Another Memory Of My College Days

Recently I was listening to an old burned CD from way back in 2000. I burned it via a friend's computer; he lived on the same dorm room floor as mine at Illinois State University. Yes, ISU really does have a 28 story tall pair of dorms. I never lived in it but visited there dozens of times.

He had a bunch of MP3's on his computer (more than mine) and his computer had a CD burner (mine didn't at the time) so that's how I acquired my first burned CD's. The song from that which I'll choose to mention tonight (and I apologize for doing this a few hours late) is an obscure one unless you're from the midwest.

It is from a Chicago-area band known as Caviar. The song is Tangerine Speedo, which apparently was on the Charlie's Angels soundtrack, but don't ask me if it was in the film itself. I'd rather not see either movie, due to what I've heard. The pop-rock song is pretty quirky, sure, but it's also catchy and you have to love a tune that rhymes "Magellan" with "selling" and "veto" with "Speedo". You may end up enjoying this also, although I'm not sure if you'll end up having the memories connected to this that I do.

Caviar-Tangerine Speedo (5.05 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/12/28/1667157/Caviar-Tangerine%20Speedo.MP3

I'll be back a week from tonight.

Happy 4/20!

Hey, I'll be ultra-simple tonight and link to a blog, Licorice Pizza, that has up a post where several marijuana-related songs are available for download due to today being 420. Of course I didn't celebrate the day as I'm a choirboy...

Anyway, I'll be back by Friday night with a new tune to upload for your pleasure.

My Favorite Flavor, Cherry Red

Yep, once again I will post an artist on here that is related to something on my other blog, although this time this artist is involved in both the mashup and the dance music field. It is Soulwax, a pair of DJ's who have a rather busy website, to say the least.

They've been remixing for years but they managed to (officially) remix one of the greatest songs from one of the greatest bands of all time, The Rolling Stones. You know what will happen if you borrow something from the group and their record company doesn't like how it was used… anyway, the song here is You Can't Always Get What You Want.

I heard that the song was in the end credits of the new film 21; I haven't seen it yet as it's still in theatres and popular opinion says that it's not that great of a film (although the true story it's based upon IS very interesting; it's a shame the movie seems to be a disappointment). I looked to download the tune to hear it myself, and I went to the great Hypem website and I found it there, on a French music blog which has a logo consisting of cassettes and a picture of what looks like Tom Selleck! Yeah, I can't explain it either, but anyway…

The song, which adds electronic elements to the all-time classic, is simply amazing. I'm not using hyperbole here either; I'm quite taken aback at the great job they did with it. It is very difficult to remix such a famous job and not ruin it or at least give people the impression that they'd much rather be hearing the original. That is NOT the case with this track, found on the 21 soundtrack. Since the French blog's link is still working, I'll direct you to there to download the tune.

I'll be back Sunday night with a certain tune that pertains to the day, which to some is the biggest holiday of the year!

Fire At The Taco Bell

Here is a song that I thought I already posted on this blog a long time ago, but after looking through the list of all the songs I've put up (that list is in a Word file) and saw that it wasn't on there, I figured this was the perfect time to put it up, as quite frankly I can't think of any other tune at the moment that should be up now.

The song is from a Motown band (but they don't have a Motown sound, that's for sure; I just mean they're from Detroit, home of Kwame Kilpatrick; they are quite quirky; just look at what the band members call themselves) known as Electric Six. The song, Danger! High Voltage, became popular in 2003 but of course me not being a hipster or anything of that sort, I did not hear it until 2005… at a wrestling show, of all places.

At a local wrestling show in Florida, the guy currently in WWE under his real name of Brian Kendrick suddenly started using an odd but awesome tune as his entrance music. The first time I heard it, I looked it up on Google (although maybe I should start using Blackle; it's easier on the eyes) and from there I downloaded the tune. I am happy I found it as it's extremely catchy and if you haven't heard it yet yourself, you may fall in love with what will probably be the best tune they ever put out.

Here's the song, from their Fire album.

Electric Six-Danger! High Voltage (4.93 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/12/28/1667157/Electric_Six-Danger_High_Voltage.MP3

I'll be back a week from today with my next song.

A Tasty Treat

Here is another deal where I post a song here and on my mashups blog I'll post a tune that samples said song.

This song is from the British electronic duo Lemon Jelly, a group I really don't know too much about or have even heard any other song besides this one. I actually heard the mashup involving the tune before I heard the original.

It's from their '64-'95 album (named as they identify the year of the song that they sampled) and it's known as '79-The Shouty Track; why it's known as that I'm not sure as there is no vocal singing, but no matter its title, it's "avant-garde" as one person described it, but don't take it as it being noiseless garbage like, say, Trout Mask Replica (the less said about what has the be the most overrated album in history the better). It's oddly catchy, I'll put it that way.

Lemon Jelly-'79 The Shouty Track (5.08 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/12/28/1667157/Lemon%20Jelly%20Shouty.MP3

I'll be back a week from today to post my next song.

It's Time To Release The Beast

This past Wednesday, I ended up at the fantastic location known as Mako's, where I had an entertaining enough night. Here's part of what I wrote about it on my MySpace/Facebook blogs:

Overall, the night (for a Mako’s night) was not too exciting yet still had some interesting stories to tell, at least. Now, I’ve only been to one Wednesday there before and I don’t remember too much about that night (due to it happening months ago, not due to the alcohol I consumed there!) but this night wasn’t like a Friday or Saturday night, where you had various activities going on there. Even though they had certain drinks for free for a period of time, the joint wasn’t packed at all… nice was hearing some old school songs, like the Whispers song Rock Steady, the Breakwater song Release The Beast (you Daft Punk fans will recognize it as the song sampled for Robot Rock) or the Rick James (bitch!) classic Give It To Me, being played throughout the night.

The two main highlights I will mention:

1. Old drunk guys there are usually good for a laugh, and this was the case here. There were quite a few older gentlemen there, but one in particular stood out. He had consumed massive quantities of alcohol by the time I had gotten there. He was rather outgoing, to say the least. He at least enjoyed busting a move once in awhile, and for a laugh a few ladies enjoyed briefly dancing with him. I can’t really laugh about the latter, as…

2. I was standing in the area of the club where dancing usually takes place. Out of nowhere, two ladies decided to dance with me. Looks-wise… they weren’t the most attractive ladies in the club, but hey, they wanted to dance with me so I have no beef with that! What ended up happening was that I was promised a dirty dance by one of the two ladies (I’ll call them B and C)… B wanted me to buy C a beer in order to receive said dance. I did so and the dance I received was one that could easily be classified as dirty. I mean, she stuck her ass right in my crotch and was shaking it like nobody’s business! Sad to say, C pretty much ignored me after that, and both ladies later dance with several young African-American gentlemen. At least B talked to me after the dirty dance, and she in fact apologized for C’s behavior. C obviously enjoyed the beer, given that she had to have consumed it in like 5 minutes time!

As I mentioned up there, one ditty I heard was one that is still obscure to many even though it was famously sampled a few years ago by Daft Punk. It is the song Release The Best by Philadelphia R&B band Breakwater; the song looks to be rather difficult to find on CD but via the magic of MP3 it can be downloaded. As you'll see, it's better than Robot Rock and not so damned repetitive either. Anyway, the download link isn't mine, but I found it and it works, so there you go.

Breakwater-Release The Beast (6.92 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://centralvillage.blogs.com/cv/files/release_the_beast.mp3

I'll be back sometime on Saturday (probably in the late afternoon) with my next upload.

Adding Some Bling To This Blog

As of late I've noted that there hasn't been too much in the way of hip-hop posted on my blog as of recent times. I'll rectify that today.

One great site to visit to find various hip-hop tracks is the page known as The Passion of the Weiss. You have to read his review of the Soulja Boy song "Yahhh", which may be the worst I hear in 2008.

One good song to get from the site (the link still works) is his post on the artist known as Felli Fel. A newly popular song from him is Get Buck In Here, a track featuring Diddy, Ludacris, Akon, and Lil Jon. It's a catchy tune that's good for the clubs, which proved to be the case when it was played (to popular effect) at the wonderful place known as Mako's. Yep, I went there for the first time in a little more than a month last night. It wasn't as wild of a time as usual, but I still had fun. I hope to go back there either on Friday or Saturday as I'll be attending Ring of Honor wrestling events in the area both nights, but just in case I couldn't make it on either night, I went on Wednesday.

Monday afternoon I'll be back with another tune; this one, I'm planning on it being another one I heard at Mako's on Wednesday night. That song was sampled by a famous dance duo and it's likely you did not even know that song was sampled from a funk tune from a now obscure group.