8 posts tagged “music”
What were your top 10 favorite songs or albums of 2007?
Snow Patrol + Martha Wainwright, "Set the Fire to the Third Bar"
MIKA, "Grace Kelly"
The Fratellis- Costello Music (technically out in '06 I think)
Scissor Sisters, "I Can't Decide"
Arctic Monkeys, "Fluorescent Adolescent"
Kaiser Chiefs, "Everything Is Average Nowadays"
Amy MacDonald, "Mr. Rock and Roll"
Shout Out Louds, "Tonight I Have To Leave It"
Mark Ronson + Amy Winehouse, "Valerie"
Scouting for Girls, "Elvis Isn't Dead"
Led Zeppelin will finally offer their music online starting next month. Of the music you buy, about how much of it do you download and how much do you buy on physical formats (CDs, vinyl, etc.)?
Local performers with CDs who are not electronic, I purchase. Otherwise, if I can't get it from iTunes, I don't get it.*
* As far as you know.
Springsteen's releasing a new studio album this week and Dylan's releasing a greatest hits compilation. Which do you prefer from a legend: new material or time-honored classics?
That's a tough one. I would say new material, with a caveat: it's got to be *good* new material. The example I always fall back on is U2 - while I think Achtung Baby may be their best album, it was a sharp shock to a lot of longtime U2 fans - and it's tough to argue that they hadn't gone around the bend by Pop and the whole Passengers debacle. And then they turned out All That You Can't Leave Behind, and oh holy shit they're BACK. And then we got the most recent record, which includes stuff like "City of Blinding Lights" which may be my favorite U2 song ever.
Bruce is another one. This is a guy whose third album opened with "Thunder Road." When side one, track one of your 1975 record is THE GREATEST ROCK SONG OF ALL TIME, you've basically dug yourself into a hole for the rest of your life. And yet, the first track off the 2007 record still feels fresh and young and alive, which is incredible when you consider that he's about to turn SIXTY.
To borrow a line from Bono, "you glorify the past when your future dries up." If you still have your fastball, you better be throwing it.
What song do you wish would never show up on a karaoke list?
"Drops of Jupiter," by Train. That song makes me want to stab my eardrums in with a spoon anyway. Attach some wailing drunkard to it and I would probably wind up in jail.
I was on a plane from Atlanta to Birmingham with Akon and couldn't have picked him out of a lineup of three Chinese people and a dwarf wrestler.
I don't get the kids and their hip music. I need Mary-Lynn to keep posting videos.
...the Fratellis. You can thank me after they've been the next big thing.
Got the single for "When You Were Young." Not only it is incredible, it's fairly obvious that somebody's been mixing some early Springsteen in with their New Order.
1) The Killers' "Hot Fuss" is easily the best album I have heard since 2000 and possibly one of the four or five best I have ever heard, period. (Check back in a half-decade or so.)
2) Every song by every hair-metal band ever, combined, cannot hold a candle to the first 20 seconds or so of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - the instant where Jim Ross shouted "My GOD! It's Nirvana!" as three lads from Seattle ran in to smash the sad state of rock with a steel chair.
There. That's controversy enough for the evening. =)
