Web Watch wants you to feel old.
That’s why we get so much amusement out of this list of 40 THINGS TO MAKE YOU FEEL REALLY, REALLY OLD.
It’s like that line from the TOO MUCH JOY song, TRAIN IN VAIN: “The Playboy centerfold is younger than me.. I don’t think I can ever feel the same again...” Yeah, this list of things to make you feel old is kinda like that. Let’s take a look at some of those 40 different items, shall we?
You know how you and your buddies all sit around on lazy Sunday afternoons just drinking a few beers and watching the game when one of you comes out with some random-ass deep thought about some TV show or movie or something, and it makes complete total sense to everyone else in the room where everyone says, “yeah, why is that, Dude?” and you all nod your heads in agreement but when it comes the next day nobody remembers what the hell you guys were talking about in the first place?
Then OVERTHINKING IT is a website for you.
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The Royal Wedding – Official Album
If you spent this weekend watching your TiVo’s recordings of The Royal Wedding, then you can rest assured – the entire audio program is being released on CD, vinyl, and as a digital download on May 10th, 2011. That’s a pretty impressive, fast turnaround time for something that was watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.
Those of you who are into vinyl may want to splurge – that edition will include a special collector’s booklet.
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The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
There are lots of financial obligations when you’re a solo musician or in a band.
You have to worry about getting gigs, writing music, obtaining copyright or other legal paperwork. Then there’s the infighting, splitting appearance fees, and paying for samples in your hit song that borrowed liberally from clips you found on YouTube.
Yeah – music royalties may not pay a lot, but they do end up paying something. But sometimes, what you get from those royalty checks isn’t enough to make ends meet.
But all is not lost if you have to file for bankruptcy. All sorts of extremely successful and well-respected artists have had to make that financial sacrifice in order to continue their careers later. If you end up having to file bankruptcy, at least you’d be in good company.
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Neil Diamond – The Jazz Singer
When you think Jewish musicians, you may think of the obvious: Barbra. Dylan. Sandler.
But Jewish music is much more than that. According to Curt Sachs, “Jewish music… is music created by Jews, as Jews, for Jews”. In other words, to qualify as Jewish music, it wasn’t necessary to have Jewish musical roots as long as the feeling and intent – or the performer – was there.
So with that in mind, you may be interested in this list of THE TOP 100 JEWISH SONGS OF ALL TIME. Sure, we won’t list all 100 of them here, and the descriptions of what makes each song inherently Jewish are awesome — but you may be surprised at what songs are considered great Jewish classics.
Maestro? Hit it…
YouTube: An Insider’s Guide to Climbing the Charts
How much money is Rebecca Black making with her YouTube video FRIDAY? That seems to be the question on everybody’s mind these days, regardless of what they think about the quality of her song.
As WEB WATCH COVERED PREVIOUSLY, YouTube videos can make hundreds of thousands of dollars for their owners.
So when we see reports that Friday has only earned around $45,000 so far, Web Watch begins to question who is right when it comes to calculating payouts and royalty checks for viral YouTube videos. So let’s take a look at this again, shall we?
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Web Watch won’t get into the controversy surrounding whether Lady Gaga’s most recent hit, Born This Way, sounds too much like some old Madonna song.
Hey, both have good beats and you can dance to ’em. To the casual listener, that’s what’s called win-win.
But not everyone is in love with Lady Gaga, no matter what she does or says.
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Songwriter software: Create your own sheet music
So now that you’ve written your songs, it’s time to get the band together.
And the hardest part about getting the band together is not picking out who the drummer or lead singer are going to be, but what the band name will be.
Because a good band name can make or break you. We all know some bands that can’t get any promotion because they decided to be “edgy” and pick a name that has foul connotations. Think about it – if you can’t tell your band name to your grandmother (like LMFAO did, whose grandmother approved of their choice), then maybe you’re not thinking down the line enough about the important stuff – like getting paid.
