Music is under attack.

[WatchTheGuitar]

It's a shame Shatner didn't cover a different great Jarvis song, Running The World. That's extremely appropriate right now and given the owner of the company he's helping promote.

[melomood]

Ha. Well,planet earth will be blue and there will be nothing he can do, so that's fitting enough

[AnX]

Is music still under attack? Will it last long enough for us to get a Shatner 'Rocket Man 2021 (Bezos Remix)'?

I hears that for the first time yesterday, I quite liked it

youd not heard the shat do rocket man?
tell me you've heard lucy or common people????

Yeah, I've heard those.

[Bombadil]

If I ever play live again, I'll cover 'Running The World.' May not get invited back, but nevertheless…

[egbert]

I still say the part where he said the picture made him look like a sex worker was hilarious

sue me

Surely this guy could look at the positive side of all this: If he ever feels like he needs to have a good hard look at himself, examine his shortcomings, and reflect on his grasping attitude, he doesn't even need to find a goddam mirror - he can just look at this album cover. It's all there.

[vurt]

I still say the part where he said the picture made him look like a sex worker was hilarious

sue me

Surely this guy could look at the positive side of all this: If he ever feels like he needs to have a good hard look at himself, examine his shortcomings, and reflect on his grasping attitude, he doesn't even need to find a goddam mirror - he can just look at this album cover. It's all there.

ah you talking about the original, or the one melomood made?

[egbert]

If I ever play live again, I'll cover 'Running The World.' May not get invited back, but nevertheless…

Running the World plays as the second song over the lengthy end titles of Children of Men. As I was sitting in the cinema listening to it playing over the crawl when the film first came out I couldn't help wondering what P.D.James, the author of the book Alfonso Cuarón's movie was based on, would have made of it all. I mean it is story based on the christian myth of the saviour and she is actually a Dame n'all.

Jarvis Cocker cracks me up. I saw him being interviewed once on TV - and he was questioning the hereditary monarchy in the UK. He pointed out that in days of yore, England was just a land ruled over by various local thugs (I guess we would call them warlords these days) who ruled by force over an area and in the end these areas came under the control of the biggest thug - the one with the most fighters under his control. He argued that in view of this violent history of might makes right it is was ridiculous to just have hereditary succession and that the next candidate from the house of Windsor should have to fight it out in the ring with the boxing champion of the UK for the title of King/Queen of all England. And then he added - a little shame-facedly - "with the loser being sh@gged up the @rse by a donkey."

[AnX]

Hilarious...

[TheMaestro]

Napster killed music.
/thread

[AnX]

Nope

[Dunbar]

Life imitating art.

As a baby he's photographed in pursuit of the dollar. As an adult...

I'm sure the recursion, and irony, isn't lost on him. It wouldn't come as a surprise if he's making a statement beyond financial reward - he's engaged in performance art, of a sort.

[morelia]

No, it just means I don't like it.

Sorry, we do tongue in cheek here in Queensland.

I bet you do

[Hink]

Napster killed music.
/thread

it did kill a great record/cd/tape store in Nashua NH...the store directly to the left of this place...I knew the owner.






daddy's had a cool salesman in that store I shopped in that store in my younger days, having a key to it was pretty cool

[AnX]

All the 78's you want

[vurt]

is music under attack?