Double-shot to go low & then go high...

We have lots of work to do.

Here's two tunes to start us off-

one for wallowin'; the next to pick up, dust off & 

move it forward...

Nina has "Trouble in Mind" (as we all do right about now...)

Lizzo then sez "Walk yer fine ass out the door!" (or as my lovely bride thinks, "Walk yer fat ass..." which I think is delightful indeed.)

Hope these at least help you get through the day...

Prince is dead. Long live the Funk.

I just want your extra time...

satchmo

How can a lil' Louis not make ya' happy, 

even on a cold Monday morn?

I like this piece a lot actually. I think it really captures the essence of the man- his character, his personality & his music as well. I dig the detail in the lines of his face as contrasted by the loose feel of the hands & the middle ground of the horn, all offset by the stark black & white of his suit & spectator shoes.
It just makes me smile, the same way listening to the man himself does, & that's the point, isn't it?

one more for the webhead

The other day when I posted some sticky tunes, I totally spaced on this dub-tastic ditty from Big Youth~

Spider-Man Meet The Hulk

Some of its parts

A mash-up is a curious thing. As I've stated before, most of them are pretty bad, whether ill-conceived from the start, or simply a case of a good idea (e.g., interesting tracks that would seem to fit) not assembled with the right skill, panache, &/or funk. Finding a really great boot is a rarity indeed; I think the mathematical equation (call this the "very secret monster things mash theorem", if you will) is about 37:1, as in I sift through 37 painful Frankenstein's monsters before I find one made by a true Dr. Funkenstein. I do this work not just for me but for you, my dear readers...

Even more rarely, though, a great DJ will take tracks that ya' don't dig & create a wholly new piece that rocks yer world. The always-reliable DJ Clivester pulls this seemingly-impossible task off more often than not.

Here's a great example~ A mash-up containing a buncha' songs that don't tickle my fancy at all, interspersed with one track I dig the most (guess which one), creating a stitched together masterwork that makes you want to scream from your castle against the thunder & lightning

as the square villagers approach, with their torches & pitchforks (& appalling lack of funk), "It's alive! It's alive!"

Extreme Galvanized Gays

contains fleshy parts from the following~

Moby - Extreme Ways

Chemical Brothers - Galvanize

Katy Perry - U R So Gay

Beenie Man - Dancehall Queen

Beyonce - Single Ladies

sticky fingaz

"Spider-Man, Spider-Man does whatever a spider can..."

We all know the tune, not a day goes by wherein it doesn't swing through my head, & with Spidey revvin' up to make his big Broadway debut next year, I thought I'd post some sticky tracks, some good, some bad, all at least interesting to say the least. Uncle Ben certainly wasn't talking about these musicians when he imparted his better-than-your-average fortune cookie wisdom~ "With great power comes great responsibility".

First up we have the ubiquitous 60's cartoon theme, which swings almost as much as our web-headed friend his own self & then we turn it up to 11 to let The Ramones rock it out with their version.

Next Freddie McCoy vibes us out with his jazzy samba-riffic tune that had Spidey on the album cover but had seemingly little ease to do with the wall-crawler. But still a nice mellow tune nonetheless.

From across the pond comes an odd "mastermix" from MC Spy-D & "friends" which has some BBC Spider-Man cartoon dialogue interspersed with some pretty generic beats; Appropriate does basically the same with the 60's theme, mashing it up with some electronica- This track was featured in some video game or some such I believe.

Italian Spider-Man? Ridiculous, repulsive, offensive, you so don't want to laugh, but you will (& aren't those things the very foundations of the Internet itself) & the song will end up on your iPod, I guarantee it...

Finally because I couldn't find one song good/bad enough to feature, I leave you with a triumvirate from the mid-70's classic, "Spider-Man: Rock Reflections of a Superhero".

Until we hear what Bono & The Edge are cookin' up, this is what the music world has offered up thus far in celebration of Peter Parker & his sticky alter-ego.

(& I do want to share this as well~ whilst doing the research for this post (read: Googling "Spider-Man"), I learned something I wish I could unlearn: There is a pretty perverse & very un-gallant sex act known as the "Spider-Man" & I beg you not to find out for yourselves. Don't do it! I beg of you!)

As one of the great literary figures of our times sez~

"'Nuff said, true believer!"

Spider-Man 60's cartoon theme

Spider-Man Ramones styley!

Spider-Jazz

Amazing Spider-Man BBC Mastermix

Spider-Man Appropriate Mix

Italian Spider-Man

Spider-Man theme: Rock Reflections of a Superhero

Peter Stays & Spidey Goes: Rock Reflections...

No One Has A Crush On Peter: Rock Reflections...

kiss or kill, round tres

This round of "kiss or kill" allows you kids to pick or pan this ultra-new & shiny track from Cornershop's forthcoming album, "Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast". It's certainly rocks hard, but is it sitar-iffic?!

What say you? Leave your votes in the comment section & decide Tjinder & the boys' fate......

"Who Fingered Rock & Roll?"

ain't it the truth...

We All Wanna Be Prince

retro-mash

French masher DJ Zebra concocted this great lil' ditty, marrying the late '70's to the late '80's, introducing Diana Ross (no, not Donna Summer!) to Michael & the boys in a wonderful disco-poppy-dancey melange to which I woulda' danced my bike-shorts off @ the Melody in my club daze.

Upside Down Tonight

& it was still warm.

"Where The Wild Things Are" was my favorite book when I was a kid (mayhaps it still is) & it was my boy's as well. Now the ultra-talented mad genius Spike Jonze is finally releasing his celluloid version this fall. My thoughts on this have been mixed- the delays & troubles certainly didn't assuage any fears. Adding so much back story may ruin its simplicity or it may be bloody brilliant; I'll give Mr. Jonze the benefit of the doubt for now, especially given the wonderfully beautiful & perfectly odd trailer that is makin' the rounds on the tubes of the Internet as well as in those archaic monstrosities known as movie theatres. You can easily find that elsewhere so here is a the cover to the Japanese version that I was lucky enough to score whilst in country

& a refix of the Arcade Fire song as close to the version of the tune as heard in the trailer.

Enjoy~

Wake Up Where The Wild Things Are

had to be there

My lovely bride & I were just checking in to our hotel, stopping on the way to Cape Cod, & the news had literally just broken. Everybody in the place- young, old, black, white, brown, whatever- gathered around. Whatever his oddities, his peccadillos or indeed his larger sins, his quirks & his faults, he touched us all.

Pure & simple.

I owned "Got To Be There" on vinyl when I was a kid & the needle hardly ever left it.

I was not a huge fan of some of his later stuff, or certainly of his later antics, but his genius cannot, & will not, be denied.

He lived the ultimate irony~

He was a boy who never grew up yet who also never had a childhood.

A sad, sad life lived & ended too soon, but before it did, he left us with so, so much good music.

I hope the tunes outlast the punch-lines.

I know all the songs have been posted everywhere else & I'm oh-so-very-late to the party, so here are some somewhat rare or less mainstream remixes & mash-ups that hopefully will bring a smile to your face & a beat to your feet...

out of sight

Steven Soderberg's "Out Of Sight" is perhaps my favorite movie. It is simply a perfect film. The imagery, the performances, the music, the mood, all the oh-so-talented folk involved. If you have not had the pleasure, watch this flick; If you have seen it, watch it again.

What with Soderberg's incredible palette & truly genius manner of putting it all together, as well as taking it all apart; the smarter-than-it-should-be script that easily surpasses its source material; the cast who create & inhabit some pretty (& boy, is my boyfriend George Clooney pretty!) funky characters (Don Cheadle, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn, Luis Guzman, Albert Brooks, Dennis Farina, even Jennifer Lopez works it, & a few great cameos to round out the fun) & the wonderful nouveau-retro score by David Holmes~

This move is an under-appreciated gem indeed!

You'll laugh, you'll cry... you will thank me for the referral.

& here's a funky taste of David Holmes' nouveau retro score to whet yer whistle~

ch-chemo it out

So last week the fresh & funky Adam Yauch broke the news that he had just a lil' bit o cancer. Seems he will beat it but the Beasties have to cancel their live groovin' for a bit & the album's gonna' drop a lil' later as well... not to mention the shit MCA must be going thru.

My agnostic prayers are with u, my brother.

& here's a lil' taste of the new album & all the funky-ass goodness to come

people deserving of more respect, pt. 7

DJ Andy Smith

"there's no why. he's a zombie."

So it seems that most shows that I like on the TV don't survive very long.
This has been the case for years, but has become more acute recently... This year alone: Pushing Daisies. Reaper. Eli Stone. Aliens In America. Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends. Life On Mars... & The Unusuals, which we just started watching, having saved the whole season on that wonderful magic device known as the DVR. The show is quirky & smart & doesn't always hit the right notes, but at least it was playing its own tune so to speak...
& speaking of tunes, what I especially dug was the soundtrack, which matched the show both in style & in funkiness, like this lil' number right here, which is perfect for when yer runnin' down a perp in the subway~
Cobrastyle

Spongebob does the Blitzkrieg Bop?!

So J7 week comes to a close with perhaps the strangest pairing of songs one could imagine~


I truly hoped you enjoyed this sneak preview of what is simply enough the only hope for the future of music itself...
grab songs here~
Blitzkrieg Bop
Ripped Pants

Jack's a writer & Pops is a man...

The J7 now travels even further in the musical wayback machine as Pops takes the vocals to assert his manliness with Jack layin' down a mean blues riff, & then Jack sings of his literary aspirations...

tunage~
I'm A Man
Paperback Writer

Jack is a rebel who feels good...

& the hits keep comin'...
A double shot of Jack Marley & The J7, rockin' some Gorillaz & then jukin' up some Bowie~

& for your listenin' pleasure~
Feel Good Inc.
Rebel Rebel

Beautiful Day indeed...

As promised, & without any further ado,
more of the J7~

& for your listening pleasure~
Beautiful Day~ J7

Fear Of A Jack Planet

So begins a weeklong celebration of the new rock sensation, the J7...

9 year old Jack Marley Seda-Schreiber rocks out as lead singer/multi-instrumentalist of the J7, which on this sunny day consisted of Joe, Pops, Michael Brett, & JD, also well-known for his association with LemonLimeLights, Gin, Big Red & dozens of other seminal bands. This (literal) garage band tore through a half dozen songs to the delight (& bewilderment) of their overjoyed (& overheated) audience. This video & what is to follow in the coming days are just brief glimpses of a young superstar who is destined to rock many more garages- as well as concert halls & stadiums...

A new rock god is born.

more tomorrow...
To tide you over, an mp3 for your iPod~
Gone Daddy Gone~ J7