omebody had to do it. Velvet Revolver begged off immediately and The Rolling Stones are just too old. So doing a cover of Nirvana’s “Rape Me” as a lounge act is none other than Richard Cheese.
Richard Cheese? Who the heck… I’m kind of repulsed enough by the song (having listened to it 3 times) that I can’t bring myself to Google him for a bio.
The song is from Cheese’s album Lounge Against the Machine, a title I found to be amusing.
He begins the song by announcing “This one’s for the ladies.”
Once in a while a song comes along that just grabs you and won’t let go. You listen to it over and over, pissing off whoever you live with.
That’s what happened to me with the song “I’m Yours” by Jason Mraz. The first time I heard it, I had no idea who was singing but I was thinking, “How could I have missed this before?”
I recently enjoyed watching the classic ’80s movie Highlander again, the film that spawned all those rather rotten TV spin-offs. The movie, however, is the real deal. Definitely the best sword fighting among immortals ever to grace the screen. Christopher Lambert deftly plays the lead role, and Sean Connery shows up as an effeminate, ageless tutor for Lambert’s character.
If you’re into beheadings (and who isn’t?) this movie is for you. The immortals, like Lambert, can die only by losing their head. They live for centuries, duking it out until only one is left standing. And the big ol’ bad guy, Kruger, is seriously bad-ass.
The best part of the movie, however, is the soundtrack by Queen. The songs are simply perfect for the action and the mood. It is Freddie Mercury and the boys at their finest. Strangely enough, it is an unofficial soundtrack, but the songs show up on Queen’s album A Kind of Magic.
I wish I had a clever way to celebrate this momentous achievement for any music collector — an astounding Nineteen-thousand nine-hundred sixty-one songs in my digital music collection. If those songs were played one after the other it would take 53.9 days to finish listening to all of them (my iTunes tells me so).
Stephen Malkmus begins this song by jokingly name-checking R.E.M., but this is a Pavement classic from the compilation album No Alternative, which was a benefit for AIDs years ago. Probably early ’90s. I can’t find this record anywhere and I’m bummed out because there were a bunch of standout tracks by some good bands.
Evan Dando, singer/songwriter/guitarist for The Lemonheads, is definitely a lemonhead. And an unabashed stoner.
Still, he and Julianna Hatfield made a damn good album in 1992 called It’s A Shame About Ray. The record was recently reissued with a bunch of bonus demo tracks that were recorded during the making of the album.
The original album already [...]
A week or so ago I noticed that Robert Pollard, singer/songwriter for Guided By Voices, was releasing a new album. His most recent stuff has yet to grow on me, but I’ll be forever entangled in so many tunes from GBV.
Listening to their old albums like Fast Japanese Spin Cycle, Bee Thousand, and Alien Lanes [...]
Sublime music can inspire evocative imagery—calling forth cherished or forgotten memories that seem nearly tangible. An inspired melody, an oddly gorgeous voice, powerfully sparse acoustic chords, a raw energy that can’t be ignored. The song is “On This Side” and the singer/songwriter is Jesy Fortino, otherwise known as “the band” Tiny Vipers.
It’s the vocals that [...]
Official word today is that The Pirate Bay crew has been indicted in Sweden for being “accessories” to infringing copyright laws. Could this be the trial of the century? OJ will get a run for his (blood) money.
The entertainment industry has got it all wrong. Shutting down The Pirate Bay and similar torrent sites would [...]
I have to say that it’s been a great year for music, at least for the indie/alternative/(god forbid emo) music I favor. Carving out ten albums from the stacks of excellent releases this past year was quite difficult for me, but a task I have undertaken with the ardor of ten men…one for each song, [...]
