W♥M

Glee: The Sixth and Final Season

Discography [2009] Glee: The Music, Vol 1: Season 1 [2009] Glee: The Music, Vol 2: Season 1 [2010] Glee: The Music, Vol 3: Showstoppers [2010] Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album [2010] Glee: The Music, Vol 4: Season 2 [2010] Glee: The Music, Vol 5: Season 2 [2010] Glee: The Music, Vol 6: Season 2 [2011] Glee The 3D Concert Movie (Motion Picture Soundtrack) [2011] Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2 [2011] Glee: The Music, Vol 7: Season 3 [2012] Glee: The Music, The Graduation Album [2012] Glee: The Music, Season 4, Volume 1 [2013] Glee: Sings the Beatles [2012] Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Vol. 3 [2013] Glee: Movin' Out EP (Season 5) [2014] Glee: The Music - Celebrating 100 Episodes Read More Glee Yeah, it's that time of the year again, once again, Glee will be celebrating with a Christmas EP called Glee: The Music The Christmas Album Volume 4. The Christmas album is available digitally on today ... Smash I am wrong; I was under the impression that NBC's "Smash" will stand apart from Fox's "Glee" by having all original songs. Since I have been sent some music from the Smash show, there are definitely some covers along with brand new ...

Say what you will, but there is no denying how successful Glee television musical show has been for Fox Television and Columbia Records. At the height of their popularity, they had over 10 million viewers and sold over thirty-six million digital singles and eleven million albums.

You have to wonder where they would take the show, especially after the actors all graduated from the fictional William McKinley High School after its fourth season, but Fox was able to continue telling the Glee story when they re-located to New York from the original Ohio setting.

After the real-life death of actor Cory Monteith, the show producers announced that Glee Season 6 will be their final season. With that said, the Season 6 premiere kicked off earlier this year (January 9th, 2015) with a two-hour episode ("Loser Like Me" and "Homecoming").

As typical with all Glee digital singles, you can purchase the songs the week that the show air.

Episode 1 & 2: "Loser Like Me"/"Homecoming" (Jan 9, 2015)

"Uninvited" (Alanis Morrissette) - Rachel

"Suddenly Seymour" (from Little Shop of Horrors) - Blaine & Rachel

"Sing" (Ed Shareen) - The Warblers & Blaine

"Dance The Night Away" (Van Halen) - Vocal Adrenaline

"Let It Go" (from Frozen) – Rachel

"Take On Me" (Ah Ha) - Old New Directions

"Tightrope" (Janelle Monae) - Jane & The Warblers

"Mustang Sally" (Wilson Picket) - Roderick

"Home" (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) - Madison & Mason

"Problem" (Ariana Grande) - Santana, Quinn & Brittany

This was a good mix of what's super popular (The Frozen soundtrack), but with some odd choices classic hits like Ah Ha's "Take On Me" and Wilson Picket's "Mustang Sally".

Episode 3: "Jagged Little Tapestry" (Jan 16, 2015)

"It's Too Late" (Carole King) - Blaine & Kurt

"Hand In My Pocket" (Alanis Morissette)/"I Feel The Earth Move" (Carole King) - Santana & Brittany

"Head Over Feet" (Alanis Morissette)/"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" (Carole King) - Jane & Mason

"So Far Away" (Carole King) – Quinn & Tina

"You Learn" (Alanis Morissette)/ "You've Got a Friend" (Carole King) - Rachel, Kurt with past and present members of The New Directions

The Alanis Morissette cover lover episode, obviously celebrating her album Jagged Little Pill (1995) ... but 'you ought to know' how 'ironic' that her most popular songs were not covered?

Episode 4: "The Hurt Locker, Part One" (Jan 23, 2015)

"Bitch" (Meredith Brooks) - Sue

"Thousand Miles" (Vanessa Carlton) - Rachel & Sam

"Rock Lobster" (B-52's) - Clint & Vocal Adrenaline

"Whip It" (Devo) - Clint & Vocal Adrenaline

Although the episode will air this Friday, January 23rd, the music was digitally released on iTunes. I have to say that I'm so happy to see the B-52's cover. Max George (who plays Clint) doesn't try to do an over-the-top impression of singer Fred Schneider's very unique vocal styling... and that's probably a good thing.

Overall, I have been pretty happy with the music choices for the final season of Glee so far. I suspect since they know it's the final season, they don't really have to play to what is popular and, I hope, they'll continue to covering the more obscure music.

Empire

Since the show is ending, Fox and Columbia may be focused on a new musical drama called Empire (loosely based on William Shakespeare's King Lear and James Goldman's The Lion in Winter and not to be confused with the 1995 Empire Records film). What set this show apart is that it's not looking at pure pop, but more hip hop songs. Although the show only premiered January 7, 2015 (two weeks ago), Fox had already announced a season two for 2016! It's a strong start, and probably much better ratings than NBC's Smash (which was largely seen as a musical television for old people). However, despite critical acclaims (winning a Primetime Emmy Award), NBC ultimately cancelled Smash due to poor ratings.

The other thing that sets Empire apart from Glee is that Empire's music (spearheaded by Timbaland) will have original music for the series (instead of just cover songs).

vu ([email protected]) ♥ weheartmusic.com ♥ twitter.com/weheartmusic

S*M*A*S*H: (I Want to) Kill Somebody '14

Read More S*M*A*S*H S*M*A*S*H is celebrating their 20th Anniversary of "(I Want to) Kill Somebody" (which, of course, I do own the original 12" and CD single). The punk Welwyn Garden City trio…

Just a quick note on that S*M*A*S*H / NxtGen Split Single Launch, taking place 29 March 2014 at The Portland Arms in Cambridge.

As I suspected, the lyrics have been changed to modernize the song. There's a whole new list of people who should have never existed in the 2014 version of "(I Want to) Kill Somebody". Even though the song is now twenty years old, and because Ed Borrie is such a talented song writer, I believe the song is still good, fresh, and relevant today.

The new changes are minor, with just the names: Margaret Thatcher, Jeffrey Archer, Michael Heseltine, John Major, Virginia Bottomeley, and Gill Shephard (especially!), are now replaced with David Cameron, George Osborne (the other one), Boris Johnson, Teresa May, Denis MacShane, Ed Miliband, and Jeremy Hunt.

You can stream the song on Soundcloud and YouTube. New lyrics below:

(I Want to) Kill Somebody '14 Statistician studies Titian The hand up his arse is the politician's Red-headed women And a Disraeli disposition What lack of vision I want to kill somebody Hold my hate like a knife to their throats Cut through every muscle And break every bone I want to chop their f****g heads off and stick them on a stake That's the extent of my hate It's not that I want them dead It's just the world would be a better place if they'd never existed I want to kill somebody A statistician studies Titian Red-headed women And a Disraeli disposition What lack of vision Whoever's in power, I'll be the opposition I want to kill somebody So I'm a hypocrite Because I don't believe in capital punishment But here's my paradoxical quip 'The people who prescribe it are the people who should subscribe to it' It's not that I want them dead It's just the world would be a better place if they'd never existed I want to kill somebody David Cameron and the other one Boris Johnson, Teresa May Denis MacShane expenses claim Miliband Miliband Jeremy Hunt rhyming slang I want to kill somebody Right now!

vu () ♥ weheartmusic.com

Site Update (April 2012) - Blogsy

NOTE: The entire post was composed and created using Blogsy on the iPad.

W♥M on iPad..

I have been searching for an app like this, because the iPhone TypePad application needs a lot of work. One of the main thing I need the application to do is to insert images, along with my text, and there just wasn't a way for you to do this via iOS. Unfortunately, TypePad currently does not offer iOS Safari support (this is terribly frustrating for mobile bloggers).

Unless you know the name (Blogsy), it's hard to find this application in the iTunes store. Searching for "TypePad" or Blog Editor doesn't exactly return Blogsy. There isn't a demo version, so I had to pay $5 to basically test out the application.

I'll admit that I haven't played around with it enough, but one thing I wasn't sure about is how do you save things in draft? I understand that you can save it to TypePad in draft mode, but I want to save it in draft locally on the iPad. Then it turns out that it was automatically saving it locally when I accidentally clicked on the "+" icon and panicked because I thought I had deleted my entry.

The other thing I didn't care for is the way they implement inserting images. You have to "upload" it to your TypePad image icon and then you can insert it into your article. That's a minor complaint, it's just not obvious to me. Even accessing your photo gallery is a pain because you have to allow the application to access location services. Since I automatically disable location, I had to go into my settings to allow this application access.

Some improvements I wish Blogsy had:

(1) Autocorrect and dictionary/spellcheck. iOS offer access to its dictionary throughout its system... yet it sometime works and sometime it doesn't work (this is evident when you flip back and forth to HTML). (2) A better image inserting system. I've used application that has "insert" and then you just select images from your gallery and voila, it's done. (3) Remove certain icons from the dock (could not figure out how to remove these icons).

(4) Once you insert an image, moving it around is not obvious. I had to delete it and then re-insert the image at a different location. I'm sure there is a way to move it around, but I just couldn't figure it out. (5) Allow better HTML editing option. I tried to add some CSS style to the image (adding a 1 pixel border), but Blogsy just stripped it out. (6) Changing the post date to a future date doesn't work - it will publish your article anyway.

Anyway, those are really tiny little complaints. I'm sure 99% of users don't really care about these things because I'm sure they're all WYSIWYG users.

My last mo-blogging misadventure was last year in Canada, so I can tell you it was a lot of work to get around the restriction. Compared to working with Blogsy, it's definitely a lot easier. I am looking forward to a future articles via my iPad.

To end this, I'll test out the video embedding option.

 

 

W♥M128: Must Hear TV

W♥M128 (42 mins) Read More Glee Glee is charming in how, through their music selection, they have a little something for everybody….

W♥M Radio is available on iTunes, please subscription!

Lara is this week's guest. There are two parts of this show, the first is about live shows we've recently seen and the second part is all about music shows on television.

PART ONE:

Song of the Lara is "Lara Croft - a Love Song"

One million Brooklyn bands can't be wrong. Also, newsflash: Williamsburg is more than one block.

The impossible to search, 1,2,3 band. Their live show at 7th Street Entry.

Matthew Caw, from Nada Surf, looking fit at First Avenue

The origin of the term "Sissy music"

Icelandic people are hot. Lay Low and Of Monsters and Men came to Fine Line Cafe.

PART TWO:

NBC's The Voice explained. Lara is addicted.

Smash show, who is it for?

Fox's Glee domination in popular music! Read all the crazy numbers.

Speaking of numbers: song of the show is 1,2,3's "Just Like Heaven (Is Gone)", from their album New Heaven.

BONUS: Brooklyn Vegan.

ABOUT THE VOICE
The competition heats up as the top twenty-four artists from Teams Adam, Blake, CeeLo and Christina get set to compete for America’s votes as the live performance phase kicks off Mondays beginning April 2 (8-10 p.m. ET) followed by an hour-long live results show on Tuesdays beginning April 3 (9-10 p.m. ET). The live shows will culminate in a two-hour season finale on Tuesday, May 8 (8-10 p.m. ET)

[ Read more on news.weheartmusic.com ]

ABOUT SMASH
13 tracks from SMASH will be available as an album, available everywhere on May 1st. The album will feature stars Katharine McPhee, Megan Hilty, and various cast members performing the original Broadway-type music for "the musical-within-a-musical" show.

[ Read more on news.weheartmusic.com ]

Subscription Options
Subscribe on iTunes
Subscribe via RSS
Add to Google
Add to Yahoo
____
Archive of this show at archive.org. More information on podomatic.com

vu () ♥ weheartmusic.com ♥ podcast.weheartmusic.com ♥ twitter.com/weheartmusic ♥ +W♥M

News: S*M*A*S*H and the Orphans, together on one bill

Ed Borrie - 15 Years Ed Borrie Tour Date 04/24/09 Soulcellar, Southampton Read More S*M*A*S*H http://weheartmus... I couldn't hold back my excitement when I got the new S*M*A*S*H album, Icon, in the mail the othe...

For a mere £4, this Friday, April 24^th, you can see these two legendary bands: S*M*A*S*H alongside The Orphans (members of These Animal Men) in Southampton at Soulcellar.

S*M*A*S*H - Icon S*M*A*S*H - Real Surreal (single version) These Animal Men - Too Sussed?

People who knows me, knows that I'm a huge fan of both of these guys, so I'm making this announcement prior to the show. And you know, I would totally be there if at all possible. Unfortunately there's this ocean between us.

Also, I received a 'bootleg' of S*M*A*S*H singer, Ed Borrie doing an acoustic solo appearance at the 100 Club (in London?). The audio is pretty good, it sounds like it's from the soundboard. The whole show is pretty low-key, as expected with an acoustic set. What makes this show kind of cool is the violins by Amber Ross, which you can clearly hear on "15 Years". And, gosh, it's so good to hear Borrie singing his word-plays "All I wanted was to be you, all I wanted was to be used."

Borrie did a few old S*M*A*S*H songs ("Lady Love Your C***", "Revisited #3" and "Drugs Again"), and right before "Drugs Again", he introduced it by saying "Ordinary, I'm in a punk band, so I'll just play a couple of those songs".

It looks the Orphans will make another appearance in October 24^th in Germany, of all places at KOZ, Goethe University in Hessen.

The Orphans have been enjoying a sold-out first pressing of their album (Muff? I have no idea since I haven't correspond with these guys before), so they're going back printing more.

In the meantime, you can pick up Icon from S*M*A*S*H at amazon.co.uk. What made this album so important is because their last/debut album, Self Abused, was released in 1994. That's thirteen years ago! So be sure to pick up Icon when you see them.

 04/19/2009 19:01:50 ♥ vu () ♥ myspace.com/llyc ♥ myspace.com/theorphansonline

S★M★A★S★H

S*M*A*S*H - Icon S*M*A*S*H Link S*M*A*S*H Revisited http://s-m-a-s-h.net S♥M♥A♥S♥H Footnotes [1] From amazingforums.com [2] When the song is done live, I'm told that Ed changes the name to more modern targets. [3] S*M*A*S*H Website created 29 July 1998. [4] Guardian Friday January 28, 2005.

I couldn't hold back my excitement when I got the new S*M*A*S*H album, Icon, in the mail the other day. The album will be available in stores October 8th, 2007. However if you attend their concert on September 28th at Viva La Punk in Cambridge, you can pick up the album weeks earlier.^[1]

Although I've mentioned S*M*A*S*H here a couple of times already, I think it's about time that they got a full featured article. You are in for a treat down memory lane!

Back in 1994, in my DJ days, my music director gave me Self Abused to listen to to pick out the "good" tracks so she can add it to our playlist. Usually I'll find one or two good songs, but I swear, this album was AMAZING! I loved ALL the songs, especially the hidden track, which was an acoustic version of "Lady Love Your C♥♥♥" (of course, I didn't know the title back then).

So after buying as many singles as I could find on S*M*A*S*H, I did discover that the song title was actually stolen from an essay written by Germaine Greer, published in 1971. The essay in its entirety was reprinted in the Spring 1994: Real Surreal single.

So, S*M*A*S*H is from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. The trio consists of Ed Borrie (vocals/guitar), Rob Hague (drums) and Salvatore Alessi (bass), who found each other through political ideals in 1984. By 1992, they were playing gigs and eventually releasing their records through their own label, Le Disques de Popcor Records. Their debut single, Real Surreal was picked by both NME and Melody Maker, as Single of the Week.

This was an explosive start for the band.

Their most controversial song is "I Want to Kill Somebody" which was released and deleted on the same day. The single didn't do too well in the charts, mostly due to the fact that the song was heavily censored and outright banned on radio stations. It is because the song named people that needs to die:

Margaret Thatcher, Jefferey Archer, Michael Heseltine, John Major, Virginia Bottomeley, Gill Shepherd^[2]

Although to be fair, the lyrics states: "it's not that I want them dead, it's just that the world will be a better place if they never existed."

After they released their final single, Rest of My Life (Dec 1995), the band split and was never heard again.

You have to remember that back then, the internet was in its infancy and there was nothing on S*M*A*S*H on the internet. I didn't know what happened to S*M*A*S*H, so I decided to put up a little website on them with nothing more than a discography and lyrics section.^[3]

Things were pretty silent on the S*M*A*S*H front until 2002 when I received an email from a L.Hague. He said he was the son of Rob Hague and he was searching online for bands that his dad was in. As it turned out, he didn't realize how big S*M*A*S*H were!

He asked his dad about the band and pretty soon, Rob tracked down Ed and they were talking to each other again! In some strange ways, I was kind of responsible for getting the band back together.

This quote from Ed, pretty much sums it up:

We were built up as the leaders of a scene dubbed the New Wave of New Wave. I didn't complain because it focused attention on the records. It went wrong for us fairly quickly, mostly as a result of my worsening drug addiction. Being in the spotlight didn't help. Rob and Salv were my two best friends since we started in a scout hut. They weren't prepared to watch me kill myself so they said goodbye. I ended up in despair, then rehab. Eighteen months ago I went round to Rob's house, had some tears and said a few apologies. We've started playing again but we have no aspirations to go through that shit again. We'll play a few gigs, make a little record and it'll be as innocent as it was in the beginning.^[4]

Once again, Icon, will be released October 8th, 2007 through a small independent label, MLP, which mostly specialized in live recordings. They are headlining Viva La Punk on September 28th, at the Cellar bar. Also on the bill: Out of Nowhere, Psycho Bombs, and The Cougars.

Here are some selective S*M*A*S*H songs and rarities for you to listen to:

 

S*M*A*S*H - Lady Love Your C♥♥♥ (acoustic)	S*M*A*S*H - Real Surreal (single version)	S*M*A*S*H - Petal Buzz	S*M*A*S*H - Bang Bang Bang	S*M*A*S*H - (I Want to) Kill Somebody (Topper Mix)
S*M*A*S*H - Turn on the Water	S*M*A*S*H - Drugs Again (demo)	S*M*A*S*H - Interview	S*M*A*S*H - All By Myself	S*M*A*S*H - Rest of My Life

 09/25/2007 22:34:15  vu my♥posts [email protected] www.s-m-a-s-h.net

News: S*M*A*S*H Concert Review, plus links

S*M*A*S*H - (I Want to) Kill Somebody (Topper Mix)

Here is a S*M*A*S*H concert review from a very recent concert.

From amazingforums.com

 

Hitchin 14/07/07
Russ posted 7/19/07 8:52 PM

I managed to make it up there. And very good it was too. Last year at the Rhythms of the World Festival the boys headlined Fringe venue Shortys Sports bar, this year they got promoted to the Corn Exchange and after a tentative start rocked the place to its foundations much to the bemusement of clubbers walking in expecting the latest cheesy Eurocrap. How I laughed..... Basically they played all the old favourites and some new ones into the mix. Starting with LLYC ["Lady Love Your Cunt"] and ending with "I Want to Kill Somebody" with the new line "Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, it just ain't fucking fair!" I will send Vu some pics if I remember tomorrow.

PHOTOS S*M*A*S*H (Hitchin, 14 Jul 2007) S*M*A*S*H (Hitchin, 14 Jul 2007) S*M*A*S*H (Hitchin, 14 Jul 2007) S*M*A*S*H (Hitchin, 14 Jul 2007) S*M*A*S*H (Hitchin, 14 Jul 2007) S*M*A*S*H (Hitchin, 14 Jul 2007)

Here are some roundup of links:

Digg: Say "Cock Rock" Like You Mean It
Submitter: kg123

Fun post about pop music's evolution from "cock rock" to rock that's actually about cock! Rob Halford, Turbo Negro, and Pink Steel all get name-checked. From the always-enjoyable"We heart music" blog.

From www.drawerb.com

Riot Grrrls roundup at WeHeartMusic
July 15th, 2007

We *heart* Music has a nice little write up on the Riot Grrrls of yore. (though, as VU mentions “Let’s be clear about this, this is not a definitive guide to all things Riot Grrrl, but just some selections of music that I have and liked.”) Just a nice stroll down memory lane (with mp3s!) for those early ’90s college radio kids. enjoy.

 July 20, 2007 9:05 AM  vu my♥posts [email protected] s-m-a-s-h.net