One holiday shopper’s soundtrack is another’s kryptonite: “Last Christmas,” British pop group Wham!’s hit 1984 single about unrequited love during the holidays, has been annointed the Most Annoying Christmas Song of All-Time in a poll of Bulgarian music lovers. And you thought nothing could be worse than “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer!” A [...]
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Sat Eye Candy: Cheap Trick
January 23rd, 2010 |
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MAMMY’S ALRIGHT, DADDY’S ALRIGHT, THEY JUST SEEM A LITTLE WEIRD
Happy 57th birthday to Mr. Robin Zander, the platinum voice of Cheap Trick for the past 38 years! Considered by many to be one of the finest rock singers of all-time, Zander can be candy sweet or sandpaper raw, often in the space of a few bars. A bold voice that’s also catnip to comely groupies, Zander is hard enough for boys AND girls, and he’s backed by one of the tightest, no bullshit units ever. “Just plain ol’ good rock ‘n’ roll” seems like too small a compliment but when you’ve been knocking the stuff out for close to four decades it carries a bit more weight. For establishing the Dream Police, making young men fantasize about Budokan, giving us the theme to The Colbert Report, and much more we give thanks for Cheap Trick and especially their bloody great vocalist this day. We’ll surrender to you fellas anytime!
Seriously, is there a better time to be had in pop-rock than this?
One of the pleasures of Cheap Trick is how they draw a direct line back to rock’s originators, including nifty updates of their work like this.
Cheap Trick at Spring Break: A Rodney Dangerfield-esque sex comedy waiting to happen? An inducement to drink prodigiously and grope strangers? Yes and yes.
What a fantastically rough-edged bunch!
CT knows their touchstones, hence this Slade cover off their cheekily titled The Latest released last year.
Despite their considerable pop punch, Cheap Trick is often most formidable with moody material like “Downed,” reportedly a Kurt Cobain favorite – and it isn’t hard to pick out CT’s fingerprints on parts of Nirvana’s catalog.
The definition of a power ballad, “The Flame” is overwrought in a very Queen way that sidles up to the 13-year-old who fell in love for the first time inside all of us.
Ahh, some of the first German any Trouser Press junkie ever learned!
And we end as we must. Sing along, you know you want to!
Shooting Wraps On “Twilight Eclipseâ€
October 30th, 2009 |
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The cast and crew of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse have officially wrapped filming on the third installment of the vampire franchise, according to director David Slade.
“Twilight: Eclipse officially wrapped shooting at 4.30am October 29. Physically and emotionally exhausted,” Slade said, writing on his Twitter account Thursday.
The cast and crew — who have been working on [...]
Music occupies an important place in our life
September 27th, 2009 |
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Music occupies an important place in our life. We can’t live without it. Actually people have different musical tastes depending on their age, education and even mood. Some people like classical music, others prefer rock, pop or jazz, but nobody is indifferent to it. Popular Music refers to the kind of music that appeals to [...]
Condo Fucks:Fuckbook
July 26th, 2009 |
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By: Ron Hart
Longtime fans of Yo La Tengo are well aware of the trio’s encyclopedia-like knowledge of music, displayed through their penchant for peppering their concerts with outrageous, leftfield covers of everything from Sun Ra’s “Nuclear War” to Jackson Browne’s Fast Times At Ridgemont High sex anthem “Somebody’s Baby.” So, the appearance of this mysterious side project, where they claim to be an obscure Matador catalog act from New London, Connecticut called Condo Fucks (perhaps a snide reaction to the corporate gentrification of their beloved Hoboken and the Lower East Side?) should not come as a surprise. Entitled Fuckbook (a spin on Yo La’s own indelible 1990 covers album, Fakebook), Georgia Condo, Kid Condo and James McNew blast through 11 glorious fast, fuzzy and frantic renditions of a wide array of AOR and post-punk nuggets from the likes of The Kinks, The Small Faces, The Electric Eels, The Flamin’ Groovies, Richard Hell, The Beach Boys, The Troggs and Slade. Fans of the kinder, gentler Yo La Tengo may be taken aback by the ferocity with which the trio attacks these songs. However, those who have braved their yearly Hanukkah residency at Maxwell’s will certainly understand.
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