'Music' Category
Eminem & Dido – Stan
Here is this week’s song. Note that the lyrics are explicit. Eminem (real name Marshall Bruce Mathers III) is considered the greatest rapper of all time and according to Rolling Stone magazine one of the 100 Greatest Artists of All-Time. According to Billboard, he has sold over 80 million albums and two of his albums [...]
The Waterboys – Whole of the Moon
Here is this week’s song. This is one of those groups that are exceptionally good but never achieved commercial success. The Waterboys is described as a Celtic folk music and rock and roll band from Great Britain The group was formed by Mike Scott in 1983. Scott has been the only permanent member of the [...]
The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
Here is this week’s song (a few days’ late so it’s actually last week’s song) off my iPod. Beth loves this song and thinks highly of the Pumpkins and Billy Corgan. The Smashing Pumpkins is an alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois. The group was formed by Billy Corgan (vocals, guitar) and James Iha (guitar, [...]
The Polecats – Make A Circuit With Me
Here is this week’s song off my iPod. A DJ from WBAB gave me this song that I hadn’t heard in years. The Polecats are a rockabilly group formed in North London in the late 1970′s. The members of the group are Tim ‘Polecat’ Worman (Vocals, Guitar), Martin ‘Boz’ Boorer (Vocals, Lead Guitar), Chris Hawkes/Neil [...]
Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
Here is this week’s song off my iPod. Queens of the Stone Age is a rock band from Palm Desert, California. The band originally formed under the name of Gamma Ray in 1997. The members of the band are Josh Homme (vocals, guitar), Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar), Michael Shuman (bass), Joey Castillo (drums), and Dean [...]
Tears For Fears – Head Over Heels
Here is this week’s song off my iPod. This is a song from my years of clubbing. Tears For Fears are an English pop duo formed by former members of the group “Graduate”, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith in 1981. The band’s name was inspired by primal therapy which had become very popular in the [...]
The Flaming Lips – She Don’t Use Jelly
Here is this week’s song off my iPod. I only have two songs from this group on my iPod, this one and a song they did for the SpongeBob Movie called, “SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy”. The Flaming Lips are an extremely odd alternative/psychedelic band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma formed in [...]
Eighteen Visions – Tonightless
I would have posted the song of the week last week when I should have but Michel ran over my ear buds with her car (and no, I wasn’t wearing them at the time) so I couldn’t listen to my iPod. So here is last week’s song off my iPod. Eighteen Visions was a metalcore/alternative [...]
3 Doors Down – Kryptonite
Here is this week’s song off my iPod. 3 Doors Down is hard rock band from Escatawpa, Mississippi formed in 1996. The band consists of Brad Arnold (vocals), Matt Roberts (guitars), Todd Harrell (bass), Chris Henderson (guitar), and Greg Upchurch (drums/percussion). The band toured extensively throughout Mississippi and the neighboring states before releasing their first [...]
Intaferon – Get Out Of London
Here is this week’s song off my iPod. This is a song from 1983 that most of you have probably never heard of. Intaferon was a new-wave duo from England made up of Simon Fellowes and Simon Gillham. They released three singles on Chrysalis Records and then vanished from the face of the Earth. Their [...]
