In a curiously timed press release, Scott Stapp has announced that he’s engaged to former Miss New York 2004 (and, interestingly enough, Miss Petite Florida 2003) Jaclyn Nesheiwat. They are to be wed next month.
Huh. Does she know that her husband-to-be hits on married women in bars?
Christ, he must be tired of his new DJ gig already. David Lee Roth has been talking lately of an original lineup Van Halen reunion. And as much as I like the original version the best, I think it’s just high time these dudes called it quits. Seriously. Everyone in the band looks like shit anymore – well, really they just look like their oldest fans – and who cares, anyway? After all, Sammy Hagar’s been in and out of that band so many times now that the group is beyond looking like a cheap whore. And do we really want to see Roth do some flying kicks and judo moves? It just reeks of the worst shit in town.
Before there was Maroon 5, there was Kara’s Flowers, which consisted of four of the five members that would eventually make up Maroon 5. They only released one full length CD, Fourth World, and “Myself” is a great example of the group’s potential at the time. With frontman Adam Levine’s distinct vocals anchoring the quiet/loud track, “Myself” could easily be mistaken as a Maroon 5 track.
I’m not a big fan of “Maroon 5” as a name for a rock band, but it’s far better than “Kara’s Flowers.”
Listen to a song clip here.
Known mostly for their theatrical indie pop, The Decemberists recorded this surprisingly catchy track for their most recent album, Picaresque. Against a driving acoustic guitar, frontman Colin Meloy moves through lyrics that criticize American foreign policy, the media and the pseudo-pundits in Hollywood. Politics have never been this fun!
Listen to a clip here, although its brevity doesn’t do the track justice.
Paul McCartney was coming off a bit of a rough patch in his career when, in 1989, he re-emerged with Flowers in the Dirt, an album which scored some of the best reviews of his career, in no small part due to the songwriting collaborations with Elvis Costello. One of the songs which required no assistance from ol’ Declan, however, proved to be the strongest on the disc: “We Got Married.” With scorching guitar work from Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, the track’s lyrics are mostly just snappily-delivered couplets (“Going fast / Coming soon / We made love in the afternoon / Found a flat / After that / We got married”), but it features one of those lines so perfect that it makes you wish you’d written it:
It’s just as well love was all we ever wanted;
It was all we ever had.
It’s always struck me as strange that this song was never pushed to album-rock radio, particularly given the Gilmour guest spot, but, to my knowledge, it was never a single anywhere. Talk about your missed opportunities.
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