Thursday 27 August 2015
Throwback Thursday: Video Edition...HEADRUIN???
Going to do something a little different this Throwback Thursday. On a whim I decided to search for my old band on YouTube and found these two promo videos we put together for our reunion show...
Tuesday 25 August 2015
Eight Days A Week - Aug 25th, 2015
Continuing with my belief that Tuesday are still "New Music Day" here's the latest 'episode' of Eight Days A Week, where I showcase 8 new tracks I heard in the last week.
Here's the track listing (and some comments) for this episode of Eight Days A Week...
Buckcherry - Tight Pants
Hollywood Vampires - I Got A Line On You ("Supergroup" featuring Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Johnny Depp)
Motorhead - Sympathy For The Devil (Rolling Stones cover)
Pigeon Park - Break Me
TesseracT - Messenger
Queensryche - Arrow Of Time
The Winery Dogs - Oblivion (featuring Billy Sheehan, Mike Portnoy and Richie Kotzen)
Sabaton - Metal Crue (this song technically came out in 2006 but I only heard it for the first time this past week)
Friday 21 August 2015
Drowning Pool Videos...the new trend on YouTube?
There seems to be a growing number of videos set to Drowning Pool's "Bodies" appearing on YouTube...here's just a couple...which one is your favourite;
Benny Hinn "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor"
Sponge Bob Square Pants
Teletubbies Mash-Up
OSANG on Pilipinas X Factor
An 8 Year Old Playing Drums
The Original...
Sponge Bob Square Pants
Teletubbies Mash-Up
OSANG on Pilipinas X Factor
An 8 Year Old Playing Drums
The Original...
Wednesday 19 August 2015
Eight Days A Week - Aug 19th, 2015
As some of you may already know from some of my posts, I'm not a big fan of the recent change within the music industry moving 'new release/new music' day from Tuesday to Friday. Since the change has happened I have forgotten new music is available on almost every Friday it has been and every Tuesday since the change I have been disappointed that there is no new music to listen to.
If you're feeling the same way, then Eight Days A Week is something you might want to follow and listen to. Not only is it a play list of 8 songs I heard for the first time that week, but moving forward I will do my best to post the latest 'episode' on Tuesday so everyone who misses it, can get their new release fix.
Yes, I know today is Wednesday...I just came up with this idea last night. Give me a break.
Here's the track listing (and some comments) for this episode of Eight Days A Week...
Annihilator - Suicide Society
Conniption - Let The Wolf Out
3 Years Hallow - Chemical Ride
Bon Jovi - We Don't Run
Operation: Mindcrime - Re: Inventing The Future (Geoff Tate from Queensryche's new band)
Tank - Valley Of Tears
Iron Maiden - Speef Of Light
Wednesday 12 August 2015
Eight Days A Week - Aug 13, 2015
NEW - Eight Days A Week
Tracks (with a little added info from me):
Sevendust "Thank You"
The Darkness "Last Of Our Kind"
Art Of Anarchy "Time Every Time" (featuring Scott Whalen and Bumblefoot)
Wilson "All My Friends"
Clutch "X-Ray Visions"
Cult To Follow "Leave It All Behind" (featuring the former lead-singer from Union Underground)
Bring Me The Horizon "Happy Song"
Saxon (YES...SAXON!!!) "Battering Ram"
Throwback Thursday - Bulletboys "Smooth Up In Ya"
The Bulletboys actually have a new album out called Elefante
It's not bad...but doesn't compare to this classic!
Good album...horrible album cover...or was it the other way around...
It's not bad...but doesn't compare to this classic!
Tuesday 11 August 2015
R.I.P. Columbia House
More shocking than the fact that after all this time Columbia House, the subscription service famous for offering 13 records for $1, is finally shutting down is probably the fact that after all this time Columbia House is shutting down!
At first I thought this may have been a Throwback Tuesday post, but nope. This JUST happened.
So I'd like to take a quick moment to say Kudos! to Columbia House. In an era of the music industry were we have seen many music retailers close their doors, Columbia House lasted a lot longer than most. And that's with the countless number of people who didn't full-fill the subscription agreement, never paid for the CDs/Cassettes/Records, or committed mail fraud by making up a name and signing up. I'm looking at you "Jerry Hammersmith". Then there's my all time favourite, my high school class mate who signed up and then wrote deceased on the invoice and mailed just the invoice back.
I wonder if this means the people that owed them money, their debts are now cleared?
CLICK HERE to read the full story on the demise of Columbia House.
At first I thought this may have been a Throwback Tuesday post, but nope. This JUST happened.
So I'd like to take a quick moment to say Kudos! to Columbia House. In an era of the music industry were we have seen many music retailers close their doors, Columbia House lasted a lot longer than most. And that's with the countless number of people who didn't full-fill the subscription agreement, never paid for the CDs/Cassettes/Records, or committed mail fraud by making up a name and signing up. I'm looking at you "Jerry Hammersmith". Then there's my all time favourite, my high school class mate who signed up and then wrote deceased on the invoice and mailed just the invoice back.
I wonder if this means the people that owed them money, their debts are now cleared?
CLICK HERE to read the full story on the demise of Columbia House.
Sunday 9 August 2015
Lenny Kravitz's Double Standard?
Lenny Kravitz's 'wardrobe malfunction' was pretty much headline news this past week and in all the coverage I noticed something, an obvious double standard.
When covering the incident female news anchors (the ones that I saw covering the story) reported it as a positive story. Some of which were genuinely excited about the 'wardrobe malfunction', going as far as to allude to how easy it is to find the unedited pictures online, bragging that they not only already saw the photos but enjoyed what they saw.
So what would happen if the roles were reversed?
What if a female celebrity had a 'wardrobe malfunction' that was caught on video and there were pictures posted about it and a male anchor reported it as positive news encouraging viewers to go find the pictures online?
That actually happened a while back when a variety of female celebrity selfies were leaked out on the internet. Did you see any of the male or female anchors reporting on the story suggesting people check them out online or allude to how good the pictures were? This story was reported in a completely different fashion. Private nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Victoria Justice, Kate Upton and more getting leaked out onto the internet wasn't just referred to as a scandal, but was even called a sex crime and many even went as far as to say if you searched out and looked at these leaked pictures you too were committing a sex crime against these celebrities.
I'm not disagreeing with that. Those actress had every right to be upset about those pictures being leaked and I think the media and others condemning the leaking of the photos was commendable...although one could argue that simply by reporting it they caused just as much damage as the people who leaked the photos...but that's a discussion for another blog.
So why wasn't the same approached used when the photos of Lenny Kravitz 'wardrobe malfunction' started getting shared on the internet?
Some might argue "He's a guy so it's different"...even going as far as to say "He was proud of the pictures". Do we assume that because he's a guy he is okay with his man parts being on display on the internet?
Turns out Lenny wasn't happy about it. He's threatening to take legal action. (CLICK HERE for more details on that)
When the Jennifer Lawrence and company's photos were leaked we were told we were committing a sex crime against these women if we searched out and looked at the leaked photos. Should that same standard not be upheld for Lenny Kravitz? And if yes, now that Lenny Kravitz is talking about legal action, claiming a 'breach of human rights' will the reporters and anchors who commented positively about the ordeal and encouraged people to seek out the photos online be disciplined? Will they apologize for contributing to this breach of human rights?
As a side note, you may have noticed that I did not post any specific name of the offending individuals or links to clips of them making these comments. Why? Because I felt that if I posted their names or pointed you to or shared links to where you can see them make these comments it would be hypocritical and I'd be no different than them.
When covering the incident female news anchors (the ones that I saw covering the story) reported it as a positive story. Some of which were genuinely excited about the 'wardrobe malfunction', going as far as to allude to how easy it is to find the unedited pictures online, bragging that they not only already saw the photos but enjoyed what they saw.
So what would happen if the roles were reversed?
What if a female celebrity had a 'wardrobe malfunction' that was caught on video and there were pictures posted about it and a male anchor reported it as positive news encouraging viewers to go find the pictures online?
That actually happened a while back when a variety of female celebrity selfies were leaked out on the internet. Did you see any of the male or female anchors reporting on the story suggesting people check them out online or allude to how good the pictures were? This story was reported in a completely different fashion. Private nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Victoria Justice, Kate Upton and more getting leaked out onto the internet wasn't just referred to as a scandal, but was even called a sex crime and many even went as far as to say if you searched out and looked at these leaked pictures you too were committing a sex crime against these celebrities.
I'm not disagreeing with that. Those actress had every right to be upset about those pictures being leaked and I think the media and others condemning the leaking of the photos was commendable...although one could argue that simply by reporting it they caused just as much damage as the people who leaked the photos...but that's a discussion for another blog.
So why wasn't the same approached used when the photos of Lenny Kravitz 'wardrobe malfunction' started getting shared on the internet?
Some might argue "He's a guy so it's different"...even going as far as to say "He was proud of the pictures". Do we assume that because he's a guy he is okay with his man parts being on display on the internet?
Turns out Lenny wasn't happy about it. He's threatening to take legal action. (CLICK HERE for more details on that)
When the Jennifer Lawrence and company's photos were leaked we were told we were committing a sex crime against these women if we searched out and looked at the leaked photos. Should that same standard not be upheld for Lenny Kravitz? And if yes, now that Lenny Kravitz is talking about legal action, claiming a 'breach of human rights' will the reporters and anchors who commented positively about the ordeal and encouraged people to seek out the photos online be disciplined? Will they apologize for contributing to this breach of human rights?
As a side note, you may have noticed that I did not post any specific name of the offending individuals or links to clips of them making these comments. Why? Because I felt that if I posted their names or pointed you to or shared links to where you can see them make these comments it would be hypocritical and I'd be no different than them.
Thursday 6 August 2015
Throwback Thursday - The Video Edition: Another banned video...
For last week's Throwback Thursday - The Video Edition I shared Dire Straights "Money For Nothing" which thanks to some questionable lyrics has been banned in a variety of media outlets.
This week, I decided to share another video which was banned by MTV. Danger Danger's "Monkey Business". The video was banned due to some 'inappropriate' actions shared between the scantily clad woman and the 'ape' in the video. Both characters representing living versions of the characters that appeared on the album cover (seen below). Art work which was done by an artist who also did work for Disney...
The video itself is fairly tame compared to today's standards, but back in the early 90's this was too much for MTV...but not too much for MuchMusic, as I got to see the video on the Power Hour. The album and the track were highly anticipated and it has often been debated (between me and some other Danger Danger fans) that if the video wouldn't have been banned, would the single have done better on the charts or was this just another victim of the growing Seattle scene at the time...
This week, I decided to share another video which was banned by MTV. Danger Danger's "Monkey Business". The video was banned due to some 'inappropriate' actions shared between the scantily clad woman and the 'ape' in the video. Both characters representing living versions of the characters that appeared on the album cover (seen below). Art work which was done by an artist who also did work for Disney...
The video itself is fairly tame compared to today's standards, but back in the early 90's this was too much for MTV...but not too much for MuchMusic, as I got to see the video on the Power Hour. The album and the track were highly anticipated and it has often been debated (between me and some other Danger Danger fans) that if the video wouldn't have been banned, would the single have done better on the charts or was this just another victim of the growing Seattle scene at the time...
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