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Being married now for almost 10kg’s and with the threat in a couple of weeks of greenpeace throwing water over me at the beach I’ve been loading up the iPod and hitting the Cybex machine.
I downloaded ‘The Tutts’ song ‘K’ last week from iTunes after following a playlist. I’d challenge anyone not to take your heartbeat up to 180 while powering along to K, especially when they crank up the drums two thirds in. I just saw the video on Juice TV and was amazed to see they are a New Zealand band. Woohoo! Pride!
Video here …
Another world class New Zealand song from 2007 now available on iTunes (video as well) is Atlas with Crawl.
I expect JohnB in San Fran to download the Tutts and Atlas from iTunes today please.
While on the subject of music I flicked passed alt.tv the other night and saw what seems to widely thought of as the best cover ever. Alice In Chains with Gretchen Wilson covering Hearts ‘Barracuda’.
They just nail it. What was interesting to me is that Gretchen Wilson is a Country and Western singer. Check out the ‘Redneck Woman’ howler in the related video links. If that’s not a case for changing genre’s.
And finally one of favourite vid’s loaded onto the iPod Touch is Perfect Circle’s (ex Tool) ‘Judith’ which includes what appears to be regarded in blogosphere as the sexist hair tie up maneuver ever.
So I’ve shown you mine. What’s on your iPod?
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Cool Rod - enjoyed this. Son’s after me for an iPod. Another great cover - Eddie Vedder and betchadupa doing “History Never Repeats” with proud dad Neil watching on a couch. And I know you don’t do Facebook, but I’ve started a Facebook group called “I Used To Play in a Cool Band - Now I Have a Less Cool Day Job”. Must be mid-December - music on everyone’s minds! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr0HXbxtMsc
I’m sure you’re taking cool notes from someone else (especially re: APC).
I saw The Tutts for the first time at the Big Day Out this year and thought they were really good. They’ve got a myspace page with a few more songs - we need an album!
http://www.myspace.com/thetutts
Adam, I was cool when you were still in nappies. I’ll still be cool when you start shaving.
Hey, not all of us have iPods.
I have a brand new Zune 2 on the way…
I am on a ‘west coast publisher tour’ at the moment, and one of the fringe benefits is being able to pick up things before they come out in NZ. Last trip was the iphone, this trip its Rock Band. I played it with some friends from Microsoft Games Studios (a kiwi as well!) last week and its awesome!
Guitar (lead and bass), Drums and a Mic - great selection of songs, huge amount of fun! If this and Guitar Hero (Rock Band is made by the original GH dev team) have flown under your radar, they are great social games similar to Sing Star that are attracting a whole new generation of gamers and providing the record industry with a much needed new outlet for distribution.
Check out the track list in the game (all mainly original recordings) and if you’re keen for a go - most Fridays will see our team in Wellington jamming away after work!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Band_(video_game)
* “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” – Jet
* “Ballroom Blitz” – Sweet
* “Black Hole Sun” – Soundgarden
* “Blitzkrieg Bop” – Ramones
* “Celebrity Skin” – Hole
* “Cherub Rock” – Smashing Pumpkins
* “Creep” – Radiohead
* “Dani California” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
* “Dead on Arrival” – Fall Out Boy
* “Detroit Rock City” – Kiss
* “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – Blue Öyster Cult
* “The Electric Version” – The New Pornographers
* “Enter Sandman” – Metallica
* “Epic” – Faith No More
* “Flirtin’ with Disaster” – Molly Hatchet
* “Foreplay/Long Time” – Boston
* “Gimme Shelter” – The Rolling Stones
* “Go with the Flow” – Queens of the Stone Age
* “Green Grass and High Tides” – The Outlaws
* “The Hand That Feeds” – Nine Inch Nails
* “Here It Goes Again” – OK Go
* “Highway Star” – Deep Purple
* “I Think I’m Paranoid” – Garbage
* “In Bloom” – Nirvana
* “Learn to Fly” – Foo Fighters
* “Main Offender” – The Hives
* “Maps” – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
* â€Mississippi Queen” – Mountain
* “Next to You” – The Police
* “Orange Crush” – R.E.M.
* “Paranoid” – Black Sabbath
* “Reptilia” – The Strokes
* “Run to the Hills” – Iron Maiden
* “Sabotage” – Beastie Boys
* “Say It Ain’t So” – Weezer
* “Should I Stay or Should I Go” – The Clash
* “Suffragette City” – David Bowie
* “Tom Sawyer” – Rush
* “Train Kept A-Rollin’” – Aerosmith
* “Vasoline” – Stone Temple Pilots
* “Wanted Dead or Alive” – Bon Jovi
* “Wave of Mutilation” – Pixies
* “Welcome Home” – Coheed and Cambria
* “When You Were Young” – The Killers
* “Won’t Get Fooled Again” – The Who
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUpbHXPnBGg
The think the Tutts will have an album out next year.