As promised, I have decided to compile a playlist of all my favourite songs of 2010. There has been some awful crap released this year, but also some little gems. This is my list of favourites (in no particular order)...
Aloe Blacc- I Need A Dollar
Ash- Arcadia
Bruce Springsteen- The Wrestler (possily released late '09 but hit my ears in '10)
Glee Cast- Loser (I know, bit lame, but a cracking version of the Beck classic)
Cobra Starship- Good Girls Go Bad
Cypress Hill ft. Everlast- Take My Pain
The Divine Comedy- At The Indie Disco
American Bang- Wild & Young
The Duckworth Lewis Method- The Age Of Revolution
Florence & The Machine- You Got The Love (XX Remix)
Eminem ft. Rihanna- Love The Way You Lie
Fozzy- Enemy
Fun Lovin' Criminals- Classic Fantastic
Just Jack- The Day I Died
Slash- I Hold On
Katy Perry Ft. Snoop- California Gurls
Lloyd Cole- Like A Broken Record
Kid Rock- Born Free
12 Stones- We Are One
Travie McCoy- Billionaire
Otep- Smash The Control Machine
Paul Heaton- Welcome To The South
Story Of The Year- Just Close Your Eyes (again, I think released in'09 but a big part of '10)
Peter Marshall & The Lomos- Eggs Are Nuts (A 5-A-Day Song)
Pixie Lott- Mama Do (This one surprised me too! )
Scouting For Girls- This Ain't A Love Song
Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow- Shame
Train- Hey, Soul Sister
Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock & Keith Urban- Lean On Me
Uncle Kracker- Smile
Eliza Dolittle- Pack Up
Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys- Empire State Of Mind
Cee-Lo Green- Forget You (A late adition to the list. Been stuck in my head in for weeks)
Downstait- I Came To Play
So there it is, my songs of the year. They cover all sorts of genres, some may surprise you, some may not, but like all music, each of these is special to me for different reasons. I would encourage you to go to itunes, or wherever you get music from, and give all of these songs a try...
Sunday, 2 January 2011
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Fixated?
So, since I last wrote anything here I seem to have started an empire. In addition to recording the podcast with Howard, I seem to be doing another. So I'm now the brainchild behind 'Culturally Fixated'. This is a podcast about TV, movies, comics, music, pretty much anything pop culture based. I'm joined by a new host, DrNeevil who wishes to be known as DrNeevil (not her real name.) We have recorded 6 shows so far, picked up a decent, if small and loyal listenership and the show is a work in progress.
DrNeevil and I didn't know each other before the show, although we do have a mutual aquaintance, or good friend in DrNeevil's case. We were put in touch with each other by the wonderful world that is Twitter. We realised we had a lot of TV shows in common. The rest is pretty much history...
So far we have talked about our favourite American shows, the new season pilots, lots of Psych and whatever else crossed our minds. After a couple of shows we decided to focus the show slightly, in order to make it more accessible to those who don't download US TV. So far we have done two episodes based on children's TV shows from our youth, and one based on UK television shows. There seems to be an awful lot more mileage to be had in both of these subjects, but we will adapt along with what our audience wants to hear.
The Fixated empire has also taken a new twist, given that Howard is being a new dad, I have recorded with two new co-hosts on Aurally Fixated. First up was a listener, which I appreciate was a little odd, but Marc Foster (@dudefozz) came in at the last minute to stand in for Howard, for which we are incredibly grateful. I actually had a really good time recording with him, which could have gone badly wrong. We seemed to click pretty well, and the show was fun. Then I needed a stand in again, so this time DrNeevil stepped up. It was odd recording Aurally Fixated with her, given that the show is usually pretty blokey, and we talk about boobs and such like. I enjoyed that as well, different vibe to it, and I was really conscious that we didn't go off and talk about TV shows, much the same as I was careful not to stray too far into movies with Marc.
It seems we have chemistry all over the Fixated universe.
So, if you don't mind too much, why don't you go listen to our shows? You can get Aurally Fixated from itunes or aurallyfixated.podbean.com and Culturally Fixated from itunes or culturallyfixated.podbean.com.
In the meantime, why not follow any of us on twitter? @stevecult, @aurallyfixated, @CultNeeve, @dudefozz (www.towatchpile.co.uk)
DrNeevil and I didn't know each other before the show, although we do have a mutual aquaintance, or good friend in DrNeevil's case. We were put in touch with each other by the wonderful world that is Twitter. We realised we had a lot of TV shows in common. The rest is pretty much history...
So far we have talked about our favourite American shows, the new season pilots, lots of Psych and whatever else crossed our minds. After a couple of shows we decided to focus the show slightly, in order to make it more accessible to those who don't download US TV. So far we have done two episodes based on children's TV shows from our youth, and one based on UK television shows. There seems to be an awful lot more mileage to be had in both of these subjects, but we will adapt along with what our audience wants to hear.
The Fixated empire has also taken a new twist, given that Howard is being a new dad, I have recorded with two new co-hosts on Aurally Fixated. First up was a listener, which I appreciate was a little odd, but Marc Foster (@dudefozz) came in at the last minute to stand in for Howard, for which we are incredibly grateful. I actually had a really good time recording with him, which could have gone badly wrong. We seemed to click pretty well, and the show was fun. Then I needed a stand in again, so this time DrNeevil stepped up. It was odd recording Aurally Fixated with her, given that the show is usually pretty blokey, and we talk about boobs and such like. I enjoyed that as well, different vibe to it, and I was really conscious that we didn't go off and talk about TV shows, much the same as I was careful not to stray too far into movies with Marc.
It seems we have chemistry all over the Fixated universe.
So, if you don't mind too much, why don't you go listen to our shows? You can get Aurally Fixated from itunes or aurallyfixated.podbean.com and Culturally Fixated from itunes or culturallyfixated.podbean.com.
In the meantime, why not follow any of us on twitter? @stevecult, @aurallyfixated, @CultNeeve, @dudefozz (www.towatchpile.co.uk)
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
HardCORE?
Been a while since I blogged on wrestling, but I feel like I have to. Having endured through 6 months of shambolic plotting livened up by the emergence of Jay Lethal, entertaining face work by Anderson, and the recent Best of 5 series featuring The Motor-City Machine Guns and Beer Money. But this ECW, no, sorry, EV 2.0 reunion is plumbing the depths. I have a lot of respect for some of what the original ECW achieved. They did indeed revolutionise the wrestling industry, but that was over 10 years ago. Times have changed. There is a minority niche for 'Hardcore' wrestling, I just don't see how it benefits TNA to drag all this back up again. Especially when they legally can't use the name ECW, have Joey Styles commentate it or even use the real names of lots of wrestlers. Oh, and Paul Heyman had nothing to do with it.
Surely, WWE's ECW:One Night Stand while being organised by Vince McMahon had more in common with the original ECW? They went to the Hammerstein Ballroom, actually got Paul Heyman involved, and most of the wrestlers were at least still close to being in shape.
It was nice to see Al Snow & Head, Sabu & RVD & Stevie Richards have still got it, but really, the rest of HardCore Justice was lame! What point is there to an ECW reunion when everyone is 10 years past their best, the Dudleys can't be called the Dudleys, Justin Credible goes by his real name, Balls Mahoney is called Kahoneys and they can't even say ECW on the air? Saying Hardcore a lot doesn't take away from this being a dull show. Seeing Tracy Smothers (tits hanging out) dancing is not something anyone needs to see at this stage of his life. One Night Stand may have featured JBL beating on the Meanie but at least all the people involved got to say goodbye in front of their own fans, instead of the rednecks who inhabit the Impact Zone. It also featured some of the names who made their careers in ECW, Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio, Chris Benoit, Lance Storm, Tajiri, Super Crazy, I could go on. I appreciate that a lot of these guys are contracted to WWE but I just would not have bothered with this reunion without most of them.
If you were, AJ Styles, Jay Lethal or any of the other main event level guys in TNA, how pissed off would you be, at firstly losing a paycheck, but also not being big enough stars to sell PPV's, relying on a fat Raven, wasted Sandman and toothless 'Kahoneys' to make the company some money?
Okay TNA, you had your 'HardCore' reunion, now let your actual talent do what it does best, wrestle!
Surely, WWE's ECW:One Night Stand while being organised by Vince McMahon had more in common with the original ECW? They went to the Hammerstein Ballroom, actually got Paul Heyman involved, and most of the wrestlers were at least still close to being in shape.
It was nice to see Al Snow & Head, Sabu & RVD & Stevie Richards have still got it, but really, the rest of HardCore Justice was lame! What point is there to an ECW reunion when everyone is 10 years past their best, the Dudleys can't be called the Dudleys, Justin Credible goes by his real name, Balls Mahoney is called Kahoneys and they can't even say ECW on the air? Saying Hardcore a lot doesn't take away from this being a dull show. Seeing Tracy Smothers (tits hanging out) dancing is not something anyone needs to see at this stage of his life. One Night Stand may have featured JBL beating on the Meanie but at least all the people involved got to say goodbye in front of their own fans, instead of the rednecks who inhabit the Impact Zone. It also featured some of the names who made their careers in ECW, Chris Jericho, Rey Mysterio, Chris Benoit, Lance Storm, Tajiri, Super Crazy, I could go on. I appreciate that a lot of these guys are contracted to WWE but I just would not have bothered with this reunion without most of them.
If you were, AJ Styles, Jay Lethal or any of the other main event level guys in TNA, how pissed off would you be, at firstly losing a paycheck, but also not being big enough stars to sell PPV's, relying on a fat Raven, wasted Sandman and toothless 'Kahoneys' to make the company some money?
Okay TNA, you had your 'HardCore' reunion, now let your actual talent do what it does best, wrestle!
Friday, 2 July 2010
Aurally FIxated till the cows come home...
So I guess it has been a while since I wrote anything here. Firstly, podcast news! Had a busy few weeks with the show (Aurally Fixated), what with having guests and holidays and stuff to do. So we got back from NY and straight into a networking event in Leeds with CultureVultures website. Normally I would have sent Howard or at least made him come with me, he is the one comfortable with public speaking after all. I am distinctly ill at ease in social situations, I just don't like people enough to be nice to them. Especially pretend nice! I met some nice people there though, so that was nice. Almost forgot, we got some business cards made up, which you can see below...
It was, shall we say, a bit wanky! Lots of people full of their own self importance because they write a little blog or write some poems. But then there were some really nice people who we will probably do something with in the future. Picked up a few extra followers which was the whole point of going. Also going to perform/present at an event organised by one of the people I met there, Richard from @bettakultcha. He does this thing where people get 5 minutes to talk about anything they are passionate about, accompanied by 12 slides which change every 15 seconds. We are meeting on Monday to write it, but I think we will be performing our origin story.
We have had 3 sets of guests recently, all of which went really well. Episode 17 featured Peter Marshall and The Lomos, or Spencer and Pete. They do comedy-pop songs and we got on really well with the show coming out very funny. We even sang along, badly I might add.
Last week we were joined by 'friend of the show' Richard Massara, a friend of Howard's from university days. He is a comedian/actor who played a storming set at AF-Live a couple months back. He and Howard get a bit carried away when they get together so while it was a very funny show, it got a bit much for me and there was a good 5 minutes where I didn't speak. Although they were talking about milking my testicles at the time!
This week we had another guest, or rather 3 guests. We were joined by 3/4 of local metal band Drowned In Flames. Both Howard and I know the bass player Arran pretty well from working together and I know the singer Craig a little. We thought it would be a nice change of pace for the show and went really well, we had a really good laugh and all 3 of the guys were chatty and funny. We will probably have them back for part 2 at some point.
Next week will be just Howard and I, we decided the sound quality is better when it is just the 2 of us, and we haven't done one just the two of us for over a month now!
I, personally have a long couple of weeks coming up, starting with going to see Ash on Sunday, very excited!! Then we have The Lomos gig at The Basement, City Screen on Friday, before we trek through to Leeds for BettaKultcha 3.
So, before I go, go buy tickets for The Lomos gig here: www.picturehouses.co.uk/cityscreenyork
And go check out Drowned in Flames here: www.myspace.com/drownedinflamesrock
Oh, and of course not forgetting to visit Rich Massara for details of his Edinburgh show here: www.facebook.com/RjrMassara
It was, shall we say, a bit wanky! Lots of people full of their own self importance because they write a little blog or write some poems. But then there were some really nice people who we will probably do something with in the future. Picked up a few extra followers which was the whole point of going. Also going to perform/present at an event organised by one of the people I met there, Richard from @bettakultcha. He does this thing where people get 5 minutes to talk about anything they are passionate about, accompanied by 12 slides which change every 15 seconds. We are meeting on Monday to write it, but I think we will be performing our origin story.
We have had 3 sets of guests recently, all of which went really well. Episode 17 featured Peter Marshall and The Lomos, or Spencer and Pete. They do comedy-pop songs and we got on really well with the show coming out very funny. We even sang along, badly I might add.
Last week we were joined by 'friend of the show' Richard Massara, a friend of Howard's from university days. He is a comedian/actor who played a storming set at AF-Live a couple months back. He and Howard get a bit carried away when they get together so while it was a very funny show, it got a bit much for me and there was a good 5 minutes where I didn't speak. Although they were talking about milking my testicles at the time!
This week we had another guest, or rather 3 guests. We were joined by 3/4 of local metal band Drowned In Flames. Both Howard and I know the bass player Arran pretty well from working together and I know the singer Craig a little. We thought it would be a nice change of pace for the show and went really well, we had a really good laugh and all 3 of the guys were chatty and funny. We will probably have them back for part 2 at some point.
Next week will be just Howard and I, we decided the sound quality is better when it is just the 2 of us, and we haven't done one just the two of us for over a month now!
I, personally have a long couple of weeks coming up, starting with going to see Ash on Sunday, very excited!! Then we have The Lomos gig at The Basement, City Screen on Friday, before we trek through to Leeds for BettaKultcha 3.
So, before I go, go buy tickets for The Lomos gig here: www.picturehouses.co.uk/cityscreenyork
And go check out Drowned in Flames here: www.myspace.com/drownedinflamesrock
Oh, and of course not forgetting to visit Rich Massara for details of his Edinburgh show here: www.facebook.com/RjrMassara
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