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08-13-10 Footnotes
Show 246: Buried Treasures, Tom Jones Review
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1 Fans have long been wondering when the Beatles will finally come to iTunes. Well, according to Yoko Ono, not anytime soon. John Lennon’s widow recently said fans shouldn’t hold their breath, adding "There's just an element that we're not very happy about, as people. We are holding out.” But, rest assured, that when Apple Inc. and Apple Corps. do come to an agreement, digital sales will start flying. When the Beatles released their reissues last year, they sold 2.25 million copies in the first five days of release.
2 Lady Gaga has a record breaking 13 nominations for MTV Video Music Awards. But, ironically, her videos will no longer be available on MTV.com. Gaga’s label Universal has decided to take all its content off the music channel’s website and show them instead on the label-owned Vevo. Jim and Greg think it will be interesting to see what kind of industry influence MTV can sustain without much music content on its airwaves or website.
3 Sometimes life does imitate art. “If I Was President” singer Wyclef Jean is, in fact, running for president. The Haitian born former Fugee announced his official candidacy for president of the devastated nation last week. While Jean faces a number of barriers on his road to the office, including controversies regarding his charities and taxes and, of course, celebrity, this got Jim and Greg thinking about some other pop politicos including Sonny Bono, who served in Congress and as the mayor of Palm Springs, Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil, who is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives and is the Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts, and The Doobie Brothers’ Jeff “Skunk” Baxter who now serves as a defense consultant and chairs a Congressional Advisory Board on missile defense.
4 It’s time for Jim and Greg to dig up another trove of Buried Treasures. These are lesser-known bands and albums that deserve your attention.
Greg
Harlem
Crystal Castles
Sweet Apple
Endless Boogie
Jim
Drivan
The Bewitched Hands On the Top of Our Heads
The Ruiners
David Singer
5 Tom Jones has been loosening knickers for half a century. Now he’s back with a more “serious” album called Praise and Blame, but Jim and Greg wish he was still pushing the feel good hits. Following in the path of late career comebacks like Johnny Cash and Neil Diamond, Jones lends his baritone to classic blues and folk covers. The voice is still there, Jim admits, but with it none of the camp or smarm. Greg doesn’t find these renditions authentic, and wishes Jones would just embrace his persona. Praise and Blame gets a double Trash It.
Songs Featured in Show #246
John Lennon, “Oh Yoko” Imagine, 1971, Apple/EMI
Lady Gaga “Bad Romance” The Fame Monster, 2009, Streamline/Konlive/Cherrytree/Interscope
Wyclef Jean “If I Was President” single, 2008, Sony/BMG
The Doobie Brothers “Black Water” What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits, 1974, Warner Bros.
Harlem “Friendly Ghost” Hippies, 2010, Matador 3:00
Drivan “Lat Det Va” Disko, 2010, Smalltown Supersound
Crystal Castles, “Celestica” Crystal Castles II, 2010, Fiction
Crystal Castles, “Baptism” Crystal Castles II, 2010, Fiction
The Bewitched Hands on the Top of Our Heads, “Out of Myself” Hard To Cry EP, 2010, Sony
Sweet Apple, “Do You Remember” Love and Desperation, 2010, Tee Pee Records
The Ruiners, “Love Hate Eat Me Alive” Happy Birthday Bitch, 2010, Pravda
Endless Boogie “Empty Eye” Full House Head, 2010, No Quarter
Endless Boogie, “Tarmac City” Full House Head 2010, No Quarter
David Singer and the Sweet Science, “Silicon” Arrows, 2010, The Sweet Science Records
Tom Jones, “What Good Am I?” Praise and Blame, 2010, Island
Tom Jones, “Burning Hell” Praise and Blame, 2010, Island
Tom Jones, “It’s Not Unusual” Along Came Jones, 1965, Decca
The Drifters, "Answer the Phone," I'll Take You Where the Music's Playing, 1965, Atlantic
Blur, “Parklife” Parklife, 1994, SBK
Buddy Guy, “First Time I Met The Blues” Buddy's Blues (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection), 1997, Chess
Wings, “Listen to What the Man Said” Venus and Mars, 1975, Capitol/EMI
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