Welcome to Music That Matters with 3, 2, 1 New Music Monday.
This week: Leon Bridges gets a little Jungle help, Tom Morello invites in some friends, and Nothing But Thieves goes back to basics.
Plus, Taylor Swift, U2, and Alice in Chains unplugged on vinyl.
(Countdown Video)
3 major album drops.
First up — Leon Bridges with Happiness Anytime.
(“Happiness Anytime” clip)
This is Leon’s fifth studio album where he teamed up with J Lloyd and Lydia Kitto from Jungle for four days – and came away with half an album. That’s chemistry!
(“Talk It Over” clip)
Leon wanted music he could actually dance to onstage, and you can hear that extra groove all over this record.
Next, Tom Morello rages again with friends on Everyone Gets Everything They Want.
(“Unconquered” clip)
The guest list is stacked.
Serj Tankian is here. So is KNEECAP. Beartooth as well.
Tom’s son Roman Morello is all over this thing too.
(“Adjourn It” clip)
And then we have Nothing But Thieves returning to the same studio where they made their debut album.
(“Testosterone” clip)
They went back to that smaller, noisier sound of five guys making a racket together.
This is their fifth album – Stray Dogs
(“Stray Dogs” clip)
2 new singles.
This first song is actually one of four included on the expanded encore to last year’s album The Life of a Showgirl.
Taylor Swift with “Patient Zero.”
(“Patient Zero” clip)
Bottom line – it’s brand-new Taylor, and yes, that automatically makes it one of the biggest releases of the week.
Also new – and also big – U2 with “Silencio.”
(“Silencio” clip – sill-len-see-o)
This is the second song from their upcoming album Carnaval De Luz, arriving November 13th.
And that album will be U2’s first studio album of entirely new material in nine years.
(Record Scratch video)
And finally, one vinyl pick.
Alice in Chains’ MTV Unplugged – its the 30th anniversary.
The new double-LP reissue brings that 1996 performance back to vinyl, with stripped-down versions of “Nutshell,” “Rooster,” “Down in a Hole,” and “Would?”
(“Would?” clip)
That’s your 3 albums, 2 singles, and 1 vinyl for the week.
This has been 3, 2, 1 New Music Monday
Until next time.
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(Music Cut #1 – opening to “Can’t Stop This Thing We Started”)
Okay…
apparently we’re STILL not done…
with September 24th, 1991.
Because on the very same day as Nirvana…
Red Hot Chili Peppers…
and A Tribe Called Quest…
Bryan Adams also released…
Waking Up the Neighbours.
(Music Cut #2 – hook to “Can’t Stop This Thing We Started”)
And the album included a song Bryan Adams wrote…
for Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
But the movie studio…
wasn’t exactly blown away by it.
(Music Cut #3 – Robin Hood / end credits)
So they stuck it…
over the closing credits.
From there – “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You”…
became one of the biggest hits
of Bryan Adams’ entire career.
(Music Cut #4 – “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”)
LYRIC OF THE DAY: “Don’t tell me it’s not worth fightin’ for I can’t help it, there’s nothin’ I want more.” – Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You”
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(Music Cut #2 – of “Long, long, long, long time ago” from “Sir Psycho Sexy”)
To make the album…
producer Rick Rubin moved the Chili Peppers…
into a massive mansion in LA…
where they could live…
write…
and record together.
Well…
MOST of them lived there.
(Music Cut #3 – intro to “Suck My Kiss”)
Chad Smith wanted absolutely no part it.
He believed the mansion was haunted…
so while Anthony Kiedis, Flea and John Frusciante stayed there…
Chad left every night…
and went home.
(Music Cut #4 – more “Suck My Kiss” with the hook and then drums)
LYRIC OF THE DAY: “Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the funk will make me freak If I should die before I waked Allow me Lord to rock out naked” – Red Hot Chili Peppers “Sir Psycho Sexy”
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Welcome to Movies That Matter, where we look at three movies worth knowing about before the weekend begins.
Brad Pitt stranded in Alaska with only his dog, DreamWorks sending us somewhere – I forget, you’ll see why, and Avengers: Endgame – one more time – it’s the encore!
(Countdown Video)
What’s new? Brad Pitt is heading into the Alaskan wilderness for Heart of the Beast.
(Heart of the Beast “The Hard Way” clip)
Pitt plays a former Special Forces soldier who survives a plane crash and finds himself stranded with only his combat dog by his side.
So basically – freezing temperatures and no help, but one very important “good boy.”
(Heart of the Beast – dog jumping into water clip)
Alright… after all of that survival, I really need something to help me forget about it all.
(Forgotten Island clip – “Welcome to Forgotten Island”)
Yeah – I went there with the bad joke. Forgotten Island
It drops us onto a mysterious island filled with creatures, surprises and – judging by the title – a place everybody forgets about on the map.
(Forgotten Island “the longer you’re here” clip)
And finally… Avengers, assemble.
(Avengers: Endgame “Avengers, assemble” clip)
Avengers: Endgame is back for an encore
Now, seven years later, you get another chance to see it the way it was meant to be seen – on the big screen.
(Avengers: Endgame “Second chance” clip)
Saving the universe once just wasn’t enough.
That’s this weekend’s Movies That Matter. From surviving Alaska to getting lost on a forgotten island to assembling the Avengers one more time, there should be something waiting for you at the movies.
Until next time – keep on popping the corn.
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Marilyn Manson created one of the defining songs of his career.
But that title…
“The Beautiful People”…
actually came from somewhere you probably wouldn’t expect.
(Music Cut #3)
A book.
Marylin Bender’s 1967 book The Beautiful People…
about the world of celebrities…
fashion…
and high society.
Nearly 30 years later…
Marilyn Manson borrowed the title…
and made “The Beautiful People” sound a whole lot less beautiful.
(Music Cut #4)
LYRIC OF THE DAY: “It’s not your fault that you’re always wrong The weak ones are there to justify the strong.” – Marilyn Manson “The Beautiful People”
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