Playlists
If playlists are the ultimate currency of coolness, we're your virtual treasury.
8EEZ Playlist: Hits of 1987 (30 Years Ago)
Hello and howdy do! So, I've given my buddy Oates a vacay on this 'list as it's actually a reminiscence piece/playlist for me as I go back in my mental time machine and take you all back to when I was a mere boy of 15; a skinny, hairy, gawky and shy kid with acne, Elton John-style glasses and going to the "Fame" high school in New York City. No, I didn't dance up the street, nor did I get that stirring Debbie Allan speech, but it being my sophomore year, all I remember was being quite the wallflower and learning all too fast what anything that was considered hip and cool — wasn't me.
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Beat
8EEZ Playlist: INXS
G'day mates! Gone Australian with this 'list and it's a request from my good buddy Calvin "Oates" Cherry who admitted to me that it's one of his favorite rock group. INXS (pronounced In-excess) was a band formed in Sydney composed of three brothers (Farriss), two band members, and a smoking hot lead singer who had a hot, sexual mystique to rival Jim Morrison of The Doors.
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Beat
8EEZ Playlist: Eurythmics
Hellooooooo out there! This is the second 'list spotlighting an artist or group from the UK who were part of the burgeoning 80s British invasion. A Scottish woman and an English man who were the rarest breed of group; a male/female duo made up of two different people (NOT a brother/sister/family act).
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Beat
8EEZ Playlist: Culture Club
Hello, hello. Pip, pip cheerio, Tea time, two lumps! Okay, yes, I am purposely sounding British for a reason. My first 'list entry (with assist from my virtual BFF Oates) from the 80s British invasion is a four-man band from London, UK, who formed in 1981. The gimmick? A white guy, black guy, Jewish guy and...George?
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Beat
8EEZ Playlist: Rick Springfield
Greetings one and all. The latest playlist duel brings us to an artist who had the most unusual comeback after an attempt in the early-1970s to capitalize on his boyish good looks. But his career stalled, then froze, until the advent of MTV when his guitar-heavy rocker, pining-for-his-best-friend's-girl single went all the way to Number 1 on the charts and signaled his official comeback. Oh, it didn't hurt that his handsome looks remained intact enough to land him a stint on the popular soap opera "General Hospital"
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Beat
10 Best Tori Amos Songs
Tori Amos has a vast catalog of A-sides, B-sides, demos, remixes, soundtrack contributions, live variants, and covers. Just 10 songs will never be able to cover all of her moods, sounds, and experimentations, but in this article, I'll do my best to give an overview of what I think are her best tracks. In the interest of fairness to the expansiveness of Amos's discography, only one song per album was chosen. I chose these songs based on popularity, composition, lyrics, and emotional content. As I said, it's impossible to cover everything in 10 tracks, so I'd like to throw out a few honorable mentions:
By Eden Roquelaire8 years ago in Beat
8EEZ Playlist: Journey
Hello again and welcome. The latest in this duelling playlist between me and my good buddy Oates (as his hair and mustache are curlier than mine) is a favorite band of mine from San Francisco, CA, who churned out massive hits in the 1980s despite having been formed the year after I was born. 1973.
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Beat
Top 10 Sophisticated Indie Songs
'Indie' is an incredibly broad concept and contains many different niches. Sophisticated indie is in the spectrum of artists who are not so mainstream and harness their creativity in a way that imbues real emotion in their fans. Many on this list are talented in writing their own songs, playing multiple instruments, and kill it on vocals. They are the very soul of the indie movement.
By Emily Adams8 years ago in Beat
8EEZ Playlist: The Pointer Sisters
Hello one and all. This third entry in my duelling playlist with my good buddy, Calvin Cherry (who earned the nickname Oates on account I have blond hair like Daryl Hall), is devoted to an artist or group from the Reagan/Bush era that saw the rise of Jazzercise, the Cabbage Patch Kids, Freddy Krueger and the Iran Contra affair.
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Beat
10 Alt-Rock Girl Anthems to Get You Through Your Day
Let's face it: There will always be days you wake up with little confidence, burn the toast, spill your coffee, and bang your knee getting out of the shower. We could all use a musical pick-me-up in these times, so here's a list of songs guaranteed to turn your bad hair day into a fearsome rocker coif so you can kick adversity's ass.
By Eden Roquelaire8 years ago in Beat
One-Hitters Who Deserve a Second Listen
Hello, and welcome to another installment of Silver Linings , where I look at maligned stuff and find the positives. I watch a lot of web shows. One of my favorites is a pop music critic named Todd Nathanson, the guy you can (or rather can't) see in the pic above, who goes by the moniker of "Todd in the Shadows." Along with his pop song reviews and countdowns, he produces a side-series called One-Hit Wonderland where he looks at one-hit wonders, listens to the rest of their output, and determines if they deserved to be bigger than just one-hit wonders. To date, he's featured 61 artists. Some deserved more playtime, and some didn't even deserve their one hit.
By Adam Wallace8 years ago in Beat
Podcast Grooves
There is a difference between radio and podcasting. In radio, you have a license to play music by music artists. However, in podcasting, you are not allowed to play copyrighted music without permission. By permission, I was able to upload a few songs by artists with permission. You have to be sure that the artists own their own music and not their record company.
By Gail Nobles8 years ago in Beat
