Sheryl Crow has a new album (Detours), and the video for its first single, “Love Is Free,” is up on YouTube.
Crow said this about the song:
“The song ‘Love Is Free’ is inspired by New Orleans. What struck me about it is the stoicism of the New Orleans people, they are spiritually based. You can see it in their eyes that they aren’t going to give up, they are going to rebuild.”
It sounds pretty sunny and optimistic to me.
What do you think?
“I Love Christmas!” I love those chords he’s not strumming!
“Rökning Dödar.” It’s on every Finnish pack of cigarettes, covering half the front panel. Big and bold. Finns know it to mean “Smoking kills,” but to us less literate English speaking music fans, man, doesn’t that sound like a bichen Deep Purple Deep Cut? One with Jon Lord going crazy-wack-psycho on the church-rockin’, pimped-out Hammond B-3 organ? With lots of smoke and dry ice and distortion…and wattage that would knock skulls on the next continent?
Yes!
That, obviously was the thinking behind insouciant bar punkers The Sharp Chuckies, an upstate New York band who named their latest record—you guessed it—”Rökning Dödar.” The music isn’t that great (although we’ve heard much worse), the homophobic lyrics are a little hard to take, and the band might be taken a bit more seriously if they polished up their act some.
But they do sport an awesome album cover, complete with a Finnish pack o’smokes:
Happy 2008, everyone. You could spend the day (or the year), much like our hero in this video. Or not. I was part of that whole “Just Say ‘No'” era that effectively failed on every level.
In my heart of hearts, I know I should simply mock these old sods for continuing to haul their ancient carcasses onto concert stages around the world, but, dammit, Never Mind the Bollocks was too damned influential in my life for me to deny the thrill I get whenever I see Lydon, Jones, Cook, and Matlock side by side once more. I still haven’t seen them perform live; maybe this time around I finally will.
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