The Sky I Scrape is hosting an MP3 of Pearl Jam’s cover of Love, Reign O’er Me. As I have mentioned in an earlier post, it seems Pearl Jam is recording the song for the new Adam Sandler movie “Reign Over Me”.
Category: Music
The Beatles – Hate
Mashups featuring the Beatles have come fast and thick since the unveiling of “The Grey Album” by DJ Danger Mouse, who has since gone on to achieve great fame as one half of Gnarls Barkley.
“Hate” was apparently released in December 2006 though I have just found out about it, and it is a both homage and parody of so far the only official Beatles mashup album “Love” (which is brilliant by the way). Downloads of MP3 files still available from the website now, but given how touchy EMI was over previous Beatles mashups, I will not be surprised to find them gone very soon.
There are of course purists who have expressed outrage over it, but turn off your mind, relax and you will find that it is quite good.
R.I.P. James Brown
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!).
Thank you James.
Reign O’er Me
Reign Over Me (2007) | Trailer (English) feat. Adam Sandler & Don Cheadle
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.
Pearl Jam 03-03-95 (Singapore)
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:
- Intro
- Release
- Go
- Last Exit
- Spin the Black Circle
- Tremor Christ
- Corduroy
- Not For You
- Lukin
- Even Flow
- Dissident
- Animal
- Deep
- Jeremy
- Rearviewmirror
- Immortality
- Alive
Disc II:
- Blood
- Daughter/(ABitW-II)/(WMA)
- Little Wing (tease)
- Why Go
- Porch
- Sonic Reducer (with Mark Arm)
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
R.I.P. Freddie
Freddie Mercury was cruelly taken from this world 15 years ago today.
Rock on, Freddie, we still love you.
Paul Gilbert vs Billy Sheehan
Ah, Paul and Billy trading licks at a Mr Big show.
<echo>Tapping madness!</echo>
Paul Gilbert
Jeff Buckley – Dido and Aeneas
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.
Blue Man Group – I Feel Love
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.
Blue Man Group - I Feel Love
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.
Amazon Swag: November 2006
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”.