For anyone who cares, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and we’re probably going to have a newer, more official, editorial policy here too with a rethink on the contributors and comments, after I’ve thought some more and mailed a few people. Maybe next week.
In the meantime, here’s our usual weekend music thread, dedicated to someone I know going through some tough times, a little classic rap blast from the past!
Ya got any good tunes of your own?
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Awesome tune! Well, tune might not be the best word. But awesome is right.
And you know, my nom de plume on the internets (or nom de guerre, take your pick), before I settled on jaymaster, was LLcoolJJ. I am a fan!
Rap is undeniably a 100% American original art form.
As is blue grass,..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhiOaSWuFjU&feature=related
Such a great song. Brings back memories from SPIN magazine in the 90s. Me and my office mate used to close the door and blast this song and dance on the desks.
He was not American. He was Scottish. I’m sure we looked absurd.
“Mama Said Knock You Out” beats the hell out of “Use Your Words.”
Thanks Dean.
Calexico, “Not Even Stevie Nicks”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ9T14nTst8
No-man, “Angel Gets Caught in the Beauty Trap”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GK1W0yQOSo
Tell you what, I met LL Cool J back in probably, 1987/1988. My impression? Horrible human being who needs a hell of a lot of redemption.
I’m gonna go for something with a little more international flavor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO20HPgaByA
Newsboys – Reality
I think the lyrics are very clever for this song.
Yours,
Wince
Well, this is sad…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/06/elo-cellist-by-killed-hay-bale
Damn, those rock and rollers find some unusual ways to go!
I’m 99% sure this is the hay eater playing cello in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo4SblJ_SnU
ELO sorta jumped the shark around that time.
But Jeff Lynne forged a whole new path when he hooked up with Tom Petty, and influenced him for more than a decade.
And there was this little super group called The Travelling Wilburys that happened along the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqhdRs4jyA&feature=channel
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