Feb 8, 2010 by Nick

This week’s video comes from The Black Crowes. It is a cover of the Velvet Underground song “Oh! Sweet Nuthin’”. It was filmed during the making of their current album “Before The Frost…Until The Freeze”. They recorded the album in front of a small audience at Levon Helm’s (drummer for The Band) cabin. Dave and I were lucky enough to attend this event and we were in the crowd that night. This song features Rich Robinson on lead vocals which is always a treat. Enjoy!!!!

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Feb 5, 2010 by Aaron

Angeline by James McMurtry

This is a truly haunting tale of a song by James McMurtry off his debut album, To Long in The Wasteland, which was produced by John Mellencamp. The sadness of the vocals captures the darkness and despair of this tale of loss and love. It’s a song that truly echoes through the halls of your mind and sticks to your gut. It’s a song with something we all can relate to in some way…about making a decision as a young man and finding out years later it might have not been the right one, but it’s too late to do anything about it now.
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Feb 4, 2010 by Nick

If you have not figured it out yet there are a lot of things that piss me off. I thought I would dedicate my story this week to a few things that are currently pissing me off. Enjoy!

Head Mics

I hate musicians that wear head mics. I am not sure if that is the technical term for them but they are the microphones that you can wear on your head and they make you look like you work in a call center. There are several offenders that wear these things: Garth Brooks, Madonna, Janet Jackson, most boy bands, Rascal Flatts, and Britney Spears. I am sure the “artists” that use these things claim that that give them the ability to provide a better show for their fans but really it just makes them look like a bunch of assholes. If a standard microphone is good enough for The Rolling Stones, Elvis, The Who, Led Zeppelin, and any other band that is worth a shit then it is good enough for you Garth Brooks. Just because you are wearing that gay ass microphone when you sing “The Dance” does not make that song suck any less.
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Feb 2, 2010 by Aaron

Some of the greatest albums of all time have been a band’s debut album. But many bands have a hard time following a great debut album with their next effort or their third or fourth… and in many cases, these bands never come close to making an album as good as their debut. In this article, I am going to explore the top five greatest debut albums ever recorded – where the bands initial success and future hopes of rock masterpieces were never realized by following up a classic, with a classic stinker.

I often wonder why some bands peak with the first album, than slide downhill with each of their following attempts. What I have come up with is this: that the music made by a band when they are still yet to be famous and poor, is more in line and closer to the average fan. If you think about it, most rock comes from the gut. It comes from the struggle to fit in or against modern conformity. Rock is a form of social rebellion and conventional cultural mores. Rock and Roll stands against conformity. It protests with the youth against the bourgeois. It’s defiant against authority. It laughs at suit-inspired corporate greed.
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Feb 1, 2010 by Nick

Another Monday and another nasty video from the staff at Rock Minutes. Jack White’s “side project”,The Raconteurs, is better than most artist’s main project. Check out this ferocious live version of “Level”.

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