Oh Yes, This Will Get Stuck In Your Head

Tonight I will post two tunes that are very closely related to one another. I heard the first tune in a rather odd manner, and the second one was just a few days ago.

Don't ask for the story behind this, but I ended up listening to a radio station out of Montreal, CHOM. On it I discovered a ditty I had not heard of before; I hadn't heard of the band either.

That song was The Mexican, by Babe Ruth. Yep, an English band named after the legendary baseball player. This was their biggest hit, for sure. As mentioned in the Wikipedia link I provided already, the song was based off something done by Ennio Morricone, which is always badass.

Anyhow, the song is catchy… catchy to the point that I'm sure you'll get it stuck in your head for the next 12-24 hours after you first hear it, and then (possibly) repeat the next few times you hear it! While it's odd for a bunch of blokes to sing about Santa Anna and the Alamo, but nevertheless, don't be afraid to shake your ass to this... or what I'll bring up in a moment.

Babe Ruth-The Mexican (5.29 MB, 128Kbits/second)

In 1984, legendary dance figure "Jellybean" Benitez, was a big help in starting out Madonna, did a remix of The Mexican, and he was able to snag Babe Ruth's lead singer to re-record her vocals for this; hey, I'm sure she wasn't doing much at the time, considering that the band was broken up for years by this point. It sounds like what you'd expect an electro version of the song to sound like; this is a good thing. By the way, this is the "dance mix" of the song, meaning that it's almost 9 minutes long. It's not too difficult to find via legal means.

Jellybean-The Mexican (7.99 MB, 128Kbits/second)

I'll be back on the 30th of September. This is because I'll be tied up all next weekend with a great pair of wrestling shows.

Stick It Up Your... Nose

To start this off I will mention that I now rip songs onto my computer using a different service. Up to a few days ago I used Roxio. But, I grew tired of it and I mainly used Nero to make burned CD's or DVD's of videos/data. So I uninstalled Roxio… before thinking about what I would use to rip songs onto my computer.

But, I realized that Windows Media Player, which I of course have, has the option of ripping music. So, I tried that and that's what I should have been using all along. I mean, more often than not it'll recognize the song, artist, and album that is being ripped, which is handy in various ways, including putting stuff on your hard drive so that you can play it in Audiosurf. Trust me on this.

Anyway, with that out of the way… I was inspired to upload this tune after I heard a rumor somewhere that a music producer for Queen had passed away. However, using resources such as this, it seems to be untrue. When I heard that tidbit, I wondered if it was Roy Thomas Baker, a producer of many artists and albums who arguably had the most success with the group led by Freddie Mercury. Thankfully he's still alive and kicking.

This leads into how The Darkness used him on the album One Way Ticket to Hell… and Back, their second (and last) album. Now, I thought they were a pretty kickass band that were a throwback to awesome 70's acts, with the novelty of a high-pitched frontman. Well, most Internet opinions seemed to suggest that The Darkness were one of the worst bands of all time! I never found out just why these assclowns thought this way. Then again, most of those fools seemed to like douche-y music, so… that's why I didn't pay much attention to those people, if their tastes were so terrible that they'd support awful music such as that.

I'm sure many of you have heard I Believe in a Thing Called Love, but I'm sure you haven't heard anything from their second album. I'll introduce you to the lead track from the album, called One Way Ticket. It starts off with a one minute section where you have what sounds like Gregorian chants, a sitar, pipes, and other "mystical" shit. Then, you hear someone snorting a like, making it obvious what the tune's about; Justin Hawkins singing about it is awfully ironic, considering his usage of that drug led to the band dissolving! Yep, the white powder. After that, the song rocks out real awesomely. This is the type of stuff I wish would have been on the rock stations instead of the aforementioned douche-y music.

The Darkness-One Way Ticket (6.08 MB, 192Kbits/second)

I'll be back around this time next week.

RIP Jerry Reed

Finally, I have time to do this, and yet instead of writing a whole lot, I'll just point you in the direction of a page which will offer up many songs for you to download from this late artist. Yeah, an individual that passed away.

In case you didn't hear, this past Monday, Jerry Reed passed away due to complications of emphysema. I'm sure that many will know him due to his role in the Smokey & The Bandit films. But, he had more of a career than just that. He acted in other movies, and even executive produced Bat*21. He briefly hosted a variety show in the 70's. But, he had a very long career as a country music singer. This page will direct you to blogs which list his most famous songs, and also list some comments on his life and career.

I'll be back Friday night, and this time I'll be more punctual.

Check Back Monday Night

I apologize for another delay, but since Friday night I've been swamped with things, from seeing the first two Indiana Jones movies on the big screen, to spending most of the day on the Atlantic coast of Florida. I'll have something up Monday night, I promise.

Here's The New Plan, Stan

Finally, I'll upload a new song, and it is one in a genre I haven't really brought up on here before. It is due to a recent death of a musician, who happened to be part of a very popular band.

As you probably know already, earlier in the month, LeRoi Moore, the saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, passed away due to complications of an ATV accident. Back in the day, I knew (and I still know a handful of them) people who were big fans of this jam band (even though the DMB doesn't like this term) and other similar bands such as Phish and Rusted Root.

Instead of one of their album tracks, here is a bootleg from one of their concerts (or at least that's how it was identified on the file-sharing system I got it from! I know it's not Dave who does the lead vocal but it certainly *does* sound like them). I have zero clue where and when it was recorded, but it is a cover of a popular 70's tune. It is Paul Simon's 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover. By the way, to mention some trivia, I once had a history teacher who was a childhood friend of Simon. True story. Anyway, while I think that DMB covers are either really cool or really crappy, this one is thankfully the former rather than the latter.

Dave Matthews Band-50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (8.06 MB, 192 Kbits/second)

http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/12/28/1667157/Dave%20Matthews%20Band-50%20Ways%20To%20Leave%20Your%20Lover.MP3

I'll be back on late Friday night the 5th. Have a good Labor Day weekend.

The Worst Song Of 2008

Instead of the usual upload, I will spend this time telling everyone what I believe the worst song of 2008 is; if I find one that's even worse that's come out this year, I'll be stunned.

Awhile back, on a messageboard one of my enemies, David Tuthill (don't ask for the full story behind that; I don't want to be up all night typing out the explanation!) proclaimed in a random post that he was going to see a group called Flobots. I had no clue who in the hell they were. I looked it up and saw that they were yet another rap/rock collective (sigh…), but I didn't go and hear any of their songs.

A little later I was up late at night, unable to get back to sleep. I was flipping through the channels and ended up on the travesty of a station known as MTV (or as I call them, RTV, as in Reality Television) and a video was just starting. I heard an AWFUL vocal talking about using handlebars… I was like, WTF is this shit? I couldn't even listen to the rest of the song! I did know from the beginning that the song was called Handlebars and it's by Flobots, off of their Fight With Tools album. It figures that a tool like David would enjoy them!

A little later I heard the full song… yep, the worst song of 2008, with no question! That is including the bits of the awful Disney Channel crap from Hannah Montana and their ilk, I Kissed A Girl, along with the other crap my earbuds have been tortured with. Hell, it's even worse than that one Heidi Montag tune! When you can't even be better than that, folks…

I mentioned in a wrestling review that Flobots was a travesty to the music business. Of course, Tuthill responded, and only said that I was wrong. Great job defending them, fatty! Another person told me that they were "great" and that they have "an amazing conscious style" and "a great political agenda". Pardon me for the foul language, but who gives a FUCK if they have "a conscious style" or are a "political" group. Most of the times, with modern groups I want politics not to be in their music at all! Just look at all the garbage that took place during the 2004 elections, which of course did nothing for John Kerry in the end. Don't talk about things you have little understanding over, then do so by repeating the same idealistic non-realistic claptrap, you pompous douchebags! Obviously, from listening to Handlebars and some of their other tunes, they easily fall into the "pompous douchebag" category. They're like D-rate Linkin Park ripoffs, and I don't really care for Linkin Park most of the time.

I don’t want to download the song and then upload it on here, so I'll instead give the song the treatment it deserves, which is me linking you to the official YouTube video listing of the music video to the song. Here it is.

I'll be back late Friday night the 29th, this time with an upload.

Check Back Here Friday Night

This time it was Tropical Storm Fay that screwed up this blog's schedule. I was going to go to a Rays game against the Angels earlier on in the week but the storm coming through at that time meant that I had to wait until Wednesday to attend it; it was a fun game, even though the Rays lost.

Anyway, I'll be back Friday night and on here I will unveil what I think is the worst song of 2008; if I find any tune worse than this the rest of the year, I'll be shocked. I mean, I think it's even worse than what I believe (I can't remember for certain, but I doubt I said that any tune was worse than it during the time period) is the worst song of 2007, which is Cupid's Chokehold, where you had the sampled chorus of the song having nothing to do with the rest of the song! Yes, it's even worse than that.

On the mashup blog, it will be business as usual there.