Music Monday: Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract

Maybe I'll do a deep dive about this video and its inspiration one day because it involves Gene Kelly, two cartoon mice, and Disney.

Music Monday: Dio - Holy Diver

 

For all D&D inspiration needs.

Music Monday: George Michael - Freedom! '90

Music Monday: Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson - Luchenbach, Texas

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Not Musical Monday: Heart - Barracuda

Musical Monday: Rhiannon Giddens - Louisiana Man

Now that's talent!

Not Musical Monday: Earl Scruggs and Friends - Foggy Mountain Breakdown

And yes, that is Steve Martin!

Musical Monday: Brandy & Monica - The Boy is Mine

(Not) Musical Monday: Jinger - Pisces (Live Session)

(Fair warning: Don't listen to this with the volume too high)

It's the first of May, so you know what that means

"The proletariat will finally rise up and overthrow the capitalist pigs? VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!"

"What? No, it's time to post this video. Fucking what the hell, dude?"

‘Cause it’s first of May, first of May
Outdoor fucking starts today
So bring your lady
Or at least your favorite lay
The water’s not too cold dip in your big toe
Maybe I’ll see in flagrante delicto
Sky above you, grass below
Celebrate spring with a crazy little called fucking outside

Music on Monday: Brooks and Dunn - Neon Moon

Now if you lose your one and only
There's always room here for the lonely
To watch your broken dreams
Dance in and out of the beams
Of a neon moon

TAKE THESE BROKEN WINGS / AND LEARN TO FLY AGAIN / AND LEARN TO LIVE SO FREE

He didn't even receive a lousy copy of their home game!

I love Weird Al. I pity those who don't.

2018 is Already Cruel: RIP Dolores O'Riordan from The Cranberries

I'm not going to front and pretend that I was a die hard fan of The Cranberries; like a lot of people, I knew them mainly from their seminal hits "Linger" and "Zombie". Nonetheless, Dolores O'Riordan's vocal skills were clear to even us and I can honestly say that she had one of the best voices I have heard in my 34 years on this planet. Her loss at the age of 46 is a tragedy on many levels.

Here's their Tiny Desk Concert for NPR.



Such a sad loss.

I SHOULD'VE BEEN GONE / LONG AGO, FAR AWAY / AND YOU SHOULD'VE BEEN GONE / NOW I KNOW JUST WHY YOU STAY

No wonder Steve Perry is known as "The Voice". Damn, that man has some pipes on him.

Bought some CDs the other day

Kids, if you don't know what a CD is, ask your older siblings and get the hell off my lawn. Joking aside, I don't buy music all that often because I just don't listen to it with any kind of regularity. Still, when someone is selling CDs 4/$1 and the selection is good, I'm buying.

 Oh man, this album. I remember hooplah that accompanied Jagged Little Pill because of its lead single "You Ought to Know". The song's frank look at a failed relationship from the point of view of the woman refreshing, while Alanis Morissette's use of "fuck" and blowjob reference was quite shocking at the time. Nowadays, blatant references to sex acts in music is blaise, but back then, "going down on you in the theater" and "do you think of me when you fuck her?" had people shook.

Of course, those references were bleeped out on radio version.

Jagged Little Pill also features "Ironic", a song that people like to point out contains very little in the way of irony. Still, lines like "he waited his whole damn life to take that flight and as the plane crash down, he thought 'isn't this nice'" and "ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife" are nice contrasts between serious and nonsensical verses.

Also, I still can't wrap my head around the fact that Alanis Morissette did two dance-pop albums before Jagged Little Pill. She's the real life Robin Sparkles/Robin Daggers (and if that was an intentional reference by the How I Met Your Mother Writers, then holy shit).

 I haven't listened to Dirt yet, but I have listened to "Rooster" many times over the years, so the rest of the album ought to be good. Layne Staley had one of the greatest voices in music - not just rock music, but music period - and his untimely death more than fifteen years ago was easily as big a blow as Kurt Cobain's.

 I'm going to be honest here, I bought this entirely because it has "Hip to be Square" on it and regardless of that scene from American Psycho, it's one of my personal favorites.

Turns out the rest of the album isn't bad either. Huey Lewis and the News are an amazing band that managed to capture recreate the sound and feel of classic rock and roll without it coming off as a gimmick. I like 80s music, but in a sea of new wave and synth pop whatever, Huey Lewis was a refreshing breeze.

None more black.

Metallica's self-titled fifth album could practically double as a greatest hits. "Nothing Else Matters", "Enter Sandman", "The Unforgiven", and "Wherever I May Roam" all on the same album? Metallica evidently wanted to give buyers the most (head)bang for their buck.

My only regret here is that I didn't buy more CDs. There was a small plastic tub of them and I saw some choice albums, but I didn't go for them. Unfortunate.

All pictures via Wikipedia.

In the still of the night / I hear the wolf howl, honey / sniffing around your door

There's never a bad time for White Snake¹.

And if that's not enough, here's a pretty damn snazzy cover by the band Halestorm!

Lzzy Hale has some pipes on her, that's for sure.

¹Except, you know, during natural disasters, alien invasions, and when your president has clearly gone off the deep end.

I'll tell myself that I'm over you / Because I'm the king of wishful thinking

Bonus: Carly Rae Jepsen's cover.

Not a bad cover, but it could have been more upbeat. I'm guessing she never bothered to record it for an album.

In honor of Canada's 150th anniversary

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Stacy's mom has got it goin' on

I always liked the music video for Fountain of Waynes' "Stacy's Mom" and especially Rachel Hunter, the eponymous mom.

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Not gonna lie, I would have the hots for Stacy's mom too.