Hail to the King

Thats me baby, me.

Yes it's true they are. Everything i say is true and if you agree with me, you'll be right too! It's a very easy process to follow, cause you dont have to think anymore...and i dont have to be annoyed with wrong answers and responses its a win-win, you know, like salad dressing!

You may be like..."but jake shouldn't you be open minded to other veiw points?" and yes i am, i listen, take in and understand the other veiws...and the others are wrong! Why should i waste my time with dumb opinions when a right answer is right in front of me? I shouldn't and i won't. So that thats out of the way...

Across the Gay-niverse(Reprise)

OMG the mere title of my essay is a clear reference to the beatles cause the Sgt.Pepper song had a reprise near the end of the album!!! OMG im profound and witty like the writers of across the universe!!!! ahhhhh!! white tea is baby tea leaves!!! ahhh!!!

Anyways...Sorry i dont live in a big town that has the movie, i would see it if it was here...but why should i? You say, go see the movie jake...you'll see the light...but whats the point?! Its a musical right? and the music's crappy remakes of good songs yes? so why do i have to see a musical? A movie based on listening to songs? i listened to the songs. Crap! Why should i listen to that when i listen to the originals, and hear the passion of the beatles music comes out of the speakers as the record player spins further down the set list. I'd rather hear the passion of Paul belting his heart out at the end of hey jude. Or hear John sing along with paul is his blues original "come together". Or even Ringo sing "with a little help from my friends". I wanna hear artists sing their songs passionatly, not people singing whatever. I mean the songs have lost their meanings in this movie, they are used to tell a made up non-beatle made story. They don't tell their original tales anymore, they dont show the life of the beatles or show the emotions they felt that you could relate to and love....Its just crappy showtunes in that movie..sorry to break to yea folks, but my opinion is fact

Across the "Gay"-niverse a.k.a. How to Ruin What is Left of The Beatles

I didnt realize until after i listened to the whole soundtrack, that i could've created all the music for this movie myself. All i had to do was open up acid pro and slow down the track to about half their tempos and then sing over each like a guy trying to sing like a girl, or sing them like a girl trying to sing like a guy( Dana Fuchs...you suck). The Best thing about the beatles is that every song they recorded was the best the song would ever sound(btw they all sound great, with the exeption of a few, not every song is amazing). So beatles song that are covered by other artists are not that good, especially if the people covering them is pretty much musical theatre! Hey Jude? ruined! Dear Prudence? destroyed! I Am the Walrus? who the hell hired Bono to sing this??? double ruined? the only track i find myself liking is "come together", which is sung by Joe Cocker. A man who lived and performed when the beatles were at their best and he seems to be the most credible artist on the soundtrack, since it seems its save to assume he understood the feelings of the music made during the time of the beatles, plus he has covered beatles songs in the past. But this rendition of "come together" is in no way his best work.

It is sad to see that these songs were made, but i can only blame what is left of the beatles for letting this terrible thing to happen. History shows that the beatles have always been tight with their music and nothing happens to it without their personal consent, i mean thy wont even sell their music on itunes! Yoko Ono prolly signed the music off right away, thinking it was interesting and "arty" not like she was a great artist. the same prolly happened with gearoge harrisons wife. Ringo normally went the flow with any collective beatle decision. I hate to think that the man Paul went along with this...but i feel better with the scenario i came up with for why he agreed to this....He prolly needed the money to pay for his divorce with his ex-wife, who didnt do all the great things he did, but with the right lawyer, got half of what he earned. So i like to think this movie is here to pay off his divorce, but still that doesnt sit right with me, then again none of this does.

Every 20 Years...

With an exception from the 50's to the 60's, music is repeating itself every 20 years. Black artists in the fifties(chuck berry, b.b.king, etc.) created and playing the blues, but since it was such a segregated time, only the black communities listened to it, while the sheltered white communities still had gospel. But within those ten year a generation of young white males grew up listening to the blues, bought guitars, played and made their own bands, around the early sixties(like the rolling stones and the beatles) and played the blues, but in the end making it their own, and made rock music out of it. This time, changed the face and sound of all music, and shaped the music we hear today.

The seventies is where the cycle starts.

After the sixties shaped modern music, the seventies was the first decade to start with modern music at its fullest. Bands like led zeppelin and pink floyd and the who clouded the radio with their progressive rock sound. They played an all out rock onslaught, with some of the first modern synthesizers and played plenty of bluesy solos.

Technology progressed and electronic sounds were finding themselves in the main parts of songs in a decade called the 80's, reverby-techno-ish-synth songs filled the sound along with the birth of that 80's hair metal with choppy riffs and those harmonic guitar solos...

20 years have past since the 70's and a generation of kids who grew up with the songs of the seventies were now the kids with guitars in their hands, making records. Now is it just me or would a lot of grunge songs feel right at home in the seventies era, yes the rock they played had a different name(grunge) but doesn't pearl jam's album ten sound like a bunch of bluesy classic rock songs, 20 years have past and music with a sound reminisent of the 70's has come back

Now we find ourselves 20 years from the eighties...i dont know about you, but bands like "horse the band" have sounds similar to the eighties with heavy synthesizer influence, and other bands like Avenged Sevenfold sound like a harder version of of some 80's hair metal band with its solo's and choppy riffs

I'm not saying that all music is repeating, originality still falls through the cracks, but after you read this and then listen to music, see if you can find similarities to the music that came 20 years before it. It may just be me that hears it, but see if you can too

Skizz-eptical

One of the great ninties bands, The Foo Fighters, lead by the every man, Dave Grohl, are making a come back with a new upcoming album with an okay single. But one thing worries the hell out me! There is so much hype surrounding how this album will sound and about all the special tracks on it, but the general mind-f***ed public is basically remembeing classic "Foo" hits like "the best of you", "times like these" and "monkeywrench" and will be think of these songs 'everlong' before the album will come out, only to find a brand new set of songs to learn and love but songs that wont be like the old hits we grew up with. So i worry that since most kids nowadays only give a song about 10 seconds before moving on, that the new cd wont get the credit it deserves or give the tracks time to get known(unless it actually is crap, but c'mon, dave grohl never really wrote crap, i mean he wrote "smells like teen spirit"yes thats right he did!) but we'll have to wait and see, wait for my update on the album!!
-Jake