Shawn Johnson, Super Girl, Plus other things
You can't but to love her and she is from Iowa. I got to watch her floor exercise the other night, only to see her lose out to a great performance by somebody else. Although three sliver medals are nothing to be ashamed about, I just feel that Good Karma needed to give her a gold metal.
Is My Space losing its luster? The ratings are in and so far they are not looking very good. For the past six years the Crabb Top Ten Of The WeekTM has been the weekly lookat in the tunes that have been playing here at that week. Unfortunly, it seems that my weekly commentators have now moved on to other things and the last couple months have hardly anybody to discuss music things anymore. I suppose the writing is on the wall or people have decided to play Mafia Wars rather than discuss why the hell we put up a Tony Orlando/Dawn song. It's not only here but in the Crabb Corner at msn.com that also has been very quiet too. I really don't know what else to do anymore to get the word out or perhaps the world is blogged out and blogged down. This has been a fun rotine to track what's being played in Crabbland and to committ to the archives. But it seems more we're becoming a lone wolf in this. I suppose everything comes to an end and maybe we have to consider ending this chapter. I thought the top ten was a better alternative to the charts out there but then again I may be delusional.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503521.html
Jerry Wexler was a writer for Goldmine in the 40s and 50s before he partnered with Armand Ertugen and made Atlantic Records the best independent label of the 50s and beyond. He died over the weekend at age 91. He produced Aretha Franklin's best known hits as well as Dire Straits Communique album from 1979. Jerry joins the Ertegun brothers in the great beyond, the likes to which we'll never see again.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/aug/18/popandrock1
http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_10233894
Don't fence me in. Amazing that in this day and age, nobody can have anything nice without having some fucktard vandalizing things and I have noticed a lot of that while going to Arizona to check out buildings from the past. Nothing like history being crapped out by tagging baggy pant moron whigger wannabees who have detoriated the way of life out in the deserts and California. Can't blame James Hetfield who probaly got tired of the vandals and taggers and stupid fucks who don't respect other people's property. Always gotta be one dumb fuck that has to ruin it for the rest of the world. Sorry but I have to side with James on this one.
BLACK STONE CHERRY-Folklore And Superstition (Roadrunner)
Album number two starts out rocking harder than ever with Blind Man and Please Come In, with a lead guitar hook that still reminds one of the harder edge southern rock bands of long time ago although Chris Robertson sounds more Chris Cornell than Rickey Medlocke. However when the ballads come on the album gets more strange. Seems to me that What My Father Says is a desperate attempt for the radio and sounds out of place on this album. So is You (the song). The dilemma of being on a major label, label is screaming hits now, ballads as a plan B and if things fail, they're good as gone. Still Black Stone Cherry remains one of the better hard rock bands that is out there right now and too bad they were ten years behind the times, They would have fit in perfectly with the Soundgardens and Pearl Jams of the past decade. Still John Paul Young does his uncle proud with his drumming, part of the fun of growing up being a son of a Kentucky Headhunter. Nevertheless, Folklore and Superstitions is a nice follow up to their debut although there's a bit more commercialism cropping up. Rest of the album has some interesting moments, including the reagge beat on Sunrise, but first album remains a bit more to the point.
Grade +
Suggested Cuts: Revenend Wrinkle, Please Come In, The Bitter End
and a big F U to Goldman sachs to their 149 dollar barrel of oil prediction. You'll get it when your boy McCain gets to be president. And another F bomb goes out to Big Oil who continues to buy the polticians who supposely work for us too. Seems like we're not any better than Russia in terms of crack head government.
