Because this is the off season and there's nothing better to do, because there are approximately 2,357,861 days until football season (that's just a guesstimate, give or take a few), and because it's Tuesday and you need a pick-me-up, I'm presenting "Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays". Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays is an off-topic post that will feature a band playing a song by a different band each week. Some you may have heard and, hopefully, some will be completely new to you.
Not much time to elaborate on today's Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesday, the real world calls. Suffice to say that today's selection takes the defining song for rock in the '90s in a completely different direction. Here's Patti Smith with Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Tune in next week when Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays will feature........ another band playing a song by a different band!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
One Win Away from the West
Kevin Patterson went TATER with 2 outs facing a 2 run deficit in the 8th inning to give Auburn the 5-3 W in Oxford tonight. That puts Auburn one win away from clinching the #1 spot from the West in the tournament at Hoover next week. First pitch tomorrow, 6:30. Be there or be.... on the radio or checking the message boards or something. Because that's what I'm doing.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays VOL II: Eleanor Rigby
Because this is the off season and there's nothing better to do, because there are approximately 2,357,861 days until football season (that's just a guesstimate, give or take a few), and because it's Tuesday and you need a pick-me-up, I'm presenting "Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays". Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays is an off-topic post that will feature a band playing a song by a different band each week. Some you may have heard and, hopefully, some will be completely new to you.
The Beatles need no introduction. Eleanor Rigby was originally released on their 1966 album Revolver and simultaneously as a single, and climbed to number 1 on the charts in Britain and number 11 here in the US; a modest effort in the Beatles hey-day.
Two years later, a band out of Detroit became one of the first all white bands from Motown to be hit-makers. Rare Earth is most famous for their song "I Just Want to Celebrate" and their most famous cover was a cover of the Temptations' "Get Ready". But in 1970, they released their fourth album, Ecology, which included this weeks Trademark-Infringing Tune, Eleanor Rigby. Put McCartney's great songwriting in the hands of an early '70s hard rock band with a Motown edge and you get an incredibly unique sound. Enjoy.
Tune in next week when Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays will feature........ another band playing a song by a different band!
The Beatles need no introduction. Eleanor Rigby was originally released on their 1966 album Revolver and simultaneously as a single, and climbed to number 1 on the charts in Britain and number 11 here in the US; a modest effort in the Beatles hey-day.
Two years later, a band out of Detroit became one of the first all white bands from Motown to be hit-makers. Rare Earth is most famous for their song "I Just Want to Celebrate" and their most famous cover was a cover of the Temptations' "Get Ready". But in 1970, they released their fourth album, Ecology, which included this weeks Trademark-Infringing Tune, Eleanor Rigby. Put McCartney's great songwriting in the hands of an early '70s hard rock band with a Motown edge and you get an incredibly unique sound. Enjoy.
Tune in next week when Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays will feature........ another band playing a song by a different band!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays VOL I: No Quarter
Because this is the off season and there's nothing better to do, because there are approximately 2,357,861 days until football season (that's just a guesstimate, give or take a few), and because it's Tuesday and you need a pick-me-up, I'm going to introduce a new reoccurring post entitled "Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays". Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays is an off-topic post that will feature a band playing a song by a different band each week. Some you may have heard and, hopefully, some will be completely new to you.
One of my favorite bands of all time is the mighty Led Zeppelin. Zeppelin's thunderous style, virtuoso blues guitar, and soaring powerful vocals have been imitated by many, but none have recaptured that sound. Most of the time when a Zeppelin fan such as myself hears "...a cover of Led Zeppelin's..." there's a part of you that thinks, "fat chance this will work out." But, every now and again, there's a band that finds the ability to do it, if only for one song.
On today's episode of Trademark-Infringing Tuesdays, Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond pulls off one of those rare moments. Her background in opera makes her the perfect choice for the epic No Quarter. This live, bootlegged version doesn't have the sound quality necessary to hear the instrumentals properly, but the most important thing here is the haunting and powerful vocals Worden cranks out, reminiscent of that powerful Zeppelin sound. So without further jibber-jabber, here's Shara Worden and My Brightest Diamond's cover of Led Zeppelin's No Quarter.
If you liked this, I'd definitely recommend the album that got me into Worden's music, Hazards of Love by The Decemberists, a rock opera which features her as "the queen". (The plot is kind of out there, but then again, so are all rock operas. Think about The Who's Tommy. A pinball-playing, cult-leading, deaf, dumb, and blind kid?)
Tune in next week when Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays will feature........ another band playing a song by a different band!
One of my favorite bands of all time is the mighty Led Zeppelin. Zeppelin's thunderous style, virtuoso blues guitar, and soaring powerful vocals have been imitated by many, but none have recaptured that sound. Most of the time when a Zeppelin fan such as myself hears "...a cover of Led Zeppelin's..." there's a part of you that thinks, "fat chance this will work out." But, every now and again, there's a band that finds the ability to do it, if only for one song.
On today's episode of Trademark-Infringing Tuesdays, Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond pulls off one of those rare moments. Her background in opera makes her the perfect choice for the epic No Quarter. This live, bootlegged version doesn't have the sound quality necessary to hear the instrumentals properly, but the most important thing here is the haunting and powerful vocals Worden cranks out, reminiscent of that powerful Zeppelin sound. So without further jibber-jabber, here's Shara Worden and My Brightest Diamond's cover of Led Zeppelin's No Quarter.
If you liked this, I'd definitely recommend the album that got me into Worden's music, Hazards of Love by The Decemberists, a rock opera which features her as "the queen". (The plot is kind of out there, but then again, so are all rock operas. Think about The Who's Tommy. A pinball-playing, cult-leading, deaf, dumb, and blind kid?)
Tune in next week when Trademark-Infringing Tune Tuesdays will feature........ another band playing a song by a different band!
Friday, May 7, 2010
Auburn Media: Learning their lesson one crappy alt rock song at a time
If you're like me and hate most of the stupid intro video songs Auburn has chosen over the past few years and are ready for something that doesn't suck, you're in luck. This year's intro song will be chosen by the fans. The voting takes place here. There are plenty of options that don't suck on that list, and I am very confident the Auburn people will pick the right one. However, I would like to enter Section 25's official write-in candidate:
If you think Auburn football to the tune of Wolfmother would kick as much @$$ as it obviously would, write in Joker and the Thief by Wolfmother, and spread the word.
YES WE CAN pick a great song.
If you think Auburn football to the tune of Wolfmother would kick as much @$$ as it obviously would, write in Joker and the Thief by Wolfmother, and spread the word.
YES WE CAN pick a great song.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
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