Absolutely fantastic, and, also, brilliant marketing. She released her latest album 3 days ago... coinkidink? I think not.

Does not change the fact that this woman can write a fine song and has an awesome voice. This skit is brilliant because it's a way of reminding us how big her first album was, and how much those songs are just 'in there'... well, I was singing along with them all in the skit, I remember listening to the album while I did odd jobs for extra cash while I was at uni... so it takes me back to exact moments (I can remember one exact garden I was working on while listening to it for example)... great stuff.

If they continue to have the quality that was their first album, my head will explode. Too much enjoyment!

Music nerd time.

In case anyone's curious, the song cut up for this trailer is Sleepyhead from the band Passion Pit, released on the EP Chunk of Change. Interesting fact about Passion Pit is that this first album started as a gift from the lead singer to his girlfriend; it was only after he completed a number of tracks that the music circulated around campus and others joined him to form a band!

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Love her whole first album and this song maybe most of all. First heard it as the theme song of failed show Roswell.

really?
thats great man!
i really liked them until fred durst got so full of himself he made me wanna puke.
it affected everything..their music,their reputation,their everything.
their first album was fantastic.great energy and a tight mix of many genres.

Yeah, awesome. This was definitely one of the first albums that blew me away. Just a life soundtrack.

damn these guys.. i REALLY loved their first album
just perfect new-old stuff
now they're just generic muffle

another pq gem of mine.
i actually feel you would LOVE these guys first album..it was awesome.
pure rock through and through.
http://www.videosift.com/video/MASTERS-OF-REALITY-domino-original-video

>> ^Farhad2000:
Funny thing is I used to like BEP before they went all POP with the addition of Fergie:

J&J was a cool video, but the song was a bit flat. I didn't mind the first album with Fergie but they've definitely gone downhill since then.

BTW, Farhad, your second example is blocked in the US.

Vernon Reid, what a great voice. Need to dig out their first album again. Nice post.

I've been a Weird Al fan ever since his first album and it never ceases to amaze me how he can capture the sound of a particular band so succinctly. Dog Eat Dog = Talking Heads, Germs = NIN, etc. And those aren't even parodies of existing songs.

I remember seeing an interview with Mark Mothersbaugh regarding Weird Al's Devo-esque "Dare to be Stupid". He summed it up with:

"I hate him..."

Didn't hear a whole lot of rock 'n roll in my house when I was a kid. My mom was mostly into country and easy listening (yikes), and my father was old so he liked stuff from Bing Crosby or the Andrews Sisters. I shit you not. However my mom did like Elvis Presley (and still does), but that's not what got me into rock. I pretty much found it on my own, like the rest of my brothers and sisters. I do remember feeling the secret thrill of listening to Nazareth's "Hair Of The Dog" (via my cousin. Maybe Crushbug and I are related).



Hearing "SON OF A BITCH!" in a song is pretty cool when you're 8 years old. In 1975. And lets not underestimate the power of the cow bell.

My first record was Billy Joel's 'Glass Houses', and then after that I bought AC/DC's 'Back In Black', Cheap Trick's 'Dream Police', Styx's 'Paradise Theater', Pink Floyd's 'The Wall', Rush's 'Moving Pictures', Van Halen's first album (aka 'Van Halen I'), sort of in that order, and then a lot more stuff after that, including teh AWESOME 'Dawn Patrol'.

Growing up in a radio Station, (my mom has worked in the same station my entire life), I have just always been around rock and roll. I remember meeting everyone that came through town, even Wolfman Jack on several occasions. There were so many, and I was young, I don’t even remember names…. You just don’t care at that age when you are around it all the time.

I used to get all the demo records to bring home. I remember at one of my birthday parties (10th?) I gave out 45s as party favors. (Five to each guest.)

My mom had a collection of 5-600 albums and several hundred original 45s with songs like “Robert Mitchum-
Ballad OF Thunder Road (1958), Janie Grant-Greasy Kids Stuff (1962) 45’s by Jan & Dean, Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, Little Richard, Richie Vallens, Elvis and that era. I remember putting on CCR albums as young as 6 or 7 years old.

My personal first 45s were Kiss-Beth, Jerry Doucette-Mama Let him play, Eagles-Liyin’ Eyes. My first Albums were Kiss, Rock and Roll Over and Bay City Rollers.

Into grade eight, my favorites became stuff like, Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Kiss, ACDC, the Ramones, The Cramps, The Moody Blues, Meatloaf, Styx and so much more. At one point I amassed over 1000 albums…

I thinned my selection down after getting married thinning down to around 50-100 albums and cassettes and have regretted it ever since. Music has been such a large part of my and there is a story to go with every song I ever remembered.

My first Rock Concert was Red Rider, opening for them was (Don’t laugh) Honeymoon Suite !!!

Long live the Music!

I found a MySpace page that enables you to play his other songs off the first album. A number of the songs are HAPPY ones.

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistalbums&artistid=1182072&albumid=8079346


"1+1=2" is the song used for the closing credits of "Stuart Little."

He did make three albums. Here is Wikipedia on his first one, "A Little Bit of Mambo."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Bit_of_Mambo



In reply to this comment by lavoll:
good for him. does he have any other ideas for songs?

I found a MySpace page that enables you to play his other songs off the first album. A number of the songs are HAPPY ones.

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.artistalbums&artistid=1182072&albumid=8079346


"1+1=2" is the song used for the closing credits of "Stuart Little."

He did make three albums. Here is Wikipedia on his first one, "A Little Bit of Mambo."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Bit_of_Mambo