I hate Brittney ... but at the same time .... doood. Nasty thoughts!!!

Greg

Strange, but the only rap I listen to is 80's gangsta rap. Maybe I'm just sentimental, but Too $hort really brings a tear to my eye singing about Ronald Reagan selling cocaine in the White House ...

I just can't get into the new stuff. But I can't get the old stuff out of my mind at the same time. You'd think with all that pot consumed in high school, my long term memory would be shot. Nevertheless I know all the lyrics to NWA's first three albums.

Am I a pathetic white boy or what.

Greg

VH1... I thought the popup videos they used to do were sweet. I don't see much of those anymore.

popup video was definitely sweet, and was still about the music or the music videos. Now, like I said, we're getting shows like the Rerun Show, which has nothing to do with anything, not to mention just being a bad show.

I also find it funny that I just turned on the channel and they had that show "Fresh" on which supposedly plays "new and fresh music videos". The first video that came up is that John Mayer one. I think they've been showing that one for about 5 months now. Hardly fresh.

Do you guys get MTV2? They still show only videos, but it seems like they show way more rap than anything else. At least it's rap almost every time I flip over there. But at least they play videos.

It was really cool when they were just M2, before they changed their name to MTV2. They barely had any commercials, and the ones they did have were just house ads and network time-wasters. And there was a lot more less-inherently-popular music on there, as their VJs were actually knowledgeable about music, like that Matt Pinfield guy that hosted 120 Minutes (do they still show that?) and Jancee Dunn, who is a real music journalist (albeit for Rolling Stone). Needless to say, they're gone now, and apparently replaced with people who want to be that uncharismatic airhead, Carson Daly.

Yeah, MTV2 is okay, but for one thing, not everyone gets it. I don't get it because I only have basic cable and my area doesn't carry it.

And it remains a complete, utter mystery to me why Carson Daly was EVER on television. He has no personality, no sense of humor, and (I've been told) doesn't really have the looks. How in hell was he so popular?? And will someone tell me why he has a talk show now? Who approved that??

In addition, he seems to have little-to-no musical knowledge and actually appears uncomfortable in his own skin on camera. I would not be at all surprised if he turned out to be an android with interview questions programmed into him.

MTV hasn't had anything good on it since they got rid of Headbangers Ball. I thought Rock Show on VH1 was pretty cool, but it's only a half hour.

And Scott Ian has the best facial hair

Rikki Rachtman on every episode of Headbanger's Ball:

Dude, you guys are, like, my favorite band ever.

FYI, Carson Daly started at KROQ in LA, as did quite a few other people at MTV. He used to do the late night "electronica" show. I think it was on Saturday nights around 11pm. I remember seeing him at a KROQ Weenie Roast, and he was very excited to be presenting Chemical Brothers on the main stage. That was when electronica was really big (Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, etc.).

He seems to have gone straight from there to MTV. I don't get it. But, then Kennedy did the same thing. She was an intern at KROQ for like 6 months, then just like that, a VJ on MTV.

Maybe MTV gets all the KROQ rejects?

Britney Spears and clones? Boy bands? sorry, I don't see any merits there. In that case anyone here can honestly say that those people have no talent.

You mean you're watching Britney with the sound *on* ?!
Dude! You are totally missing the whole point.

Turn down the TV volume, put on your own rockin' tunes on the Empeg, open
a cold beer, and think to yourself, "hey, I'm saving five bucks on a table dance
right now!"

(Actually, I downloaded some shred-metal guitar covers of "Hit me baby one
more time" and "Crazy" that work GREAT for this. Highly recommended.)

I'd like to hear those covers. Where'd you get them?

You mean you're watching Britney with the sound *on* ?!
Dude! You are totally missing the whole point. Turn down the TV volume,
then poke your eyes out, open a cold beer, and think to yourself, "It's much better than Cats. I'm not going to see it, again and again."

I'd like to hear those covers. Where'd you get them?

OK, but remember, you asked for it....


This one is from Doug Stapp
It's still very poppy, and it has vocals (processed even more than Ms. Spears, if you can believe it)
but some guitar soloing rather uncharacteristic of this decade.
Click on "(You Drive Me) Crazy"
[edit: I just re-checked this link, and it is now a far inferior version to the one
I downloaded last year. That one was at a slower tempo, less modulated,
3 minutes instead of 1 minute, and had some intentionally cheesy cowbells
that greatly added to the general hilarity. Sorry, but I don't have the bandwidth
to be able to send you a copy of the good version right now.]

Neither of the other two versions have any vocals.

This one is from Chris Ptacek
It is a flurry of notes, barely recognizeable until the final few bars.
Supposedly he wrote this a joking response to a comment that some of his
earlier songs "didn't have enough notes."
Click on whoopsnowwhathaveidonemp3.mp3

The last one is by Scott Kerr on guitarius.com
which seems to have disappeared from the web.
It is probably the most tasteful of the three. Sorry you missed it.
I post the link here for posterity, in case guitarius.com ever re-emerges.