Content with the “Music” Content.
If you ask me, You’re listening to the lITTLE CAESAR’S PIZZA REMIX.
Listen, I get it. Little Caesars $5 pizza is delicious, convenient and cheap. Its a wonderful option to satisfy your immediate hunger pangs. And don’t get me started on Whoppers or Kentucky Fried Chicken. Fact of the matter is, they’ve designed these foods to not only be cheap and easily accessible, but they do in fact engineer it so that your brain craves it. However, if you find that this is what makes up the majority of your diet your health will be adversely affected. You’ll more than likely put on some extra weight as well as develop high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes to boot.
However, if along with that Angry Whopper and KFC Double Down you’re scarfing down; you’re mindful to balance it out with healthy fruits and vegetables. You can also divert now-and-then from the fast food and appreciate fine dining that takes time and care to prepare as well as utilizes the finest and freshest ingredients. By doing this your expanding your culinary boundaries and being influenced by finer things. Such is the same scenario with music in a lot of the same ways. Therefore along with Top 40 Junk Food, I’ll use this section of the site promote the finest restaurants, chefs, dishes and Farmers markets.
So I Married an Axe Murderer movie clip: DESCRIPTION: Charlie (Mike Myers) visits his parents, just in time to hear his father denounce Colonel Sanders.
“Because he puts in an addictive chemicals that make you crave it fore-nightly smartarse!”
Much like Junk Food, and since the dawn of formatted radio chains; popular music has been and continues to be “manufactured” produced to help you reach the quick return on investment. I hate to be the one to break this to you if you don’t already know this, but there are forces that study the traits of the general listening audience and to find out what sells. Once they find what sells they manufacture more songs to sound like it and then start radio stations formatted to play that genre of music. What sells seems to be what usually is familiar and repetitive. And thats how you get Top 40 music.
Don’t get me wrong, there are moments when I find myself pleasantly surprised with what becomes popular (Radiohead, blur, Oasis, Nirvana, Tribe Called Quest, White Stripes) and gets played on Top 40, but most of the time it’s just another stale processed chicken nugget from Burger King.
Now don’t get me wrong, there are bands that have been influenced by other bands, but they, for all intents and purposes took the ball from their influencer, ran with it and built upon it. Sometimes maturing it so that it becomes their own. Most of which I feel is the difference between what you’ll find on the popular music stations as opposed to the non-corporate Public Radio, College or High School stations. It’s the former in which I usually have Shazam armed and ready to tell what it is I’m listening too.
I immediately think of the Beatles and Nirvana. It’s hard for me as a devout Beatles zealot to NOT agree with the rare Beatles critic that they were a boy band. Sorta, but unlike N’Sync and any of the current K-Pop boy groups, the Beatles played their own instruments. I mean actually played them. But they also took the mechanics of the songs of their idles (Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry), embraced them and matured to them to create their own UNIQUE sound. Yeah yeah yeah.
Consider what is arguably one of the best and most impactful/influential groups of the past 30 years. Nirvana admitted to wanting to create a song similar to what you’d hear penned and orchestrated by Pixies front man Black Francis. With “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, they created a song that truly rivals anything on Surfer Rosa (It didn’t hurt that they also got same producer as the Pixies, Steve Albini) Did they happen to become more popular than the Pixies because the hair metal bands of that time was becoming stale and cliche? Or was it because they were younger, more energetic and bit prettier (Kim Deal is gorgeous by the way)? Or maybe the Pixies primed the alternative music scene for the loud-quiet-loud that would be the back bone of most Grunge sonnets?
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Kim Deal (Bass), Joey Santiago (Guitar), Dave Lovering (Drums) and Black Francis (vocals, rhythm guitar)
“I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band—or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.”
So the desire of this section of the site is to either promote new musical delicacies dishes, festivals and venues that exhibit exceptional taste and are nutritional for your soul. I’m also going to share some of the past dishes that I feel deserve to be either reintroduced or pushed as they should be or should have been more popular when they first came out. And there is a lot of them.
What I won’t do, and it won’t be easy, and I’m not promising I won’t slip up now-and-then; is bash a popular artist. It’s just to easy. Unless it is painfully pathetic in either production, lyrics or melody. (I’m looking at you Plain White Tees - Delilah. ugh.) No, Alas I would much more prefer to put my efforts towards promoting bands like Lush, Pas/Cal, Ultravivid Scene, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Art of Noise and Jill Scott to name a few.
So for the sake of this Music section, I’ll be focusing on the John’s on Bleecker street Pizza as opposed to the Dominoes of the world.
I’ll have to comments section turned on and I welcome any and all suggestion and/or criticisms.
This should be fun!