Girls Aloud popped along to the Dogs Trust West London Rehoming Centre the other day. They showed some children that Nintendogs game you’ve probably seen them flogging on the telly recently.
I suppose if you record a rap song called “Girlz Gone Wild”, about girls going wild (by which I don’t mean feral), there’s a fair chance it’s going to come to the attention of the folk behind “adult” DVD series Girls Gone Wild (link NSFW, duh).
And so it is with someone called Lil Goonie, who should surely be spending his time recording sample-heavy tracks with titles like “Hey You Guyyyys!” and “It’s Wet Ain’t It? Drink It!”.
If I was on the fence about whether to ever visit Wisconsin - and I wasn’t - this story would have made my mind up niiice and quick.
We’ve all done a metal tune on karaoke in our time, haven’t we? In Wisconsin, you better make sure you treat the source material with respect. James Mischler was adjudged to have been too irreverent in his version of Dio’s “Holy Diver”, and was allegedly attacked by some drunk-as-fuck tooligan with the hellishly appropriate name of Kyle Drinkwine (pictured).
If you go to MySpace school, be sure to abide by the rules. In case you can’t read it on the whiteboard because Mr Simpson and Miss Nash are in the way, those rules are:
MySpace Rocks
MySpace Rocks
MySpace Rocks
MySpace Rocks
MySpace Rocks
MySpace Rocks
MySpace Rocks
GOT THAT?
Mr Simpson doesn’t seem to be taking class too seriously - I bet he’d let you call him “Charlie”, and get his guitar out every Friday afternoon. Miss Nash, though… she looks like harder work. And yet foxy with it, no? Bloody Ironik isn’t even paying attention, and his posture is frankly appalling.
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I wonder if the solution to the CD’s seemingly inexorable decline is ever more elaborate ways of packaging the little blighters. You know, making them “collectible” and all that. It probably wouldn’t work for me, but you must never underestimate folks’ desire to collect things.
And if those things are rare handmade CD sleeves lovingly crafted by the artists themselves, there will always be at least a few rabid fans keen to get their hands on them.
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A new music website by the name of ShockHound has been launched.
ShockHound is a one-stop, genre-spanning music site loaded with millions of MP3s, a vast selection of band merchandise, the latest music videos, unique programming, and exclusive and compelling editorial content.
Very interesting. However I am quite literally eleven times more interested in its name and logo than what the site actually does. Poor-kwah? Because:
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The Sunny D Carpenters are back! Hurrah! Hmm.
It’s weird, isn’t it, the unease Same Difference inspire in people. I mean, all they are is a brother and sister singing High School Musical-esque songs and doing High School Musical-esque dances. What’s so wrong with that?
I suppose, for some, it’s like they’re the white picket fence and pretty garden in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. What twisted, depraved secrets lie behind the siblings’ gleaming smiles? What sadness churns in their guts as they bounce around that car lot? What filth is oozing through those endorphin-enriched brains?
I’m NOT saying they’re bumming each other.
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It’s an interesting discipline, this writing-about-music lark. In an age when forming your own opinion about a song requires little more than a broadband connection, it arguably has less relevance than ever. Why read a lengthy synopsis about a piece of music when there are numerous ways to seek it out for yourself and make your own mind up?
This approach has even extended beyond single tracks - sites like Deezer and We7 will allow you to stream whole albums before deciding to fork out money for them.
Nevertheless, you’re never going to go short of wordage once you delve into the music blogosphere. The time and effort that goes into detailing writers’ passion for the music they cover is considerable, and provides a more subjective alternative to the traditional music press.
On My Chemical Toilet we don’t really do album reviews, since you can find plenty of them elsewhere. However I have used the site’s Twitter as a supplementary digest of music I’ve been listening to, alongside snippets of opinion - while I’m not going to do a “proper” review of Keane’s or The Saturdays’ new albums, I might tweet what I think about them.
That approach has now been ripped off adopted by a site called Musebin, which Wired recently took a look at.
Excuse me a second, readership. Before I begin this post about the potential release of The Beatles’ long-lost “Carnival Of Light”, I’m just going to count the number of enjoyable 14-minute “tracks” I have listened to over the years. Perhaps you could do the same.
*Thinks*
*Continues to think*
*Gives up thinking*
How many did you manage to come up with? I came up with a big fat oval-shaped “0″. That is because, despite all the drooling over the prospect of a 14-minute Beatles track being unveiled, no decent songs of that length have ever, ever, EVER been recorded.
Ooh, I love me a “warts and all” rock memoir (actually, you can keep the warts). From a delightfully unexpected corner of the music world comes Dancing In The Darkness (left, click image to enlarge), in which the momentarily massive LOL-rockers’ ex-bassist reveals his “guide to begging for sex, smuggling drugs and pretending to be rock ‘n’ roll.”
Now when it comes to the generic nasties of being a rock star, there’s not much left to reveal - if you’ve read Hammer Of The Gods or The Dirt, you’ve seen how far backstage naughtiness can go. However, going by the extract published by The Quietus, much of the pleasure of reading Poullain’s tome will come from their tussles with the infamously snooty music press.
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