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Top 10 Quotes of the 2007

- Thursday, December 20th, 2007 -

The AP has released their top ten quotes of 2007. This is JACK’s top 10 quotes of 2007. Do you agree?

1. JACK… More satisfying than Thanksgiving, the Super Bowl, and Christmas dinner combined!

2. “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps and I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and Iraq and everywhere like such as and I believe that they should our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S. or should help South Africa and should help Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for us.” — Lauren Upton, South Carolina contestant in the Miss Teen USA contest, when asked why one-fifth of Americans cannot find the U.S on a map.

3. “Don’t tase me, bro.” — Andrew Meyer, a senior at the University of Florida, while being hauled away by campus police during a speech by Sen. John Kerry.

4. “That’s some nappy-headed hos there.” — radio personality Don Imus, referring to the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.

5. “(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom.” — Sen. Larry Craig, explaining why his foot touched the foot of an undercover police officer in an airport men’s room.

6. “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.” — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at Columbia University in New York.

7. “Information is moving—you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it’s also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.” --President Bush, Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007

8. “I love my daughter.”—Lynne Spears, after Roseanne Barr said Britney Spears needs a mother. Lynne Spears book on parenting is on hold for publication after the announcement that her 16 year old Disney Channel star daughter Jamie Lynn is pregnant.

9. “I want kids next year, so I’ve got to get my body ready.”—Paris Hilton, planning for motherhood.

10. “As Homer would say, Woo-hoo!”—Simpsons creator Matt Groening as animated show makes big-screen debut.

Posted on Thursday, December 20th @ 11:37 am.

The Best of the 80’s & 90’s?

- Saturday, September 22nd, 2007 -

We gave you the 70’s, now its time for a look at the 80’s & 90’s!

The Eighties!

1. The Pixies - “Doolittle” The album that kickstarted a revolution and frightened my Seventh Grade ears in the process. I wish more fat, balding men from Massachusetts were this cathartic. I also wish they could all produce albums with such rich diversity - from the bubblegum pop of “Here Comes Your Man” to the spaghetti Western theme of “Silver”...from the environmentalist spoken word anthem of “Monkey Gone To Heaven” to the gorgeous “Wave of Mutilation”, which fantasizes about driving into the ocean. Believe the hype, as this is, indeed, the greatest album of its decade. Fun fact: “Hey” is my favorite vocal performance evah.
Best track: “Hey”

2. Talking Heads - “Remain in Light”
This isn’t Brian Eno’s first appearance on this (group of) list(s) and it won’t be his last. The man is a world class superhuman, this time lending his magic touch to David Byrne’s psychotic tendencies with mindblowing result. There’s an old cliche about this type of album; namely, that the observant listener will notice something new each time. It may very well be true. Not quite “same as it ever was”! The very definition of a headphone album, do ya hear those bongos in “The Great Curve”? Or the Pacman solo in “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)”? This music comes from up there. *points*
Best track: “Once in a Lifetime”

3. Sonic Youth - “Daydream Nation”
A dissonant whir of sprawling guitar textures and awkward vocal spasms. It may very well be closer to noise soundscapes than “alternative rock”, whatever the fuck that may be. It’s an exhausting and rewarding listen, and a pity I didn’t realize it right away.
Best track: “Cross the Breeze”

4. Tom Waits - “Rain Dogs"/"Franks Wild Years” (it’s a tie)
“A few reasons why both of these records deserve a position on this list:
All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes
And the moon’s teeth marks are on the sky
Like a tarp thrown all over this
And the broken umbrellas like dead birds
And the steam comes out of the grill
Like the whole goddamn town’s ready to blow...”

“They take apart their nightmares and they leave them by the door
Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair
Deal out jacks or better on a blanket by the stairs
I’ll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past”

“...in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”

“Time is made from honey slow and sweet
Only the fools know what it means...”

“Never trust a man in a blue trench coat
Never drive a car when you’re dead”
Best track: “Clap Hands” and “Temptation”, respectively.

5. U2 - “The Joshua Tree”
Say what you want about Bono now; before he tried to save the world, he sounded like he really could. The ringing guitars, the anthemic choruses, the restless lyrics...everything seems to be in place. “The Joshua Tree” is the type of album where everything just fits, especially if you find it at the right time. It won’t go anywhere.
Best track: “Bullet the Blue Sky”

6. R.E.M. - “Document\"/"Murmur"
(tie again) It’s true that “Document\” rocks harder. It’s true that “Murmur” embodies that Southern, folky college rock vibe like no other. You decide.
Best track: “The One I Love” and “Pilgrimage” respectively.

7. Leonard Cohen - “I’m Your Man”
Adding drum machines, synthesizers and an increasingly hoarse ("golden"?) voice to his sonic palette could have been awkward and plodding for Mr. Cohen. Instead, it turned out to be a creative rebirth of sorts, and a damn wonderful album to boot. Cohen desperately offers his services over a vaguely Eastern keyboard riff in the popular title track, freaks out about “Jazz Police talking to my niece” in one furious song, converses with Hank Williams in another and exposes some social injustices that “Everbody Knows” in the track of the same name. Or, let’s examine this couplet from “Tower of Song”:
“Now you can say that I’ve grown bitter but of this you may be sure:
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there’s a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong”
Bitter? Certainly. Old? Cranky? That’s my Lenny, but he hasn’t produced in album this rewarding in years.
Best track: “Everybody Knows” or “Jazz Police” or “Tower of Song” or “I’m Your Man”...Jesus, they’re all brilliant.

8. Minutemen - “Double Nickels on the Dime”
Forty-three tracks in all.
Me:Describe them?
Myself: Short. Funky as sin. Mostly political.
Me: In fact, they do all sound the same, don’t they?
Myself: Yes.
Me: Doesn’t matter. So short, well-written, well-performed and goddamn entertaining all around.
Myself: Too bad that guy died. What’s his name?
Me: Brad Delp?
Myself: Sure.
Best track: Maybe it’s “Corona”. Yay, Jackass!

9. The Clash - “Combat Rock”
The Clash recover surprisingly well from the train wreck of “Sandinista!” and record the Talking Heads tribute that it sounds like they always wanted to. Well, that’s just the first half (err, two-thirds), featuring the classic “Should I Stay or Should I Go?”, disco meltdown “Rock the Casbah” and accurately-titled “Overpowered by Funk”. The end of the record takes some sharp left turns, from ambient instrumentals to awkward spoken word experiments. It’s very surprising how well the whole thing holds up.
Best track: “Rock the Casbah”

10. Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Mother’s Milk”
Yeah, yeah, I know. Anthony Kiedis is a goon, Flea smells of mustard, I’ve heard it all before. So flog me.

*bends over*

“Mother’s Milk” was a creative rebirth for some, as Frusciante gracefully took over the late and great Hillel Slovak’s guitar duties. The band covers Hendrix, cheers for Magic Johnson and screams about a “stone cold bush” in under forty-five minutes, with some excellent musicianship to boot. Then there’s the psychedelic mini-masterpiece “Taste the Pain”, the oddly sincere “Knock Me Down” (dealing with Anthony’s experiences with drug addiction) and a pretty damn great closer. Oh, and “Sexy Mexican Maid”! Appreciate this couplet:

“The puts me in a bubble bath
She tickles me and I laugh”

Best track: “Johnny, Kick A Hole in the Sky”

And a look at the Nineties! (Each album described in nine words this time.)

1. The Flaming Lips - “The Soft Bulletin”
Error: Overload. It’s my favorite album of all time.
Best track: “The Gash”

2. Radiohead - “OK Computer”
“Weird creatures who lock up their spirits… just uptight.”
Best track: “Karma Police”

3. The Flaming Lips - “Zaireeka”
Most difficult and rewarding musical experience of the century, perhaps.
Best track: “March of the Rotten Vegetables”

4. U2 - “Achtung, Baby!”
Bono becomes bored with perfection. Futuristic, stunning and elegant!
Best track: “One”

5. The Olivia Tremor Control - “Black Foliage: Animation Music”
Disgustingly complex pop music, reaching directly through your sub-conscious.
Best track: “The Sylvan Screen”

6. Talk Talk - “Laughing Stock”
This album moves me like few others. So primal.
Best track: “After the Flood”

7. Weezer - “Pinkerton”
Depression produces the finest music sometimes. Great drum sound!
Best track: “Across the Sea”

8. Nine Inch Nails - “The Downward Spiral”
Reminds me of eigth grade. Dark and dangerously compelling.
Best track: “Piggy”

9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - “Blood Sugar Sex Magik”
Filthy. Vulgar, too. The way the Peppers should sound.
Best track: “Funky Monks”

10. Spiritualized - “Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space”
Checklist:
-Get heart broken.
-Write masterpiece.
-Acquire 486,952,958 instruments.
Best track: “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space”

Thanks for reading. Close the door on your way out.

Posted on Saturday, September 22nd @ 11:02 am.

Women have something to hide from men!

- Thursday, September 20th, 2007 -

Read the article Randy was talking about with Naz! Women are hiding shoes from their men!

Most women own 19 pairs of shoes—some secretly

Posted on Thursday, September 20th @ 5:41 pm.

Top Ten Album’s of the 70’s

- Thursday, September 6th, 2007 -

Some one has given their input on the best albums of the Seventies! Check it out!

From an Awsome website called Digg.com:
Rock and Roll’s banner decade has been and remains the sixties; a period of time when so many of its icons issued their first albums. These were artists like Bob Dylan, the Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin amongst others. However, it was the seventies that benefited the most, for not only did many of these groups hold over into the seventies, but a second wave of artists arrived who were reinterpreting what they heard a decade before. Here, I have compiled what I believe are the best albums of the seventies. Such a list is dangerous, because it implies that these albums were of different importance. Let’s get one thing straight, they are all great albums, and this is just a personal preference for me. With that said, here are the albums.

15. Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones came into their own in 1968 with Beggar’s Banquet, with that albums back alley blues. They refined this on Let It Bleed, while adding gospel to their repertoire. But it wasn’t until Sticky Fingers that they really figured out how to make an album. Sticky Fingers finds the band finally comfortable with their new lead guitarist, Mick Taylor, and with Mick and Keith at their misogynistic best. It only takes a few seconds of “Brown Sugar” to tell you that the Stones were ready for the seventies.

14. Imagine - John Lennon

John Lennon has made better albums as a solo artist, but few songs can match the honest, utopian ideas of the title track. And it only gets better from there, as the album is filled with both popular Lennon songs and underappreciated ones. One can still find all the anger directed at Paul McCartney in “How Do You Sleep?” and to this day, “Jealous Guy” is as heartbreaking as it was back in 1971.

13. L.A. Woman - The Doors

The last record the Doors recorded with Jim Morrison, but sadly, not the last record they recorded, L.A. Woman contains the best batch of songs the band wrote since their debut. The record includes classic cuts like “Love Her Madly,” the title track, and probably the best song the band wrote, “Riders On The Storm.” It’s clear from this album that Jim Morrison had more left in the tank before he died, and that realization only gets sadder as the years go on.

12. After The Gold Rush - Neil Young

After recording two of his most famous albums (Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere and Déjà Vu), Neil Young released his definitive album, After The Gold Rush. The amount of music inspired by this recording appear endless, and so many of Young’s classic songs are here. Album highlights include “After The Gold Rush,” “Only Love Can Break You Heart,” “Don’t Let It Bring You Down,” and most famous of them all, “Southern Man.,” which as many of you know was the catalyst for some famous Lynyrd Skynyrd lyrics.

11. The Wall - Pink Floyd

At the end of the seventies, Roger Waters was the dictator of Pink Floyd. How badly David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason must have wanted to kick him out is anyone’s guess, but at this point Waters was still writing great music. The Wall was a Waters solo album in all but name, since he wrote just about everything on this album, and many consider this to be a testament to his state of mind at the time. While the album contains a few notable songs, “Another Brick In The Wall (Pt. 2),” “Comfortably Numb,” and “Hey You,” the album is a single linear work that everyone should hear from open to end at least once.

10. Raw Power - The Stooges

Technically an album by Iggy And The Stooges, Raw Power consists of most of the band that made their self titled debut and follow-up Funhouse. Stooges guitarist Ron Ashton is now on bass, with James Williamson bring brought on for the guitarist position. The result was an unbelievably powerful album that when considering its context is even more out of place than at first glance. Led Zeppelin was turning blues into metal, the Who were turning power chords into their most melodic form, yet no one was making rock like this. The production may have been a bit too much, but the album is so sharp, it just doesn’t matter.
9. Hunky Dory - David Bowie

Along with Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory is the most famous album David Bowie released. Hunky Dory finds Bowie abandoning the heavy metal leanings of The Man Who Sold The World in favor of the more singer/songwriter, folk style that he would soon, also, leave behind. The album is famous for bringing Bowie farther into the main stream, and giving the public its first big dose of the ‘weird’ Bowie.

8. Hotel California - The Eagles

For Hotel California, the Eagles added guitarist Joe Walsh, a guitarist who had worked with them before, but not the extent he would here. The result was to push more of the groups original country-rock sound farther in the background in favor of a more hard rock sound that was associated with Walsh. Out of this came the groups best album, along with some of their best songs. “Hotel California” remains the most famous, but “The New Kid In Town,” “Life In The Fast Lane,” “Wasted Time,” and “Victim Of Love” are also worth mentioning.

7. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

In 1975, Springsteen was at the end of his rope. Perhaps because he was hearing things from executives, or perhaps because he was getting nervous, Springsteen believed that if his third album didn’t sell, he would be out of a job. So Springsteen put all of his energy into making what he believed to be the best album he and the band were capable of. Usually, this is a recipe for disaster as such a process leads to overcooked ideas and less energy in the recording. Yet Springsteen and the E Street Band come up with some emotional performances and some great songs. “Born To Run” is still great no matter how many times you listen to it, but my favorites are “Backstreets,” “Jungleland,” and “Thunder Road.”

6. The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd

There are few ways to explain how massively popular The Dark Side Of The Moon was, but I’ll try anyway. It spent a record 741 weeks on the Billboard 200, 741! The album, like so many of Pink Floyd’s best works, is not as well known for its songs as for itself as a whole. But, unlike most Floyd albums, there are real songs here. “Money” is the song most familiar with casual fans, but there are also songs “Brain Damage” and “Time,” the latter of which might be the band’s best.

5. What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye

Artists signed to Motown were not supposed to have ideas, or any artistic direction whatsoever. However, the label’s most talented singer, Marvin Gaye, had other ideas. In response to the war, which he was not a supporter of, Gaye wrote some of the greatest songs of his career. However, his label was not having it, and fought him for years. Rumor has it that Label CEO Berry Gordy even went as far as to say that the title track was the worst song he’d ever heard. Recently featured prominently on Rolling Stone’s top 500 album list at number 6, clearly, Gaye was right.

4. Exodus - Bob Marley

While casual fans may only own Bob Marley’s Legend, Exodus is widely considered his definitive statement. In fact, Time magazine named Exodus the greatest album of the 20th century. Besides the great title track, Exodus contains Marley’s most memorable songs, like “Jamming,” “Three Little Birds,” and “One Love.”

3. Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan

By 1975, Bob Dylan seemed like he was slowing to a halt creatively. This was all before Blood On The Tracks, which is Dylan’s statement to the world about the status of his marriage. Dylan, who had been personal before, had never revealed this much at once. Songs like “Idiot Wind,” “Tangled Up In Blue,” “Simple Twist Of Faith,” and “Shelter From The Storm” rank among the best tracks Dylan has ever released.

2. Who’s Next - The Who

It took Pete Townshend two years and a mental breakdown to figure out how to follow up The Who’s commercial and artistic breakthrough Tommy. After the band gave up on his Lifehouse project, some of the songs were salvaged for what became the Who’s true magnum opus, Who’s Next. Like few other albums, there is not a bad song in the set, and there are breakthroughs all around. Some of rock’s most powerful statements reside here, such as the bad guy’s perspective anthem “Behind Blue Eyes” and the anti-leadership anthem, “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” not to mention the popular “Baba O’Riley.” This album is single handedly responsible for popularizing the synthesizer as a lead instrument in rock music (for better or worse).

1. Led Zeppelin IV (officially untitled) - Led Zeppelin

Some albums become so big that it becomes ‘uncool’ to champion them. Well, for years that was the case with Led Zeppelin’s officially untitled fourth album. The amount of albums that are in the same league musically as IV can be counted on less than one hand; few albums bring as many genres together so successfully and have the songs to match. There are no bad songs on IV, and yet, there are clear highlights; a feat indeed. “Black Dog” kicks off the album with a bang, owing it’s vocal, instrument, vocal structure to Peter Green era Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well” and Muddy Water’s influential Electric Mud LP. Following is radio standby “Rock And Roll” which is so natural it seems like it has existed forever. While the most famous track is “Stairway To Heaven,” and it is well deserving of its acclaim, the real success of the album is the seismic rhythms of “When The Levee Breaks,” which has been sampled so much you wonder which track really was getting more airtime. Despite the fact Led Zeppelin IV is arguably the greatest album of all time, it never reached the number one spot in the U.S. charts (although it did in the U.K.).
Contributor: Jason Hirschhorn

Posted on Thursday, September 6th @ 10:41 am.