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Music Monday : Nirvana
Nothing soothes my brain like a Nirvana playlist on a Monday morning. My album pick for today is ‘Nirvana Unplugged in New York’. This is an incredible live album that features most of the bands top hits and a few you’ve never heard before. It can be streamed for free on the desktop version of spotify, enjoy!
-MattyV
PS- The above song is a cover that Nirvana does incredibly well. Another version of the song is done by Kid Cudi. Check it out on his album “WZRD’. It is worth a listen.
I Need Jim Peterik To Sing “Eye Of The Tiger” Everywhere I Go
Does Jim Peterik bring his guitar and fantastic tight white pants everywhere he goes? I hope so. And I hope he’s available this Saturday for funky butt Matt’s birthday extravaganza. Better yet, I need him to follow me around where ever I go. Maybe I’m having bad day, work is busy and I burned the roof of mouth on some canned soup. Jim is there to save the day and give me the motivation to go on. At this point, I’m really banking on him being financially secure. Wherever I go, money doesn’t exactly follow. He’s going to have to accept an unnecessary amount of Busch Light and a few burnt hamburgers as payment.
– Ryan
Matt’s Music Monday – Thin Line
You’ve heard Thrift Shop and Can’t Hold Us, but there are more songs listen worthy on Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s debut album, ‘The Heist’ (Actually the whole album is pretty awesome). Enjoy Thin Lin on your monday morning and get on spotify to give the whole album a listen.
-MattyV
PS – Check out Same Love too
Kanye West Hates Camera’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtIMrm7KG1w&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I’m not a big fan of Kanye. He makes great music, but so do a lot of other people and they’re not the world’s biggest dickhead. I also hate the paparazzi. They’re like the worst villain in your favorite TV show. With that said, I’m on Kanye’s side on this one. It must be so aggravating being followed around by camera’s and asked dumb ass questions everywhere you go. For those of you saying “he’s famous, it’s the price of fame”, go find a highway and play in traffic. You’re telling me that he has to deal with this constant bullshit just because he happens to love music and is better at making it than 99.9% of the people on the planet? I think that’s wrong. I think we should even the playing field. If you’re a paparazzi, anytime you go out in public to hunt down celebrities you should be automatically stripped of your civil rights. They’re already animals, so let’s adopt the rules of the animal kingdom. Kill or be killed. You want a breaking story? How about I punchasize your face..for free.
My only problem with Kanye in this video is that his wrestling approach is all wrong. You need to get close to the paparazzi, about an arm’s length away, but you can’t seem too threatening. Talk to the person calmy, then put your head in your hands, and when they let their guard down, you hit them with sweet chin music. A superkick right to the jaw. Guarantee they’ll be out cold. Then you hover over them and speak the magic words: “if you’re not down with that, I got two words for ya…suck it.”
– Ryan
Monsterblog Wednesday: Favorite Summertime Jams
The summer and music go together like a fine wine paired with an aged cheese. In other words, they’re made for each other. Everyone has their personal favorites, and the Average Nobodies are no exception. While certain songs work during any time of the day, there are those special jams that help get your day started and others that never fail to relax you. Here are our favorite daytime and nighttime summer jams.
Daytime Jam: Weezer – Island In The Sun
Classic jam from a classic band. This song had always been an ideal sunny day relaxation nation beer in hand type of song for me. I also have a sick obsession with playing songs over and over again, and on a hot summer’s day, this song is no exception. Plus it has the words “island” and “sun” in it, so you know it’s good.
Nighttime Jam: Dave Matthews Band – Crash Into Me
My favorite song from my favorite band. Just an absolute gem. I can’t think of a better song to wind down too after a long day at the beach. Literal music to my ears. If you can’t get down to Dave Matthews, then you have no soul.
– Ryan
Daytime Jam: Sublime – Santeria
The proof is tattooed on the inside of my right bicep. Sublime is by far my favorite band. They have a song for every kind of mood that I am in, and Santeria happens to be my “daytime summer” mood track. Just listen to this song and get lost in the day.
Nighttime Jam: Atmosphere – Always Coming Back Home To You
Atmosphere has some deep tracks, none deeper than “Always Coming Back Home To You”. Slug paints you a picture worthy of the silver screen on this one. Nothing is better than summer nights while getting lost in the Atmosphere.
-MattyV
I May Have Just Found The Newest Pop Sensation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mwijgSYNc
I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but when I retire from the force I may have a second career in the musical industry. If I’m able to find a band with as much talent as these three, then I have to believe that the sky’s the limit. As far as the three blind mice go, their passion for music comes right through the screen. No fans? No problem. No venue? Don’t need it. Get these guys an open field and a shit ton of cows and you have the equivalent of The Rolling Stones in the 70’s. You know you’re good when you don’t even incorporate any words into your songs. All they need is a drum set, a couple of saxophones and the combined musical talents that literally make animals run for their lives.
– Ryan
P.S. Get me that that saxophone player on the left’s shirt. It’s still 1960 to him god dammit.
Flashback Friday: “Blood Sugar” Trailer
“Blood Sugar” Trailer from Matthew vieira on Vimeo.
A little Flashback Friday for ya. The trailer to our 2010 film Blood Sugar. To see the whole film click here.
-MattyV
Yeezus & Indicud
This Tuesday, Kanye West released his newest album, Yeezus. After reading the blow jobs it was getting from critics I had to see what it was all about. Admittedly I like all of this dudes albums, even 808’s & Heartbreaks. It sucks that he’s an arrogant asshole, but if I was that good at something I would let people know. Hell I do now and all I’m good at is drinking. Anyways, the album is an original. That’s the best word I can use to describe it. Lyrics, production, and even the packaging are original. My favorite track hands down? Blood On The Leaves. The only downside is that it’s only 10 tracks, but odds are ill be jamming to them all summer. Another track I really like is Guilt Trip featuring Kid Cudi. Kanye’s former protege. In the song he sings “if your love me so much then why’d you let me go?” Which brings me to Indicud.
Indicud is Kid Cudi’s latest album in which he produced every track from top to bottom. Taking a page out of West’s book. I’m a huge fan of this one. Also very original in the same aspects as Yeezus. It seems as if Cudders developed his own genre on this album. My favorite track? Red Eye. Kid Cudi’s lyrics in this song are few, but the production is unreal. He calls it his version of The Chronic, by Dr. Dre. And if you’ve actually listened to it, cudi nailed it. Earlier this year cudi and west parted ways. Bringing me back to his lyrics in Guilt Trip on Yeezus. Kanye had hoped Cudi would follow his footsteps, but with the release of Indicud, he’s made a name and style all for himself.
I’m assuming there’s no bad blood between the two, and hoping for collaborations in the future, but for me these are the two best hip hop albums of the summer so far and if you’re an adult and pay for music, they’re well worth the $10 each.
+Berno
