An Important Announcement

As you can tell from recent history, it became harder and harder for me to do this, so I decided to change things around and I'll stop updating this blog. I won't take this down, though; I'll keep it up for perpetuity for people to look at and download stuff at anytime. My new movie blog is here, so please check that out.

Referencing An Earlier Post

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.

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.

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.

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.

RIP Sky Saxon

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.

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.