reallyJim:
Love the depth of posts by @JesseLiberty . Song of the day makes him deeper than yet another tech geek/blogger I don’t know…
Song of the Day: King of Rock – Run-DMC
One of the best, and almost certainly one of the most influential early hip hop (transitioning from RAP). Totally compelling, driving, impressive, somewhat mindless.
Favorite lines
They called us and said we’re gettin iller
There’s no one chiller
It’s not Michael Jackson and this is not ThrillerYou got the music in your body and you can’t comprehend
When your mind won’t wiggle and your knees will bend
- MTV named them Greatest Hip Hop Group of All Time
- 2nd Hip Hop Group inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Pop Song of the Day: Whatever You Like – Anya Marina
Posted May 26 The sweetness of her voice, the gentle eroticism of the underlying tune, the innocent pop lyrics… say what?
Yeah, late night sex so wet, it’s so tight, A gas of a jet for you tonight…
Turns out to have been written for and released as a slow hip/hop song by T.I.
And that is what makes this incredible cover by Anya Marina so great; she takes this arrogant, aggressive song..
Yeah, I want’cho body, I need yo body
Long as you got me you won’t need nobody
You want it I got it, go, get it, I buy it
Tell ‘em other broke niggas be quiet
… becomes a whole new experience with her breathy very female, intrinsically benign voice Truly brilliant.
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Note that this song was covered by numerous other artists. While Amaru, and to a lesser degree Outreach and even Urban Lovers United make a go of it, the only contending cover in my book is Weird Al Yankovich who, in this case, isn’t particularly funny; but its nice to see he’s still at it.
Song of the Day: 1,2,3,4 – Plain White T’s
Posted: March 3 Very pleasant song with the key lyrics…
as easy as 1 2,(1 2 3 4.)
theres only one thing two do three words four you.
i love you.
theres only one way two say those three words
And, most important with lead singer Tom Higgenson’s engaging, almost seductive voice.
Song of the Day: Alejandro
Posted: Feb 26, 2010
Alejandro mixes the funky, almost campy sexiness of Lady Gaga, but with a distinct Latin edge that makes the song more interesting than many of her others. It isn’t a classic, but it is a lot of fun.
Artist of the Day: Captain Beefheart
Posted Feb 25: In 1970 I was doing my usual disappearing act by catching a ride up to Boston. One of the guys who I liked a lot there was a fill-in keyboard player for the Dead. I’d visit with him, kill off a few chromosomes, and then go play pinball until I was kicked out of the student center; after which I’d wander the tunnels under MIT, hit on college freshmen, and generally be outside the reach of societal norms for a few days before making my way back home and attending enough of my sophomore year not to be expelled, which was all I could bear before lighting out to the Pancake house, the city or, once again, points north.
That week, however, I was invited to tag along to a sit-on-the-floor concert by an artist described to me as “A buddy of Frank Zappa, who is &*(# amazing and who has a FIVE OCTAVE RANGE” Whatever. I went.
My mind was totally and completely and irrevocably blown.
We talked with the man after the concert (there were fewer than 50 people there and most left well before the end). We found out he was performing in NY the next day and everyone decided to go see it. Since I was already in deep yougurt for disappearing from my home which happened to be in NY I figured I’d catch the ride, catch the concert and then go home and catch hell. We lost a wheel on 95 and we missed the concert…
Every five or ten years I rediscover the Captain, and he is, now that I’ve reached my dottage, even better than I remember. Today I chucked some of my 40 year old LPs and bought three MP3 albums:
Safe As Milk was one of my three favorite Beefheart albums, the other two (Trout Mask Replica and Lick My Decals Off) are not available on MP3 or CD. My 14 year old daughter, who lives an incredibly and wonderfully different life, and who is more inclined towards Jay Z than Frank Z, wasn’t thrilled with Safe As Milk, but to my delight, really liked Doc At The Radar Station. There is hope for the future.
Moved rom my political blog to here.
