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Welcome to the suck: K-Fed’s “Lose Control” video

September 2, 2006 / David Medsker

I am shocked, SHOCKED, that I beat the Spotlight Kid to this one.

The video pretty much speaks for itself, but I would like to comment on a couple of things.
1) Kevin runs out of things to say at the three-minute mark, so they drag that lame-ass instrumental track for another 43 seconds, in order to give it a radio-friendly length. Don’t kid yourself, people; this song’s never getting played on the radio.
2) Is there anything funnier than someone bragging about a tax bracket that he only reached through marriage?

“Mixed with a little bit of rock & roll.” (Caution: May not contain rock & roll-like substance)

Click on it. You know you want to.

Hip Hop, Rap, Videos

Suddenly, my collector’s items are worth NOTHING!

September 1, 2006 / Will Harris

While preparing to start work on a new album in October, piano man Ben Folds is going to keep some fans happy by releasing supersunnyspeedgraphic, the lp, a collection of rarities.

Other fans, however, are gonna get really pissed off, mostly because all of the songs on the set have been available either through limited-edition EPs sold through Folds’ site or on various soundtracks, thereby immediately lowering the value of those previously-collectable EPs. (Though it’s perhaps mild consolation, fans should be aware that the tracks have been remastered, reworked, and relocated since their original releases.)

Alternative, News, Pop, Rock

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition: “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)”

August 30, 2006 / John Paulsen

Picture this: A few years ago, I’m watching “The Big Lebowski” for the second or third time and I hear this cool tune play during the Dude’s crazy hallucination scene. I wonder – who sings this?

Kenny Rogers? You mean “Islands in the Stream” Kenny Rogers?

Hell, yeah.

Kenny already built up some cred with “The Gambler,” but this track more than tripled it.

Listen to a sound clip here.

Artists, Deep Cuts, External Music, Rock, Songs

Lost Bands: Pleasure Thieves

August 30, 2006 / Will Harris

Another one of those bands that seems to ring a bell only with former record store employees who used to snake any and every promo disc that came in, the Pleasure Thieves released one album on Hollywood Records – Simple Escape – in 1992…and not much else. (Further research shows that they did a cover of the Who’s “Boris the Spider” for the soundtrack to Arachnophobia, but, honestly, probably even less people own that than do Simple Pleasure.)

Lead singer Sinjin-William Dolan…and, no, I don’t know what kind of name Sinjin-William is, either…sounds almost like Neil Diamond at times with his husky voice, and the music’s very synth-heavy; neither were attributes that would’ve led any band to success in the early ’90s.

The group vanished so far into oblivion that they have no website, no MySpace page, nothing…but in a bizarre post-script to the band’s career, the band’s song “Blue Flowers” – a highlight of the album – was discovered by a DJ in the Phillipines and became a hit there…in 2002!

If anyone has any idea if the band or Dolan went on to record anything else, please leave a posting.

Alternative, Lost Bands, Pop, Rock

Blue Flowers Pleasure Thieves Simple Escape Sinjin-William Dolan

Shittiest mixtape blastarama

August 29, 2006 / Captain Capm

This is what happens when you get in a contest to see who can make the shittiest mixtape. The loser gets to walk around NYC blasting it from a huge boombox. Much embarrassment and hilarity ensues.

Videos