Superb Soundtracky Saturday: Kill Bill Vol.1

A Killer Soundtrack Album

Though some critics, as well as viewers, are rather “harsh” on Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, I personally like these series, especially Vol.1; the second volume is a bit disappointing with Bill’s “easy death”, and now waiting for the who-knows-it-is-for-real third volume. Borrowing David Gilmour’s term in his book The Film Club, this is my "fuck-you movie," a movie that makes me imagine (and act a little tiny bit) crazy nonsense stuffs (being an adversary of Musashi in a duel is one of those stuffs).

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Wordless Wednesday: Awesome Comic Sketches and Illustrations - Frank Miller

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Music Monday: Best Cover Versions – Superstar

Superstar

Original Artist: Delaney & Bonnie & Friends

Cover Versions by The Carpenters, Sonic Youth

Okay. This is rather embarrassing, okay not rather but really. I found out about the original artist of this song only YESTERDAY! I tried to find details of this song, I looked into Wikipedia then, lo and behold, this is the first paragraph of Wikipedia’s article for this song: “‘Superstar’ is a 1969 song written by Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell that has been a hit for many artists in different genres and interpretations in the years since; the best known version is by The Carpenters in 1971.” What?! It wasn't The Carpenters?!

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Superb Soundtracky Saturday: RocknRolla

What A Real RocknRolla Wants

The first thing that comes to me when talking about Guy Ritchie’s movies is middleclass and not-too-successful mobsters and thugs, with messy, strange, wicked, and uncool-but-cool twists of the conflicts. (That’s a compliment.) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels will always the best among his such works, but others like Snatch and RocknRolla are not that far from the previously mentioned.

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Wordless Wednesday: Awesome Comic Sketches and Illustrations - Jeff Smith

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Music Monday: Best Cover Version - Piece of My Heart

Piece of My Heart
Original Artist: Erma Franklin

Cover Version by Big Brother and the Holding Company

“What?! No Janis Joplin?!”

I guess there’s a possibility that some of you will ask that very question. I have to admit, it hasn’t been very long (only couple of years ago) since I found out about the original singer of this song. Up to that time, the only Franklin diva I knew was Aretha and Piece of My Heart is Joplin’s.

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Superb Soundtracky Saturday: Little Miss Sunshine

Something a Bit Different for a Good Change

I believe many of you already watched Little Miss Sunshine. A born-again and unsuccessful (yet) motivator father, a mother in the shadow of divorce, a junkie addict grandpa, a son in silent-vow who worships Nietzsche, a daughter with the dream of being Miss-something, and a suicidal uncle who’ve just lost everything. All of them off on journey in a van, all of them reveal themselves, and all of them learn what being a family is. No ultra-expensive CGI special effect, no super glamorous stars, no convoluted twisted plot. Yet, the film is a totally freakin AWESOME!!!

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Wordless Wednesday: Awesome Comic Sketches and Illustrations - Naoki Urasawa

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Music Monday: Best Cover Versions – If Music is Drug, I’ve Been Dead Already

You see, as for now we have the term “junkie” applicable for anything, the title above is not an exaggeration for me. I’m the worst addict who will take literally anything, ANYTHING, as long as a kind of intoxication acquired from it and I could never get enough of it. And this post is a solid proof of that.

Sacrifice
Original Artist: Elton John
Cover Version by Sinead O’Connor

Sacrifice is one among many Sir Elton John’s classics and it is simply one of the best pop ballads ever, for me. Elton John is…Come on. I’m sure you know who he is. Sacrifice was a number from his 1989 album, Sleeping with the Past. The song achieved major success after it’s being released in a double-sided single with Healing Hands.

Elton John

Sinead O’Connor is absolutely, absolutely brilliant in this song. The first time I got this song from YouTube, it became the only song in my playlist for couple of days. (As I said before, I’m a terrible addict.) Even when my player was off, the song kept echoing in my head. It’s just beautiful how Sinead O’Connor performs this song. Her emotion and the way she “whisper” every line of the lyrics is awesome. It twists me inside like crazy. 

Sinead O'Connor

Kick Out The Jams
Original Artist: MC5
Cover Version by Rage Against the Machine

Now, here comes the second part of this special MM edition. You better be prepared to rock, because right now, right now…it’s time to…Kick out the jams motherfucker!! I really love that exclamation, because it is what always said every time MC5 or any other band performs the song, so it becomes kind of essential part of the song itself (which actually it is, at least in the cover of the album).

MC5 was a protopunk band from Detroit that rock America music scene around mid 60’s to early 70’s. The band was pretty influenced with political issues and Kick Out The Jams is no different. The song was released in an album with the same title in 1969 (the golden historical year for rock music). It is a ground breaking and influential song, with amazingly wild guitar riff and sound. In 2005, Q Magazine put the song at 39 in their 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks and Rolling Stones magazine placed this song at number 294 in their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It is indeed one of the greatest (if not the greatest itself) rock ‘n’ roll songs.

MC5

There are so many bands, rock especially, do covers of this song. (No wonder huh?) From Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Silverchair, etc., but the best comes from Rage Against the Machine. RATM was a rap-core band (I’m not that interested with the term Hip Metal) and probably one of the greatest rock bands in the last two decades. Just like MC5, the band was heavily influence with political issues. In fact, politic is the only thing they’re interested in, and music is merely a medium for them. RATM’s version of Kick Out The Jam was part of their Renegades album, released in 2000. This video was taken from their performance in the famous Reading Festival.

Rage Against The Machine

I guess now you see how terrible of a junkie I am.

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Superb Soundtracky Saturday: The Boat That Rocked (A.K.A. Pirate Radio)

And Thus We Have Rock ‘N’ Roll

For you who haven’t seen the film, I will tell you a little that it is a comedy about culture and music revolution, pirate radio, and a pissed-off old fashioned government. Though not stated clearly in the movie, looks like the “Radio Rock” station does resemble Radio Caroline North, one of the early 60’s pirate radio stations in England who also broadcast offshore from a ship. Radio Rock broadcast rock ‘n’ roll and pop songs which weren’t aired much by BBC at that time. Since the station was unlicensed and aired what was deemed as the source of moral degeneration, they really pushed the button of the government so they made Marine Offenses Act.

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C.A.T. Did Blog Survey

I was surprisingly tagged by Greg @ The De-evolution of Man to do this survey, which surprisingly consists of 19 questions. (Yup, 19.) So here are my answer for that survey and below are 4 unsuspecting bloggers whom I tag for this survey.

1. Dieter Moitzi @ Confessions of a Wannabe Writer

2. Eric Edelman @ Retro Collage

3. Lainy @ Lainy's Musings

4. Russ @ Vintage Fun for All

(To read my answers and the questions for you whom I have tagged, please read after the break.)

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C.A.T.'s Top EntreComrades

JANUARY 2011 TOP DROPPERS

Thanks a lot guys!

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Wordless Wednesday: Awesome Comic Sketches and Illustrations - Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstien

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