Thursday, March 24, 2011

Songs of the Week: March 23, 2011

  I'm a little late this week. And the music is a little struggling...SUE ME! Enjoy my songs of the week!
  And THE song of the week belongs to Sara Bareilles..Say What? Yep, Sara Bareilles gives a little nod to previous Song of the Week owner Cee-Lo with his song Fuck You. And how does she do it? Well, check it out for yourself with the Song of the Week: Sara Bareilles - Fuck You/Gonna Get Over You (Live)
  Our feature song this week comes from my buddy, @oxynerd, who sent over an interesting little diddy from a rap group, or alternative hip hop band as wikipedia puts it, called Chiddy Bang. The video is more than amusing and the song is pretty decent. Check it out, and a big thank you to @oxynerd for sending me some new music to listen to: Chiddy Bang - Opposite of Adults
  Here are a couple other songs I've been jiving to this week. Heh, I said jiving...
  Zac Brown Band - As She's Walking Away (featuring Alan Jackson)
  Weezer - Keep Fishin'
  And last, but not least, is your ?WTF! song of the Week. It comes from a gentleman named Nick Pittsinger. You know him, right? If you said yes you either a) just lied to me or b) have come from an awful far place to read my little blog. Regardless, Mr. Pittsinger decided he was going to take Justin Beiber's song U Smile and elongate it. By 8 times. Yep, that's U Smile, 800 percent slower than normal. At first you think to yourself "wtf." Good, that's why it's the ?WTF! song of the week. Second you think to yourself, this isn't really Justin Beiber. Well, you are wrong. Mr. Pettsinger used a piece of freeware software called PaulStretch, just in case you are an aspriring producer. This guy goes by the handle Shamantis and has a music project by the same name. Shamantis. A little free love there for you. I haven't taken the time to give it a listen yet, so you guys lemme know what you think. But, here's the song: Nick Pettsinger (@shamantis): Justin Beiber - U Smile (800% Slower)
  There you go, songs of the week. Lemme know what you are listening to, leave the love here, at facebook, or on twitter @clubbprez. No ads this week, I'm too lazy to put them on here...
    Currently Playing: Die Antwoord - Enter the Ninja

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Songs O' The Week: March 16, 2011

  It be St. Patrick's Day. And as such, there be a a whole pot of lucky Irish songs (or of the sort) to keep ye movin' along as ye drink yer green ale and dance the night away. Peer close lads n' lasses for this be the songs o' the week!
  Dropkick Murphys - Fields of Athenry
  Dropkick Murphys - Captain Kelly's Kitchen
  Flogging Molly - Laura
  Flogging Molly - The Lightning Storm
  Da Vinci's Notebook - Another Irish Drinking Song
  Buck-O-Nine - Drink and Fight
  Bootless and Unhorsed - Bugger Off
  And odd man out for the week? None other than Ray William Johnson (otherwise known as YourFavoriteMartian) with this somewhat catchy tune:
  YourFavoriteMartian - Club Villain
  There you go, songs of the week! I hope you enjoy them as much as I have. As always let me know what you are listening to. You can leave those songs here in the comment section or on twitter @clubbprez. *SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION* Click a damn ad so I can pay some bills.

    Currently Playing: Eminem - 'Til I Collapse (featuring Nate Dogg)

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Songs of the Week: March 9, 2011

  Hey hey, what's going on guys. This week seemed to drag by. I guess that's what happens when you have nothing else better to do than play poker and take care of the kids. Well, all that ends on MONDAY! New job, new start, can.not.wait. However, that doesn't mean that the last week *didn't* go by. And because it did, here's your weekly dose of what has been invading my ear drums!
So I finally got a wish. I finally found a song that's relatively new in the genre of music that I really enjoy listening too. It's a great song in my opinion, but then again, I'm a little biased. Seems like this song may still be in the creative process, but I hope they don't mess it up too much. I love me some:
  Rise Against - Satellite
  30 Seconds to Mars - Bad Romance (Live)
  MC White Noise - Da Pokerz!
  Avril Lavigne - What The Hell
  And for your WTF! Song of the Week (sure, why not) I leave you with something completely left field that it makes a little sense, I think...
  Avril Lavigne - Tik Tok
  That's all the songs I have for you this week. As usual, please stop by and let me know what you think of my songs of the week and please post your songs of the week. I'm always looking for new music to listen to, and I will listen to almost (and I mean almost) anything. And as usual, click a link and help me pay some bills! Leave Some LOVE!

    Currently Playing: B.o.B. - Higher

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Songs of the Week: March 2, 2011

  Hey hey, what's going on guys. It's Wednesday. You know that means. It's time for the Songs of the Week, or at least my songs of the week. You guys aren't playing fair. I want to know what you are listening to. So please tell me what you have been listening to either here in the comment section, twitter @clubbprez, or on facebook @http://www.facebook.com/clubbprez!
  We have a little variety this week, but not as much as I would have liked. Most of the songs hit in the past 24 hours and a couple of them are dated. However, give a listen to "Poker." You'll see the link.
  I guess the song of the week, for it's amazingness (and the uber 80's references). Sure, it may be a little advertising for the movie Take Me Home Tonight, but the song is a really good cover (thumbs up Atomic Tom) of the Human League song "Don't You Want Me." Check it out:
  Atomic Tom - Don't You Want Me
  And this next song gets honorable mention. It probaly would have taken top spot honors had it not been for the 80's magic. Give it up to Ricky Carden, perhaps better known in the railbird community as luckyfool for his song "Poker," co-written with Curtis Smith (sorry, I don't have any information on this guy, just giving props where props are due)
  Ricky Carden - Poker (co-written with Curtis Smith)  **NOTE** Click Ricky Carden - Curtis Smith "Poker" in the player and enjoy a nice homegrown song.
  And the rest of the weeks songs:
  Lupe Fiasco - Lu Myself
  Lupe Fiasco - Mean and Vicious
  Your Favorite Martian - Bottles of Beer
  Eminem - G.O.A.T.
  I hope you enjoyed them. Like I said, give me something new to listen to. Local bands (local to me, or local to you) shoot me some music and perhaps you'll make the list! GIVE ME NEW MUSIC TO LISTEN TO!
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    Currently Playing: Atomic Tom - Don't You Want Me

Eminem - Straight from the Vault (Unreleased Tracks!)

  So long story short, to get you guys caught up on some things. A lot of unreleased tracks from Eminem just hit the internet in the last few days (particularly G.O.A.T. and Get Money) and it seems that people have been going back and forth a little bit on how good these songs are, what it means for the time, and what not. So lets take a look, shall we...
  First off, keep in mind that these songs were "unreleased." Give them a listen and you'll see why. And being that they were unreleased, it's hard to put an exact creation date on them. However, 2007 - 2008 seems to be the most accepted time period thus far. There is the crazy accent rap in a couple songs, a couple collabs with people like B.o.B. (no, not Airplanes, but you are thinking the same guy) and Obie Trice. Obie Trice left Shady records in 2008 making the song Emulate at least two years old in my opinion. As for Things Get Worse, it has been reported that Eminem and B.o.B. got together in 2009 for this one. Long before Airplanes II and long before the release of "The Adventures of Bobby Ray."
  So why are these songs out here? Someone out in the internet lands by the name of "Koolo" somehow got ahold of all these songs, zipped them up, and sent them to the rest of the internet lands for downloads, criticisms, appraisals, and whatsoever.
  The good side? Well, we as fans get to listen to some of the songs that we otherwise wouldn't get a chance to listen to. Perhaps as a fan we get a slight glimpse into the creative process as unfinished songs turn into finished song on official releases. However, there are more
  BADSIDES!..How so, you may ask. Well, as an artist (whether it be a poet, a painter, a storyteller, song writer, whatever) the creative aura is always there. Sometimes, you just have to do something with it. For someone like Eminem, sometimes its hopping in a booth and getting it out. For painters, it may just be grabbing some paint and something to paint on. Regardless, it's the rough draft that always comes out. The artist can then step back and decide if this is something they feel they want to continue with or toss aside.
  In this particular case these songs were either stored for another day or just completely left out because they weren't up to snuff (or some other reason). The song Get Money implies some "disses" towards Jay-Z and Kanye West. In a million years I don't think Eminem would diss Jay-Z intentionally. He did mention in "Talkin' 2 Myself" (A released track on Recovery) that he "almost went at Kanye too" references making a diss track. However, in the same song he tells Kanye (in addition to Lil' Wayne and T.I.) to keep your head up. Whatever demons, creativity, frustration, whatever, that Eminem was feeling when he recorded these songs are obviously not there at present day, and thus these songs should be placed aside for another day. Instead, I'm guessing there were a lot of phone calls being placed (first and foremost by Eminem, I would hope) explaining the situation and bridging the gaps that "Koolo" might have formed by releasing some of this stuff to the world. It wasn't meant to come out.
  Reason number 2, and I think this is just as important as the previous reason, is that if there was something on shelf waiting for it's turn in line, it's probably safe to say that it's not going anywhere now. I feel I can say that with Syllables (remember Syllables?) as well as the B.o.B. song Things Get Worse.
  As a fan I really am liking a few of these songs I've heard. However, as a fan I can also tell you that I am by no means judging Eminem (or any other artist for that matter) through means of unreleased material. I have listened to all these songs a couple times. I honestly do not think that Eminem is throwing any disses towards Jay-Z and Kanye in the song Get Money. I simply think he's saying that when asked who the best in the game are, people are not mentioning his name ("they keep on sayin' the same rappers are the best Jay-Z and Kanye West"), and it's time for him to reclaim his spot ("I'm a blonde Dre, now gimme Kanye's glasses!").
  Regardless, this can of worms is open and there's no way to stuff the cat back in the bag. Here's the track list and where to go to find these songs so you can make your own opinion:

  Eminem - Straight From the Vault

  1. The People's Champ (intro) Honestly, just a bad mix of a bunch of different songs. Blame "koolo" for that. I think it sucks anyways.
  2. Get Money
  3. Things Get Worse (featuring B.o.B.)
  4. Emulate (featuring Obie Trice)
  5. Balling Uncontrollably
  6. Going Crazy (featuring D-12)
  7. WEE WEE
  8. G.O.A.T.
  9. The Apple
  10. It's Been Real (Outro)
  As a BONUS (and one song you won't find in the download:
  Fly Away (featuring Just Blaze)
  There you go, YouTube links for every song if you'd like to go check them out. Go listen to them quick, UMG is taking them down almost as quickly as someone is putting them up. Your best bet is to go grab this mixtape as quickly as possible. Peep it (I sound so cool) HERE! Click on the big yellow button that says "DOWNLOAD FILE."
  Just an aside, I will not be updating these links. Once they are dead, they are dead and gone. Afterwards if you want to listen to them you are either going to have to do the google searches yourself or just send me an email and we'll see what we can do.
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    Currently Playing: Lupe Fiasco - Lu Myself