…Tenacious D, “The Pick of Destiny.”
“It just so happened to be the best song in the world…”
The video for the theme to Jack Black and Kyle Gass’s upcoming classic in the making debuts today on MTV2, and there is a behind-the-scenes on the making of the video at 10 PM EST. They’re also giving away free downloads to a Diddy track all day today as well, and leaking the new Killers album on Friday at 11 PM EST. Head over to http://music.mtv.com for all the fun stuff.
If you missed Sunday’s episode of “The Simpsons,” you absolutely have to see this clip. Bart turns out to be a natural at the drums, and this clip, to the tune of the White Stripes’ “The Hardest Button to Button,” is one of the funniest things “The Simpsons” have done in years. Check it out now, before Fox orders YouTube to take it down.
Seeing them live in Vegas, baby!
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You young punks are probably too young to remember how great the Little River Band used to be…and you old bastards who remember the LRB but think I’m overstating their talent are apparently senile and have forgotten how phenomenal their harmonies were on “Happy Anniversary,” “Cool Change,” “The Night Owls,” “Reminiscing,” and so many other classics.
Over the years, though, the band’s line-up has changed rather a lot, with original members leaving, coming back, and leaving again. Nowadays, there’s literally no-one from the original line-up in the band anymore…and, frankly (and unsurprisingly), it rather annoys the band’s founders that there’s basically a LRB cover band touring the world and playing songs they had nothing to do with writing.
Well, the band’s original guitarist, Graeham Goble, has just released a solo album – The Days Ahead – and tackled this annoyance via a song entitled “Someone’s Taken Our History.” You can check it out at his official MySpace page…and you should, because it really captures the old LRB feel…but in the meantime, you can get an idea of how he feels by reading a sampling of the lyrics:
“Someone’s taken our history
Someone’s taken our songs for free
We wrote the words and the melody
Now someone else sings our harmony
Every night when the lights are low
In the darkness, they play our show
Just as if they were really us
They get on the bus
And they don’t say a word”
Ouch.
I recently watched U2’s concert film, “Rattle & Hum,” and it was better than I remember. Over the years, I’ve read several reviews that used words like “disastrous,” but I thought it was an interesting, if mostly staged, look at the group as they were evolving into the “Biggest Band in the World.”
I think the soundtrack suffers a bit because it’s all over the place. I would rather have seen two separate discs – one consisting of new material and one live album. Considering all of their output during those years, the disc of new material would have looked something like this:
1. Desire
2. God, Pt. 2
3. Angel of Harlem
4. Hawkmoon 269
5. Love Rescue Me
6. Heartland
7. Sweetest Thing
8. When Love Comes To Town
9. Hallelujah (Here She Comes)
10. Van Diemen’s Land
11. Silver and Gold
12. All I Want Is You
That’s a nice playlist. I realize that a few of those songs (“Sweetest Thing,” “Hallelujah (Here She Comes)” and “Silver and Gold”) were released as B-sides to singles from The Joshua Tree, but had they been “Americanized,” recorded in the same spirit as “Desire” and “Angel of Harlem” were, they would have fit right in with the rest of the material and the band would have had three great albums in a row instead of two and a half.
The second disc could have compiled the band’s live greatest hits up to that point; it would have been perfect for a fan like myself, who got into U2 during The Joshua Tree years but didn’t have the fortitude (or the finances) to dig into all the previous albums to find their better songs.
Oh well, I guess they did all right without my help.
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