It’s not clear why this performance isn’t more heralded. Break My Stride was the first song I remember thinking of as my favorite song and it was on the radio incessantly when I would be riding in the car with my mom. But this video. Wow. It’s from Matthew Wilder’s appearance on Solid Gold, which explains the numerous backup dancers. But there’s absolutely no explanation for his crazy shirt. Also, the 3 keyboards? WHAT THE HELL DOES HE NEED 3 KEYBOARDISTS FOR? Anyway. Enjoy.
Fun fact, Matthew Wilder was the producer for No Doubt’s 1995 hit Tragic Kingdom. I wonder if he’s available for interviews. Or if he was in the No Doubt Behind the Music?
…And reveals the inspiration for “You’re So Vain”. Although she had kept the secret for THIRTY EIGHT FREAKING YEARS, Simon has a new album to sell, and thus recorded a new version of the song with the reveal whispered in reverse at the end. I suppose once Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” was used to sell AT&T, Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” was used to sell cruises, and The Beatles sold all of their songs to sell everything, there wasn’t any reason to keep it a secret anymore.
Saturday Night Live went punk this past weekend in one of their better skits in years. Really, just watch it. This is the best Dave Grohl cameo since he randomly showed up on drums for Tom Petty’s appearance a couple years ago. HOLY CRAP THAT WAS 15 YEARS AGO!
Here’s the Wu-Tang/Beatles Mashup that everyone linked to last week. It got lost in my tabs so I’m just getting to it now. It sounds pretty good and I bet if I liked the Beatles this would have suddenly become my favorite album. The cover art was done by Logan Walters who did the Wu-Tang vs Blue Note album covers from last year. You can listen to the whole album streaming or download it for free and I suggest you do.
Erik Heels has updated his list of albums receiving 5 stars from Rolling Stone. (I talked about this over a year ago). It’s not getting any better for Rolling Stone. Erik is mad that Rolling Stone doesn’t do a better job promoting their 5 star album reviews (with links to buy the album or with announcements that another album has reached the plateau), and I’m mad that Rolling Stone only gives reissued albums 5 stars. Sure, they don’t want to give out 5 star reviews all the time, but if the only way you get one is to reissue a 10+ year old album or be in U2, that’s a bad scene. For shame, Rolling Stone.
I think I read Catcher in the Rye for the first time in…crap, I have no idea when, it was a long time ago. Ever since, I’ve remembered Holden referring to his roommate’s ‘mossy teeth’ in this quote. And every time I use this descriptor, no one knows what I’m talking about. So, if we’re ever talking and I bring up mossy teeth, this is what I’m referring to:
He started cleaning his goddam fingernails with the end of a match. He was always cleaning his fingernails. It was funny, in a way. His teeth were always mossy-looking, and his ears were always dirty as hell, but he was always cleaning his fingernails. I guess he thought that made him a very neat guy. He took another look at my hat while he was cleaning them. “Up home we wear a hat like that to shoot deer in, for Chrissake,” he said. “That’s a deer shooting hat.”
“Like hell it is.” I took it off and looked at it. I sort of closed one eye, like I was taking aim at it. “This is a people shooting hat,” I said. “I shoot people in this hat.”
Also, I didn’t know Chinese Democracy had a song called Catcher in the Rye, did you?
Here’s the characters of Star Wars, including a phalanx of dancing Stormtroopers doing a musical number. That’s apparently Kris Kristofferson as Han Solo. How about that?
You can’t watch this video without laughing, but I beseech you to try. Really, go ahead. Try. Have any bands done music videos like this yet? Someone should. Get Gondry on the phone.
Wu-Tang Clan albums done up in the style of Blue Note Records album covers. Can’t see anything about this to dislike. Of course I chose Iron Man to display. It’s my favorite, even though everyone else likes Liquid Swords. It happens. Reminds me of 20 Hip Hop Album Covers Recreated in LEGO Format and Wu Tang Clan Chessboxin’.
forgetters were supposed to record a 7″ in October, but for those of you who can’t wait for it to come out, I found this recording on the Twitter of forgetters at Lit Lounge on 9/19/09 might be able to tide you over. It’s 7 songs in a tight 23 minutes, and it sounds pretty good (better than the Thorns of Life Gilman St bootleg). Unfortunately, I don’t know the music well enough to provide a track listing, and and more unfortunately, this is all 1 MP3 track.
Although there’s some song overlap, I like forgetters better than Thorns of Life, so there.
I wanted to post this Olly Moss Alice in Wonderland poster here, but since images don't seem to work in RSS anymore and Flickr makes it hard, maybe just click over and check it out.
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