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  • Those Hash Browns Just Make A Man Wanna Fight!!!

    Come on, Kid Rock. Or Bob Ritchie. Whatever you call yourself.

    You’re pushing 40. You’re a multi-millionaire.

    Why has the past month of your album set up (which probably would be doing just as fine without all the extraneous hullaballoo) seemed like a desperate attempt to live up to the “outlaw” status of your idols?

    First there was the altercation with Tommy Lee at the VMAs, and now you’re getting into altercations at Waffle Houses?

    Come on, dude. You can do better than that. I think. It remains to be seen whether you can actually make good music, though.

  • Just Another Country Tuesday…New Releases 10/23/07

    Her debut album is the biggest seller to come out of the American Idol camp. She won last year’s Grammy for Best New Artist. Hopefully, she gave Tony Romo some kicking lessons. She’s Carrie Underwood, and she has a new album in stores today called Carnival Ride. Considering the success of Carrie’s debut CD (over 6 million sold, yada yada yada), I would assume this is something of a slam dunk, no?

    Check out her website: http://www.carrieunderwoodofficial.com/

    You can also catch the video for her new single “So Small” here…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUtFEKhtB30

    In other ex-idol news, remember Bo Bice? His new album, See The Light also comes out today. But there’s a catch, folks!! Bice’s new album is (somewhat fittingly) available in Wal-Mart stores. That’s the same gambit that The Eagles will be running with their upcoming release. Weird. Sorry for you Northeast folks (especially those of us in NY and NJ) who don’t have Wal-Marts in the area.

    No other superstar acts have records in stores today-although there are a few mid-level names making waves (Coheed and Cambria, System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, a very interesting sounding duet album from Robert Plant and Alison Krauss). Me? I’m just holding out for another seven days, when the trainwreck we all know as Britney Spears descends on us. Can you feel the anticipation?

  • Friday Throwback – Part Time Lover

    My Stevie Wonder fanaticism started as a very young child. I can remember my dad playing songs off Hotter Than July and Original Musiquarium Vol. 1 on his record player. I remember that when it was my birthday, he played Happy Birthday. Years later I would learn that the song was created for Martin Luther King Jr. and it was Stevie’s way of saying that his birthday needed to be a National holiday. But it wasn’t until Part Time Lover did I start to seek out and find Stevie. I would listen on the radio and wait for this song to play and record it on my baby boom box. LL would’ve been so proud. I didn’t even know what the song was about. All I knew was that Stevie was cool, with the beads hanging from strands of his hair.

    • We are undercover passion on the run.
    • Chasing love, up against the sun.
    • Why would dude check out that skinny girl’s butt?
    • Is that Grace Jones with a wig?
    • Look at Steve in that hat.
    • I guess two can play the game.
    • I think Luther Vandross helps Stevie by singing back up here.
    • This version of the music video cuts off the beginning where the couple is watching an old movie and the phone rings, but neither answers. Foreshadowing~!
    • But the best part of the beginning is that dude is wearing moccasins with no socks.
    • This video was directed by Bill Parker. I bet he wrapped it up by saying, “Wham!”

    I think that song is something like 22 years old. And Stevie’s still making music today. If you asked me which album I would take on an island with me, it’d probably be one of Stevie’s (Songs In The Key Of Life?), and alongside MJ, he’s one of my two favorite artists of all time.