February 2009
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Folie à Deux Review, Part 3
Folie à Deux Review One
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I’m a little less verbose with this section as it contains What A Catch, Donnie and that song is rough for me.
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06 - The (Shipped) Gold Standard
This song is a great example of lyrics that really shouldn’t work but do anyway. Sometimes I wanna quit this all and become an accountant now
But I’m no good at math and...
January 2009
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Desolation Row Cover Video - My Chemical Romance
Oh hell yes!
It’s up on iTunes right here. And it’s an iTunes Plus, that means no DRM!
After one viewing, I gotta say I love it. Just like the song itself, it makes me yearn for original material from MCR. However, it’s a damn entertaining video. Very agressive and in your face, gritty and intense but still theatrical and beautiful the way all MCR videos are.
If I was...
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Detroit by Black Gold - Review/Rec
Currently available from Amazon MP3 store for free: Detroit - Black Gold
Disclaimer: I only know about Black Gold because one of the members of the band (Eric Ronick) tours with Panic at the Disco from time to time. As with other associations, it will get me to stop and look, but not necessarily like.
Black Gold is Eric Ronick and Than Luu. You can read an excellent interview with them over...
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Reflections
ahomeboyslife:
someone once gave me a book of all of the things i had written over the years published. i cherished this one tonight. as i walked the dogs. it made sense. beyond awards or acclaim.
picture of the book
It’s scary when you realize your heroes are fragile humans just like you. I wanted to reply to him, because this baring of the soul thing that he does creates a...
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Folie à Deux Review, Part 2
Folie à Deux Review One
Two
Three
Four
Five
The deers they are a-teeling, but I don’t even care. Turns out I had a lot more to say about She’s My Winona than I thought I would. But that’s cool.
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03 - She’s My Winona
Honestly, I’m not real fond of this title. Not because I dislike the associations with the name, I actually have enjoyed most of...
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Desolation Row Cover by My Chemical Romance -...
Available now digitally on iTunes. Hopefully it will also be available on Amazon soon.
I heard this first back at Bamboozle Left last April. I thought it was an original song, honestly. I’m not a big Bob Dylan fan primarily because his voice makes me want to punch people, starting with him. However, I loved what I heard that Sunday night and since then have very much looked forward to...
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Folie à Deux Review, Part 1
Folie à Deux Review One
Two
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Five
Baby thought she could teal deer? She ain’t got nothing on me! ;)
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Fall Out Boy brought me back to music after nearly 10 years of voluntary exile, so my expectations for this new album were pretty damn high. Their previous albums (excepting EOWYG, for which I make allowances) had no filler, no songs I had to skip because they...
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Kiss My Sass vinyl
If my money wasn’t already going toward the FOB concert, I would totally buy this: Tracklisting
1. Kiss My Sass (Suave Suarez Remix)
2. Kiss My Sass (Featuring Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes)
3. My Moves Are White (White Hot,That Is)
4. Angie
5. The City Is At War (Matt Haick Remix)
6. The City Is At War (MATT AND ISOM Remix)
7. The City Is At War
8. Smile For The Paparazzi...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Fall Out Boy (138)
My Chemical Romance (114)
Panic at the Disco (46)
Wild Sanctuary (32)
Spinnerette (25)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Oh *fuck* that noise!
I always think it’s real funny to see people wearing shirts of the bands that are playing at the concert they’re seeing. Really, we get it. You just paid $50 in TicketMaster fees, I know you’re a die-hard Jack Johnson fan. No need to wear the shirt to prove it. - source (please note I’m not singling this guy out, it’s just he encapsulates the sentiment I’ve seen...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18) →
Fall Out Boy (372)
My Chemical Romance (117)
Panic at the Disco (91)
People in Planes (49)
Icehouse (31)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Once upon a time...
the only way I listened to music was on records. Sure we had a radio (maybe more than one, I truly can’t recall) in the house. But for actually listening to music, not just having it on in the background, it was the record player all the way.
I didn’t personally have a lot of records when I was little, but my older siblings did. Most of the time I would listen to my older...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11) →
Fall Out Boy (606)
Panic at the Disco (110)
People in Planes (71)
30 Seconds to Mars (59)
Queen (44)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Asturias-Leyenda, is perhaps the quintessential...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-4) →
Fall Out Boy (246)
AFI (54)
Muse (38)
Panic at the Disco (30)
The Venus in Furs (20)
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Reading Comprehension, The Lack Thereof
I would really and sincerely like to know just what the fuck is wrong with people that they can see these lyrics:
Lily Allen - Everyone’s At It
I don’t know much,
But I know this for certain,
That is the sun,
Poking its head round the curtain.
Now please can we leave,
I’d like to go to bed now.
It’s not just the sun,
That is hurting my head now.
I’m not...
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Music Review: Gaslight Anthem, Down Down Down,...
So Amazon had some free MP3s that I picked up yesterday. Of the five I downloaded, only one of them wasn’t a total win. Not bad for free.
Gaslight Anthem: The ‘59 Sound
This song sounds so much like a Bruce Springsteen sort of song. But unlike other songs (*cough*Sex on Fire*cough*) it doesn’t feel like a bad cover. It’s original enough that it doesn’t irritate...
Less then 1% of all records that are made in the... →
Reblogged from antpants:
I just read this article that MetroMix in Cleveland wrote about their choices for the biggest flops 2008. What a frightening time we live in these days in the music industry. This might not be something that a lot of people can relate to, so maybe I’m just writing this to myself.
It’s so hard to believe that a record that sells 1.2 million or 700k or 400k or even 80k...
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(One of the Reasons )Why I love Fall Out Boy
20 Dollar Nose Bleed:
Have you ever wanted to disappear?
And join a monastery
Go out and preach on Manic Street? Manic Street Preachers
There is no way that’s a random coincidence. None at all. And given my love of all things glam, that just makes me so frelling happy.
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Fall Out Boy - America's Suitehearts video
Embedding disabled, I’m guessing it’s so that they get the advertising? Whatever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zly9zuPwA-k
The first time I saw it I was sort of creeped out. The second time, I was still creeped out but fascinated in that “can’t look away from the horror” sort of way. Third time, I realized there was a lot going on in the video. Neat little...