Saturday, October 11, 2008


Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81 Sessions

This is, i think, B-sides and rejected songs and mixes for songs included on the full length Baby 81 Album. I can see why most of the songs were rejected but, overall, still quite good. The mixes are slower, they're darker and they're deliciously muddier. The vocals get thrown to the back of mixing board and the growling, rumbling guitars and drums come to the forefront and dominate. It has the feel of a b-sides album, but it still has 7 tracks and about 32 minutes or so. MK Ultra is easily the best song on the release and it is a remix of an earlier song.

BRMC Continues to be one of the best pure "rock" bands out there.

Friday, October 10, 2008

If Your Life Had A Soundtrack

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

So, here's how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button

Opening Credits:
Lali Puna: Geography-5

Waking Up:
The Walkmen: Emma Get Me a Lemon (this is an awesome waking up song. It'd be a crazy scrambled mosh of images. Dig. It.)

First Day At School:
Radiohead: Let Down. (That is just... ironic.)

Falling In Love:
The Glands: Work It Out. (Perfect)

Fight Song:
The Eagles: Witchy Woman. (This would be one of the best fight scenes ever because it would be creepy and disturbing in a slow-mo, eat the curb, sorta way.)

Breaking Up:
Michael Andrews: Manipulated Living. (okay, seriously, that's honestly what came up there. That's amazing)

Prom:
White Rabbits: Kid on my Shoulders. (ouch. guess we know what kind of manipulated living there was)

Life:
The Ramons: Censorshit.

Mental Breakdown:
The Casket Lottery: Everyone Here is Wrong. (awesome)

Driving:
Johnny Cash: Understand Your Man. (Apparently it's a muppet style driving scene. where's the Studebaker?)

Flashback:
Bobby Darin: I'm Beginning To See the Light. (I think i've seen this movie)

Getting Back Together:
Republica: Holly. (Soooo, this is a Getting Back Together slash Angry Make Up Sex Scene. Hot.)

Wedding:
The Jayhawks: Stumbling Through the Dark. (Ominous or perfect?)

Birth of Child:
Indigo Girls: Midnight Train to Georgia. (Don't you judge me! You don't know me! Don't you judge me!)

Final Battle:
Brand New: Not the Sun. (Another awesome fight scene song. Yeah, more slow-mo punches and such. Man, my life has some awesome fight scenes.)

Death Scene:
Whitesnake: Here I Go Again On My Own. (Yeah... just... yeaaaaaah)

Funeral Song:
Black Eyes Peas: Let's Get Retarded. (What? I'm Irish.)

End Credits:
Billy Joel: And So It Goes. (okay, seriously, at this point the theater is bawling and you should just start handing out oscars.)