Jump to content
Hondo's Bar

New Releases and Shows


DA JUDGE

Recommended Posts

  • 2 years later...
  • Replies 101
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Well It took me a while to get into the last CD, true there is a couple of fillers on it, but the ones they played off it live were awesome. The songs i rate from the album are Spitfire (Featured on a recent guinness ad), Girls, The Way It Is (Thriller provides the baseline),Action radar. This album we have to remember is just Liam, so its gone back towards the Dirtchamber moreso than other stuff.

But they played a couple of newer songs on saturday. I can't remember the names, but theres one where keef sings

 

"i'm not a punk

your just a cunt

am i talking to you

i must be drunk"

 

Anyway, it all opened with Wake Up Call, the lyric being "Back on tour, 123, We're back on form, you better wake up" kinda appropriate i felt, and it fuckin rocked the house! They now have live drummer, through the whole thing, and live guitar on most songs.

 

Then they hammered into Their Law, which i still think is awesome!!

 

To be honest, i'd be lying if i said i could remember every song they played, cos i cant, but the sound, lighting, and atmosphere were intense.

 

Especially for the classics Smack My Bitch Up, Firestarter, Breathe, Mindfields, Poison, you know how good it is when everyone is jumping in rhythm, generally going nuts, fucking ace.

 

But the new stuff also sounded extremely good live. Wake Up Call, Action Radar, Hot Ride, The Way It Is, and Spitfire.

 

For me best songs of the night, in order

 

1: The Way It Is - I know its a new one, but if you hear it on the album, just imagine the bass line, amplified by approximately 1million times!

 

2: Smack My Bitch Up - Just great,

 

3: Their Law - "Fuck em and their fucking law" need i say more!

 

4: Spitfire - Same as number 1, but live this song is intense

 

5: Breathe - Top Class

 

Anyway, i believe they are state side in the new yr, GO SEE THEM :D

 

They play enough of the old stuff to keep the diehards happy, and enough of the new stuff to keep the virgins happy. Overall i was very happy wit it.

 

Oh and i believe they will soon be releasing a live dvd!!!!!! :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:D

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Thats what confused me!!!

 

What did you reckon of "the way it is" with reworking of thriller in it.

 

I read an interview where liam howlett was looking for the sample clearance, and the owners (M Jackson, Sony whoever) were like, "So you're doing a new version of thriller?!"

 

Liam was like, "Am i fuck, just using the bassline mate!"

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 9 months later...

Santana

All That I Am

Out November 1st

 

3216557_santana_200.jpg

 

After two release date changes, full details of Santana's upcoming album, "All That I Am," have finally gelled. As previously reported, the 13-track set is due Nov. 1 from Arista, and pairs Carlos Santana with a host of star entertainers.

 

The disc is led by the single "I'm Feeling You," which reteams Santana with Michelle Branch, who wrote the song with John Shanks and Kara DioGuardi. The pair last collaborated on "The Game of Love" on Santana's 2002 album "Shaman," which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy for best pop collaboration with vocals.

 

"The only thing I won't do is something that is fake, superficial and shallow," says Carlos Santana, who jams with musicians from Sean Paul to Kirk Hammett on his latest guest-laden album. Steven Tyler sings the power ballad "Just Feel Better"; American Idol rocker Bo Bice belts the "Smooth"-style "Brown Skin Girl"; and Mary J. Blige duets with Big Boi on the R&B tune "My Man." "I don't listen to the radio," says Santana, crediting executive producer Clive Davis with picking many of the guests. More familiar faces were his tourmates Los Lonely Boys, who contributed the slinky "I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love," and Michelle Branch, whose acoustic pop tune "I'm Feeling You" is her second Santana collaboration, following 2002's "The Game of Love." But Santana is determined to keep broadening his group's sound. "A lot of musicians say, 'I don't do windows,' " Santana says. "But to me, life is a big window. So if I don't want to do windows, I shouldn't be on this planet."

-rollongstoneonline.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

741485_170x170.jpg

 

 

Jackson Browne

Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1

 

Originally released: 2005

Inside Recordings.

 

 

Culled from the best takes of three years' worth of concerts, Solo Acoustic Vol. 1 finds Jackson Browne delivering tender takes from his deep catalog -- completely stripped of their Seventies-era excess production. Browne is in fine voice as he digs out tunes like "These Days" (first done by Velvet Underground singer Nico in 1968) and "Lives in the Balance" (a mid-Eighties anti-Reagan diatribe that sounds especially appropriate today). He wraps things up with a threadbare rendition of "The Pretender" that cannot mask the story of a youthful idealist being beaten down by the passing years. Needless to say, Browne's strength has always been songwriting, and Solo Acoustic delivers those songs with no extra baggage.

 

RollingStone Magazine

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...
  • 2 weeks later...

splashcover7ua.jpg

 

Mariah Carey- The Emancipation of Mimi

 

Mariah Carey Homepage

 

Album Review

 

The titular "Mimi" of The Emancipation of Mimi is, by all accounts, an alter ego of Mariah, a persona that captures Carey's true feelings and emotions. In case you didn't know what "emancipation" means, Mariah helpfully provides a dictionary definition of the word in the opening pages of the liner notes for her eighth proper album: it means "to free from restraint, control, oppression, or the power of another" or "to free from any controlling influence" or "to free somebody from restrictions or conventions." So, on The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah frees herself from the constraints of being herself, revealing herself to be -- well, somebody that looks startlingly like Beyoncé, if the cover art is any indication. Mimi, or at least the sound of her emancipation, sounds remarkably like Beyoncé, too, working a similarly sultry, low-key, polished club groove.

 

And that's the main story of The Emancipation of Mimi: since the reserved, tasteful adult contemporary pop of 2002's Charmbracelet failed to revive her career, she's done a 180 and returned to R&B, in hopes that maybe this will create some excitement. It's not a bad idea, particularly because Mariah could use any change at this point, and it's not executed all that badly either, as all 14 tracks -- heavy on mid-tempo cuts and big ballads, with a few harder dance tunes featuring big-name guest rappers scattered along the way -- all follow the same deliberately smoky, late-night template.

 

While the Neptunes provide the best dance cut here with "Say Something" (featuring a cameo by Snoop Dogg), especially welcome are some nice old-school '70s smooth soul flourishes, best heard on James Poyser's deliciously sleek "Mine Again" and such "Big Jim" Wright productions as "I Wish You Knew" and "Fly Like a Bird." As good as those Wright-helmed cuts are, they are also the times that the mixes slip and don't hide the flaws in Mariah's voice, and it sounds as airy, thin, and damaged as it did on Charmbracelet, where her ragged vocals dealt a fatal blow to an already weak album. Here, apart from those Wright tracks, the producers camouflage her voice in a number of ways, usually involving putting the groove and the sound of the production in front of the vocals.

 

While the tunes aren't always memorable, it does make for a consistent album, one that's head and shoulders above the other LPs she's released in the 2000s, even if it doesn't compare with her glory days of the '90s. Ironically enough, a big reason why The Emancipation of Mimi doesn't sound as good as those '90s albums is that Mariah never sounds like herself on this record. When she's not sounding like Beyoncé, she sounds desperate to be part of the waning bling era, dropping product placements for Bacardi, Calgon, and Louis Vuitton, or bragging about her house in Capri and her own G4, all of which sounds a little tired and awkward coming from a 35-year-old woman in her 15th year of superstardom.

 

Disregarding these two rather sizeable problems, The Emancipation of Mimi still works, at least as a slick, highly crafted piece of dance-pop -- it might not be as hip as it thinks it is, nor is it as catchy as it should be, but it's smooth and listenable, which is enough to have it qualify as a relative comeback for "Mimi" Carey and damn good contemporary material.

 

4/5

:whip::love::love::music:

 

 

___________________________________

 

 

NT_mariah.jpg

 

MARIAH LAUNCHES THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI: PLATINUM EDITION

 

PLATINUM EDITION CD EXPANDS WITH 4 EXTRA TRACKS

 

 

DELUXE LIMITED EDITION 2-DISC SET OF PLATINUM EDITION CONTAINS DVD WITH 4 VIDEOS – "WE BELONG TOGETHER," "SHAKE IT OFF," "IT'S LIKE THAT," AND U.S. DEBUT OF "GET YOUR NUMBER" – PLUS LINK TO ACCESS HER NEW VIDEO FOR "DON'T FORGET ABOUT US" !

 

PLATINUM EDITION will recap all 14 tracks on THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI, whose original version has sold more than 4 million copies in the U.S. and over 6 million worldwide to date. The new CD will add four tracks: "Don't Forget About Us," which was #1 most-added at Pop, Rhythm and Urban radio formats; "So Lonely (One and Only Part 2)," Mariah's collab­o­ration with Twista (with a new extra verse written by Mariah); the remix of "We Belong Together" featuring Jadakiss and Styles P. (previously only available digitally online); and "What It Look Like," featuring Jermaine Dupri.

 

 

PLATINUM EDITION is also available as a special deluxe limited edition two-disc (CD + DVD) package.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

h06593gjtm08ow.jpg

 

2Pac- Live My Life

 

Album Review

 

 

One of the odder 2Pac best-ofs to come along, Live My Life is so odd it may not even count as a best-of. In fact, it might be more accurate to tag the German-manufactured and distributed disc as a straight compilation, since only a few of the songs are actually among 2Pac's best. For instance, the subtitle of the album ("Collection of Legendary 2Pac Traxx") doesn't use the standard best-of or greatest-hits rhetoric one often associates with this type of collection. So if only a few of the 18 songs here are among 2Pac's best, the remaining ones could be considered "legendary," which would at least make this collection legit.

 

Either way, there's no use splitting hairs -- the bottom line is, this is an odd compilation. The few hits ("California Love," "I Ain't Mad at Cha," "How Do You Want It" -- of all them licensed from Death Row) are sequenced alongside a bunch of non-album tracks of questionable origin. Some, like the "Stone Radio" remix of "Runnin'," which features the Notorious B.I.G., are rarities of great interest to 2Pac collector types. But others are totally random and mostly uninteresting. For that reason, people who are looking to pick up a single-disc sampler are advised to go with a true best-of like Greatest Hits, or one of the key albums like Me Against the World or All Eyez on Me.

 

The only people who might want to bother with this collection are collectors who are looking to pick up some of the rare "legendary" tracks compiled here. Just be forewarned that the bulk of these tracks are legendary for their rarity rather than their quality.

 

Meh.

 

2/5

:whip::love:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Eh...i enjoyed the singles, but what i heard of the rest of the album...i dunno, too much Germaine Dupri i guess.

 

Ive accepted that she's not gonna make another Music Box, but personally? I just think she's talented enough that even one of her lesser albums is still better than most of what's coming from R&B these days. I do agree with the review, that its better than her post 90's stuff. tho.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

B000A0ULY0.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

 

Track Listing

 

Disc: 1

1. Firestarter

2. Their Law

3. Breathe

4. Out Of Space

5. Smack My Bitch Up

6. Poison

7. Girls

8. Voodoo People

9. Charly

10. No Good (start the dance)

11. Spitfire

12. Jericho

13. Everybody In the Place

14. One Love

15. Hot Ride

16. Out Of Space (Audio Bullys Remix) (Bonus track)

 

Disc: 2

1. Razor

2. Back 2 School

3. Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)

4. Under My Wheels (Remix)

5. No Man Army

6. Molotov Bitch

7. Voodoo Beats

8. The Way It Is (Live Remix)

9. We Are The Ruffest

10. Your Love

11. Spitfire (Live)

12. Their Law (Live)

13. Breathe (Live)

14. Serial Thrilla (Live)

15. Firestarter (Live)

 

Reviews from Amazon

 

Since their formation in 1990 The Prodigy have released four albums, numerous singles, been Number 1 in 27 countries simultaneously with their incomparable Fat Of The Land masterpiece (still one of the fastest selling albums of all time), toured the world with their incendiary live show, made groundbreaking videos, shaken things up musically and socially and been unafraid to court controversy. And they’ve always done it in their own formidable way, as highlighted on Their Law – The Singles 1990-2005.

 

Description

This "greatest hits" collection brings together some of thefinest moments released by dance music pioneers The Prodigy. From the classic rave anthem 'Charly' through to the nu-school breaks influenced 'Spitfire', the album features no less than seven UK top ten hits including two UK number ones 'Firestarter' and 'Breathe'. This limited edition version alsoincludes a bonus CD of live tracks, B-sides and remixes including the sort after Pendulum remix of 'Voodoo People'.

 

A must for any prodigy fan... their is kicking remixs of Voodoo People and Out of Space. Plus a few previously unreleased tracks.

 

Off to see them live tomorrow night, can't wait!!

 

:):bored::???::music::music: /5

Link to comment
Share on other sites

New System of a Down

 

69849900qf.jpg

 

I've been eagerly anticipating the new System of a Down CD Hypnotize for quite some time. I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy. Here is a really quick rundown of the CD. :shady:

 

Overall I think Mesmerize is the better CD. I think SOAD could have taken BYOB, This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like Im on this Song, Question!, Violent Pornography, Revenga and Cigaro and added 4 or 5 songs off the new CD and they could have had one amazing album.

 

Some of the songs on Mesmerize like Old School Hollywood and Radio/Video seem like filler. The same goes for Hypnotize. Some awesome new material, but unfortunately some filler too.

 

Track 1 is Attack. Very catch chorus. Sort of reminds me of the song Bounce of of Toxicity. I give this song an 8/10.

 

2nd track is Dreaming. Meh.

Not a big fan of this song. The song is all over the place. No structure. Multiple vocals going on at one time. I give this song a 3/10. This is one of the filler songs IMHO.

 

3rd track is Kill Rock N Roll. Ozzy Osbourne has a song of the same name back in the 80's which is one of my favorite Ozzy tracks. This song is pretty catchy. But it's got parts that are very annoying. But the hook "Everyday I look in your eyes, every day Im watching you die" is very catchy. You'll be singing it without realizing your singing it. But I don't get what the lyrics mean or what they have to do with Rock N Roll. I give this song 6/10.

 

4th track is the title track Hypnotize. I really like this track. A good song to release as the 1st single. Sometimes SOAD can be a little too preachy and political, but they pull it off in this song. Very strong vocals and lyrics. One of the slower SOAD's songs you'll hear, but Serj's vocal range really shines in this tune. He hits the highs, the lows and everything in between. I give this one a 9/10.

 

5th track is Stealing Society. The song is loud, explosive and starts out very fast. One of my favorite tracks. My only complaint about this song is it sounds a little too much like some of SOAD other songs. I give this one an 8/10.

 

6th track is Tentative. Another song I consider to be filler. Sounds too much like other SOAD songs. Not very original sounding. Nothing really special. 5/10.

 

7th track is U-Fig. This is a song that really defines the style of SOAD. The song starts out slowly and builds into an explosion of guitar and vocals. Then it winds down into a catchy, hypnotic (hehe) chorus. The lyrics are pretty cool in this song.

:blink: COME JOIN THE CAUSE, COME JOIN THE CAUSE!!!! :???: Who wants to come with me and hide in the sky!!!!I give this one a 7/10.

 

8th is Holy Mountains. Some nice harmonizing in the beginning, followed by haunting guitar riffs and vibrant drum beats. One of the more serious tracks on the CD. It takes a little getting used to, but it's very powerful when Serj screams LIAR, KILLER, DEMON at the beginning of the pre-chorus. I think this song may be about the Armenian Genocide. 8/10.

 

The 9th track is a little dity called Viscinity of Obscenity. This one of my favorites. It's the true epitomy of the SOAD sound. It's a song like noother band could ever pull off. And it features the lyric "beat the meat" which makes me giggle. It reminds me of "this song makes me feel like Im on this cocain". It's got some of the craziest, zaniesty vocals you'll ever hear. If anyone else tried to pull this off, it would probably sound terrible. But SOAD pulls it off so well. The solo towards the end of the song sounds like the music that would accompany you as you're falling down into the flames of hell. It's frightening, dreary and intense all at the same time. 9/10.

 

Number 10 is called She's Like Heroin. The song isn't bad, I just find it very annoying. I've listened to it a few times, and it never really grew on me. A filler song 6/10.

 

Track 11 is a balad called Lonely Day. The song attempts to sound all down and serious, but to me it almost has a sarcastic tone to it. Im not sure if this is intentional or their intent, but its just something I picked up on. But there is something very pleasing about the song. I like it though. 8/10.

 

The 12th track is amazing. It's called Soldier Side. SOAD teased this song as the into to Mesmerize. The little snippit was pretty intense, well wait till you hear the whole song. The lyrics are fucking amazing. "Young men standing on top of their own graves...Wondering when Jesus Comes are they gonna be saved. They were crying when their sons left, all young men must go!"

 

10/10 here. They don't come any better than this. The song is just perfect. The music sets a powerful atmosphere that is complimented by the powerful lyrics. Great song!!!!

 

Overall a great SOAD CD if your a fan or not.

 

8/10 Pimps.

 

:pimp::pimp::pimp::pimp::pimp::pimp::pimp::pimp:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.


×
×
  • Create New...