Archive for November, 2008

Best Unknown Songs, Best Known Bands: Nine Inch Nails

This was bound to happen sooner or later since I am a huge Nine Inch Nails fan.

1: “The Big Come Down” off of the album “The Fragile”. This is pretty much the best Nine Inch Nails song ever made in the history of Nine Inch Nails. There is an acoustic guitar at the beginning but it just explodes. The guitar solo is awesome and even awesomer on the “Beside You In Time” DVD… heck… the SONG is better live. I am surprised this was not a single. Just pure amazing. Wow… that was very biased.

2: “And All That Could Have Been” off of the album “Still”. The album “Still” is kinda hard to find in it’s original form. You could find “Still” by itself on NIN.com or you can get it off of iTunes… but the original version… which was on the 2-Disk Limited Edition of Nine Inch Nails’ first live album “And All That Could Have Been”. It has calmer versions of well known Nine Inch Nails and some “The Fragile” B-Sides. “And All That Could Have Been” is a power-house of emotions. THIS is the best song Nine Inch Nails has ever released. It’s so calm and meaningful that it almost sits in the back of your brain as you listen to it… like it isn’t even there… in a good way though. I even fell asleep on a bus to this song. I have never heard a song that is such a masterpiece.

3: “The Downward Spiral” off of the album “The Downward Spiral”. The ending to the story that is being told in the album… it is haunting and yet awesome at the same time. Everything is very calm and almost sleepy until it breaks out… but it is still quiet then… because everything is muffled. Trent’s voice delivers the story of the main characters’ final hour in a creepy undertone that says with you. Pretty much the most important part of The Downward Spiral’s story, you should not over look this song when listening to this album.

2008
11/16
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Best Unknown Songs by Best Known Bands: The White Stripes

Here is where you get to know the best songs by the best bands… the thing is… the best songs are always the hidden gems.

Let’s start with a band I just really got into, The White Stripes

1: “Take Take Take” off of the album “Get Behind Me Satan”. A very unknown song, but one of their best. I talks about Jack meeting a famous person in a bar and how he keeps asking her for stuff, the whole time thinking he is not being greedy. A very simplistic song, just guitar, drums, piano, and vocals. That is basically all their songs but whatever. Panning is a very used effect in this song, as there is even one part where only one line that Jack White says changes speakers about 8 times. Stops very suddenly, but it is just an awesome track.

2: “Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine” off the album “Elephant”. This was the one song that really got me into The White Stripes, as it was in the video game “Skate”. It is a harder song with the guitar blaring and Jack borderline screaming some lines. The drums kicks and snares come hard and fast, like a slap to the face. The guitar solo is also borderline face melting.

3: “Rag and Bone” off the album “Icky Thump”. Yes… it was a single… but it isn’t that well known. This is by far my favorite White Stripes. It is mostly Meg and Jack talking… and it is freaking hilarious. It is calm… but then builds up to very hard with real distorted guitar during the chorus, then calms down again for the talking parts. Just awesome.

If you are a hardcore White Stripes fan… please don’t yell at me for not putting any of their older stuff on.

2008
11/16
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Linkin Park Promoting New Live Album With Music Videos

Well… Linkin Park has a new live album coming out called “Road to Revolution” which was filmed at Miltion Keynes in the good ‘ol UK during their Projekt Revolution tour (Which was awesome. I went… blew me away.). This was the only stop where they had Jay-Z preform with them, so it was a special night indeed. They have been promoting this album by releasing some of the performances on Youtube. The latest one in them preforming “Breaking The Habit” and it is at the bottom of this news story. The album comes out November 25th. It comes with a CD of the live recordings and a DVD of the performance.

Here we have them preforming “Breaking The Habit”, just click on the picture:

2008
11/11
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Full-Length Movies Coming to YouTube?!

Yes… out of all places… the copyright-crazed video mega site, Youtube, will be messing around with the idea of full-length films being streamed on Youtube. They said it will start within the next 30-90 days, so let’s keep an eye out for that.

The thing that gets me here is how are they going to do this? Would the film companies actually be up to it? I mean, this place takes down videos using over thirty seconds of a song because the stupid record company doesn’t like it. How will the movie companies resopnd to their films being streamed on the internet for free when they should be getting money from DVD/Blu-Ray sales or from people seeing it in theaters? I guess only time will tell…

2008
11/09
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