"Lua" Laid Low by Mary Magpie

one of my fave songs off one of my fave albums  by bright eyes,  figured id give it over to my fave rock journalist from a younger generation and see what she made of it... eek!

One word describes Bright Eye's "Lua"
-boring. Usually calm, quiet music catches my ear, but this is ridiculous. Couldn't grab my attention, it was almost painful to listen to. "Lua" is a song that just didn't engage me.

What I'll Miss By Choosing Shinobi Ninja's Over the Grammy's by Helen Bach

Here's what I'm gonna be missing tonight by not watching the Grammys

Still not as bad as having to watch the Haiti Telethon but I'm betting dollars to donuts Nessing doesn't make it through this assignment

1- Two unique collaborations between hip-hop acts and rock stars are among the last-minute additions to this Sunday's Grammy broadcast, airing at 8 P.M. EST on CBS.

Lil Wayne, Eminem, Drake, and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker have been added to thegrowing list of performers, and according to hip-hop blog Nah Right, the quartet will probably be storming through Barker's remix of Weezy's "Forever."

2. Performances by: Beyonce, Green Day and Idiots, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Antebellum, Lady Ga Ga, Maxwell and the Zac Brown Band.

3. THREE D MICHAEL JACKSON TRIBUTE! (3d glasses available at Target.......not kidding)

4. Presenters including: Miley Cyrus, Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel and the Jonas Brothers, Norah Jones and Ringo Starr, who each have nine Grammys to their name, 10-time winner Carlos Santana (who also has three Latin Grammys), Justin Bieber, two-time Grammy winner LL Cool J, three-time Latin Grammy winner Ricky Martin and singer-songwriter Kesha

Theres a fantastic article on Clive Davis's pre party that is very rip off worthy

http://www.spin.com/articles/grammys-inside-clive-davis-annual-gala

Fantastic cuz the truth is revealed about kesha

Toby Keith is 100% Right

Record label, chart rockin' Toby Keith has every right to sneer "The Grammys don't respect country." --Toby Keith, nominated fhas beeen nominated precisely once for a grammy as Best Male Country Vocal Performance in 2006. Sincece then he has been a multi million  selling artist releasing songs by  multi million artists and the Grammy's are clueless. Country is another country, if you don't break pop forget it..

Satchmo By Gary Giddens: Seeming To Miss The Plotline

In 1956 MGM released the extremely succesful remake of the Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart comedy "The Philadelphia Story" as a musical with Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and featuring an all Cole Porter soundtrack. Ergo, class A.

And playing the one man Greek chorus and Crosby's good pal one Louis Armstrong.

 There are two scenes in Armstrong's celluloid career that played out like love scenes. One was Barbra Streisand and Armstrong singing "Hello Dolly", the other Bing Crosby and Armstrong singing "Now You Has Jazz". Giddins trashes "Hello Dolly" (though not Armstrong in it -he ignores Streisand) and he ignores "Now You Has Jazz".

The joy of seeing these two titans of popular American music - da Bing and Satcmo, blow this song to smithereens can bring tears to a pop aficiando's eyes. The pair plan to teach the squares a thing or two about "la jazz hot". Here they come: "everybody's singing a ring-ding-dinging that rock, rock, rock, rock rock and roll."

It's a joy.

It's a pleasure.

It's an honour to witness.

Why does Giddins ignore it?

Giddins is telling a story and its Armstrongs story but it isn't all of Armstrongs story, it is Armstrong according to Giddins. Giddins is the great former Village Voice Jazz critic and editor so I'm not quite complaining except I had to take my knowledge of Armstrong's career to fill in the gaps of Giddins narrative.

"Stachmo" flips and flops, it comes and goes, one chapter is about Armstrongs concerns for "Negro" civil rights and it might span twenty years. But then we are back in the twenties where for Giddins, and to be fair, for me as well, the heart of the story lies. But I'm not writing Armstrong's biography. If I was I would tell it CHRONOLOGICALLY so I could get a feel for how Armstrong's life played itself out.

Am I protesting too much. Absolutely I am. I am a huge Armstrong fan and I wanted something to place all the diffrent Armstrongs I love so I could study how and why he changed and with all due respect to Giddins, this aint that.

Look at it this way: how can I complain about the best writing I have ever read about some of the best music ever made. Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven sessions. It's hubristic to do so, I realize that. But EXCEPT for Giddins on the music and the personnel, the book aint there. 
"Satchmo" should have been longer. It's maybe half the length necessary though when you are talking about the greatest American musician of all time  and one of the greatest musicians of all time, what does it matter how many pages it takes?

You take the countries best jazz writer with the greatest jazz musician and you get a clumpy ride. Buy it? Yeah. But then you'll need a coupla others. One caveat: the discography at the end is very important work from a great jazz historian.

All Back To My Place by Helen Bach

You're all invited to my house next Sunday morning for brunch.

Here's why... after a semi grueling trip to the gym we unload and shower and hit the kitchen to replace the carbs we just burned off and chug juice like Bruce Jenner.

But the banter is what you'd come for not the soy cream 'cheese'

It resembles a magazine war room

"OK whattaya got?' becomes the kick off of what to write about on a Sunday when most of those in the biz are getting pedicures and weaves for tonight's Grammys

"how about $280. Clapton tickets at the Garden?'....."how no one has heard of any of the bands on my ipod?', 'why does my mom think Pitbull is hot?'....

and then it hits me

We are again completely out of touch AGAIN

Name me the top 5 songs according to Billboard this week

1- keesha

2- lady ga ga

3 that band that sounds like nicklebackstainedshinedown

4 young weezy

5.....

Out comes the lap top and we look and see

ew

But we also notice a pretty interesting trend

WHY THE HELL DOES JUST ABOUT EVERY ARTIST HAVE ANOTHER ARTIST AS ''FEATURED''?

Its Little Rascals "lets put on a show" mentality. Everyone seems to want to sing with a friend. and the match ups are pretty funny

Lady Gaga Featuring Beyonce

Trey Songz Featuring Fabolous

Jay Sean Featuring Sean Paul & Lil Jon

Timbaland Featuring Justin Timberlake

Young Money Featuring Lloyd

Justin Bieber Featuring Ludacris (this one is pretty funny)

David Guetta Featuring Akon

That's just in the top 20. Someone care to explain this to me?

So I pick the most tolerable sounding which would be Ga Ga and Beyonce.

And it seems to me all you have to do to be featured is to shout out a line or two or a verse. Does this increase my chances of a hit? So I can call it a new Beyonce song or a Ga Ga song..like a reversible wind breaker? Personally it seems week to me. Telephone on the other hand is a pretty fun song and the line "I cant text with a drink in my hand' will be the problem tonight when I'm seeing Shinobi in Boston.

I don't see much of that trend on the 'Rock' side of things I could also be out of touch with that but from searching and asking I'm not finding to many. There are the huge applause moments at a concert when say Pete Wentz steps up with Cobra Starship but as a recording it seems only the dance house gets the match ups. Wonder why. Ego or Cash flow?

Mary Magpie Hits Shuffle And Discovers A Hypocritical Jerk

1. Dare4distance- Nevershoutnever!

A song that I haven't listened to since mid-November. Filler track by a hypocritical jerk.

2. Appreciation and the Bomb- The Spill Canvas

Wonderful band, one who is WAY better than people give them credit for. Catchy and fun and addictive.

3. Dear June- Nickasaur!

Techno and electronic and a wonderful voice, Nickasaur! puts a smile on my face.

4. Caught in the Rain- October Fall

Way underrated and deserving of some sort of recognition, October Fall is a band that always comes up on shuffle- fate perhaps?

5. Toxic- A Static Lullaby(cover)

Great cover of Spears' song, and this version is so preferable, I learned it on the bass.

6. Hello, Brooklyn- All Time Low

Brings me back to summer, it's a great song that I can't resist listening to more than once.

7. Don't Rain on my Parade- Glee

Beautiful voice, and I know that many of my fellow writers don't agree, but hey- no need to rain on my parade.

8. Not While I'm Around- Sweeney Todd

Favourite musical, favourite song, favourite actor.

9. Rested Eyes Tell No Lies- 2*Sweet

Who has heard of this band? No one? -ahem- they ARE broken up, but it's totally worth a listen- they're great.

10. Run To You- The Rocket Summer

Beautiful and serenading, it's a song that I fall asleep to every night.

Cool Flesh For a Cold day

In The Flesh - Blondie

Every time I hear the opening of Princeton's "Show Some Love, When Your Man Comes Homes" I could sware they're gonna start in on  icey and distanced Blondie classic -there is something so removed in Debbie Hary's vocal (all of em really -but here she is discussing stealing a girl's boyfriend). And the doo wop background vocals just take it over the top. It's a song of seduction as cartoony as the Ramones and so apparently ohad more than proximity with the brothers in arms.

Yikes!!! Rock NYC A Gnat On the Back Of The World Of Music Websites

I figure rock nyc is on the 150 - 200 hits a day cusp and so I thought I'd take a look at other music websites hits per day on quandcast... Err, this may take longer than I thought!!

BrooklynVegan - 1700

Pitchfork - 195,000

NME - 30,500 (US Only)

Rolling Stone - 73,100

Spin.com - Have hidden access

Spinner - 33,800

MTV - Hidden By Owner

AP - 985

And before you say we're within hurling distance of Alternative Press just remember AP is subscription based for content...

Kanye West Blog Rant

stolen off pitchfork including the pic

For the millioneth time, zero connection between a nice guy and a great musician. A complete moron for wearing a full lngth fur at a fashions award last week, that is not to say Kanye West is anything less than our greatest living hip hop star. He puts buddy Jay-Z in his hip pocket and hops Kid Cudi on his back. The only people close are Gucci Mane on one side, and Freddie Gibbs on the other.

But Kanye is a damaged creature. Between losing lovers and mothers and managing to seriously offend the entire world (even Prez Bam dissed him) and numerous substances, the bloke is losing it.

So anyway Pitchfork took what follows off Kanye's website and I took it off theirs.

"WHEN IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE, REMEMBER THE FEARLESS, REMEMBER THE DREAMERS, REMEMBER THOSE WHO REPRESENT THE GHETTO...THE FAIRY TALE OF NOTHING TO SOMETHING. I'M BRIEFLY SADDENED BY NEGATIVE COMMENTS, BUT I HAVE TO REMEMBER THOSE PEOPLE ARE SCARED, INCAPABLE OR JUST PLAIN IDIOTS. WE ARE THE FUCKING ROCK STARS BABY. NO COCAINE, JUST LIFE MY NIGGAS!! NO COCAINE, JUST LIFE! IT'S FUNNY TO ME WHEN FASHION BLOGGERS DOWN OUR OUFITS AND THEN SUPER JOCK OUTLANDISH SHIT ON THE RUNWAY BUT THEN THEY DRESS MAD PRUDE AND DON'T LIVE FASHION. WE LIVE IT MAN. FUCK THAT, WE LIVE IT!!! WE LIVE IT SO HARD PEOPLE LIVE THROUGH US! WE REPRESENT YOUR INNER SPIRIT!! THE CHILD IN US ALL, THE BRUTAL HONESTY, THE NAIVETY, THE BRAVE WARRIOR, THE ADRENALINE THAT ALLOWS A MOTHER TO LIFT A CAR IF HER CHILD WAS TRAPPED UNDER IT! REMEMBER, THERE WAS A TIME WHEN EVERYBODY DISSED MICHAEL JACKSON EVERY CHANCE THEY COULD. IMAGINE THE PRESSURE OF BEING A TRUE ICON. VERY FEW HUMAN BEINGS ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO TAKE CONSTANT HATE!!! IF WE DON'T DO WHAT YOU FEEL IS THE SHIT, YOU BEAT US UP VERBALLY AND MENTALLY, LIKE A CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER BEATING A CREATIVE STUDENT INTO SUBMISSION. I CAN HEAR YOU SCREAMING 'COLOR INSIDE THE LINES!!!' WELL FUCK YOUR COLORING BOOK, COLOR BY NUMBERS APPROACH TO LIFE. AT THE END OF THE DAY WHO ARE WE HURTING??? OH "THE NEW BLACK???" SINCE BARACK IS PRESIDENT BLACKS DON'T LIKE FUR COATS, RED LEATHER, AND FRIED CHICKEN ANY MORE?! WHEN YOU TRULY UNDERSTAND CULTURAL SETTINGS, BOUNDARIES, AND OUR MODERN DAY CASTE SYSTEMS, THEN YOU CAN FEEL THE GLORY AND PAIN FROM THE DAYS OF KINGS IN AFRICA TO THE NEW KINGS OF THE MEDIA. LET THE BALL PLAYERS DANCE AFTER THEY SCORE! IT'S LIFE MY NIGGAS, IT'S LIFE! REMEMBER CLOTHING IS A CHOICE. WE WERE BORN NAKED!!! FRESH IS AN OPINION, LOVE IS OBJECTIVE, TASTE IS SELECTIVE, AND EXPRESSION IS MY FAVORITE ELECTIVE. NO MORE POLITICS OR APOLOGIES!!!"

Cold War Kids At Terminal 5: "Fun, Not Rowdy"

Uh Oh.

Does the Cold War Kids backlash start here?

After listening to their free bootleg of the set I missed at Terminal 5 Friday all I can say is the minute a band tells you they're fun but not rowdy run for your life. I guess they were breaking up a mosh pit but... cmon guys shut up. Oh, and if the lead singer has to ask the audience to singalong the singalong DOESN'T COUNT. We call this the Mayday Parade theory  -who certainly don't need to tell anyone to sing and prolly has to beg em to keep quiet.

So any way, the set starts off pretty good with my fave "Audience" coming in at around the third number, then it's intricate alt rock which kinda lives up to the Radiohead influence though Radiohead can certainly get rowdy and would be smart enough not to tell the audience to quiet down...

Around the midway point, somewhere in the middle of "Everything Will Be Explained", they've lost me. And offering their masterpiece "Coffee Spoon" to mellow out the audience is so california dreaming I wanna puke.

Later on they say we should play for the people of Haiti. Thanks for the heads up.

Still there are times when the band hits its stride and really, I'm listening to a bootleg and I am sure if it wasn't against the law the audience would be burning incense and letting the vibes fly..

"We're a weird group, a family" they say near the end. True. And on songs like "Santa Ana Winds" and "Lord Have Mercy On Me" I am completely won over.

Still I thought I was getting an East Coast band and I got a West Coast one instead. D'oh.

The Little Girls Understand...

With two of my writers, Mary Magpie and Helen Bach, deep into the blooming teen alt rock scene I thought I would listen a little more myself.
It's not true I don't like any of these bands, as a pop fan I have enjoyed the Rocket Summer, indeed, as a pop band I have enjoyed All Time Low as well. And as a dance band I love Love Via Dance Machine.
Over and above the question of demographic -I am neither the right sex nor the right age, nor the right sexual orientation  for these bands lto have a visceral effect upon me. The music has to work as work, nothing else will sell me -the sizzle won't sell me.
Anyway, I bought "I Swear This Time I Mean It" and I think Helen nailed it completely, the little girls will know every word and will be singing along on the top of the their screetch and though it's all a lille "Hey Delilah". An acoustic ballad with so much yearning!!! "Oh Florida please be still tonight, don't disturb this love of mine".
So I went to their myspace and streamed em and it was no fluke.  I can well imagine singing these kids (in love -har har) at next years Jingle Ball. Cute, long hair, dead romantic, can write a melody and a hook.
I have often said that I prefer teen R&B  to teen pop because if you have bad teen r&b you always have a backbeat but if you have bad teen you ain't got nothing. But what if it is good teen pop? Wadja have then?
The first cut is the deepest and girls who grow up in love with Mayday Parade will grow up with a taste for pop and rock. The first cut is the deepest and you could do worse than getting cut on this.. 

Nick Jonas discusses influences for his new album "Who I Am"

This is what Nick Jonas had to tell New York Times about the influences on his album:

"I was listening to was Robert Randolph & the Family Band, “Colorblind,” which I think is an awesome record. The Kings of Leon record was hitting right then. Also, a record called “The Outsiders” [by Needtobreathe], which is similar to Kings of Leon but more Southern rock. Jonny Lang. [John] Mayer of course. Stevie. Then lyrically, Johnny Cash was a big one. And Elvis Costello for his use of metaphors, telling what’s going on in his life without telling it all, which I think is a gift."

Costello for his metaphors -oh, wow, now I get it.

Swift-Mayer Linked: This One IS Just Waiting To Hit The Tabs

US Magazine reports "He thinks she's sweet and talented," a Mayer insider tells the mag, "and she sees him as a mentor."

But, observes another spy, "Whenever Taylor sees John, she gets all giddy and her voice quivers." Maybe she was just singing.

This is hot on the heels of Mayer's ridiculous, and I mean preposterous, RS interview. If Mayer thinks I think Mayer masturbates three times a day because he can't score any tail, Mayer is outta his mind.

What a load of, ahem, wank.

Almost As Good as Being As Being There? Cold War Kids Offee Free Bootleg Of Terminal 5 gig I missed...

Cold War Kids are offering a free boot of their entire show at Terminal 5. I downloaded it to my pc and will review it later today though I can say it is only an hour and fifteen minutes which explains why there were three acts.

Oh and one of the opening acts was Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah who I would like to have seen.
Any way, go to  www.coldwarkids.com/terminal5 and the password is the-la-river You've got about one day left before they take it down.

Everybody Loves Gaga.

First Helen Bach Falls, then Mike Nessing and now Ozzy himself. Here's the quote to CNN: "Every now and then somebody comes out and I really like them - I really like this Lady Gaga."

My Top Ten Songs Sunday January 31st, 2010

1. I'm Ahead If I Quit While I'm Behind - Jim Ford

2. Black Ladder - Patti Scialfa

3. I Swear The Time I Mean It - Mayday Parade

4. Can We Go Wrong - Hesta Prynn

5. Ballad Of Brandgelina - Americans In France

6. Dandelion - Charlotte Gainsbourg

7. A Heat Rash In The Shape Of A Bruise - Los Campesinos

8. Black And Tan - The Kingsley Manx

9. Shameless - Groove Armada

10. The Sea - Corinne Bailey Rae

Comment: Jim Ford is Nick Lowe's big influence and this song was covered by Brinsley Schwartz

Terminal 5 Named # 3 Room In the states reports Helen Bach

all that's gold does not shine

Apparently no one asked rocknyc their opinion but the infamous Terminal Ughk or is it Terminal 5 was voted #3 of the US 100 top venues.

There are no facility charges, restoration fees and apparently their "Live Nation Entertainment " are a fraction of competitors. According to Bowery Presents partners partners Jim Glancy and John Moore " it comes time for us to stack our offer up against others, dollar-for-dollar bands are making more with us on a cheaper ticket price. … A $20 to $22 ticket can be bought for $25 rather than $40. And guess what? If you’re trying to develop young talent, that’s the only way to do it, in my opinion.”

The partners at Bowery say that a lot of the reason why Terminal 5 is successful has to do with treating the patrons well, and noted there are concessions and bathrooms on all of the three floors, plus a massive smoking area on the roof. But that wasn’t what they stressed. Bowery put in a Clair sound system, lights from BML Stage Lighting, made sure the sightlines were great and opened the door.

Are there two Terminal 5s in NY cuz this sure as hell doesn't sound like the one we've heard of. “The production people aren’t walking away saying, ‘I don’t care how much the band made, that place sucked,’” Glancy said.

But Iman is.

Take Action tour Revs Up, Mayday Parade First Up, Helen Bach Gets Serious

Take Action rev up in full swing here. It takes me a bit of time to get fired up about a show. Alot of these bands tour ALOT and if you recall I saw Mayday Parade at the AP Fall Ball just a few months ago. I was moderately pleased I was more annoyed by the teen girl crowd and sing along mentality of it. Sours me sometime. But as I prepare for this interview I'm forced to listen not only to the band but to those who adore them. Mayday Parade has an armada. Hot Topic is hosting a 1 hour meet and greet the day of the show. Amazingly enough it is sold out. We The Kings are headlining and co- hanging at the Hot Topic event. I'm stunned. But I think I'm beginning to logic of the gruelling touring each wave through grabs more and more fans. This is exactly whats happening to Mayday and what inevitably will happen with Call The Cops. Perfect sense.

So now I have to take them more seriously. I have to speak to them and to walk in considering them 'just another band of the same old stuff on tour STILL' is unfair to you as a reader, to myself as a writer and to the band. Mostly though it's a disservice to the battalions of kids who are willing to cattle call through the mall to say "hey hows it going.?" and not even have a photo opp as cameras are banned from the event.

So I start with "Miserable At Best". I wash a shirt every week that says "without mayday parade Id be miserable at best''. the kids not mine. The lyrics are gut wrenching and if I were a teenager at the prom Id be ruining my Cover Girl make up on this one. Beautifully written touching real lyrics. The ah ha moment. They're grabbing the niche market more along the lines of Rocket Summer than All Time Low. The maturity is there the emotional tug is there and very well done.

2007s " A Lesson in Romantics'' got them on the map and 2009s 'Anywhere But Here' is whats causing the sell outs. The sound is the same there was no epiphany or 'growing up or artistic advancement. More of the same and I think that's the good thing here. Consistency. "Jamie All Over'' provides the perfect sing along chorus in 2007

"I Swear This Time I Mean IT' is going to be inaudible. This song will have a thousand 17 year old girls screaming the lyrics. It will make me insane. So as I hear it today through sound blocking earphones I hear why. This is the song every teenage girl wants to hear. How beautiful and lofty are the emotions that flow from this band. Its not sloppy its not contrived. Its believable and in the time of freak show alterations and 'maturing' how nice it is to hear a band confident enough to remain on the same path

I am now beyond excited for next week There is much more legwork to do. Much more research to do. I owe it to these guys and I owe it to those who weren't lucky enough to buy a meet and greet wristband. How lucky we are is yet to be defined.

Some Thoughts On The Grammy's

I love glitz, glam and grrams as much as the next person so my problem with the Grammy's isn't that it is glitzy, or a beauty contest, or, like all awards show unless it's you who is winning, a bit besides the point. And I gotta say, as these things go, we're not talking Wenners hallucoginally inappropriate Hall Of Fame, this is like the Oscars, it stands up, it is kinda a big deal.

No. My problem is it is so damn boring I can't watch the thing. And worse if you're actually there.

But in the interests of thoroughness and because even contactmusic.com has nothing I can steal, here's here will win and who should win (whether or not they were nominate. PS? No, I didn't bother with Best Spoken Word.

Best album

Will Win: Fearless

Should Win: The E.N.D.

Best record

Will Win: Pokerface

Should Win: Mkele Mbembe (by Americans In France)

Best Song:

Will Win: Halo

Should Win: Skull

Best Newcomer:

Will Win: Zac Brown

Should Win: Americans In France

Best Dance Song:

Will Win: Pokerface

Should Win: Set The Bass (Harvard Bass remix)

Best rock Album:

Will Win: No Line On The Horizon

Should Win: Goodbye Cruel World, Hello crueler World

Best R&B Album

Will Win: blacksummernight

Should Win: Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics

Best Rap Album

Will Win: Eminem

Should Win: Kid Cudi

Best Country Album:

Should Win: Fearless

Will Win: Fearless

Producer Of the Year

Will Win:: Brendan O'brien

Should Win: David Guetta

The Really Short Album Review

Ascenseur Ouvert - The Kingsley Manx - It's like folk music for the coolest girl at your Freshman graduation dinner.

Animal - Ke$ha - Wildly eccentric pop tart sleeps with genius producer has a bouncing baby but who wants to adopt it?

Romance Is Boring - Los Campesinos - And god is dead.

Contra - Vampire Weekend - Would be preppies graduate from Ivy League, still get dumped by the girl.

The Sea - Corinne Rae Bailey - Mourning becomes night

IRM - Charlotte Gainsbour - Electra faces her mortality enlists Beck for killer album, Iman swoons.

Transference - Spoon - Follow up to break through followed by stunningly boring profile in Rolling Stone

Hope For Haiti Now - Various Artists - Runner up to worst song in the world? Timberlakes "Hallelujah"

Power Move - Screaming Females - The chick has a good set of lungs.

And Here IS Today's News From Planet Ke$ha: The Pop Star Who Just Keeps Giving

And back in the magical Planet Ke$ha, the pop star who splits rock nyc down the middle (I adore her, everyone elses dislikes her except for Helen who wants her dead) said the following on Sirius XM:

1. "Susan Boyle.? She's sweet. I'd kiss her."

and

2. "I want to make out with the fat guy from 'The Hangover'. He's amazing... I like big, fat guys with beards that wear thick glasses".

We now return you to Planet Earth. Visit Planet Ke$ha again soon...

Helen Bach's Saturday Songlist

Saturday Song list for Hel

Cut the Cake- PFunk, from my 40th birthday mix. GREAT horn action

Raise The Dead Phantom Planet- seriously dig the stomp beat. I want them back.. someone call them

Love Will Tear Us Apart- Joy Division has anyone wrote of Joy Division or Gang of Four or 24hr Party People yet?

Lightspeed- Twin Atlantic I am addicted to the "I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band' sounding bass intro

Just Cant Get Enough- Depeche Mode- mad robot dance skills from the kid when this comes on, freakin hilarious

A Lifeless Ordinary- Motion City Soundtrack- I'm telling ya give it another go .. seriously

The Thespian- Alesana- I am so so on the fence with Alesanas new release. I haven't even been able to review it yet. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet.

Bad Romance- Lady Double G. yup..

Give Um Hell Kid- My Chemical Romance You boys get your shit together and come back swinging please

Now seriously who's house would you want to hang at today? Mine or Imans?

Second Shot At Reviewing Los Campesinos ' Romance Is Boring

Wanna know what I fucking hate about Los Campesinos? Their fucking song titles -kiss of death for a rock crit and a straight drag to type.

Wanna know what else? They kinda suxd the second time I caught em last year.

Wanna know what else? So much language it takes forever to get a handle on em and the sixteen track Romance Is Boring is information overload. This is the 21st century folks, less is more.

So I listen to music ALL THE TIME and I still don't the time to get to the bottom of this one. So I cheated and went to Metacritic and ended up on Pop Matters where I read Jordan Sargent's superb review of the album. Jordan helped me focus and though I didn't quite agree with him (or her -one of those names, right?) I saw what Jordan meant. We agree upon the themes (sex, god, the connection) and we agree upon the sound (noisy twee) what we disagree is the strength of the songs. I love em all but it doesn't peak high enough. There is no "fingers for crossing" there is no "get drunk and call me": lotsa good stuff, "Sea" is epic (Im not gonna spend my life typing out Garth's ridiculous song titles) "Romance Is Boring" is a real pop move, "Listed Buildings" I listen to insatiably but I just don't hear that one or two tracks to push it to the level of their first two.
Still early days and I'm still listening.

Go Whistle: Helen Bach Reviews Patti Scialfa's "Black Ladder

I'm convinced I get sent songs to hate on purpose.

Pattie Scialfa needs to be behind the boss making soup or something.

I do believe shes trying to sound like Nora Jones, but I'm not sure. She also would do well to clear that phlegm out of her throat.or quit the Marlboro reds.

I think shes trying to be sexy but shes old and the acoustic 'interlude' isn't even credit worthy. Shes playing guitar? Meh, doesn't matter.

I have a problem with her anyway, For me to have liked this song would have taken a whole lot of hoop dee doo.. and this is nothing more than an old woman trying to sound sexy and to my ears coming off like a pathetic has been who never was.

*post script- iTunes loves me cuz as this song ended.. Peter Bjorn and Johns, "Young Folks'' started up.. sorta giving me a hug after the ordeal of hearing Black Ladders twice. now I wanna whistle...

Take Action And Call The Cops by Helen Bach

I am starting to get excited for the upcoming Take Action Tour, Absolutely loving being a part of rocknyc because of the amazing opportunities it offers me. This Friday I have the pleasure of speaking with not only Mayday Parade but another who I am quite taken with-

Call The Cops

Has boldly stepped into the world of straight haired skinny jeaned poppunk. Its a rough gig. This over saturated market must be a bear to crack. So many bands sound just the same and have the same MO. Fun, safe sexy, talented, 'fun'. They shower they flat iron their hair They're polite and articulate. They care about community and their friends. They love their fans, they love their jobs........they're feeling groovy.

First things first. I see facial hair. That alone sets them apart. The Song "Get Close" has a techno twitter fun. They very much sound like Innerparty System in this. The fast techno does them well. What I'm digging is I am the first to hear them. Id say in about 2 months every one of the scene girls will be gushing over them. Its as if I can see it coming like a tsunami. This Friday night Hartford CT will adopt them as the 'most amazing' band, they will get mobbed. They will get lucky and they will be remembered. If there is one thing I'm good with its predicting this stuff. I can already see the CT girls lining up on their myspace comments. 'new boys are coming! quick get the hairspray.....

Videos on their site give them that Foo Fighter fun type image but if you DON'T look you'll hear the recipe for success. A singable chorus in a great pitch, a fun drum a simple repetition of bass.. and my tsing of cymbals.

'Motion Sickness' will be the song that ignites the crowd. I like when a band sounds like they dig a song and listening to this I can hear more energy, so either they feel it too or this was a first take before the 20 cans of Monster were consumed.

Basically and simply said 'Call The Cops' are doing everything right.

As they travel to town on the Take Action tour they're simply plowing a path for a full stage at the next pass through on... Warped Tour July 11th.

My Top Ten Songs Saturday January 30th, 2010

1. Black Ladder - Patti Scialfa

2. Can We Go Wrong - Hesta Prynn

3. A Heat Rash In The Shape Of A Bruise - Los Campesinos

4. The Sea - Corinne Rae Bailey

5. These Three Things - The Kingsley Manx

6. Shameless - Groove Armada

7. Skull - Screaming Females

8. Four Score And Seven - Titus Andronicus

9. I Want You Back - Of Montreal and Solange

10. Diplomat's Son - Vampire Weekend

Comments? One song can turn your opinion about somebody: I had listened to Patti because, you know, but hadn't really heard her. I gotta research this chick.

Who She??

Any Idea's?

How about now?

Got it yet?

LA GAGA

Why I Skipped Cold War Kids Last Night Who I Really, Really Wanted To See

1. It was 830p and I had been out of work for nearly three hours and I STILL HAD two and a half hours to go before Cold War Kids would hit the stage at the worst venue in the world Terminal 5

2. The doors openedat 8p. My choices were to rush for a seat and kill time in a venue TOO DARK TO READ or to arrive at 1030ish and not see a damn thing.

3. Two opening bands... neither of whom I'd heard of and I hear of bands.

4. Say I get there at 9p? I'm stuck with zero sighlines in the middle of a throung of young twits DOING NOTHING... NOT EVEN ABLE TO MOVE MY FUCKING HANDS.

5. What sadist designed T5? How can you have three floors and no sightlines in a room that opened in 2007? All they had to do is go to the Hammersmith Ballroom 22 blocks south to see how it's done. The floor is tricky but the two upper floors are excellent with great sightlines and seats.

6. Why didn't they open the doors at seven and get the band out by 930p latest. What part of this are they failing to grasp.

7. So I didn't get to see Cold War Kids because the management of T5 are braindead greedy pigs.

Bruce Springsteen On Costello's Spectacle: Rock Journalism By Other Means

If Bruce Springsteen is from Freehold, NJ and has never left, as he claims on the grand finale of Elvis Costello's two year adventure into TV "Spectacle",  why does he sound like an Oakie? Is he faking it? One of many questions neither raised nor answered on the specatular spectacle of Costello fawning over the Boss for two straight hours.

EC and BS sit center stage, knees almost touching, BS with an acoustic guitar on his knees, EC the picture of obsequous interest, and in the less than intimate setting EC gets a few kernels of real insights off the Boss.

It is a musical conversation through Bruce's career. Memories of trying to get gigs in New Jersey when not in a cover band leads to an examination of why he worked all the harder on his lyric.

Born To Run was the breakthrough which Bruce calls Elvis out for dubbing it "over romantic" thirty years ago. This is followed by one of the two truly fascinating moments, Bruce's discussion of Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It took three years to follow up (because he was suing to get out of a management deal though that's not mentioned). But that was from 1975 to 1978 and Springsteen was listening to a lot of English pop and punk. He calls Elvis' first three albums a "hurricane" -not a bad estimation, and that, along with the Buzzcocks and the string of US  singles leading to the US release of the UK Clash' first album because "it hand't been released in the States yet" (A little disingenuous:  coulda gone to Bleeker Bob's and bought an import copy for ten bucks, proves even Bruce wants to show off when it comes to rock) .

After that it got a little tedious though Bruce did mention he initially wrote "Hungry Heart" for the Ramones but Jon Landau, his manager said "uh huh, you're never giving that one away", so he had to keep it. Remindsme  of a story Dave Edmunds used to tell of going backstage at a Bruce concert and Bruce taking him to the side and saying "I wrote a song for you" and playing it in the dressing room. The song was the epic "From Small Things (Big Things One DayCome" which found its way onto D.E.7

The other thing I found beyond interesting to the point of fascinating and just as fascinating as when Nev, Helen and Mike forwarded their playlists to me last year, is when Bruce discussed what his children listened to. The girl loved Top Forty, the oldest boy listens to alternative rock and namechecks Bright Eyes and  the youngest when he was thirteen, Bruce was walking by his sons bedroom and heard Dylan's "Chimes Of Freedom" wafting out. "It's epic, dad" the boy said and his father replied, "You're right, it is epic". Earlier in the interview Bruce had mentioned how listening to early Bob Dylan had changed his life and gave it a new direction. A truly moving moment and bravo to Costello for making the man comfortable enough to share it.

The musical segments are a bit of a drag though the godawful "Radio Nowhere" which Springsteen has tormented audiences with for the past coupla years, segues into an awesome "Radio Radio". The real highlight was written by neither the Boss nor the glasses but by Mrs. Boss.Patti Scialfa. Patti's  "Black Ladder" from her 2007's Play It As It Lays. The album passed me by at the time but this wonderful song of sexual love is given a deservedly moving treatment tby EC with Bruce and Nils Lofgren backing him up on acoustic guitars.

I immediately went onto Itunes and bought the song. I guess making music is just rock journalism by other means.

Idiots United By Helen Bach

My rocknyc boys and I have not discussed the Grammys. We have not debated the nominees we have not really given it any attention all.

So it brings me great joy to announce that a band I hate almost as much as Bob Seger, Green Day, will be performing "21 Guns" (goons?) with the entire cast of Broadways "American Idiot'. I hope the sets will be rented for this show cuz they wont need them long. I would rather puke in my handbag than see this.

The stage version of American Idiot completed a month run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California and is moving to Broadway, where it will debut on April 20. A new three-song EP features the new version of "21 Guns" along with a live version recorded in Japan.

Don't miss it on Sunday.

Me? I'll be in Boston with Shinobi Ninja...

Seconds Of Pleasure, Decades Of Pleasure : Desert Island Disc by Mike Nessing

ROCK NYC PRESENTS THE DESERT ISLAND LP SERIES (in no particular order)



ROCKPILE-SECONDS OF PLEASURE
For starters, this is not even the best Rockpile album. For that you have to take Nick Lowe’s “Labour Of Lust”, combine it with Dave Edmunds’s “Repeat When Necessary” and hit shuffle. I guarantee the best two record set experience never released. 100% pure beat, no filler.

However, since that dream LP has to be cobbled together by the listener, “Seconds Of Pleasure” wins out by default. It certainly is no slouch. Now considered to be somewhat of a rock and roll classic, it’s release in 1980 fell on the deaf ears of the record buying public, both in England and here in the United States. It charted as high as #27 during it’s brief five week stay on the Billboard album charts.

Looking back on what was popular back then, it’s easy to see how the record never had a chance. “Glass Houses” by Billy Joel, The “Urban Cowboy” soundtrack, “Voices” by Hall And Oates, “Women and Children First” by Van Halen. The list goes on. Suffice to say that there was nothing else in 1980 that sounded remotely like Rockpile.

Not that the ‘pile were looking to cow tow towards any trends or fads. In Nick Lowe’s own words, the band “specialized in playing Chuck Berry music four times faster than anybody else”. This was a band that played shows night after night essentially burning themselves out on the road between 1977 and 1980.

Strangely enough, by the time the band recorded it’s “debut” , Rockpile had effectively run it’s course. The fact that “Seconds Of Pleasure” did basically nothing sales wise didn’t help matters either. Lowe and Edmunds had outgrown each other, and in Lowe’s words “There was no more fun to be had”.

As stated previously, the record over the years has grown in stature. It is nothing less than a fierce uncompromising take on rock and roll in the truest sense of the phrase. Elements of Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and The Everly Brothers permeate each and every track, The most ironic twist here is that by being steadfastly loyal to the music they loved, Rockpile's sound actually ran contrary to the corporate rock leanings of the era.

Lowe and Dave Edmunds would continue their solo careers independently of each other, occasionally crossing paths and reconvening on a record or two here and there. Billy Bremner played sessions, most notably providing a spot-on James-Honeymann-Scott imitation on The Pretenders’ hit “Back On The Chain Gang”. Terry Williams was snared up by Mark Knopfler , who employed him during his most successful incarnation of Dire Straits.

However, for one brief moment in October 1980, the absolute truth was laid down on some 43 minutes worth of black plastic. “Seconds Of Pleasure” lives on as a testament to the true heart of rock and roll. To paraphrase David Byrne, this ain’t no Huey Lewis.

April Turns To May by Helen Bach

"keep your hands off helen, she's mine i tell you mine"

April is gonna be a great month. Boatloads of great shows and a fabzilla release

Fearless Records releases Punk Goes Classic Rock. This the next in line on the "Punk Goes" series

Its utter trash a guilty pleasure but so what.

Although unconfirmed reported participants include Mayday Parade, Every Avenue, VersaEmerge, Pierce The Veil, A Skylit Drive and NeverShoutNever, who has apparently recorded a cover of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. Theres a migraine for ya.

The Magpie and I will get more info Friday 2/5 when we interview Mayday Parade during at the Take Action Tour.

Unless of course were asked to keep another secret...

Kids Helping Kids: A charity You can't Help But Love

My friend Jake Wilkenfeld-Mongillo recently left Rock-Ridge Music and got in touch to ask us to mention a fundraiser to help the children of Haiti,. Sure, i've been cynical about these fundraisers before but not savethechildren.org so not everyone and certainly not anything good guy Jake has anything to do with, also note the guarantee. here is the press release

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The Kids Helping Kids / Performing Artists 4 Haiti charity event

organized to benefit the victims of the Haiti earthquake will take

place at the Bowery Poetry Club on Sunday, Jan, 31st, 1-6pm.

$5 minimum suggested donation

100% goes directly to orphanages in Haiti.

1:30 - 4:00 PM KIDS HELPING KIDS

Family / Kids Programming: Hayes Greenfield & Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz, Niall

'Leary Dancers, Louise Rogers Band & children's chorus

4:00 – 6 PM PERFORMING ARTISTS FOR HAITI (see below)

The New York Neo-Futurists Theater ensemble

The award wining independent theater ensemble have performed hundreds

of plays for downtown audiences, like Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go

Blind --visceral and experimental, embracing chance, change, and

chaos!   www.nynf.org

Music: For the Artists 4 Haiti portion of this event, NYC-based

vintage reggae band The Hard Times will play their own short set,

accompanied by some of NYC's most prominent world music percussionists

including Salieu Suso and Papa Suso on kora, and Frank Marino.

Following that, the band will serve as the house band for the rest of

the event, backing notable New York poets and spoken word artists.

Poetry Producers Round

Hosts and producers of some of the most popular NYC poetry series

bring their poetic energy and voices to the stage for what will surely

be an electric experience with the spoken word.

Poets include: Bob Holman, Nick Power (NYC College Slam), Evie Ivy

(Green Pavilion), Angelo Verga (Cornelia Street Café), George Wallace

(The Beat Series) Lee Kostrinsky (Smalls Jazz Club), Mike Graves and

Susan Scutti (New Phoenix), Kyle Spencer

Featured New Phoenix poets:  Michael Graves received a grant from the

Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation for 2004 and is the author of Adam and

Cain (Black Buzzard 2006).  Sally-Ann Hard's work has been published

in places like The Gwendolyn Brooks Journal of Black Thought &

Literature; Turning Wheel, and Salamander. Joe Fritsch's work explores

the etymological sense of poet as "maker."

& OPEN MIC

Producer poets tag team hosting, bring your poetry!  Hit the stage!

Support the children of Haiti!

For more information on the benefit:

Contact:  Christine Timm bowerykids@yahoo.com

Or Bob Timm / The Hard Times

hardtimesreggae@gmail.com

Links:

http://bowerypoetry.com/

http://www.myspace.com/hardtimesreggae

Sia Soon

Kristen Stewart fave is back after a coupla years in the outbacks and the first song off her newbie which I streamed off girlie action "You've changed" sounds wildly old fashioned (those BPMs) and pretty fucking wonderful. She'll be around soon.

After A Year Long Hiatus My Morning Jacket Back On Tour!!!

Now the bad news, nowhere near us. Now the good news, I'm sure they'll get here eventually. MMJ are one of the best live bands you'll ever see and as long as Jim James has forgotten EVERYTHING he has learnt from playing with MOF it's a must see:

MMJ Tour Dates With The Preservation Hall Jazz Band:

 04/20: Birmingham, AL @ Alabama Theater04/21:

Nashville, TN @ Municipal Auditorium04/23: Atlanta, GA @ Chastain

Park04/24: New Orleans, LA @ Jazzfest 04/27: St. Augustine, FL @ St.

Augustine Amphitheater04/28: Charleston, SC @ Family Circle04/30:

Raleigh, NC @ Koka Booth05/01: Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post

Pavilion05/02: Columbus, OH @ LC Outdoor Pavilion

Mike Nessing reports On Gaga's Latest Stunt

i gotta confess im starting to warm up to this chick. She doesn't take herself too seriously.(mn)

"More than 100,000 people on Facebook have declared today National Lady Gaga Day. It’s difficult to be sure what this day entails exactly, but presumably elaborate costumes will be part of it. Point is, it’s gone sort of viral. Gaga is everywhere now.

Student Sarah Jane Elliott founded the Facebook() event, and as we’re writing this post 105,147 have RSVPed as confirmed guests. There are 14,398 “Maybes.” The day is described as an opportunity to “dress like her, sing, dance, have themed parties, wear a kermit the frog jacket” and “celebrate our ‘inner freak’ that Gaga allows (and wants) us to be.”

While the event started on Facebook, it doesn’t end there. We’re seeing a bunch of tweets about it, including one from Gaga herself. She thanked her fans, saying: “Thank u for creating #nationalladygagaday little monsters! I love u with all my gaga heart.”

Friday is a great day for this; don’t be surprised if you hear some Lady Gaga in the clubs tonight. So go and dance, lovers of Lady Gaga

A Playlist For When you've Written So Much You Never Want To Write Another Word

These Three things - The Kingsley Manx - It's like a nursery rhyme written in a trance, Midlake without the posturing: it seems completely contemporary and a million miles away. I am working my way through the album and every song is great but I have a feeling Nessing would be able to write about it better: "1,2,3, 1,2,3 is the number of things I've been wondering about". It's hypnotising.

A Heat Rash In The Shape Of the Show Me State; or (Letters From Me To Charlotte) - Los Campesinos - I love the bit, no, not where he leaves with an erection, but the bit where they swore to be best friends forever and fucked it up entirely. And I love it when a bloke and a chick alternate verses. But these song titles kill me.

Sparkle - Aretha Franklin

Hey Delinquints - Like the Stones with a worse singer. "Can't pay the rent without a ransom" is the story of my life.

Chase The Tear - In the battle of the rubberdubdubs I'm betting on these guys -too many guest stars on Massive Attack. And may I add: just because it's a small world DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAFTA PLAY WITH EVERYBODY

My City In Ruins - Eddie Vedder - springsteen sang it during 9-11 and I see zero reason for vedder not to shut his fucking mouth for haiti.

Can We Go Wrong - Hesta Prynn - "can we go ro-ro-ron…" song of the moment….

Black And Tan - The Kingsley Manx

10 Mile Stereo - Beach House - Not gonna instant backlash em right this second. Pretty enough.

The Sea - Corinne Bailey Rae - Thanatos is fascinating and it sounds fab.

There Are Listed Buildings - Los Campesinos

I Do - Screaming Females

I Saw The Light - Spoon

Coffee Spoon - Cold War Kids - This and Titus' drinking song are my two big big biggies of the year (and Solange covering jackson 5 but I can't be bothered youtubing it)

Sign Of The Times

Comments on Ke$ha is being haunted: Four

Comments On Salinger's Death: Zero

That's

All

He better

James Mercer sez we can expect a new Shins album next.

I think Broken Bells is gonna stiff and recommends he writes some songs for his band. this bloke and Jim James. WRITE SONGS FOR YOUR FUCKING BANDS

I know this has nothing to do with Haiti but it feels like it does

Ezra and girlfriend: your gossip friendly: Rock NYC

Stolen off a post by Ryan Dombal on Pitchfork: "Critics ignore it when the Best Rapper Alive says faggot, but hulk-out when the Worst Rapper Alive says balaclava"

I think this is the second time I've found it necessary to mention Dombal by name.

Etta James In Hospital

Etta James, who was so pissed at Beyonce (who is the equal to Etta neither musically nor historically) singing "At Last" at President Obama's inaugural it's a wonder she didn't take a swing at her, has been hospitalized. Nothing major, out in a week sez her son. Our best wishes go to out to the former Chess records artist and one of the all time greats.

I've had the urge to write a little about the Prez lately and haven't found the right hook so let me clue you in. I didn't think 'Bam was all that to start with but I didn't think he was bad. I mean, the guy was a politician... how good could he be. Despite all the constant pounding on the man he hasn't been that bad. The rule of thumb with a Presidency is if you don't leave it in worse shape than when you found it your ahead of the game.

I am happily surprised at how well he's done and if you don't believe I was pretty doubtful about Obama when he started ask Bob Nevin who I thought was gonna deck me at some points.

Viz Etta -Bam better hope she doesn't get worse. he might be advised to send flowers right now.

Three Songs I Can't Even Listen To

Haiti Mon Amour - Jay-Z, Bono, Rihanna - I really and sincerely believe I have never hated a song more in my life. I think they  infect each other. Bono is the king of self-importance, Jay-Z makes a career of self-love, funny when you're in your twenties, less so when your forty. And Rihanna, still recovering from that piece of scum Chris Brown beating, caught the self-serving bug. I Stick em altogether and stick a fork in em.

The High Road - Broken Bells - Lessee here, take the bloke who wrote "Caring Is Creepy" and add the man behind "Run Away" and The Grey Album and what you get is this crappy piece of product. What on earth were these cats thinking. Oh, wait, like the guys above they were too busy congratulating themselves to think. Look: anger may be an energy but lethargy ain't a religion.

Fistful of Tears - Maxwell - Maxwell? Maxwell? Ugh. Start with the fucking title and go from there. All popular music starts with a melody and without it you have an uphill battle, if you ever listen to Miles Davis playing "My Funny Valentine" you'll see how art and commerce connect. But unless your name is D'Angelo you shouldn't  take seven years off and reimagine yourself an artist. Except for Common who reversed the trend by imagining himself a pop star and still didn't manage to sell out. Maxwell bombed and deserved to. If Teddy and Marvin can take off their shirt and sell the sizzle, why he's making like Erykha Badu's bosum buddy beats me. Have you looked at her sales figures lately? This entire album was a disaster that please nobody except for a a handful of rock crits. PS Sure "Pretty Wings" was better but so what?

The Life You Live by Todd Leibowitz

If we knew then, what we know now….

That’s what everyone says.

Same goes for music. When I was younger listening to music, all I heard was the music. I was singing along with the lyrics, but did I really know what they were saying? The true meaning behind the lyrics? Probably not.

Now, I am 35, have a beautiful wife, amazing son, and bills coming out of my ears.

So, the other day, I was just listening to my “80s hair band playlist” on the ipod, and was really listening to the lyrics. Some of the lyrics were the typical sleaze lyrics that we all love, for instance “Girls, Girls, Girls” from Motley Crue or “Slip of the Tongue” from Faster Pussycat or “Pour Some Sugar on Me” from Def Leppard.

But…..there were also hardcore, meaningful lyrics that back in the day kids then didn’t care of the meaning. Now, we do, and even though these rockers were parting all the time with the women and booze, they did show their grown-up side to. Listening to these songs gives me new meaning to what they were saying, plus I have more respect for these guys. Here are sample lyrics….

Tesla – “It's not whatcha got, it's a-what you give. It ain't the life you choose, it's the life you live.”

Poison – “I drive by the homeless sleeping on a cold dark street, like bodies in an open grave”

Faster Pussycat – “Times are changing and moving fast Way too fast for me”

Skid Row – “Is it all just wasted time, Can you look at yourself When you think of what You left behind”

Bon Jovi – “Through the years and miles between us , It's been a long and lonely ride , But if I got a call in the dead of the night , I'd be right by your side”

The Bon Jovi “Blood on Blood” is my favorite. I have a nice group of friends and would help them out in a heartbeat. They were there for me and I will be there for them.

Just to name a few….I am sure more will come to mind.

If you can remember other lyrics from the past that still hold true today, send them over. Would love to get some feedback.

Thanks Its not what you got but its what your give

It aint the life you chose.

Its the life you live Its not what you got but its what your give

It aint the life you chose.

Its the life you live Its not what you got but its what your give

It aint the life you chose.

Its the life you live