I forgot to link Inspecter 7 music at their myspace. But really I was just looking for an excuse to type Skoochie. Hee hee. SKOOCHIE!
Actually I wanted to note that their excellent album "the Infamous" came out in 1997. Ten years man! How time flies! Also that they are playing their first reunion show in a while on July 7, 2007 (7-7-07), and I wonder if other things are happening that day, much like last year's 6-6-06 when it was SLAYER day. MetalRon did 24 hours of SLAYER last year, which was awesome.
SLAYER!
I mean, SKOOCHIE!!!
Also I just wanna wish the US good luck on kicking Mexico's ass on Sunday. Here is an awesome Kinky song used for some MLS montage:
Hmm, I can't seem to find out which album this would be on, if any. Virgin also only had one Kinky album on its shelves. Virgin is not very good. Must get on download-wagon. Why no, I will not acknowledge using a song by a Mexican band to cheer for the US against Mexico as irony! :P Hee hee. Skoochie!
e enjte, 21 qershor 2007
Summertime when the weather is hot
Happy first day of summer everyone!!!
That means the time of summer songs is here! As a semi-listener of top 40 pop music, I am disappointed in the contenders for the song of the summer. I ran across this list on Yahoo one day. While sorta-catchy, the #1 song by Rihanna isn't doing much for me, which is weird, because it should be right up my alley. The second song by Fergie is a balladish number, and not a good one at that, I can't even remember the tune though I've watched the video maybe twice. I don't even know the others, except that maybe "Lean Like A Cholo" would so be worth hunting down just for the song title.
#13 on the list is my favoritest of those listed. Lil Mama making a song all about lipgloss is just perfect. A little brattish and way way catchy.
However just yesterday I heard my own song for the summer, a nice ska-tinged tune by Mr. Tim Frickin' Armstrong:
ISN'T IT GREAT?! I LOVE IT!!! I've heard it's getting radio play. He's got an ear for a tune, whether it was Operation Ivy, Rancid, the Transplants or the one-off song by the Silencers, or writing songs for Pink.
Also finally, Ted Leo gets his answer on where the rudeboys have gone. They're still influencing music, thank goodness!
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I know where more rudies (and skins) will show up! At the scattered Inspecter 7 shows happening this summer!! I am so psyched! I got my worst concert injury at an Inspecter 7 show--where this big skinhead collided against me and my glasses scratched my eyes--MY EYE! Actually, it was okay, it just looked like I had purple eyeliner for a while. Hot. (My glasses were still okay. They always seem to survive intact :) ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOSE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. OI! OI!
KILL, WHERE IS MY INSPECTER 7 CD????!!?!!
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I got a new CD yesterday, because I really really liked one song off it and it was cheap with a DVD! Rodrigo y Gabriela's self-titled CD is acoustic guitar genius! <3
That means the time of summer songs is here! As a semi-listener of top 40 pop music, I am disappointed in the contenders for the song of the summer. I ran across this list on Yahoo one day. While sorta-catchy, the #1 song by Rihanna isn't doing much for me, which is weird, because it should be right up my alley. The second song by Fergie is a balladish number, and not a good one at that, I can't even remember the tune though I've watched the video maybe twice. I don't even know the others, except that maybe "Lean Like A Cholo" would so be worth hunting down just for the song title.
#13 on the list is my favoritest of those listed. Lil Mama making a song all about lipgloss is just perfect. A little brattish and way way catchy.
However just yesterday I heard my own song for the summer, a nice ska-tinged tune by Mr. Tim Frickin' Armstrong:
ISN'T IT GREAT?! I LOVE IT!!! I've heard it's getting radio play. He's got an ear for a tune, whether it was Operation Ivy, Rancid, the Transplants or the one-off song by the Silencers, or writing songs for Pink.
Also finally, Ted Leo gets his answer on where the rudeboys have gone. They're still influencing music, thank goodness!
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I know where more rudies (and skins) will show up! At the scattered Inspecter 7 shows happening this summer!! I am so psyched! I got my worst concert injury at an Inspecter 7 show--where this big skinhead collided against me and my glasses scratched my eyes--MY EYE! Actually, it was okay, it just looked like I had purple eyeliner for a while. Hot. (My glasses were still okay. They always seem to survive intact :) ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOSE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. OI! OI!
KILL, WHERE IS MY INSPECTER 7 CD????!!?!!
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I got a new CD yesterday, because I really really liked one song off it and it was cheap with a DVD! Rodrigo y Gabriela's self-titled CD is acoustic guitar genius! <3
e martë, 19 qershor 2007
Two Hours in Times Square's Virgin Megastore
Here is my short summary, as I am sure Kill will have a post with pix about the Erasure signing at Virgin yesterday. We arrived early to find no one, so we quoted some Spinal Tap and wasted time looking at music. I become a VIP member and purchase:
Musical World: Andes
Manu Chao - ...proxima estacion...Esperanza
and when I go upstairs I find
Tim Armstrong - A Poet's Life
and buy that too, that's when I spy some wristbands. So I ask someone and there's already a line outside! We wait with hardcore Erasurites (if that's not their moniker, it should be!) and then I am told I can't be on the line because I have no wristband (stupid policy, but we only make sad faces) and everyone is hustled downstairs. Vince and Andy arrive soon after (earlier than 6)! I take many pix. Kill is about 14th on line, so she gets there quick, snap snap, and tada we are done at 6:04.
The short samples I heard of Tim's solo CD are AWESOME! Too bad I am backlogged with my CD listening, as I still have Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris soundtrack to get to (which is a great off-broadway musical by the way).
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Here are two Manu Chao anecdotes: The first song I heard of him was "Dia Luna, Dia Pena" on one of Lena's awesome mixtapes. Simple song, simple lyrics, but omg, what lyrics! "Hoy me levanto sin razon, hoy me levanto y no quiero" = "Today I awake without reason, today I awake and I don't want to" all in this soft sleepy voice, belying a deeper dissatisfaction.
Funnily enough when I went to buy Mika tickets, some people in front of me thought they were only selling tickets for his show (and got huffy when asked what tickets they were purchasing) but the only other two non-white people in the line ahead of me were buying Manu Chao tickets. HA!
Okay, a third. I cut out articles. I have one somewhere of Manu Chao from some magazine. Without even owning any other song but that one til yesterday. I think it's my brain's way of knowing the future somehow. Like when I was saving all those Rufus Wainwright articles before my sis was really into him and I was all ORLY? and handed her a few articles, among then the one with the infamous Bea Arthur quote "I'm not your fucking grandmother!" Ahh, good going, brain :)
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I am sure there's a reason I named the last post Mambo! but I forget.
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Look at me, I am using tags!! So schmart am I.
Musical World: Andes
Manu Chao - ...proxima estacion...Esperanza
and when I go upstairs I find
Tim Armstrong - A Poet's Life
and buy that too, that's when I spy some wristbands. So I ask someone and there's already a line outside! We wait with hardcore Erasurites (if that's not their moniker, it should be!) and then I am told I can't be on the line because I have no wristband (stupid policy, but we only make sad faces) and everyone is hustled downstairs. Vince and Andy arrive soon after (earlier than 6)! I take many pix. Kill is about 14th on line, so she gets there quick, snap snap, and tada we are done at 6:04.
The short samples I heard of Tim's solo CD are AWESOME! Too bad I am backlogged with my CD listening, as I still have Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris soundtrack to get to (which is a great off-broadway musical by the way).
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Here are two Manu Chao anecdotes: The first song I heard of him was "Dia Luna, Dia Pena" on one of Lena's awesome mixtapes. Simple song, simple lyrics, but omg, what lyrics! "Hoy me levanto sin razon, hoy me levanto y no quiero" = "Today I awake without reason, today I awake and I don't want to" all in this soft sleepy voice, belying a deeper dissatisfaction.
Funnily enough when I went to buy Mika tickets, some people in front of me thought they were only selling tickets for his show (and got huffy when asked what tickets they were purchasing) but the only other two non-white people in the line ahead of me were buying Manu Chao tickets. HA!
Okay, a third. I cut out articles. I have one somewhere of Manu Chao from some magazine. Without even owning any other song but that one til yesterday. I think it's my brain's way of knowing the future somehow. Like when I was saving all those Rufus Wainwright articles before my sis was really into him and I was all ORLY? and handed her a few articles, among then the one with the infamous Bea Arthur quote "I'm not your fucking grandmother!" Ahh, good going, brain :)
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I am sure there's a reason I named the last post Mambo! but I forget.
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Look at me, I am using tags!! So schmart am I.
e hënë, 18 qershor 2007
Mambo!
I thought I should have a non-video-stuffed post! Mika was great! The line to the Nokia Theatre Times Square clogged up the already crowded Broadway sidewalk, but once we made it inside, it was all nice and dim and underground and cool and there were super neat bathrooms with cute mirrors. Lollipop Girls ran around in blonde wigs and hot pink dresses with big white bows at the back, carrying around baskets of lollipops and spreading their good cheer throughout! MTV Guy with Mohawk got in on the fun and told them where the Bear was hiding so two of the Lollipop Girls were like OHNOOOES and they flounced away, denying me my fourth lollipop of the evening. We sat in the old fogeys section (if you hit 20 at this show, you were eligible for fogeydom). The show was supposedly 16+ but I saw an 8 year old kid there. Also tons of grannies in the VIP section (we joked about this til later Mika said that his grandma was in the VIP section. HA!)
The opening act was short and sweet. They later put a breakdancing crew for our enjoyment. Weird music throughout the evening was played, such as Funkytown and other nonsense which i knew way to much of.
Finally, Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 comes on (sis says: OMG SO GAY!!!) and Mika and band comes on, woo hoo!!! Everyone squeals like piglets. People go dancing up and down aisles and generally spazzing out, and waving their arms like they are at the Roxy. Even MTV Mohawk Dood rocks out completely, between audio note taking. Tons of cameras flashing nonstop. As Mika only has one album, he snuck in two covers, one of a Jackson 5 song whose title escapes me and the Eurythmics's Sweet Dreams. There is an absolutely AMAZING rendition of Love Today. There's already lots of vid clips on youtube.
He is such a great performer. His happy dancing, plus these grand silouhettes as he hits high notes = FANTASTIC!! Also he and his band later came on all wearing animal costumes to the Teddy Bear's Picnic which I found mildly creepy (you could hear the audience go AWWW when the bunny was getting picked on by the rest) and which my sis declared the best thing EVAR. Mika is love <3
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I love me some memes! Here are my answers for http://bdinsanity.blogdrive.com/
If you were given an unlimited budget for one day, what music-related things would you splurge on? You could buy CDs (or ultra-rare LPs), concert tickets, memorabilia - anything related to music.
WHAT WOULDN'T I GET?!?! I would order rare CDs that I can't even get at Virgin, such as Salsa Celtica and Moi dix Mois online, along with download music that's only availably digitally (I just found out today that the reason I haven't been able to track down Dizzee Rascal's Maths and English is because it's only available by download in the US!! WTF!!). Buy multiple copies of CDs I really really like and give them to my peeps. I would buy lots of CDs that I only have on cassette right now. I would buy lots of CDs of bands I've really liked one song of and hope for the best. Buy a lot of CDs of artists my parents are into. I would buy a lot of those Best of and Taste of compilations. I would order a bunch of band merch, like more Ted Leo junk, band t-shirts, wallets, whatever, stickers and posters, omg posters posters and books and biographies. I would get lots of concert tickets for things I was even remotely interested in, and even use my unlimited budget to get to out of the city/state concerts. I suppose I could go on ebay and see if i could get autographed things, but really I like having my things autographed in person, that's what makes it special! Etc etc ad nauseum.
What is your favorite style of music, or band/artist, that uses the violin/fiddle?
Sorry, can't pick :P I love a good ol' celtic fiddle, classical violin, folk music, world music, opera, country music (Charlie Daniels' Devil Went Down to Georgia = best song with violin EVER?), grandiose metal songs, whatever, I love it. Specifically, off the top of my head, Flogging Molly and Gogol Bordello use violin to great effect in their music.
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Oh snap. Off to Erasure signing!!!
The opening act was short and sweet. They later put a breakdancing crew for our enjoyment. Weird music throughout the evening was played, such as Funkytown and other nonsense which i knew way to much of.
Finally, Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 comes on (sis says: OMG SO GAY!!!) and Mika and band comes on, woo hoo!!! Everyone squeals like piglets. People go dancing up and down aisles and generally spazzing out, and waving their arms like they are at the Roxy. Even MTV Mohawk Dood rocks out completely, between audio note taking. Tons of cameras flashing nonstop. As Mika only has one album, he snuck in two covers, one of a Jackson 5 song whose title escapes me and the Eurythmics's Sweet Dreams. There is an absolutely AMAZING rendition of Love Today. There's already lots of vid clips on youtube.
He is such a great performer. His happy dancing, plus these grand silouhettes as he hits high notes = FANTASTIC!! Also he and his band later came on all wearing animal costumes to the Teddy Bear's Picnic which I found mildly creepy (you could hear the audience go AWWW when the bunny was getting picked on by the rest) and which my sis declared the best thing EVAR. Mika is love <3
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I love me some memes! Here are my answers for http://bdinsanity.blogdrive.com/
If you were given an unlimited budget for one day, what music-related things would you splurge on? You could buy CDs (or ultra-rare LPs), concert tickets, memorabilia - anything related to music.
WHAT WOULDN'T I GET?!?! I would order rare CDs that I can't even get at Virgin, such as Salsa Celtica and Moi dix Mois online, along with download music that's only availably digitally (I just found out today that the reason I haven't been able to track down Dizzee Rascal's Maths and English is because it's only available by download in the US!! WTF!!). Buy multiple copies of CDs I really really like and give them to my peeps. I would buy lots of CDs that I only have on cassette right now. I would buy lots of CDs of bands I've really liked one song of and hope for the best. Buy a lot of CDs of artists my parents are into. I would buy a lot of those Best of and Taste of compilations. I would order a bunch of band merch, like more Ted Leo junk, band t-shirts, wallets, whatever, stickers and posters, omg posters posters and books and biographies. I would get lots of concert tickets for things I was even remotely interested in, and even use my unlimited budget to get to out of the city/state concerts. I suppose I could go on ebay and see if i could get autographed things, but really I like having my things autographed in person, that's what makes it special! Etc etc ad nauseum.
What is your favorite style of music, or band/artist, that uses the violin/fiddle?
Sorry, can't pick :P I love a good ol' celtic fiddle, classical violin, folk music, world music, opera, country music (Charlie Daniels' Devil Went Down to Georgia = best song with violin EVER?), grandiose metal songs, whatever, I love it. Specifically, off the top of my head, Flogging Molly and Gogol Bordello use violin to great effect in their music.
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Oh snap. Off to Erasure signing!!!
E-ray-shore
Ages and ages ago (okay, maybe a few years) I was scoping out the clearance cassettes (okay maybe it was more than a few years) in the basement of Bradlee's at Union Square (since closed and turned into something which was changed into Whole Foods, etc etc). I was into punk, which was leading me into new wave and 80s music. I found an Erasure cassette. It was of Chorus. I thought, my sis might like this. Besides it's $2.99, what a steal! So I bought it and gave it away. Then months and months later my sis is Erasure-obsessed and now collects imported CDs and singles and orders ridiculous things like Erasure torches (that is flashlights promoting their newest album Light at the End of the World) to this day.
They are doing a signing today at Virgin, where I will play the dutiful photographer and companion much like she did for me at the Mika in-store performance at Borders. So here are some Erasure tunes for today:
One of their most well-known songs A Little Respect has such a cute vid. Vince is kyooot!
Love To Hate You got my sis hooked. I blame it for Erasuritis. I'd like to know the killer isn't meeee :)
Erasure released an EP of Abba covers called Abbaesque. Here is Erasure in drag, looking oh so cute, doing Take a Chance on Me
One of their 90s hits Always is so sweeet. Wah.
Dancing on rooftops is ace! Witness: Sometimes
Now I present to you a battle of two of the worst vids ever! Bwahahaha. Here is Star
against Heavenly Action. No wonder Vince doesn't want to be in any more vids! Eesh :P
Lastly, another of their well-known hits Chains of Love.
For extra chuckles, check out Erasure Comics! Snoo is great!
They are doing a signing today at Virgin, where I will play the dutiful photographer and companion much like she did for me at the Mika in-store performance at Borders. So here are some Erasure tunes for today:
One of their most well-known songs A Little Respect has such a cute vid. Vince is kyooot!
Love To Hate You got my sis hooked. I blame it for Erasuritis. I'd like to know the killer isn't meeee :)
Erasure released an EP of Abba covers called Abbaesque. Here is Erasure in drag, looking oh so cute, doing Take a Chance on Me
One of their 90s hits Always is so sweeet. Wah.
Dancing on rooftops is ace! Witness: Sometimes
Now I present to you a battle of two of the worst vids ever! Bwahahaha. Here is Star
against Heavenly Action. No wonder Vince doesn't want to be in any more vids! Eesh :P
Lastly, another of their well-known hits Chains of Love.
For extra chuckles, check out Erasure Comics! Snoo is great!
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