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268 Splendid MP3 Blogs

I've been getting an awful lot of referrals from this post at London Leben. It's all in German, pretty much. I guess it's for Germans in London (?). Anyway... Thanks for the traffic!

Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (Live At Budokan-Video)

Cheap Trick from a Japanese TV broadcast of the "Live At Budokan" shows.
Cheap Trick-Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (Live At Budokan).mov
Buy the 1st Cheap Trick LP. It's the one Nirvana based their whole sound on.
Update: We have a quibbler in the comments already. Here's the quote for you unbelievers, from your God  "…We sound just like Cheap Trick, only the guitars are louder"- Kurt Cobain, Rolling Stone magazine." They also ripped off the Pixies if you hadn't noticed. And here's MP3.com's Nirvana similar artists page that lists Cheap Trick. Oh yeah, they're at the TOP of the list of Nirvana influences on AllMusic.com.

Knowing Me, Knowing You

BBC America is also showing "Knowing Me, Knowing You", the hilarious spoof "chat show" starring Steve Coogan (You may know him as the guy who played Tony Wilson in 24-Hour Party People) as Alan Partridge. You can watch some clips here. They'll also be playing his Christmas Special "Knowing Me, Knowing Yule" and the second season (Called "I'm Alan Partrdge") where he's busted down to radio. The very first post that I ever made to this site was a christmas song by another one of his characters Tony Ferrino, The Portugese God's Gift To Women, Called "Bigamy At Christmas". Saturdays at 11 pm/et, 8 pm/pt 

Shameless on BBC America

You've got to see this show on BBC America, Shameless. It's like "The Waltons" meets "Trainspotting" (I never really ever watched the Waltons but I know it's about a big family too). It's not a comedy per se, but it's fucking hilarious. Here's the synopsis of the 1st episode (which I just happened to catch one late late night a few weeks ago):

"Eldest daughter Fiona runs the chaotic Gallagher household while dad Frank is busy drinking away the family's Giro (welfare check). When Fiona meets a handsome stranger she thinks he's only interested in a one-night stand. But Steve sticks around even after meeting her family. Meanwhile Lip discovers Ian's gay porn collection, and enlists neighbor Karen to turn him straight. Later, Fiona finds out what Steve's real job is. Lip makes his own shocking discovery about Ian".

You can watch clips of every episode here. Once you see the rapid-fire, scene-setting title sequence you 'll HAVE to see this show. is It's on Thursdays at 10 pm et/pt (in the US) and they repeat it a few times later in the evening. There's a Marathon on Saturday, May 7th from 1 to 6 pm/et of the first 6 episodes.

Granny (Mono Single Version)

Some of that good Cat Stevens. Before he thought it was okay to say, kill Salman Rushdie (f'rinstance).
Cat Stevens-Granny (Mono Single Version).mp3
You should really buy this CD.

Road To Nowhere II

I just bought the new Jack Nitschze comp The Jack Nitzsche Story - Hearing is Believing: 1962 - 1979 and it has another version of that great Carol King song I posted earlier by Judy Henske.
Buy the CD on Amazon or Gemm.
Road To Nowhere-Judy Henske.mp3

(Maybe Someone Is) Digging Underground - Songs Of The Bee Gees

This is an interesting comp of covers of Bee Gees songs and ones they wrote for other artists. "Spicks & Specks" sounds like early Spinal Tap (The Thamesmen, anyone?). This site points out that "whatever Schadel (who?) is singing (possibly something called Shadow Man) it certainly isn't With The Sun In My Eyes that the credits claim"-but it's still pretty cool.
Schadel-With The Sun In My Eyes (Shadow Man).mp3
Status Quo-Spicks And Specks.mp3
I can't find it on Amazon but you can try searching GEMM.

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Ballade De Melody Nelson (Video)

Ballade De Melody Nelson.mov
Buy The CD on Amazon