"What you should have on you iPod!" Part 2

Okay so now back to the countdown, for all of 2 People who probably are interested in this blog one being a person who thinks this is a cooking site and is waiting for the next incredible recipe! ....

 Moving on, by the way hope I gave people enough reason to buy a kindle! (Again product placement, I just get nothing out of it!).

So welcome back to Part 2 of my top 10 songs that you should have on your iPod / iPad / iPhone / iMac / iFuck (Patent pending). Coming in at number 7 we have an all time favourite of mine, these guys have been around for quite a while and have one of the most influential front men both in the Music industry and in Philanthropy!  Quoting Looktothestars.org

"Bono was inspired to get involved in charity work after seeing The Secret Policeman’s Ball in 1979. In 1986 he helped organize Amnesty International's Conspiracy Of Hope tour alongside Sting, who was one of the Secret Policeman’s Ball performers seen by Bono, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, and Bryan Adams."

 U2's music inspired generations of musicians to do what they love. They have written some of the most influential and beautiful songs that still get people's hearts pounding when they hear it, including the original for "Mandela: Long walk to Freedom". "Joshua Tree" - "according to trust worthy source which is Wikipedia" (Words no college professor ever said) -  is acclaimed as one of the greatest albums in rock history, and many publications have placed it among their rankings of the best records, including Hot Press, Time, Q, and Entertainment Weekly. In 1997, The Guardian collated worldwide data in 1997 from a range of renowned critics, artists, and radio DJs, who placed the record at number 57 in the list of the "100 Best Albums Ever".In 2010, the album appeared at number 62 on Spin's list of the 125 most influential albums in the 25 years since the magazine launched. 

Just one more thing we can thank Ireland for after St. Patrick's Day and Guinness beer......

So here you go from the "The Joshua Tree" album I give you "Where the streets have no name" 

Hope you enjoyed that and if you did not, well sad luck carry on! So now I told my self that I would not pander to stereotypes and offer nonsensical, mundane and all round brain damaging gossip and still hold true! Instead let me just hit you guys up with the 5 Shows to watch out for this fall in my opinion will kick ASS! Other than Game of Thrones and Shows like that which already have a great fan following.

So here are the top 5 TV shows to watch out:- (YOU FILTHY STREAMERS AND DOWNLOADERS.... Much Love!)

Coming in at number we have 5. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 Now that the Marvel universe to a certain extent is under one room there is much interlocking between movies and TV show going which to the Comic book fanatic that I am. Can't wait!!! Just waiting for that one episode that they get Iron Man on it!

Next up we have a new show that will be starting, might I give you at Number 4 "THE FLASH". The Story of Barry Allen and the Origins of the Flash : The Fastest Man Alive. Well With the Justice League movie around the corner and the DC world also exploding with its Hero tails the flash would not get left behind. This is a Spin off from the Arrow Tv Show which is another great Show to watch so lets see.

To all the Vampire, Werewolf  fans out there and not the Twilight loving ones of course cause well they have serious mental issues. Vampire glow in sunlight (Thank the lord! ..... Voldemort killed him in the 4th Movie Get it Lord, Voldemort Play on words? The Harry potter fan would have.) Coming in at number 3 you guys watch out for Teen Wolf, Yes many folks out there are laughing and saying what a douche! but the fact remains this stuff is pretty kick ass once you rid it of the adolescent crap, but if they took that out it would just be WOLF. So Season 4 of the show has started and the stuff is building so I am quite impressed. 

Coming up next though I have never been a person to watch this show, my younger brother swears by it and he has impeccable taste when it comes to this. So coming in at Number 2 we have American Horror Story: Freak Show. I don't know much about the show but he says you can watch any season cause they never carry over so event if you have never watched this show start at any season doesn't really matter.

Finally at Number 1 we have a show that I waiting for more than finally losing those 30 Kilos I Give you Gotham. Set in Gotham city post the brutal murder of Bruce Wayne's parents it has Detective Gordon (Ben McKenzie) dealing with the origins of some of the most famous super villains like the Penguin and the Riddler , though what got my attention was when in an interview one of the people on the show said "you should stay tuned cause you never know when you might see the Joker for the first time". Basically its an origin story of how the Famous villains came to be while show the relationship of Bruce Wayne and Gordon from the start.

Now Back to the music coming in at number 6 we have something nice and relaxed for you folks. This artist has a certain effect on women as was displayed in the following picture.... 

As you have probably already guessed it our next artist is "John Mayer" with one of my favorite songs (Cause obviously it's my countdown). I'll try and take credit for this song but I have to give credit where credit is due, my friend Sid Mathur (Go check out his blog for some hilarious posts) introduced me to this song and I more often than not have had is on Replay in the middle of a Car - O - Bar Session with friends. So here it is, I give "Who Says" from the album "Battle Studies" Have a Listen!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls and anyone who will actually read this ............. I give you ...... Nothing cause well I'm broke and unemployed and do this just for fun! We are now into the Top 5 folks you know what that means........ Seriously? anyone any ideas? ...... Here we go coming in at number 5 is one of the Top Indie Bands, another band that was introduced to me by a friend, I give you Death Cab for Cutie. The first time I heard this band was when the O.C. use to be on television and they performed on it. I remember the sound just captivated me. So to end this Segment I have a nine minute treat that you will enjoy. Here you go folks I Give you "I Will Possess your Heart" from the album "Narrow Stairs"

Hope everyone enjoyed this segment of the show and will be back tomorrow with the second last installment of this Saga! But again a sign off from our sponsors!

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"What you should have on you iPod!" Part 1

After my last "rant" i.e. what many  friends called my last post, its about time I just wrote something a little more relaxed on opinion - even though there is a strong point there - So today's post looks to just share what my TOP 10 Favourite songs are of all time. These are mix of both old school and modern tracks that in my opinion should be on every iPod (my version of product placement, and sadly I shall never receive any money for this ...... Hi Apple I'll take apple store credit too!!! .. No?? I guess Not!)

Counting down from Number 10 on Arjun's Countdown (Not the most original way to go about it) - Oh by the way people who know me are reading this post in my voice (If you weren't before you are now!!)

Coming in at number 10 is something light and easy but still a pretty kick ass track, for anyone born in the late eighties this song will bring back memories of that one person who in essence pushed you to do something you never wanted to. That one time you waited all day at the train station to meet her or to study with her (Damn I was whipped at a very young age haha!) So here it is folks I give you "She's Electric by Oasis" from the "What's the Story Morning glory Album"

So if this were actually a Radio talk show one would expect some form of music news or popular culture new but sadly it's not cause I never tried to become a Radio Jockey, If I had I would have been the best!! .... 

Moving on, to number 9 well this is a tie ..... anyone who has a problem, can calmly take their rear end away (Go fuck you self, there I said it!). In my defence it's the same artist - which is 'K'Naan' - and the same album -which is 'Troubadour' - but they both make you feel two different emotions First is "Bang Bang feat. Adam Levine of Maroon 5" (SPOILER ALERT They are also on the countdown) followed by "Take a minute". "Bang bang" is more about the effect women have on men that feel like they shot us most of the time (It's not a sexist point of view before you raise your voice, we are the ones who feel insecure at times "GIRL POWER")  

GOTH MEME in the HOUSE!!!

So yeah here you go first up is Bang Bang .... enjoy (Plus come on its a pretty kick ass party tune)

Going on to the other track we have "Take a minute" , K'Naan as an artist is know to speak of more political issues and at times has filled albums with it as he is a refugee himself, and to go back to my "Rant" just for a minute we need more musicians like this who provoke thought with what they have to say and not play into the superficiality that the world has learned to live with. As he says in the song:

"It ain't easy comin' out of where we from homie

and it's the reason why I can never play phony

Tell 'em the truth" is what my dead homies told me, ooh yeah

I take inspiration from the most heinous of situations

Creatin' medication out my own tribulations

Dear Africa, you helped me write this

by showin' me to give is pricless"

Here you it's take a minute by K'Naan ...... Folks just listen to what he has to say :)

So now in this part of the radio show I would probably play a preview track and give a review of the album so today's treat for you people is "Linkin Park's the Hunting Party Album" It came out a few weeks back but I wasn't doing this then so well there you go 

I have been a Linkin Park fan since the beginning "Hybrid Theory" is still one of my all time favourite albums with some of most amazing songs that people still love. You had "In the End" "Crawling" "One Step Closer" even "Papercut" and since then most fans are still looking for that revival of theirs. Though in my opinion (that probably doesn't really matter "Meteora" was quite a good album that still made hits "Numb" to name a track. So after the last  few albums had been a bitter disappointment, not including Mike Shinoda's "Fort Minor" hit and run and  Chester Beninngton's "Dead by Sunrise" phase, I had very little expectation of their new album. Yet out of habit I played it so before I proceed let me give you a sample of one of their tracks

Though in essence its good to hear them go back to their Rock roots to a certain extent and yes it has become slightly heavier than the last two albums which is there to Like. you can't help but feel something is missing. you don't seem to get the same feel as that of "Numb" or "Breaking the Habit". You are left wanting more at times in the mix of things like they could start of slow with some of Mr. Haan's mixes then proceed further but all in all it's still a good come back album for the band. If i had to give them a rating I would give them a 3 out of 5 pint rating!

YEAH I GOT A BEER RATING !!!!

Cause well you know .......

Any who now on to Number 8 cause right about now I think I'm tired of typing! (This would have been a better idea had I actually started a Radio show) DOH!

At Number eight we have a classic one of the greatest tracks ever written and performed from the King of Pop himself Michael Jai Kishan, Sorry I meant Jackson, but come on wouldn't it just be awesome had MJ been Indian? We probably would have been saved from this beauty .......

So coming in at number 8 we have "Thriller from the album Thriller" M.J. making zombies cool before they became commercial:-

So this is where we take a break on this countdown..... Tune in tomorrow as we continue with Part two of this four part series. Come on! If your can wait for "Game of Thrones" and "Sherlock" for Years you can Surely wait a day to go on with the countdown. Even though this might not be as appealing but hey! Moving on :D

But before you go a word from our sponsors:-

Sex Drugs and Rock n' Roll ....... Or Was it?

Put on the radio here at any point during the day and you will hear the latest music, as I did today. The usual slogan "You are listening to AT 40 with Ryan Seacrest" , at this point you are probably saying "please some one shoot me" well after what I heard today my sentiments are the same. In my humble opinion - that will receive solid backlash once I post this - Radio is dead, as a matter of fact music is dead. Its not like i'm not trying to find that new sound that moves me, it's just not out there. 

Woodstock 1969

People say I'm a prude and I don't listen to any new artists but the fact remains they will never be more than a fad and stuff, which is the truth! One that most people are hiding from today. Music in this day and age has become superficial, the lyrics have become superficial. 

Okay maybe I pushed it a little too far there and yes there are musicians and bands actually trying to make good music  Foo Fighter (Cause they are just incredible musicians but they have been for ages -Yes I will be a groupie- and their music matters, Death Cab for Cutie (though the last album in my opinion left a little to be desired, plus kinda hurt they did music for a crap movie like Twilight), One Republic to a certain extent still impresses me with what they have to say (though this electrical sound they have has to go) , Coldplay (Old Coldplay not the New Crap..... Sellouts)!!!, Seether, Rise Against, hey! and after what I just heard on a Beyonce track I'll give her props too just for that one song "Pretty Hurts". 

PEACE LOVE AND MUSIC

So Maybe I pushed it by saying music is dead, Lets just say it has decayed from what it use to be. If you don't agree with me some put on any Led Zeppelin (Led Zeppelin IV) , Pink Floyd (The Wall), U2 (Achtung Baby) -yes I have included my recommendations cause well it's my blog - album and then put on, oh I don't know the latest party song or "Popular Song "that is playing god knows what it is and tell me which one moves you more ? I do understand that each person's tastes differ and not everyone likes the same thing but these people were real musicians they didn't need gimmicks (Gaga) , They didn't need a computer and no crazy idiots (their idiots were different, it was a Mosh Pit), their music didn't need any controlled substances people took those on their own, cause well it was the 60's and 70's folks comes on! The harms of those drugs were not yet as well known as today. You just needed Jimmy Page or Eric Clapton with a Guitar or Eddie Vedder just going acoustic and we were graced with brilliance. 

The Picture added to this post if you haven't guessed are from Woodstock 1969 still one of the greatest music festivals that has ever happened. as a child of the 80's and 90's I regret that I missed the opportunity to see it even though it was attempted in the 90's without the same effect. These days all I hear about is this thing called tomorrow land or tomorrow world sounds like an amusement park. Its like we are in a generation that forgot what this music did. Its goal was to bring peace through music, bring people together and it did. All tomorrow land is for people to get drunk, do drugs and just be morons cause hey that's how superficial we have become. Where are the real artist? the ones who want to show us what is wrong with the world, the ones who want us to change it, the ones who are in it for more than just the money and fame. Yes it was Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll back then but it was also "I get by with a little help from my friends", "Fortunate Son", "Another Brick in the Wall", "Hotel California",  "Kashmir", "The Wasp". People will now always post "yeah! you crib about all of this but you listen to Hip and Pop Music of this day and age also" and Yes! I will admit to that that the beat has been catchy and that is more to the producer than the artist. I highly doubt event the strongest debater can defend Lyrics such as "I started at the bottom now I'm here" or "Dali! Mr Worldwide". Well to End this all I can say is that folk just think about the next song you listen to. Is it for the reason that it makes you feel something or just cause it sounds good. Does it make you think about what the artist is trying to say or is it just nonsense spewed to sell albums cause hey! "lets get fucked".

On this note I will end with a song that actually speaks about something, the Eagles wrote this song to describe the harmful effects of Cocaine something Many in today's day and age have forgotten.

"Last thing I remember, I was running for the door, 

I had to find the passage back to the place I was before, 

"Relax," said the night man, "We are programmed to receive, 

You can check out anytime you like... but you can never leave"

Music and the relationships it builds.

Well having a look at my last post and that was in 2011 its about time to start writing again. Yet today I'm not here to just talk about music. It more to do with music and the bonds and connections we make over it. If you ask one in two people why they are friends with their closest friends they'll say its the music. Most people in a relationship may it be just a platonic bromance its all about the music, just think about it. Looking back at all the different connections I've made over the years good and bad there has always been an element of music attached to. It may not be the main basis of the friendship that you both like it but at times just the difference in opinions can create that bond. 

Take me and my mate Shimmy for instance he's a kick ass producer and at times has the most amazing beats I've ever heard mixed, there is at times a Timbaland meets Pharell sort of Vibe that he gives off which is sick and if you get a half decent artist to spit on it, people would actually be in the club listening to acting like "I'ma get ma groove on to this shit". Yet when I listen to some of my Indie music at times he feels it's not interesting at all and the debate where we start of with music and how our difference of opinions becomes a good medium of discussion. 

On the other hand is well my ex (just like the famous mordern day fictional character we shall call her "she who must not be named" ) though our relationship didn't work out - for other reasons that are not a matter of discussion - there was one thing that connected us more than anything and that was the music we loved. We spent hours on the phone (Long distance at that) discussing as to how certain artist just gave that feeling you needed according to the situation you were in. We spoke about Death Cab, Nada Surf, we covered most of the indie rock genre. I even tried introducing her to Rap music (my attempts were well unsuccessful to say the least) yet it brought us closer.

Moving away from my example, one of the truest relationships I have seen in my life growing up my mom and dad, where there are still memories I have of my parents dancing to dire straights or my dad waking us up to some of the most influential music in my life. Deep Purple blasting through the house, mom playing Neil Diamond and those are memories you will never forget. Mom and Dad singing Rod Stewart while Baby Bro and I cringe that Rod Stewart should never hear either of them sing!!! 

Yet one of the finest aspects of how music helps build a relationship can be seen at any concert you go for. Stand in the crowd (cause well only an idiot would buy the sitting tickets) tens of thousand of people standing together waiting for the artist to come on stage sweating it out bumping into each other. The moment that artist strums the first string or drops that beat and everyone just lives in that moment for a few seconds or minutes shows you the bonds it forms gives you the true reason of how music can help form bonds. How you can have thousands of people jumping together in unison, shows you the power a song can have to build bonds.

Keeping that in mind here is the track of the day and of the year, one of my personal favorites for no other reason than this artist has the the ability to hold a crowd like no other. His tickets sell quicker than an air conditioner on the hottest day of the year. Mr Bruce Springsteen 

Will it still be there ?

Five, that's how old I was when I remember my dad putting the song on for me that made fall in love with music, Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA, I remember listening to the song and just loving the tune. Now that I've grown up and listen to the song it catches me even more, "I had a brother at Khe Sahn, Fighting off the Viet Cong, They're still there, he's all gone". Music then was moving, it captivated you. Many might question where I am going with this?

Well this is a thought that came into my brain the other day when I was in the car driving my fourteen year old brother to the market. We had been driving and with the traffic in this country it can mean for hours because the traffic is terrible hence why I feel it is more important to have a good stereo in the car rather than all the weird things people put on it. We had been listening to radio and they had been playing some new song with a god awful farting noise in it, though it seem to have caught my brother's attention and he was enjoying it so I let the song play, after which I decided to Plug in my pen drive and listen to some Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, maybe even some Metallica and some new Indie Band I had found with a pretty good sound so I put it in and the first song that came up was Bad Company by Bad Company (one of my favorites if I might add) when all of a sudden I have this huge scream in my ear because I changed the music. Apparently for him this old music was not as interesting as Nikki Minaj's new song, which is funny cause the minute I put his music back on it was the same god awful farting tune.

So then I began to think will the music that I was introduced to through my parents still be there when I have kids (which is like a good eight to nine years away haha!) will they know what it's like to hear a guitarist like Slash or Steve Vai play solos that just kill it? Or will club music over powers years of rock's beautiful lyrics and melodies so that generations ahead will never know what it felt like to hear Hotel California by the Eagles for the first time and love it?

Some Might feel that I am tearing down modern music for no reason, Don't get me wrong I am not at all doing that. I understand that there are those who like this type and music and good for them, but all I want to say is that never forget the old guard.

Don't have many followers so this won't reach very far but those who do read it just give it a think. Here are two of my favorites for you to listen to I give you firstly:

Bob Dylan - Tambourine Man


and

The Eagles - Hotel California

Cause I'm just that Bored!

Wicked lines be bringing me down;
No one see tear behind the face of this clown;
Going through life in different phases;
but my heart's a fool don't all these different places;
Your hearts maybe a kings but mine's aces.
The pain has been forced to be subliminal there are no traces.
Been at the point of no return;
Kept going straight till I created my own U turn;
been at the end of every burn;
Life's one big lesson you just need to learn;
Son don't be acting the fool;
They just try to break cause they think it's cool
It's ain't their fault they got stuck in the wrong gene-pool
Just walk away son one day they'll realize it's you that will rule.

The reason these lines don't have a beat cause I'm waiting for ma boy Chimuka to make em !

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Hope for Life

Ok so well unless one has been living under a rock everyone knows about the earthquake that shook Haiti. The losses are great and it will take ages before the country is returned to normal. It needs all the support it can get, so if u wish to help please go to: www.hopeforhaitinow.org Do all you can