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.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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.
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