A musical side project started in 1993 in Riverside, California. Recordings made under the monikers Diskovepher, Dirt Auction, Not A Band, Dumbell Tower, but mainly Jackass Penguins. CEO and founder of Oyitt Records.
I am now one of those douchebags that uses Yelp. Every pretentious technological gadget or network I have scoffed at or prided myself in not joining has sucked me in. I am a big slut.
The first time I heard Weezer was at a Radio Shack in the Tyler Mall in 1994. Someone was cranking the Sweater Song from the beginning. When the chorus hit with that muff distortion, it blew me away. I get chills thinking about it.
R&B and soul singer Ben E King, best known for the classic song Stand By Me, has died at the age of 76.
King started his career in the late 1950s with The Drifters, singing on hits including There Goes My Baby and Save The Last Dance For Me.
After going solo, he hit the US top five with Stand By Me in 1961.
It returned to the charts in the 1980s, including a three-week spell at number one in the UK, following its use in the film of the same name and a TV advert.
The song has charted nine times on the US Billboard 100 over the years – King’s version twice and seven times with covers by artists like John Lennon and Spyder Turner. […]
I feel like this guy was/is the embodiment of The Dead Milkmen’s “Bitchin’ Camaro”. Like, he literally looks stuck in 1985. Moments after I shot this he turned around and started cool-guy leaning on it so hard, but I didn’t want to tempt fate and go for the ultimate prize.
I have to go with my wedding song, Frank Sinatra doing “Love Is Here To Stay”. It’s perfect. You have Frankie singing a love song that isn’t sappy. The story of the song itself is sad, but triumphant. The last song George Gershwin wrote before he died, with his brother Ira writing the lyrics after George’s death. It’s a song that has been recorded over and over, and the theme has been imitated ad nauseum, but there’s no replacing the original, and there’s no matching the swagger of Frank Sinatra.
I also considered the Beach Boys “All I Want To Do”, but we decided against it mostly because of the last chorus, where Dennis sings “All I want to do-OOO, is spend my life with you-OOO” with a guttural emphasis on the OOO. Had the deluxe reissue of Pacific Ocean Blue been released prior to our wedding, we could have chosen Dennis’ solo version of the song, which doesn’t have the slightly annoying phrasing of the end chorus on the 20/20 version.
1: favorite band.
2: favorite singer.
3: favorite guitarist.
4: favorite bassist.
5: favorite drummer.
6: a musician you have a crush on.
7: bands or musicians you’ve seen live.
8: your favorite song when you were 12.
9: your favorite song when you were 15.
10: your favorite song when you were 18.
11: your favorite song now.
12: a song that says something about your love life.
13: a song you listen to when you’re sad.
14: a song that makes you dance.
15: a powerful song.
16: a musician you’d like to meet.
17: a song that is a collaboration of 2 or more artists you love.
18: favorite live dvd.
19: oldest band / musician you listen to.
20: favorite classical composer.
21. a band/musician your friend(s) like(s), but you hate.
22: a band/musician that someone/something made you hate.
23: the musician you find the nicest.
24: the musician you find the most attractive looking.
25: favorite album(s).
26: favorite song which lasts more than 10 minutes.
27: a song that always makes you cry.
28: a song that feels like it’s made about you / for you.
29: a song of one of your favorite bands/musicians that you’d show to someone to introduce the band/musician to them.
30: a band/musician you loved, but now can’t stand.
31: a band/musician you used to hate, but now love.
32: a band/musician who made you listen to the kind of music you like most. (first one of the kind that you heard)
33: do you and your partner(s) / best friend(s) share music tastes?
34: a band / musician that both you and your parent(s) like.
35: a band / musician that made you meet someone you have loved.
36: song(s) that would be theme songs for your life or parts of it.
37: a band / musician you’d like to see live, but it’s never going to be possible.
38: the favorite music cd / dvd(s) you own.
39: an album you want to own.
40: do you own any vinyls?
41: a concert you could have attended and wanted to attend, but something made you not go. (e.g. health issues, work)
42: a musician you wish hadn’t died.
43: a band / musician whose works helped you last through the day.
44: a song you love to listen to when it snows.
45: a song you love to listen to when it rains.
46: a song that makes you smile.
47: a musician that shares similarities with you. (can be looks or personality or tastes)
48: favorite song from a movie or favorite anime opening.
49: sure there is a language you don’t listen to music in, but you have this one song or band / musician that you like anyway. what’s that?
50: the newest / youngest of the bands you like.
51: your ringtone.
52: your phone alarm.
53: a guilty pleasure song.
54: a guilty pleasure band / musician.
55: your favorite song in your mother language.
56: a song you listened to for laughs, but then actually loved it.
57: your favorite picture of one of your favorite bands.
58: the song that is currently playing. if you’re not listening to any, the last song you listened to.
59: a song that you just can’t stop humming / singing.
60: your favorite love song.
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