The one harsh reality about illegal downloading is the songwriter really does get screwed. I don't feel bad for the record labels that much. They've ripped off the customers for years and fucked over the artists even more. Labels are nothing more than bully distributors who charge a ridiculously large fee for use of their toll roads. The internet killed the label's monopoly over the rivers
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
The 11 Best Death Cab For Cutie Songs of the 00s
Posted on 21:21 by Unknown
The one harsh reality about illegal downloading is the songwriter really does get screwed. I don't feel bad for the record labels that much. They've ripped off the customers for years and fucked over the artists even more. Labels are nothing more than bully distributors who charge a ridiculously large fee for use of their toll roads. The internet killed the label's monopoly over the rivers
Thursday, 26 May 2011
The 11 Best Songs By Pedro The Lion
Posted on 12:24 by Unknown
This week, the media is pushing the biggest music release of the year…the new Lady Gaga album. Is this the biggest release of the year…or is it the biggest release because the media is calling this the biggest release? Sure, Gaga has stuck like lightning and been everywhere…and sold millions of albums in a dead market. That certainly makes her marketable…but how much of it is based on actual
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
The 11 Best Songs By She Wants Revenge
Posted on 15:40 by Unknown
The last Oprah to women is like the last Seinfeld to men. Both shows had the power to get people to look at their lives in entirely new ways that transformed our lives. Men do like Oprah but watch it to understand or appease the women in their life. Women liked Seinfeld because it helped them figure out what they hell their boyfriends were doing. Oprah inspired people to school and college
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
The 111 Best Songs By Bob Dylan
Posted on 17:14 by Unknown
Happy 70th birthday, Bob! Thanks for all the great tunes.
Here are the 111 Best Songs by Bob Dylan:
1. Hurricane (Desire)2. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (Freewheelin' Bob Dylan)3. My Back Pages (Another Side of Bob Dylan)4. It Ain't Me Babe (Another Side of Bob Dylan)5. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bringing It All Back Home)6. Lay, Lady, Lay (Nashville Skyline)7. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (
Friday, 20 May 2011
The 11 Best Albums by Danger Mouse
Posted on 16:12 by Unknown
One of the signs that a band or artist is truly unique is if it is impossible to cover their songs and do the material justice. Artists like Bob Dylan, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Guns N Roses, even the Beastie Boys have such distinct styles that are so-intricately infused with their personalities that is it virtually impossible for another artist to come along and mirror that
Thursday, 19 May 2011
The 11 Best Songs By The Elected
Posted on 21:50 by Unknown
Today at work the TV was on behind me. I was loosely listening while doing my real work. I heard a singer come on the TV. It sounded like they were talking about American Idol. But the singer on the TV sounded like a joke...like it was someone spoofing an American Idol singer. And I wasn't the only one in the room thinking that. In fact, it was a finalist for American Idol. It was the
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
The 11 Best Songs By Moby of the 00s
Posted on 10:48 by Unknown
In the 90s, Moby was a stud. He basically owned the underground club scene, re-inventing rave culture with every new release. Then in the mid-90s, when rave culture crept into the mainstream dance clubs, Moby dominated with his epic release after release. He ruled soundtracks and scores, even re-imagining the iconic James Bond theme. He had one misstep with his ill-advised rock album...but
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
The 11 Best Songs By Ben Harper of the 90s
Posted on 10:45 by Unknown
On another note from my car trip this weekend, I've been exploring the numerous XM/Sirius stations that come free with my new car for three months. I noticed that there are about 25-30 rock stations but only about 5 pop stations. With the constant media announcements that rock is dead, why would you have so many stations playing rock if no one wants to hear it? This is just another of the
Monday, 16 May 2011
The 11 Best Songs By Manchester Orchestra
Posted on 18:53 by Unknown
This should have come out last week if not for Blogger's two-day hiatus.
Took a long road trip this weekend. Started to grade music on a new scale. The road trip scale.
I was surprised by how many of my favorite albums are not the most enjoyable to listen to while I'm driving a car. Actually, I found myself skipping rapidly through them to get the songs I wanted to hear while avoiding the
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
The 11 Best Songs By The Antlers
Posted on 15:40 by Unknown
I feel like there are two kinds of companies out there. Companies who get it and companies who don’t. I saw a news blurb about Google, who is out testing a driverless car. That’s some awesome forward thinking. On the other end, we have Warner Brothers. WB doesn’t stream any of its movies for Netflix because they’re idiots and haven’t realized that streaming is the present while DVDs are
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Double Shot: The 22 Best Songs By The Cars
Posted on 15:25 by Unknown
It’s always a question whether a band should continue on when they lose one of their integral members. Every time you get a situation like AC/DC, who loses an icon like Bon Scott, then turns around and releases the best-selling rock album of all time with Back In Black….there’s a Lynyrd Skynyrd, who after losing their legendary leader, Ronnie Van Zandt, pushes on to play county fairs and
Monday, 9 May 2011
The 11 Best Songs By Stevie Nicks
Posted on 16:44 by Unknown
In a recent interview, Jerry Seinfeld compared the show Seinfeld to the Beatles. Though it’s not a far stretch that his TV show was the medium’s version of the Beatles that wasn't the reason for the comparison. He said it because both entities left at the peak of their popularities. That it was better to leave on top, with the audience wanting more than it was to leave on the way down when
Friday, 6 May 2011
The 11 Best Songs By Thursday
Posted on 12:45 by Unknown
Thor has always been the comic book that I never thought would get it's own movie. I wasn't even sure he would make his cameo in the Avengers movie. But the movie is getting great reviews, and some are saying it is one of the best comic book movies...yet. Thor isn't late to the comic book movement...but may be coming in to put the cherry on top.
The band Thursday has a similar story. When
Thursday, 5 May 2011
The 11 Best Punk Songs By The Beastie Boys
Posted on 12:13 by Unknown
This week Miley Cyrus did the ballsy thing and took her teen pop shtick and layered it all over Nirvana's classic "Smells Like Teen Spirit." This prompted Rolling Stone to do a list of the worst/interesting covers of the 90s anthem. Tori Amos succeeds only because she re-invents the song. Bruno Mars does a decent job, but he only succeeds by mashing it with Michael Jackson. And Kathleen
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
The 11 Best Beastie Boys Songs of the 90s
Posted on 11:50 by Unknown
When I first heard the Beastie Boys' "Check Your Head," I was shocked. This was the Beastie Boys? I was a big Paul's Boutique fan but this sounded nothing like PB or License. It took a few listens, but by the end of the weekend, I was hooked. This was the Beastie Boys!
They had re-invented themselves at a time when everyone had assumed they were down for the count. Like Weezer's Pinkerton,
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
The 11 Best Songs By Fleet Foxes
Posted on 17:49 by Unknown
With Donald Trump’s chances of knocking out Obama for President looking slimmer by the second, another dark horse is taking a mighty swipe at another behemoth. Today, Amazon slashed all of its song prices to .69 cents. That’s almost 50% cheaper in some cases to Itunes’ prices. Almost all of Amazon’s songs are better quality. In this battle, I don’t believe Apple will be able to hire Seth
The 11 Best Beastie Boys Songs of the 80s
Posted on 00:37 by Unknown
This week will be all about the BBoys...even with Obama's big news. It's time for our favorite jewish new york rappers to bring a little bit of life back to the party. There's so many lists I want to do for this band. Narrowing it down was practically impossible. Best songs, best songs by decade, best instrumentals, best punk songs, best videos, best b-sides, best unreleased...the Beasties
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