Category Archives: Music

The Big Note’s Halloween Edition

The Big Note has rolled out its Halloween edition — once again chock full of good stuff. Of particular interest: “Trick Or Treat”, Warren Cuccurullo and L. Shankar’s “The Blue” and TBN member MM7’s monster Halloween compilation. Oh, and also, … Continue reading

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Selling Bootlegs Now Legal

A US federal judge has ruled that it is perfectly legal to make a business of selling bootleg recordings. The decision “stands in marked contrast to existing law and prior decisions that have determined that Congress was well within its … Continue reading

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The Agonizer

“So, like, what makes it more awful? We’ve changed some of the circuit components to add just that little extra smidge of massive, atonal distortion effecto thingy. It’s now fully OPTIMIZED for bad tone and crappy sound.”

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Bush Croons Imagine

From the guy that brought us Dubya singing “Sunday Bloody Sunday” now comes Bush Jr crooning “Imagine”, with a little walk on the Wild Side…

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Phil Who?

About time. Phil Collins, from his home near Geneva: “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. You know, the amount of people who have grown up hating me, and it’s no fault of mine. I wrote the songs. I didn’t ask the stations … Continue reading

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SuperFreak RIP

Super Freak RIP. At least the man never turned into a bore…

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Bad Taste

What happens when someone gets so fed up with today’s crap ass music, he decides to do something about it? This. So when does Kenny G start touring again?

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The Eclectic Cliché

Top Five Rock Critic Cliches. Some good ones: “pandering to the eclectic”, “elliptical”, “Dylanesque/Beatlesque/Springsteenian”, “overuse of the x-meets-y device to describe the hybridity of the music at hand”.

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Crimson Tide

I always figured there was more to Steely Dan lyrics than meets the –uh– ear. The Steely Dan Dictionary to the rescue. “Crimson Tide” (from Deacon Blues): “The nickname for the University of Alabama’s sporting teams (particularly American football), so … Continue reading

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Jesus Penis Dimension

A refreshing merry little ditty for the whole family to enjoy: Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis! (belated thanks to Tommi)

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Cruising With Journey And the Styx

“Don’t miss your chance to spend a week cruising the caribbean featuring 3 of rock’s biggest artists, Journey, REO Speedwagon & Styx!” It’s masochism, Jim, but not as we know it.

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Bleep Bleep Bleep

120 years of electronic musical instruments. First mention of the Synclavier as early as 1975. Prize for silliest name of an electronic instrument: the Composer-Tron. (“It sounds really good, but I’d add some Composer-Tron into the mix.”)

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The World’s Biggest Bootlegger

“We simply cannot overestimate the scale of his operation. He probably lived a far better lifestyle than some of those he ripped off. In the international bootlegging fraternity he is a legend, a mini-god.”

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Another Brick

wherein Barry introduces “The Thursday Superfluous Classic Movie Review” while risking to get lynched by a mob of angry PinkFloydians. We watched Pink Floyd’s The Wall on DVD last weekend. I’d seen the film before but that was in the … Continue reading

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365 Mirror

The 365 Days Project, a great source for strange/rare audio tracks that ran throughout 2003, is now available on one single big mirror-site. How these people manage to pay their bandwidth expenses is beyond me but: bless them!

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