I'm Sidetracked

Hey I'm back but I'm totally pressed for time since I got back but I'll be back on Wednesday night and I'll have new shiot up.

Remembering The Old College Days

Some things as of late have reminded me of my college days at Illinois State University, where I went from August of 2000 until May of 2004. My time there started great and ended horribly; don't ask for the details, but some bad things happened that ruined the experience. But, while there were things that I would do differently with hindsight, I still had many great experiences there, and being there and meeting so many awesome people helped me become the person I am now (for better or for worse!)

One great thing is that I found out about a lot of different music while I was at ISU. For example, it's where I discovered how awesome dance music can be. I'll put up one song that I marked out (and still mark out) for. While living or visiting people in the dorm rooms, I was able to hear tunes that were both good and bad. Eminem's latest album at the time (back before he turned horrible with the last album he put out) was cool to listen to, but having to hear Limp Bizkit's then current album… oh that was a painful experience!

At least my tastes were always different, but in a good way. I mean, except for hearing a random dude in a dorm room hall play some tunes one night before I went out for a party (I was a big part of the party scene, believe it or not), not too many seemed to be fans of Elvis. But, I was excited to hear the remix of the song A Little Less Conversation, as I thought it kicked ass. In fact, I bought the CD single of the song, and I'm putting up the 12 inch single version (or, as it's known, "The extended mix" rather than the radio version that you may or may not have heard. I don't know why the song tanked on American radio stations; I guess it was more important to play the same old one hit wonder rap or R&B tune at the time… at least it was successful in many different countries around the world, and the extended version of the song even had a music video.

I only found out this just now, but the guy who did the remix, JXL, is more commonly known as Junkie XL. Ahh, what a name!

Oh, and I was also reminded of this song when I was in a KFC/Taco Bell earlier in the month. I ate in the restaurant right before a wrestling show and they played the extended version of the song, much to my surprise.

Elvis vs. JXL-A Little Less Conversation (12 Inch Extended Mix) (8.49 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/2863250bfa0483/

I'll be back Monday night with a very brief update where I post some YouTube links; hey, I'll be gone from Friday to Sunday evening in South Florida, so cut me some slack here.

All My Work Is Never Over

After attending Mako's in Orlando on Friday night (it's a nightclub that I've described many times before as "a nightclub… on crystal meth; I say that as it's an assault on the senses, with the bartenders and the other female employees there laying down often… for bodyshots… CO2 being shot off at random times, paper being flung about, lights, noise… it's awesome. The best part, though, is the giant swing they have in the front; for 20 bucks you can ride it and a girl or two pretty much humps you the entire time! No I haven't ridden the swing… yet) I was inspired to do this entry. You see, they played quite the mix of music there, from Straight Outta Compton to rock tunes to a lot of other stuff, including playing part of Daft Punk's "Harder Better Faster Stronger" from their 2001 "Discovery" album (which I burned from a friend... er, I mean...), then playing a song I first heard earlier in the summer, which was Kanye West sampling (!) the song for the first single off of his new album. I don't know about you, but his "Stronger" sucks balls compared to "Harder Better Faster Stronger"! Not even the video is any good, despite Daft Punk's cameo in it.

Kanye West is someone who I haven't liked for a long time now. I first heard of him shortly before "Through The Wire" came out. I liked that tune but since then everything else I've heard from him, whether it's in public or through his music, has just been shitty. The page that I linked under his name does a great job of giving some brief examples of why he's a stupid ignorant asshole, which only adds to the fact that every other song I've heard from him after Wire has just been bad and not entertaining to me, a guy who tends to like more than his fair share of "popular" hip-hop.

Anyway, I figured the original song was worth an upload as with Stronger, a lot more people will be familiar with that wildly inferior tune rather than the great original song that Kanye used. Plus, will Kanye's song result in some random a capella group covering it to great effect? I think not!

Daft Punk-Harder Better Faster Stronger (192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/28318484a31edd/

Here is another song from the Discovery album, but this time it wasn't released as a single. I mainly chose it as it sounds SO 80's that you feel you're on an episode of Miami Vice (either that or playing Vice City). Speaking of 80's, the title of the song has nothing to do with the movie of the same name. Still, I like more input, and as you can never forget, Los Locos will kick your balls into outer space.

Daft Punk-Short Circuit (192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/2831957f1efa4e/

I'll be back by Thursday night with another dance tune.

Yet Another Rolling Stones Weekend

Remember how earlier in the year I uploaded quite a few songs from The Rolling Stones? I figured this weekend would be good for a one-shot where in this entry I post three new tunes on here, two of which are bootlegs. Hey, you can find a good or great song just about anywhere, a

The first one is "Claudine", one of the two unreleased songs, although it's rather easy to find online due to bootlegs. It concerns Claudine Longet, the ex-wife of Andy Williams who was convicted of killing her boyfriend… but was VERY fortunate to receive such a ridiculously light sentence (30 days!) as despite her claims, it was *not* an accident and she was helped more by an inept police investigation than anything else. As you can see, even back then it helps to be a celebrity when you're on trial… anyway, the Stones were going to put it on their Emotional Rescue album (which may have helped make that album not so disappointing) but then changed their minds as they did not want to get sued and deal with that hassle. It's a shame, as it has a catchy rockabilly rhythm to it and it's a pretty nasty take on the case, sort of an inverted version of Bob Dylan's "Hurricane". Once you hear about the case, though, what the song says is well-deserved.

Rolling Stones-Claudine (4.82MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/2790204061e9c7/

The second song is "Highway Child", a song that doesn't have any sort of history behind it like Claudine does. It was just a jam done in the summer of 1968, but Goddamn does it ever rock. It's a fast-paced ditty where they just smoke through it and rock out with their cock out, to use as many clichés as I can. Yes, at one point it DOES resemble "Hold On Loosely"! It can be chalked up just as being a coincidence, though; at least that's what I am guessing.

Rolling Stones-Highway Child (7.21 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/2790128fdd0c28/

The last song is one that you can find on the Goat's Head Soup album from 1973. I'm sure that many people are familiar with two tracks on there, which are "Angie" and "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)", but I've heard some other good tracks on there, like "Silver Train" and the one I'm putting up, "Star Star".

By checking out this link you can see why it's one of the most notorious songs from the Stones and why it's something you never hear on the radio. The main reason why I'm putting this up, though, is that the song just f'ing rocks, man!

To alleviate possible concerns, the last line that you hear Mick singing in the song is "C'mon, little girl", NOT "C'mon, ni…", well, I don't want to say what I thought I heard, except that I had to rewind and go back and make sure that Mick didn't utter a racial slur! I know, what a thing to hear, but if you thought you heard it too, trust me it's not true.

Rolling Stones-Star Star (6.07 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/2790165282b4d7/

I'll be back on Tuesday afternoon with a dance track and a tale of my Friday night at a dance club.

When You're Feeling Lazy Today...

Unfortunately a feeling of malaise coupled with a lack of time has resulted in me being lazy and just offering you up a link I found yesterday in which you can download various dance songs. It is from Kiss Atlanta's website right here.

I especially recommend checking out this link from the blog, where offers up some remix of songs from The Killers. The song in particular that I want to point out is the remix of Mr. Brightside done by Stuart Price under one of his many aliases, this one being the Thin White Duke. It's some good shit, I tell you.

On Saturday I will have my next uploads; it will be more than one song so it will be worth the wait.

No I Do Not Know Why There's A Dog Barking In The Song!

I was at a pair of wrestling shows during the weekend; it was a tournament for a wrestler who passed away from cancer a few years ago when he was only 22 years old. It was a fun time overall. As has been an unofficial tradition, funny 80's songs are used by several wrestlers for entrance music. 2005 was Here I Go Again and Don't You Forget About Me. 2006 was Living On A Prayer. 2007 may have topped it, though. You had Goody Two Shoes one night, and then the next was Weird Science and then the topper, which was a song that even shocked me, the 80's music fan. Yes, a tag team actually used... Caribbean Queen! Yes, a song by Billy F'ing Ocean! "Wow" is the best I can come up with. It will be tough to top that.

As for the worst song of 2007 contest, I'm still sticking with Glamorous for now, but there is really tough competition from Beautiful Girls, Lip Gloss, and A Bay Bay. Jesus are those songs terrible; in fact, at the end of the year I may decide that one of those tunes will be my worst of 2007; I have the right to change my mind! I just pray that something even worse than that isn't released in this second half of the year.

Anyway, onto today's upload. There's not a lot that I can say about the tune I'm putting up, except that it's a song you'll recognize and probably love again right away once you know it's the theme song from the first National Lampoon's Vacations movies. Yes, it's the song by Fleetwood Mac member Lindsey Buckingham known as Holiday Road. C'mon, you know you love the song! Don't ask me why you hear an electronic dog barking in tune with the song; I'll never figure it out, although Fleetwood Mac still has the legendary reputation for snorting up cocaine like anteaters.

Lindsey Buckingham-Holiday Road (2.02 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/2716439934b203/

I'll be back Wednesday afternoon, I promise.

Commercial Endeavors

Here is yet another song that I heard on the Orlando radio station Real Radio 104.1, in the rare times they actually play music. Of course they never identify which songs they play on their station, whether it'd be on the air or even on their website, so if you hear a tune you like but don't know what it is then you have to do a Google search of it to find out what it is.

That's what I did recently when I heard an amazingly catchy little ditty one night. I thought it sounded familiar, and I found out why it was. The song was "Go!", by Tones on Tail. No I'm not familiar with that band or it's predecessor, Bauhaus, as I'm not an f'ing hipster. Still, this is a song worth getting, as it's as catchy as I said it was, and it was in more than one commercial back in the day. I remember Starburst and Dockers in particular. Plus, it has an electronic cowbell in it, and we all like cowbell, right? Actually, the sketch that introduced the cowbell love into popular culture is f'ing terrible and totally pointless... then again, that's what SNL has been for the past, oh what, 15 years now?

Tones on Tail-Go! (192Kbits/second)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/26791562e530c0/

I'll be back on Monday with a new upload. I'm not quite sure which song in particular it will be yet, but it's possible it will be an opening credits song from a pair of well-known 80's movies.

Speaking of 80's movies, I wish that I could find an MP3 of the theme song to Friday the 13th Part 3, or hell, even get to see that movie in its original 3D form; the former is much more likely than the latter. C'mon, don't tell me you think the disco theme song is bad now! Anyway, have a nice Friday the 13th.