I talked this show up a bit last week after catching the series premiere. And all ridiculous high school drama aside these cats do play some good music. Or rather good music is played over their heads as they look forlornly off camera with that unfocused gaze that says more than a nine hour narration ever could. Here’s all the music that appears in last weeks episode. Hopefully in the second episode, which shows tonight on The CW, will include more pop and less hip hop. Or at least less bad hip hop. Or at least less Akon and Rihanna.
I recommend the tracks by Air, Albert Hammond Jr., Amy Winehouse, and suprise, Hanson. The rest of the tracks are worth putting in the shows premier, but might not necessarily make the cut of your next iTunes mix.
It was a much ballyhooed clash of the hip hop titans this summer. Kanye West vs 50 Cent. They dropped their albums on the same day, they talked more trash than Muhammad Ali, and at one point 50 even told the press that he would retire if Kanye’s album outsold his in the first week.
Well, as we know now, Kanye’s album trounced 50′s. Not entirely because it’s a much better album to begin with but I would argue Kanye is just a better star. He’s not really a thug, he doesn’t identify with gangsta activity, the general market that 50 sells to, and his rhymes are more in line with a certain panache, a certain self assuredness that comes across as slightly superior to all other rappers. Face it, when you listen to his music you’re imagining yourself as slightly superior to all those other music crazy fools. To be blunt he’s easily marketable and appeals to repeat radio listeners ears. And let’s be honest for a moment, the only people still buying hard copies of albums are the same people that still listen to standard AM/FM radio.
Take a listen for yourself and see what you think. Granted this Kanye Track is a remix of his smash hit, but it still dominates the 50 track, even when he had Timbaland and JT lending him massive help.
Well it’s clear in my mind that Kanye has defeated 50. I don’t know who else Kanye still has to prove himself against. Maybe The Fugees can drop a new album and give him a run for his money?
A long time ago I posted the fully performance that The Arcade Fire did for KCRW. It crashed the file host that I was currently using not just for me but for all their customers. Then I posted it again using a new and improved file host. They banned my account for life. A third file host took the files, watched me eat all of their bandwidth, and promptly upgraded servers conveniently losing my files and all the links along with them.
Let us hope and pray that this time is different. What you’ll find below is the entire segment that The Arcade Fire did for KCRW. A couple of the tracks are intros and interviews and as such aren’t musical tracks. Although they’re all worth downloading. Enjoy the music and welcome back to The World Forgot.
Ok, this might not be fair, but I do think that this is the best thing Josh Schwartz has done since season two of The OC ended. Let’s face it, the last seasonish of The OC totally sucked. So tonight, on The CW, his next series premiered. Rumour has it that at first Gossip Girl was targeted as a feature film starring Lindsey Lohan, but after that all blew over [or rehabbed over, respect], the idea was given to Josh Scwartz to develop as a television series.
For those of you who missed it here’s the basic formula of the pilot. A bunch of good looking actors and actresses try desperately to convince you they’re in high school while looking approximately twenty three. They don’t succeed at this attempt, at all, but they do suck you into another never ending storyline filled with mysterious histories, more high school drama than all the current high schoolers in Manhattan put together, and quite a bit of innuendo and outright sex. So basically think it’s The OC, set in New York, with a certain clairvoyant Gossip Girl web personality narrating it all [watch out Morgan Freeman, this kid has got talent]. As hard as that might be to stomach [almost as hard as realizing that Hype has yet to figure out what's up with my site] by the end of the pilot episode I had decided, “yeah, I’ll watch that.”
Besides, true to the early OC formula, they have a pretty killer soundtrack. It must be nice to have Alexandra Patsavas of Chop Shop Music as your musical coordinator. The only thing missing now is a segment of their official web site devoted entirely to what band and what song played in each episode. I’m sure that’ll happen soon.Anyone know what song that was played at the end? It sounded to me like a new track from Blink 182. Could it be? I know they were alleging a reunion album and tour either 2008 or 2009. But anyway, enough of that. Here’s some music to have fun with. I love their new album by the way, but I won’t spoil anything here with leaked tracks. Enjoy some older stuff they’ve done. Literally everything the Foo Fighters touch is wonderful.
In the past whenever Hype and Elbo.ws started to fail me I took a moment to reflect on what this blog has meant to me, and maybe more importantly, what it means to other people. First of all let me guide you to the list of Friends and Lovers there on the right. I love those bloggers, I really do, and I would appreciate it greatly if you clicked over there and checked out their sites. I know that I’m risking losing you forever, but as long as one blogger benefits then it’s worth it. And seriously, they deserve some love.
I also realize that many of you won’t read this post, won’t click over on that post, and really don’t give a rats ass about anything. But just in case you are reading this post but are too lazy to click on the sidebar here’s a little catchup for you weaker minded fiends. Just click the links hereafter for some great music blogs. It’s not an all inclusive list like some bloggers have simply because I try to keep it limited to the blogs that I actually read on a regular basis. I love these blogs, I hope you will too.
And finally I am going to pay special homage to a blog that I have loved for awhile and have been secretly reading for quite some time. They’ve gone out of their way to send me love and some readers this summer and my list simply wouldn’t be complete without them. To be honest I can’t belive that I’ve left them out for so long. They are and shall ever be in my heart as This Recording. They have great music, an amazing knowledge of pop culture, and the rambling style used in their posting keeps me engaged as I try to understand what exactly links everything talked about in one post together. Basically it’s brilliant stream of consciousness writing and I love it.
The other day I was checking around this new space I call my blog and I was clicking through all the links, making sure they were pointed at the correct sites, and so on. Well I stumbled down to where the ad banners are displayed and I did something that I honestly rarely, if ever, do. I clicked on one because it actually caught my attention. It was actually an ad for a free music mix presented over at the website for The Vancouver Sun. And of course, like a good little blogger, I snapped it up. And you can download the tracks here as individual files. I’m sick, or I would have posted this earlier today, but this strange cold snap has gone a shoved what feels like a cheese grater down my throat. Non-yum.
To be quite honest all of the songs are great and deserve their spot here on Seriously West Coast vol 01. If you’re only stopping by and only have but a moment to take in one song then by all means download the brilliant song by Leigh Nash. It’s heartbreaking and in all honesty outshines many of the other tracks on the compilation. +
Well, to be fair, they may not be the most watched network. They might not be the most family friendly or America’s favorite. But they are my favorite. Simply put they have most of the shows that I want to watch. And Thursday nights are by far the best. With The Office, Scrubs, 30 Rock, and ER all in a stretch I could theoretically not move for hours on end as I sit and laugh and then cry for a good two hours plus. Even doubly so now that The Office is kicking off their season with four full hour episodes. Get excited.
Also, get excited for the first official post from the new and improved The World Forgot starting here on Monday morning. Rumours abound about a possible Arcade Fire post. Could it be I’m reposting some Arcade Fire tracks that were so popular in the past that I’ve been kicked off of three separate file hosts?
Well expect some changes here on The World Forgot as I figure out how to use WordPress and the K2 theme. I must say that already I love it over here on my own site and I’m glad to have finally made the jump from Blogger to something that I can more easily control.
Expect the site to gradually and slowly shift into what I want it to look like and feel like. You can be sure that this simple template won’t last forever. Cause really, no one wants forever anymore. In other news I picked up a new guest writer. In the good old days you’ve seen his compilations a couple of times and you might know him simply as Josh. Hopefully now Josh will be more of a regular contributor here at The World Forgot and in the process I’ll be looking to have new posts and updates on this site on a daily basis.
Really, there is enough good music to go around, so I honestly should be blogging something every day. Now I’m just waiting and twiddling my thumbs until Hype and Elbo.ws switches their bots over to this new address.
Cheers.
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