New Sara Bareilles vid for “Bottle It Up”

Seriously.  She’s the goods. I’m crazy about her music. What about you?

You’re on a deserted island.

You get to pick 5 songs that we play on 98 PXY to keep you entertained.

ONLY 5!

My 5:

1. Britney-Break The Ice
I really do believe “Blackout” is her best music to date. Don’t think I can get sick of this song.

2. Danity Kane-Damaged
I haven’t had this much fun spelling since Fergilicious and Gwen Stefani. This sh*t is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S! Can you fix my h-e-a-r-t, cuz’ it’s d-a-m-a-g-e-d.

3. David Guetta-Love is Gone
This song will replace caffeine nicely on this deserted island. And I’ll need a song to keep up my pace when I run.

4. Lil’ Wayne-Lollipop
Because. She wants to lick the rapper. He really says that. That just happened.

5. Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake-4 Minutes
Only on the list to amuse myself. I will always hear them sing, “If you farted, it better be what you want!” That’s funny. To me, at least.

What makes your list?

Every Thursday, right here on this blog, I’ll give you a list of hotness from all over the web. This is based 100% completely on my own opinion of what is “badass”. No one has influenced this list. Now, I give you, EoB:

1. I’m pretty sure this is the reason the internet exists.

2. John Mayer rules. Watch the language on this one. You have to watch if only to see him rock not one, but two Bluetooths.

3. MUSE on guitar hero! It’s badass enough to virtually rock out on “Knights of Cydonia”, now additional tracks are available. That would be me jumping off the furniture.

4. Flobots. It’s Eminem+Cake.

5. “If you got a funny sign, you ain’t been homeless that long” - Chris Rock. If the panhandlers in Rochester were this creative I may spare them a buck or two.

If you hear someone say that at a concert, that person is an idiot. We’re getting into concert season. Here are some things to watch out for in order to fully enjoy the experience of watching live music:

Recording the show or incessantly taking photos with your cell phone. I honestly don’t know why people do this. The photo quality of the majority of cell phones is terrible.

Talking throughout the entire show. No one’s saying you have to stand there like a wax statue with your arms folded, intently concentrating on every lyric and chord. But I could do without the people who feel the need to constantly natter to their friends throughout the show, especially at smaller shows where the band can HEAR you not paying attention.

Being an unruly lout. Everyone knows all about the one dude who stands at the back of the venue and yells “WOOO! YES!!!” during the band’s between-song banter and at the start of every song, regardless of whether he can recognize it. What’s worse is when that dude brings along all of his rabblerousing buddies, and they get to the venue early to get their drink on. By the time the show starts they’re slurring their words and sloshing their drinks, bumping into people and stomping on toes. Get a hold of yourselves, people! Try to make it to the encore without blacking out, please.

Standing at a seated venue. Look, I go to a lot of shows. Almost all of them are general admission/standing. I look forward to sitting at the 10% of venues that have seats. So for the love of god, please don’t LEAP out of your seat the moment the band hits the stage and remain standing for the entire set. Stand for a couple of songs and then sit back down.
Waiting till the band plays their radio hit and then leaving . A lot of times the band comes to town early in their career and they already know that you only came to see them for one song. But humour them and feign some interest in the rest of their material - it’s all near and dear to them; it just happens that one of their songs is being pimped out by their label or us.

I’m pumped.  Paramore just left our studios.  They are awesome.  They’re on before Jimmy Eat World tonight at R.I.T.  Jimmy Eat World is easily my favorite band of the last 10 years.  Tonight’s festivities will include:

Beer

A great concert

Beer

Friends from out of town

Beer

Garbage Plate

Ass-breath

There may be some injuries tonight.  Some of us may not make it out alive.  That’s the risk we’re willing to take for a good time.  Wish me luck.

MD