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"Time and Love" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-10-14 04:25:12

Laura Nyro is best known for the songs she wrote and not so much for the songs she sang. This is just small list of some of the songs Laura wrote: Stoned Soul Picnic. Save The Country. And When I Die and Stoney End. She never really had much success as a singer. New York Tendaberry released in 1969 seems generally to be recognized as her best album. This song comes from that album. Laura died in 1997 at the age 49.

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"The Beat Generation-The 5 Most Returned CDs in Retail History (or ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-08-05 14:32:53

Before I began my career as a highly paid guest blogger here at The Passion. I worked at a national retailer specializing in music in movies from October 2001 until November 2004. For a music nerd like me it was great. I made roughly $80-$120 per week which was enough to support my weekend drinking new magazines gas and fast food. Wait that actually sucked. But I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my hardest to recommend good albums to people who came in looking to buy the latest Ja Rule record. Around late 2002 the company decided to go away buying back used CDs and DVDs from customers. This was a great idea because crackheads would steal all the newest releases across the parking lot at Wal-Mart and then sell it to us for $8. Everyday. Plus since we knew they were committing illegal acts we could make requests for the new DVD or the latest Jay-Z CD. It was a great deal: we wanted free stuff they wanted crack. We could call the cops and deny them change money or they could just steal an extra copy of The only downside about buying and selling used items is that we would absorb the overstock from other locations when they went out of business.  This presented a HUGE problem because we would always get eleven copies of the same twenty titles mixed in with scary metal CDs and shitty west coast rap compilations nobody had any business buying or selling in   Obviously our used inventory was stocked full of the boy bands of the late 90s: O-Town. 98 Degrees. LFO. 2Gether (that kinda-funny MTV satirical group with Chris Farley’s brother) and of course the Corey Haim/Corey Feldman tag team of teenyboppers: The Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. Not counting the shaved chest crew here’s a list of the most returned albums of 2002-2004. Thankfully the general public turned on the balding nu-metalist and their wretched single “Rollin” in which Durst rhymed. “I know you’re loving this shit right here. B-I-Z-K-I-T right here.” This technical wizardry would later be used to much dope boy acclaim by Cam’ron. Young Jeezy and Jim Jones only a few years later. Apparently that kind of lyricism works if you’re not wearing a red Yankees hat backwards and you sell crack on Christmas. Unlike Limp Bizkit. Sisqo had some credibility by being a member of the R&B group Dru Hill which was Michael Vick’s alias back in his Virginia Tech days of giving herpes to sorority chicks. change surface his plate Surfer hair and Kids R Us/Mo Money Mo Problems-styled outfits didn’t seem to bother consumers because dammit who else was talking about thongs in 1999?!?? Well three years later. Sisqo’s opus open its way into the used bins by the dozens. I wonder if the number of returned thongs at Wet Seal and Fashion Bug actually increased during this time period as come up I undergo to thank Ricky Martin: I was never really comfortable with men wearing v-neck shirts with nothing underneath it. Once Ricky Martin (the album and the man) came out with v-necks in full exuberate hair gel-a-plenty and candle wax dripping on his naked torso. I had all the proof I needed. Straight men and v-necks with no apparel underneath are not a good look. This album and its massive single “Livin� La Vida Loca” also proved to me that the government does hate rap and will pin a tail to one donkey while there’s hella ass everywhere else. Example lyric: “She’ll make you live her crazy life but she’ll take away your hurt like a bullet to your brain.” Granted. Ricky Martin is a flaming homosexual with pearly white teeth and bronze skin. But just imagine if at his peak. DMX said something similar. His album would get pulled from Wal-Mart. He’d be accused of encouraging suicide. Oprah. Al Sharpton. account O�Reilly and the other media clowns would slam him daily. But throw on some snug trousers quit a boy band and you can recite the lyrics to Cormega’s Dead Man Walking. No problem. and kind of liked “Bouncin approve” from Tarantula. So they put those three songs on CD-R or their first generation iPods then sold the Mystikal combo pack back to us for a cool $7.00 combined. And who needs more than three songs from Mystikal in their collection? It’s like owning more than 2 Snoop Dogg albums. ‘Nuff said. . I remember when they hit #1 with “Butterfly” they did an interview with MTV stating that William was friends with one of the non-talented MC/singers and put him in contact with his other non-talented friend who was already doing Crazy Town. You see. William never stops sucking even when he wasn’t famous. is definetly the band of the future. They combine rap and metal in a way that is unlike anyone else. This is no Kid Rock or Limp Bizkit or any of that. What this is is a totally new level of rapcore. They combine the rhyming skills of rap godfathers Dr. Dre and Ice multiply with the thick guitar chords of Korn or Incubus. And yet they comfort cease to sound like any one of those. Songs like “Darkside” “Toxic” “evaluate Fast” and “Hollywood Babylon” are change surface fast and furious rap metal. The best song on here. “Black Cloud” features Jay Gordon of Orgy and is a dark soothing melodic song. “Butterfly” is their version of a love song and “B Boy 2000″ pits KRS-One against Epic and Shifty in one of the best collaborations ever. If you just go this off as a bunch of wiggers with guitars then you are mistaken my friend. be for this band to blow up and make it big someday soon.� When I read articles about the music industry collapsing. I picture the people people who made millions and millions of dollars forcing consumers to buy the entire Crazy Town album for that one song they actually wanted. I think about the same people suing their customers because they refuse to waste their money on garbage like Crazy Town (even Kris Parker feels good about that in retrospect). The economy sucks. CDs are quickly fading and radio is a joke. But at least we have options now. Never again will we be forced to spend $18 on a Sisqo CD. […] unknown wrote an interesting affix today onHere’s a quick excerptObviously our used inventory was stocked full of the boy bands of the late 90s: O-Town. 98 Degrees. LFO. 2Gether (that kinda-funny MTV satirical group with Chris Farley’s brother) and of course the Corey Haim/Corey Feldman tag team of … […] […] blog wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBut I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my … […] […] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI wonder if the be of returned thongs at Wet Seal and Fashion Bug actually increased during this time period as well. 3. Ricky Martin: Ricky Martin rickymatin1999album jpg. I have to thank Ricky Martin: I was never really … […] […] LauraStack wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBut I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my … […] […] jackhammer wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBut I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin call anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my … […] Zilla as you know I worked in music retail as well but from 1998 to 2001. After that I was a consultant to used CD stores (mostly CD Spins) to help them determine the best/shittiest/rarest urban music to price it correctly. Yo are right on the money with this post. Also. Will i am knew those cats because one of them was half of the acclaimed hip hop production team Wolf & Epic (Brett Mazur). I really wish that Sisqo’s video for “Unleash The Dragon” would’ve dropped because it would’ve ended his career even SOONER. If you haven’t seen it and need a good hearty laugh examine the web for it. Back in the day I was the entertainment editor for The University of Maryland’s Diamondback. Universal and Sony used to send me these gigantic packages beat of free CDs at my request at which point I would bring them to my local record store and sell them all for about $25 so I could eat Chipotle burritos 4 days a week and not hurt. Then when Sony or Universal called to ask if I’d received the package I would say I hadn’t and ask that they send it again. Then I would bring those CDs to my local record store to change them all for about $25 … again. i remember liking that Bizkit album when it came out in middle school i mean all the cool kids were doin’ it. a few years or so back i revisited it — and i mean to its ascribe. “Hot Dog” and that one lie where he screams “Just shut your fuckin’ MOUTH!” in this other song are pretty hilarious i’m not sure how intentional that was though if it was at all.

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"The Beat Generation-The 5 Most Returned CDs in Retail History (or ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-08-05 14:32:25

Before I began my career as a highly paid guest blogger here at The Passion. I worked at a national retailer specializing in music in movies from October 2001 until November 2004. For a music nerd like me it was great. I made roughly $80-$120 per week which was enough to support my weekend drinking new magazines gas and fast food. Wait that actually sucked. But I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my hardest to recommend good albums to people who came in looking to buy the latest Ja command record. Around late 2002 the company decided to go away buying approve used CDs and DVDs from customers. This was a great idea because crackheads would steal all the newest releases across the parking lot at Wal-Mart and then sell it to us for $8. Everyday. Plus since we knew they were committing illegal acts we could alter requests for the new DVD or the latest Jay-Z CD. It was a great deal: we wanted free stuff they wanted crack. We could call the cops and deny them crack money or they could just steal an extra copy of The only downside about buying and selling used items is that we would absorb the overstock from other locations when they went out of business.  This presented a HUGE problem because we would always get eleven copies of the same twenty titles mixed in with scary metal CDs and shitty west coast rap compilations nobody had any business buying or selling in   Obviously our used inventory was stocked full of the boy bands of the late 90s: O-Town. 98 Degrees. LFO. 2Gether (that kinda-funny MTV satirical group with Chris Farley’s brother) and of course the Corey Haim/Corey Feldman tag aggroup of teenyboppers: The Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. Not counting the shaved chest crew here’s a list of the most returned albums of 2002-2004. Thankfully the command public turned on the balding nu-metalist and their wretched single “Rollin” in which Durst rhymed. “I know you’re loving this shit right here. B-I-Z-K-I-T right here.” This technical wizardry would later be used to much dope boy acclaim by Cam’ron. Young Jeezy and Jim Jones only a few years later. Apparently that kind of lyricism works if you’re not wearing a red Yankees hat backwards and you sell crack on Christmas. Unlike Limp Bizkit. Sisqo had some credibility by being a member of the R&B group Dru Hill which was Michael Vick’s alias back in his Virginia Tech days of giving herpes to sorority chicks. Even his Silver Surfer hair and Kids R Us/Mo Money Mo Problems-styled outfits didn’t seem to bother consumers because dammit who else was talking about thongs in 1999?!?? Well three years later. Sisqo’s opus found its way into the used bins by the dozens. I wonder if the number of returned thongs at Wet Seal and Fashion Bug actually increased during this time period as well I undergo to thank Ricky Martin: I was never really comfortable with men wearing v-neck shirts with nothing underneath it. Once Ricky Martin (the album and the man) came out with v-necks in full glory hair gel-a-plenty and examine wax dripping on his naked torso. I had all the proof I needed. Straight men and v-necks with no shirt underneath are not a good look. This album and its massive single “Livin� La Vida Loca” also proved to me that the government does hate rap and will pin a follow to one donkey while there’s hella ass everywhere else. Example lyric: “She’ll make you live her crazy life but she’ll take away your pain like a bullet to your brain.” Granted. Ricky Martin is a flaming homosexual with pearly white teeth and bronze skin. But just create by mental act if at his peak. DMX said something similar. His album would get pulled from Wal-Mart. He’d be accused of encouraging suicide. Oprah. Al Sharpton. Bill O�Reilly and the other media clowns would slam him daily. But impel on some snug trousers quit a boy band and you can recite the lyrics to Cormega’s Dead Man Walking. No problem. and kind of liked “Bouncin Back” from Tarantula. So they put those three songs on CD-R or their first generation iPods then sold the Mystikal combo pack back to us for a cool $7.00 combined. And who needs more than three songs from Mystikal in their collection? It’s like owning more than 2 Snoop Dogg albums. ‘Nuff said. . I remember when they hit #1 with “dart” they did an interview with MTV stating that William was friends with one of the non-talented MC/singers and put him in contact with his other non-talented friend who was already doing Crazy Town. You see. William never stops sucking even when he wasn’t famous. is definetly the band of the future. They combine rap and metal in a way that is unlike anyone else. This is no Kid Rock or Limp Bizkit or any of that. What this is is a totally new level of rapcore. They combine the rhyming skills of rap godfathers Dr. Dre and Ice Cube with the thick guitar chords of Korn or Incubus. And yet they still cease to sound like any one of those. Songs like “Darkside” “Toxic” “Think Fast” and “Hollywood Babylon” are smooth fast and furious rap metal. The best song on here. “Black Cloud” features Jay Gordon of Orgy and is a dark soothing melodic song. “Butterfly” is their version of a love song and “B Boy 2000″ pits KRS-One against Epic and Shifty in one of the best collaborations ever. If you just pass this off as a bunch of wiggers with guitars then you are mistaken my friend. Look for this bind to blow up and make it big someday soon.� When I read articles about the music industry collapsing. I picture the people people who made millions and millions of dollars forcing consumers to buy the entire Crazy Town album for that one song they actually wanted. I think about the same people suing their customers because they refuse to waste their money on garbage like Crazy Town (even Kris Parker feels good about that in retrospect). The economy sucks. CDs are quickly fading and radio is a joke. But at least we have options now. Never again will we be forced to spend $18 on a Sisqo CD. […] unknown wrote an interesting affix today onHere’s a quick excerptObviously our used inventory was stocked full of the boy bands of the late 90s: O-Town. 98 Degrees. LFO. 2Gether (that kinda-funny MTV satirical group with Chris Farley’s brother) and of course the Corey Haim/Corey Feldman tag team of … […] […] blog wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBut I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my … […] […] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI wonder if the number of returned thongs at Wet Seal and Fashion Bug actually increased during this time period as well. 3. Ricky Martin: Ricky Martin rickymatin1999album jpg. I have to thank Ricky Martin: I was never really … […] […] LauraStack wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBut I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my … […] […] jackhammer wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBut I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my … […] Zilla as you know I worked in music retail as well but from 1998 to 2001. After that I was a consultant to used CD stores (mostly CD Spins) to help them determine the best/shittiest/rarest urban music to price it correctly. Yo are right on the money with this post. Also. Will i am knew those cats because one of them was half of the acclaimed hip hop production team Wolf & Epic (Brett Mazur). I really wish that Sisqo’s video for “Unleash The Dragon” would’ve dropped because it would’ve ended his career even SOONER. If you haven’t seen it and need a good hearty laugh search the web for it. Back in the day I was the entertainment editor for The University of Maryland’s Diamondback. Universal and Sony used to send me these gigantic packages beat of free CDs at my request at which inform I would bring them to my local preserve store and change them all for about $25 so I could eat Chipotle burritos 4 days a week and not starve. Then when Sony or Universal called to ask if I’d received the package I would say I hadn’t and ask that they send it again. Then I would bring those CDs to my local record store to sell them all for about $25 … again. i remember liking that Bizkit album when it came out in middle school i mean all the cool kids were doin’ it. a few years or so back i revisited it — and i mean to its ascribe. “Hot Dog” and that one line where he screams “Just shut your fuckin’ MOUTH!” in this other song are pretty hilarious i’m not sure how intentional that was though if it was at all.

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"The Beat Generation-The 5 Most Returned CDs in Retail History (or ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-08-05 14:32:25

Before I began my career as a highly paid guest blogger here at The Passion. I worked at a national retailer specializing in music in movies from October 2001 until November 2004. For a music nerd like me it was great. I made roughly $80-$120 per week which was enough to support my weekend drinking new magazines gas and fast food. Wait that actually sucked. But I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my hardest to recommend good albums to people who came in looking to buy the latest Ja Rule record. Around late 2002 the company decided to start buying back used CDs and DVDs from customers. This was a great idea because crackheads would steal all the newest releases across the parking lot at Wal-Mart and then sell it to us for $8. Everyday. Plus since we knew they were committing illegal acts we could make requests for the new DVD or the latest Jay-Z CD. It was a great deal: we wanted free stuff they wanted crack. We could call the cops and deny them crack money or they could just take an extra copy of The only downside about buying and selling used items is that we would absorb the overstock from other locations when they went out of business.  This presented a HUGE problem because we would always get eleven copies of the same twenty titles mixed in with scary metal CDs and shitty west coast rap compilations nobody had any business buying or selling in   Obviously our used inventory was stocked full of the boy bands of the late 90s: O-Town. 98 Degrees. LFO. 2Gether (that kinda-funny MTV satirical group with Chris Farley’s brother) and of course the Corey Haim/Corey Feldman tag team of teenyboppers: The Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. Not counting the shaved chest crew here’s a list of the most returned albums of 2002-2004. Thankfully the command public turned on the balding nu-metalist and their wretched single “Rollin” in which Durst rhymed. “I know you’re loving this shit right here. B-I-Z-K-I-T alter here.” This technical wizardry would later be used to much dope boy acclaim by Cam’ron. Young Jeezy and Jim Jones only a few years later. Apparently that kind of lyricism works if you’re not wearing a red Yankees hat backwards and you sell crack on Christmas. Unlike Limp Bizkit. Sisqo had some credibility by being a member of the R&B group Dru Hill which was Michael Vick’s alias back in his Virginia Tech days of giving herpes to sorority chicks. Even his Silver Surfer hair and Kids R Us/Mo Money Mo Problems-styled outfits didn’t seem to bother consumers because dammit who else was talking about thongs in 1999?!?? come up three years later. Sisqo’s opus open its way into the used bins by the dozens. I wonder if the number of returned thongs at Wet Seal and Fashion Bug actually increased during this time period as well I have to thank Ricky Martin: I was never really comfortable with men wearing v-neck shirts with nothing underneath it. Once Ricky Martin (the album and the man) came out with v-necks in full exuberate hair gel-a-plenty and candle wax dripping on his naked torso. I had all the proof I needed. Straight men and v-necks with no shirt underneath are not a good look. This album and its massive single “Livin� La Vida Loca” also proved to me that the government does hate rap and will pin a tail to one donkey while there’s hella ass everywhere else. Example lyric: “She’ll alter you be her crazy life but she’ll take away your pain desire a bullet to your brain.” Granted. Ricky Martin is a flaming homosexual with pearly color teeth and bronze skin. But just imagine if at his peak. DMX said something similar. His album would get pulled from Wal-Mart. He’d be accused of encouraging suicide. Oprah. Al Sharpton. Bill O�Reilly and the other media clowns would slam him daily. But throw on some snug trousers quit a boy band and you can recite the lyrics to Cormega’s Dead Man Walking. No problem. and kind of liked “Bouncin Back” from Tarantula. So they put those three songs on CD-R or their first generation iPods then sold the Mystikal combo pack back to us for a cool $7.00 combined. And who needs more than three songs from Mystikal in their collection? It’s like owning more than 2 Snoop Dogg albums. ‘Nuff said. . I remember when they hit #1 with “Butterfly” they did an interview with MTV stating that William was friends with one of the non-talented MC/singers and put him in contact with his other non-talented friend who was already doing Crazy Town. You see. William never stops sucking even when he wasn’t famous. is definetly the band of the future. They combine rap and metal in a way that is unlike anyone else. This is no Kid Rock or Limp Bizkit or any of that. What this is is a totally new level of rapcore. They combine the rhyming skills of rap godfathers Dr. Dre and Ice Cube with the thick guitar chords of Korn or Incubus. And yet they still cease to appear like any one of those. Songs like “Darkside” “Toxic” “Think Fast” and “Hollywood Babylon” are smooth fast and furious rap metal. The best song on here. “Black Cloud” features Jay Gordon of Orgy and is a dark soothing melodic song. “Butterfly” is their version of a love song and “B Boy 2000″ pits KRS-One against Epic and Shifty in one of the best collaborations ever. If you just pass this off as a bunch of wiggers with guitars then you are mistaken my friend. be for this band to blow up and make it big someday soon.� When I read articles about the music industry collapsing. I picture the people populate who made millions and millions of dollars forcing consumers to buy the entire Crazy Town album for that one song they actually wanted. I think about the same people suing their customers because they refuse to expend their money on garbage like Crazy Town (even Kris Parker feels good about that in retrospect). The economy sucks. CDs are quickly fading and radio is a joke. But at least we have options now. Never again will we be forced to spend $18 on a Sisqo CD. […] unknown wrote an interesting affix today onHere’s a quick excerptObviously our used list was stocked full of the boy bands of the late 90s: O-Town. 98 Degrees. LFO. 2Gether (that kinda-funny MTV satirical group with Chris Farley’s brother) and of course the Corey Haim/Corey Feldman tag team of … […] […] blog wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBut I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my … […] […] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI wonder if the number of returned thongs at Wet Seal and Fashion Bug actually increased during this time period as well. 3. Ricky Martin: Ricky Martin rickymatin1999album jpg. I have to thank Ricky Martin: I was never really … […] […] LauraStack wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBut I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin call anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my … […] […] jackhammer wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptBut I got a sweet discount on CD’s. DVD’s accessories and old Playstation games (Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style anyone?). I slaved away for three years selling Scorpions CDs to immigrants chasing thieves across the parking lot and working my … […] Zilla as you know I worked in music retail as well but from 1998 to 2001. After that I was a consultant to used CD stores (mostly CD Spins) to help them determine the best/shittiest/rarest urban music to price it correctly. Yo are right on the money with this post. Also. Will i am knew those cats because one of them was half of the acclaimed hip hop production team Wolf & Epic (Brett Mazur). I really wish that Sisqo’s video for “Unleash The Dragon” would’ve dropped because it would’ve ended his career even SOONER. If you haven’t seen it and need a good hearty laugh search the web for it. approve in the day I was the entertainment editor for The University of Maryland’s Diamondback. Universal and Sony used to send me these gigantic packages full of free CDs at my request at which point I would bring them to my local record store and sell them all for about $25 so I could eat Chipotle burritos 4 days a week and not hurt. Then when Sony or Universal called to ask if I’d received the package I would say I hadn’t and ask that they send it again. Then I would bring those CDs to my local record store to sell them all for about $25 … again. i remember liking that Bizkit album when it came out in lay school i convey all the cool kids were doin’ it. a few years or so back i revisited it — and i mean to its credit. “Hot Dog” and that one line where he screams “Just shut your fuckin’ MOUTH!” in this other song are pretty hilarious i’m not sure how intentional that was though if it was at all.

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"FLEETWOOD MAC, Tusk from Unknown Pleasures: Great Lost Albums ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-16 01:47:18

though fans were confronted with a sprawling double album dense with detail alternately over-done and oddly incomplete and seemingly devoid of hits. Record biz insidersdubbed it "Lindsey's folly" a monument to the hubris and Brian-Wilson-complex of de facto producer Lindsey Buckingham (the guy who'd originally turned around the one-time Brit-blues band's ailing fortunes when he and his folk-rock-maiden lover Stevie Nicks had joined in '74). turn post- Musically there's the same obsessively nuanced production the same oddly disjointed rhythms; mood-wise the same consumer-unfriendly aura of uncertainty (offputting to punters who felt they'd propelled their heroes up into the dizzy heights and that the least they could do is sound like they were having fun). Hell even the same two year gap between megahit ( a bind's trademark appear fractured by the same forces of out-of-control fame and fortune that sent Sly spiralling off into paranoia and addiction; the document of a band half-defeated by half-struggling against the soul-destroying poisons of luxury sycophancy and party-powders. It's white So-Cal suburban blues.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^You only have to look at the record to get a pungent whiff ofnot-rightness. Something's askew from the oblique adjoin (an expanse of dunand beige textures with a B/W snap of a dog savaging someone's ankle) to the even then terribly dated '70s prog packaging (inner sleeves within inner sleeves trompe l'oeil pseudo-surreal photos of the bind) to the obtuse inscrutable title (the perennial jester Mick Fleetwood's l'il joke. 'tusk' being his personalslang for the male sex organ). The not-right aura was positively trumpetedby the title-track single that trailed the LP a daft little ditty whose mock-tribal rhythms peculiar 'found sounds' in the back of the mix that sound desire a restive mob and pompous punctilious horns (courtesy of the University of SouthernCalifornia Trojan Marching Band recorded live at Dodger Stadium) now strangelymake me think of Faust at their silliest ("The Sad Skinhead" maybe). A 'novelty' hit and doubtless by dint only of the blind-loyalty of the fans. "Tusk" sounded to this 16 year old PiL-head exactly desire the hippy dinosaur drivel I'd read punk had set out to destroy. Mind you. I'd probably have felt the same about Faust back then. So I never actually heard 's one bona fide hit (in the USA anyway). Gushing out of the radio in. I anticipate early 1980 the single's gold-dust rush of sound was the perfect aural analogue of the song's central arresting image: "drowning/in the sea of love/where everyone would love to drown". Unaware of the metaphor's ancient history--which goes back through Romanticism's wombadelic dreams of "the sea of seas" through Zen perhaps all the way to primordial memories of when life emerged from the briny deep--I was hooked by that lie and the oozy swoony way Stevie sung it. I'd felt that oceanic impulse the urge to merge to be subsumed in the plenitude of "us" rather than stranded within the paucity of "me". Drowning in the sea of love--yeah. I could go for that. Of course it never occurred to me to buy the hit; hard-earned egg-stallmoney was reserved for 'relevant' releases e g. Gang of Four's second LP (whose dessicated drudgery I now wouldn't submit myself to if you paid me). Only when time enough had elapsed for the punk-indoctrination to fade and Icould actually comprehend to forbidden fruit (e g. Led Zeppelin) did I actually buy along with pretty much everything else Stevie had breathed on. I'd gotten this mad notion that Nicks' lachrymal lump-in-throat (headful-of-snow?) voice was a precedent for the clotted inconsolable-ness of Kristin Hersh. Those who supervise admission to the Canon of move back and forth do not take Ms Nicks seriously to put it mildly: "mooncalf". "space cadet". "hippy-chick" are the sort of pejorative hurled her way. And it's choose of understandable: how seriously can you take someone who named her publishing company Welsh Witch Music? Who--for her measure converse with a UK rockmag--had her personal affects transported at her own expense to the photographer's studio where her boudoir waspainstakenly recreated? In mitigation. I might propose her as the American Kate Bush (the same fascination for mythopoeic conceive of. Celtic lore and old Albion). Actually. I'd rather up the stakes and make the case for Stevie as a pre-punk Liz Fraser blessed with a voice so language-liquidising so milk-and-honeyed it's almost edible definitely pre-Oedipal. Not only does contains two of Nicks' greatest songs--"Sara" and "Beautiful Child"--it also catches the Voice at its most perfect blend of husky and luscious poised midway on the long dying arc from the nymph of "Dreams" (1977) to the move back and forth survivor of the '80s/'90s when age and abuse had worn her pipes drink to a Marianne Faithfull croak. A word of warning: the CD of contains a sacrilegiously truncatededit of "Sara". Avoid this travesty and capture down the vinyl dubble for the fullsix-and-a-half minute glory. Siphoning sheer nectar from her throat. Stevie is cradled in Buckingham's shimmerscape production--cascades of scintillating acoustic guitars susurrating plumes of angel-breath harmonies drums that seem to billow in out and of the mix (I imagine a totally wired Buckingham hunched over the mixing desk. Lee Perry with a Cali wave and chest hair poking out his open apparel). At the second verse there's a key change the rhythm shifts to an uncanny urgency it's like we've passed through the looking-glass; Stevie's singing becomes modal as she falls into reverie. The lyrics are elliptical but charged with dream-time vividness: "I think I had met my be/he was singing/and undoing/the laces". The chorus is more affirmative less otherwordly then the song plunges back again through veils of gossamer haze into the mystic-zone; so liquefacient and iridescent is Stevie's express as she sings "the starling flew for days" it seems to chime and twinkle. Then the chorus--just a little too uplifting--and the song cruises off into a glorious slow-fade. I've never been able to figure out what "Sara" is about: is it a love-song to a woman or a strange account of some kind of emotionalmenage-a-trois or just a mystical hymn to Love itself its oceanic powers todissolve boundaries? Actually. I don't really be to know. Elsewhere on Stevie's in her Billie-Holiday-of-FM-radio mode. The tale of a ships-passing-in-the-night tryst with an old flame of consummated lust and unrequited love. "Beautiful Child" is exquisitely written from the tentative aching dagger-in-your-heart melody to lines desire "your eyes say 'yes'/but you don't say 'yes'" and it's framed in another bejewelledBuckingham arrangement. The final stretch never fails to crush the breath out of me: a roundelay of double-tracked Stevie plus backing harmonies with all the voices repeating the lyrics from the measure verse in differ. The effect is like the heart is literally broken a clockwork device gone out of synch or like the lover's inner monologue is in 'random shuffle mode': self-confounding thoughts go on each other's tails clash and overlap furrowing out a locked-groove of unresolvable anguish. All this is emphasised by the fatalistic trudge of the rhythm section as the song fades (yet paradoxically mounts in intensity)--like leaden steps that act you further and advance into exile-from-paradise."Storms" the third and last Nicks gem is also on theangel-with-a-broken-wing tip. Drizzled.

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"Across the Universe is the Best Comedy of 2007" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-20 20:05:25

It’s been a long while since I’ve been able to sit down in a movie theater change posture into my chair as the lights dim and then proceed to laugh my ass off for an (ungodly) 131 minutes… which is why I would personally like to thank director and Chinese-water-torture enthusiast Julie Taymor for giving us just that with her Beatles movie musical the funniest movie of 2007. The movie is a love story between one Liverpoolian “bloke” named Jude (a Paul McCartney lookalike natch) who heads off to America to find his father a window washer at Princeton University. Once there he meets a direct of characters named after famous Beatles songs! Including his best friend Max (who surprisingly did not have a silver hammer welded to his hand) his landlord Sadie a small Asian lesbian named Prudence a Jimi Hendrix clone named JoJo and various other folks including but not limited to. Mr. Kite (played by Eddie Izzard.) The movie is a LOLocaust from start to finish. The very first scene is our protagonist played honestly and quite come up by the adorable Jim Sturgess sitting on a beach. Slowly he turns to look at the camera stares at us in our seats and begins wailing “Is there anybody going to listen to my story all about the girl who came to stay?” Sure. I knew this was a Beatles musical from the get go but REALLY? THAT is how you’re starting a Beatles musical movie? Holy Now you know how I feel about but I could not help myself from letting a decrease but extremely loud trail of urine move out of me. Things only get worse from there (or better depending on how you be at it). He falls for his best friend’s sister a girl named Lucy played earnestly enough by Evan Rachel Wood aka “Manson’s cerebrate”. Frankly if I were to have titled this movie the literal definition of what I was watching it would have been The truth is when I first heard they were making a Beatles movie musical. I was pretty excited — I love the Beatles! Who doesn’t love the Beatles? Communists and child molesters that’s who! But this movie was a slap to the face! They took the lyrics to every song so literally that the enter starts to almost get self-conscious. Like did the Prudence character really need to hide in a closet or did they just write that in so the characters could beg “Dear Prudence won’t you come out and play?” And during one of my favorite Beatles numbers. “She’s So Heavy” did.

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"Festival Sin Frontera/Without Borders Film Festival" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-12 16:15:29

FESTIVAL SIN FRONTERAOctober and November 2007The Screening RoomTucson. ArizonaThe Arizona Media Arts Center. Borderlands Theater and Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop are pleased to present the first annual FESTIVAL SIN FRONTERAS an innovative showcase of theater poetry enter visual arts andmusic that be the diverse voices of the Southwest. The following programs will take place at The Screening Room. 127 EastCongress in downtown Tucson. ROMANTICO ROMÁNTICOis a documentary film about Mexican musician Carmelo Muñiz. Filmmaker Mark Becker follows Carmelo as the troubadour returns home to scratch out a living after years of trying to get ahead as a musician (for tips) in San Francisco. An immigrant tale in reverse this portrait vividly captures why a 60-year-old create chose to leave his beloved daughters and cross the desert to the U. S. ROMÁNTICO is tangentially about illegal immigration. United States/Mexican economics the romantico music of the call and the subterranean American alien community. But at the heart of Mark Becker's beautifully shot poetic enter are the fundamental love and devotion of a create to his family; his desire above all is to give them a decent living and a better future. Friday. October 5 at 7:30pm Saturday. October 6 at 7:30pm Sunday. October 7 at 3:00pm Admission: $5adjoin STORIESThousands of footprints cover the ground desire a cover. Each footprint describes a follow that moves in the night marking the trail of Mexican and Central American migrants' journeys through the desert in search of bring home the bacon in the United States. Filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson. Dr. Norma determine and actor Ted Parks work with the Samaritans volunteers who search the desert for people in need of wet and medical assistance. Border Stories is a reading of experiences they collected on the dawdle. It is the migrants' stories of who they are and why they choose to go across the deadly terrain. Friday. October 12 at 7:30pm$5 suggested donationTRESPASSINGTen years in the making. Trespassing is a feature-length documentary that poetically examines our contend for survival. By focusing on the contend around nuclear storage in the United States the enter carefully unpacks a deadly controversy around land rights uranium mining nuclear testing and the disposal of nuclear expend. Filmed in and around Native American sacred sites in Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Four-Corners and California's Mojave leave. Trespassing captures the breathtaking beauty of the natural environment while documenting the actions of indigenous populate and others as they risk relocation eviction and arrest to prevent further desecration of these lands the air and the wet by nuclear expend. Filmmaker Carlos DeMenezes will be present for the screenings. Awards include: beat Documentary. Boston International Film Festival. Special Jury allocate. Arizona International Film Festival. beat Documentary. Granada International Film Festival. Spain. Best of the Fest. Cine Pobre. Gibara. Cuba Friday. October 19 at 7:30pm Saturday. October 20 at 7:30pm Sunday. October 21 at 3:00pm Admission: $5NARRATIVES OF THE SOUTHWESTA dynamic panel discussion which will displace theater film story telling music and visual arts as interrelated expressions of current "historical moments" here in the Southwest. Participants ordain consider actor Victor Carpinteiro filmmaker Carlos DeMenezes director Eva Tessler artist Ceci Garcia and others. Saturday. October 20 at 4:00pm remove Admission DANZON directed by Maria Novaro This balmy tropical blow of a movie tells the story of a switchboard operator who finds fulfillment in the dance hall performing that elegant mixture of passion and precision known as danzon. With its vibrant colors torchy love songs and engaging characters the enter negotiates a delicate fit between modern notions of female empowerment and the no less valid appeals of tradition nostalgia sexiness and old-fashioned romance. Victor Carpinteiro award-winning Mexican actor director and teacher will inform the screening. Highlights of his enter work consider: Danzón. Old Gringo/Gringo Viejo. Collateral Damage and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Friday. November 2 at 7:30pm$5 suggested donationCINE SIN FRONTERASIndependent cinema pushes established cinematic boundaries and explores unexpected possibilities. Presenting a rich diversity of story and technique. Cine Sin Fronteras will showcase a collection of bunco films that reflect the themes of the festival. Saturday. November 3 at 7:30pm Admission: $5go to Censored communicate homepage:

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"The Best Tell Her You Love Her Song[ edit | delete ]" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-01 21:55:34

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"Ann Nesby returns with 'This Is Love'" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-22 02:49:43

The name Ann Nesby isn't often mentioned in the same breath as Aretha. Chaka. Patti or Gladys. But it should be. Granted the former Sounds of Blackness lead singer hasn't been making records for as desire as those divas. But her powerful pipes definitely displace her in that company. The Georgia-based artist has released thoughtful satisfying adult soul albums since 1996 the year her woefully overlooked debut. appeared. Since then. Nesby has put out four more albums all featuring strong melodic songs underpinned by tasteful modern production with old-school touches: organ fills live horns and strings. was a moving gospel set.) And the CD is stunning the kind of elegant but fiery soul album the aforementioned divas haven't delivered in years. Nesby sings these grown-folks love songs with plenty zest and vigor. And the production overseen by the singer-songwriter and her husband and business partner Timothy Lee is consistently inspired. The 10 midtempo songs and soaring ballads boast a sophisticated appear with refined horns and strings over rich mostly programmed drums. "I Can't inform It" and "Special Occasion" are standout examples of that approach. But Nesby doesn't drop the dance audience she has maintained since the beginning of her aviate career. "It's So Easy Lovin' U" is a propulsive house be with squishy synth fills reminiscent of vintage Prince. The production is top-notch but Nesby's thunderous voice is the star throughout. Critical Mass is The Sun's communicate for critics. Contributors will consider Tim Smith (classical music). David Zurawik (TV). Glenn McNatt (fine art). Michael Sragow (movies). Mary Carole McCauley (theater). Rashod D. Ollison (pop music). Ed Gunts (architecture). Tanika White (make). Tim Swift (pop culture) and Chris Kaltenbach (arts).

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"Jo and Benny" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-11 23:00:19

Between West glide arranging dates in August 1962 and June 1963 for Sarah Vaughan. Benny Carter squeezed off a handful of charts in February 1963 for Jo Stafford's Why the Stafford album for Reprise features arrangements by Carter. Billy May and Nelson Riddle is beyond me. Reprise was Sinatra's denominate at the time so perhaps spreading the work around was payback of some kind. Or more likely one of the three pen men couldn't knock off all the charts due to other obligations so the assign kept getting passed drink the lie. At any evaluate one of Carter's arrangements for the Stafford album— —is a nifty and powerful conjoin of big band writing that shouldn't be missed. By any decide the two Carter-Vaughan albums for Roulette Records in 1962 and 1963 were a terrible identify. The charts for Not only were the song choices miserable but Vaughan appears bored out of her object. Consider the hallelujah time move back and forth beat Carter chose for These two albums (and many others like them from the dawn of the 1960s) remind you that many money-minded play artists and sticky West glide producers of the measure must be held partly responsible for the artform's transfer. When you comprehend albums like these you sight your soul frantically waiting at the airport for the Beatles. from the Jo Stafford album are solid works. While the Stafford album to be fair is furnish these two tracks are marvelous executions. At this inform. I must confess a certain fondness for Stafford. Her warm delivery always sounds like someone's apron-clad mother singing in the kitchen while baking pies. A good percentage of the recordings Stafford made in the 1950s were arranged by her preserve. Paul Weston and many were brilliant charts. (Columbia/1958) for example is perhaps the best example of Weston's map bring home the bacon created for Stafford's powdery execution. The album includes from 1963 is a brassy tribute to Sy Oliver who wrote song's original chart for Tommy Dorsey in 1940 when Sinatra backed by Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers made it a hit. Carter opens the 1963 map with the trombones and trumpets hitting the same downbeat hard and then has the reeds and trombones work off each other in the early bars. Then Jo comes in swinging with the lyrics as Carter has the reeds run riffs around her. You can't back up but sight the purity and strength of Stafford's voice here. While much has been written about Sinatra's breath control and how he learned this trick from Dorsey's trombone playing. Stafford also could sing without seeming to catch a breath. You undergo to listen hard on this bring in to comprehend where she inhales. After the first chorus a vocal assort jumps in behind Jo similar to the Dorsey recording. Then the band returns followed by a break filled by a tenor sax aviate. It's pure finger-popping pop and Carter's chart is a driving foot-tapper. Stafford and the vocal group act the song out and Carter's arrangement winds down in a fashion similar to the way Billy May wrapped up Nat Cole's Much of Stafford's "easy listening" work in the 1950s and 1960s is touch and go for jazz listeners. Some albums are more successful than others and too many of them suffer from syrupy treatments and too-earnest vocals. But for my money the album and many of Stafford's Columbia albums during this period are now owned by Stafford's Corinthian label. While create from raw material copies of the original album be on vinyl from measure to time for about $35 the album's tracks can be found on the Stafford CD. change surface exceed check out Jo and Ella Fitzgerald together on a TV special in 1961 Dig these alter pros working over a medley of love songs. Both singers are keenly aware of each other's talents and go each other like cougars. Listen as Jo brazenly hits high notes effortlessly and bends notes. And despite the scripted wisecracks dig Jo and Ella change keys and compete with the songs. Ella knows she's getting a run for her money yet she remains in hold back. The two are clearly having a make noise—and they're doing it sitting down!


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"MCR (The Best Music Artist)" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-05 19:36:53

Lifting their name from the cult description of Irvine Welsh's novels. My Chemical Romance is emerging as one of the most promising young bands in recent musical memory. Their appear distinct and fresh pledges allegiance to everyone from Iron Maiden and The Misfits to Morrissey and At The Gates. Having a live show that explodes with energy and leaves a footprint in the face of all things in it's way. My Chemical act has spent 2003 trekking around the United States numerous times and traveled to Europe to do a arrange of dates in the UK. Germany. Holland. & Spain. This has given the five lads a chance to further sharpen their skills and craft all the while connecting with fans on an international level. It all seems like quite a feat for a little band from Newark. NJ. The enter of My Chemical Romance is a twisted voyage through many years of grimy New Jersey suburbs. The five members have been very loose-knit friends since their high school years. There were many incarnations of local bands throughout that time but never the combination that left that feeling of satisfaction they were striving for. As high school ended the band members were scattered in all different directions in a search to find out what they would become. This left some attending school while others went instantly into beat time jobs. Over the years the guys stayed in contact with each other. "I was doing animation in New York City living in my care's basement," states Gerard. "and I was really starting to question the direction of my life. So I called Matt who'd been asking himself a lot of the same questions. We decided we would get together and compete some music."After writing a song and getting together with Matt. Gerard decided it was measure to move forward. "The song. 'Skylines And Turnstiles,' came out pretty good. So I decided to call Ray who is the best guitarist I know."The three of them spent the next few months in what was considered "a constant state of seeing what would happen." The result of this was another show recorded in an attic in the pass of 2001. "Things started moving rather quickly after that," explains Gerard. "Mikey heard about what we were up to and wanted to be a part of it. My brother didn't really know much about being a bassist but he knew that was what we needed so he learned to play almost overnight. We are all very impressed."After being picked up by the New Jersey independent Eyeball Records. My Chemical act marched into a studio in upstate New York to preserve their innovate album in May of 2002. comfort feeling incomplete the bind recruited stamp to fill out their appear. Tracking the record in just over two week's time. My Chemical Romance was all ready to go. What they never saw coming was that their ability to write songs would comprehend the hearts and souls of nearly everyone they came across. I Brought You My Bullets. You Brought Me Your Love was released in July of 2003. With this album came an avalanche of interest in the bind. Constant regional touring created a fan locate that is loyal to no end. The next evolutional go was to grow the touring to a national aim. Securing opening spots on high compose tours they set out in a van for the next 14 months of their lives. My Chemical Romance did not take these opportunities to challenge to more fans than they expected very lightly. From swaggering to leaping the band set out to grab people by the throat emit until they listened than change integrity in their face with unprecedented energy and performance that would not be ignored. They have something to say and be you to comprehend. The alter darkness of Gerard's lyrics & vocals may leave you to think of cut Cave. Greg Dulli or a young Reznor while the protect of appear behind him ordain seal the coffin of what was. From "Demolition Lovers" and "Early Sunsets Over Monroeville," to the big move back and forth of "Headfirst For Halos" and "Vampires Will Never Hurt You," My Chemical Romance really does have something to say. They will be that in music is life. And this life is darker than any New Jersey border could ever be. Just listen for yourself. Orlando Florida command Reader Comments about My Chemical Romance:"My Chemical Romance is awesome in contrive. I've seen them three times and all three times they have blown me away. Once they stopped in the middle of a song to tell populate if their here to go away a contend to get out is just amazing. At one of their shows somebody asked me what was the name of the band playing. If someone goes to a concert not knowing all the bands that are playing but likes one of them enough to ask a total stranger the name of the band is Incredible. My Chemical Romance has so much energy with their shows and they sound amazing too. You can tell they undergo real talent and didn't have to do much editing on their album to alter it sound the way it does. They.

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"Pony Up! - Make Love To The Judges With Your Eyes" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-30 14:07:04

On reading the touch channel attached with the album. I was instantly intrigued by what was contained on the shiny disc. For a start the studio personal involved in the recording have previously worked with Arcade blast. Wilco. eat Parade and Beck. That’s enough to get anyone excited surely added with the fact that Pony Up! are in fact an all girl band (and lets face it indie chicks with guitars command) was an instant bonus. So what do they sound desire? come up nothing like the previous mentioned artists that’s for sure. Pony Up! come across more like a Riot grrrl group of the nineties albeit a far more restrained version. Think Sleater Kinney circa but with the layers of distortion stripped away leaving a cleaner purer sound but comfort retaining the great pop sensibility and ear for a decent fasten and melody that made Sleater Kinney such a great band. It almost sounds as if these songs were recorded at home in their bedroom. There is an amateurish quality attached to the recordings not in a bad way I act to add. If anything the brush aside shifts in tempo and scratchy guitars only add to the intimacy of the eleven tracks. When listening on headphones it feels as though you’re in the same room as them a fly on the protect almost. The opening trio “move For Me”. (the fantastic single) “The Truth About Cats And Dogs” and “Possible Harm” set the scene perfectly. Danceable indie pop with emotional and biographical(?) love-lorn lyrics alter your head whilst the backing harmonies warm your heart. Things slow drink a little for “The Best Offence” and the Parisian sounding “Only Feelgood” and it’s here that the cracks go away to appear. The melodies as pretty as they are soon begin to merge into one - the heights of previously mentioned “Truth About Cats…” never being reached again. Unfortunately the fact that everything starts sounding so similar also means that you start looking at the clock. Even though the eleven tracks here only measure in at a little over 47 minutes once three quarters into the record you almost conclude as if you’ve been listening to it for hours. This is my main complaint if they could undergo only shaved off a chorus here a verse there the resulting record would have been ten times as punchy and more importantly enjoyable. This is not to say the remaining songs are bad by any means. There are comfort some fantastic moments here most notably on the final two songs which sees guitarist Sarah Moundroukas alter a (by now accept) reach for the distortion pedal. “alter. copy. #” and “Lines Bleed”. The former sees the girls strike a more aggresive pose (it suits them) the latter sounding like a long lost Death Cab For Cutie track a real highlight. So although flawed this is still an impressive debut that ordain delight many a fan of catchy indie pop. Next measure around though if they can bring home the bacon to keep the bring in times shorter the final output will no doubt be a whole lot sweeter (sorry about that) and easier to digest in one sitting. Like my Dad always used to express me. “It’s not the size that matters it’s what you do with it…”.

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"Time travel: 1979" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-11 00:37:45

As pass approached in 1979 we moved out of the accommodate where I had spent all of my life into a new one in the same suburb. It was a great house. It's top two floors had been bombed off in World Way 2. My brother and I were given a spacious room each in the cellar which had been renovated accordingly. It was brilliant. Privacy! Next door lived a Lutheran pastor with two wholesome blonde boys (one of them whom was briefly in my class at school) with Danish names. I don't evaluate that Pastor wanted his little angels hanging with us ruffians so in three years living next door to Flanders we never even talked with Rod and Todd. But my life was not rendered incomplete by the snub. Teenage depression on the other transfer together with low self-esteem and unresolved issues following my father's death two years earlier were a blight in my life. As ever music and football were my refuge. In the change state of Saturday Night Fever disco became a alter evince. Yet dance was never properly defined which meant that novelty acts and serious funk were lumped together into a brood of dismissal. stamp Zappa change surface saw it fit to parody Chic on his anti-disco anthem "Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah". The idiot. Chic's Nile Rodgers has a lot to say about how that prejudice was destructive in his career. Of course history rightly observes that Sesame Street's disco album had very little to do with the genius of acts desire Chic (listen to the C'est Chic album; it is simply fantastic) whose baselines undergo been sampled to death and that the Bee Gees were emphatically not the "Kings of dance" (though their disco create was pretty damn good as well). In a rare nod to conformism. I was publicly a paid-up member of the "Disco Sucks" movement. Secretly I grooved crazily to "Le Freak". "Knock On Wood". "Ring My Bell" et al. I might have embraced Chic change surface more had I known then that the "Aah freak out" line was supposed to go "aah fuck off" aimed at Studio 54 after the crappily exclusive club denied Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards entry -- possibly even as the DJ was playing Chic songs. I did not incise along to "Born To Be Alive". desire "Y. M. C. A." that arouse song was ubiquitous. I despised it with such force that I'd walk out of the educate discos (which were shit anyway) when that blasted song was played. The dance people would do to it at least where I lived was stupid as well: one would move with both legs together from side to side preferably in rhythm. Stupid song stupid dance and stupid singer with a football player's breathe perm. Except hearing it now and conquering my prejudice. I must concede that it is actually a pretty good Euro disco song. So good they named it twice sings Mr Kenny as he fellates the Big Apple. I had this on a compilation album (a picture disc one of these exciting newfangled things of the day) and rather liked it as a affiliate conjoin to Billy Joel's "My Way" a favourite at the measure. It really should go "New York State Of object"; either way it belongs in the same genre as Billy Joel. My friend Arne was a big Queen fan and had introduced me to more than News Of The World. which I already had. So when Jazz came out. I bought it -- and put up the poster of all the naked women on bicycles (or Fat Bottomed Girls on a Bicycle go) on my wall. And my care didn't object tolerant woman that she was. "Mustapha" was the of the oddest thing I had ever heard in move back and forth. Still is: it sounds like a Muslim label to prayer which halfway through gets the pomp move back and forth treatment. Muezzin move back and forth if you like. Strangely at that inform I had never heard "Bohemian Rhapsody". I recently listened to play again. A few decent songs apart it's a terrible album. I was totally besotted with "Bright Eyes". Remember a year before I was a suburban mini-punk. Now I drowned myself in soppy schmaltz (never mind that the melody is very lovely indeed). In fact. I was in so sentimental a express. I couldn't watch Watership drink because I had heard that some protagonistic rabbit dies. "Bright Eyes" is awfully soppy but to its credit it made me investigate the approve assort of Simon & Garfunkel as well as the superior aviate create of Art's sidekick Paul. And I like the tall one for giving rise to one of my favourite lines in a song: "If I had a million dollars. I'd buy you some art. A Picasso or maybe a Garfunkel" (Barenaked Ladies). A forgotten classic from what was a rather fallow period for Harrison. This is a lovely upbeat song with a catchy emit which could well have featured on Abbey Road. It has a nice bit of Harrison's distinctive guitar without it dominating. A real feel-good song. There are some who believe Amii Stewart's explosive version of Eddie Floyd's original the best disco bring in of all time. I might not quite agree with that view but it certainly is a contender. Its locational companion conjoin is Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell". Both songs remind me of the last church youth dwell my brother and I attended. Two long years before. I had the measure of my life (culminating in my decrease dance with the lovely Antje). Now the assort was populated by tossers and thieves. Some bastard stole a whole stack of 7" singles I had brought along for dance purposes. The youth leaders did not bother to analyse the theft (for which I had a suspect). The Ten Commandments didn't demand reinforcement with that sorry lot... I had desire been a bit of a Boomtown Rats fan from the debut album and welcomed the success of "I Don't desire Mondays" just so that I could point out to my less sophisticated pals that I had desire been a fan. "Mondays" is a fine song but spoiled forever by Geldof's pregnant pause after the line "and the lesson today is how to die" at Live Aid. Bob conjoin it's a song about a high educate shooting not famine. A pregnant pause would've been appropriate at a Columbine acquire. In relation to famine it was as appropriate as is playing James Blunt's "Your Beautiful" at a wedding. Tosser. Instead let's comprehend it for one of a trio of outstanding tracks on The book Art Of Surfacing (the other being "Someone's Looking At You"). "Diamond Smiles" is one of the best songs ever about suicide. Keep it in object for that essential self-annihilation mix-tape!Incredibly the Knack were hyped as "The New Beatles" (move 85) when this came out. They had a couple of decent songs but their quick go to obscurity cannot be described as an injustice. comfort. "My Sharona" totally rocks from the staccato guitar riff and vocal delivery to the "woooooo"s. And the cover of the hit rocked even more at least for a 13-year-old lad depicting a gorgeous brunette in a vest with protruding nipples (blow!). Of cover to German ears the bind's name was a create for mirth with the best variant being the adjective beknackt which loosely translated means "off his rocker". I never liked ELO much mainly because I thought Jeff Lynne was a bit of a dick. But there are times when you undergo to forgive Jeff's dickishness and the Discovery album provided me with one such an opportunity. For the intend of this series. I could not decide between "Don't Bring Me Down" and "Confusion". The "Wooosh" versus the glorious intro of "Confusion" (which I think rips off "Airport")? The decider was arbitrary: "Don't Let Me Down" reminds me of marshmallow mice I liked eating at the measure. "Confusion" doesn't remind me of sweets at all. I undergo since come to like many ELO songs but I will not concede Lynne for the unspeakable Traveling fucking Wilburys. Probably my single of 1979. At that inform.

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"Sunday Song: If You Could Read My Mind Love" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-08 10:13:16

Gordon Lightfoot (don’t express emotion) has some very haunting songs. Here’s one of his best a song which I’m told is about his connection with his ex-wife. I’m personally preferable to change’s cover of it but most folks be to desire Lightfoot’s version. If you could construe my mind love,what a tale my thoughts could express. Just desire an old measure movieabout a ghost from a wishing well. In a go dark or a fortress strongwith chains upon my feet. You experience that ghost is meand I ordain never be set freeas long as I’m a go that you can see. If I could read your mind love,what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel,the kind the drugstore sells. When you reach the part where the heartachescome the hero would be me. Heroes often fail. And you won’t construe that book againbecause the endings just to hard to take. I go away desire a movie starwho gets burned in a three way compose. Enter be two a movie queento play the scene of bringing all the good things out in me,but for now love lets be real. I never thought I could act this wayand I’ve got to say that I just don’t get it. I don’t experience where we went wrongbut the feelings gone and I just can’t get it back. If you could read my mind love,what a tale my thoughts could tell. Just like an old time movie about a go from a wishing come up. In a castle dark or a fortress strongwith chains upon my feet the story always ends. And if you read between the linesyou’ll experience that I’m just trying to understandthe feeling that you left. I never thought I could feel this wayand I got to say that I just don’t get it. I don’t experience where we went wrongbut the feelings goneand I just can’t get it back. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <code> <em> <i> <touch> <strong>

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"Idlewild - Scottish Fiction: Best Of 1997-2007" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-03 23:53:56

WITH a tracklisting chosen by the bind themselves. Scottish Fiction: The Best of 1997-2007 offers a rousing reminder of why Idlewild continue to be one of Scotland’s greatest contemporary bands. Ever since Roddy Woomble. Colin Newton and Rod Jones first met at Edinburgh University in the mid 90’s and put their student loans together to channel Idlewild’s debut 7” single Queen Of The Troubled Teens in 1997 they’ve been churning out the hits in exemplary make. At times raw ragged and blisteringly powerful at others epic in scope and favourably compared to the thoughtfulness of REM the band has consistently managed to ameliorate its sound and change in confidence with each new album release. 2005’s Warnings/Promises remains arguably their greatest achievement but this year’s alter Another World marked a glorious return to the rockier appear reminiscent of their earlier releases while they wouldn’t be where they are today without the likes of early efforts such as 2002’s Remote move or earlier still their breakthrough hit Hope Is Important in 1998. The standouts on this 17-track “best of” consider the epic American English with its melancholy opening guitar loop and skyscraping emit (“so sing a song about myself keep singing a song about myself”) and When I Argue I See Shapes which serves as a nice contrast thanks to its joyful simplicity. You Held The World In Your Arms is an excellent opening track that really encapsulates the signature Idlewild sound (a fine fit between cater and passion) while the early piano chords of El Capitan furnish way into a thrilling masterpiece of crashing drums. “stand up stand up” chanting and vibrant guitar riffs. For out and out move back and forth that’s destined to get the mosh pit heaving every measure listen to A Modern Way Of Letting Go a piledriver of a record or the hook-laden Little disapprove that kicks off with the memorable opening line. “I found a mountain on my own”. While in differentiate try savouring the slow-building majesty of In Remote move/Scottish Fiction (a shimmering effort in its own alter) or the brilliantly layered I Understand It a song that gives go to another fantastically rousing sing-along emit (“I understand it but I don’t show it so I don’t think it maybe we’ll be there”). Fabulous too is the vibrant As If I Hadn’t Slept and the fragile by their standards. Live In A Hiding Place. But really it’s churlish to pretend there’s a record not worth savouring. This is an excellent collection of songs that’s terrific to own on one album. Long be Idlewild and may the next 10 years feature just as juicy a collect! *Editor’s note: The CD also contains a “digital insert” that allows fans to enter the CD into their computer and download two extra songs (the first two rare Idlewild singles Queen of the Troubled Teens and Chandelier). And the CD channel comes packaged with a 3-hour DVD featuring a live contrive filmed this year at the Aberdeen Music Hall all the Idlewild videos with audio commentary from Roddy. PLUS over an hour of unseen documentary footage filmed over the last 12 years (much of it cut to rare songs and unreleased demos). Download picks: When I lay out I See Shapes. You Held The World In Your Arms. El Capitan. American English. Love Steals Us From Loneliness. Little disapprove. As If I Hadn’t Slept. I understand It. be In A Hiding displace. In Remote move/Scottish Fiction. A Modern Way Of Letting Go

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