Good lord.
I just realized that I never even bothered to plug in ONE entry into this blog througout 2009. Will I be arrested? Have a committed a crime against humanity?
Maybe I will I mean ... after all. I subjected you to senseless radio drivel like 1 Eskimo and Peal Jam all last year. I never interviened with some intelligent sounds. Shame on me. And, I forgot to mention some of the more interesting musical news thats occured lately... such as the death of Malcom McLaren, (inventor of the Great Rock and Roll Swindle.. one of the greatest rock films ever constructed and filmed).
I cannot believe I subjected all of you kids out there to the available media. I should have been more on top of things....
What will happen now?
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, December 17, 2006
BOW WOW WOW - WELCOME TO THE NEW ERA
THIS IS ENTERTAINMENT.
This song is deceptively simple. But when it came out it ushered in a whole new form of entertainment.... namely the rock video. IT also brought in a whole new wave (.... eh.. NEW WAVE... GET IT?... ) new wave of sounds, colors and visual forms, (not to mention some off the wall haircuts).
This was the invention of Malcom McLaren, (sex pistols, adam ant etc). This band also had the tribal look like his other creations. Artist Vivianne Westwood created their clothing and encouraged them to look as bizarre as possible. When this look came to America it really shook up the airwaves. Kids became addicted to MTV. Mostly because no one really knew what they were going to show next..... that was the fun.
These new record covers really sort of trivialize the bands. They immediately slap THE BIG 80'S on all the releases. But in reality this was not about THE BIG 80'S. The entertainment industry had to let these bands in the MTV network. Americans had very few rock videos to promote. The other thing is that the original album art has been discarded. This is what made these bands notorious in the first place. Controversial. It got people talking. Crikey, the girl singer was only 14 years old when this band started. If you didn't know that then this band loses quite a bit of punch.
Everyone thought there was a British Invasion in 1980. But in reality the Europeans were the first ones to create rock videos. America was behind and had no choice but to show these acts on the MTV network. Eventually Americans would create their own rock videos, (really over budget productions.... seriously) and would filter out the British influence. Then the whole thing was dropped down to the lowest common denominator and became a rap network.... for the most part.
The Brits are still cranking out amazing POP as we speak, (check out the BBC online, or AP Magazine) but we don't celebrate their bands as much in this country like we used to. I actually heard Madness on my hometown radio in Muskegon in 1982 and I thought that was really strange. This music had powerful reach. IT would be the equivalent of hearing the latest BLUR song in my hometown today..... You see? It just isn't going to happen. The early 80's were indeed a magical time.
I really don't know how powerful Malcom McLaren was in the music scene. According to Virgin Records CEO Richard Branson, he was pretty influential. Its difficult to judge exactly what happened in reality. Malcom has a way of making himself shine brilliantly like a superstar. But the truth was this entire evolution of the post punk movement never made it into the books until the late 80's. I'd like to think Malcom was responsible for all this ecentric living. I definately can say he had a vision but I don't know how much of this entire genre is attributed to him directly.
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Ted Cantu - Fascube - 2006
This song is deceptively simple. But when it came out it ushered in a whole new form of entertainment.... namely the rock video. IT also brought in a whole new wave (.... eh.. NEW WAVE... GET IT?... ) new wave of sounds, colors and visual forms, (not to mention some off the wall haircuts).
This was the invention of Malcom McLaren, (sex pistols, adam ant etc). This band also had the tribal look like his other creations. Artist Vivianne Westwood created their clothing and encouraged them to look as bizarre as possible. When this look came to America it really shook up the airwaves. Kids became addicted to MTV. Mostly because no one really knew what they were going to show next..... that was the fun.
These new record covers really sort of trivialize the bands. They immediately slap THE BIG 80'S on all the releases. But in reality this was not about THE BIG 80'S. The entertainment industry had to let these bands in the MTV network. Americans had very few rock videos to promote. The other thing is that the original album art has been discarded. This is what made these bands notorious in the first place. Controversial. It got people talking. Crikey, the girl singer was only 14 years old when this band started. If you didn't know that then this band loses quite a bit of punch.
Everyone thought there was a British Invasion in 1980. But in reality the Europeans were the first ones to create rock videos. America was behind and had no choice but to show these acts on the MTV network. Eventually Americans would create their own rock videos, (really over budget productions.... seriously) and would filter out the British influence. Then the whole thing was dropped down to the lowest common denominator and became a rap network.... for the most part.
The Brits are still cranking out amazing POP as we speak, (check out the BBC online, or AP Magazine) but we don't celebrate their bands as much in this country like we used to. I actually heard Madness on my hometown radio in Muskegon in 1982 and I thought that was really strange. This music had powerful reach. IT would be the equivalent of hearing the latest BLUR song in my hometown today..... You see? It just isn't going to happen. The early 80's were indeed a magical time.
I really don't know how powerful Malcom McLaren was in the music scene. According to Virgin Records CEO Richard Branson, he was pretty influential. Its difficult to judge exactly what happened in reality. Malcom has a way of making himself shine brilliantly like a superstar. But the truth was this entire evolution of the post punk movement never made it into the books until the late 80's. I'd like to think Malcom was responsible for all this ecentric living. I definately can say he had a vision but I don't know how much of this entire genre is attributed to him directly.
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Ted Cantu - Fascube - 2006
Saturday, December 16, 2006
THE SUNDAYS - THIS IS WHERE THE STORY ENDS
THE SUNDAYS
These guys really stuck out like a sore thumb in the 90's. You would have to been tone deaf to miss them. MTV was stuck. They were showing YO MTV RAPS, ( a format which would later totally dominate the entire network ). MTV was also showing a lot of hair bands and Manchester bands were merging onto the college scene.
The Sundays dazzled the charts with their thought provoking songs. They were a blossoming flower in this torid landscape -- the one glimmering hint of a humanistic sound. But it would prove to be a very short flash of light.
The airwaves were about to be trampled over by a new force of pop sound. Nirvana. And its presence would kill out all creativity for the next ten years. Commercial radio would give birth to its offspring. Tuneless, angst ridden gristle unfit for any century. BOring, dull and full of hatred.
The Sundays touched human emotion. They were not afraid of it. This is why they stuck out of the crowd. They radiated pure human energy.
Here is what others have said:
"It is not often that a video portrays the feel and texture of a song as well as this one does. When viewing it you can sense the warmth and sincerity of the music. A work like this was all too rare in the noisy, headache, techno decade that was the '90s. "
"Harriet Wheeler's voice should be kept in a museum in London, it's a national treasure. "
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cantu fascube 2006
These guys really stuck out like a sore thumb in the 90's. You would have to been tone deaf to miss them. MTV was stuck. They were showing YO MTV RAPS, ( a format which would later totally dominate the entire network ). MTV was also showing a lot of hair bands and Manchester bands were merging onto the college scene.
The Sundays dazzled the charts with their thought provoking songs. They were a blossoming flower in this torid landscape -- the one glimmering hint of a humanistic sound. But it would prove to be a very short flash of light.
The airwaves were about to be trampled over by a new force of pop sound. Nirvana. And its presence would kill out all creativity for the next ten years. Commercial radio would give birth to its offspring. Tuneless, angst ridden gristle unfit for any century. BOring, dull and full of hatred.
The Sundays touched human emotion. They were not afraid of it. This is why they stuck out of the crowd. They radiated pure human energy.
Here is what others have said:
"It is not often that a video portrays the feel and texture of a song as well as this one does. When viewing it you can sense the warmth and sincerity of the music. A work like this was all too rare in the noisy, headache, techno decade that was the '90s. "
"Harriet Wheeler's voice should be kept in a museum in London, it's a national treasure. "
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cantu fascube 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006
THE SMITHS - STRANGEWAYS HERE WE COME
ITS BEEN A LONG TIME......
When I first heard this it sort of floored me. Well, is that really it?
No. It tormented me and I tried vainly to get out of my mind. It was
really disturbing.
From the album, "Strangeways Here We Come". The title lost complete meaning in America. Strangeways is actually a mental hospital in East Manchester. The video retraces all the familiar steps of Morrissey and The Smiths from their inner sleeve graphics for, "The Queen is Dead". This video shows a bunch of kids who took on Stephen Morrisseys disillusioned persona.
The bike ride thing really sort of confused me when I first saw it. It took the sting out of the song.... somewhat. The streets are cold and barren. The shot of the girl pushing the carriage through the dirty alley and holding a bag of trash is sad and a little reminescent of the line, "... in the cold dark streets that trap them". A line from the song, "Ordinary Boys".
Sometimes in life.. or often, depending on your position in this world you come to the realization that people, (for what ever reason) will choose not to love you back. This thing will jar you from your sleep if you let it.
Course past a certain age this sort of attachment fades. Hormones are a strange thing. Director, Franc Roddam, (Quadrophenia) said that young people are strongly attached to certain people but after a certain age it slips. That is to say that it doesn't last -- at least not at that intensity. This song sort of captures that.
It's a very desperate song -- and album too for that matter. It would prove to be the Smiths last LP. The band was caught up in a rush of stardom and fame and lots of things started to overshadow the band, (Morrisseys popularity, Andy Rourkes Heroin addiction.... more possible tours etc.) New Music - or post punk was becoming the IN THING to a lot of kids at this time. Then the band broke up in a pub from an argument which stemmed from being served "mushy peas" of all things.
These songs stood up and stand out -- even today. I still find this album disturbing for another reason. It was the same locale where child killers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady lived and worked. Some of the victims were Morrisseys age and this left an impression on him for life.
Morrissey said he would never move from this area no matter how famous he got. These streets inspired him to write the songs. He was inspired by these very streets that we see in this video. To finally see them in full color, (and not the pea green overcast like in the Queen is Dead shots) are somewhat alarming.
Its so stark and barren.
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cantu fascube 2006
When I first heard this it sort of floored me. Well, is that really it?
No. It tormented me and I tried vainly to get out of my mind. It was
really disturbing.
From the album, "Strangeways Here We Come". The title lost complete meaning in America. Strangeways is actually a mental hospital in East Manchester. The video retraces all the familiar steps of Morrissey and The Smiths from their inner sleeve graphics for, "The Queen is Dead". This video shows a bunch of kids who took on Stephen Morrisseys disillusioned persona.
The bike ride thing really sort of confused me when I first saw it. It took the sting out of the song.... somewhat. The streets are cold and barren. The shot of the girl pushing the carriage through the dirty alley and holding a bag of trash is sad and a little reminescent of the line, "... in the cold dark streets that trap them". A line from the song, "Ordinary Boys".
Sometimes in life.. or often, depending on your position in this world you come to the realization that people, (for what ever reason) will choose not to love you back. This thing will jar you from your sleep if you let it.
Course past a certain age this sort of attachment fades. Hormones are a strange thing. Director, Franc Roddam, (Quadrophenia) said that young people are strongly attached to certain people but after a certain age it slips. That is to say that it doesn't last -- at least not at that intensity. This song sort of captures that.
It's a very desperate song -- and album too for that matter. It would prove to be the Smiths last LP. The band was caught up in a rush of stardom and fame and lots of things started to overshadow the band, (Morrisseys popularity, Andy Rourkes Heroin addiction.... more possible tours etc.) New Music - or post punk was becoming the IN THING to a lot of kids at this time. Then the band broke up in a pub from an argument which stemmed from being served "mushy peas" of all things.
These songs stood up and stand out -- even today. I still find this album disturbing for another reason. It was the same locale where child killers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady lived and worked. Some of the victims were Morrisseys age and this left an impression on him for life.
Morrissey said he would never move from this area no matter how famous he got. These streets inspired him to write the songs. He was inspired by these very streets that we see in this video. To finally see them in full color, (and not the pea green overcast like in the Queen is Dead shots) are somewhat alarming.
Its so stark and barren.
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cantu fascube 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
JESSE CAMP - WELCOME TO CRAP
I remember this Toad Stool..... He sucked. In fact Jesse Camp and I actually met one time in New York City. His career was over. He was fired from MTV. I saw him in a Barnes and Noble bookstore. I was in a suit and it was near the stella adler acting school. I went to reach for a business magazine and he called me a corporate pig !!!.. hahaha.. I am not kidding you.
This guy smelled ... it was hot too that day. He wore a black Hefty trash bag with two arm holes in it as a shirt. He must have been roasting in this thing. It was about 90 degrees out and it was august. Plus the heat from the concrete. I know I was sweating bullets. But this swine called me a corporate pig. I didnt do anything to provoke him or to upset him. I didnt even sneer at his wardrobe. Honest.
I watched him slunk down the aisle. He might have been high, who knows. I saw him stumble out into the blazing hot heat in that ridiculous garb he considered pop fashion. I felt bad for him.... because im a decent human being.
But still... I found it somewhat funny too, I had mixed feelings. One hand I felt like saying.. SCREW HIM. The other half of me wanted to say... who cares, get some real clothes loser... or go get a job.
This is what others said about his video:
Jesse Camp had a weak attempt at Rock n Roll. Nowhere to be found, no one seems to care.
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wait, it gets much better
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Filthy idiot
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JESSE CAMP isn't cute and he needs to take a shower. all the money he made during this time, and he couldn't even fix his nasty teeth! go figure! - BRIAN
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Why is he talking like that in the song? Even when it came out, this song was crap, and don't even say it was before it's time. No one plays rock 'n' roll today, or at least deserves to be called "Rock 'n' Roll". Jesse Camp sucks, and everybody hates him.
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IMG get this, this music is so unkown you cant even GOOGLE THE LYRICS, you end up with nothing. God jesse camp sucked balls. Out of morbid curiosity i wonder were he is now
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I REST MY CASE
He should change the bands name to JESSE CAMP AND THE MORONS FROM MARS
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Ted Cantu is the grooviest creator of FASCUBE Fashion Culture Beauty Network 2006
This guy smelled ... it was hot too that day. He wore a black Hefty trash bag with two arm holes in it as a shirt. He must have been roasting in this thing. It was about 90 degrees out and it was august. Plus the heat from the concrete. I know I was sweating bullets. But this swine called me a corporate pig. I didnt do anything to provoke him or to upset him. I didnt even sneer at his wardrobe. Honest.
I watched him slunk down the aisle. He might have been high, who knows. I saw him stumble out into the blazing hot heat in that ridiculous garb he considered pop fashion. I felt bad for him.... because im a decent human being.
But still... I found it somewhat funny too, I had mixed feelings. One hand I felt like saying.. SCREW HIM. The other half of me wanted to say... who cares, get some real clothes loser... or go get a job.
This is what others said about his video:
Jesse Camp had a weak attempt at Rock n Roll. Nowhere to be found, no one seems to care.
============
wait, it gets much better
============
Filthy idiot
============
JESSE CAMP isn't cute and he needs to take a shower. all the money he made during this time, and he couldn't even fix his nasty teeth! go figure! - BRIAN
============
Why is he talking like that in the song? Even when it came out, this song was crap, and don't even say it was before it's time. No one plays rock 'n' roll today, or at least deserves to be called "Rock 'n' Roll". Jesse Camp sucks, and everybody hates him.
=============
IMG get this, this music is so unkown you cant even GOOGLE THE LYRICS, you end up with nothing. God jesse camp sucked balls. Out of morbid curiosity i wonder were he is now
================
I REST MY CASE
He should change the bands name to JESSE CAMP AND THE MORONS FROM MARS
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Ted Cantu is the grooviest creator of FASCUBE Fashion Culture Beauty Network 2006
LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - WHERES STIV !!??
Amazing after all this time there are fans out there that had no idea Stiv Bators, (front man for the Lords of the New Chuch and the Dead Boys) had died ! Seriously.
Bators passed away after he was hit by a car while leaving a club in New York. He refused to go to a hospital and went home where he expired.
The track DANCE WITH ME disappointed me when i first got it. I saw Stiv standing on the back of a moving car screaming wildly in a rock promotion commercial for one of their new albums, A Method to Our Madness (?)This really got my attention. Fearing that I was missing out on something I went and bought the first release I could get my hands on. And that was this track.
Looking back on it now this track is OKAY, a bit tame, and even a bit likeable. Hardly not the stuff I expected from an ex-Dead Boy. Another bit of interesting trivia this was also the boyfriend of Martha Quinn, (one of the original MTV VJ's).
Bators passed away after he was hit by a car while leaving a club in New York. He refused to go to a hospital and went home where he expired.
The track DANCE WITH ME disappointed me when i first got it. I saw Stiv standing on the back of a moving car screaming wildly in a rock promotion commercial for one of their new albums, A Method to Our Madness (?)This really got my attention. Fearing that I was missing out on something I went and bought the first release I could get my hands on. And that was this track.
Looking back on it now this track is OKAY, a bit tame, and even a bit likeable. Hardly not the stuff I expected from an ex-Dead Boy. Another bit of interesting trivia this was also the boyfriend of Martha Quinn, (one of the original MTV VJ's).
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