4 posts tagged “coldplay”
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I thought I would do something different for gathering news, since you may have noticed an absent of the weekly news. News will now be delivered though Links, from a variety of music news sources. I think the "links" links actully have a feed, so you can subscribe to this using your favorite rss newsreader. I personally use google reader myself, with about 500+ items every hour!
BO DIDDLEY
Topping the music news is the death of Bo Diddley from heart failure on June 2nd.
This R&B/Blues artist got his start in 1951 playing at the 708 Club
in Chicago, Illinois. By 1955, Bo recorded some demos, "I'm a Man" and
"Bo Diddley", the later went on to become a #1 R&B hit.
His early songs made him so famous, that he was asked to be on the Ed Sullivan show, but was eventually banned from subsequent appearance when he played "Bo Diddley" instead of a cover song of "Sixteen Tons".
That didn't end his career, instead Bo went onto record more hits.... and the rest is history.
Random vu-thoughts: it would seem to me that Bo Diddley had a passion for pop culture and genre, take for instance his "western" themed album titles: Have Guitar Will Travel (based on the western tv show "Have Gun - Will Travel") and Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger (with the title track having references to the famous shoot-out at the OK Corral). Later on, he would also have his "beach/surf" theme: Surfin' with Bo Diddley and Bo Diddley's Beach Party, all probably inspired by the teen-movie Beach Party.
UNDER SURVEILLANCE
I also wanted to talk about the innovative video by The Get Out Clause.
My my understanding, the band wanted to shoot a music video, but didn't
have the finance - so they thought up the idea to have surveillance
cameras film them in performance. Under the Freedom of Information Act,
they requested the footage of their appearances and pieced together
their video for "Paper".
The video
became viral and have spread all over the UK press and picked up by
NPR, making the band an instance success overnight! (That was in May).
With all the interests, you can pick up their EP, to be released July 7th and "hand made by the band". Judging from the picture of the pre-order, it looks very cool.
Anyway, I think their video is such a cool idea, but I can't help but feel uneasy how "big brother" England's become, no?
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Things have really slowed down for the upcoming holidays and I know I'm looking forward to spending time with my family and shopping on Black Friday.
I'm going to try and clear out my pending album review (I have already posted two reviews), so you may start seeing, if not more reviews from me in the next few days (although I always try and mix it up with fun stuff like this "Cover Lover" post.)
I was listening to my iPod Shuffle and this version of Coldplay's
"The Scientist" came on by a woman singer and I had no idea who it was.
The problem with the Shuffle is that it doesn't have a display so I had
to remember to look up this song on my iTunes when I got home.
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Turns out that the singer is called Natasha Bedingfield, a pop singer, whose good looks probably lends herself to selling records. I found out that she used to be in a Christian band called The DNA Algorithm (rhythm? haha?).
Her song appears on the 2-disc Radio 1's Live Lounge compilation, which was released this year (October 16th) in the UK.
What I like about her cover song is that it's absolutely in the tone (if you can call it that) in an R&B/Popular, complete with moaning and whoa-whoa and "yeah baby". Too funny!
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Apparently Live Lounge DJ, Jo Whiley, loves the original Coldplay song so much that she's also suckered Avril Lavigne and Eamon to cover that song - but unfortunately I wasn't able to find any details of the Eamon's version.
I've previously mentioned Avril a few times on W♥M, and really, she doesn't need any introduction.
The first thing about Avril's version is her opening line: "Come up to meet you" is transformed to "Come up to meetcha". It's laughable, but I'm glad to see that later on in the song that she retains "pro-gress" and not as "prog-ress".
Overall, I did actually enjoy her cover song a lot.
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11/29/07 Belly Up San Diego, CA 11/30/07 El Rey Los Angeles, CA 12/02/07 Bimbo’s San Francisco, CA 12/03/07 Bimbo’s San Francisco, CA 12/05/07 Aladdin Theater Portland, OR 12/07/07 Wheeler Opera House Aspen, CO 12/08/07 Boulder Theater Boulder, CO 12/10/07 Guthrie Theater Minneapolis, MN More tour details on aimeemann.com |
Aimee Mann, the singer from 'Til Tuesday (I know I felt gutted for not including a song from them on W♥M's "Daze of the Week") released a live version of "The Scientist" on the special edition of Lost in Space (2002).
Her last CD is called One More Drifter in the Snow and was released last year. She's currently going to set course on a second annual Christmas tour, which ends right before Christmas. See more details on United Musicians.
This live version is pretty faithful to the original. There are male backup singers, which I'm beginning to see a trend on all the live songs here: Piano with backup vocals.
Trivia: 'Til Tuesday's "Voices Carry" song was said to be inspired by Michael Hausman (the other member of Til Tuesday) and Aimee Mann's breakup.
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Did you know Concrete Blonde's bassist is a solo artist? Her name is Johnette Napolitano and she recently teamed up with Danny Lohner to record "The Scientist" for the Wicker Park Soundtrack.
"The Scientist" also appears on her live album, Scarred, which was released May of this year. The live version starts off by herself with an acoustic guitar, but then in the middle of the song it starts to pick up: a harmonica slows in, then pianos and then drums and backup singers! The live version is a real treat to hear.
You can find out more about her on johnettenapolitano.com or her myspace.
Incidentally, the Wicker Park soundtrack also feature "Against All Odds" by The Postal Service, which you can hear at tygress.vox - but I disagree that it's awful. It's very different and that's what I like about cover songs.
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11/30/07 Opening for Wellesley Tupelos Wellesley, MA 12/01/07 Ithaca Premium Blend December A Cappella Weekend Itaca, NY 12/14/07 MIT Logs Winter Concert - Kresge Auditorium, MIT |
MIT Logarhythms (get it? "rhythms") are a 12-piece a cappella band, who all met while attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They seem pretty clever guys, for instance, their logo are wooden logs (haha) and they call their backup singers "twigs".
Looking at their 6 albums, all the songs are mostly covers. Don't let the a capella tag fool you - there are percussion and music in their recordings (which actually sounds very clean and professional).
The cover of "The Scientist" is pretty faithful and the twist is obviously the backup twig singers. I think the best cover on their Natural album is "Somebody's Baby" which is a little faster-tempo. You can hear the original Jackson Browne and Phantom Planet's version of the song on Cover Lover.
You can buy their CDs for $15 from www.mitlogs.com.
Finally, here's MAD TV's parody of the song called "The Narcissist". The video parodies the famous Memento inspired video. The Chris Martin character is played by Michael McDonald, who did a wonderful job at walking backward.
Best part of the video: "What the hell are you doing, white boy???"
If you think I'm missing any other covers of "The Scientist", please
let me know, I'm more than happy to ammend and add this post. I know
that Belinda Carlisle sings this song on ITV's "Baby One More Time"
television show, but I have not been able to track that down. I would really love to hear her version - so if you have it, please let me know.
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From the Rhythms del Mundo project website:
"...fusing the Latin sounds of the Buena Vista Social Club and Western musicians..."
"...The previous year I was writing music with a friend at his beachfront house in a little fishing village on the Southern coast of Sri Lanka. A few months later that little village and many of its' inhabitants were almost totally obliterated by the Tsunami. I was extremely moved and upset by the tragedy of so many lives being lost or altered forever. The village had to be completely rebuilt as well as the livelihood of countless fishermen and shopkeepers. This was the event that sparked off this project. I knew I had to do something for those villagers. But what could I do? As it turned out, this project began to take shape with the formation of a new organization, Artists' Project Earth (APE), which comes to the aid of natural disaster victims and raises awareness for climate change..."
Two songs. One video.
- Mads
Rodney Bingenheimer is getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 9th, 2007 (tomorrow). They're just handing out these things like candy, huh?? To the world, nobody knows Rodney, but if you were in radio (or happened to live in Los Angeles), you'd probably heard of him. He's probably one of the world's most famous radio DJ, at least very influencial on his "Rodney on the ROQ" show on KROQ Radio.
Rodney was the subject of the documentary Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003), which was directed by George Hickenlooper and produced by Chris Carter (not the X-Files creator).
Because it was produced by the bassist from Dramarama (Chris Carter) there was definitely a section about how Dramarama rose to fame in the US because of Rodney. Apparently, the band (formed in New Jersey in 1982), released their debut LP, Cinéma Vérité, in France under New Rose Records.
Rodney somehow got a hold of this record and started playing "Anything, Anything". He thought they were a French band (wow, their English is SO GOOD!). But it's all cool, because the airplay and demand for the band prompt the album to finally be released in America.
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Rodney was the first to play records by - and interviews with such artists on his KROQ show as: Blondie, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Van Halen, The Go-Go's, Nina Hagen, The Cramps, Nena, The Clash, The Cure, The Smiths, The B-52's, Billy Idol, Adam Ant, Echobelly, Ride, X, Siouxie and the Banshees, Bad Religion, Duran Duran, The Jam, The Bangles, The Runaways, Redd Kross, Bananarama, Joan Jett, Tom Petty, Dramarama, Teenage Fan Club, Suede, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo and the Bunnymen, No Doubt, Blur, Elastica, Belly, L7, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Rialto, Placebo, Oasis, The Verve, Kent, Ash, Gene, Travis, Coldplay, Doves, JJ72, The Strokes, Starsailor, The Hives, The Vines, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and The Electric Soft Parade.
Trivia: Rodney, in the 60s, was best known as the stand-in for Davy Jones of the Monkees.
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