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.

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.

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.