Could it possibly get any worse than this? What if will.i.am and Justin Bieber's "#thatPOWER" and Mariah Carey's "#Beautiful" kick off a new bad habit in pop: hashtag hits? Isn't it bad enough that they're already continuing another one: The hashtag hits are the latest in pop's long tradition of bastardizing English with its song titles. As usual the end results are mixed, with only Carey's single coming close to warranting its hashtag hype. The shameless bit of built-in marketing doesn't ruin the fact that it's Carey's best single in five years (since 2008, [...]
Today does not encourage going outside. It is cold, rainy and dreary. All I can see through my window are drips falling from the roof edges and the brown leaves of the oak tree. I'm declaring today a stay in my cozies day, a day to be at home dry, warm and comfy. I must have sensed the sort of day it is as I didn't wake up until after 10. I can't remember the last time I slept so late. Winter has reared its ugly head. The nights are downright cold. Tonight is predicted to be 30˚, and [...]
Today is also Shirley's birthday. She was born in 1934. This is the title song from the 1957 movie soundtrack.
Happy Birthday Coleen and Lori!
The Grim Reaper feasted on a rich harvest in October, though he thankfully et off a bit towards the end. The headline death this month probably is that of folk-music legend Bert Jansch , who influenced so many musicians – and not only folkies. Among those who cited Jansch as influences are Jimmy Page, Elton John, Nick Drake, Johnny Marr, Mazzy Starr's Hope Sandoval, Neil Young, Donovan, Blur's Graham Coxon, Suede's Bernard Butler, Al Stewart, The Fleet Foxes and Paul Simon. Clarence Johnson , who has died at 69, might have become a [...]
We won't call out some of the obvious one's in this playlist but we will say this weather channel business is really put the scare in the upper North East. The sheer scale of it has people literally running for the hills to seek higher ground. Anyway this play list goes out to user @daanvanrossum because he asked me what was on my Hurricane playlist and i just told him I daho's You Were A Dick was a good rain record and walked away. That was sort of rude but I told him I'd work on [...]
Pat Boone : Enter Sandman (Metallica cover) [ purchase ] Richard Cheese : Baby Got Back (Sir Mix-a-Lot cover) [ purchase ] Mike Flowers Pops : Velvet Underground Medley [ purchase ] Pastel Vespa : White Wedding (Billy Idol cover) [ purchase ] Max Raabe : Sex [...]
Moody River was Pat Boone's final number one hit.
Pat Boone might have taken it to number one but this song will always belong to Fats Domino to me.
All towns have stories. Sometimes it's just nice historical folklore or a tale about some out of the ordinary or weird thing somebody did. These are songs that remind me of the suburban town Westfield NJ. This could be your town. West Of The Fields MP3 by R.E.M. from Murmur I always considered this my hometown's theme song but always at the same time I wondered where the fields were? Since we only have sports fields and no wheat or corn anywhere. It's freaking suburbia where the MILF's run wild in [...]
A run-down of five good covers of Ozzy Osbourne's classic heavy metal hit "Crazy Train."
Filed under: Twisted Tales Here's a frightening thought for the creepiest weekend of the year: Pat Boone's heavy metal album. "We're going to give the devil a couple of black eyes tonight in Jesus' name." Those were the words of one televangelist at the outset of a debate on the Christian network that hosted Boone's own program. Fellow Christians were up in arms when Boone, the squeaky-clean, white-shoes rock 'n' roller who had major success in the 1950s with purified versions [...]
T he average tourist doesn't know what he/she is missing. When visitors come from the U.S.A. to Australia, they generally pounce on Sydney, spreading so much hype about Oz's unofficial epicenter. When I told people I was planning a month-long adventure down under, with an emphasis on Sydney, those who'd been to the city told me I'd fall fast and furiously in love so overpowering that I'd want to stay for longer than a month, if not forever. But what do they know? I've never been quite in sync with popular opinion when it comes to cities. [...]
Pat Boone: Crazy Train [ purchase ] Pat Boone is best known for turning '50s black R&B into pop music, safe for the white masses. But in 1997, he gave us In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy , where he took twelve heavy metal and hard rock classics and gave them a jazzy big-band treatment. The album is an abomination, pure kitsch, but there there is value in finally hearing all the words to "Crazy Train".
So it looks like Alice Cooper is less than impressed with today's twee-pop landscape, according to an interview he recently did with Noisecreep. In addition to discussing horrific ways to die, Broadway productions and menstruation, Pat Boone 's good buddy also threw the gauntlet down at the feet of Ivy League borecore kings Vampire Weekend . I heard the title Vampire Weekend and I thought, "Oh, man, that's gonna be great. I gotta see it." And there are these guys with little Gap T-shirts on and I'm [...]
In case you didn't know, Alice Cooper is a lame old man. How lame and old? He plays golf... ...and wrote a book about playing golf... ...and is friends with Pat Boone. Yes, that Pat Boone. So how is it possible that a church group could still find this 61 year-old boring fart threatening? I don't know, but one [...]
Desde hace un par de semanas quería hacer una lista de músicos que juegan golf. Sin asombro, descubrí que Golf Digest me había ganado la idea; encontré una lista de los 100 mejores músicos golfistas, con handicap y todo. De dicha lista, escojo a mis favoritos y lo comparto con ustedes. No sigue ningún orden de carácter musical, sino de juego. Los handicaps indicados son de la lista de Golf Digest , a menos que se apunte lo contrario. El listado es de hace tres años, más o menos, así que esperemos todos hayan mejorado. Dicha lista, [...]
Let's all raise our beer steins and toast to German day on Coffee. Prost! MP3 File yousendit
La importancia que la década de los 50 tuvo para el rock and roll se comprende fácilmente si tenemos en cuenta las innumerables versiones que algunas de las más ilustres figuras de la música hicieron de muchos de los emblemáticos temas de este alucinante período. En ocasiones el cover tuvo más importancia mediática que el original, y sirvió en buena manera para relanzar a sus primeros intérpretes. De los tres temas desgranados en lo poco que llevamos de mes, hay tres versiones que tuvieron gran importancia, y gracias posiblemente a ellas hoy hablemos con devoción de [...]
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