From Under The Rock
Wow.
So I couldn't help but notice that a few of the other blogs on this site have taken a turn for the well-informed and otherwise socially relevant.
The presidential election? The church's stance on homosexuality?
That's intimidating stuff to go up against. And, clearly, since the most pressing matter currently going on in my brain involves whether or not I should put on pants today, I can't really compete.
But I feel obligated to demonstrate that I have a tenuous grasp of the world around me, so I'm gonna supply a few thoughts on some of what's going on in music.
Metallica loves illegal downloading. They can't get enough of it.
A few years back, Metallica drummer/egotist Lars Ulrich pretty much single-handedly deprived the world of the burgeoning awesomeness that was Napster and semi-legit file-swapping. Metallica became the most visible villains in music since Yoko Ono and/or Chad Kroeger. But with the release of the metallurgists' forthcoming Death Magnetic, Ulrich apparently has come to terms with the fact that, as much as we'd all like it to be, it's not 1987 anymore. He told a San Francisco radio station, "If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days." Here's the thing: I have a bad feeling about all this. Although, yeah, Metallica has seemingly made nice with the internet (they began allowing fans to download their entire back catalog in 2006, three years after trying to press charges against everyone who ever listened to "My Friend Misery" on anything that wasn't a Metallica-sanctioned listening device), I just don't buy it. I get the feeling that Ulrich has stumbled across a loophole in legislation that will somehow make it so Metallica can sue us all. Especially if we realize that "The Day That Never Comes" is actually just "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and "One" thrown together.
The British are going to kick Geoff Rickly's arse
United Nations, the side-project of Thursday's Rickly and every-other-band's Daryl Palumbo, decided that the best band to eff-around with was the Beatles. Their self-titled debut features art by British anarchist James Cauty, reworking the iconic cover of Abbey Road.
Turns out that stores are refusing to carry U.N.'s album because of copyright issues. But I get the feeling they're way more concerned that it's gonna piss off the three or four people who have a fondness for the Fab Four.
Next time, I'd consider reworking an album that people already aren't too fond of. Like maybe this:
I get the feeling that Blink-182 are probably gonna headline Warped Tour 2010.
This is just a hunch. But Travis Barker just told Metromix in L.A. during the obligatory question about a Blink reunion that he just wasn't sure. But I think he's saying there's a chance. He said:
"I don't know. You know, to be honest with you, I haven't spoken to Tom [DeLonge] in five years. I speak to Mark [Hoppus] every day, he's one of my greatest friends, so...that's the status of that. I think everyone would have to be friends, and I think we'd all have to want to do it in order for it to happen."
But I dunno. There's gotta be good money in providing live drum tracks for rap songs that probably coulda done with a drum machine:
So I couldn't help but notice that a few of the other blogs on this site have taken a turn for the well-informed and otherwise socially relevant.
The presidential election? The church's stance on homosexuality?
That's intimidating stuff to go up against. And, clearly, since the most pressing matter currently going on in my brain involves whether or not I should put on pants today, I can't really compete.
But I feel obligated to demonstrate that I have a tenuous grasp of the world around me, so I'm gonna supply a few thoughts on some of what's going on in music.
Metallica loves illegal downloading. They can't get enough of it.
A few years back, Metallica drummer/egotist Lars Ulrich pretty much single-handedly deprived the world of the burgeoning awesomeness that was Napster and semi-legit file-swapping. Metallica became the most visible villains in music since Yoko Ono and/or Chad Kroeger. But with the release of the metallurgists' forthcoming Death Magnetic, Ulrich apparently has come to terms with the fact that, as much as we'd all like it to be, it's not 1987 anymore. He told a San Francisco radio station, "If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days." Here's the thing: I have a bad feeling about all this. Although, yeah, Metallica has seemingly made nice with the internet (they began allowing fans to download their entire back catalog in 2006, three years after trying to press charges against everyone who ever listened to "My Friend Misery" on anything that wasn't a Metallica-sanctioned listening device), I just don't buy it. I get the feeling that Ulrich has stumbled across a loophole in legislation that will somehow make it so Metallica can sue us all. Especially if we realize that "The Day That Never Comes" is actually just "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and "One" thrown together.
The British are going to kick Geoff Rickly's arse
United Nations, the side-project of Thursday's Rickly and every-other-band's Daryl Palumbo, decided that the best band to eff-around with was the Beatles. Their self-titled debut features art by British anarchist James Cauty, reworking the iconic cover of Abbey Road.
Turns out that stores are refusing to carry U.N.'s album because of copyright issues. But I get the feeling they're way more concerned that it's gonna piss off the three or four people who have a fondness for the Fab Four.
Next time, I'd consider reworking an album that people already aren't too fond of. Like maybe this:
I get the feeling that Blink-182 are probably gonna headline Warped Tour 2010.
This is just a hunch. But Travis Barker just told Metromix in L.A. during the obligatory question about a Blink reunion that he just wasn't sure. But I think he's saying there's a chance. He said:
"I don't know. You know, to be honest with you, I haven't spoken to Tom [DeLonge] in five years. I speak to Mark [Hoppus] every day, he's one of my greatest friends, so...that's the status of that. I think everyone would have to be friends, and I think we'd all have to want to do it in order for it to happen."
But I dunno. There's gotta be good money in providing live drum tracks for rap songs that probably coulda done with a drum machine:
posted by Tim Karan at
12:49 PM
4 Comments:
These things were much more relevant to me than the presidential election.
Tim, you're awesome!
So, it's been almost a week since you made this post, but I told you I'm going to comment on every one of your posts, and I stand by my word, darn it! So here's a belated and meaningless comment.
The three to four people who care about the Fab Four?
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I guess I'm one of them.
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