My Top 25 Songs of the Week : MYFAVORITES

It’s been almost a month since I’ve written up a Top 10 Songs of the Week. Blame FINALS!! The semester was officially over last night, so I’ll have more time and energy to blog this summer… so I’m gonna start out with an extra long Favorite Songs of the Week to try to catch up a bitch.

ENJOY!

25. Diplo Feat. Nicky Da B “Express Yourself”

24. Beach House “Walk In The Park”
I gotta review Beach House’s latest album “Bloom” later on, but when I was listening it called to mind one song (which is higher up on the countdown) I loved, and than an IMDB’er suggested I listen to THIS song again. And Yes, It’s beautiful!

23. Brandy Feat. Chris Brown “Put It Down”
This threw me off, I expected something a little more R&B and Sing-y (or SANG-y) from MISS Norwood. Once I was over the initial shock, I think it’s a cute song… and I’m now very much intrigued by what she’ll deliver on her upcoming album.

22. Santigold “God From The Machine”
This was my Favorite song from Santigold’s “Master of My Make Believe” when I first heard it… I’ve kind of tired of it since, but it’s still an Ace song.

21. Dawn Richard “Change”

20. Usher Feat. Rick Ross “Lemme See”

19. Rusko “Mek More Green”

18. Katy Perry “Part of Me”
You know, I JUST heard this song for the first time this week. It’s alright… but hella catchy! I’ll talk about my sudden burst of Katy Perry Love later on… (haven’t seen this video either. I’m embedding it, will probably watch later tonight)

17. The xx “Intro”
So I FINALLY listened to The xx’s album. NOT what I expected, I was actually a bit bored at times (mainly I hated the females singing voice, it was very off-putting). Most of the album could have been salvaged if they stuck to instrumentals like this one which is perfect.

16. Rusko “Be Free”

15. Steel Pulse “Shining”

14. Rihanna “S&M”
This is such a great song for Cardio… “I LIKE IT LIKE IT!”

13. Santigold “This Isn’t Our Parade”
Who The F**k is Fever Ray!???

12. AWOLNATION “Sail”
Heard this song on the radio a few weeks ago, instantly fell in love. Listened to the album it’s from, and I just didn’t get it. So I’ll be fine if this is the only song I care for from this group.

11. Donna Summer “Summer Fever”

10. Beyonce “Countdown”
Funny story. My car was doing this crazy thing where I couldn’t eject CD’s from the player… and my Beyonce “Queen Bey: The Best” CD was in. So I was stuck with just Beyonce in the car for almost a week. But it’s not like I was mad about it… this was my favorite though, I kept going back to this one.

9. Kelly Rowland “The Sound (On & On)”
(can’t find a link… booo!)

8. Calvin Harris “Feels So Close”

7. Beach House “Norway”
So THIS is the song I was talking about earlier. So mellow, and so weird with the background effects. And just the way he sings “Nor-waaaaa-ay” I love it!!

6. Katy Perry “Teenage Dream”
One day this past week… I don’t know WHAT happened, but I HAD to hear this song. I’ve always loved it, but this week I just loved it like never before. Great POP!

5. The White Stripes “Catch Hell Blues”
Now I am in love with Kenny Wormald. This can’t be denied, but the scene from “Footloose” that featured this song isn’t the reason it’s on my list. This Stripes song is an excellent Lifting song at the gym.

4. Teams “Whxt Txrns U Xn?”
Some time last year, I stumbled upon “Teams vs. Star Slinger”‘s EP. And I loved it so much, but I focused on Star Slinger instead of Teams. Thanks to Spotify, I heard his full album which is very nice and different but this instrumental chill-fest is the easy stand out.

3. Dawn Richard “Black Lipstick”

2. Brandy “Piano Man”
I am a big Brandy fan, but her last album “Human” was… just… well, read my review. Anyway this among a few others is a stand out, but recently it’s just been speaking to me! Great lyricism and production and vocals!

1. The Dead Weather “Blue Blood Blues”
So Funky and yes this is another great lifting song at the gym.

Catching Up!! Jack White, Dawn Richard, Gotye, Rusko : Album Review

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You don’t know how long I’ve been sitting on this next flock of Album Reviews I’m about to speed past.

I’ve begun drafts like once every week but than got the BLOCK (the one for writers), so I’m just going to be quick and succinct now to get them over with. Great albums though, and I wish I had the discipline to give them the full reviews they deserve. But it’s more important for me to have this done than to show off my grasp on English vocabulary. So here we go.

Jack White, “Blunderbuss”

I’m not the biggest Jack White fan, but I have enjoyed the out put I’ve heard from his various musical identities (most famously with The White Stripes but also with groups The Dead Weather, The Racounters, and others) and I realize he’s one talented dude. I expected “Blunderbuss”, his first solo album, to be entirely overrated and hyped by the Hipsters (he’s basically a Hipster/Indie god, one of the few artists to go from underground to mainstream and maintain credibility amongst that very particular group). Fortunately the album is actually quite stellar and any hype or praise it’s getting is actually deserved. “Blunderbuss” shows his skills as a musician, but also manages to find a balance between very fun and light material like “I’m Shaking”, “Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy” and “Love Interruption” to more serious and creative stuff like “Freedom at 21” and “Weep Themselves To Sleep”. It’s not necessarily a totally new style for White as some of it does recall his work with all of his previous groups. That’s okay though because this is a sound that’s pretty much specific to him, so the Blues/Rock/Alternative mixing on the album at least is familiar to fans of his. Overall it’s a very pleasing album, one that I could listen to from start to finish. It has a nice flow to it, and is diverse enough so that it doesn’t bore you at any point.

Rating: 4 of 5
Best: I’m Shaking, Weep Themselves To Sleep, Freedom At 21

Dawn Richard, “Armor On” EP

Dawn was my favorite Danity Kane member (or the “Making The Band” Band), and naturally my favorite member of Diddy’s now defunct Dirty Money. She’s talented and unique, and clearly someone who loves and understands music and it’s represented on her EP “Armor On”. At 10 tracks long, this EP is actually a lot better than a good number of R&B/Dance albums by more established acts. The stand out of the album though is it’s production, handled mostly by Druski, and Dawn’s ability to add such soft melodies to such abrasive and harsh electro beats. The beauty is how the production, her vocals, and the writing all blend to make something like the drum and bass sounds on “Black Lipstick” or the electro-tribal mash on “Heaven” seem so natural and organic. “Armor On” is very creative and fresh, even when there are heavy inspirations from the likes of Kanye, Sade and Brandy it’s all mixed in interesting ways to make something that feels really new. And it’s a risky album from a new artist, instead of going for what’s popular she actually seemed to stick to what she was feeling and it shows.

Rating: 4.5 of 5
Best: Heaven, Scripture, Black Lipstick

Gotye, “Making Mirrors”

I still have to say I’m shocked that Gotye’s single “Somebody That I Used To Know” has become so big on the mainstream Pop charts, but hell he deserves it. What you get on that song, nice lyrics and catchy hook and organic instrumentation, is what his album “Making Mirrors” is all about. It’s a very diverse mix of genres, you probably won’t like everything, but there is more than enough there to show that the guy has talent and a great knowledge of music and how to use it. Gotye plays with different styles from the very Motown-ish “I Feel Better” to (what seems like) a Beatles homage on “Easy Way Out”, and varying 80’s artists like Genesis and The Police, even Electronica on “State of the Art”. Gotye has a great grasp on each sound and does a good job of executing. A very above average album, especially compared to a lot of other current releases, so he definitely deserves the notoriety his hit single is giving him.

Rating: 4 of 5
Best: State of the Art, Somebody That I Used to Know, Eyes Wide Open

Rusko, “Songs” and “O.M.G!”

When the whole “Dub Step is the New Thing” came around 2009, Rusko was one of the preferred names of the genre. His 2010 album “O.M.G!” was definitely a good introduction to the Dub Step sound, and more skillfully done than a lot of what I’ve heard elsewhere. “O.M.G!” isn’t entirely gold, as some of the stuff gets a little too jarring at times, however when compared to his 2012 release “Songs” you actually miss that hard edge. Alot of online comments I’ve read about “Songs” associate it with yet another sub-genre Bro Step, which apparently is Dub Step’s more commercial and melodic cousin, and “Songs” is comprised of mostly Bro Step stuff. It’s not necessarily a good look. To me it sounds like Dub Step mixed with Pop mixed with the now obsolete 2 Step sound. Sometimes it works, as “Somebody To Love” and “Dirty Sexy” (which sounds like he wanted Rihanna, and had to settle for the chick he got) are fun, but sometimes it’s way too light and rather annoying like on “Pressure” and “Asda Car Park”.
The best thing about “Songs” though is he peppers the album with some amazing Dancehall/Dub sounds that are easily the best on the album. “Mek More Green” “Be Free” “Skanker”, they all feel like classic Dub feel but with that 2012 edge to make them fresh. “O.M.G!” provided some decent Dancehall inspired tracks, most notably “Rubadub Shakedown”, but “Songs” completely bests those cuts. Both albums do offer some really good and some bad, but Rusko remains a very interesting player in the Music game these days.

Rating: “Songs” 3 of 5, “O.M.G!” 3 of 5
Best: Scareware, Mek More Green, Skanker

R.I.P. Donna Summer and her Essential Music : MYFAVORITES, IMO

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Disco Legend Donna Summer passed away from a bout with cancer today.
Summer’s Legacy in the music industry is celebrated, but somewhat downplayed even though she broke so many barriers and records for not only black women but women in general. (Full story here)

As a child of the 80’s, I completely missed her hey-dey of the Disco laden 70’s. In the mid to late 90’s though, there was a bit of nostalgia over the Disco era in the media. On top of references in Movies and TV, there were dozens upon dozens of info-mercials selling Disco compilations. With Donna Summer being the Queen of Disco she was always mentioned which intrigued me about her music. Luckily one summer when I was 16 I was going through some of my dad’s old albums and her “Bad Girls” album stuck out to me. I had to pull out a record player from the garage, and once I heard the album it started my love affair with La Summer that lasted… well it’s still going. I read so many things about her, going to the library and getting old Magazine interviews and information about her like Billboard placements and Album and Single reviews. Yes, you could say I became light-weight obsessed with her.

What I learned was that in her Disco peak (from around 1975-1979) she and her producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte changed the industry with their sexy and elongated Disco anthems. “Love to Love You Baby”, the nearly 18 minute hedonist-fest, was her first hit single and is still remembered to this day. Back than Disco was still on the underground, but that and subsequent Summer hits quickly made Disco a mainstream sound. By the time the genre had fully emerged as the sound of the time, Donna Summer was a force to be reckoned with. 1977 saw the release of “I Feel Love”, a song that was so futuristic and revolutionary at the time it is now believed to be a precursor to both 80’s New Wave and the Electronica sound the began in the mid to late 90’s. In 1978 she scored her first #1 single with “MacArthur Park” which followed another huge Classic single “Last Dance” which earned Summer her first Grammy and also won an Oscar. Than began the unstoppable Summer train as her next three albums “Live and More”, “Bad Girls” and “On The Radio” marked the first time any artist scored 3 consecutive #1’s for double albums. “Bad Girls” earned Summer 5 total nominations at the 1980 Grammy’s, and she became the only woman to win Awards in the Rock (for #1 single “Hot Stuff”) and R&B (1979’s win for “Last Dance”) Categories.

The turn of the decade marked a real turn in priorities for Summer though. She began experimenting with more diverse sound, utlizing more rock and new wave influences as opposed to straight up Disco and R&B. Though she never regained the success of her 70’s era, she was still able to score a few big hits here and there, most famously with “She Works Hard For The Money” which became yet another iconic song. Even if people aren’t sure who sings it, most people at least know the hook verbatim. In 1991 she scored a huge dance hit with “This Time I Know It’s For Real”, and throughout the length of her career would show she was still a Queen in the Dance realm scoring #1’s on the Dance charts every few years.

Now that she’s gone, I’m sure people will be hitting up iTunes to be johnny-come-lately fans. Nothing wrong with that, she has some amazing music and people should listen and appreciate a Legend. Here are some of her Essential albums and singles.

Essential Albums!

5. Four Seasons of Love
Her first of many concept albums, this chronicles a year in love. With the beautifully funky “Spring Affair” all the way to the heartbreaking “Autumn Changes”. Summer’s early work comes off a bit one-note to be honest, but this (her fourth album) shows diversity and some vocal chops.

4. Live and More Encore
Summer’s 1999 VH1 Concert Special and the accompanying disc showed a Diva who was still in top form. She runs through a nice sampling of her Classic hits, and her voice is in full force and it’s clear she’s having fun.

3. Endless Summer
There are ENDLESS Donna Summer greatest hits available, but this was the first one I bought. Yes, most of the hits are heavily edited down to 3 or 4 minutes but it allows for more classic songs to fit on the album and give people a great preview of her work.

2. Live and More
This is one of those live albums where I really wish I was there to see everything. The crowds reactions, the staging and styling, and just the performer in action. The drawback is this tour was in support of her “Once Upon A Time” outing and right before her ultimate peak so there’s some filler here but there’s also some amazing live renditions of her biggest hits. Even songs like “Faster and Faster to Nowhere” and “I Remember Yesterday” sound so much better with the live backing, but it’s “Last Dance” “I Feel Love” “Try Me I Know We Can Make It” “Love to Love You Baby” among others that sound like perfection live.

1. Bad Girls
Summers ultimate peak came in 1979 and even though she was the Disco Queen, this album isn’t quite disco. Well not JUST disco, as there’s bits of Rock, bits of R&B and Funk, bits of the New Wave sound she flirted with on “I Feel Love” and some decent ballads. It’s a well rounded and diverse album, but also a very pleasant listen back to forth. (Get the Deluxe Edition as it includes some extended mixes of her other hits including “I Feel Love” and the entire “Macarthur Park Suite” that has since been omitted form the “Live and More” album due to time constraints)

Essential Singles!

10. Dim All The Lights

Summer admitted she wrote this for Rod Stewart but later used it herself on the “Bad Girls” album. It’s Disco on the more mellow side, with a great hook and a delicious breakdown.

9. Could It Be Magic

In the vein of “Love to Love You Baby” and other early hits, this one has sex written all over it. Especially in the extended break down where she out-does herself on the harmonic moaning of the aforementioned hit.

7. Try Me I Know We Can Make It

Such a beautiful Lush instrumentation on what is almost a 3 part song. A Very underrated single, though the 18 minute time mark probably turns people off it’s definitely one of her better songs.

6. No More Tears (Enough is Enough)

Still one of the best Diva Duets of All-Time, both Summer and Streisand are singing in top form on this upbeat Disco hit. Yet the powerhouses compliment each other so beautifully that it works much better than it probably should.

6. She Works Hard For The Money

Classic! No one will forget this song.

5. Bad Girls

“Toot Toot, hey, Beep Beep!” One of Summer’s more funky urban numbers is also her catchiest and most fun to sing a long to.

4. Hot Stuff

Her foray into Rock, funny because it’s not necessarily my favorite but it’s a truly Iconic one that most people will associate with her name for a long while.

3. I Feel Love

For it’s revolutionary and futuristic production, this is one of the more respected songs by Summer. However Moroder’s production can only go so far as Summer beautifully matches up her vocals with the new sound.

2. Love to Love You Baby

People of this generation probably associate this hit more with Beyonce (“Naughty Girl” took a huge slice of the hook), but this was Summer’s break through. She would end up resenting the sexed up image portrayed here but it’s still another one of those Iconic hits that will endure forever.

1. Last Dance

Easily her best song, lyrically vocally and production wise. It’s sexy, it’s fun, it shows off her talents more so than any of her previous hits and it’s one every one can dance to. Another song that usually is associated with the Queen, and more so for it’s overall greatness.

(“MacArthur Park” is another Essential, but aside from the glorious build up… It’s not a favorite of mine.)

Rest In Peace Donna, We Love You, We Respect You, and all prayers to your family and friends!

Top 10 BEST and WORST Comic Book Movies : MYFAVORITES

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Who isn’t excited for “The Avengers” today!! A HUGE Comic Book flick, and really the first one to merge different franchises together. I can’t wait to see how it turns out, and I should be writing a review soon. But first… here’s something that’s been waiting to get posted for a long while… enjoy!

When it comes to translating classic Comic Book heroes to the big screen, there have been loads of misses and a few great hits. It doesn’t seem like an easy thing to take characters that are decades old with legions of super fans waiting to knock any inconsistency and plot hole. Some film makers try and fail to cater to the fan-boys while some do their own thing to mixed results.
I haven’t seen every single Comic Book film of course, but here’s my attempt to dissect the best and the worst adaptations in the history of film.
(I actually had a listing a few years ago on Flixster, but on this list I’m trying to eliminate Graphic Novels and only talk about the weekly serials that have become iconic over the years. And if I’m wrong about something feel free to leave a comment and let me know)

>> The Worst!
These are the 10 films that for whatever reason did not satisfy the requirements of a great Comic Book translation, or even the requirements of a halfway decent film.

10. The Punisher
The only reason I even know about the Marvel character Punisher is through my Uncle, who was a huge fan. There have been a few attempts to make this violent and controversial comic into a movie and I’ve only seen one. The 2004 Thomas Jane one, and the problem with putting the Punisher on film is simply it can’t work. Unless it’s an Indie film and not aiming for a mainstream crowd, the content is way too risky to work and most times the writers behind the adaptations are too scared to take those risks and it ends up being a stale half-ass version of what made the comic great.

9. Kick Ass
Thank God this movie had Chloë Grace Moretz , the little girl who stole this rather uneventful film about teen heroes. This movie could have been great, but it got really bogged down in trying to be serious at times that a lot of the fun and humor it should have had was totally lost. (And this is where I’m uncertain, I can’t figure out if this was a Graphic Novel or a legit Comic Book! I might have to re-edit!?)

8. Spiderman 3
How to Ruin a Great Franchise 101! 1. Add one too many villains that don’t seem related to each other at all, it will totally ruin the flow of the movie. 2. Endlessly Hype the show down between Spidey and his arch nemesis Venom, and than save it until the very last portion of the movie. 3. Forget about trying to balance dumb slap stick comedy sequences with uber-serious and intense scenes. Just a mess all over.

7. Jonah Hex
Just couldn’t get into this fantastical Cowboy comic crap, Megan Fox seemed totally mis-cast (and gratuitous), and there was no chemistry between her and star Josh Brolin. The story was actually quite interesting, but the execution just didn’t work.
It came off really cheap and way too contemporary styled to sell the Western feel. (Much like the ill fated campy “Wild Wild West” with Will Smith)

6. Spawn
HBO had an excellent animated series based on the gritty comic, I loved that and it made me excited for this live action adaptation. But as with other ultra violent comics, mainstream can never translate them well so it came off pretty cheesy compared to what it should have been. (similar to “Punisher”)

5. Catwoman
This film was built on the fact that Catwoman and Halle Berry are sexy. And, that’s pretty much it. The other components of making a good film were totally missing with it’s flimsy storyline which basically amounted to a few sexed up poses and dozens of un-witty one liners. A cliched love story, an unbelievable villain and some actually uneventful fight scenes. At a point I did try to like this movie, but it truly is just a throwaway.

4. Batman Forever
Joel Schumacher all but ruined the “Batman” franchise Tim Burton rejuvenated. Instead of continuing on the darker, grittier path that Burton set up, Schumacher’s Gotham City was turned into an ultra cheesy, way too colorful, and overloaded Batman chapter. And the sad thing is, he wasn’t done as we’ll see soon enough.

3. Green Lantern
Cheesy graphics, a paint by number cliched script, actors that either phoned it in or just wouldn’t know the words “natural” or “chemistry” if it hit them on the head. Just an awful movie that really had no redeeming qualities at all.

2. Batman and Robin
Yes, “Batman Forever” was bad… but compared to this mess of a movie it looks like “Citizen Kane” (okay that’s going too far, maybe something like “Die Hard 4”). Not only are there way too many villains in this one, but they are third rate villains that most people (unless you were watching the animated Batman series of the time) wouldn’t have known. This film killed the Batman franchise for a while before Christopher Nolan dared to pick it back up. Awful!

1. Daredevil
Let’s see, where to start? This movie was so incredibly bad on so many different levels I don’t even know how to begin. What stands out the most is the awful CGI, than we have to think of the D.O.A. acting job of the consistently bland lead Ben Affleck. And, bottom line, it was just dumb! Boring! Not fun or funny! Absolutely no good qualities at all (maybe Colin Farrell, but there’s only so much one actor can do in a movie like this), not only is this my worst Comic Book Movie… but it ranks as one of my Worst Movies of All Time!

>>The Best!
So clearly, these are the few that actually got it right!

10. Batman Returns
Tim Burton’s dark “Batman” was revolutionary, and even though this sequel was just a skoche lighter, it still maintained the gritty world invented in the first film. This script was surprisingly original and new, with very interesting origin stories for the main villains. On top of that, the film was perfectly cast which is probably the main selling point. Danny DeVito was perfect as the creepy Penguin and Michelle Pfieffer treaded the line perfectly from a mouse-y secretary to a sexy fearless (sort of) villain. Christopher Walken’s role is also a great component to make this film worthy of the top 10

9. Thor
I think of Thor as an extremely complicated story to put on the screen. Where this could have fallen apart totally, the team really did their best to make it flow well and get a lot of information out without slowing down the overall feel of the movie. Add great acting as a selling point, in fact some of the stuff that hit the cutting room floor actually proves how good of an effort this was. It combines a mythological world with a scientific world and the real world effortlessly. And there’s no way they could have cast a better leading man as Hemsworth owned this role.

8. The Dark Knight
I had deemed this movie overrated when it was ridiculously hyped upon release, and I still think the last half hour was a mess … but the rest of the movie is undeniably flawless. Visually it’s dark, but still stunning. The writing is very clever and well thought out, and who can deny Heath Ledger’s spine chillingly scary Joker. It’s not the perfect film Fan Boys would like us to believe, but for what it does get right it is pretty frikkin phenomenal.

7. Iron Man
An atypically adult and mature super hero film. There’s actually not a lot of action as compared to the films running time, but what you get is real fleshed out characters dealing with very real (okay, let your imagination run wild a little bit) situations that are relevant in the real world. And Robert Downey Jr is flawless as the rich boy you want to hate but can’t help but love.

6. Superman
Classic! It’s one of the first big budget comic book movies to really be taken seriously. The effects were good for the time, but luckily they didn’t over-use them because the movie really does still stand up some 30 years later. Richard Donner’s Superman has lots of heart, great casting, and just overall a lot fun. Like what a Comic Book is supposed to be.

5. Captain America
Much like “Thor” (and frankly all of the films leading up to the avengers), “Captain America” had so much plot and character details to get through you’d think it would totally fall apart. However this film has almost a perfect balance of action, drama, character development, humor and intensity.

4. X2
X-men is such a great comic book series, it’s really a shame that most of the film adaptations thus far have been a little lack luster. With the big exception of “X2”, which totally grabbed viewers with the intense and non stop opening scene. By the very suspenseful and climactic end, you feel the film might have been too short. What this film had the other two lacked  was that this was all about the action.

3. Batman
This is actually my favorite movie of All Time, simply because director Tim Burton took a totally new approach to the comic book genre. Flipping the corny Batman TV series of the 60’s and turning into a supremely dark and edgy suspense filled thriller with lots of humor with great visuals. This movie really, in my mind, changed the landscape of the comic book flicks and should be celebrated for taking a risk and setting a new trend.

2. Spiderman 2
1. Spiderman

The first two Spiderman movies make the top of my list because I think Sam Raimi and company did the best job of really bringing the comic book feeling to the big screen to life. There’s a certain life to both films that resembles that of an actual comic book, plus some of the visual techniques look like a comic book page re-created. Add to that it’s a fast paced, funny movie with some more than capable actors.