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Thankful for MUSIC
Miles inside the music
In a world gone absolutely apeshit, we’re thankful this year for music, sweet music.
It takes you places you can’t go. It brings up feelings you can’t feel. It says things you can’t say.
No amount of money or power will help you create it, nor increase your appreciation and enjoyment of it.
Your parents can’t take it away, your boss can’t take it away, your kids can’t take it away, your husband or wife can’t take it away, your annoying roommates can’t take it away.
Because it’s pure heart, pure soul, pure consciousness.
Pilgrims, this year let’s be thankful for music.
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Radiohead Kinda Sucks
Totally dope. Or just dopey.
As much as we think 1993’s “Creep” is one of the great singles of all time, Radiohead since then has been a vastly overrated juggernaut of self-indulgence.
We’re so happy someone else finally came out and said it. SPIN.com ran a great piece this week on “top rock myths debunked.” Radiohead was #1 with a bullet:
Myth No. 1: Radiohead Can Do No Wrong
Fact: Radiohead kinda blow.
They’re the vanguard of music, a post-rock think tank, the absolute state of the art.
They’ve also been righteous, giving a confused music world a moral center. So we sit, wearing headphones and frozen grins, and continue denying that guilty, nagging feeling that actually, in some ways, when you think about it…Radiohead kinda blow.
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Post tags: Creep, Radiohead, spin.com, Thom Yorke
The Future of Music
Well, not really music. Not really music video. Not really comedy. Not really anything, actually, that existed before the explosion of content on the world wide intrawebs over the last few years.
Let’s call it the future of what people like to listen to and look at.
“If I Were a Bro,” a pop single/music video/comedy sketch from CollegeHumor, is the kind of thing that didn’t even exist 10 years ago. Now these things exist in the hundreds of thousands. They have no other meaningful commercial life beyond immediate, on-demand consumption on high-speed web connections.
We have seen the future, and the future is “If I Were a Bro.” Which we think is a good thing. It’s got a good beat, you can dance to it, and it made us laugh. We give it a 97.
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iTunes Top 100 Round-Up
Yo Gotti displays his 401(k) investment
Not a lot of change in this week’s big 100. Lady Gaga is still up there, as are her poppy peers Owl City, John Mayer, Britney, Miley and the like.
Given the stagnation, we’re devoting this week’s post to a few of the smaller fishes in this biggest of musical ponds.
You can keep your John Mayer — give us Luke Bryan, the Georgia-born country boy who enters the 100 for the first time with his new single “Do I.”
Another new kid on the 100 block is rapper Yo Gotti, who jumps into the 100 with his club hit “5 Star (Remix).” A new song in what appears to be an aging genre, but the kids love it nonetheless.
Speaking of aging, Reba McEntire herself has graced us with her ginger presence at #83 with “Consider Me Gone.” Reba, we’ll consider you back.
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Before She Was Gaga
We’ve featured — and poked fun at — Lady Gaga here at nuTsie in the past.
Turns out before she was Gaga she was Stefani Germanotta, yet another talented but painfully earnest young singer/songwriter. Here she is performing at a dorm at NYU just a few years ago — little did the audience know she was just biding her undergrad time until fully prepared to perpetrate her SUPER FREAKY alter ego on the world.
Pretty amazing transformation if you stop to think about it.
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Top 100 Surf Rock Songs
Bitchin' USA
nuTsie Top 100 Surf Rock Songs
We’ve noticed that whenever we’re having a bad day or, as is so common this time of the year in the Jet City, it’s 41 degrees Fahrenheit and pouring down rain, nothing puts the pep back in our step like some surf music.
The Beach Boys, Dick Dale, Jan & Dean, The Ventures, The Surfaris and the rest of the best are all featured in our nuTsie Top 100 Surf Rock Songs.
It’s a musical tube ride. Take off yer clothes, turn up the heat, pop the top on a cold stubby…and party like it’s 1964.
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Beck, Wilco, Feist Collaborate…
…and rock critics everywhere jizz in their pants.
Record Club: Skip Spence “Little Hands” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
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Oasis, The Who, Aerosmith — Family Feud!
Taken during a break between rounds
What do these three bands have in common, other than kicking arena-rock arse?
They all feature long-running feuds between their two key members.
Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey have been at each other since the earliest days of The Who. Pete, it would seem, has always been pissed off because Roger has pulled all the chicks while singing songs Pete wrote. Worked out OK for them — the latest stop on their path to rock immortality is the halftime slot at this year’s Super Bowl.
Steven Tyler quit Aerosmith! Joe Perry doesn’t care! Wait, Steven Tyler’s back in the band! Three stories in one! These guys haven’t stayed on top for 30+ years by being stupid.
Likewise for Oasis, in which brothers Noel (with the eyebrows and the guitar) and Liam (the good-looking one what used to shag Patsy Kensit) continually take the piss out of each other backstage, onstage and in the press. And sell a lot of records in the process.
We sense a theme…
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