Seriously. I don’t mean that as a backhanded swipe, but I just don’t get it anymore. (Some) Nirvana fans are pissed off at the Red Hot Chili Peppers for their video of “Dani California” which features Anthony Kiedis dressed up like Kurt Cobain in one segment. Is it just me or is treating Cobain like some holy grail of rock just beyond the pale anymore? The Peppers went and got permission from Dave Grohl of all people to make sure it was OK that they even had it in the video. But apparently that’s not good enough for some folks. I’ll say it again: Nirvana was just a band who were in the right place at the right time. They had some good songs, but there have been tons of artists who came before Kurt Cobain who wrote the same kind of tortured introspective lyrics, and there will continue to be tons in the future. I wonder if these same fans have ever seen the “Robot Chicken” episode featuring “Zombie Idol”, a parody of “American Idol” in which zombie rockers come back from the grave and try to win the contest. Of course, all hell breaks loose and it soon turns into a parody of the remake of “Dawn of the Dead” and when Ving Rhames is about to kill the Kurt Cobain zombie, Kurty takes the shotgun himself and eats it. Yeah, it’s really dark, but I can’t help but laugh every time I see it because I know some fan out there is undoubtedly screaming about it.
Month: May 2006 (Page 5 of 15)
…that, sadly, Freddie Garrity – lead singer of the Liverpool band Freddie & The Dreamers, who emerged in the early ’60s alongside the Beatles with their big hit, “I’m Telling You Now” – has died.
There aren’t many great pictures of him online, but that’s him at the top left:
He had a Buddy Holly thing going, to say the least, and he was downright goofy…but it was a charming goofy that won over fans on both sides of the pond, albeit only for a short time. Still, there were few articles written about the Beatles’ Liverpool contemporaries that didn’t reference the Dreamers, so their name – if not their material – was well-known by many fans of the Fab Four.
Dream on, Freddie…
Far be it from us to support any branch of ClearChannel, but a XM Radio subscribing friend of ours just sent this, and we would find it funny, if it weren’t so sad. Give ’em hell. XM.
Statement to XM Subscribers – The XM Nation
Everything we’ve done at XM since our first minute on the air is about giving you more choices. We provide more channels and music programming than any other network. We play all the music you want to hear including the artists you want to hear but can’t find on traditional FM radio. And we offer the best radios with the features you want for your cars, homes, and all places in between.
We’ve developed new radios — the Inno, Helix and NeXus — that take innovation to the next level in a totally legal way. Like TiVo, these devices give you the ability to enjoy the sports, talk and music programming whenever you want. And because they are portable, you can enjoy XM wherever you want.
The music industry wants to stop your ability to choose when and where you can listen. Their lawyers have filed a meritless lawsuit to try and stop you from enjoying these radios.
They don’t get it. These devices are clearly legal. Consumers have enjoyed the right to tape off the air for their personal use for decades, from reel-to-reel and the cassette to the VCR and TiVo.
Our new radios complement download services, they don’t replace them. If you want a copy of a song to transfer to other players or burn onto CDs, we make it easy for you to buy them through XM + Napster.
Satellite radio subscribers like you are law-abiding music consumers; a portion of your subscriber fee pays royalties directly to artists. Instead of going after pirates who don’t pay a cent, the record labels are attacking the radios used for the enjoyment of music by consumers like you. It’s misguided and wrong.
We will vigorously defend these radios and your right to enjoy them in court and before Congress, and we expect to win.
Thank you for your support.
Last night’s “American Idol” results show was painfully a full hour long, before the climax of sending home Elliott Yamin. And in the end the thing that surprised us all was that the voting was so close. Mere percentage points separated Elliott from the second-place vote-getter…in fact, each contestant garnered 33 % of the vote but then the last per cent determined the outcome. Wow. Elliott really brought his A-game the last few weeks and made a serious run at becoming the next Idol, but was beaten out by the hugely popular Taylor Hicks and girl-next-door Katharine McPhee.
The show started with Ryan Seacrest telling us that on Tuesday night, 50 million people voted, another record. As annoying as Seacrest is, that number really is astounding and proof of just how popular this show has become. Then there was a recap of Tuesday’s performances, followed by footage of each contestant going back to their hometown last week to mingle with fans, meet with Governors, and be interviewed on radio and TV. Elliott even got to throw out the first pitch at a Richmond Braves game, and dude threw a strike!
After the footage, each contestant got to perform the song they recorded for the upcoming “American Idol 5” CD. Taylor did the Doobie Brothers’ “Takin’ It To The Streets,” Katharine sang Aretha Franklin’s “Think” and Elliott did “Blue is the Mood For Love.” After watching them all perform, I concluded that Katharine’s version of “Think” was her best performance yet, even better than “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” from Tuesday night. Mrs. Marley even agreed, while muttering under her breath that Chris Daughtry still should be in the finals. Anyway, maybe it’s because there was no pressure, but holy shit…..Katharine can belt it out and in many ways really does deserve to be in the finals.
Then Clive Davis came out and accepted an award for his role in making the show what it is. When you look back, and realize that Kelly Clarkson alone has sold 10 million records and won two Grammys, and then at the success of Clay Aiken, Fantasia, and Carrie Underwood…..it’s clear that “American Idol” has had quite an impact on pop music since its inception in 2002. Fox Network, please make that check out to “Spike M-A-R-L-E-Y.” But anyway…..
Seacrest showed the results a little differently this week….he put up on a big screen the final percentages of the votes: 33.68, 33.26, and 33.06. Then said “Let’s put a name to the lowest percentage,” and it was Elliott. That wasn’t a surprise, but the closeness of the voting sure was.
So next week, the gray-haired wonder slugs it out with the California girl for the right to be named the next American Idol. I’m still banking on Taylor, but then again, I thought Bo Bice should have won last season. Hang on, it’s sure to be an exciting (read: painfully long) two episodes next week.
Till then,
Marley, OUT.
It’s important to Jack White that you know that his new band The Raconteurs is not just a backing band. OK, I can dig it. But as someone who really couldn’t stand The White Stripes until Get Behind Me Satan was released (save for a song or two per albums prior), what the band actually “is” makes no difference. It’s just nice to see Jackie expand into a full-blown band sound. Seriously, there’s only so much you can do with Meg. But we’ve all known that for a long time. So it’ll be interesting to see how The Raconteurs play out in the long run. Go ahead and place your money on ’em. It certainly won’t be the mess that, say, Billy Corgan’s Zwan was.
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