March 2009
22 posts
Well, if that's how it's gonna be...
…then I’m just gonna retaliate by posting my favorite Paul McCartney duets. This one needs no introduction, no long and winding disquisition into its awesomeness. It’s just a great collabo between one of the most gifted artist of our time and the dude who owned all his masters at the time. (Burn! Wait…too soon?)
Anyway, classic, classic jam. Enjoy, and get your balls...
Hold the Line
From now on I’m going to post some of my favorite jams from Sir Paul McCartney whenever the line goes dead for over a week. Why? Why not?
I love this one off the Back to the Egg. Just another case of Paul showing he can McCartney-ize any genre of music (and I define McCartney-ize as “to make more awesome.”) I love everything about this. Even Linda’s shoulder pads.
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WatchToday has been a terrible, West Virginia destroyed my bracket, and AKA and I are about to literally kill any Comcast employee. A long story and the details will only cause my blood pressure to rise. Then out of know where AKA busts out this video. So I haven’t seen the Jimmy Fallon show, and none of us have seen him live since University (Which couldn’t hold a candle to us seeing...
Phil Lynott - Yellow Pearl
King Phillip
In case you didn’t notice, Phil Lynott is held in great esteem on this here blog. Maybe it’s his badass delivery, maybe it’s his racial composition, maybe it’s from the time half us Whisperers shared some brews under a starry Michigan night sky as “Cowboy Song” played from the 3BMB speakers, Probably it’s because Phil just brings it.
You might say he can...
None More Metal AKA The Emerald Law
The FCK has opened the door to all that is metal. If you ever need to kill an hour at work, just go to wikipedia and follow the magical tree of metal. I think there are no finer musical cartographers then those brave souls who have tried to classify that which is metal. Where does one go from here? Some would say to Kuma’s. I say yes, and then when you get back partake in some Probot!
Why Probot?...
Bill Withers - Harlem
It’s bound to happen. Two-car garages. A deck that needs treatin’. Extra shelf space that leaves you stroking your chin, wondering about “what could go here … avocado pits?”
The ability to talk and walk something out in mid-afternoon, for a post you’ll never use about where Marc Iavaroni fell short, in the time it used to take to fill up the glass full of Brita water … without knocking knees on...
From DZ to MM
I figured this would happen. Busy signals. Poor service. Unpaid bills. I know how life gets. But it looks like I’m going to have to make direct calls now and again to keep things flowing and growing on Whispers. Sometimes I just miss hearing people’s voices.
I don’t have to spell out who this one is going out to. The moniker is in the message.
This Queen track is so epic and so...
“J. beez comin’ thru”- Jungle...
Musical Directions and the paths we must take
That really stings Zeus. Like I said before aka’s been talking about this album/collaboration for months, and I had no idea what it woutld sound like, and to be honest I don’t exactly know what to say about Chris Cornell. I thought he was going more towards the path he seemed to be headed in with the Casino Royale theme which is awesome. They wouldn’t let me embed a the actual...
Check the Rhime - Tribe Called Quest
From St. James to Linden
Yes, it’s true that I live across the street from Biggie’s home. But I don’t live in his neighborhood. As you surely know, B.I.G. was Bed-Sty do or die, but so much has changed since he was the Mayor of St. James, like the name of the neighborhood. It’s now the much safer Clinton Hill (don’t worry, I still go to the Bed-Sty YMCA where I keep it GANGsta three days a...
Remembering BIG
Blue Eyes Meets Bed-Stuy
Can’t believe I almost forgot that it was 12 years ago that The Greatest Rapper Alive died on March 9. If you told me 12 years ago that those words would outlive the emcee who spoke them, I would’ve said, Yeah, sounds about right.
Whenever this day rolls around, I tend to go heavy on the Notorious and put this classic mashup album through the paces. (H/T...
Building on a Single Note
The good Doctor hits on an interesting phenomenon, this idea of music as a furnace. But I wonder if it works both ways? Often as the subject comes up between the people I know who grew up as we did—that is to say with seasons, or a winter more specifically—I have yet to meet someone borne of a comparatively more tropical clime wax on about listening to Björk in year’s early...
Ali Baba - John Holt
It Doesn't Make Sense Which Makes Sense
You had to go talking about Spring jams. Now I’m digging myself out of heaps of snow, cursing nor’easters and wondering when it will all end.
Oh well, in like a lion and out like a lamb. That’s how I live, son.
I’m a seasonal music listener. There are certain songs that will only be played on certain seasons. Certain tunes will only be played under certain weather...
