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Tuesday tune… well, it’s actually 25 of them, kinda

  By darraghdoyle | June 23, 2009 - 6:24 pm | Music, The Internet
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I”m a big fan of mashups. I particularly like this one. This is from DJ Earworm - it’s the top 25 hits of 2008, according to Billboard.It’s called United State of Pop 2009 (Vida La Pop) and you can download it here. In one mashup - a decent quality tune, I think - you have Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain - Low, Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love, Alicia Keys - No One, Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major - Lollipop, Timbaland Featuring OneRepublic - Apologize, Jordin Sparks Duet With Chris Brown - No Air, Sara Bareilles - Love Song, Usher Featuring Young Jeezy - Love in This Club, Chris Brown - With You, Chris Brown - Forever, Ray J & Yung Berg - Sexy Can I, Rihanna - Take a Bow, Coldplay - Viva La Vida, Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl, T.I. - Whatever You Like, Rihanna - Disturbia, Rihanna … There’s more →

Tuesday Tune - Elton John’s Tiny Dancer

  By Darren Byrne | April 21, 2009 - 11:00 pm | Music, The Culch
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Okay, I’m aware I forgot to post the Tuesday Tune last week. Well, it was a busy Tuesday. We had film posts and music posts and random stuff too. So, instead I want to talk about Elton John’s Tiny Dancer today (or this evening, at least). Although I was aware of the song when I was younger, I, like many, only really began to appreciate Tiny Dancer when it featured in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous. In one of the greatest scenes in modern filmmaking, the emotionally battered and bruised rock band listen to and begin to sing along with the lyrics of Tiny Dancer in a beautiful and touching scene that united them in music though their personal differences might be pulling them apart. Watch this: Written 38 years ago in 1971 for Elton’s album Madman Across the Water, the lyrics were by Bernie Taupin, Elton’s writing partner at the … There’s more →

Tuesday Tune - Janis Joplin’s Mercedes Benz

  By Darren Byrne | March 31, 2009 - 1:19 pm | Music, The Culch
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Her life was an all too short rollercoaster of highs and tragic lows. Janis Joplin was born January 19, 1943 and died October 4, 1970, and across her 27 years she led a triumphant and tumultuous life marked by an innate talent to convey powerful emotion through heart-pounding rock-and-roll. Born into a comfortable middle-class family, Joplin was a loner by her early teens, developing a taste for blues and folk music and retreating into poetry and painting. She ran away from home at age 17 and began singing in clubs in Texas to earn money for a trip to California. In 1966 she joined Big Brother and the Holding Company in San Francisco. A fairly successful first album in 1967 with Big Brother caught the attention of Columbia Records who signed the group. After the hit single Piece of My Heart, Joplin had come to overshadow her backing band she … There’s more →