Hello,
First of all I want to think Hannah Storm for lighting up the TV screen every time she's on Sports Center. She's a very attractive woman.
I also love to watch Dwayne Wade and the rest of the Heat play. Wade is such a tremendous athlete and he does a little bit of everything. Last night Wade made several drives to the basket, scoring and getting to the foul line. As us old timers call it 3 points the old fashioned way, and as younger people call it the hoop and the harm. On one play where he was driving to the basket, he got his arm hacked and he still made a thunderous dunk. On a couple of crucial defensive plays he made big blocks. On one, Rajon Rondo stole the ball and it looked like he was driving for a easy layup. However Wade running step for step with Rondo timed his jump perfectly and blocked the shot. That play was a tremendous momentum shift in the Heat's favor. Later in the game Wade got a block that he blocked with his finger tips. Several tremendous plays by one of this generation's greatest players.
Also I said if the Heat won Game 2 easily this series was over. Well since the Celtics had a 15 point lead at one time and the game went into overtime, obviously it was anything but a easy victory. One or two more plays or calls go Boston's way and this series is tied at 1. This is the Celtics last hurrah and the difference between the Heat and the Celtics isn't as great as I thought. This series could go seven games and it will be quite a battle.
However I'd be remiss if I didn't give thumbs up to Rajon Rondo, he had an amazing game last night. The torch is clearly being passed to Rondo in Boston. Obviously the big three (the really old three?) won't all be coming back next season. And while I'm not a fan of the allegedly very petulant Rondo, he had an amazing game. He scored 44 points on 16 of 24 shooting. As someone cheering for the Heat, I got sick of him knocking down that elbow jumper repeatedly. He also had 8 rebounds, 10 assists and 3 steals. He also scored all 12 Celtics points in the overtime. There's no doubt he's a clutch player.
Also the Dodgers have all of a sudden lost 3 games in a row and to a very mediocre team. The Brewers (22-28, 10.9% Playoffs) have won 3 of their first 4 games in this series that the Dodgers are hosting. I'm hoping that the Dodgers can salvage at least one victory in tonight's game. However what is more concerning is that Matt Kemp reaggravated his hamstring injury. He was suppose to get a MRI today and he's probably going back on the disabled list. He just got off the disabled list May 29th, he injured himself in only his second game back.
Today's music selections come from my iTunes or Rewind 100.7. This first set of songs come from my iTunes.
A great, great song by Depeche Mode, "A Pain That I'm Used To":
The great Ronnie James Dio's "We Rock".
U2 and B.B. King's "When Love Comes To Town":
Steely Dan's "Hey 19"
I posted a few songs from the latest Rascal Flatts CD a couple of days ago. This morning on my iPod I heard this Rascal Flatts classic. This song took on a bit more poignancy as I just had my 2 year anniversary of my divorce. Both a great song and a great video. Rascal Flatts have a lot of amazing songs about heartache and breaking up.
"These Days":
Songs from Rewind 100.7:
Rewind 100.7 actually played "Sussudio", that made me think of the much better Phil Collins song "Easy Lover":
Yesterday I wrote about how I wished Rewind would play Prince, on the way home they played a funkified version of "Let's Go Crazy": (This is the only video available for this song)
Information Society's "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)": (with a cameo by Leonard Nimoy)
Sister Sledge's "We Are Family":
I love Lou Bega's "Mambo Number 5":
themusicaddict
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
"Mad Men" Bounces Back, Rewind 100.7 Playlist Suggestions, Go Red Sox and Heat
Hello,
I finally got around to seeing the latest episode of "Mad Men" last night. (I love the DVR!) This latest episode, "The Other Woman", is a return to form. Just some quick thoughts.
1) Peggy Olsen may be leaving SCDP, but she's not going to leave the show? Right? Peggy telling Don that she was quitting SCDP was one of the most poignant moments in this show's proud history. I wish that Don hadn't ruined the moment with his sarcasm and selfishness. What should have been even a sweeter moment was lost in his bitterness. Although great moments ruined by a bad moments seemed to be the theme of this episode. There was another uneasy mix of good and bad moments at the end of the episode. While the rest of SCDP was celebrating signing Jaguar, their first car!, Peggy left SCDP for perhaps the last time.
That final scene was triumphant then bittersweet before closing out again as a triumphant moment. I understood what she was going through as she left the office. She was looking at the place where she made all those good memories one more time. I worked at a place for many years and have some of my fondest memories there. It was a very bittersweet moment when I walked out of there. However as she got on to the elevator and the Kinks started play Peggy realized what a bright future she had elsewhere.
2) The Pete Campbell slime train keeps on rolling on. I'm disappointed that Herb brought up the idea of sleeping with Joan. (If Herb looked familiar to you, it's because he played a cop on "Blue Bloods" a cop cooking the books to increase his chances of getting a promotion.) I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that Campbell pandered to the client, instead of putting an immediate stop to it. But then he brings up the repellent idea to Joan for her to think about it? I'm glad that Don was against the idea, but I'm disappointed that he didn't do more to prevent it. It was nice that he went to her apartment, but we realized later it was too late by this point. I'm also disappointed that Roger Sterling wasn't more forceful in stopping Joan's prostitution. Although she received a devil's ransom I'm disappointed that Joan actually accepted the offer and did the deed. She now owns 5% of the company and is a voting partner. Does she think that's worthwhile for selling her soul? If and when will SCDPH reflect their new name?
We know that Pete will do anything for the job, but this was even slimy by his standards. Now that Pete has slept with at least 3 other women outside the bonds of matrimony, he thinks everyone else might do the same thing for the right price. I also hate how this slime ball thinks he's in charge at SCDP. He really is a small, morally decrepit man. How much longer will Trudy put up with him? And why is she putting up with him now?
And how much longer will Megan and Don stay together? Did anyone really think this marriage would last. Don represents a more old fashioned time, while Megan represents the newness of 1967. This is reflected in their opinions of the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows".
I'm so excited this movie is finally going to be released, love me some "Les Mis":
Quick sports notes: the Red Sox have finally broken through to an above .500 record. Go Red Sox! The Red Sox are now 25-24, with a 39.8% chance of making the playoffs. They play in the very tough AL East and still remain in last place. The AL East standings are compressed. Even though Boston is in last place, they only trail co first place Tampa Bay and Baltimore by 3.5 games. (In comparison the Dodgers lead the NL West's second place Giants by 5.5 games.) Boston has won 7 of 10 games and 2 in a row. Although things will be tougher if Dustin Pedroia is really going to be out for a few weeks. They've really been snake bitten by the injury bug the last couple of seasons.
From a Boston team I'm cheering for to a Boston team I'm cheering against, the Celtics. I expect the Heat to take a 2-0 lead on the Celtics tonight. At this point it looks like we are barreling towards a NBA Finals between San Antonio and Miami. Before we get there though, what is Boston going to do tonight in regards to their promise of being more physical? How will Miami respond? We've seen how the Heat responded to Indiana's increased physical play. It only inspired the Heat to dominate and close out that series. If Miami's wins as relatively easily as they did Monday night, this series could be a sweep.
Although the Spurs aren't exciting, they certainly know how to win. Congratulations to them winning 20 consecutive games, including going 10-0 in the playoffs. The fact that they aren't overhyped like the Knicks, Lakers or Magic keeps them low profile enough that their constant winning doesn't annoy as much. I think I heard more about the Lakers in their losing than San Antonio in winning. The Spurs probably have been the consistently best team over the last several years. But due to their low profile, you wouldn't know it. I believe the Spurs like to have their profile so low.
All songs below are songs either I heard on Rewind 100.7 or I remembered because of a song I heard on Rewind 100.7. Listening more to Rewind 100.7 I'm liking their music playlist for the most part. Although all their songs have been by white artists, other than this song.
Seriously Prince needs to be represented as well, to me this is the ultimate radio song of the 80s. I was going to put the video for Prince's "When Doves Cry". However Prince has it locked down so tight that even videos with just the music and lyrics aren't even available. Prince it's time to loosen the strings and allow the real versions of your songs to be played on youtube. Believe me the other artists attempting to perform your classic songs just doesn't do your music justice.
I forgot how great this Madonna song is, "Cherish":
Rewind 100.7 actually played the short version of this song. However I prefer the long version of Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus":
Sheryl Crow's "Soak Up The Sun":
Rewind 100.7 may I humbly suggest adding this song to your playlist. I know it's way outside of the mainstream. However it's a great song and fits in with all the other songs you play. The band is The Producers and the song is "I Love Lucy". I probably only know of this band because their videos were played on MTV back in the day. (Ahh the good old days when I actually watched and cared about MTV.)
or you could play another great Producers song "What's He Got":
And I have no idea why this song doesn't get any more attention as one of the all-time great 80's songs. I can listen to it over and over again. Boom Crash Opera's "Onion Skin":
This is also a great 80s song that is sadly under appreciated, the Sunday's "Here's Where The Story Ends":
How about this one, 'Til Tuesday's "Voices Carry":
One more humble suggestion Rewind 100.7. How about the Nena classic "99 Luftbaloons":
themusicaddict
I finally got around to seeing the latest episode of "Mad Men" last night. (I love the DVR!) This latest episode, "The Other Woman", is a return to form. Just some quick thoughts.
1) Peggy Olsen may be leaving SCDP, but she's not going to leave the show? Right? Peggy telling Don that she was quitting SCDP was one of the most poignant moments in this show's proud history. I wish that Don hadn't ruined the moment with his sarcasm and selfishness. What should have been even a sweeter moment was lost in his bitterness. Although great moments ruined by a bad moments seemed to be the theme of this episode. There was another uneasy mix of good and bad moments at the end of the episode. While the rest of SCDP was celebrating signing Jaguar, their first car!, Peggy left SCDP for perhaps the last time.
That final scene was triumphant then bittersweet before closing out again as a triumphant moment. I understood what she was going through as she left the office. She was looking at the place where she made all those good memories one more time. I worked at a place for many years and have some of my fondest memories there. It was a very bittersweet moment when I walked out of there. However as she got on to the elevator and the Kinks started play Peggy realized what a bright future she had elsewhere.
"Mad Men" brilliantly worked this song into that bittersweet closing moment:
2) The Pete Campbell slime train keeps on rolling on. I'm disappointed that Herb brought up the idea of sleeping with Joan. (If Herb looked familiar to you, it's because he played a cop on "Blue Bloods" a cop cooking the books to increase his chances of getting a promotion.) I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that Campbell pandered to the client, instead of putting an immediate stop to it. But then he brings up the repellent idea to Joan for her to think about it? I'm glad that Don was against the idea, but I'm disappointed that he didn't do more to prevent it. It was nice that he went to her apartment, but we realized later it was too late by this point. I'm also disappointed that Roger Sterling wasn't more forceful in stopping Joan's prostitution. Although she received a devil's ransom I'm disappointed that Joan actually accepted the offer and did the deed. She now owns 5% of the company and is a voting partner. Does she think that's worthwhile for selling her soul? If and when will SCDPH reflect their new name?
We know that Pete will do anything for the job, but this was even slimy by his standards. Now that Pete has slept with at least 3 other women outside the bonds of matrimony, he thinks everyone else might do the same thing for the right price. I also hate how this slime ball thinks he's in charge at SCDP. He really is a small, morally decrepit man. How much longer will Trudy put up with him? And why is she putting up with him now?
And how much longer will Megan and Don stay together? Did anyone really think this marriage would last. Don represents a more old fashioned time, while Megan represents the newness of 1967. This is reflected in their opinions of the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows".
I'm so excited this movie is finally going to be released, love me some "Les Mis":
Quick sports notes: the Red Sox have finally broken through to an above .500 record. Go Red Sox! The Red Sox are now 25-24, with a 39.8% chance of making the playoffs. They play in the very tough AL East and still remain in last place. The AL East standings are compressed. Even though Boston is in last place, they only trail co first place Tampa Bay and Baltimore by 3.5 games. (In comparison the Dodgers lead the NL West's second place Giants by 5.5 games.) Boston has won 7 of 10 games and 2 in a row. Although things will be tougher if Dustin Pedroia is really going to be out for a few weeks. They've really been snake bitten by the injury bug the last couple of seasons.
From a Boston team I'm cheering for to a Boston team I'm cheering against, the Celtics. I expect the Heat to take a 2-0 lead on the Celtics tonight. At this point it looks like we are barreling towards a NBA Finals between San Antonio and Miami. Before we get there though, what is Boston going to do tonight in regards to their promise of being more physical? How will Miami respond? We've seen how the Heat responded to Indiana's increased physical play. It only inspired the Heat to dominate and close out that series. If Miami's wins as relatively easily as they did Monday night, this series could be a sweep.
Although the Spurs aren't exciting, they certainly know how to win. Congratulations to them winning 20 consecutive games, including going 10-0 in the playoffs. The fact that they aren't overhyped like the Knicks, Lakers or Magic keeps them low profile enough that their constant winning doesn't annoy as much. I think I heard more about the Lakers in their losing than San Antonio in winning. The Spurs probably have been the consistently best team over the last several years. But due to their low profile, you wouldn't know it. I believe the Spurs like to have their profile so low.
All songs below are songs either I heard on Rewind 100.7 or I remembered because of a song I heard on Rewind 100.7. Listening more to Rewind 100.7 I'm liking their music playlist for the most part. Although all their songs have been by white artists, other than this song.
Seriously Prince needs to be represented as well, to me this is the ultimate radio song of the 80s. I was going to put the video for Prince's "When Doves Cry". However Prince has it locked down so tight that even videos with just the music and lyrics aren't even available. Prince it's time to loosen the strings and allow the real versions of your songs to be played on youtube. Believe me the other artists attempting to perform your classic songs just doesn't do your music justice.
I forgot how great this Madonna song is, "Cherish":
Rewind 100.7 actually played the short version of this song. However I prefer the long version of Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus":
Sheryl Crow's "Soak Up The Sun":
Rewind 100.7 may I humbly suggest adding this song to your playlist. I know it's way outside of the mainstream. However it's a great song and fits in with all the other songs you play. The band is The Producers and the song is "I Love Lucy". I probably only know of this band because their videos were played on MTV back in the day. (Ahh the good old days when I actually watched and cared about MTV.)
or you could play another great Producers song "What's He Got":
And I have no idea why this song doesn't get any more attention as one of the all-time great 80's songs. I can listen to it over and over again. Boom Crash Opera's "Onion Skin":
This is also a great 80s song that is sadly under appreciated, the Sunday's "Here's Where The Story Ends":
How about this one, 'Til Tuesday's "Voices Carry":
One more humble suggestion Rewind 100.7. How about the Nena classic "99 Luftbaloons":
themusicaddict
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Heat-Celtics, Great New Music From Rascal Flatts and Haley Reinhart And Others
Hello,
Not that anyone should be surprised by the result of last night's Heat victory over the Celtics. The Heat are clearly the better team. The dynamic duo of LeBron James and Dwayne Wade is just too much for the old Celtics to handle. And that duo was amazing last night for the Heat. James and Wade combined for 54 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists. They also did combine for 7 turnovers. I love watching Wade play so much. He's just so amazing with the so many things he can do on the basketball court. From his shooting off one foot bank shot, to a no look rifle whipped pass to Joel Anthony to his slicing up the middle of the Celtics defense. The Celtics like to grab and hold a lot, but they can't do that if they can't catch the Heat.
I expect to see this series end in no more than 5 games, if the Heat getting really motivated they could sweep. I'm not sure what Rajon Rondo means by his comment of "hit the deck", but I don't think he frightens many Heat players. And when the Pacers tried to play more physical, the only thing that did was fire up the Heat even more. After the Pacers caused the Heat to "hit the deck", the Heat retaliated. Not only did they hit back, but they closed out the Pacers with much prejudice.
That being said I just don't know if someone is going to be able to knock off the Spurs this season. They just seem like they are on a mission to steamroll to a NBA title. However that's not something I want to see. The last major championship I was interested in was last season's NBA Finals. Then I had to watch the boring Mavericks win the whole thing. Yawn. I also didn't care about the World Series or Super Bowl because I wasn't interested in either team.
One of the CD's I bought via legalsounds.com was the new Rascal Flatts CD "Changed". I like many of that bands songs and the CD was only 99c, so I bought it. They've had many classic songs in their careers and it doesn't seem they'll be running out of them anytime soon. I'm glad I bought "Changed" as it is very, very good. I highly recommend any fan of good music to buy "Changed". Here's a selection of songs from that amazing CD.
This video features one of the hottest looking banjo players ever. "Banjo" is one of the best songs on "Changed":
"Hot In Here":
"Hurry Baby":
Haley Reinhart has released her first CD "Listen Up". It's a decent CD, but the thing I love most about it is her amazing voice. I'm still not sure how the sexy, big voiced Reinhart lost out to the dreary Scotty McCreery for last season's "AI" crown. I actually liked Lauren Alaina, but I don't think she was better than Reinhart. Of course "American Idol" had an agenda. They wanted who they thought the singer with the most commercial appeal would be to win the competition. Why they picked McCreery for that I have no idea. It would have been ridiculous if Haley hadn't beat out the Adam Lambert wanna be James Durbin.
And do you remember when "AI" was hyping all the "talent" last season? Then the winner is McCreery, fourth place went to James Durbin and then 5th place went to the incredibly lame Jacob Lusk. Besides the "AI" tour and having McCreery shoved down our throat, have you heard much from the other two?
The below song "Free" really highlights how amazing her voice is. I'd love to hear the story what prompted this song to be written. Her voice sounds similar to both the amazing Adele and Amy Winehouse, which should only be interpreted as a compliment.
"Now That You're Here" (Live) What an amazing voice? Can she breathe in those pants though? Here's Haley again:
"Wasted Tears":
Currently I'm reading the Arthur C. Clarke book "2001: A Space Odyssey". Although I think the movie of the same name is beyond belief weird, I still felt parts of it was intriguing. I didn't even watch the entire movie, it's just too slow moving. It seriously needs a good bit of editing. The book and the movie are very similar from what I've read and seen so far. I'm just wondering do all the various stories come together in a cohesive whole at the end? If I remember right the end of the movie made no sense to me the first time I watched it. In both there's the story of Moon-Watcher, the story of Dr. Heywood Floyd and then the story of Hal the computer. What does the black slab have to do with all of them? What do all the individual stories have to do with each other? Why did Clarke write this as a novel, instead of a series of short stories. It does come off as a short story collection.
Just a couple of miscellaneous thoughts. I was so excited for the fifth season of "Mad Men" to start this season. I rather enjoyed the first two episodes as well, but since then this show has deteriorated. It's got to the point where it's not my number one priority to watch on Sunday nights. On Sunday I watched the first "Underworld" movie, Kate Beckinsdale looks amazing in her skin tight leather outfit. Then last night I chose to watch the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals. Although "Mad Men" isn't as good as it use to be, I plan on watching it tonight. I also still have the two final episodes of the very solid, though now cancelled, "Awake" to watch.
Finally I love how much of a fun ride that the Dodgers are on. They are rolling, currently they have the best record in MLB. They are 32-16, having won two-thirds of their games. They also have a 88.7% chance of making the playoffs. Matt Kemp and Magic Johnson are the latest cover of Sports Illustrated. Also the Dodgers did fairly well without Matt Kemp, they went 9-5 in the games he was out with an injury. However I'm glad he's eligible to come off the DL today. Currently ESPN has the Dodgers ranked as the #1 team in their MLB rankings. That's due to their great record and how many games they lead the second place Giants by. The Dodgers are just completely dominating the mediocre NL West. They lead second place San Francisco by 6.5 games and third place Arizona by 10.5 games. Things are good in Dodgerland now!
I was with my kids this last weekend. After awhile I got sick of listening to my daughter's current pop music. I started flipping around the station and stumbled across Rewind 100.7. As you can tell by the radio station's name these are songs that are a bit older. They are mostly songs from the 80's and 90's. So the below songs are a selection of songs that I've heard recently on that radio station or other great songs I've heard lately.
I'll start off with the Kinks "Paronoia":
I love this song, but I'm a bit disturbed that I've already heard this song twice in the limited time I have listened to Rewind 100.7. There are so many great songs from the 80's and 90's that repeats shouldn't be very frequent. That's especially if they go beyond many of those songs that honestly have been over played. For every time they play "Sledgehammer", they should play a "White Lines". That will help keep their mix much more fresh.
This is Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/ Jenny":
I love this song, I wonder if this is the kind of song they'll play on Rewind 100.7? I've only listened to that station for only a hour or two.
The Darkness "I Believe In A Thing Called Love":
One more song from the best decade for music, the 80's, this is The Power Station:
Today's final song is from the amazing band Paramore, this is "Ignorance":
themusicaddict
Not that anyone should be surprised by the result of last night's Heat victory over the Celtics. The Heat are clearly the better team. The dynamic duo of LeBron James and Dwayne Wade is just too much for the old Celtics to handle. And that duo was amazing last night for the Heat. James and Wade combined for 54 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists. They also did combine for 7 turnovers. I love watching Wade play so much. He's just so amazing with the so many things he can do on the basketball court. From his shooting off one foot bank shot, to a no look rifle whipped pass to Joel Anthony to his slicing up the middle of the Celtics defense. The Celtics like to grab and hold a lot, but they can't do that if they can't catch the Heat.
I expect to see this series end in no more than 5 games, if the Heat getting really motivated they could sweep. I'm not sure what Rajon Rondo means by his comment of "hit the deck", but I don't think he frightens many Heat players. And when the Pacers tried to play more physical, the only thing that did was fire up the Heat even more. After the Pacers caused the Heat to "hit the deck", the Heat retaliated. Not only did they hit back, but they closed out the Pacers with much prejudice.
That being said I just don't know if someone is going to be able to knock off the Spurs this season. They just seem like they are on a mission to steamroll to a NBA title. However that's not something I want to see. The last major championship I was interested in was last season's NBA Finals. Then I had to watch the boring Mavericks win the whole thing. Yawn. I also didn't care about the World Series or Super Bowl because I wasn't interested in either team.
One of the CD's I bought via legalsounds.com was the new Rascal Flatts CD "Changed". I like many of that bands songs and the CD was only 99c, so I bought it. They've had many classic songs in their careers and it doesn't seem they'll be running out of them anytime soon. I'm glad I bought "Changed" as it is very, very good. I highly recommend any fan of good music to buy "Changed". Here's a selection of songs from that amazing CD.
This video features one of the hottest looking banjo players ever. "Banjo" is one of the best songs on "Changed":
"Hot In Here":
"Hurry Baby":
Haley Reinhart has released her first CD "Listen Up". It's a decent CD, but the thing I love most about it is her amazing voice. I'm still not sure how the sexy, big voiced Reinhart lost out to the dreary Scotty McCreery for last season's "AI" crown. I actually liked Lauren Alaina, but I don't think she was better than Reinhart. Of course "American Idol" had an agenda. They wanted who they thought the singer with the most commercial appeal would be to win the competition. Why they picked McCreery for that I have no idea. It would have been ridiculous if Haley hadn't beat out the Adam Lambert wanna be James Durbin.
And do you remember when "AI" was hyping all the "talent" last season? Then the winner is McCreery, fourth place went to James Durbin and then 5th place went to the incredibly lame Jacob Lusk. Besides the "AI" tour and having McCreery shoved down our throat, have you heard much from the other two?
The below song "Free" really highlights how amazing her voice is. I'd love to hear the story what prompted this song to be written. Her voice sounds similar to both the amazing Adele and Amy Winehouse, which should only be interpreted as a compliment.
"Now That You're Here" (Live) What an amazing voice? Can she breathe in those pants though? Here's Haley again:
"Wasted Tears":
Currently I'm reading the Arthur C. Clarke book "2001: A Space Odyssey". Although I think the movie of the same name is beyond belief weird, I still felt parts of it was intriguing. I didn't even watch the entire movie, it's just too slow moving. It seriously needs a good bit of editing. The book and the movie are very similar from what I've read and seen so far. I'm just wondering do all the various stories come together in a cohesive whole at the end? If I remember right the end of the movie made no sense to me the first time I watched it. In both there's the story of Moon-Watcher, the story of Dr. Heywood Floyd and then the story of Hal the computer. What does the black slab have to do with all of them? What do all the individual stories have to do with each other? Why did Clarke write this as a novel, instead of a series of short stories. It does come off as a short story collection.
Just a couple of miscellaneous thoughts. I was so excited for the fifth season of "Mad Men" to start this season. I rather enjoyed the first two episodes as well, but since then this show has deteriorated. It's got to the point where it's not my number one priority to watch on Sunday nights. On Sunday I watched the first "Underworld" movie, Kate Beckinsdale looks amazing in her skin tight leather outfit. Then last night I chose to watch the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals. Although "Mad Men" isn't as good as it use to be, I plan on watching it tonight. I also still have the two final episodes of the very solid, though now cancelled, "Awake" to watch.
Finally I love how much of a fun ride that the Dodgers are on. They are rolling, currently they have the best record in MLB. They are 32-16, having won two-thirds of their games. They also have a 88.7% chance of making the playoffs. Matt Kemp and Magic Johnson are the latest cover of Sports Illustrated. Also the Dodgers did fairly well without Matt Kemp, they went 9-5 in the games he was out with an injury. However I'm glad he's eligible to come off the DL today. Currently ESPN has the Dodgers ranked as the #1 team in their MLB rankings. That's due to their great record and how many games they lead the second place Giants by. The Dodgers are just completely dominating the mediocre NL West. They lead second place San Francisco by 6.5 games and third place Arizona by 10.5 games. Things are good in Dodgerland now!
I was with my kids this last weekend. After awhile I got sick of listening to my daughter's current pop music. I started flipping around the station and stumbled across Rewind 100.7. As you can tell by the radio station's name these are songs that are a bit older. They are mostly songs from the 80's and 90's. So the below songs are a selection of songs that I've heard recently on that radio station or other great songs I've heard lately.
I'll start off with the Kinks "Paronoia":
I love this song, but I'm a bit disturbed that I've already heard this song twice in the limited time I have listened to Rewind 100.7. There are so many great songs from the 80's and 90's that repeats shouldn't be very frequent. That's especially if they go beyond many of those songs that honestly have been over played. For every time they play "Sledgehammer", they should play a "White Lines". That will help keep their mix much more fresh.
This is Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/ Jenny":
I love this song, I wonder if this is the kind of song they'll play on Rewind 100.7? I've only listened to that station for only a hour or two.
The Darkness "I Believe In A Thing Called Love":
One more song from the best decade for music, the 80's, this is The Power Station:
Today's final song is from the amazing band Paramore, this is "Ignorance":
themusicaddict
Monday, May 28, 2012
Happy Memorial Day!, Legalsounds.com Update
Hello,
I would be remiss if I didn't wish everyone a Happy Memorial Day. That goes especially to all those Americans who have fought for and died for this great country. I'm also grateful for those Americans who have come home alive and still have scars. I'm also so very grateful for their family members and for all their sacrifices.
And I know this is so cliche, but this song comes to mind when I think of this day or the military. It's so true.
Celebrating the greatness of American's brave military, I'm going to funk it up a bit with Mr. James Brown. (I have to admit this song makes me think of an old Eddie Murphy stand up routine.)
It's been a week since I've discovered the awesomeness of legal sounds.com. They sell individual songs for .9c and many full albums are under $1.00. Not only that but they are also currently running a special where all songs are 20% off their already low price. I know what you're thinking: "That sounds great, but what's the catch?" Well the closest thing to a catch I've experienced so far is I was charged 24c for an "international transaction fee". I'm not sure what that is. But only paying $30.24 for all the amazing songs I've added to my computer has been such a great deal. Only two things that would even count as being a catch so far is it's much harder to get a song on my computer than iTunes. Although adding music via legalsounds.com isn't very hard either, just a couple more steps. In what now seems to be an irrational fear, I thought I might wake up one morning and my hard drive was going to be wiped clean. But that hasn't happened.
You may want to check this out soon though, I've noticed that some songs have skyrocketed to 19c each.
What I've got out of it is a lot of great songs so far. I like to buy classic albums from a band's career. For instance I've bought older and under appreciated CDs from bands as diverse the Scorpions and Blondie. I've even let my oldest song buy some music and then he burns it on a blank CD.
I have to admit I'm not real excited by the NBA's Western Conference Finals. I neither like nor hate the Spurs or Thunder enough to cheer for either. My preference would be for the Thunder to advance to the NBA Finals as the Spurs have won so many titles recently. I predict this series will go 7 games and either team could win.
The Eastern Conference Finals starts tonight and I predict the Heat will win this series easily. I predict the Heat will win the series in 5 games. The old Celtics have just been worn down too much and that they don't have what it takes to compete with the Heat. Also while Boston was playing a tough Game 7 Saturday night, the Heat were resting. That gave many of their players a much needed chance to rest and recover from a long season.
themusicaddict
I would be remiss if I didn't wish everyone a Happy Memorial Day. That goes especially to all those Americans who have fought for and died for this great country. I'm also grateful for those Americans who have come home alive and still have scars. I'm also so very grateful for their family members and for all their sacrifices.
And I know this is so cliche, but this song comes to mind when I think of this day or the military. It's so true.
Celebrating the greatness of American's brave military, I'm going to funk it up a bit with Mr. James Brown. (I have to admit this song makes me think of an old Eddie Murphy stand up routine.)
It's been a week since I've discovered the awesomeness of legal sounds.com. They sell individual songs for .9c and many full albums are under $1.00. Not only that but they are also currently running a special where all songs are 20% off their already low price. I know what you're thinking: "That sounds great, but what's the catch?" Well the closest thing to a catch I've experienced so far is I was charged 24c for an "international transaction fee". I'm not sure what that is. But only paying $30.24 for all the amazing songs I've added to my computer has been such a great deal. Only two things that would even count as being a catch so far is it's much harder to get a song on my computer than iTunes. Although adding music via legalsounds.com isn't very hard either, just a couple more steps. In what now seems to be an irrational fear, I thought I might wake up one morning and my hard drive was going to be wiped clean. But that hasn't happened.
You may want to check this out soon though, I've noticed that some songs have skyrocketed to 19c each.
What I've got out of it is a lot of great songs so far. I like to buy classic albums from a band's career. For instance I've bought older and under appreciated CDs from bands as diverse the Scorpions and Blondie. I've even let my oldest song buy some music and then he burns it on a blank CD.
I have to admit I'm not real excited by the NBA's Western Conference Finals. I neither like nor hate the Spurs or Thunder enough to cheer for either. My preference would be for the Thunder to advance to the NBA Finals as the Spurs have won so many titles recently. I predict this series will go 7 games and either team could win.
The Eastern Conference Finals starts tonight and I predict the Heat will win this series easily. I predict the Heat will win the series in 5 games. The old Celtics have just been worn down too much and that they don't have what it takes to compete with the Heat. Also while Boston was playing a tough Game 7 Saturday night, the Heat were resting. That gave many of their players a much needed chance to rest and recover from a long season.
themusicaddict
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Go Heat!, 20 Minutes of Monkeys?
Hello,
Thinking about tonight's Game 6 between the Indiana Pacers and the Miami Heat, for some reason Michael Buffer came to mind:
It's going to be a tense and charged atmosphere at tonight's game. Indiana's home court, whose name I won't mention as it's too lame, will be rocking. There will be 18,000 fans ready to rock. Things will be even more tense with the Pacers fighting for their playoff lives. The Heat will be looking to closeout the Pacers and prepare to beat the Boston Celtics. The Heat came up big in Games 4 and Game 5. But it's said that closeout games are the hardest to win. With how chippy and physical this series has become, it might even be harder for than the typical closeout game. The Heat need to come out and punch the Pacers in the mouth (not literally) and take away their desire to win. If they can do that the Heat should win tonight's game. I do expect a tight and close game throughout, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Heat pull away a bit at the end.
I look forward to a hard fought and intense game. I'm glad I'm not a ref tonight. They will probably be over reactive to keep things in control.
Speaking of the Celtics, how would of the refs called a Lakers-Celtics NBA Final? Both teams get a bunch of calls, would the refs know what to do? By the way thank you Boston and Philadelphia for having a 7 game series to add a little more excitement to the playoffs. It's too bad that whoever wins this series is irrelevant as the Heat will roll though them like a steamroller.
Anyway today marks the two year anniversary of my divorce being finalized. I've had a lot of mixed emotions about this anniversary. I was pretty excited at my first anniversary, I was glad to get that first sometimes dark year behind me. But today there has been a bit of mourning, even though I know that we shouldn't be married. I know it's hard to explain. But on this anniversary day the below song explains how I feel better than I can.
However that being said there's no reason to linger in the past. Looking forward this is my song:
Okay so I tried again to watch "2001: A Space Odyssey" last night. Can I just say it still doesn't make any sense to me. This movie also could have used a lot of editing. Do we really need the 20 minutes of scenes at the start of the movie from The Dawn of Man? Not to mention those have to be the worst monkey costumes ever. If they were trying for monkey costumes that looked like there was a human inside, they got it. I was so bored that I stopped watching the movie about 2/3rds of the way through. However this movie does have some amazing music like the below:
Here's some of the 20 minutes of monkeys in "2001: A Space Odyssey":
How about some Wagner, "Ride of The Valkyries". This music was used very effectively in "Apocalypse Now":
Here are some great songs. I'll probably get my man card taken away for liking this song. However this is really a great and upbeat song. The band is We Are The In Crowd, the song is "Kiss Me Again":
From the former Go Go:
In one of the Facebook groups that I'm in, someone asked for silly songs. Perhaps not so strangely this song came to mind:
I really, really love this song:
Go Heat, themusicaddict
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Roger Waters Very Cool Performance of "The Wall", "American Idol", Jordin Sparks, The Dodgers are rolling
Hello,
Just a quick update on my blog yesterday about will this be the year of way too many amazing singers dying, I saw this morning on-line that George Jones is in the hospital. Neither Jones, 80 years old, Merle Haggard, 75 years old or Willie Nelson, 79 years old, are getting any younger.
This is easily my favorite George Jones song:
This is my favorite Merle Haggard song, but it was a bit harder to pick:
My favorite Willie Nelson song, it's one of the most amazing convergences of singer/song ever. This is the live version of "Always On My Mind".
This is the version with the background singer, which gives it just that extra bit of feeling:
Writing my blog yesterday I stumbled across the full version of Roger Waters performing "The Wall".
I've watched/listened to the above Roger Waters performance three times already. It's an amazing live performance of "The Wall". Roger Waters is still sounding good in this performance that was filmed only two years ago. My favorite parts are 1) When he sings a duet with himself and 2) The intro into "Run Like Hell", where Waters plays the fascist dictator, and then the actual "Run Like Hell" are just amazing. Starting at about 1:32 is where this concert takes off. See below:
Is Jordin Sparks the most unheralded "American Idol" winner ever? If she is, that's a complete shame. She was amazing her season of "American Idol", remember she won over incredible singer Melinda Doolittle. However Sparks truly showed her chops the other night when she sang "I Will Always Love You" at the Billboard 2012 Music Awards. She sang that song in their tribute to the amazing Whitney Houston. Sparks is looking amazing and very grown up. She also sounds amazing hitting that big final note just like Whitney did. Sparks I would say and also spine tingling.
And because I love Melinda so much, here's an awesome performance from her:
I love that the circle has now come complete for Kelly Clarkson. She was discovered because she won Season One of "American Idol". Now she'll be appearing on a reality TV show of her own. She'll be joining John Legend (sorry Lionel Richie), Jennifer Nettles and Robin Thicke (huh?) on the new singing competition show "Duets". I also saw Kelly on that same Billboard Music Awards. She had been battling her weight for years, but she looked absolutely svelte and gorgeous Sunday night.
Has "American Idol" been a success? Yes, very much so. Have had as many singers become big stars as one would expect? I would say "no" and that it's not even close. Name the superstars from "American Idol": Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood is all. Also the show hasn't produced a major star since 2005. Not exactly a hit maker is it? I would say the biggest star since 2005 would either be Daughtry, the lame Adam Lambert or the gorgeous Katharine McPhee. This week the 12th season's winner will be announced. I'm burned out by the lame judges and haven't watched this season of the show. I wonder how many "American Idols" can you name? I've already given you two and here's a picture of one of the superstars:
Just a quick update on my blog yesterday about will this be the year of way too many amazing singers dying, I saw this morning on-line that George Jones is in the hospital. Neither Jones, 80 years old, Merle Haggard, 75 years old or Willie Nelson, 79 years old, are getting any younger.
This is easily my favorite George Jones song:
This is my favorite Merle Haggard song, but it was a bit harder to pick:
My favorite Willie Nelson song, it's one of the most amazing convergences of singer/song ever. This is the live version of "Always On My Mind".
This is the version with the background singer, which gives it just that extra bit of feeling:
Writing my blog yesterday I stumbled across the full version of Roger Waters performing "The Wall".
I've watched/listened to the above Roger Waters performance three times already. It's an amazing live performance of "The Wall". Roger Waters is still sounding good in this performance that was filmed only two years ago. My favorite parts are 1) When he sings a duet with himself and 2) The intro into "Run Like Hell", where Waters plays the fascist dictator, and then the actual "Run Like Hell" are just amazing. Starting at about 1:32 is where this concert takes off. See below:
Is Jordin Sparks the most unheralded "American Idol" winner ever? If she is, that's a complete shame. She was amazing her season of "American Idol", remember she won over incredible singer Melinda Doolittle. However Sparks truly showed her chops the other night when she sang "I Will Always Love You" at the Billboard 2012 Music Awards. She sang that song in their tribute to the amazing Whitney Houston. Sparks is looking amazing and very grown up. She also sounds amazing hitting that big final note just like Whitney did. Sparks I would say and also spine tingling.
And because I love Melinda so much, here's an awesome performance from her:
I love that the circle has now come complete for Kelly Clarkson. She was discovered because she won Season One of "American Idol". Now she'll be appearing on a reality TV show of her own. She'll be joining John Legend (sorry Lionel Richie), Jennifer Nettles and Robin Thicke (huh?) on the new singing competition show "Duets". I also saw Kelly on that same Billboard Music Awards. She had been battling her weight for years, but she looked absolutely svelte and gorgeous Sunday night.
Has "American Idol" been a success? Yes, very much so. Have had as many singers become big stars as one would expect? I would say "no" and that it's not even close. Name the superstars from "American Idol": Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood is all. Also the show hasn't produced a major star since 2005. Not exactly a hit maker is it? I would say the biggest star since 2005 would either be Daughtry, the lame Adam Lambert or the gorgeous Katharine McPhee. This week the 12th season's winner will be announced. I'm burned out by the lame judges and haven't watched this season of the show. I wonder how many "American Idols" can you name? I've already given you two and here's a picture of one of the superstars:
Now that we have two, how many more can you name? No, Adam Lambert didn't win. But I do wonder why they are still trying to make him a star? No, David Archuletta didn't win either, thankfully he's on a LDS mission now.
Although I watched last season it took me a few minutes to remember who won, Scotty McDreery. He extended the reign of boring male singers to 3 years. He followed Lee DeWyze, who I'm wondering if he's back selling paint at the paint store? It's obvious his career will never go anywhere. Then Kris Allen has been doing okay, but he won't be a big star either.
Now that's six winners of "American Idol", how many of the other four can you name? Here's the other "winners" of "American Idol": Fantasia Barrino, Ruben Studdard, Taylor Hicks and one of my favorites, David Cook. I'm still so glad he won that year, knocking out Archuleta.
So how are you doing so far? How many of those did you guess? Now do you want a real challenge?How many of the second place finishers can you name? The second place finishers have mostly gone away. I'll give you some hints. One of them is on one of my favorite new shows from this season. One of the other second place finishers never seemed to fit on this mostly pop show, but she was easily the most talented of her season. Two other second place finishers I already mentioned above. Another second place finisher is probably more famous for his sexual orientation than his singing. I believe he also appeared on the ironically titled "Celebrity Apprentice". If you shake your head a bit, you might be able to loosen the name of who finished second place last year. How many of the 4 other second place finishers can you name?
Here's the wikipedia link including at least the Top 10 finishers from all 11 previous seasons and the contestants of this season:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Idol_finalists
Let's go back to another singer from "American Idol". Carly Smithson is someone that I can't believe never made it, she has an amazing voice:
Sports notes. I'm so glad that the Thunder knocked off the Lakers to advance to the Western Conference Finals. The Thunder-Spurs matchup should be a hell of a series. That series starts on Sunday. In the Eastern Conference I hope to catch at least the last quarter of tonight's Heat-Pacers game. LeBron James and Dwayne "The Man" Wade put on an amazing show Sunday afternoon. When the Heat are firing on all cylinders, they are a thing of beauty to behold.
Although both the Clippers and Lakers are eliminated there's still at least one good team playing in LA. My Dodgers have been so much fun to watch this year. They've been playing so well. I heard someone speculate the other day that the reason the Dodgers are playing so much better might be because their ownership situation is cleared up. I can see that making a difference, but can it really be making that much of a difference? Maybe so.
I was flipping back and forth to this past Sunday's Sunday Night Baseball. I flipped on just in time to catch Scott Van Slyke hit that pinch hit 3 run home run. That proved to be the winning runs and it was a very cool moment. Although it's only been a quarter of a season, the Dodgers do have that feel of being a team of destiny this year.
Let's look at some of their numbers. The Dodgers have the best record in Major League Baseball at 29-13. In fact, the Dodgers are much closer to a .700 winning percentage than anyone is close to them. The Dodgers have won 5 games in a row and 10 out of 12. According to espn.com, LA's chances of making the playoffs are an incredible 92.9%. They lead the NL West's second place team, San Francisco, by 7 games. Oh yeah and Matt Kemp has set out the last few games with that injured hamstring. If healthy he's due back May 29th.
On the other hand a team that I also love, but definitely doesn't have the feel of destiny, is the Boston Red Sox. It's good to see that Kevin Youkilis should be coming back today. That makes me feel better. Although I wonder if it seems like the Red Sox have only been teasing me over their last 11 games. After a horrendous, ump slobbering his gum on Bobby Valentine, injuries galore, Josh Beckett melting down the Red Sox have regained their mojo just a bit. They have won 9 of their last 11 games.
However I just don't feel that this is going to be the year of the Red Sox (36.9 Poff%). Even after they won 9 of 11 games, they are still in last place in the AL East. Boston is tied with the hated Yankees (24.9 Poff%) at 21-21. Both teams are 5.5 games behind first place Baltimore (43.2 Poff% ), which is the team Boston played and beat last night. I'm guessing that the entire AL East is waiting for the Orioles to completely collapse and begin to play like the Orioles of old again.
The Atlanta Braves are also playing fairly well, they are 26-17 and first place in the NL East. Meanwhile the Pirates and Cubs, well never mind they are the Pirates and the Cubs.
themusicaddict
Monday, May 21, 2012
legalsounds.com: What is the catch?, Is 2012 The Year of Many Great Singer's Death?
Hello,
Over the weekend I discovered the supposedly legal music download site, legalsounds.com. A friend of mine on Facebook asked for some help filling up her iPod. Two of her friends commented on how cool the website legalsounds.com is. Spurred by these Facebook friends of a Facebook friend I had never met I decided to check them out. Now I don't know if legalsounds.com is truly legal or not, I honestly have no idea. And this blog isn't an investigation whether it's legal or not. From my little interaction with them they do appear legit so far. They aren't like Limewire, where it was quite well known they were skirting the law. But still I wonder if legalsounds.com is truly legal? I mean how can it be? Their pricing structure seems to be too good to be true. I learned a long time ago that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Many very popular songs are free and the most one will ever pay for a song is 9c. Do you understand my skepticism now? One can buy complete MP3 CD's for only 99c. And to top it off now they giving you 20% off their already low prices. That 99c CD now becomes 79c. Do you see what I mean when I wonder what the catch is. I would love to get someone's perspective on this.
From wikipedia.org, this is what I found out about legal sounds.com:
And I learned the hard way if you own a Mac and want to download music from legalsounds.com then get the downloader called Folx. There's a link for it from the legalsounds.com website.
So far from what I've seen of legalsounds.com I really like it. I've bought a few MP3 CDs from them so far. For instance, I bought Roger Waters "In The Flesh" and Whitesnake's "Live: In The Shadow of The Blues". (By the way before you start mocking me for liking Whitesnake's CD, check it out. It's very good, a bluesy take on their mid to late 80's music. And although recorded only a few years ago, David Coverdale's voice is still sounding very strong.) Those are 2 CDs I've wanted for a long time, but never had bought them as they were too expensive. However I picked up both CDs for less than $2 each. It's hard to beat that price, especially if it's legal. Although I did sort of wake up today wondering if my hard drive might be wiped out- going back to the to good to be true thought.
Although I continue looking for this website's catch, I still haven't found it yet. How is the audio quality you ask? It's identical to music downloaded from iTunes and amazon.com. The next question, do they have all the hottest and current new music. No, they don't and if that's the catch, then big deal. They only have 10 of the Top 20 CDs available according to Billboard's Top 100 list from May 26th, 2012. Again that's only a small trifle. As you can see I'm mostly buying songs from several years ago. Every older CD or song I've looked for, legal sounds.com has had. These are songs that should be in my music collection, but for some reason aren't.
I originally had planned to write a blog yesterday, I was going to write about all the amazing singers that have died this year already. For instance, Donna Summer, Whitney Houston, MCA of The Beastie Boys, Davy Jones of the Monkees and Levon Helm of The Band. Also dying this year was Dick Clark. Not a musician, but someone who had a tremendous amount of influence on music for several years. Although his influence had waned over the last several years.
Already this year we lost one of the biggest 70's stars in Donna Summer and one of the biggest 80's stars in Whitney Houston. Also the Beastie Boys and the Monkees both certainly had huge influences in their day. The Beastie Boys were one of the first rap acts that really broke into the mainstream. They opened for Madonna on one of their first tours.
I was going to write about other famous and amazing musicians that might die this year. Those people included Robin Gibb, who died yesterday. That leaves only Barry Gibb as a surviving member of the Bee Gees. Even the Gibb's younger brother, Andy, died several years ago. Other singers that might die this year and doesn't seem to be out of the realm of possibility include Aretha Franklin (70). She seems to have been sick for a long time. Glen Campbell (76) is fighting alzheimer's disease. There are also still two remaining Beatles, Paul McCartney (69) and Ringo Starr (71) won't be around forever. Those ages seem to be even older in what can be a very destructive entertainment industry. Remember both Gibb and Summer were only in their early 60's when they died.
Other classic bands members are getting older too, including members of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones (although surprisingly Keith Richards is still alive) and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Also Eric Clapton (67), David Bowie (65), Chuck Berry (85), B.B. King (86) and Sly Stone (69) are still alive.
Then there are deaths that may come from accident, suicide or some other unexpected cause. Remember last year when 27 year old Amy Winehouse suddenly died? That was sort of a surprise, but looking back now was it really that much of a surprise. People like that may be Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Both have had a troubled couple of years, but you never know when they might go off the tracks.
Songs today are great songs I've downloaded from legal sounds.com over the last couple of days. Do you remember this John Stewart song?:
Everlast's "The Warning":
This is one of those boy band songs that logically I shouldn't like, however it snuck it's way into my head. So yes I like this One Direction song:
Whitesnake's "In The Still Of The Night" (Live):
Roger Waters "Happiest Days of Our Lives/ Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2" I love watching this and would love to "The Wall" tour before Roger quits touring. I love the killer guitar solo starting at 3:46. Both this and Whitesnake videos are the kind I play over and over again because the music is so good.
"Trolley Wood" comes from the CD "Room Noises", which is from one of my all-time favorite bands that no one has heard of. The band's name is Eisley.
Robert John's "Sad Eyes":
My favorite band growing up was Blondie. Thanks to legalsounds.com cheap prices I was able to buy a couple of their classic catalog albums. "Little Girl Lies" is a song I had never heard before, it's from the CD "Blondie":
I don't know if I'd want to see the full version of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" in concert. However there's something very magical about this song. This is the Floyd version:
I truly love youtube.com for all the cool videos one can find on there. Where else would most of us see some of these cool videos? For some reason I thought this video would be a bit cooler. David Bowie's "Space Oddity":
themusicaddict
Over the weekend I discovered the supposedly legal music download site, legalsounds.com. A friend of mine on Facebook asked for some help filling up her iPod. Two of her friends commented on how cool the website legalsounds.com is. Spurred by these Facebook friends of a Facebook friend I had never met I decided to check them out. Now I don't know if legalsounds.com is truly legal or not, I honestly have no idea. And this blog isn't an investigation whether it's legal or not. From my little interaction with them they do appear legit so far. They aren't like Limewire, where it was quite well known they were skirting the law. But still I wonder if legalsounds.com is truly legal? I mean how can it be? Their pricing structure seems to be too good to be true. I learned a long time ago that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Many very popular songs are free and the most one will ever pay for a song is 9c. Do you understand my skepticism now? One can buy complete MP3 CD's for only 99c. And to top it off now they giving you 20% off their already low prices. That 99c CD now becomes 79c. Do you see what I mean when I wonder what the catch is. I would love to get someone's perspective on this.
From wikipedia.org, this is what I found out about legal sounds.com:
| All the materials in the LegalSounds.com music service are available for distribution via Internet according to license ЛС-3М-05-09 of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society. Under the license agreement, Legalsounds.com pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of the Russian Federation "On Copyright and Related Rights."[5] |
So far from what I've seen of legalsounds.com I really like it. I've bought a few MP3 CDs from them so far. For instance, I bought Roger Waters "In The Flesh" and Whitesnake's "Live: In The Shadow of The Blues". (By the way before you start mocking me for liking Whitesnake's CD, check it out. It's very good, a bluesy take on their mid to late 80's music. And although recorded only a few years ago, David Coverdale's voice is still sounding very strong.) Those are 2 CDs I've wanted for a long time, but never had bought them as they were too expensive. However I picked up both CDs for less than $2 each. It's hard to beat that price, especially if it's legal. Although I did sort of wake up today wondering if my hard drive might be wiped out- going back to the to good to be true thought.
Although I continue looking for this website's catch, I still haven't found it yet. How is the audio quality you ask? It's identical to music downloaded from iTunes and amazon.com. The next question, do they have all the hottest and current new music. No, they don't and if that's the catch, then big deal. They only have 10 of the Top 20 CDs available according to Billboard's Top 100 list from May 26th, 2012. Again that's only a small trifle. As you can see I'm mostly buying songs from several years ago. Every older CD or song I've looked for, legal sounds.com has had. These are songs that should be in my music collection, but for some reason aren't.
I originally had planned to write a blog yesterday, I was going to write about all the amazing singers that have died this year already. For instance, Donna Summer, Whitney Houston, MCA of The Beastie Boys, Davy Jones of the Monkees and Levon Helm of The Band. Also dying this year was Dick Clark. Not a musician, but someone who had a tremendous amount of influence on music for several years. Although his influence had waned over the last several years.
Already this year we lost one of the biggest 70's stars in Donna Summer and one of the biggest 80's stars in Whitney Houston. Also the Beastie Boys and the Monkees both certainly had huge influences in their day. The Beastie Boys were one of the first rap acts that really broke into the mainstream. They opened for Madonna on one of their first tours.
I was going to write about other famous and amazing musicians that might die this year. Those people included Robin Gibb, who died yesterday. That leaves only Barry Gibb as a surviving member of the Bee Gees. Even the Gibb's younger brother, Andy, died several years ago. Other singers that might die this year and doesn't seem to be out of the realm of possibility include Aretha Franklin (70). She seems to have been sick for a long time. Glen Campbell (76) is fighting alzheimer's disease. There are also still two remaining Beatles, Paul McCartney (69) and Ringo Starr (71) won't be around forever. Those ages seem to be even older in what can be a very destructive entertainment industry. Remember both Gibb and Summer were only in their early 60's when they died.
Other classic bands members are getting older too, including members of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones (although surprisingly Keith Richards is still alive) and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Also Eric Clapton (67), David Bowie (65), Chuck Berry (85), B.B. King (86) and Sly Stone (69) are still alive.
Then there are deaths that may come from accident, suicide or some other unexpected cause. Remember last year when 27 year old Amy Winehouse suddenly died? That was sort of a surprise, but looking back now was it really that much of a surprise. People like that may be Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Both have had a troubled couple of years, but you never know when they might go off the tracks.
Songs today are great songs I've downloaded from legal sounds.com over the last couple of days. Do you remember this John Stewart song?:
Everlast's "The Warning":
This is one of those boy band songs that logically I shouldn't like, however it snuck it's way into my head. So yes I like this One Direction song:
Whitesnake's "In The Still Of The Night" (Live):
Roger Waters "Happiest Days of Our Lives/ Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2" I love watching this and would love to "The Wall" tour before Roger quits touring. I love the killer guitar solo starting at 3:46. Both this and Whitesnake videos are the kind I play over and over again because the music is so good.
"Trolley Wood" comes from the CD "Room Noises", which is from one of my all-time favorite bands that no one has heard of. The band's name is Eisley.
Robert John's "Sad Eyes":
My favorite band growing up was Blondie. Thanks to legalsounds.com cheap prices I was able to buy a couple of their classic catalog albums. "Little Girl Lies" is a song I had never heard before, it's from the CD "Blondie":
I don't know if I'd want to see the full version of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" in concert. However there's something very magical about this song. This is the Floyd version:
I truly love youtube.com for all the cool videos one can find on there. Where else would most of us see some of these cool videos? For some reason I thought this video would be a bit cooler. David Bowie's "Space Oddity":
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