R.I.P. David Bowie 1947-2016

So one of the pillars of modern music has passed on to the other side today after an 18 month battle with cancer and only a few day's after his 69th birthday and release of his newest album and it's quite crazy to think about when you sit back and realize just how much of an influential and important artist he really was for modern music as a whole across a wide range of genres from glam, alternative, industrial, pop, and everything in between this man dipped his toes into everything and managed to leave an impactful mark on music as a whole that I'm pretty sure will pretty soon be recognized beyond the mans wildest dreams in terms of just how much he really did.

Now with that in mind there's not a whole lot I can really say compared to the variety of touching tributes I've seen all around social media so I think the best thing I really can do is post my personal favorite and the track that got me into this musical chameleon in the form of this timelessly BAD ASS rocker in the form of everyone's favorite fictional rock star.

R.I.P. Bowie The Stars look very different today......

Sam's Top 5 Love Songs: #5 Something Silly....

With Valentine’s Day being this Saturday and this whole Weekly themes things being an amusing task I figured I’d go back into my archive of articles I’ve typed up and put on the shelf and recently came across this list of songs I compiled roughly about I don’t know maybe 6 or 7 months ago and figured I’d turn it into a week’s theme where I count down my top 5 love songs of all time and with that in mind here’s the original article(with some Obvious updating):

So this might be random as fuck but I recall a while back I was going for a walk and talking to a good buddy of mine and in-between our host of random conversation we got onto the topic of cheesy bad music and he said something to me about how I don’t like particular songs because I’ve never been in love to which I have to say very kindly…FUCK YOU BUDDY!

But all vulgarities aside as I’ve noted before on here I don’t actually care to talk about my personal relationships for a variety of reasons mostly pertaining to the fact that they can lead us to a lot of places in our lives and in some cases the story get’s uncomfortably dark, but even with that in mind I do sometimes think to myself that maybe I do have a tendency to be a bitter bastard when it comes to those things and in the process of trying to both find a cleaver way to tell my buddy to piss off and kind of give some insight on what I find to be romantic I’ve found myself kind of dwelling on this thought of what is the archetype of a love song and what I truly find to be quality and that’s where this article came into fruition.

So looking back and doing a bit of research into what I’ve written about in the past and kind of taking a shit load of time to reflect on my own personal misadventures I’ve decided to put together the 5 songs that I personally feel are my truest expressions of love in song form.

There’s no real criterion to meet here in all honesty because it’s a personal list but I would like to make note that I really have thought about each entry very thoroughly and if you read this blog every Valentine’s Day you might be a bit familiar with how I feel about some of these tunes.

So let’s quit shooting shit and get to it with my #5 entry…

#5: Silly Love Songs-Wings

So if this is not the most brilliant expression of music that’s ever been done then I truly don’t know what is, because the story for this song almost warrants it’s place on this list more so then the song itself which for those who aren’t aware this song is the end result of Paul McCartney basically telling John Lennon to piss off because he said all Paul did was write, “Silly Love Songs.”

Now of course you just got out of the most successful rock band of all time and are doing your own thing of course what do you do when your former band mate talks mad shit on you? Well the answer is simple people you write the most amazingly cheesy textbook Love song of all time and you do it in such a style that is so self aware that it transcends the faults of being a love song and actually ends up being a very sweet little expression of puppy dog love and joy because it gives no fucks it’s proud and willing to scream just how it feels over and over and over again and with that in mind it honestly has to be one of the best love songs of all time.

Song of the Day 1-8-15

Easy- Faith No More (Originally the Commodores)

So this is easily the more interesting things I’ll probably cover considering it’s a very experimental kind of funky metal act in the form of Faith No More showcasing the fact that Mike Patton is infact one of the most talented and versatile vocalist to ever walk the face of the earth because he did the most straightforward and to the point cover of an already easy listening classic and not only managed to match Lionel Richies buttery smooth and soulful delivery but at times kind of do it in an oddly more gratifying style which is kind of strange to say but this is really an amusingly great little cover by a band that is lead by one of the more interesting frontman to come out of the 90’s….

Song of the Day 1-7-15

We Can Work it Out-Stevie Wonder (Originally The Beatles)

SO I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this may very well be the best god damn Beatles cover to ever be caught on tape and the fact that it takes a legend like Stevie Wonder to take an already great tune and somehow just kind of Funk that Number up and give it an even more danceable groove only to be even more complimented by his very scattered vocals which take the chorus and give it an even more lively vibe that deviates in a way that perfectly makes things his own and shows you just how one can truly take something and make it their very own and in this instance Stevie owned the funk outta this track people..

Happy 4 Year Sam's Song of the Day!!!!!

So I'm aware that I've been less then spectacular when it comes to posting because to be honest I've had to deal with a wide variety of stupid shit coming at me in a continuous wave of annoyance that's managed to both drain me mentally and leave me in a constant state of being on edge and just hating life as I know it which is really shitty people because I'd love to really make something out of this but when I can't fucking write I can't fucking write I'm not really in the mood to be apologetic or to lie to the world it's just the way I am.

Now all seriousness aside there's a realization I'd made earlier this month that I was quickly approaching this blog's 4th anniversary and I made sure to promise myself that no matter what happens that I'd post for that day because it's significant to me because I remember getting the motivation from my friend Verta to start a blog after I'd been posting these on the Smashing Pumpkins Forums and ever since I took the plunge I've loved posting on here it's legitimately something that brings me joy and I want it to truly become something because archiving the songs I've heard is just crazy especially when I look back.

All warm and fuzzies there I couldn't honestly pinpoint one particular tune to justify the whole post with and since I've avoided a Friday's finest or two in my process of having my 20th nervous breakdown I figured I'd compile a short hand list of 5 tunes kind of like when you get married your bride to be has something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue I'd instead post a classic, a newer tune, a song with importance, a song that's fun, and of course the first song I ever posted on this blog so before I link the playlist here's the 5 tunes for ya:

1. Something Old: Sheena is a Punk Rocker-The Ramones

I've recently been listening to an astronomical amount of punk rock lately and in the process I've kind of been thinking a lot about this band in particular because their first album is an amusing little insight of short tunes with no real song structure beyond a couple of chords and maybe a verse to accompany a very straightforward chorus but even so I've also noticed that they also seem to really have a knack for stupid simple love songs or at the very least making me think of the perfect woman.

I'm sure you're curious so I'm going to just say it Punk rock Girls as the Queers said who on a lesser note actually covered this song but that's irrelevant are in fact quite yummy as fucking odd as that sounds there's something unquestionably attractive about a girl who enjoys being a bit of a punk and loves this kind of music I know I'm still looking for Sheena and also on a lesser note Husker Du did a BAD ASS cover of this song on their living end live album.

2. Something New: Up We Go-Lights

So on the topic of attractive women I'm just going to say while I'm not necessarily sold on Lights music and would still rather completely obsess over the likes of Lauren Mayberry or Meg Myers this chicks a fucking babe people and this video is more than evident of the things that having a kid can do and the fact that she's managed to get an even more banging figure is just wrong in every right way and also oddly enough this semi-uplifting kind of anthemic sounding tunes really starting to grow on me people gotta give the girl credit she's both pretty and can make a damn fine tune.

3. A Song with Importance: I of the Mourning-The Smashing Pumpkins

You know any time my life's gone to shit or I'm in a crisis I usually find myself blasting Machina the Machines of God by The Smashing Pumpkins because in all honesty that album has a light at the end of the tunnel feel for me in that it oddly calms me and can really get my head in order as the songs progress with this song in particular being the truest expressions of loneliness, alienation, and the desire of that which is amazing and fulfilling to never leave your side.

I honestly find this to be the strongest instance of Billy Corgans post apocalyptic story of an album to actually give me a decent picture of the characters he attempted to paint and find something I can attach myself to because I'm not going to lie I never could get into the story of Glass and the Machines of god or whatever Billy's grand idea was at the time of their demise it's just that this album served as a better swan song then people gave it credit for especially in songs as amazingly done as this one and it's really a whole lot more joyful and positive then things appeared at that time and it has that effect for me because it's a small step in the right direction when I'm hopeless and this song starts hitting those feels.

4: A song that's Fun: Only a Lad-Oingo Boingo

What an awesomely overlooked band Oingo Boingo were people no seriously their names fucking dumb as shit but god damn did they make some of the best new wave tracks of the 80's and to think about just the amount of impressive soundtrack work their lead singers done since then it's fucking crazy people and while I wanted to post Little girls as a cheeky stab to my shitty ex roommate and his affinity for gloating about banging a 16 year old when he's 24.....yeah he's a fucking creep and a half....I just didn't want to go there people instead I want to enjoy something and this song's one of those things.

5: The First Song posted on this blog: Champain-Cee-Lo Green

Yeah I'm not ashamed to say that I got to love some Cee-Lo"Say the wrong thing" Green and while his comments on rape where dumb as fuck for him to say it doesn't take away the fact that his fat overly confident self isn't responsible for some truly great music and even though I'd be extra lying to say I gave any fucks for anything he made before The Lady Killer there was that one off Stray Bullets mixtape that housed some truly bad ass gems and this song probably the strongest of them all and I recall it being an early download for those who subscribed to his newsletter or something but really this songs just a serious toned track that's a good exercise in his range as a vocalist and the fact that it is so serious sounding and kind of modern in tone compared to the Lady Killers complete throwback tone is probably why the world didn't get a mass release of this gem but even now listening to it for the first time in quite a while even after the dumb shit is all said and done I'm not ashamed this song fucking kicks ass.

SO there we have it 5 songs for the 4 year anniversary of the Blog stay tuned though February is right around the corner and my favorite number is 5....thanks for sticking through people for those who actually read thanks a lot you keep me doing this and to my haters....Fuck off.