'Sleeper'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Cocksucker Blues (the movie) is pretty dull.
Oh yeah. It's no fun watching other people being stoned. Unless they're on speed and acid at the same time! Then they're like monkeys on roller skates. But the Stones were into heroin by then and that's the death of fun.
Slate article on iTunes being country-specific: The insanely great songs Apple won't let you hear.
Talks a lot about the Japanese music scene....
eta:
Meanwhile, a back door has appeared in the Music Store itself: While iTunes Japan pegs foreign undesirables from their credit card numbers, it can't screen fake Japanese addresses provided by prepaid iTunes Card users. There's a small but ardent underground economy among Americans in dummy addresses and e-mailed scans of Japanese iTunes Cards, picked up by friends in Tokyo convenience stores or openly sold online.
Wonder if this works for other countries....
If ever a song cried to be played on late and lamented The O.C., it's "4645" by the Radwimps.
Oooh, I love that band name: The Radwimps.
From tommy's link:
You can find an EP of Scottish sensations the Fratellis at iTunes United States, for instance, but their hit glam singalong "Chelsea Dagger" is in nearly every country except the United States.
I got it on my iPod. It's on a compilation CD I bought from HMV's UK Web site.
I got it on my iPod. It's on a compilation CD I bought from HMV's UK Web site.
Oooh! You want to post that at BR?
I need more glam singalongs.
I'll see what I can do.
So if you had to have one blues album - just one - you might think you should start with B.B. King or Muddy Waters or Howling' Wolf or Robert Johnson or Sonny Boy Williamson. Or possibly Elmore James or Skip James or Blind Willie McTell or Lightning Hopkins. Maybe T-Bone Walker or Buddy Guy or Robert Cray or Junior Kimbrough or Roy Buchanan or RL Burnside. (Or if you're Corwood, Hound Dog Taylor.)
But I think you might want to have West Side Soul by Magic Sam.
I had to shut that off after 31 seconds to prevent my brain from exploding.
Air. Guitar.
Ugh.
Yeah, I couldn't make it much past a minute.