Archive for November, 2008
More Obama for yo mama
November 27, 2008Totally bullshitting this post.
November 20, 2008Talk to me
November 18, 2008
No, seriously. I’m working a WERS pledge drive…and there’s *lots* of action. So, comment on this post. We’ll have a conversation. It’ll be fun.
Just filling space.
November 18, 2008Take On Me: Literal Video Version
November 18, 2008
Love the song. Love this premise. Love this video.
(M)The(Y)100(A)Greatest(S)Singers(S)
November 17, 2008Oh, Rolling Stone. For a second there, I thought your latest list would make some sense.
1 | Aretha Franklin by Mary J. Blige
2 | Ray Charles by Billy Joel
3 | Elvis Presley by Robert Plant
4 | Sam Cooke by Van Morrison
5 | John Lennon by Jackson Browne
6 | Marvin Gaye by Alicia Keys
Can’t complain. Then this happens.
7 | Bob Dylan by Bono
Okay…don’t get me wrong. I love me some Dylan. He’s a brilliant songwriter and a pretty good instrumentalist.
Honor him for those things. Not his “singing”. Have any of the surveyed singers…Mick Fleetwood, James Hetfield, Tony Iommi…wait, Mick Fleetwood and Tony Iommi sing? Well, I guess Yusuf Islam and three of the Beach Boys makes up for it, right? Actually, that doesn’t even begin to explain…
16 | Mick Jagger by Lenny Kravitz
Again, a rock “legend” honored for the wrong freaking reason. Hell, it’s pretty insulting to all those singers out there that the Rolling Stone has once again received a much greater honor than he deserves. The Stones are, at best, a good band. NOT the greatest or most dangerous band in history, gosh darn it. I’ll try to make the rest quick.
37 | Neil Young
45 | Kurt Cobain
62 | Lou Reed
81 | John Lee Hooker by Bonnie Raitt
These guys are/were talented and all, but to call them some of the greatest singers is a stretch. Neil Young’s nasal whine is only slightly less irritating than Dylan’s, kinda like how Cobain’s grunge was only slightly less irritating than all the other music of the early 90s. And those talk-singers Reed and Hooker have no business here.
Yet, where’s Tony Bennett? Guy’s 82 and can hold his own against number nine, Stevie Wonder. Nice work, Stevie, but you couldn’t beat Dylan?
Shit, even Freddie Mercury couldn’t beat Bobby D. Look, morons, this isn’t a list of the greatest artists…it’s one of the greatest singers. Again, I love Dylan, but honor him for things he’s actually good at. Otherwise, he’ll top the list of “Artists who look the best with harmonica holders”. And yes, Rolling Stone, I expect compensation for coming up with your next idiotic list.
Right now I’m listening to…
November 17, 2008
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