55 posts tagged “music”
This is what happens.
I'm going to get the mail and I hear or think I hear "Magnet & Steel" coming out of a passing car.
And then the song is stuck in my head.
And then I remember that the song is prominently featured in the movie Boogie Nights.
So I pop in the disc and watch the movie. Cuz, hey, what else am I going to do today?
So I finish the movie and I remember that the directors audio commentary is maybe the best audio commentaries every recorded.
So I watch / listen to that.
Then I say, hey, I'm still not doing anything and have some time to kill so I'm just gonna go ahead and watch the other commentary track featuring many of the actors in which Marky Mark is drunk and discusses having broken his penis (not the prosthetic in the film but the real thing.)
So I watched/listened to that.
And that is how I ended up watching a very long movie three times today because I may or may not have heard a song coming out of someones car.
(On top of that I watched One Flew Over The Cucukoo's Nest. Which damaged me for life when I read the book and saw the movie as a early teenager.)
1) Because one of the first things he talks about in his Boogie Nights commentary is how much he learned from listening to audio commentaries on LaserDiscs.
2) He's really insightful as to the craft of movie making
3) I would love to hear him discuss the making of Punch Drunk Love, what the writing process was and the score of the film and how brilliant Adam Sandler is in it.
4) I'd also love to hear him discuss, at length, There Will Be Blood.
The Clothes.
A few years ago I noticed a trend coming back into rock music that kind of disturbed me.
Dudes dressing up in the queerest of outfits. By queer I don't mean gay, I mean queer.
It was one thing for Bowie to dress like a freak and wear crazy makeup; it was cool for Iggy to rock the ridiculously skin tight jeans. Those guys were legends in their time. Actual musicians. Artists. They made discs that will last for 100 years.
I was flipping through this weeks Entertainment Weekly when I saw this photo of The Killers accompanying a review of their most recent album.
See that guy on the right? Let's call him George (I don't know what his real name is).
Here's what I think happened.
George showed up for this photo-shoot drunk or high or both.
His band members were going through the wardrobe trailer and saw this jacket and said:
"Hey, you know what would be really funny? If we had George put this on
for the shoot. By the time it comes out he won't remember even being
here!"
"Yeah, man, that will teach him for always showing us up on stage and in interviews!"
That's the only acceptable answer to me.
I don't even think a rapper or an rich old lady could pull that jacket off so what make him think he can?
Seriously the oddest thing I've read from an AP news source in a log time.
Dr Pepper to deliver on its free-soda promise
LOS ANGELES – Dr Pepper is making good on its promise of free soda now that the release of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" is a reality. The soft-drink maker said in March that it would give a free soda to everyone in America if the album dropped in 2008. "Chinese Democracy," infamously delayed since recording began in 1994, goes on sale Sunday.
"We never thought this day would come," Tony Jacobs, Dr Pepper's vice president of marketing, said in a statement. "But now that it's here, all we can say is: The Dr Pepper's on us."
Beginning Sunday at 12:01 a.m., coupons for a free 20-ounce soda will be available for 24 hours on Dr Pepper's Web site. They'll be honored until Feb. 28.
Going with DeWitte's "New Music Monday" a day late and "Sound-a-like Wednesday" a day early with this post.
This weekend I picked up an out of print CD that I've been wanting for a long time. I almost bought a digital copy off of Amazon.com before going on a trip; Bill Withers "Menagerie".
As soon as the song "Rosie" started I knew it tune but could swear I had never heard the song before.
I knew the sound of that piano and those vocals from somewhere else. Where?
Then it hit me: Kanye West.
Until just a couple weeks ago I didn't really care for his song "Roses"
but while driving to work not that long ago it came on and I found an
appreciation for it.
Show us your last ticket stub.
Hot Mikado
It's the story of a young couple in love and mixed up crazy adventures happen. This version is jazzed up with jazz and swing music and and zoot suits and what not.
New to me at least.
I came across a blog this weekend filled with out of print vinyl albums ripped to MP3, mostly soul, R&B and jazz.
I was having a good time listening to my new discoveries until I came to this song. Suddenly I was having a great time!
The song started and I couldn't stop smiling. I think I smiled non-stop for the next 35 minutes while Mr. Barry White and his orchestra made love to my ear drums.
But like Chuck D said, "Finding beats is a treat."
This song "Today" was sampled and started a new life as one of the best rap songs ever.
I was digging through my figurative crates tonight looking for a CD when I came across a mix tape (CD) I had made years ago.
On this CD was a song that I had been looking for but had been too cheap to drop 99 cents on it on iTunes.
It's the title track to a classic (to some of us) move starring Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby and Jimmy Walker called "Let's Do it Again".
While the song (and the whole soundtrack) is preformed by soul group The Staple Singers it was written by Curtis Mayfield.
Dig.
Having not listened to either of those songs in a long while I figured I might as well throw in my current favorite Mayfield track. We People Who Are Darker Than Blue comes from his first album, "Curtis", and offers a commentary of sorts on the black power movement in the early 70's;
"Pardon me brother/
while you stand in your glory/
I know you won't mind/If I tell the whole story.
Pardon me brother/
I know we've come a long, long way/
But let us not be so satisfied/
For tomorrow can be/
An even brighter day"
Audio: Share what you're listening to right now.
SCM and I saw a local production of this up near San Luis Obispo earlier this summer and it was very good.
I picked up the original cast recording from 1960Somthing shortly after seeing the show. Last week I picked up the 2006 Broadway revival cast recording.
In this version, instead of an orchestra, all the actors play their own instruments.
It is quite good, my favorite is Sorry Grateful.
THAT REFERENCES ANY TYPE OF ANIMAL
It can be the title of the track, album or just plays a part in the theme of the tune
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animal instinct
This might be stretching it but the stretch is well worth it. I mean all the songs do make reference to animals in one way or another.
All these songs are from a band a Harry Potter themed band called Harry and the Potters. They are pretty awesome.
Their songs are called things like "The Missing Arm of Victor Krum", "Cornelius Fudge is an Ass" and "Save Ginny Weasley from Dean Thomas".
How can you deny that kind of awesomeness?
Harry and the Potters
Out of these tracks my favorite is "The Weasel".
