Share your current favorite song or music video.
Share your current favorite song or music video.
Show us something on fire.
Submitted by Allishandra.
A roaring inferno of sound at their hottest during Coachella 2005
Show us your closet.
Submitted by jacolily.
You know, I would except for the fact that I searched through every pile of dirty and clean clothes in my bedroom today looking for my "weekend jeans" instead of my closet (where they were hiding). That should tell you how effective my closet skills are.
Book: Show us a great comic book.
Audio: Show us the best album (new or old) that you've bought this year.
This is all based on last.fm's rolling 6 month album chart.
If we're talking 2007 releases, it's
If it only need be purchased this year, it's
Show us something plaid.
Submitted by Soup
I rocked these today:
Audio: Show us your favorite movie soundtrack.
Submitted by miyagawa.
If we're talking song compilations, Jackie Brown kills it:
If we're talking composed music, I'd want Quincy Jones, Danny Elfman or the man of the moment, Jon Brion:
Audio: Share a great instrumental song or album.
Video: Show us a TV series you own or watched on DVD.
I miss McNulty, Bubbs, Stringer, Greggs and the rest of the fine folks of the fictional Baltimore that exists in the minds of Barry Levinson, Tom Fontana, and David Simon. Thankfully, Homicide: Life On The Street is on DVD.
I didn't get to spend time in this Baltimore the first time around. I was in high school or college or something and spent my friday nights out cavorting rather than watching quality television. Probably the best network television I've seen.
The cast and guest stars reads like a roster of contemporary television's best dramatic actors: Edie Falco, Lee Tergeson, N'Bushe Wright (beautiful and powerful, as always, in her one-shot), Yaphet Kotto, Richard Belzer, etc. etc.
And leading the pack, Andre Braugher. Braugher's Frank Pembleton is probably still the strongest character on tv to ever feature a black face. Full bodied, three-dimensional, dark as night, dressed sharply, smart as a whip, chip on his shoulder like you wouldn't believe, Detective Pembleton is a capital B capital M Black Man.
Why Levinson, Fontana and Simon are able to create such compelling characters in a brown town like Baltimore being aware of the racial makeup, aware of the social problems and curiosities, and not sugar coating any of it when so few others, black, white, or otherwise, aren't able to do so is a mystery to me.
I just know I'm riveted by the conversations on their shows and by the Baltimore they create.
Homicide is a welcome alternative while I wait for another season with the Barksdales and The Greeks and 'McNuttie.'
Highly recommended.
Audio: Share something extremely rare that deserves to be heard.
Submitted by deusdiabolus.
Recorded in 1976 at Freeway Records in Oakland, Soft Touch had a later sound than Dawn and Sunset with pre-disco electronic instrumentation. Taken from the only single released by Soft Touch, "Plenty Action" is, according to band member Vernon Roberts, "A message to the man to leave those women alone! If they don't want it then don't bother them." Soft Touch were an all-vocal group made up of Vernon Roberts, William Lockett, Larry Beachamp, and Jim Brown. Early on in their career the members of Soft Touch played with the Black Panthers prior to the Lumpen becoming the Panthers main band.
The instrumental backing group was put together especially for this session by the song writer Philip Hunt. Despite delivering this killer piece of sly funk Soft Touch disbanded one year later before any more recordings were made. "Family priorities and better jobs came our way," explains Roberts, "but we all stayed in touch."
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