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.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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.
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