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Scott Weiland
Kanye West "Mama's Boyfriend"
Kanye West
"Mama's Boyfriend"
Update: Kanye West says that the version of his song which was widely circulated this week is "entirely bogus and unsanctioned" and features a fake backing track.
"We are the voices of our parents' bad choices, the aftermath of divorces," Kanye raps on this Twisted Fantasy outtake. In one of his sweetest, realest, funniest songs ever, he channels his childhood rage at the hapless wannabe-dads who dated his single mom, while admitting that he's grown up to become pretty much the same kind of dude. "You your mama angel / Don't get it twisted baby boy, I'll Ving Rhames you," he tells his lady's son, over a soul-drenched beat that would have fit perfectly on College Dropout. You can almost hear the kid shoot back you're not my real dad!, before throwing a toy diplodocus at the Louis Vuitton Don's head.
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My Morning Jacket "Circuital"
My Morning Jacket
Circuital
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"I can see potential/Speaking through you/Speaking to you/ From all of heaven's possibility," My Morning Jacket's Jim James sings at the opening of his band's sixth album. He sounds like a hippie shaman, but the track is more Radiohead than the Doors: a sleek, low-end bass whir and tensely driving cymbal hits melt into hypnotic waves of ambient sound and ghostly backing vocals; the song builds ominously, then speeds headlong until climaxing in chaos and distortion. It's a trippy vision of heaven, and a song that sums up what MMJ do best: deliver new-fangled packages for old-fangled transcendence.
Over the past decade, the Kentucky quintet have been on an ambitious, boundary-melting mission. The last two discs – 2005's Z and 2008's Evil Urges – ping-ponged between misty-mountain guitar explorations and Seventies funk fantasias, kinky reggae and unwinking metal, while still delivering Southern-tinged jams that felt as comfy as a crusty college futon. Recorded in a Louisville church gymnasium, Circuital is just as adventurous, yet more organic and focused; when James sings, "Play it smart, soul intact/How you react is what you'll get back," against lovely circular guitar shimmer on "You Wanna Freak Out," he's like the beard-rock version of Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights, showing the boys how to relax and channel their inner jam.
They sure listened: "First Light" is a Seventies Stones boogie with the apocalypse sucked out and replaced with lyrics about spiritual satisfaction; the title track opens with Morse- code guitar noodling and unfolds into smiling, open-road strumming that recalls Wilco at their loosest; "The Day Is Coming" is space rock with a soul heartbeat, somewhere between the Delfonics and the Flaming Lips. All this warm, elegiac music fits lyrics that marinate in Zen tranquility – "I will never grow older/At least not in my mind," James sings on "Wonderful (The Way I Feel)."
So much bliss could get pie-eyed pious, but Circuital has a funny bone, too. "Outta My System" is about a reformed burnout car thief looking back happily on his outlaw days from the safety of marriage and stability. And then there's "Holdin on to Black Metal," probably the gnarliest thing these guys have done. Over a fuzz-toned psychedelic funk groove, sulfurous guitars and wah-wah horn flares, James brags about "catchin' waves on Lucifer's beach," as switchblade-wielding girl singers get his back. "Black Metal" is a stoned soul picnic in the heavy-metal parking lot, a brilliant addition to the canon of awesome songs about the power of the devil's noise. It's also another classic form Jimmy's made his own.
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Reeve Carney feat. Bono and the Edge "Rise Above 1"
Reeve Carney feat. Bono and the Edge "Rise Above 1"
Amid the all many disasters that beset the Broadway version of Spider-Man, Bono and the Edge's songs emerge pretty much unscathed by critics. Now that the show has been revised and restaged, this centerpiece anthem of struggle over adversity may become a metaphor for its slog towards redemption. "Rise Above" is a trademark soaring U2 ballad, with the elegant grandeur cranked up to Andrew Lloyd Weber levels. But show tunes need big voices too, and, singing next to Bono on this version from the forthcoming cast recording album, leading man Reeve Carney sounds like a nervous understudy.
Listen to "Rise Above 1":
Steven Tyler "(It) Feels So Good"
Steven Tyler
"(It) Feels So Good"
Steven Tyler's first official solo single has his doofiest parenthesis-abusing title since "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)." He uses an Aerosmith-style guitar riff and some chintzy synth drums, but he can't shape them into anything resembling an Aerosmith song – it sounds more like late-period Genesis, circa "I Can't Dance." Even when he honks a harmonica, it's impossible not to notice how offensively wussy the guitars are. "(It) Feels So Good" ends up sounding like a cry for help, in the form of Aerosmith's Joe Perry and Brad Whitford.
Listen to "(It) Feels So Good":
Miley Cyrus "Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live)"
Miley Cyrus
"Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live)"
Performed in Ecuador (born for the Internet), this embodies the kind of slimy pop serendipity that would make Kurt laugh, and then cry, and then laugh again (then sleep, probably). Miley may have the least Cobain-ian vision of teen spirit ever. But she rides it like a demon steed straight to karaoke hell.
Listen to Miley Cirus' "Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live)":
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