Let It Be is a song by the legendary band, The Beatles, that was written by Paul McCartney and released on March 6th, 1970 as a single. The single reached number one in Germany, Italy, Australia, Switzerland, New Zealand, Norway and the United States and number two in the United Kingdom. It was the last single released by The Beatles while the band was still officially considered together.
The video might not be very extravagant but I like that it shows The Beatles at their best, creating music together and just hanging out. It even shows John Lennon and Yoko Ono together and all right before they finally broke up. This is a very special song.
O-M-G I love this song so much i want to scream it from the roof tops. I am so happy that Eminem is back from hibernation and is delivering these amazing songs once again. I always thought he was a genius, an artist like him comes around very rarely. I have been addicted to I love The Way You Lie since it came out on the radio and now I’m completely stocked for the video. It’s fantastic!
Dominic Monaghan (Lost and Flash Forward) and Megan Fox (Transformers) actually make a pretty hot couple. Between Eminem, Rihanna, Dominic, Megan and a burning house, This video can’t get any hotter.
Released in 1986, Addicted to Love became immensely popular, partly due to the music video itself. Right after it’s release, Addicted to Love topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart as well as the UK Singles Chart. The song was supposed to be a duet with Chaka Khan but due to label conflicts that did not happen.
The music video shows Robert Palmer as the lead singer and a group of models with pale skin, heavy makeup and dark hair as his backups. The models in the video are (from left to right) Patty Kelly, Julie Pankhurst, Mak Gilchrist and Julia Bolino with Kathy Davies on drums. In an interview with Q Magazine, one of the models said: “We were meant to look and “act” like showroom mannequins. The director got us tipsy on a bottle of wine but as we were having our make-up retouched, I lost my balance and knocked the top of my guitar into the back of Robert’s head, and his face hit the microphone.”
On one of VH1′s most hilarious shows, Pop-up Video, the video trivia mentioned that a musician was hired to teach the models basic guitar fingering techniques, but gave up after about an hour and left. Addicted to Love pretty much put Robert Palmer on the map and is one of the most famous videos to date. Enjoy.
The song you know as “99 Red Balloons” from the epic comedy Wedding Crashers, is actually a german protest song called “99 Luftballoons”. After Being released in West Germany is 1983, Luftballoons immediately reached the #1 spot that year. Later released in the UK in 1984, the English version topped the UK Singles Chart and the German version made it to #2 on the American Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Contrary to popular belief Luftballoons does not translate into red balloons, this mistake was made by Amrican DJ’s when the song first came out. A Luftballoon is a colorful toy balloon however the song tells the story of of 99 balloons floating into the air, triggering a nuclear reaction by military forces. Nena never had another hit single after Luftballoons and is considered to be a very successful one hit wonder artist.
Performed by rock band “The Kinks” and written by their lead singer Ray Davies, it didn’t take long till the hit song, You Really Got Me, reached number 1 on the UK singles chart. You Really Got Me came out on August 4, 1964 and established The Kinks as one of the U.S. breakthrough British hits. If you think it was easy to make this hit, you’re dead wrong. It took The Kinks several recordings in different styles, to get to the hit that put them on the map.
You Really Got Me became so popular that a whole lot of bands wanted to record their own version. New Zealand blues-rock band The Human Instinct, the band Radio Cult, the band Oingo Boingo and the hard rock band Van Halen all wanted their own You Really Got Me. The song also appeared in some Nissan car commercials, karaoke video games Revolution and Guitar Hero II as well as the movie Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.
The video below is an original performance by The Kinks in 1964, singing the hit song You Really Got Me. Enjoy.
From the album “The Miseducation of Lauren Hill” by of course Lauren Hill, Doo Wop (That Thing) was released on October 27, 1998. Doo Wop the 10th single to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it stayed there for two weeks in the fall of 1998. The hit song also won two Grammy Awards the following February.
The reason I really love this video is because of the unique display of differences and similarities it shows between the 90′s and the 60′s, from dance moves to clothes. The video is a split screen of a block party going on in these two interesting eras and is all about Lauren Hill warning the men and women, about the struggles of being men and women in both generations. Doo Wop (That Thing was filmed in Washington Heights, Manhattan in the mid 90′s and shows Lauren Hill six months pregnant.
By way of E!’s link party to the mecca of Justin Bieber fever to a Lesbieber run in with the law – This is hilarious. This might not come as a surprise to some of you but there is actually a website called LesbiansWhoLookLikeJustinBieber(.tumbler).com. Why does such a silly website exist you ask? Well, for a few reason.
1. You really don’t need a reason to have a silly website.
2. The pure entertainment value is beyond anything I can put into words.
3. Because of poor little Katie, who was busted for drinking while looking like Justin Bieber.
According to TMZ, on June 12th 2009, local police were called into an Ocean City, Maryland bar called “Mug & Mallet” looking for the teen sensation with an over-sized beer mug in his hand. Instead, they found Katie, a 27-year-old woman trying to enjoy a quiet night of drinking with her lady friends. Katie, who wasn’t shocked by the situation at all, pulled out her ID and proved to the (probably surprised) cops that she is no way shape or form, Justin Bieber.
I have to give credit to Dlisted.com for the funniest Bieber quote I have heard in a while: “Dumb b*****s needs to know that Justin Bieber isn’t the first person to have magical bangs that can sweep the nightmares from your head”. I also want to make very clear that I’ve never had, have or will have, Bieber fever. The end.
American pop band The Beach Boys, came out with Wouldn’t It Be Nice on July 11, 1966 as part of their “Pet Sounds” album. Composer and producer of the song, Brian Wilson, stated that the song is all about the frustrations of youth, “What you can’t have, what you really want and what you have to wait for”. Wilson even used the title of the song for the title of his autobiography. The Beach Boys, who formed in 1961, were pretty much the icon of a Southern California youth culture of cars, surfing, and romance. The Beach Boys are also known for hits like California Girls, Kokomo, I Get Around, Surfin’ USA, Barbara Ann and many more.
The first time I ever heard this song was in the movie 50 First Dates with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. In the movie, after Barrymore got in a car accident, she couldn’t remember any thing past the accident and is forced to relive that same day over and over again while the rest of the world moves on with their lives. Once she catches the eye of Adam Sandler, he is hell bent on being with her and making her fall in love with him everyday as if it was the first. Barrymore sings the song Wouldn’t It Be Nice only on the days that she meets Sandler and that is how every one figures out that she’s starting to remember him. How romantic.
You might not know it because of all the sports and movie pieces I write here but I’m a very avid music aficionado. Not having a voice of my own has not stopped me from screaming out my favorite songs when I hear them and truth be told, it takes one hell of a song these days to blow my skirt up.
Something about music today just isn’t the same as the songs I’ve come to know and love from the 60′s 70′s and 80′s. Sure most of the R&B and Rap songs that come out today make for great club and dance music but I value a good set of lyrics and a solid vocal performance more than a couple of rhymes and a good beat. It’s for this reason that I felt compelled to remind or introduce you to the greatest songwriter and singer I have ever and will ever have the pleasure of listening to: Ann and Nancy Wilson.
Heart was a rock band formed back in the 60′s and was eventually headed by two young and upcoming sisters in the 70′s named Ann and Nancy Wilson. Ann Wilson was lead vocalist and Nancy Wilson was secondary vocalist and they each shared a variety of instruments, most notably the guitar work of Nancy. Throughout the 70′s and 80′s, Heart was pegged as one of the best rock groups around and even today, they’re releasing a new album entitled Red Velvet Car, with 14 new songs. It’s rare to see a band stick together as much as Heart has over the last 30 years but boy am I glad they did.
When I hear good music for the first time, I immediately ask Mrs. Smith who has sung this song (She’s more up-to-date on these sort of things) and then I go straight for the computer to research the song. I’ll play it over and over and over again, picking apart every word to see if it’s truly a great piece of work or just something that sounds pretty cool because of a nifty DJ. After listening to a lot of the songs Heart has put out over the last 30 years, I’m confident in saying that there is no greater set of pipes than the ones Ann Wilson has been using.
That woman … wow can she belt out a note. I work from home every-day and find myself listening to at least a few Heart songs over and over again simply because of the marvel known as Ann Wilson. You can take all of the Beyonce’s, Katy Perry’s, Pinks, Fergie’s, Carrie Underwood’s you want and absolutely none of them will compare with what Ann Wilson can do. To be fair all of the aforementioned are excellent performers and have great great talent but it’s just not the same. Many would dare to compare Ann Wilson to Madonna and Lady Gaga but that’s not appropriate. Madonna and Lady Gaga have great voices and their performances are like nothing we’ve ever seen before but if you take away their acts, they don’t hold a candle to Ann’s voice.
Watching old Heart videos, you’re usually use to seeing Nancy Wilson with the striking blond hair, jamming out on a guitar while Ann Wilson has the microphone a full foot away from her mouth for fear of blowing it up with her powerful voice. Music videos like Magic Man, Barracuda and my absolute favorite, Alone, have reminded me about a generation that brought the absolute best out of the music industry. I fear that a talent like these two will never surface again because of what the music industry has become. More about the looks and the act, rather than the voice in my opinion. I mean … have you actually heard Ke$ha sing? It’s like watching Alicia Sylverstone’s role in “Clueless” put to music. No thank-you.
So to anyone out there that thinks the music of today is where it’s at, I challenge you to pick up a Heart CD or simply visit You Tube and check out Ann and Nancy Wilson. Make sure you filter through to the “Alone” music video, past or present and then come back here and thank me for introducing you to real rock music. Rock on Wilson Sisters.
Who is Bret Michaels really? To start, he was born Bret Michael Sychak on March 15, 1963 in Butler Pennsylvania. Most people may know Bret as the lead singer of the American rock band Poison but as any rock-star out there, being a millionaire, a huge rock star and a notorious chick magnet just wasn’t enough for Bret. Looking at Bret’s life as a whole, it was always safe to assume that Bret Michaels was just a sleazy rock guru. TV shows like Rock of Love (2007) and Rock of Love Bus (2008) really didn’t help his reputation much, if anything they made him seem even sleazier. For any one who is not familiar with VH1 reality television, Rock of Love is like The Bachelor only rock star style, with much sluttier groupies and you can just imagine the Bus version!
If you are like me and most sane people (Not to say that I myself am sane, just trying to make a point ), you probably thought that Bret Michaels was as I mentioned before, just a sleazy rock-star. All that changed after Celebrity Apprentice 3. Turns out that Bret Michaels is not only a decent guy but actually pretty terrific. I am officially a fan. He is very artistic, very respectful, funny, smart and actually pretty attractive for a 40 year old rock-star with eye liner and bandannas. Which leaves the question, what really is under those bandannas… hahaha… Donald Trump is a riot.
Between the first part of the finale and the second part where Bret Michaels was hired, he has had some serious run ins with the man upstairs, and I don’t mean the floor above you. Not only was Bret diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 6 but on April 12, 2010, Michaels was rushed to the hospital after suffering intense stomach pains and an emergency appendectomy was performed. 10 days later he was rushed to the hospital again, this time complaining about intense headaches, only to discover that he had suffered a massive brain hemorrhage but was released a few days later claiming he was just one of those lucky guys. About a week ago, he went back to the hospital after having a minor stroke and doctors found a small hole in his heart. Wow… talk about being unlucky.
But being the Bret Michaels we all know and love, he left the hospital to attend the live Celebrity Apprentice finale, which was a great decision considering he won. And last night, he even appeared on the American Idol finale, singing a duet with Casey James who came in at third place. I must say for a would be sleazy rock star, he’s done a damn good job at recreating himself. Love ya Bret!
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), you probably thought that Bret Michaels was as I mentioned before, just a sleazy rock-star. All that changed after Celebrity Apprentice 3. Turns out that Bret Michaels is not only a decent guy but actually pretty terrific. I am officially a fan. He is very artistic, very respectful, funny, smart and actually pretty attractive for a 40 year old rock-star with eye liner and bandannas. Which leaves the question, what really is under those bandannas… hahaha… Donald Trump is a riot.
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