Growing up I was a huge Beastie Boys fan. In fact Licensed to Ill was the first album I bought with my own money. Over the weekend I wrote a long post about the Beastie Boys and Adam Yauch, but I couldn’t get the words our how I wanted them, so I scrapped it. This is a nice little video with MCA’s opening lines from every Beastie Boys song. It sucks seeing part of my childhood die, especially since Adam was so young.
via Xeni at Boingboing
I wish I would have ran across this version of Jonathan Coulton’s “First of May” yesterday. Oh well.
via Cory at Boingboing
I ran across this video the other day. It claims to be Nirvana’s first ever performance of “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, and I believe it. Kurt would often make up the lyrics has he went along, and this version obviously has different lyrics. It kills me that I never got the chance to see Nirvana live.
I never thought there would be a time when I WISHED Auto-Tune was used. And no, I didn’t make it through the entire video. Props if you can.
My favorite band, Motion City Soundtrack, released their new single “True Romance” today. Go buy it where you normally buy your digitally encoded musical files. It’s awesome if I do say so myself.
Their new album titled Go, comes out June 12th! I can’t wait. Hopefully I can catch them on tour for my 7th or 8th, I lost count, time this summer. Best. Band. Ever.
So when we were in the cities we went the the American Idiot musical. I thought it was amazing and a must see for any Green Day fan, but I see how it could get mixed reviews. If you’re offended by loud rock music, F bombs, or guys and girls in their underwear, it’s probably not for you. If you’re a Green Day fan you will love it. I found it amazing how they could tell the story with very few lines. It was mostly the American Idiot album start to finish, but not hard at all to follow the story. I never really took the time to closely listen to and understand the album, so now the album has a totally different meaning to me.
I’m a sucker for a good Nirvana cover, and this one by a Boston band called Nemes is pretty damn good. It was so good that I bought their album that they are selling on their Bandcamp site for only $1. Seriously? They should charge more than that.
I got my autographed Jonathan Coulton cd today. I don’t know what I’m going to do with it. I already have the digital downloads, so I don’t even have to rip it. I guess it’s just proof that I buy things I don’t need just to support artists I like.
Elvis Costello is so great. I love everything he does. Even him singing “Monster Went and Ate My Red 2″ with Elmo.
20 years ago today “Smells Like Teen Spirit” made it debut on MTV’s 120 Minutes. Music would never again be the same, at least for me.
In many ways the people in “America’s Hat” have it better than us, but they are sure fun to make fun of.
I was secretly hoping Bob Mould would show up and perform “Dear Rosemary” with the Foo Fighters the other night at the concert. Bob Mould is a former Minnesotan, and Dave Grohl did mention that two members of Hüsker Dü we at the show. Sadly they played the song without Bob Mould. They did play “Dear Rosemary” with Bob Mould on Conan the other night though.
I hated Hanson back in the day, and if I wasn’t told, I wouldn’t even have known this was Hanson. It’s a pretty decent Weezer cover.
I probably mentioned the Foo Fighters Garage Tour in the past. This video is a nice little mini documentary about their garage shows. A buddy of mine entered the contest, but sadly didn’t win, so I wasn’t able to see the Foo Fighters in his Garage. We will be seeing them on September 14th though. It should be a great show. I have seen the Foo Fighters four times, and it’s always great. How great would it have been to see them in my buddy’s garage though?
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