I'll be a guest tomorrow of "My Conversations with the Electronic Shrink", a show on the critically acclaimed Mount Scoups Radio (English blog). I'm trying to decide on another spare song for the playlist I chose for tomorrow, in case we'll have more time, and can't come up with it:
The Sound of Music - Maria
Nellie McKay - Mother of Pearl
Greg Dulli - Black Swan
Arab Strap - New Birds
the Magnetic Fields - I Think I Need a New Heart
Scrawl - Story Muscrave (At the Piano)
Bela Tarr - Sway with Me: Israeli singer, can be listened to here: [link]
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Queens of the Stone Age - In the Fade
Cat Power - Metal Heart
Nada Surf - Concrete Bed
Mark Lanegan - Tonight (Afghan Whigs cover)
Black Box Recorder - Brutality
Spares:
Scrawl - Clock Song
And...? What say thou?
x-posted with tech (except I'm not going to quote anything this time):
Apple’s Ping Launch is a Dud, But The Web is Alive with the Sound of Music
A little long but very interesting.
John Lennon's Imagine and Van Halen's Jump are a lot more alike than you'd think: [link]
Susan Boyle Walks Off 'America's Got Talent'
TMZ has learned Susan Boyle has left Los Angeles in tears after being snubbed by a songwriter who refused to let her sing one of his hits on "America's Got Talent."
Susan arrived to L.A. earlier today to perform the song "Perfect Day" on the show.
Sources connected to the show tell TMZ ... producers needed permission from the songwriter, Lou Reed -- the former lead singer for The Velvet Underground and famous for "Walk on the Wild Side" -- but at the last minute they were informed that Reed refused permission because he isn't a Boyle fan.
When Boyle found out, she dissolved into tears -- unprepared to change her tune for the show.
We're told Boyle went to LAX this afternoon -- still in tears -- and is catching a flight back to London.
"America's Got Talent" refused to comment.
Lou is kind of an ass, huh? (I mean in general.)
Someone
was an ass to not get the rights and/or not tell her that until the day she was supposed to perform it.
I call stunt.
Would they even let her use the song without changing the lyrics?
Maybe he denies the right to use it routinely, only this time it was to someone with emotional problems.
Why would they need to change the lyrics? Too dark?
A vocalist falling apart right before a national broadcast because she can't sing the song she's been working on isn't all
that
far gone. Particularly if the news was given as dramatically as this allegedly was.
(What? We had to go with "Lou Reed doesn't LIKE YOU" and not "Susan, baby, there's a problem and we couldn't get the rights in time...")
Stunt stunt stunt
