Comments on: Chartburn: 3/14/08

By: Chartburn: 8/01/08 | Popdose

Chartburn: 8/01/08 | Popdose — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:50:07 +0000

[...] dated. And also it sucks. I was kind of hoping weâ€™d never see another Rod Stewart song after â€œDa Ya Think Iâ€™m Sexy.” Fortunately for me, the audio for this one was overwhelmed by the churning sounds coming [...]

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:16:06 +0000

Close, he owned an auto parts store in Decatur, MI. He was also a drummer in a number of 60's rock bands right up until his passing away a few years ago. Despite being in his early 60's, suffering from congestive heart failure, he still managed to play gigs and was a huge Cheap Trick fan, going so far as to check himself out of the hospital at one point so he didn't miss one of the band's rare Michigan appearances.

In addition to digging “Kryptonite”, he also had a special fondness for Bryan Adams “Everything I Do”…I know that's a hard thing to admit…yuk, yuk…but that was all part of what made my dad so great., all differences aside.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:16:06 +0000

By: Thierry

Thierry — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:44:26 +0000

Last year, I came to the realization that George Benson was not only impossibly cool, but also a pretty amazing guitarist. How did that happen? I picked up his late-60s album of Abbey Road covers (it was recorded three weeks after the release of the Beatles' album) – The Other Side of Abbey Road. It might be the best – and only worthwhile – album of Beatles covers you'll ever hear, and a bit of an overlooked gem.

By: hagen

hagen — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:49:56 +0000

That really sounds like a dare to me… do you have said disco discombobulation?

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:36:18 +0000

I'm surprised to say that I don't like this Tempted cover. For one thing, he mucks with the words..changing some, and mumbles others into unrecognizability. Unlike the “Wild Nights” cover by The Coug and Me'Shell. It rocks.

hm.

But thank you for sharing them nevertheless.

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:42:29 +0000

Your point is well taken, however I still have to say that Sting's post-Police output was more or less laden with intent. I think the most “fun” he had up to 10 Summoner's Tales (jeez, Louise!) was on Blue Turtles with “Shadows In The Rain”… But then, that was a Police cover, so whaddya think?

3 Doors Down, like Hoobastank, like all the rest of your Vedderbees are not so different from the punk-pop jerks that litter the landscape today, each with that Chester Bennington high school squeak, capturing that last second before their voice finally matures into adulthood as if to say, “Look! Pubes!”

My point: Sting should have lightened up every now and then because he is a serious artist. Serious artists know that contrasts amplify. 3 Doors Down were just the lunkheads of the season getting their gobs swabbed by Eagle Snax while chugging from the beer bong – here today, Behind The Music fodder tomorrow.

By: jefito

jefito — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:13:50 +0000

The 3 Doors video should be fixed now. Stupid attorneys…

By: Beau

Beau — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:51:31 +0000

One mild irony here: You all mock the pretension of Sting's "Soul Cages" while giving a perfect example of what happens when you don't really try at all. That would be "Kryptonite," a precursor to today's gaggle of post-grunge bands with a whiny tattooed boy posing as a lead singer and a bunch of dreary arpeggios masquerading as interesting guitar riffs.

(We interrupt this rant for a couple of notes -- I think you're not hearing a full-fledged drum roll there but just a couple of triplet patterns, and the video is no longer available.)

Honestly -- does anyone even try to write hooks any more? Or learn to sing? Or learn to play? At least Sting was infusing his music with enough artistic intent that some of us were able to use it for a class project without being embarrassed.

I am am unabashed Soul Cages fan. "Island of Souls" and the titletrack, with the unified theme of departing this mortal life reinforced by a repeating verse and those beautiful pipes, are a wonderful meditation on life and loss. "All This Time" makes something happier out of his father's death. "Jeremiah Blues" is a nice change of pace with some scorching guitar. And "The Wild Wild Sea" is simply breathtaking, particularly when the drums thunder after the final verse.

Do you think 3 Doors Down or any of these wind-up post-grunge Vedder wannabes put any such thought into turning an artistic concept into music? Or do you figure they just skate by and complain until they get laid? These jack-nuts probably keep complaining *after* they get laid.

Phew ... that rant was a long time coming.

Oh yeah -- it's hysterical how Rod's band gets into these videos. If it's not Phil Chen chewing hay in "Hot Legs," it's Carmine Appice and his porn stache twirling the stick.

But this song was redeemed by the classic film "So I Married An Axe Murderer."

And a final note: For years, I thought Rod was singing "if you want my money ..."

By: JonCummings

JonCummings — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:49:33 +0000

“How 'Bout Us” is not vile. It's high-class early-'80s R&B cheese, right up there with Ray, Goodman & Brown's “Special Lady” in my book. If you still disagree, check out the awesome percussive effect behind the male singer's voice as he starts the line “Or are we gonna drift and drift and drift together” at the 2:35 mark.

I love George Benson, but “Turn Your Love Around” is probably my least favorite of his big hits.