I can't remember what magazine I clipped this from but damn it if the fall of 2007 games season isn't something to behold. Click pic for bigger.
+ Why 2007 Was the Best Year in Gaming
November 26, 2017
November 13, 2017
10 years under the creed
The first Assassin's Creed was released 10 years ago today.
+ Assassin's Creed PAX 2007 Demonstration
+ Assassin's Creed 'E3 2007 Live Demo' "Everything that you see in the distance is interactive..."
+ Assassin's Creed: Full Mission - Commented by Jade Raymond
May 01, 2017
Decade Old Dolls
Ten years ago the last great Tori Amos concept album came out, American Doll Posse
January 10, 2016
and then my muse found me
10 Years ago today my Leonard Cohen loving beautiful muse wrote me for the first time and the rest is history.
November 22, 2014
A decade old Atomic Bomb
U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, Released November 22, 2004
This album has one of my favorite U2 songs:
This song should have been in the album:
September 22, 2014
June 18, 2014
July 07, 2013
November 15, 2012
227 Hours / Happy Birthday XBOX Live
Yo Microsoft, I didn't ask you to tell me how much time I've wasted on XBOX LIVE this year! Anyways, it's the 10th anniversary of the XBL service. I was incredulous when watching the original XBL pitch video, now I don't want a world without it.
October 29, 2012
March 11, 2012
October 26, 2011
" Do you believe in time travel? "
DONNIE DARKO
Release date: October 26, 2001
Some songs featured in the movie were substitutes for songs which the makers wanted but were denied the rights to. The dance performance was performed to "West End Girls" by the Pet Shop Boys, and Duran Duran's "Notorious" was re-dubbed in post-production. U2's "MLK" in the final scene is substituted with Gary Jules' cover of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World" instead.
+ Trivia
June 02, 2008
Its you that I adore
"Adore", Smashing Pumpkins, Original Release Date: June 2, 1998
I've always had a great liking for this album's perfectly sequenced trilogy of "Ava Adore", "Perfect" and "Daphne Descends".
+ Ava Adore (live in Brazil)
+ Perfect ( live acoustic)
+ Daphne Descends (live at the Guggenheim in Spain)
May 31, 2008
This has been Hardcore for a decade
PULP: "This Is Hardcore", released on March 31, 1998 in the U.S.
(yep, I'm a few months behind on this one)
"the sound of loneliness turned up to ten"
(Pulp - The Fear Live)
+ Pulp - This Is Hardcore (Live at Jools Holland '98)
+ Playing God - Pulp: This is Hardcore
+ EW Review:
Cocker's voice variously recalls the playboy decadence of Bryan
Ferry, the croaky deadpan of Leonard Cohen, or the high-strung
edge of vintage David Bowie.
+ Wiki: "Like Different Class, the album is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die."
[ This Is Hardcore (end of the line mix) ]
"Is it a kind of weakness
to miss someone so much?
May 27, 2008
My Sweetheart, the Drunk
Jeff Buckley, "Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk", Released May 26, 1998.
[ "I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted to Be)" ]
+ "Morning Theft" (live)
+ "The sky is a landfill" (live)
+ "Everybody Here Wants You" video
+ Salon: Sketches review
+ Morning Edition, May 29, 2007: Ten Years Gone, Jeff Buckley's Voice Lingers
+ "I Shall Be Released" Dylan cover
May 22, 2008
"I think I'm getting the fear."
Benicio Del Toro & Johnny Depp, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
Release Date: May 22nd 1998
Johnny Depp Soliloquy
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug-collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
+ The Rum Diary film is being made.
+ The only way to really own it: The Criterion Collection
+ Fear and Loathing in World 1-1
+ Also, Unreal came out on this same day.
May 14, 2008
"Frank never did like Rock and Roll"
May 14th, 1998. Ol' Blue Eyes passes away.
+Bono introducing Frank Sinatra at the Grammy Awards 1994
Frank never did like Rock and Roll
And he's not crazy about guys wearing earrings either
But he doesn't hold it against me
And anyway, the feeling is not mutual
Rock and Roll people love Frank Sinatra because Frank has got what we want:
swagger and attitude
he's big on attitude
Serious attitude, bad attitude
Frank's the Chairman of the bad
Rock and Roll plays at being tough but this guy, well, he's the boss
The boss of bosses
The man
The big bang of pop
I'm not gonna mess with him, are you?
+Bono & The Edge: TWO SHOTS OF HAPPY, ONE SHOT OF SAD
+Sinatra & Bono - I've got you under my skin
+ 10 years after Frank Sinatra's death, daughter Nancy helps keep the legend alive
+ This American Life: Sinatra
May 12, 2008
I thought you were Special ten years ago
Version 2.0 by Garbage, Released on May 12, 1998 in the U.S. This is my favorite Garbage album.
"Special" (brothers in rhythym) remix
+ "You Look So Fine" (live) - Epic!
+ "Push it" (live)
+ "Medication" (live)
May 05, 2008
Ten Years at the Choirgirl Hotel
Tori Amos: "FROM THE CHOIRGIRL HOTEL"
Released in the US on May 5, 1998.
Fact: This was the Tori tour I attended to the most. 3 shows: Austin, Dallas and Kansas City.
Some live performances...
+SPARK
+BLACK DOVE (JANUARY)
+Cruel
+RASPBERRY SWIRL
+Jackie's Strength
+IEEE
+Hotel
+Playboy Mommy
+Pandora's Aquarium
A live mp3...
+Liquid Diamonds
March 03, 2008
10 years away from a Ray of Light
Madonna: "Ray Of Light", Original Release Date: March 3, 1998.
+ Drowned World live
+ Frozen live
+ Ray of Light live
+ "The working title for this album was The Drowned World inspired by the novel by J.G. Ballard."
February 17, 2008
10 years inside the Little Plastic Castle
Ani DiFranco: Little Plastic Castle - Original Release Date: February 17, 1998.
There is a romance encoded in this album for me. Transatlantic correspondences, long phone calls and a happy outlook infused by youth and foolishness.
and i've got
no illusions about you
and guess what?
i never did
and when i said
when i said i'll take it
i meant,
i meant as is
+ Little Plastic Castle
+ Fuel
+ Gravel
+ Two Little Girls
+ Loom
+ Swan Dive
+ Independence Day
September 23, 2007
Still Homogenic After All These Years
Bjork: Homogenic, Original Release Date: September 23, 1997. This Is My favorite Bjork album.
Live performances: Hunter // Joga // Unravel // Bachelorette // All Neon Like // 5 Years // Immature // Alarm Call // Pluto // All Is Full Of Love
June 17, 2007
10 Years At Ease
I was out of town so I'm one day late with this post. One of my favorite albums ( in the top 5 ) is 10 years old now. It makes me feel old, but it also reminds me of really fun times and great friends that I made that summer. Friends with that I adore and cherish to this day.
March 04, 2007
10 Years of Answering the Boatman's Call
"The Boatman's Call", Originaly released on March 4, 1997 is one of my desert island albums.
"The world is obsessed by Cave and in turn he is obsessed by love, religion and redemption. His are the psalms that bring warmth in the chill of the night, they are the croon of the heartbroken, the cry of the lonely albatross who soars eternally across cold neurotic seas and the strum and weeping of violins that herald pain and loss in its most desperate hour of need.
He's Leonard Cohen on bended knees praying at the shrine; the black crow king swooning to vaudevillian and burlesque strums, a drunken sailor of shipwrecked, bittersweet blues and an evangelist of the sweetest ballads that drinks from the chalice of dark haired nymphets.."
The Boatman's Call Interview [1997] by Jayne Margetts (The I Magazine)
[ Into My Arms, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ] "I'm not sure which is more lilting about Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' 'Into My Arms': the promise of an ecclesiastic love from a man who doesn't believe in God, or the juxtaposition of Cave's ghoulish baritone with a delicate piano ballad."
{ (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? Video } Back in January I had bookmarked the Boatman's Call era live performances on MTV but of course they are now gone, so if anyone has them or can point the way....
[ Green Eyes ] Interview from "Mojo Magazine" [1997]
Nick Cave: ...and Green Eyes is dedicated to Tori Amos. Especially the line about Twinkling cunt...
JM: Are you kidding?
NC: No, I am absolutely serious. Tori rubs sparkles into her pubic hair.
+ the man and his muse, the west country girl...
+ Salon - THE BOATMAN'S CALL Review
+ Nick Cave: Finding The Four-Year-Old - Meeting Nick Cave is not what you would expect.
+ Nick Cave's Letter to MTV
+ Nick Cave's Letter to Gap
+ Grinderman are Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos...
January 23, 2006
Boys for Pele turns 10
Boys for Pele turns 10 today. This is my favorite version of Putting The Damage On
TORI AMOS Video Collection - Fade To Red comes out next month.
+ Tori Amos + Michael Stipe - One of those tracks forever lost to the vaults I guess.
+ Marianne (Live)
+ Caught a Lite Sneeze (Live on SNL)
+ Father Lucifer (Live on Letterman 10-04-96)
+ I'm On Fire
April 04, 2005
Happy 10th "The Bends"
[ Nice Dream ] Demo & [ Nice Dream] Live
I recall getting tickets to see R.E.M with Radiohead opening and being disappointed. I said to myself "Those one hit wonders are opening?". Imagine my fate when I saw Radiohead open for R.E.M two nights in a row and experience a future favorite album as a live show first. "Fake Plastic Trees" making it to the "Clueless" soundtrack could only be considered a good thing regardless of what Alicia Silverstone said about it in the movie.
"The Bends was many things, but it wasn't really *chirpy* was it? It
was more like a darkness lumbering over the horizon with gun turrets
strafing the Britpop hordes with misery. Er, sorry. Got a bit carried
away there." - Colin
"We wanted to make this new record a year and a half ago but the U.S.
success of 'Creep' kept us from going into the studio. The delay added
a seasoned street spirit that probably would not have been there if we
had recorded it earlier. It's a lot more relaxed than our first
record." - Colin { source }
Ranked #110 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time"
Ranked #4 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime"
Ranked #30 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums
Ranked #4 in NME's `Top 50 Albums Of The
Year' for 1995.
Melody Maker {source}
February 28, 2005
Happy 10th To Bring You My Love
"To bring you my love" Original Release Date: February 28, 1995
[ Down By The Water (live) ]
I bought this album without having heard one song on it based on the fact that Flood had produced it and U2's Manager had become her manager. I trusted Paul McGuiness to have good taste. My previous exposure to Polly was one late night viewing of the video for "Rid Of Me" on 120 minutes. It quite spooked me. Minutes after buying it, my friend who gave me a ride tuned in to the local alt rock station and they played "Down By The Water". I knew I'd made the right choice. My friend was not so sure. To me, "TBML" is like a great lost western movie starring this bad ass woman we've never heard of with her long snake moan and her endless search for love.
+ Recollections based on the album To Bring You My Love, by PJ Harvey
+ PJ Harvey Audio including Moon River as performed live by Vincent Gallo, PJ & John Frusciante
+ Video Stills from her videos.
+ Classic Albums: Rid Of Me - "The first choice as producer was Tom Waits.."
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