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Straight Outta' Boston! : Don't Run Wild by The Del Fuegos

Dead Stars: Tony Curtis

Born Bernard Schwartz in 1925, Mr. Curtis became a Hollywood star in the 1950's. Starting in 1949 he appeared in over 100 films with highlights including The Defiant Ones, Some Like It Hot and Sparticus. He never one the Oscar but was wildly popular in his day.

RIP Tony

Great Balls of Fire!

Today is Jerry Lee Lewis' birthday! The Killer is 75 years old and still making music. I don't know if he's still into 13 year old girls but that's no matter. Jerry Lee when young used to put on a rock show that squashed all others including Elvis.



Maybe someday they'll make a bio pic for you that doesn't suck. Happy Birthday Dude!

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It's a sea shanty: Two Sisters by Tom Waits

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Download this one; Just by Radiohead

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Try this one; it's great: River Deep-Mountain High Ike and Tina Turner

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Today's Song
The Rat by The Walkmen (2004)

Stupid Girl

You know who this girl is? It's somebody who has had their whole life put on display as they make bad choice after bad choice, seemingly falling into an abyss but it's also somebody who has there entire life in front of them. Lindsay Lohan is really just being a dumb kid and at the age of 24 isn't really too old for these mistakes I suppose. Obviously she shouldn't be going to jail and she shouldn't be getting high or stalking ex's or crashing her car or disturbing the peace but she is and that's how she seems to have to live her life. Though it does seem like every time she's about to clean up her act she gets busted doing stupid things again and looks more and more idiotic.

It's a shame that she can't A) clean up and fulfill her potential as America's sweetheart or B)keep her shit hid like a smart youth. Maybe it's all part of her master plan to be a Hollywood tragedy, dead by 30 worshiped forever after. Maybe if she did some good movies, maybe if she had some iconic roll this would be a plan but Disney Mean Girls wasn't really the sort of movie one should base their Star on.

Good luck dumbass

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Today's Song: Don't bring Me Down by Electric Light Orchestra (1979)

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Download This: Lips Like Sugar by Echo & The Bunnymen

Congrats Ichiro

 So on September 23rd Ichiro Suzuki got his 200th hit of the season making 10 straight 200+ hit seasons! Only Pete Rose has had 10 200 hit seasons but he never did it more than three seasons in a row. Seeing as Ichiro played much of career in Japan and is 36 it highly unlikely that he will play in the major leagues long enough to get to the 4,200 hit mark and probably won't be able to get 3,000 hits as he needs 770 which would mean at least 4 more very good seasons or 3 record breaking ones but who knows? It's possible with all the training and conditioning players incorporate these days he may play until he's 47 and pile up another 2,000 knocks. Sadly he is on a team which has nobody to drive him in to score runs so he hasn't been able to get to the 100 run mark for the past two seasons. Even though his stolen bases are up which puts him in scoring position it's unlikely he'll score more than 80 times this year. Regardless of that stat he is still a hall of famer in my book,

Weekly Mix Tape Pt 34

With the exception of a couple songs I really enjoy this mix as there were enough current songs mixed with the classic and obscure. enjoy

1. Ch-Check it Out by Beastie Boys
Big Beginning, high energy and well known; it's a good way to start even if I'm not a fan of the song.
2. Authority Song by John Mellencamp
Back when he was a Cougar back when he wrote pop songs
3. American Idiot by green Day
This made the group explode all over again and far less annoying to parents
4. Ride by The Vines
mediocre pseudo punk from Australia
5. Photograph by Def Leppard
In 1983 this song was gigantor! The band scared me though.
6. Fall To Pieces by Velvet Revolver
The last great power ballad 20 years late. Actually this song grows on me more and more.
7. Don't Stop Believin' by Journey
Does it get and more huge than this? Does it get any more classic than this? Not at this point but this was entered here between it just being a great song and the Sopranos and Monster. It sounds different now that I almost connect it to those two things.
8. C'mon C'mon by The Von Bondies
Jack White beat the crap out of the singer for talking shit about Meg White; it worked wonders for the Von Bondies. In the rap world it's the equivalent of 50 Cent getting shot; it changed everything. Now you can hear this song on the show Rescue Me.
9. I Want Candy by Bow Wow Wow
Not to be confused with MC Pee Pants' Aqua Teen Hunger Force classic, I want candy was a tune that I loved when it came out and even though I was nine years old I knew it wasn't about lollipops. You know the singer was 13 when this song hit?
10. Filthy/Gorgeous by Scissor Sisters
Liking this song doesn't make you gay
11.Move Your Feet by Junior Senior
Little straight guy, big gay guy; that's all I know about this band
12.A Girl Like You by Edwin Collins
A great one hit wonder from the 90s! It has that 80s one hit wonder vibe to it; I can't explain any better. I guess I knew Id never hear from Edwin Collins again.
13.Tattooed Love Boys by The Pretenders
The pretenders doing there thing.
14.Tipsy by J-Kwon
Prerequisite party song
15.New Song by Howard Jones
This song instantly transports me back to 1984 whe I thought rock stars all lived life like they did in their videos.
16.Hombre by M.I.A.
Future voice of 2008
17.Look What You've Done by Jet
All filler no thriller
18.Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth With Money in My Hand by Primitive Radio Gods
I feel the same way about this song as I do about the Edwin Collins song
19.I'm Not Okay (I Promise) by My Chemical Romance
I didn't care much for this one when I first heard it, in fact I thought it was garbage but something happened, maybe it was the video that changed my mind. MCR are not punk which makes them a great pop band.
20.A Message to You Rudy by The Specials
Old School ska used for a diaper commercial, somebody's youth was sold out that day.
21.Texas by The 360's

The 360's

A song about the JFK assassination by a band from Boston.
22.Waiting On A Friend by The Rolling Stones
More classic rock that could be perceived as a song about loitering around to get a fix. I don't think Keith Richards was sober in the video.

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Download this: Connection by Elastica

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Tales of Brave Ulysses by Cream

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So I'm gonna' recommend a daily song down load going forward, some are huge gits and some are random. My method of selection will remain a secret so don't ask why I picked the song.

Today's song Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant (1980)

Rubicon-job

Have you seen this show, Rubicon? It may in fact be the worst show I've seen in a long time. It's a suspense, spy type show that revolves around a manger at the American Policy Institute who's main job is to head a 3 person group who try to figure out who lives and who dies, who's a threat to national security. It sounds compelling and very heady but the reality of the show is that all the people who work for API are complete slobs and total security risks in themselves. They let terminated employees roam the halls of their office building, the head of the company's office seems to easily accessed by waiting for the secretary to leave her desk. The main dude gets followed, gets bugged, leaves his gun around for anybody to play with and doesn't seem to have the ability be slick enough to avoid any of this.
In the end it would make more sense to have Leslie Neilson play the lead and make the show a comedy . . . maybe it is. If you watch the show and comprehend the stupid things that everybody does and put a silly soundtrack beneath it you would have a stupid funny show but as it is, it's as though a 15 year old boy wrote the script. It is so poorly thought out I'm not sure what the show's producers know what they're doing. It is possible that the show will blossom suddenly and I'll understand that I don't understand anything. Seriously though it seems like a show written by somebody who watches a lot of TV but doesn't really know hat the hell their watching. As viewers it's insisted that we believe everything we're told because we're shown nothing.
I really wish I could stop watching but I want to know what the big deal is.

The Devil's Music

I've heard it twice now that rock n' roll isn't dead but it is a zombie. That is wrong it has been killed by this little piece of shit. Do you have Bieber fever? Apparently he is the greatest thing to happen to music since the Beatles. I know we've heard this crap for forty years now; it's always some new hot shit pretty boy with nice hair. Bieber incidentally didn't fall too far from the tree on this one, his hair is The Beatles all the way.
Feel free to do the comparison your self. Anyway what's weird about the boy is that rap acts love him; they all say he's the man! In fact nobody ever says anything bad about him at all; it's as though he really is talented. Maybe he's paid all the right people or
something similar; there's a reason his initials are BJ reversed . . . just sayin'.
Rock n' Roll has always been the devils music; it has to be. So I can say in complete fear that Justin Beiber is here to rid the world of the devil once and for all and save little girls from him. Of course the devil has many faces and the devil is hard to pin down so maybe Beiber is Damien, The Omen; he is the apocalypse. If this is true I'll cry and that's how it should be I suppose. More likely the whelp will be of no consequence in a couple years and a cure for Bieber fever will be and it will be available at Walmart.

With that said let's reflect on what Rock really looks like.

Chuck Berry: The Original

Axl Rose: 808s Sleaze

Jim Morrison: The Architype

Jerry Lee Lewis: All Killer, No Filler

Kurt Cobain: All the anger and twice the drugs

Iggy Pop: Lust for life and self mutilation!

Weekly Mix Tape Pt 33

This one is okay but not great or maybe it's awesome, who knows? Good moments, Make It Clap transitioning into Illegal Tender as it starts with clapping . . . so clever. When I did this mix I was obsessed with Evil by Interpol; it was the only song I was listening to all the time; I think I wore it out.

1. Beware by Rockcity Mourge
Good 70s rock from a 00s band
2. Cold Hard Bitch by JET
I hate this song, I've never liked this song so think of this as filler unless you like this song then I guess you're psyched.
3. Tumbling Dice by The Rolling Stones
I didn't like this song until 2006 and then I loved it, maybe I finally got it, maybe I associate it with something awesome . . . I'm not sure.
4. Little Sister by Queens Of The Stone Age
I think this band is okay but I don't know why, I think this song is from Palm Springs
5. My Mother The War by 10,000 Maniacs
Before the hits and before your mom liked them . . .grandmother maybe?
6. Evil by Interpol
Suddenly Interpol was the best band ever, well not really but I couldn't get enough of this song; I wish I saw them live
7. Make It Clap by Busta Rhymes
IS this song about venereal disease?
8. Illegal Tender by Louis XIV
For those who love hand clapping
9. The Way You Move by Big Boi
This was the other song from Oukast's last album
10.In Da Club by 50 Cent
There's something irresistible about this tune; I can't place it. Maybe I associate it with something awesome.

Flock of Seagulls

11.I Ran (So Far Away) by A Flock of Seagulls
This is New Wave. If anybody asks play them this song
12.Fox On The Run by Sweet
Glam Rock from the 70s; I wish I was a teenager when this song was a hit. I think it would have been awesome.
13.Rock of Ages by Def Leppard
A very famous beginning. Sometimes I live this rocker and other times it makes me feel dumb.
14.Sucker Train Blues by Velvet Revolver
Continuing with the rock, lets listen to this Super group's offering
15.Breaking The Law (live) by Judas Priest
Let's break the law! This song rings true for those feeling the economic crunch
16.Club Foot by Kasabian
This is a song that I don't like but like all at once, why not?
17.Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies
This is a teenage anthem! Satisfaction, Fight For your Right To Party, My generation . . . all for the meek. It's punk but different. I believe they were all in the crypts which made it illegal for them to play live in Los Angeles for a while.
18.Hypersonic by Jane's Addiction
It's just not the same as used to be . . . so sad.
19.Come Away With Me by Nora Jones
She sings this song so sultry that I totally want to go away with her and that's why she won the Grammy.
20.Galvanize by The Chemical Brothers
"My finger is on the button" This song is huge in sound and gives me chills sometimes
21.Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me by U2
From the Batman and Robin movie; this was the best thing about it.

Weekly Mix Tape Pt 32

I believe I had just been introduced to iTunes as I created this mix but I had not yet went crazy on it. This is a weak one with exception to a few songs like Oasis' "Whatever" and Muse' "Stockholm Syndrome"

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1. Why Do You Love me? by Garbage
Goodbye Garbage, this is the last thing worth while the band did, maybe if Shirly just hated herself a little more . . .
2. Never Enough by The Cure
One of my favorite Cure songs, is this on a non greatest hits album?
3. Toxic by Britney Spears
Hello Britney and goodbye. This song came out when a lot of music sudenly had middle eastern strings thrown in the mix
4. Milkshake by Kelis
How is this song supposed to make me feel?
5. White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
Haight/Ashbury at it's apex! Also a side note this song was in the movie Platoon
6. Stockholm Syndrome by Muse
A great song that was never on the radio; I discovered it on a juke box in a bar
7. Next To You by The Police
They have nothing like this energy anymore
8. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
Are they Scottish? Are they gay? These are the things I here about them.
9. The Metro by Berlin
Somber 80s pop with synthesizers all over it. It doesn't make me love riding the subway but it does romanticize it.
10.Sexy Boy by Air
Trippy 90s synthesizer pop
11.I, Zombie by White Zombie
You can not deny The White Zombie! It doesn't bet much more badass than this!
12.Breakin' by The Music
Meh
13.Goody Two Shoes by Adam Ant
This is one of the first videos I'd ever seen; it was so cool to me when I was 9 years old. I think Axl Rose still his outfit for one of those piano videos
14.Triple Trouble by The Beastie Boys
Man, this group sucked at this point
15.Birdbrain by Buffalo Tom
Boston Rocks!!! But alas Buffalo Tom is no more . . . tough they got kinda' lame towards the end
16.Church Of The Poison Mind by Culture Club
Is this my favorite Culture Club song? I think so, very Motown
17.Whatever by Oasis
One of the best non album songs ever released
18.Louis XVI by Louis XIV
Not one of their best songs but it's passable as background noise
19.Crazy Beat by Blur
Blur's last studio album before Damon Albarn
20.Honky Tonk Women by The Rolling Stones
This song is all about the cowbell
21.Rebellion (Lies) by Arcade Fire
Let's welcome Arcade Fire to the mixes! They big sweeping songs, don't they? It seems this band is also quite polarizing which is weird to me

Weekly Mix Tape Pt 31

This a strange mix but I like it; it doesn't veer too far in any direction and stays the course of solid. I think I made this mix in early 2005.
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1. 100% by Sonic Youth
Two minutes and thirty seconds of beautiful noise
2. Dirty Little Thing by Velvet Revolver
Scott Weiland really does his thing on this track; I can see him singing this when his voice comes on
3. Hollywood Nights by Bob Seger
That galloping beat, the story, the emoting all make Mr. Seger deserve more modern props
4. Candy Everybody Wants by 10,000 Maniacs
College music goes mainstream; is this a happy song?
5. Pain by Jimmy Eat World
Jimmy Eat World would have been bigger in the 80s as they don't fit our modern ideas of needing to categorize rock bands into sub genres
6. Black Heart by Calexico
Depressing . . .
7. Vertigo by U2
The last good U2 song
8. Ace Of Spades by Motörhead
This is one of the greatest hard rock songs ever and somehow I didn't hear it's first 24 years of public availability.
9. Megalomaniac by Incubus
This is the only Incubus song I can tolerate
10.Magic by Olivia Newton-John
She's straight about it, "We have to believe we are magic, nothing can stand in our way."Olivia's vocals were so seductive on this track I was ready to believe her, roller skates and all
11.Brain Stew by Green Day
I thought for a while this would be Green Day's last song of note but then that American Idiot thing showed up.
12.Callin' Out by Lyrics Born
East Bay style rap; is it better than the Humpty Dance?
13.Fit but You Know It by The Streets
Listen and follow the story; it's funny
14.The Widow by The Mars Volta
Overrated band
15.Slow Hands by Interpol
Sounding like Joy Division and on the top of their game
16.An Honest Mistake by The Bravery
Sounding like New Order and on the top of their game
17.People Who Died by Jim Carroll
Death is funny when it rhymes. R.I.P. Jim
18.The Rat by The Walkmen
For me there was only this song by These guys and then they exploded
19.Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Ladies and gentlemen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. This is a great song to put on a Mix CD when you're moving away from your loved one or the other way around
20.Rock You Like A Hurricane by Scorpions
EPIC metal from the 80s; if their is one song you need in your collection by these Germans, this is it.