Legendary musician and producer, Jim worked on some of my favorite music, from playing piano on The Rolling Stones “Wild Horses” to production and piano work on The Replacement’s “Pleased To Meet Me” to piano work on Slobberbone’s “Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today” to just a huge amount of ridiculously good shit. You will certainly be missed.
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Apparently some pretty heady stuff. In a picture of their recording loft taken with a Gigapan camera, you can zoom in and see some of the details of their book shelves. John Barth, Stanley Elkin and Georges Perec are easily spotted, as are a slew of Dalkey Archive titles. But what’s up with Rudy Giuliani’s “Leadership”?
Other than a live DVD, I’ve never seen a Drive By Truckers video. Until now. Here is a live in studio version of Pollyanna from Patterson Hood’s second solo album, Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)
The BBC has a segment on the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. Included is some of Nick Cave’s soundtrack work. Link.
Ben Nichols (of Lucero) talks about and plays songs from his album, The Last Pale Light In The West, on NPR. The album is based on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian.
Fred singing Coldplay’s “Fix You”
Young@Heart’s Video for “I Will Survive”
Young@Heart@Fenway
The L.A. Times reports that Prince is set to release not one, not two, but three albums this year: MPLSOUND, Elixir and Lotus Flower. From what I’ve heard so far, it’s going to be a wild ride.
The Modern Word on The Insect Trust and “The Eyes Of A New York Woman.”
The song’s composers are listed as Jeff Ogden and Thomas Pynchon, and the lyrics are taken verbatim from V., where they are sung by Benny Profane as he, Angel, and Geronimo are trying to pick up some girls (V. [1963; rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1979], 127).
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Wikipedia has a listing of all the samples used on Girl Talk’s “Feed The Animals.”
Here is track 9, Hands In The Air:
9. “Hands in the Air” - 4:20
* 0:00 Tag Team - “Whoomp! (There It Is)”
* 0:00 Big Country - “In a Big Country”
* 0:15 Kraftwerk - “Numbers”
* 1:00 Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - “Planet Rock” (which samples “Trans-Europe Express” by Kraftwerk)
* 1:15 The Cardigans - “Lovefool”
* 1:17 Hot Chip - “Ready For The Floor”
* 1:31 Flo Rida - “Low”
* 1:38 The Velvet Underground - “Sunday Morning”
* 1:38 Justin Timberlake - “My Love”
* 2:10 Timbaland - “The Way I Are”
* 2:10 Yo Majesty - “Club Action”
* 2:23 Stardust - “Music Sounds Better With You”
* 2:37 Genesis - “Invisible Touch”
* 2:53 Michael Jackson - “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” (which samples “Soul Makossa” by Manu Dibango)
* 3:16 Sly and the Family Stone - “Dance to the Music”
* 3:46 The Gap Band - “You Dropped a Bomb on Me”
* 3:46 Edgar Winter Band - “Free Ride”
* 4:01 Janet Jackson ft. Nelly - “Call On Me”
* 4:02 Bossman - “You’re Wrong”
* 4:12 Jermaine Stewart - “We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off”
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Apparently, retailer exclusives sometimes don’t go quite so well. I would have to think that it is all about the marketing. I was in a Best Buy for the first time in about a year (they had a great deal on DVD-Rs) the day that Chinese Democracy was released, although I didn’t know this until after the fact. I didn’t see any displays, didn’t hear it playing in-store. Sure, there may have been a problem with lyrical content, but, being an exclusive, Best Buy could probably have wrangled an edited version.
