A friend asked me to put together a quiz aimed at a more youthful audience, covering roughly hits from the past five years. I may as well share it here: if the regular visitors don't their MTV from their VH-1, perhaps their kids might like to have a crack at an intros quiz. Family friendly, I am. (The illustration on the right? A Rolling Stone cover from July 2005, more or less the midpoint of the time period covered by this quiz. That Ms Alba... she isn't very ugly at all.)Answers in the Comments section soon.
Intros Quiz 2003-08
Oh, and while I'm here, the recent flurry of post deletions on this blog still puzzle me, but I've noticed that three of the deleted posts included links to songs by Prince (two of them on perpetually screwed ZShare). The artist formerly known as pretty damn good has stated that he objects to his music being featured on blogs. It's a shame that Prince's people acted without asking me to remove the offending links. Way to piss off a fan, Prince. Our little hero has not created one decent CD in the past 15 years, so my consumer boycott of Prince albums will have no effect. But even if he makes another great album, I'll be damned if I buy it. Consider me an ex-fan of Prince. Another act that has asked their blogging fans (!) not to review their album is – here's a surprise – Metallica. Happily, that outfit of wankbuckets are unlikely to ever feature on this blog. I'm delighted to declare that I own nothing by them, and I wouldn't give those overblown pricks more time of the day than I already have wasted writing half of this paragraph.
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6 comments:
"It's a shame that Prince's people acted without asking me to remove the offending links. Way to piss off a fan, Prince."
Are they obligated to ask? And how often do you think a friendly request was ignored, or the blogger shot back "How do I know it's Prince? Prove yer not a TROLL, pal."
You have a great blog. Don't let a few deletions warp reality. Face it, if somebody took everything you wrote and put it on their own blog and asked for donations, you'd be pissed off. YOUR work and somebody ELSE getting attention or money. That's what the musicians face and it's their livelihood, not a hobby.
If you saw it happen all over the place maybe you'd be too pressed for time to do more than put through deletion requests. These people are probably so numb they don't notice if the blogger is a nice guy being supportive or not, which is a shame. Yes, in your case you deserve better, but in many cases, so do they.
Fair points and much appreciated, anonymous. If I may offer a respectful rebuttal:
I'm seeking to profit and it says on my blog that I'll take down material as requested. It would take not much greater effort to drop me an e-mail than it does to contact Blogger. And, numb or not, it would the right thing to do. If the record companies are behind the "takedowns", then they are applying collective punishment, hitting friendly bloggers while going after the pirates. I appreciate that not everybody feels as strongly about that form of justice as I do, but I have no tolerance for heavy-handedness and certainly no inclination of accepting that I should become collateral damage in the war against piracy.
The thread deletions have been badly handled. Blogger deserves criticism for its handling, and the artists on whose behalf this was done (if it was done on their behalf) have not been served well by these actions. Prince, in my post, serves as a proxy at whom to level my frustration. And, yes, maybe I'm lashing out in all directions because Blogger won't say who ordered the deletions.
Of course the record industry is not obligated to ask having the appriopriate links removed. The DMCA seems to cover that. At the same time I dispute that they have a moral (and, if other material not referring to their client is involved, possibly even legal) right to have obliterated material unrelated to their client.
Besides, I can't see how one file from a lesser-known Prince album from 1979 is going to deprive Prince of his supper tonight. Is it really necessary to go after bloggers posting that sort of thing?
All that presuming, of course, that the "takedowns" were not the work of some loon.
"Wankbuckets" is my word of the day - thanks, Dude.
Any chance of the answers Duders old chap?
Oops. I thought I had posted them already. Apologies. Here goes:
1. N.E.R.D. - She Wants To Move
2. Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
3. Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama
4. Natasha Bedingfield - These Words
5. Sara Bareilles - Love Song
6. Linkin Park - Numb
7. The Pussycat Dolls Ft. Will.I.Am - Beep
8. Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi
9. Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
10. Ashlee Simpson - Pieces Of Me
11. Amerie - One Thing
12. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
13. Daniel Powter - Bad Day
14. 14 Ying Yang Twins - Wait (The Whisper Song)
15. Colbie Caillat - Bubbly
16. Usher feat. Lil Jon and Ludacris - Yeah
17. Counting Crows - Accidentally in Love
18. Eminem - Just Lose It
19. The Killers - Somebody Told Me
20. Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
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