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From the 1982 album ‘V Deep’, it’s the Boomtown Rats with ‘Up All Night’.
‘82 was a big year for the band’s frontman, Bob Geldof, who not only had his own hit album, but also had the lead role in the cult classic film, “The Wall,” a musical adaptation of Pink Floyd’s mind blowing 1979 album The Wall.
These days, his party loving daughters, Pixie and Peaches, make the headlines more than he does.
Quite a fitting song for those two, really.
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Sober was the first of Tool’s many videos to be filmed using ’stop-motion animation.’
And it’s one of the coolest, and creepiest, videos…ever.
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Above: Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Michael Hall, David Lee Roth
Diane Lane, Matt Lauer, Elton John & wife, Henry Rollins, Drew Barrymore & Ricky Schroder, Christie Brinkley, Cher & Val Kilmer.
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The song also opened the 1985 film adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s That Was Then, This Is Now. And if you’re a true 80s buff, you’ll remember that movie too.
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Oh yeah, bitches, this is a good one.
From the 1994 album Rubberneck, it’s the Toadies with Possum Kingdom.
It’s been long disputed as to what the song is referring to. Some people think vampires, other say it’s about a murder at Lake Possum Kingdom in Texas.
In 1995 Toadies lead singer Todd Lewis told RIP magazine, “It’s just a story I heard long ago; it’s just a really cool, eerie lake, and some stuff I heard and some stuff I just make up. I tend to do that. They dammed up this big river up there, and it’s got all these spooky names like Hell’s Gate. It’s really cool.”
Lewis went on to say that there was a real stalker in Tyler, Texas who became a folk hero, “I was down there for Thanksgiving, and after the family got through talking about who died and who’s got cancer and all those things that families talk about, they started talking about this guy who was peeping in windows and started breaking into people’s houses. He’d go out of his way to be seen, and everyone is like armed to the teeth, and he’s like tapping on windows. The whole family was freaked out about it.”
Come to your own conclusions, but no matter what it’s about, and however dark it may be, this song is one of the greatest of all time.
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Though she's often seen dancing at nightclubs and stealing fur coats around the city, actress Lindsay Lohan doesn't actually live in New York. Yet. She and probable girlfriend deejay Samantha Ronson are rumored to be looking to relocate from Los Angeles to the big rotten apple, possibly in the Dakota building (Yoko!) of all places. So what might their reasons be?
We don't think it's that old saw about how real New York celebrities are. You know that one about how they live boho lifestyles, free from the nagging press and prying eye (everyone pretends not to notice!). They're people like Keri Russell and the late Heath Ledger and, um, the Olsen twins? See therein lies the rub. The kind of celebrity that Lohan is, like the Olsens, isn't the kind who can just turn in a well-respected performance and then retreat, Julianne Moore-esque, back into civilian life. No, Lohan is a clubgoer and a partyer and—at this point it must be assumed—a huge fan of the paparazzi cameras. I mean, if she is coming to the city to live that whole quiet life thing, she's doin it rong.
The Dakota isn't exactly a secret enclave of the city. She'll be right smack dab in the middle of things, ready to mix it up with crazed celebrity hounds uptown and downtown. According to News of the World, Lohan "plans to make [the apartment] a hotbed for parties.” Ugh. Though, I guess it's almost respectable that she's not going in for that "I'm just going to live in Brooklyn and be a person" cliched lie. So yeah, we suspect that Lohan is moving here for that maybe-still-lingering "cool New York celebrity" factor (not the homey "cool", the Beatrice "cool") and because LA is probably sick of her and she of it. So there. She's going to flaunt it and we'll (maybe) have to deal with it and that will be that. I suppose the Upper West Side could use two more lesbians anyway.
Update: From an Observer article on the whole matter:
A resident of The Dakota has emailed the Daily Transom with the following missive, presented here unadulterated:
"The Dakota, a salud sanctorium that once was home to Boris Karloff, William Inge, Judy Holliday, Leonard Bernstein, Jo Mielziner, Hiro, Rudolf Nureyev, Judy Garland, Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney, among others, is no longer a building that welcomes actors, directors, scenic designers, musicians, painters, sculptors, playwrights or any other practitioner of the creative arts. All they want today is hedge fund managers, money-grabbing Wall Street crooks, dubious CEOs and other corporate zombies with deep pockets. After turning away Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, and after heading Harrison Ford off at the pass before he even made an offer, I can assure you beyond a reasonable doubt, that a snowball from Hell would have a better chance of getting into The Dakota than Lindsay Lohan."
Live from Lollapalooza 1992 in Bremerton, WA, it’s Soundgarden with Rusty Cage.
And yes, I was there - right up front. Still to this day, it’s the best concert I have ever seen.
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This one is a classic, and totally off-the-wall.
Of course, that’s why I like it.
From the 1992 album, Happy Hour, it’s King Missile and the song you’ll never forget, Detachable Penis.
After waking up hungover and discovering his penis is missing, John S. Hall scours the town in search of his missing appendage. Finally, he finds his penis for sale “on a blanket next to a broken toaster oven. The man selling it wants $22 for it, but Hall is able to “talk him down to seventeen.”
A great blast from the past if you remember it, but if you don’t, you won’t soon forget it.
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Many of us have in our days taken issue with feminism. (No no no not the idea of it, silly, just like some of the "dogmas" and "pieties" and all those crazy ladies planning to vote take back abortion rights from their daughters as punishment for falling in love with that charismatic black man.) Anyhow as crazy as those women are they do not hold a aromatherapeutic incense stick to batshit barrister Roy Hollander. He is suing Columbia, where he attended business school, for having a women's studies department, and also waging multipronged legal wars with Ladies Nights, and his Chechen ex-stripper wife and because the God of Baffling Internet Misogyny is a generous god he granted an interview to Maureen O'Connor, a young female correspondent at Ivy Gate. Did he mention he prefers women in their teens and early twenties? Why yes he did! That's why he usually lies about his age. Here is their most charming interaction, which I would not be posting at this hour if it were not TOTALLY hilarious. [And also, if you are reading Nick, involving a shrewd future member of the Ivy League media mafia!]
I read that you were once married to a Russian stripper. Is that true?
Actually, she was a Russian mafia prostitute stripper. As a teenager she was mistress to a Chechen warlord. I found this out because I worked at Kroll Associates. Are you familiar with them?Foreign intelligence?
Yes. And through my contacts from them, what I learned from Russian military intelligence, is that she and her mother were and are connected with the Chechen Special Islamic Regiment.So what happened to the marriage?
We got a divorce. I went through all the standard divorce horror: Restraining orders, she went to the police–That’s standard for divorce?
Yes. If you’re an alien wife, and you want to become a citizen, you need a papertrail using VAWA.[ed: VAWA is the Violence Against Women Act. Hollander contested it in his first Men's Rights lawsuit.]
She said, “My husband showed me a knife, my husband bruised me,” and then she got a temporary restraining order. The order was later dismissed. She filed a complaint with the police that I tried to extort her but she never went forward with the complaint because she never had to. All she needed was the documents, which you can use in immigration proceedings.
So the allegations were untrue?
Well, yes, basically. She came at me twice with a knife, but since I know martial arts, it wasn’t a problem. I probably did bruise her arm. But she, you know she twisted it around, the thing about the knife, and she got the restraining order. But what matters is that the court dismissed it.
No actually what matters is actually that he now picks up women in a hip-hop dancing class. And appears to have picked up some of the lingo!
Allow me to now read a quote you gave to another journalist, during your lawsuit against Ladies’ Night: “Now all I am looking for is superficial temporary escapades with pretty young ladies… It�s harder than it was when I was younger. I only go after girls who are in their athletic prime.” Mr. Hollander, I sense a rejection complex.
“Late teens or twenties,” is what I actually said. And, you know, I understand, this is exactly what my ex-wife did. See, she was a ho. I know this because she wrote about prostitution in her diary. She was a prostitute then, and for all I know, she’s a prostitute now. She did drugs without my knowledge, and she transferred the euphoria of the drugs to me. Now, I expect that from a pretty young lady who wants something. What I didn’t expect was the reaction of the government. She violated my rights, she violated the law, there’s a sense of justice involved, but the government didn’t care because it was me, a man, asking for justice against her, a woman, who was using VAWA.But back to my preference. All I can say is, I do what mother nature tells me. I walk into a club, I’m standing there with my buddy looking for girls to hit on try to go out with them. If I see a girl, I’m going to go up and talk to her. I see a girl and I’m attracted to her, who knows what the reason is — there is a French poet who said “For men, love goes through the eyes” — and I talk to her, and she may look at me, and if she doesn’t want me to talk to her, she’ll make it clear. I can read demeanor. But I’m just going after who I’m attracted to. For instance, I take this hip-hop class, and sometimes a middle-aged lady comes to take it, but I’m not attracted to her.
And that is why he is voting for "O'Bama."
Tupac Shakur performing, “Hit ‘Em Up”, live at House of Blues!
Tupac would have been 37 this year. Can you believe that he’s been gone nearly 12 years?
The Go-Gos with ‘We Got the Beat’, live in 1981!
Check out these stars as they looked 20-years ago!
Do you recognize them all?
Do you recognize all of the stars as they looked in 1993?
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Just for fun, it’s reggae legend Peter Tosh with Steppin’ Razor from the 1977 album, Equal Rights.
Because it’s just that good . .
Enjoy . . I hope it’s beautiful wherever you are today!
Michael Jackson caricature, Rolling Stone magazine, September 24, 1987.
Luke Perry, Shannon Doherty and Jason Priestley, Rolling Stone magazine, February 20, 1992
Vintage Gwen Stefani (when she was righteous) and Bradley Nowell (Sublime) together singing I Saw Red, live.
Recorded January 30, 1994 at Robert Lang Studios in Seattle and not officially released until October 8, 2002, it’s Nirvana with You Know You’re Right.
This song became the focal point of the dispute between Courtney Love and Nirvana members Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl. One of my favorite Nirvana tunes.
From the 1986 album So by Peter Gabriel, it’s ‘Big Time’.
A visually pleasing video that involves claymation, it stood out like a diamond compared to a lot of the 80s video crap that was out at the time. Best viewed after smoking a spliff. One of my favorite PG songs!
Ok, I am throwing a wrench in this post of ‘I Love the 90s’ because I found a hysterical video that shows the ugly side of 1991.
Do you ever wonder why Paula Abdul doesn’t perform live? This will show you. Not that you expected any different. She is so terrible that the sax player steals the show during his small singing part.
The funny thing, and I’ll humbly admit it, is that I had hair like that. Yup, crimped, curled, teased with loads of gel and hairspray. Minus the tacky scrunchie, of course.
Looking as if she could’ve used a bit more sleep, Hayden Panettiere was spotted up for an early call time on the set of “I Love You Beth Cooper” on Sunday (April 13).
Bundled up for the brisk morning weather, Hayden pulled herself together and made it through the many takes shot on location in Vancouver B.C.
Ok, seriously. If you have never taken a trip down memory lane with me before, this is one you cannot miss!
I completely forgot about this song until I heard my pal DJ Footlong playing it over at HeadCaseRadio.com.
You will love this song - even if you never heard it before. From the 1992 album, “Hello Dad, I’m in Jail,” it’s Was (Not Was) with the title track, “Hello Dad, I’m in Jail.”
I guarantee if you crank this song at any party, it will be a hit. Because it’s just f*cking awesome.
Enjoy.
Hayden Panettiere was looking sexy in a red dress while filming a scene for her new movie “I Love You Beth Cooper” in Vancouver, BC.
Joining the Heroes hottie on the Canadian set were co-star Paul Rust and director Chris Columbus, who gave the young stars tips as they worked away.
Ok, I’m a total dork, but I love this song.
Tenderness by General Public, who formed after the 1983 breakup of The English Beat, who were also legendary. This song was featured in the movie Weird Science, which, if you grew up in the 80s you remember fondly.
Do you recognize some of your favorite celebrities?
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How awesome is New York? So awesome that it has 98 nicknames. Wow, that's so awesome! I don't know about you, but whenever I leave the city, I'm amazed at how fat and poorly dressed the rest of the country is, and I think to myself, I can't wait to be back in "The Greatest All-Year Round Vacation City." Or "The Modern Gomorrah." Or "The University of Telephony." Full list after the jump via The Big Apple. Add your own!
1. America's Leading Tourist Resort 2. America's Mecca 3. Father Knickerbocker (referring to the type of trousers worn by the early Dutch settlers) 4. Gotham (name given to New York City by Washington Irving in the Salmagundi Papers, 1807) 5. The Bablyonian Bedlam (allusion to the confusion of tongues at Babel, described in Genesis XI) 6. The Bagdad of the Subway 7. The Bagdad on the Hudson 8. The Banking Center of the World 9. The Big Apple 10. The Big Burg 11. The Big City 12. The Big Town 13. The Biggest Gateway to Immigrants 14. The Burg 15. The Business Capital of the Nation 16. The Business Capital of the World 17. The Capital of Finance 18. The Capital of the World 19. The Center of the World (Trygve Lie, first United Nations general secretary, on Sept. 7, 1962) 20. The City 21. The City at the Crossroads of High Diplomacy 22. The City of Cities (book by Hulbert Foother) 23. The City of Friendly People 24. The City of Golden Dreams 25. The City of Islands (the borough of Manhattan and numerous other small islands within the city limits) 26. The City of Light 27. The City of Orchestras (music center and 'Tin Pan Alley") 28. The City of Skyscrapers (the tallest building in the world; the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, 60 Wall Tower, etc.) 29. The City of Superlatives 30. The City of the World 31. The City of Towers 32. The City that Belongs to the World 33. The City that Never Sleeps 34. The City with Everything 35. The Cleanest Big City in the World 36. The Coliseum City 37. The Commercial Capital of America 38. The Commercial Emporium 39. The Corporate Capital of America 40. The Crossroads of the World 41. The Cuisine Capital of the World 42. The Cultural Capital of America 43. The Cultural Center of the Nation 44. The Cultural City 45. The Empire City 46. The Entertainment Capital of the World 47. The Fashion Capital of the World 48. The Fear City 49. The Financial Capital of the World 50. The Financial Hub 51. The First City of the World (the most populated city in the United States, approximately 8 million) 52. The Friendly City 53. The Frog and Toe 54. The Front Office of American Business 55. The Fun City 56. The Fun City on the Hudson 57. The Greatest All-Year Round Vacation City 58. The Greatest Industrial Center in the World 59. The Headquarters of World Banking 60. The Hong Kong of the Hudson 61. The Host of the World 62. The Hub City of the World 63. The Hub of Transport 64. The Information City 65. The Land of Surprising Contrasts 66. The Mecca for Young Adults 67. The Media City 68. The Melting Pot (drama by Israel Zangwill, 1908) 69. The Metropolis 70. The Metropolis of a Continent 71. The Metropolis of America 72. The Metropolitan City 73. The Mighty Manhattan 74. The Modern Gomorrah (one of the cities if the plains destroyed by fire and bromstone because of wickedness, mentioned in the Old Testament) 75. The Money Town 76. The Most Colorful Exciting City in the World 77. The Movie-Making City 78. The Nation's First City 79. The Nation's Greatest City 80. The Nation's Largest Communications Center 81. The Nation's Largest Port 82. The Port of Many Ports 83. The Printing Capital of the World 84. The Restaurant City 85. The Science City 86. The Seat of Empire (named in 1784 by George Washington) 87. The Super City 88. The University of Telephony 89. The Vacation City 90. The Wonder City 91. The Wonder City of the World 92. The Wonderful Town 93. The World Capital of Fashion 94. The World's Capital City 95. The World's Fair City 96. The World's Financial Capital 97. The World's Metropolis 98. The World's Most Exciting All Year Round Vacation Center
A true classic, perfect rainy day music. ‘Under the Milky Way‘ off The Church’s 1988 album, Starfish.
