41 posts tagged “music”
http://playingforchange.com - From the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music", comes the first of many "songs around the world" being released independently. Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.
Oh it should be a great news day for junkies like me, Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I can't wait to see the reaction from his, erm, *cough* "fans" on the far right. I think he's failing in many ways, but I do agree with the premise of the award -- "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future"
Also, as I said on Twitter, bombing the moon seems wrong to me. BOMBING the friggin moon. It's not ours. We bomb everything else though I guess, why not the moon. My mom wanted to know if they'd found weapons of mass destruction there. No no, we destroy everything here, might as go looking for water there to get an early start on it.
Also as I said on Twitter, I love Anouk even more today. She uploaded her whole album on her YouTube channel. I tried to support her by running off to buy it. However, I don't love her enough because as usual Americans get screwed when trying to import anything. My foreign friends who get our stuff easily, consider yourselves lucky. If we want your stuff -- not so easy. Her latest album isn't available in mp3 format on Amazon so to get the cd = $46. Pass. I'm not paying that much for one cd. Off to iTunes, it's available on iTunes. But if you're American, you can't order it since it's not in the American store. Oh well, it'll show up there sooner or later, hers always do. Usually a year or so after they do in the Europe store I think. Until then she friggin uploaded the WHOLE cd for free on YouTube. Big American artists would never and she is big in the Netherlands. In fact, while not big here, she is a little known here, so w00t! And yet I'd still pay for her. So take that record companies. In fact I want to pay for her more now. She makes music that I love. I hardly love any artists. Her, Tom Petty, Conor Oberst. Those are really the only three I listen to ALL of their stuff. Everyone else is hit and miss. The reason I'm not running out buying everything is because everything sucks. Except Anouk -- who uploads her album for free and then I can't even go buy it unless I want to spend $46 instead of waiting for the US release.
And I thought no one could top a Lady Gaga performance of a Lady Gaga song....
The user has disabled embedding, but surely you'll thank me *smirk*
Don't say I didn't warn you.
No, really.
More shocking than her VMA performance of Paparazzi? Yes.
I promise. It's here.
Of course, it's really only shocking to your ears perhaps. But I'll give dude credit, he's pumping out videos like mad with horrible comments and he doesn't care he just keeps going. Good for him. Long as he's happy, more power to him. My ears on the other hand... shocked.
RIP Jim Carroll :(
Time to break out his books. I only have The Basketball Diaries
This is one of the songs that helped me through CynDee's death.
Lookie a break from my rants. Yay, she's got a new album soon. Happy me! Somewhere I have the concert DVDs of her that one of my Dutchie friends sent me, I should break those out someday.
Not safe for kids or work. Enjoy some superhero music err comedy err both. Just because I don't feel like ranting today. The shot has left me really tired + I think I scratched my eye, no clue how. It's a bad day useless day, so I'm going through my music and sorting it properly, etc. I forget who told me about this gem, Amy maybe? It's going in my hero themed folder, heh. Admit it, you'd all be butt sex man or perhaps fuck you dude.
He's only a year older than Keegan! When asked what he'd do if he won the million he said he'd have his mom quit her job so he could spend more time with her and after they complimented him and told him he was going to Vegas he had tears in his eyes. Too sweet.
What's your favorite Michael Jackson song? Bonus points if you share the video.
Since they'd disabled embedding on the official video, I decided not to search for the another copy of the actual video but instead I searched for the famous performance of the song... And while we're still on the topic of MJ, his daddy dearest needs to stay out of the out of the public spotlight. He makes me want to throw things at my tv. No wonder why his son ended up such a mess. Hi, my son is dead, but hey who wants to talk about that, big deal who cares about that when I got me a record company to pimp, don't you guys wanna talk about that instead? Asshole. I hope the kids are kept away from that man.
When Twitter trends collide. No, really. I saw people complaining that OMG MJ is beating #iranelection, what is wrong with the world. Others, from Iran seemed to be saying they didn't mind as they were still there and they liked MJ's music too and were fighting to be free enough to talk about anything they wanted, yes, even MJ so they weren't bothered if others talk about MJ instead of them for a bit. Well someone figured out how to blend the two in a way I'd never have imagined.
*Warning* May be too graphic for you if you've not been following the pics / videos from Iran and/or just watch the US blurred versions on tv.
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Is anyone surprised? From this LA Times story:
"This is simply unprecedented," said Bill Carr, vice president of music and video at Amazon.com Inc., which sold out of Michael Jackson and Jackson 5 CDs minutes after news broke that the pop star had died Thursday. "We've seen the death of Johnny Cash and Frank Sinatra and many other artists, but none of them compare to what we're witnessing today."
As of Friday afternoon, Jackson-related DVDs filled the top seven spots in Amazon's "Bestsellers in Movies & TV" list and Jackson albums accounted for all 10 of the "Bestsellers in Music" list, with the 25th-anniversary edition of "Thriller" taking the No. 1 spot, Carr said.
"In the last 24 hours, we've actually sold more Michael Jackson albums in our MP3 and CD stores than we have in the 11 years since the launch of our music business," he said.
And they aren't kidding, the charts on Amazon are all MJ. Then again, I've been rediscovering how cool some of his videos were. And Brian suggested I go look up Captain Eo to see if I remember it from Disneyland, I told him it sounded familiar. Oh my, Keegan would love that.
