life ends at 27
I Feel Good on television was one of my earliest musical memories. Of course I did not know until years later that it was a James Brown tune. It still makes me want to dance (and I hate dancing!).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6GHzONJpiI
Thank you James.
Never thought I would say this, but I am actually looking forward to the release of the next Adam Sandler movie “Reign Over Me”. Pearl Jam does a killer cover of The Who’s Love, Reign O’er Me and I am totally looking forward to owning the complete performance.
The bit of Pearl Jam goodness comes in the last 30 seconds of the trailer.
After years of on and off aborted snail mail attempts to snag this bootleg, I finally got it, thanks to dimeadozen.org. Thank you, DIME users. Thank you, MS (taper). The only references to this concert that I can Google for are a contemporary fan review, and a description of the concert on Five Horizons and an interview from local Singapore magazine Big O.
The experience literally changed my life.
Taper
MS
Source
ECM-939 > DAT-M > DAT1 48khz
Transfer
DA-20 > Monster coax > Dio 2496 > Soundforge 6.0 (resample to 44.1) > CDWave > FLAC
Disc I:
Disc II:
Eddie did a parody of Richard Marx’s Right Here Waiting, right before Blood which was utterly brilliant. If memory serves me correctly, Richard Marx performed at the same location (the Indoor Stadium) a day before Pearl Jam did. Lyrics according to Five Horizons:
whatever you do
wherever you are
you can fuck [?]wherever you piss
wherever you shit
make sure not to fall asleep in itwherever you pee [?]
wherever you spit
make sure you’re not caught by the copsdon’t want to be caned
don’t want to be shot
i just wanna… rock
Freddie Mercury was cruelly taken from this world 15 years ago today.
Rock on, Freddie, we still love you.
Ah, Paul and Billy trading licks at a Mr Big show.
<echo>Tapping madness!</echo>
Possessed of an extraordinarily beautiful voice, a powerful love for music and an overwhelming desire to give everything of himself to the Muse, the Muse whispering in his ear. That is what I think of Jeff Buckley.
Presenting Jeff singing Dido’s Lament off Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Forget your fate? Do not ask the impossible Jeff, and happy 40th.
Ah, the Blue Man Group, they of the blue body paint and outrageous stage performances, and recently designers of a Swatch series. What many may not realise through all that extraneous stuff is that they really are great musicians. This is their cover of I Feel Love, a great update that does the original justice.
Annette just looks so cute in that dress, I think I Feel Love.
Titbit: Vanessa Mae covered this song too. It is…rather unpleasant to listen to, and the video is hilariously bad.
My Amazon order arrived late last week. I am a happy and contented man.
Clockwise from top left, a pair of Ayreon albums, “Into the Electric Castle” and “Actual Fantasy Revisited”, Frameshift “An Absence of Empathy”, “Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence After the Long Goodbye” and the pièce de résistance, “The Absolute Sandman, Volume 1”.
“Man was born to love –
Though often he has sought
Like Icarus, to fly too high.
And far too lonely than he ought
To kiss the sum of east and west
And hold the world at his behest –To hold the terrible power
To whom only gods are blessed –
But me, I am just a man”
A great performance of one of my favourite songs from one of my favourite albums by one of my favourite bands: Just A Man, Phoenix Festival 20-7-1997.
A performance of Thank You at the MTV European Music Awards, 2001. Fred Durst was so bad he made Jimmy sound mediocre. Think about that for a moment, he made Jimmy Page, guitar god, sound mediocre. I laughed at the little “you and me” gesture he did because it was so…laughable.
A mini open letter to Fred Durst:
Fred, please leave classic rock alone. You do not have the pipes to carry those songs off. Singing Thank You in a monotone does not make it a reinterpretation.