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And that Sesame street video of her's is epicly awesome for some reason. That was the straw that broke the camels back on me having to have her now. That and shes pretty ****ing hot.

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08-16-2010 , 02:18 AM

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BTW, I was called a tool for doing wonderwall at karoke last week. WTF is wrong with wonderwall?

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08-16-2010 , 02:18 AM

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And that Sesame street video of her's is epicly awesome for some reason.

elmo is the reason

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08-16-2010 , 02:20 AM

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Not doubting that for one second. I've watched that video about 4 times all on separate occasions.

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08-16-2010 , 02:20 AM

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BTW, I was called a tool for doing wonderwall at karoke last week. WTF is wrong with wonderwall?

Don't Look Back in Anger is the much better karaoke song, that's why!

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08-16-2010 , 02:21 AM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDIOVXx-y8#t=33s

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08-16-2010 , 02:23 AM

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Every time I sing Wonderwall I'm convinced I could be a professional singer. Is it just really easy to sing?

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08-16-2010 , 02:24 AM

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kidcolin

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boy he's tone deaf as hell

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08-16-2010 , 02:24 AM

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Needle77

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDIOVXx-y8#t=33s

Watched that on FUSE that night...

I remembered it being better. I didn't think to look that up on youtube.

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08-16-2010 , 02:25 AM

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Needle77

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Gets so much better at 3:00. Lol.

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08-16-2010 , 02:26 AM

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Loved that Unplugged where [UNDRAFTED] got wasted and heckled Noel from the balcony during the show

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08-16-2010 , 02:27 AM

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kidcolin

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99 problems is so good

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08-16-2010 , 02:29 AM

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Needle77

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Black Album is so good.

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08-16-2010 , 02:36 AM

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private joker

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Originally Posted by ThaSaltCracka

You've really never heard "Come Away With Me" or "Don't Know Why"?

That is surprising. Pretty sure those songs were played everywhere when her debut came out.

Probably have heard them, but didn't know who sang it. That kind of music is zzzz for me.

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BTW, I was called a tool for doing wonderwall at karoke last week. WTF is wrong with wonderwall?

People think it's cool to hate on Oasis so they like to publicly trash them. But secretly those people realize Oasis rocks, and the rest of us have no problem admitting we love Oasis.

God they had so many good songs it's ridiculous. Here's another awesome awesome track:

Fade Away

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08-16-2010 , 02:41 AM

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Round #10 Pick #189

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz5iDa7tL34

Spoiler:

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08-16-2010 , 02:41 AM

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kind of like coldplay...

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08-16-2010 , 02:43 AM

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i think there's a backlash against Oasis because they've been so brash and bombastic in the past. i mean if they go off talking about how they're the biggest band in the world (bigger than The Beatles x Jesus or whatever), then people are going to come into it with a cynical eye. and if it doesn't tickle your fancy right away, then you're probably gonna come out a hater to some degree.

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08-16-2010 , 03:05 AM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htZaXpXmrR4

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Round 10 : Pick 190 : Axl Rose

Ah, sorry, was reading the OOT Life Tricks thread - good stuff btw. I'm try to make this short.

'Bout ****ing time eh? Cheez, yeah, Slash was good but come on, this is round 10 and that was round 5. Axl Rose was ranked #64 by the Rolling Stones 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, #11 by Hit Parader and #4 in Roadrunner's 50 best Frontmen in Metal. Not to mention he's also in the top-10 for various other amateur ranking lists around the internet.

Axl Rose is a helluva performer and is the owner of one of the most iconic voices in modern music. He writes the majority of the lyrics for GNR and does over half of the music too. Appetite for Disaster is still one of the great albums of all time and Chinese Democracy (without Slash) is doing pretty good AFAIK.

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Kurt Loder [in 1990] referred to Rose as "maybe the finest hard rock singer currently on the scene, and certainly the most charismatic."

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Slash has praised his former Guns N' Roses bandmate Axl Rose and the 2008 album he released in the band's name, 'Chinese Democracy'.

The guitarist, who left the group in 1996 and has claimed he turned down huge amounts of money to reunite with them, described the frontman as "****ing phenomenal" despite the pair famously falling out.

"It was the perfect Axl record," Slash told the New York Post about 'Chinese Democracy'.

He added that the album was "exactly what I would have expected from the final years of us working together, and seeing where he was headed musically. It's very heavy, sort of a dark, depressing record. He's ****ing phenomenal".

Yeah, I know he's a douchebag but he's Axl Goddamn Rose. Really wish he and Slash would be friends.

Welcome to the Jungle Drunk

Sweet Child Of Mine - Tokyo '92

Streets of Dreams

Studio thus far:

Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)

Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones)

Steve Perry (Journey)

Axl Rose (Guns N' Roses)
Angus Young (AC/DC)

Benny Andersson (ABBA)
Bjorn Ulvaeus (ABBA)

Tina Turner

B.B. King

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08-16-2010 , 03:51 AM

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I would've taken Norah Jones much earlier, though I've seriously never listened to her songs. That Wong Kai-Wai movie was totally worthless, but huge capacity for hipster arousal and whatever, undrafted is cool.

Girl sell them albums like crack, and everyone's from Baltimore.

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08-16-2010 , 03:55 AM

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now's about a good time for drowning prone undrafted as well, especially with some studios, undrafted would be an amazing fit even if undrafted just sings covers all day

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08-16-2010 , 03:55 AM

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I've been putting off this pick since I don't think it'll get any love here (I know it didn't in the POG draft), but I can't think of anyone else.

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Patti Smith

For the past year or so, my primary musical obsession has been chick rock. Chances are if a band has a woman who plays guitar and/or sings, I have listened to them (and probably enjoyed them). And I think the primary origin of most of that music is Patti Smith, and her debut album Horses. Listening to it is kind of like hearing the very beginning of tons of music I listen to today.

Patti can easily be considered one of the most influential musicians of all time, and not just on women trying to become punk rockers. Michael Stipe of REM (and my label) says that listening to Horses ""tore my limbs off and put them back on in a whole different order" and that listening to it is what made him to decide a band. Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth also lists her as one of his main influences. Of course, Patti's Horses is also considered one of the very first punk rock albums, and she had a large influence on the NYC punk scene.

Patti no doubt inspires some haters, mostly because she can be pretentious (she is punk's poet laureate after all) and take herself too seriously. I think her influence is also more felt by people within the music industry than people outside of it, which is why there was some debate when she was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. However, I think her influence on lots of artists -- especially those on my label -- can't really be denied, and I think she'll be a strong contributor.

Rolling Stone named Patti Smith the 47th greatest artist of all time in 2004, and UNDRAFTED SCOTTISH HOTTIE wrote a cool, heartfelt essay about Patti and how she influenced her. It's kind of corny, but I like it:

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I was about nineteen when I first heard a Patti Smith record. It was Horses. I remember sitting there, very taken by the sound of her voice, this ferocious delivery. Later I was struck by how literate her lyrics were, how intellectual and political. I loved how, in her songs, she talked about anything other than the love in her heart for a man. And I loved her image: this non-glam look with the chopped-off hair, looking like a skinny boy. She was the complete opposite of the images that were pumped into me as a child, of what I was supposed to aspire to in a woman.

She is a folk artist, in the way that Bob Dylan is. I loved that she was a poet involved in visual art. It wasn't just about the music for her. It was everything. And she knew how powerful her image was — that she was really sexy — and how to manipulate that for her art. What Madonna does today, Patti was doing from the beginning. Except Madonna was into selling, period. I felt that Patti's goal was to use her art to bring comfort and grace — to me, personally. The opening lines of "Revenge," on Wave, give me the chills to this day: "I feel upset/Let's do some celebrating."

[removed] played a festival with Patti in Athens four or five years ago, and she signed a set list for me: "Power to the people, Patti Smith." It's a cliche. But cliches, she understands, can work. I was talking to a young man recently who was refusing to utilize his right to vote, out of principle. As much as I understood his point, I believe individuals are important. One person can make a difference. When Patti sings "People Have the Power," it moves me, because I know I am not the only person out there feeling these things. I can only imagine there are millions of people out there who she is singing to, who feel like me. And when you add up those millions of people, it's worthwhile.

She is a soldier. She will not be defeated. I look at today's charts, at the women who are selling the most records, getting the most column inches, and I'm terrified by how they are all controlled by a male corporate idea of what women and rebels should be. When [name removed] is taken seriously as a rebellious figure, we have a huge problem. I'm just glad that Patti is still willing to get up there and fight. It makes me feel less alone.

Anyways, this write-up is already going on too long so I'll just link some songs:

Free Money
Because the Night (lol sellout)
Birdland
Redondo Beach
Rock and Roll ****** (uh... nsfw)
People Have the Power

Rat Studios:
Kurt Cobain
David Bowie
David Byrne
Iggy Pop
Elvis Costello
Joey Ramone
Michael Stipe
PJ Harvey
Thurston Moore
Patti Smith

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08-16-2010 , 04:03 AM

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Never heard any Norah Jones music but I know her because she was in that aforementioned (in your writeup) Wong Kar-Wai movie with Jude Law and Natalie Portman. Good movie, and she was good in it. Nice actress pick. I assume she can sing, too.

My Blueberry Nights is one of my fav movies North Jones is beautiful I should listen to one of her albums

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08-16-2010 , 04:08 AM

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you want love? you got love. Great pick. This is EXACTLY who I had in mind (well her and Iggy, you got both) when I was mentioning "better, more influential contemporaries" of Lou Reed. I was starting to think she'd go undrafted.

You got such a sick label.