There's So Much That We Need To Share
Right so it has actually been ages since I updated this, for which I offer no apologies because I'm just that sort of girl.
The true reason for my absence was forgetting my username and not having the drive to fill in the appropriate form. Lala. I've been preoccupied with researching conspiracy theories about driving test examiners (bastards) and worrying about the outbreak of potential bird flu that our road experienced (6 pigeons dead in two days, result!). Sadly it seems we got the woman from Defra excited for nothing as I bet it will turn out they all had this: http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1871512,00.html
Poor birdies :(
Anyway to business! I'm loving the current(yes yes I know it's been happening for years, i had to start the intro some how) pop trend for mildly sampling older songs and turning them into far greater songs. Or something like that. Prime examples of this are S.O.S. and Maneater, easily the two best pop singles of 2006 thus far. This song overcomes the handicap of having been featured in John Tucker Must Die and is just fab:
Chelsea - Stefy
(It also defys the rule that all things called Chelsea are crap, so full marks to Stefy.)
People get preoccupied with the idea that mashups are a lesser form of musical output because they require less creativity. Bollox. This Johnny Cash v. Wu Tang Clan shows how the most unlikely collaboration can really turn out brilliantly:
Johnny Cash Rules Everything Around Me - Iron Monkey
To commemorate the utter fantasticness of Pearl Jam at Reading I was going to put Iron Man by Black Sabbath up here but I thought that might be a little counterproductive in getting people to read this. In a complete turnaround we havesomething nice and pretty up here instead. If it hasn't already been used expect this song to pop up in a nice dramatic part of either the OC or Greys Anatomy. Probably after a blazing row, tears, lots of 'damn' and 'hell, and things being smashed.
'the clouds in your eyes
down your face they pour'
Closer - Joshua Radin
And to round things off we need a good NG1 song (<3). SuperJupiter have a stupid name but the pretty decent *cough* Napolean-Dynamite rip off *cough* video for this song just about redeems that. Enjoy:
You Know - SuperJupiter
(....go West Ham yeah!)
The true reason for my absence was forgetting my username and not having the drive to fill in the appropriate form. Lala. I've been preoccupied with researching conspiracy theories about driving test examiners (bastards) and worrying about the outbreak of potential bird flu that our road experienced (6 pigeons dead in two days, result!). Sadly it seems we got the woman from Defra excited for nothing as I bet it will turn out they all had this: http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,1871512,00.html
Poor birdies :(
Anyway to business! I'm loving the current(yes yes I know it's been happening for years, i had to start the intro some how) pop trend for mildly sampling older songs and turning them into far greater songs. Or something like that. Prime examples of this are S.O.S. and Maneater, easily the two best pop singles of 2006 thus far. This song overcomes the handicap of having been featured in John Tucker Must Die and is just fab:
Chelsea - Stefy
(It also defys the rule that all things called Chelsea are crap, so full marks to Stefy.)
People get preoccupied with the idea that mashups are a lesser form of musical output because they require less creativity. Bollox. This Johnny Cash v. Wu Tang Clan shows how the most unlikely collaboration can really turn out brilliantly:
Johnny Cash Rules Everything Around Me - Iron Monkey
To commemorate the utter fantasticness of Pearl Jam at Reading I was going to put Iron Man by Black Sabbath up here but I thought that might be a little counterproductive in getting people to read this. In a complete turnaround we havesomething nice and pretty up here instead. If it hasn't already been used expect this song to pop up in a nice dramatic part of either the OC or Greys Anatomy. Probably after a blazing row, tears, lots of 'damn' and 'hell, and things being smashed.
'the clouds in your eyes
down your face they pour'
Closer - Joshua Radin
And to round things off we need a good NG1 song (<3). SuperJupiter have a stupid name but the pretty decent *cough* Napolean-Dynamite rip off *cough* video for this song just about redeems that. Enjoy:
You Know - SuperJupiter
(....go West Ham yeah!)
posted by Sooz | Thursday, September 14, 2006
5 Comments:
Haha i'm rubbish, the Joshua Radin song has indeed been used in Greys Anatomy and Scrubs. Clearly good music reflects the greatness of the shows.
What song does "Maneater" mildly sample?
Erm the song 'She's a maneater' by Hall and Oates. Genius 80s cheese.
The Hall and Oates song is just callled "Maneater," but Nelly's song shares nothing with it except the title.
I guess so, I assumed what with the chorus being identical but indeed you are correct they do not 'formally' sample the song.
Very few of the opinions written on here are based on you know, fact. That would just be silly.
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