the Mickey video at the 16 second mark, then it works rather well, if I should say so myself.
Freestyle-Don’t Stop the Rock (7.54 MB, 192Kbits/second)
The second tune is from the World Class Wreckin’ Cru, who had none other than Dr. Dre in its ranks. No, not the Doctor Dre with Ed Lover, but the more famous Dre, of The Chronic Fame. I don’t know why he wore makeup for pictures on one of their albums (which was used later as ammo by Eazy-E) but anyhow, before he had all that success in the 90’s and this decade, this was the first big success of his career, not N.W.A.
World Class Wreckin’ Cru-Juice (9.13 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back sometime next Friday with another song or two to spotlight.
I swear, I can’t stop watching the video! It’s so bizarre, seeing Mickey Mouse breaking on down at Eurodisney… whoops, I mean Disneyland Resort Paris. I’ve never done it before, but if I ever ingested some acid, I imagine I’d see Mickey Mouse breakdancing!
Speaking of that, the video with its original audio is great, but it’s pushed over the edge if you play just about any breakdancing (i.e. electro) tune. I haven’t seen anyone online do the natural thing yet, and if I knew how to, then I’d do it and post it to YouTube, but since I don’t have that knowhow, I’ll just continue to do what I’ve done, which is to mute the original video and play the electro song on my headphones either via another streaming video, on my Windows Media Player, or on my CD player.
Two obvious songs that you could play are Planet Rock and Rockit, but I’ll give props to two tunes that you may not have heard of, but are on the album Street Jams: Electric Funk Part 4.
The first one is from Miami producer Tony Butler, who recorded the tune Don’t Stop the Rock under the pseudonym Freestyle. It’s a tune that I’ve heard used by more than one pro wrestler, as odd as it may sound. If you start the Mickey video at the 16 second mark, then it works rather well, if I should say so myself.
Freestyle-Don’t Stop the Rock (7.54 MB, 192Kbits/second)
The second tune is from the World Class Wreckin’ Cru, who had none other than Dr. Dre in its ranks. No, not the Doctor Dre with Ed Lover, but the more famous Dre, of The Chronic Fame. I don’t know why he wore makeup for pictures on one of their albums (which was used later as ammo by Eazy-E) but anyhow, before he had all that success in the 90’s and this decade, this was the first big success of his career, not N.W.A.
World Class Wreckin’ Cru-Juice (9.13 MB, 192Kbits/second)
I'll be back sometime next Friday with another song or two to spotlight.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Repost: The Wrestlerock Rumble
Tonight I feel like crap (the last week for me I've been totally swamped with things, and that's still the case for me the next few days) so I'm just going to do a repost of something I posted almost two years ago today.
The original post is here and even now the song is ridiculous. Thankfully, since then a better copy of the video to the song was uploaded, here as a matter of fact. Although, also since then I've seen even worse ripoffs of the Super Bowl Shuffle, such as the one done by the Bradley Braves basketball team (as someone who went to ISU, Bradley's rival, of course I have to laugh at the video) and the Super Broker Shuffle, where the comments left on the video are hilarious. Gary Broward is gangsta'! Hey, he says that he protects his turf, so you better not stomp on his ground!
Anyhow, the reason why I brought this up is that just yesterday, I saw an outdoor wrestling show at a Bike Fest (which was good) which was called "Wrestlerock '09" for no real good reason. Since the original post, the site that had up the MP3 of the song is still operative, but the MP3 link isn't. So, that's why I'll upload it.
AWA-Wrestlerock Rumble (5.05 MB, 192Kbits/second)
Speaking of the Super Bowl Shuffle, I found this page, which has up by far the best MP3 I've ever heard of the song; that dude ripped it right off of vinyl, so that's why it sounds so good.
I'll be back sometime next weekend with something new to post.
The original post is here and even now the song is ridiculous. Thankfully, since then a better copy of the video to the song was uploaded, here as a matter of fact. Although, also since then I've seen even worse ripoffs of the Super Bowl Shuffle, such as the one done by the Bradley Braves basketball team (as someone who went to ISU, Bradley's rival, of course I have to laugh at the video) and the Super Broker Shuffle, where the comments left on the video are hilarious. Gary Broward is gangsta'! Hey, he says that he protects his turf, so you better not stomp on his ground!
Anyhow, the reason why I brought this up is that just yesterday, I saw an outdoor wrestling show at a Bike Fest (which was good) which was called "Wrestlerock '09" for no real good reason. Since the original post, the site that had up the MP3 of the song is still operative, but the MP3 link isn't. So, that's why I'll upload it.
AWA-Wrestlerock Rumble (5.05 MB, 192Kbits/second)
Speaking of the Super Bowl Shuffle, I found this page, which has up by far the best MP3 I've ever heard of the song; that dude ripped it right off of vinyl, so that's why it sounds so good.
I'll be back sometime next weekend with something new to post.
Friday, February 20, 2009
A Band That Actually Lives Up To Messageboard Hype?
To offer up a correction, what I meant to say in the last post was that the correct music cue was “ki ki ki… ma ma ma”. My bad, peeps.
The copy of that song I found wasn’t of the best quality, but it’s the best I could find. I used to have a good copy of it, but I downloaded it years ago on another computer and I don’t know what happened to it. However, on YouTube, of all places, you can listen to a much better copy of the full song. It can be found here. The video has some groovy memorabilia from that movie, also.
Anyway, the main thing I’m going to do here is talk about something I thought I wrote about here earlier, but I can’t find it here, so I’ll just do it again and add something to it.
For awhile now I had heard of a band being plugged heavily on certain messageboards. They’re a Finnish metal band with symphonic overtones known as Nightwish. Finally, one day I decided to check out some of their songs, and I wish that I would have done so earlier. I’m real picky (I’d say “selective”, but I’m sure others would use “picky” instead) when it comes to new music that’s “popular”, either amongst the public or the underground, so keep that in mind. From what I heard from this band, they’re pretty awesome. It’s the type of music I dig.
The first song I’m putting up is from a 2001 EP (with their former singer, Tarja Turunen); it’s the title song to the Over the Hills And Far Away album. No, it’s not the Led Zeppelin song. Rather, it’s a cover of an old 80’s song originally done by Gary Moore, an old UK guitarist who isn’t that well known in the States. Soon I’ll upload the original, as it sounds much like the cover. Anyway, when I heard the cover, it sounded very familiar; I swear that I heard it once in a store a few years ago, dug it a lot and I never found out who did it. Well, I guess I know now.
Nightwish-Over the Hills And Far Away (7.87 MB, 216 Kbits/second)
The second song is from their latest album, Dark Passion Play. During that time, Ms. Turunen and her unique operatic vocals left the band and was replaced by Anette Olzon. Now, I know that some Nightwish fans don’t like the new girl but I have no problems with her. Yeah, her singing style is more traditional, but it sounds good to me. Lord knows, I’m VERY selective when it comes to liking more modern singers that for some reason, people slobber over but I find to be akin to fingernails on a blackboard (::coughcoughJackWhitecoughcough:;), but I enjoy both lead singers and their different styles. It’s not easy for a famous band to replace a lead singer and still remain popular. Even with Van Halen, while they were still popular, you rarely hear the “Van Hager” songs on the radio, but rather the older stuff with David Lee Roth. But, from what I can see, Nightwish is still doing fine.
But back to my point, the second song is called Amaranth and it’s pretty catchy.
Nightwish-Amaranth (6.4 MB, 230Kbits/second)
The third song-Bye Bye Beautiful-is also from the newest album and it’s at least different in that it has both a female and male vocal. Also interesting is that the male wrote the song and it was a diss towards the old lead singer. Again, it’s a pretty catchy tune.
Nightwish-Bye Bye Beautiful (4.65 MB, 152 Kbits/second)
So hey, there’s proof that there are somewhat popular current bands that I dig, and I’m not biased towards the older popular bands or the more obscure current bands that I seem to favor here. Eventually, I’ll spend more times trying to find songs from this band, but for now, I can see why they have a cult following in some circles of the Internet.
I’ll be back a week from now, unless I decide to post something else before then…
The copy of that song I found wasn’t of the best quality, but it’s the best I could find. I used to have a good copy of it, but I downloaded it years ago on another computer and I don’t know what happened to it. However, on YouTube, of all places, you can listen to a much better copy of the full song. It can be found here. The video has some groovy memorabilia from that movie, also.
Anyway, the main thing I’m going to do here is talk about something I thought I wrote about here earlier, but I can’t find it here, so I’ll just do it again and add something to it.
For awhile now I had heard of a band being plugged heavily on certain messageboards. They’re a Finnish metal band with symphonic overtones known as Nightwish. Finally, one day I decided to check out some of their songs, and I wish that I would have done so earlier. I’m real picky (I’d say “selective”, but I’m sure others would use “picky” instead) when it comes to new music that’s “popular”, either amongst the public or the underground, so keep that in mind. From what I heard from this band, they’re pretty awesome. It’s the type of music I dig.
The first song I’m putting up is from a 2001 EP (with their former singer, Tarja Turunen); it’s the title song to the Over the Hills And Far Away album. No, it’s not the Led Zeppelin song. Rather, it’s a cover of an old 80’s song originally done by Gary Moore, an old UK guitarist who isn’t that well known in the States. Soon I’ll upload the original, as it sounds much like the cover. Anyway, when I heard the cover, it sounded very familiar; I swear that I heard it once in a store a few years ago, dug it a lot and I never found out who did it. Well, I guess I know now.
Nightwish-Over the Hills And Far Away (7.87 MB, 216 Kbits/second)
The second song is from their latest album, Dark Passion Play. During that time, Ms. Turunen and her unique operatic vocals left the band and was replaced by Anette Olzon. Now, I know that some Nightwish fans don’t like the new girl but I have no problems with her. Yeah, her singing style is more traditional, but it sounds good to me. Lord knows, I’m VERY selective when it comes to liking more modern singers that for some reason, people slobber over but I find to be akin to fingernails on a blackboard (::coughcoughJackWhitecoughcough:;), but I enjoy both lead singers and their different styles. It’s not easy for a famous band to replace a lead singer and still remain popular. Even with Van Halen, while they were still popular, you rarely hear the “Van Hager” songs on the radio, but rather the older stuff with David Lee Roth. But, from what I can see, Nightwish is still doing fine.
But back to my point, the second song is called Amaranth and it’s pretty catchy.
Nightwish-Amaranth (6.4 MB, 230Kbits/second)
The third song-Bye Bye Beautiful-is also from the newest album and it’s at least different in that it has both a female and male vocal. Also interesting is that the male wrote the song and it was a diss towards the old lead singer. Again, it’s a pretty catchy tune.
Nightwish-Bye Bye Beautiful (4.65 MB, 152 Kbits/second)
So hey, there’s proof that there are somewhat popular current bands that I dig, and I’m not biased towards the older popular bands or the more obscure current bands that I seem to favor here. Eventually, I’ll spend more times trying to find songs from this band, but for now, I can see why they have a cult following in some circles of the Internet.
I’ll be back a week from now, unless I decide to post something else before then…
Friday, February 13, 2009
Chi chi chi... ah ah ah...
Or technically, ki ki ki, ha ha ha, as it's officially supposed to be.
Yep, I'm referring to the Friday the 13th series and the newest one to come out, which I saw at a midnight screening last night. I went in with low expectations, given that Platinum Dunes was involved, and they're the ones responsible for God-awful stuff like the "reimagining" of The Hitcher or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reimaginings. I also heard from some people that saw the new movie beforehand that they didn't care for it... so yep, I went in there with low expectations, and I was pleasantly surprised. I'll be brief here, but I'll mention that I saw it with a great audience that applauded at times, and the people in front of me were rowdy guys, and the people behind me went "RRAAAHHHH!" whenever a scary moment happened, as if they had just soiled their pants; a lot of it may be that, but I had a lot of fun with it; sure, it's technically all that great, but it's a Jason movie, so you should never have high expectations for it as if it was an actual film. Who knows, you may like it if you go yourself.
Anyway, earlier in the month I finally got the 3-D version of Friday the 13th Part III, which for the first time was released on DVD. I haven't watched it yet but hope to soon. I plan on watching another one of the sequels on HDNet later tonight. But, right now the song I'm presenting you is the theme from Friday the 13th Part III. The score to the movie was done by Harry Manfredini (who came up with the ki ki ki, ha ha ha sound that even today is used to identify Jason Voorhees), but I see online that Michael Zager was also involved with it. While I can't confirm it, I must believe that he was the one who did this glorious theme, due to the fact that it's a damn disco theme, and Zager was responsible for the glorious disco classic Let's All Chant and he did it under the name Hot Ice. No matter who's involved, it may be ridiculous for a serious horror movie to have a disco theme song, but then again, it is a 3-D movie... but anyway, enjoy.
Hot Ice-Theme from Friday the 13th Part III (8.46 MB, 320Kbits/second)
I'll be back a week from today with a new tune.
Yep, I'm referring to the Friday the 13th series and the newest one to come out, which I saw at a midnight screening last night. I went in with low expectations, given that Platinum Dunes was involved, and they're the ones responsible for God-awful stuff like the "reimagining" of The Hitcher or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre reimaginings. I also heard from some people that saw the new movie beforehand that they didn't care for it... so yep, I went in there with low expectations, and I was pleasantly surprised. I'll be brief here, but I'll mention that I saw it with a great audience that applauded at times, and the people in front of me were rowdy guys, and the people behind me went "RRAAAHHHH!" whenever a scary moment happened, as if they had just soiled their pants; a lot of it may be that, but I had a lot of fun with it; sure, it's technically all that great, but it's a Jason movie, so you should never have high expectations for it as if it was an actual film. Who knows, you may like it if you go yourself.
Anyway, earlier in the month I finally got the 3-D version of Friday the 13th Part III, which for the first time was released on DVD. I haven't watched it yet but hope to soon. I plan on watching another one of the sequels on HDNet later tonight. But, right now the song I'm presenting you is the theme from Friday the 13th Part III. The score to the movie was done by Harry Manfredini (who came up with the ki ki ki, ha ha ha sound that even today is used to identify Jason Voorhees), but I see online that Michael Zager was also involved with it. While I can't confirm it, I must believe that he was the one who did this glorious theme, due to the fact that it's a damn disco theme, and Zager was responsible for the glorious disco classic Let's All Chant and he did it under the name Hot Ice. No matter who's involved, it may be ridiculous for a serious horror movie to have a disco theme song, but then again, it is a 3-D movie... but anyway, enjoy.
Hot Ice-Theme from Friday the 13th Part III (8.46 MB, 320Kbits/second)
I'll be back a week from today with a new tune.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Variety Is The Spice Of Life
I’ll be doing something a little different here; this go-around, I will present you with several links that will present music that most of you have probably never heard of before; hell, I haven’t really heard of any of it myself.
As it usually happens, I stumbled upon it while looking at something else. I found out about a prog-rock band from Hungary (!) that was around in the 70’s called Skorpio. I can’t find much info on them at all anywhere, but I stumbled upon this blog entry, which provided some info. There, you can download two entire albums from them; for those of you that like that kind of music, you should dig this. At times on the latter album presented, they got pretty funky, so if you like that too…
That blog, if you go through it, has a bunch of obscure progressive rock (although at times they do other obscure albums that are involved in some way with the rock genre), usually from foreign artists.
To the right of the page is a blogroll of many other sites; I haven’t really visited any of them yet, but if you want to, you should find sites that’ll occupy hours upon hours of your time. You’ll probably also learn some new things; for example, I had no clue there was a genre like Czechlovakian prog-rock!
One of these days I’ll have to go through many of those links to find what gems they hold. The regular Prog Not Frog site has a huge variety of music links for you to digest, no matter what genre it is. You should find something for your fancy with all that variety.
I'll be back a week from tonight, probably around this time, with something new, and yeah, it'll be related to what next Friday is.
As it usually happens, I stumbled upon it while looking at something else. I found out about a prog-rock band from Hungary (!) that was around in the 70’s called Skorpio. I can’t find much info on them at all anywhere, but I stumbled upon this blog entry, which provided some info. There, you can download two entire albums from them; for those of you that like that kind of music, you should dig this. At times on the latter album presented, they got pretty funky, so if you like that too…
That blog, if you go through it, has a bunch of obscure progressive rock (although at times they do other obscure albums that are involved in some way with the rock genre), usually from foreign artists.
To the right of the page is a blogroll of many other sites; I haven’t really visited any of them yet, but if you want to, you should find sites that’ll occupy hours upon hours of your time. You’ll probably also learn some new things; for example, I had no clue there was a genre like Czechlovakian prog-rock!
One of these days I’ll have to go through many of those links to find what gems they hold. The regular Prog Not Frog site has a huge variety of music links for you to digest, no matter what genre it is. You should find something for your fancy with all that variety.
I'll be back a week from tonight, probably around this time, with something new, and yeah, it'll be related to what next Friday is.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Them Changes
Yep, I'm finally back, and this won't be too lengthy of a post, but I will bring up a great service for those of you looking for MP3's to download without using a site like Morpheus or anything else.
BeeMP3 is a site where you can download songs that were posted online; the great feature is that the songs are uploaded onto the site somehow, so even if the webpage that originally had the song took if off, it's still up there for download.
For example, Ramsey Lewis and his cover of a Buddy Miles song. Originally on Funky16Corners, it's now only available when you do a search for Mr. Lewis, like what I did here.
The song I'm talking about is Them Changes, which I've actually talked about before. I only heard a single version of the Ramsey Lewis cover in single form (the album is from 1970), which I enjoyed; I stumbled upon the full version, and I thought it was very funky and very great. So, given the link I provided, you can download the tune and see if you enjoy it as an awesome slice of R&B. Other songs you want to download from that page are The In Crowd and Hang On Sloopy; the former was a big pop hit then, and the latter for its novelty value.
I'll be back around this time next Friday. The song I'll talk about on my mashup page will be up in like 3 or 4 hours.
BeeMP3 is a site where you can download songs that were posted online; the great feature is that the songs are uploaded onto the site somehow, so even if the webpage that originally had the song took if off, it's still up there for download.
For example, Ramsey Lewis and his cover of a Buddy Miles song. Originally on Funky16Corners, it's now only available when you do a search for Mr. Lewis, like what I did here.
The song I'm talking about is Them Changes, which I've actually talked about before. I only heard a single version of the Ramsey Lewis cover in single form (the album is from 1970), which I enjoyed; I stumbled upon the full version, and I thought it was very funky and very great. So, given the link I provided, you can download the tune and see if you enjoy it as an awesome slice of R&B. Other songs you want to download from that page are The In Crowd and Hang On Sloopy; the former was a big pop hit then, and the latter for its novelty value.
I'll be back around this time next Friday. The song I'll talk about on my mashup page will be up in like 3 or 4 hours.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Check Back On Friday Night
Unfortunately, I ran into another busy weekend; you can read about it here. I also have crap to do this week, so I'll have to do my thing this Friday. Sorry, folks.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Seven Horses Seem... To Be On The March
While I was down in South Florida two weekends ago, on the way back home actually, I heard the song Love Her Madly, the classic from The Doors.
When I got home, I figured I should look for the song on Deezer, so that's what I did when I had the opportunity to. To my surprise, I found a different version of the song than what everyone's heard since 1970 or so. It was a different mix of the song, with a longer ending to boot. Deezer said it was from an album entitled The Future Starts Here: The Essential Doors Hits. Even though (from what I heard) the remixes by the longtime Doors engineer are for the most part interesting, if you want to have that album, it should only to go along with a previous album filled with the familiar studio versions of the songs; I mean, you should have the two to complement each other, rather than have the new versions be the only ones that are available for purchase.
But anyhow, here is that remixed version of the song. I could only find the file in MP4 format, but hopefully that won't be a problem for anyone.
The Doors-Love Her Madly (3.38 MB, 128Kbits/second)
I'll be back on Friday night the 23rd.
When I got home, I figured I should look for the song on Deezer, so that's what I did when I had the opportunity to. To my surprise, I found a different version of the song than what everyone's heard since 1970 or so. It was a different mix of the song, with a longer ending to boot. Deezer said it was from an album entitled The Future Starts Here: The Essential Doors Hits. Even though (from what I heard) the remixes by the longtime Doors engineer are for the most part interesting, if you want to have that album, it should only to go along with a previous album filled with the familiar studio versions of the songs; I mean, you should have the two to complement each other, rather than have the new versions be the only ones that are available for purchase.
But anyhow, here is that remixed version of the song. I could only find the file in MP4 format, but hopefully that won't be a problem for anyone.
The Doors-Love Her Madly (3.38 MB, 128Kbits/second)
I'll be back on Friday night the 23rd.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Do You See That, Stevie Wonder?
Hello everyone. I apologize for this getting up late, but I’ve just had other things to worry about this weekend, so that’s why this is up now.
As I have relatives over at the Casa del Blair, this will be a quick blog. I know, all of these seem too short, but in this case, I have a good excu… I mean explanation.
For awhile now I’ve been looking for the album version of a song by James Brown. It’s a late 70’s tune called For Goodness Sakes Look At Those Cakes; yeah, it’s a tune about his love of women’s derriere’s. I’ve heard the single before, but I had never been able to find a download of the album version, which is eleven (!) minutes long. Sure, I’ve found a YouTube video or two of the full song, but that’s YouTube.
Finally, searching recently, I discovered the Dance Disco Music blog*, which has many different posts of either singles or entire albums, most of which are obscure. I mean, the title song to the album that I’ve been looking for apparently has never been released on CD, so that’s why the link offered up is of a recording from the original vinyl album. That’s why there’s a skip or two, but otherwise it’s a solid recording and I’m so happy I found it.
• If you look through the posts there, you’ll see a bunch of odd stuff; most of it is disco, yeah, but not always. What is disco, though, is me finding an album by Meco, the guy who did that Star Wars song, and seeing that he also did a Star Wars Christmas album; I mean, WTF? Let’s just hope it’s better than the only can be found on bootleg Star Wars Holiday Special, which I have seen and yes it’s as bad as everyone says it is.
Anyway, like I mentioned already, the link to the song and album in question is here.
I'll be back this Friday, and this time I'll be more punctual.
As I have relatives over at the Casa del Blair, this will be a quick blog. I know, all of these seem too short, but in this case, I have a good excu… I mean explanation.
For awhile now I’ve been looking for the album version of a song by James Brown. It’s a late 70’s tune called For Goodness Sakes Look At Those Cakes; yeah, it’s a tune about his love of women’s derriere’s. I’ve heard the single before, but I had never been able to find a download of the album version, which is eleven (!) minutes long. Sure, I’ve found a YouTube video or two of the full song, but that’s YouTube.
Finally, searching recently, I discovered the Dance Disco Music blog*, which has many different posts of either singles or entire albums, most of which are obscure. I mean, the title song to the album that I’ve been looking for apparently has never been released on CD, so that’s why the link offered up is of a recording from the original vinyl album. That’s why there’s a skip or two, but otherwise it’s a solid recording and I’m so happy I found it.
• If you look through the posts there, you’ll see a bunch of odd stuff; most of it is disco, yeah, but not always. What is disco, though, is me finding an album by Meco, the guy who did that Star Wars song, and seeing that he also did a Star Wars Christmas album; I mean, WTF? Let’s just hope it’s better than the only can be found on bootleg Star Wars Holiday Special, which I have seen and yes it’s as bad as everyone says it is.
Anyway, like I mentioned already, the link to the song and album in question is here.
I'll be back this Friday, and this time I'll be more punctual.
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