by funnymatt | Jun 14, 2015 | hollywood, music, N.W.A, Uncategorized
I’m overly excited about the N.W.A movie, Straight Outta Compton, which comes out in August, since I’m a big fan of the group. I am a little disheartened at the marketing for the film, where they seem to forget that MC Ren and DJ Yella were an important...
by funnymatt | Sep 15, 2012 | music, Uncategorized
When you hear “Great Britain”, what do you think of? Right- annoying accents, tea, foppish men, bad teeth, awful food, rain, the Queen, and… oh yeah, great music. Yesterday, there was a trend on Twitter with the hash tag #BestBritishBandsEver, and I...
by funnymatt | Sep 20, 2011 | music, tony bennett, Uncategorized
I decided to follow the great Tony Bennett on Twitter after and saw an interesting suggestion that I had to screencap and share. No, Twitter, just because I like Tony Bennett, I don’t also want to follow “Whip my hair back and forth” Willow Smith....
by funnymatt | Sep 16, 2011 | music, Uncategorized
This was part of an e-mail I got from Amazon.com today. I think their system needs to address commas in the names of bands a bit better if it interprets “Earth, Wind & Fire” as “Wind & Fire Earth”.
by funnymatt | Sep 9, 2011 | lady gaga, mashup, metal, music, Uncategorized
For some reason I like mash-up songs and videos, but only when they’re done well. They can take two good songs and make a good derivative work, such as the Metallica-Stevie Wonder video below.They also can take a good song and mix it with a bad one to make...
by funnymatt | Jun 13, 2011 | music, Uncategorized
I just hit 10,000 plays on my Zune, so I figured it would be interesting (to me) to see what I’ve been listening to the most. My Zune reports my top artists as:Tower of PowerFear FactoryAverage White BandMetallicaNWAOzzy OsbourneChicagoBlack SabbathThat’s...
