Book’s Music podcast #170
PODCAST OF INTEREST: Caipirinha Appreciation Society’s “Pernambuco Trilogy Part 3″
The podcast created by the Caipirinha Appreciation Society is not only a joy to listen to, but a lesson to the diversity found in Brazil. They recently posted the third installment in their Pernambuco Trilogy, you can take a listen by clicking the player below.
You can also download this podcast and previous installments by clicking to the Caipirinha Appreciation Society page at PodOMatic
RECORD CRACK: Joan Jett to release “Greatest Hits” collection, includes new Blackhearts versions of Runaways classics
Joan Jett was “a part of the gang: in the early days of MTV, becoming a staple for the fledgling cable network to the point where Weird Al Yankovic would parody her with “I Love Rocky Road”. You loved her passion for the music, that aggression and attitude, and maybe you felt that was sexy. I still remember back when “world premiere videos” were an event, I wanted to see the video for “Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)”. I dozed off, but when I woke up she flashed me. WHOA!
Anyway, one can easily have similar flashbacks or memories with her music, and with a new biopic about her and her time with The Runaways, people are realizing how much her music still holds up. She has compiled a greatest hits album with all of her great songs, including “I Love Rock’N'Roll”, “Crimson & Clover”, “Bad Reputation”, “I Hate Myself For Loving You”, “Light Of Day”, and three updated versions of Runaways songs, including “School Days”, “You Drive Me Wild”, and “Love Is Pain”. With luck, this greatest hits collection and the biopic will inspire a younger generation of girls and young women to pick up a guitar and become maybe not the next Joan Jett, but the next movement of ladies who will share an inspiration to rock out for the fuck of it.
Her Greatest Hits album will be released as a single CD and of course be made available through the digital networks, but you can now pre-order it as a 2-record set from Amazon.
