Against all probability, Jonah Weiner somehow manages to praise the reunion of the band Creed, whose song ‘With Arms Wide Open’ should be in any serious person’s list of top 10 rock songs with a point, and mock Christianity in the same article: If your impulse on hearing that it has reunited is to groan,…
Category: Music
Democratic Party, Public Enemy
There’s some buzz that says Public Enemy will be playing a gig at the Democratic Party’s National Convention. Sounds like a perfect match to me! Chuck D: “We’re at a transition point where we have a black man who might be president. You’re starting to see all the ugliness come out, the lies and stuff,”…
Words of Wisdom
I heard this song by Chris Rice a few minutes ago and, for obvious reasons, thought of the presidential race: Everybody take a breath why are all your faces red? We’re missin’ all the words you said you don’t have to yell. Draw your lines and choose your side ’cause many things are worth the…
Perspective
One’s perspective is all-important in forming opinions. It also defines how one will express those opinions. This observation is nothing new – I’ve made it before yet failed to fully integrate it into my life and writing. But there are moments of clarity in which one sees things are they are – or perhaps as…
Oops, I’m a bimbo!
Britney Spears is quite a fox and yet, she’s not quite a genius, now is she? Not that she’s any worse than any of the rest of your twenty-something musicians and movie/TV stars. It is, however, a sad realization to recognize that as a younger person, I actually thought these types had something meaningful to…
Senator Hatch: Destroy Music Downloader’s Computers
Now that’s the legal and ethical vision a U.S. Senator should have! I’m just sorry that Orrin’s presidential bid floundered… I suspect there’s a band of 19-year old hackers looking into Hatch’s on-line presense even as I type…wrong bunch to poke a stick at… And who ever would have guessed he was a song writer?…
Instant Concert CDs
Selling “instant” recordings of a music concert minutes after the show ends is a terrific idea! It’s the smartest thing anyone in the music biz has done in years. I only wish I’d thought of it first!
Music to my Ears
Here’s another of my favorite rant topics: on-line music sharing. Music industry sues students over alleged file-swapping networks, says CNN.com. I can’t decide if it irks me or makes me want to laugh. You decide. Either way, it’s a joke. The music recording business will do anything, no matter how ridiculous, to hold on to…
Songwriter Decries MP3s
Songwriter Diane Warren penned a different ditty this week: an impassioned indictment of music “piracy” via MP3 downloads. If anyone is entitled to an opionion, Diane is. Read a bried bio on-line. Unfortunately, she is dreadfully wrong. Ms. Warren works in an industry in which barriers to entry, in the form of monolithic recording companies,…
CD Pricing Fixing Found
Universal Music Group, Sony Music, BMG Music Group, Warner Music Group, EMI Group, Musicland Stores, Trans World Entertainment and Tower Records settled a lawsuit alledging price fixing of CDs over a 6 year period. Read about it in the Yahoo News. Of course, they admit no wrongdoing – who does these days? But any tracker…