Who produced Family’s Music In A Doll’s House album?
Where did an excited fan bite Lou Reed in 1973?
I’m reposting last week’s podcast for those of you that missed it:
After not having created a podcast music mix in a long time, I got the hankering to do so this week. I had all these perfect songs in my head and as I put it together, noticed that they all fit together quite well. I hope you’ll all take 45 minutes some time soon and give this one a good crank…I think you’ll definitely dig it!
Let me know what you think and if you have any thoughts or questions on any of the songs. The track list is below, and if you use iTunes you’ll find the track listing also in the picture window in iTunes:
NewmRadio NewMix
The Four Horsemen- Aphrodite’s Child
C30, C60, C90, Go- Bow Wow Wow
Run Around Eyes- Heavy Metal Kids
Ghetto Funk- Boris Gardiner Happening
Unidentified (Flying Being)- Steve Hillage
Torpedo Tits- Exmagma
Theme from Kinetic Ritual- Klark Kent
Schooldays- Home
Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear- The Mother Hips
Knockin’ Round the Zoo- James Taylor
Signed D.C. (Live)- Love
Can You Dig My Vibrations?- Sir Douglas Quintet
Wow! A couple recent reviews are really helping to reinforce the fact that music is purely subjective and that there is a huge difference between a good music critic and a bad one.
In a recent Village Voice review for Vampire Weekend‘s debut album, Julianne Shepherd jumps on the backlash bandwagon and reaffirms her love for 80′s punk. Unfortunately, it seems that Julianne is airing out her own baggage with trust-fund boys she knew in college and overusing the term steez, whatever that may be. Take a read and see what you think?
Julianne Shepherd’s Vampire Weekend review in the Voice
I don’t work with or for Vampire Weekend and I couldn’t care less what direction their career goes, but it annoys me to see people who think they know all about music rip into bands for the wrong reasons. And why is Paul Simon (and even Peter Gabriel, as I’ve seen in other negative reviews) an originator of African music? Is it because he could actually afford to pay to fly out the whole Ladysmith Black Mambazo to Nashville and use them on his album? How punk rock is that!? There is lots of African music before Graceland, Julianne. Paul Simon stole another culture’s steez! And why are you talking about punk rock? It’s like talking about Big Band music when you’re reviewing a Radiohead album, or ‘dancing about architecture’, even. Oh yeah, and you’re so punk rock that you think these guys are stupid for reading sheet music!? Maybe if you read sheet music, you’d make a better music critic, Julianne. Hang up your hangups before you start trashing someone else’s art.
Another awful review comes to us from Maxim, and here it is…
*review photo courtesy of Scotty B at Hidden Track
Not inherently evil, but what we find out is that this reviewer, David Peisner, never even heard the record, as no advances were given out AT ALL! Meaning that he was probably only judging the album on the one single that has been released. The Black Crowes fought back.
So, a big NewmRadio SHAME ON YOU to David Peisner and Julianne Shepherd.
What do you guys think? Am I too hard on these two?
Who sings the lead in ‘Anna’?
Slayed? (1972)
Rudy (1974)
Last night on Jimmy Kimmel’s post-Oscar show, Jimmy fought back against his loved one, Sarah Silverman, who a couple months ago revealed to Jimmy on his show via a hilarious music video that she was fucking Matt Damon. The hilarious video was then seen by millions more viewers via YouTube.
So last night Jimmy struck back at Ms. Silverman and proclaimed he has been enjoying sexual relations with other Good Will Hunting star, Ben Affleck. The results were even more hilarious than Sarah’s original. You must see to believe…
Sarah Silverman : I’m Fucking Matt Damon…
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Jimmy Kimmel : I’m Fucking Ben Affleck…
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Unfortunately I just missed Black Mountain’s show at Bowery Ballroom on Friday (great venue, great band…oops!). Check out this amazing Conan performance which was also on Friday night…
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Click on through for the rest of their tour dates…
All right, we all knew this was coming, after the ‘Stay The Night‘ rape-song post. It’s the Chicago Edition of The Case for (Phil) Collins! Now we all know that Chicago has made some cheesy music as most all of us were conscious during the 80′s (‘You’re the Inspiration’, ‘Hard Habit To Break’), and Cetera solidified his place in cheesedom, and solidified his bank account, with the Karate Kid theme song! And I’d say that most of us realize that they had to be at least somewhat cool back in the day since they have those 60′s-70′s hits that you can’t help from getting stuck in your head (‘Saturday In the Park’, ’25 or 6 to 4′).
But I think that in the ironic post-everything pop musical society that we find ourselves in now, most of us would find it easiest to write-off Chicago as pure cheese. But as a non-ironic musicologist, I set out to prove that Chicago was definitely once a band to be reckoned with. If those killer hits with the super-sheened horns weren’t enough, I dug up a killer track from Chicago’s first album, when they were still named Chicago Transit Authority. The song is ‘Liberation’, a live in-studio performance with no overdubs, and it is as much a testament to what a find rock band Chicago was, as a testament and tribute to late Chicago guitarist Terry Kath. He was certainly one of the best. So here it is, dig in…
mp3 audio: Chicago Transit Authority – Liberation 
And here’s your palate-cleanser, if you need the taste of Chicago removed from your ears, from a man whose cool will never be called into question, despite Tin Machine and his fascination with the Nazi party in the late 70′s… allegedly! This song is great. Thanks, Mo!
AAC audio: David Bowie – All the Madmen 
…East Village Radio