…or listen to James Blunt sing “You’re Beautiful” just one more time?
It’s a tough call, isn’t it? Hard to find the upside in either one…and yet, in a poll conducted by London tabloid The Mirror, a majority of UK music fans voted James Blunt more annoying than stepping in dog poo, suffering from heat rash, and having a bad hair day — among many, many other things.
Click here for the full list of items the Brits find less annoying than James Blunt … and watch where you step.
Huzzah to Donna Da Iguana for introducing us to The Superficial. It’s just like Defamer, only less chatty. And, like Defamer, they love the rack. I know, I know, who doesn’t? Especially Jessica Simpson’s, when it’s popping through her dress?
“Man, have you tried that sudoku game? It’s HARD.”
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And the joke this time – and a not very funny one, at that – is that, for the third time, Elvis Costello’s early catalog…his first 11 albums, to be specific…are being reissued, this time by Universal Music Enterprises. Shockingly, although the albums were previously put out in special editions by Rykodisc and Rhino (the latter including an entire second disc’s worth of bonus tracks), Universal assures us that these will be the “definitive reissues.”
Backed into a corner, Costello admitted he’d spent the money from the Rykodisc and Rhino reissues maintaining his nasty Faberge Egg habit.
Equally, I can assure Universal that, although I have all of Elvis’s albums (and, quite frankly, have had no real aversion to sticking with the Ryko reissues of those initial 11 albums, bonus disc or not) and have seen him live multiple times, there’s just no way in Hell that I’m going to buy these things again.
By the way, the above lyric is from Elvis Costello and the Attractions’ “It’s Time,” from All This Useless Beauty, an album not included in the reissues. (It’s from 1996.) Still, it was that or once again use Morrissey’s all-too-apropros line, “Reissue, repackage, repackage…”
If you’re torn as to which you should be more excited about…the fact that Heath Ledger has been selected to play the Joker in the next “Batman” flick, or that Meatloaf is getting ready to release Bat Out of Hell III…then we’ve got the perfect middle ground for you: an MP3 of a Jim Steinman composition that was intended for a never-produced “Batman” musical. The song is called “Wonderful Toys,” as in, “Where does he get those…?” It’s over the top in that way where, when it reaches its heights, you realize, “Hey, I can see my house from here.”
Shame the thing didn’t get produced. I have visions of Joel Shumacher directing…
…you’re missing out on a rebroadcast of the first 24 hours of MTV.
I watched some last night, and here’s what was part of the goods:
Split Enz – History Never Repeats, One Step Ahead
Robert Palmer – Looking for Clues
PhD – Little Suzie’s on the Up (I’m secretly hoping that “I Won’t Let You Down” pops up later)
Shoes – Too Late
For a guy whose musical tastes were almost entirely influenced by early MTV, this is like Christmas day.
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