New Music!

[princessofcairo]

There is a link on the main KBCO page to a the new album of Tom Waits covers by...

...wait for it...


<<<---Scarlett Jo!

Vin Scelsa played a couple of songs from it on his show from last weekend (I heard only the first one). Mike and I commented on it over on the Internet radio thread. But what I heard wasn't too good.

they've been playing the album on spanish radio for about a month now. not at all exciting, even with the bowie cameo.

[ggould]

On the way home today, I heard a filler track on KPIG-AM I really dug.  I had to call the station to find the title, and it was by a band called Tempest, and the song was called "Surfing to Mecca."  It's not on iTunes or Amazon MP3, and I wonder if any of you know any more about this.

[Gazoo]

Just got the new Aimee Mann, @#%&*! Smilers.  I love her body of work - her previous studio album, The Forgotten Arm, was my #1 album of 2004 - but this one's leaving me a little cold on first listen.  It's not bad at all, just not sufficiently distinctive from TFA or its predecessor, Lost in Space.  Same lullabies of losers and mockers of miscreants.  But it might grow on me.

Also just got the newly reissued Deluxe edition of Tumbleweed Connection, a wonderfully cohesive album.  Found myself listening to "Where to Now, St. Peter?" on repeat while on my way home from a run.

[RGMike]

Just got the new Aimee Mann, @#%&*! Smilers.  I love her body of work - her previous studio album, The Forgotten Arm, was my #1 album of 2004 - but this one's leaving me a little cold on first listen.  It's not bad at all, just not sufficiently distinctive from TFA or its predecessor, Lost in Space.  Same lullabies of losers and mockers of miscreants.  But it might grow on me.

Also just got the newly reissued Deluxe edition of Tumbleweed Connection, a wonderfully cohesive album.  Found myself listening to "Where to Now, St. Peter?" on repeat while on my way home from a run.

"Freeway" is the emphasis track, as they say, and KFOG's giving it a big push.

[Wayback]

Hey, Hey, we're the Monks ...
CD of Gregorian Chants hits the charts:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/07/28/findrelig.DTL

[RGMike]

Hey, Hey, we're the Monks ...
CD of Gregorian Chants hits the charts:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/07/28/findrelig.DTL

Didn't this already happen, like, 15 years ago?  It even spawned a parody, the Benzedrine Monks who, yes, did a "chant" version of the Monkees theme called "Hey Hey We're the Monks".

[mshray]

Hey, Hey, we're the Monks ...
CD of Gregorian Chants hits the charts:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/07/28/findrelig.DTL

Didn't this already happen, like, 15 years ago?  It even spawned a parody, the Benzedrine Monks who, yes, did a "chant" version of the Monkees theme called "Hey Hey We're the Monks".

...which I copied from you and - TANC - last weekend that song came up on my MP3 player plugged into my car stereo while I was driving with the family.  They didn't get it.

[RGMike]

Just heard the new Rick Springfield single: "What's Victoria's Secret?" -- a total "Jessie's Girl " clone.

[Gazoo]

I've finally heard the new Kid Rock song, "All Summer Long," that samples "Werewolves of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama."  I'm actually kind of glad Warren Zevon's dead.

[ggould]

I've finally heard the new Kid Rock song, "All Summer Long," that samples "Werewolves of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama."  I'm actually kind of glad Warren Zevon's dead.

We were on our pub crawl for our 40th high school reunion this last weekend, and heard this song that sounded like Werewolves, then SHA, but we were too lazy to go look at the jukebox.  It was Kid Rock?

[princessofcairo]

I've finally heard the new Kid Rock song, "All Summer Long," that samples "Werewolves of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama."  I'm actually kind of glad Warren Zevon's dead.

i caught the first part of the video a few weeks ago at a bar. i said, "somebody has sampled warren zevon!" and my buddy said, "you don't know what you're talking about - that's skynrd!"

[ggould]

I know at this time it's not very new, but I happened to get a good listen to the beginning today, and it really doesn't sound much like Journey.  The beginning is all Van Halen, the main guitar tone sounds like Boston, with the exception of some fast show-off guitar runs that do sound like Neal Schon.  Yeah, the vocalist has the somewhat standard castrato big hair tone we've come to associate with post-Rolie Journey.

[RGMike]

pre-10@10 today, KBCO played 3 Doors Down's awful "When I'm Gone" -- did they always sound just like Nickelback, or was I just not paying attention?

[Gazoo]

pre-10@10 today, KBCO played 3 Doors Down's awful "When I'm Gone" -- did they always sound just like Nickelback, or was I just not paying attention?

They started out more Matchbox 20-esque, but have meatheaded themselves over the years.  Apparently they're a military favorite.

[RGMike]

pre-10@10 today, KBCO played 3 Doors Down's awful "When I'm Gone" -- did they always sound just like Nickelback, or was I just not paying attention?

They started out more Matchbox 20-esque, but have meatheaded themselves over the years.  Apparently they're a military favorite.

indeed, they had that "Citizen Soldier" song earlier this year -- saw that video entirely too many times, as it was part of the AMC Theaters "pre-show" for months.