I was out and about yesterday afternoon and heard “Empire State of Mind” playing in car radios, bleeding from cheap i-pod earphones on the subway, booming out of apartment windows, and out of the lips of teenagers walking down the street.
Now I can’t get it out of my head.
This anthem is not wearing well.
Please, help.
You need to get yourself a Sinatra CD and listen to it repeatedly for about 5 hours. That is the cure for all bad-music induced diseases!
Yeah, I'm afraid five hours of Sinatra won't help at all. I like the early stuff he did with Tommy Doresy but am really not a fan of his records.
unfortunately, i think i can top that alex.
i play on this rec league touch fotoball team on the weekend and it was our last game of the season so we want out to this place on 86th near browadway to hang out and in the basement they were playing empire state of mind and of course most of the females (and yes most of theme were were drunk white girls) started signing the chorus and let's just say they shouldn't even have been mouthing the words to anything alicia keys blessed. then some other girl started telling me how much she loved jay-z and i asked what was her favorite track on reasonable doubt and she couldn't even name one of the radio hits. needless to say i wished i was somewhere else at that point.
i say it's time to start the revolution and blast some real hip-hop shit and give them nas's ny state of mind
[2] Then you're hopeless :)
oh Alex, you need some "Wee Small Hours" in your life or "Songs For Swingin' Lovers"...that stuff is timeless.
Jay-Z fell off hard for me after "Hard Knock Life". I thought "Black Album" had its moments ("Lucifer" and "P.S.A." are great) but there was some filler too. I just always felt that after Biggie and Tupac died, Jay taking over the mantle of "best rapper alive" said more for the sad state of rap than anything great about him.
Still love me some "Reasonable Doubt" though.
"Reasonable Doubt" is where I start and end with Jay, with some other singles mixed in here and there.
Sinatra...yeah, I just never got that guy.
No accounting for taste! LOL
[5] totally agree raging - psa and lucifer were very good tracks. i actually like some of the joints on american gangster too - especially amercian dreamin - great marvin gaye sample and tight lyrics too. and yeah reasonable doubt is still my favorite jay album by quite a lot.
btw very nice pics you posted the other day - thanks for sharing.
I know someone who calls it (that is, "Empire State of Mind") the Wintry Tomato song. Maybe he remembers shopping at Gristedes in January.
To understand why the song deserves this name, you have to listen to the chorus with a naive ear, as it were. The phrase is almost exactly at the 1:00 mark (at least on the Lala version). And yes, I know what she's really saying.
[7] ah thanks, I think I'm gonna print out a glossy of the one of CC and Tex I really like the way that one came out
As you and Emma both said, Alex, it could be a lot, lot, lot worse thing running through your head.
It'll pass soon enough.
[10] luckily i really didn't hear that song that much - now the banter song that really stuck in my head was "jesus is my friend" and both alex and emma are to blame for that one :}
[11] That thing still pops into my head from time to time as well. What's worse, it not only pops into the brain, but then forces its way out of my mouth.
[11] [12] I don't know it, and I plan on keeping it that way! =)
Though, as they say, the only way to get one annoying song out of your head is to replace it with another annoying song.
Yeah, Empire State of MInd is everywhere, which is annoying, but like Emma says the 2009 Yanks could definitley have a worse anthem.
The song that immediately makes me think about this particular team, and this inaugrual season at the Stadium is Melky's entrance tune: "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)" by Pitbull. It's drippin' with macho cheese, but it's tasty..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHnAxdnmYQc
aside from Enter Sandman, no entrance tune got the new joint jumpin' like Melky's.
Alex, sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you:
If you like piña coladas
and gettin' caught in the rain...
Sorry.
Try a little Johnny Winter New York, New York,
To which I can only reply: "Start spreadin' the news..."
Never gets old.
[14]
"drippin’ with macho cheese, but it’s tasty"
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Macho Cheese ... for when your nachos aren't MAN enough!
[3] she's probably clueless (as am I when it comes to Jay-Z) but Rodan is one of my favorite all time bands and I can't name a track on their one album. I'm just bad at track names.
PJ Harvey - Good Fortune .... an ode to NYC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBfcRWy69Zo
[20] love me some pj harvey.
My girlfriend has been playing the song every hour or so since the Yankees won and I was seriously thinking of leaving her.
Then I made her pay attention to the lyrics for a change and she finally recognized how silly it is. Now she is done with it.
Phew! The relationship endures.
[15] Ruper Holmes is The Man! ; )
[23] Rupert Holmes. D'oh!
[23] Him? >;)
My advice, Alex, is to turn the radio to WBGO 88.3 FM, and alternate with WKCR 89.9 FM during talking breaks. Although, I would avoid the Blues Hour unless you like your blues tinged with honky-tonk (with emphasis on the... well, yunnow) >;)
[15] Oh no..I actually always confuse the Pina Colada song with Margaritaville..both wretched anyways..
Still better than this, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUkBaz8cHas
'Yuck' with a capital Y.