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Slayer: Angel of Death, Why The Song Was So Misunderstood Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

Why the Slayer Song Angel of Death was so Misunderstood

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#slayer

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The 80’s were a really important decade for heavy metal albums and one of the most important records released during this time was Slayer’s 1986 record Reign in Blood, which brought them onto the radar of a lot of metal fans. The Rick Rubin produced LP was delayed due to a controversy involving the opening track ‘Angel of Death’, which we’re going to explore in today’s video.

Slayer would release their second album Hell Awaits in 1984 on metal blade records. For their follow up and third album the band would nab a deal with def jam records, an odd move at the time given that they were a hip hop label. But founder Rick Rubin was a metal fan and convinced the band to sign with him and made them the first rock act to sign to the label.

When it came to writing their third record Slayer would take a different approach with bassist and frontman Tom Araya telling metal hammer in 2012

“Everybody else was doing something slow,”. “Kerry [King, guitarist] and Jeff [Hanneman, guitarist] said that they didn’t want to do a slow record, they wanted to do something fast. They didn’t realise it was gonna be that fast…” The opening track of the album would be angel of death, which would be solely written by guitarist Jeff Hanneman who at the time had read several books about germany’s atrocities during world war 2.

Hanneman would tell author Paul Elliott the strange place he wrote the song recalling in his article for Loudersound ‘The last time I spoke to Hanneman, in 2009, he explained that Angel Of Death was written in a most unlikely setting – at the home of his girlfriend’s parents. He laughed about the bizarre nature of his creative process. “It’s weird. When I’m angry, the music doesn’t flow. But when I’m happy the evil comes out!”

Hanneman would spend his years on tour with the band visiting war museums, reading history books about world war 2 with kerry king remembering “Jeff was super intelligent about history—World War II became his thing,” Hanneman’s father was an American soldier during world war 2 and he would bring his son home medals and other items taken off the corpses of german soldiers. It was that fascination with Germany’s world war 2 history that landed the band in trouble. Angel of death would take its name from German Scientisit josef mengale who conducted horrific experiments on prisoner’s of war at auschwitz concentration camp.

Columbia records who was Def Jam’s distributors were already unhappy about the album’s cover which showed gentalia and the pope’s hat. When they saw the lyrics for angel of death they flat out rejected it. Rubin stood by the band and said no to removing the song. Columbia head Walter Yetnikoff would reportedly say according to Rolling Stone @My shareholders are all Jewish!”

Tom Araya would tell Team Rock in 2012 “All of a sudden, the record company doesn’t want to release the album because of this song,” “When Jeff brought in the song, we thought, ‘Wow, that’s really cool – [Mengele] was the guy that did all those crazy, terrible things.’ Then all of a sudden we discovered that people had a problem with that. We were, like, f. …'”

Def Jam would be forced to take the album to Geffen Records. Geffen was weary of being associated with the record and while they released it they didn’t list it on their release calendar and didn’t put their logo on the album. Many in the press picked up on the lyrics of the song with some criticizing the band for being sympathetic to the Germany’s world war 2 history. But this was a charge the band flat out denied, claiming the media misunderstood the song.

Hanneman would tell the LA Times in 1988 during a profile on the band I’m into German history. . . . It fascinates me. It’s not that I am one of them or that it’s a sympathetic song. It’s more like a documentary.”

In a separate interview Hanneman would recall “I know why people misinterpret it – it’s because they get this knee-jerk reaction to it,” “There’s nothing I put in the lyrics that says necessarily [Mengele] was a bad man, because to me – well, isn’t that obvious? I shouldn’t have to tell you that.”
The biggest flak over the album seemed to come from Europe, more specifically Germany. Here’s tom araya and jeff hann

Kid Rock: The Tragic Death of His Buddy Joe C (Calleja) Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

Kid Rock: The story of his hype man Joe C (Calleja) and his untimely passing.

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#joec #kidrock #detroit

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Best known as Kid Rock’s side kick or the hype man for his Twisted Brown Trucker Band, Joe C would meet the musician before he got famous But his time would be cut short suffering from a debilitating medical condition. Today, lets take a look at the life of Joe C

Joe C would be born Joe Calleja. At a young age he would be diagnosed with an intestinal disorder known as celiac’s disease. At the age of 4 he would be prescribed dozens of medications including a steroid known as prednisone that stunted his growth resulting in his adult height being 3 ft 9. He would describe to MTV his daily routine revealing "I'm stickin' to my diet and takin' my medicine on time. You know, it's ridiculous. I take 60 pills [a day]. Right off the bat, when I wake up, [I take] two pills. An hour later, 10 pills. Three hours later, I've got the tube [in my stomach], and I shoot something through there three hours later. Two hours later, I take two more, and then an hour later, 10, then shoot the tube three hours later [again]." He would admit to spin magazine he would give up his rockstar life if it mean he could live with celiac’s disease.

Joe C. was a big fan of kid rock attending several of his early shows in 1994 as they recounted to VH1 here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Yhcr-XETI&t=178s (37 Second mark - 56 second mark, 1 minute 2 second mark to 1 minute 46 second mark). Joe. C would tell Entertainment Weekly what the C stood for saying It’s just my last name, Calleja. But it also stands for ”chronic.” And ”chronical,” which is chronic. But it’s a different word.” The hype man wasn’t shy hiding his love for pot.

By this point in kid Rock’s career he had already released several albums but hadn’t yet hit big. In 1997 Kid Rock would sign with Atlantic Records with him putting out his fourth record Devil without a cause in 1998, which was a massive success moving 15 million copies. The record was notable because the musician moved away from his traditional hip hop sound blending together rap rock, nu metal and hard rock. Joe C would appear on the album as part of his backing band Twisted Brown Trucker. But due to his health issues Joe C didn’t spend a lot of time on the road with the band having to bow out by the late 1999. He would make several high profile appearances during this time appearing on the south park soundtrack and on the fox animated show the simpsons.

Several publications noted 1999 to be the year of htel little people with Verne Tryoer of Ausin Powers fame also being in the news. In fact Joe C would reveal to spin they were both friends and Troyer provided important emotional support when he felt down about his life. Despite that he also became the butt of jokes, most notably at the 1999 mtv vidoe music awards when Chris Rock who was host made some jokes at his expense as you can see here.

On the evening of NOvember 16th, 2000 spin magazine would report that Joe C who was staying at his parents house in Taylor, Michigan was complaiing about feeling cold and decided to call it a night. His father found him unresponsive the next morning. He was just 26 years old. His cause of death was complications due to celiac disease.

In a statement, Kid Rock — reported to be extremely shaken by C.'s death — said, "Family and friends are everything; without them, all of the fame and fortune means nothing. We have lost part of our family. Joey gave us, and the world, his love. He brought a smile to everyone who has ever known or seen him.
"In a world full of confusion, Joey made all of us laugh. No matter what color, religion, race, or beliefs we have, he made us all smile. He gave us the gift of joy. Joey, thank you. We will never forget you. We love you."

MTV news would report the following year that Joe C would be honored at Kid Rock’s upcoming live shows "We're going to do a nice tribute to him every night and try not to be selfish about it," Rock said backstage at the American Music Awards ceremony on Monday.
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Nelson: The Tragic Story of The Band Behind 'Love And Affection' & 'After the Rai Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

The story of the band Nelson who wrote hits including 'Love and Affection' & 'After the Rain'

0:00 - Early Years
2:35 - Father's Death/Mother Feud
3:50 - First Big Break/Epiphany
5:15 - Songwriting Success/Signing
8:27- Debut album/touring
13:13 - Second Album/Decline

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#nelson #nelsonband #glammetal

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The band Nelson would be made up of twin brothers matthew and gunnar. While the pair would come on everyone’s radar in 1990 with their record After the Rain. They were one of the last so called hair metal acts that would take off up before the whole scene came crashing down. Record label infighting, image and credibility problems hampered the band as well as changing musical trends that resulted in the band spending years in the studio without new music. Today let’s explore whatever happened to the band Nelson.

The Nelson brothers would be born to parents Kristy and Ricky Nelson who were in show business. Their father with whom both brothers had a close bond with was an accomplished musician.. Their show business roots ran deeper than their parents. Their grandparents were Ozzie and Harriet. Their aunt would be Pam Dawber from the show Mork and Mindy while their uncle is Mark Harmon from NCIS

The brothers would be born in 1967 in hollywood with Gunnar Nelson recalling in the book Nothing but a good time “We were there at the very epicenter of the birth of country rock at the troubadour when our dad ricky put together the stone canyon band. At the troubadour any night you could see Linda Rondstadt’s first band, Jackson Brown, Buffalo Springfield all that kind of stuff. That’s what Matt and i grew up watching our father doing. ”

Given their deep connection to hollywood it wasn’t surprising that the brothers went down the same path. The Nelson brothers would start playing instruments at age 6, did their first recording session at age 11 and played their first club shows in LA at age 12 under the monicker Strange Agent with another friend from school guitarist Joey Cathcart. Gunner would play drums, while Matthew would play bass and front the band. Not siloing themselves to any one particular genre of music Matthew Nelson would admit in the same book the brothers were friends with punk rockers, new wavers and rockabillies. The band cut their chops playing five nights a week around LA sharing the stage with acts including the Plimsouls, and the Go Go’s. But being a decade and a half younger than their counterparts playing the same club shows also exposed the brothers to the ugly side of fame and made little time to form friendships with Matthew Nelson recalling in the same book “They’re the scariest motherf** I’ve ever seen. I mean far scarier than any punkers or rivet heads, you know metal guys. These were scary people that sang really happy songs, but they were all heroin addicts . They would do stuff like sabotage your gear before a show cut your power cable or kick your amps to where they would blow a tube.

By the middle of the 80’s the band would rename themselves The Nelsons. Their father Ricky would die in a plane crash in 1985 on new years eve. His sons at the time were now 18 and the loss proved to be devastating to them. What made the loss hurt even more was that the brothers were supposed to join their father on the plane trip to a gig in texas, but their father called them up and suggested they fly commercial. They would opt to stay home.

Adding insult to injury was that the brothers found out about their father’s death through teh radio. It was a local rock station who was playing their father’s music which they found strange, until the DJ announced their father’s passing.

The brothers relationship with their mother was in sharp contrast to their father. When their father died he left the family with 4 million dollars in debt. Their mother did little to nurture her sons musical dreams, also hitting the bottle pretty hard with the brothers telling yahoo their mother was a narcissist. Their mother went as far as when the boys turned 18 to write them letters tellign them their were delusional for trying to become musicians with Matthew telling yahoo “Our mother made it very difficult for us to play music,” says Matthew. “She said we always reminded her of [Rick], and the business was horrible and it was ‘gonna take you down.’”

INXS: Michael Hutchence Feud With Oasis: BRIT Awards Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

INXS: The Michael Hutchence Feud with Oasis

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#inxs #oasis #michaelhutchence

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Back in 1996 INXS Frontman Michael Hutchence would present Oasis with an award for their huge hit Wanderwall at the Brit Awards. But the happy occasion resulted in Oasis guitarist Noel gallagher hurling an insult at Hutchence and INXS and would result in a diss track. That’s what were going to discuss in today’s video.

At the 1995 MTV European music awards it was reported that INXS frontman Michael Hutchence and Oasis singer Liam Gallagher nearly got into a fight backstage when Hutchence threw a fire extinguisher at Liam following some disparaging remarks he made about his then lover, Paula Yates according to the book INXS: Story to Story the official autobiography. There wasn’t much follow up reporting, but a year later 1996 at the Brit Awards it seemed like it was water under the bridge at least initially. Hutchence who was an Oasis fan would present an award that night to Oasis. Oasis at the time was reeling from the success of their sop****re record what’s the story morning glory. Featuring the hit song Wonderwall the song was nominated for the best video category wand be against take that, pulp, radiohead and blur. Oasis would win the award but as Oasis left the stage noel gallagher hurled an insult at hutchence saying

, “Has-beens should not be presenting awards to gonna-be’s.” Pretty rough. It was during the time of the Brit awardds that INXS who had started writing what would be their final album 1997’s Elegantly Wasted. The band had come off an extended hiatus after their last album 1993’ Full Moon Dirty Hearts was a commercial disappointment due to lukewarm responses from critics and changing musical tastes.

Hutchence would tell the album network magazine in 1997 “We really wanted to get off the old carousel for a while,” “As a band, we have recorded an album every 12 to 18 months over the last five or six years. This helped to create a situation resulting in a lot of personal and business friction within the band, as well as the record label. … So, it just seemed like the logical time to take a break.”

It was sometime after the brit awards that hutchence was in dublin, ireland and was at a bar with bono of u2 when liam gallagher supposedly walked in and got into a verbal altercation with hutchence. Bono kept the peace, butHutchence was so infuriated with the event that he headed back into the studio and added a background vocal to the title track elegantly wasted that said “i’m better than oasis.’ HEres an interview with hutchence asking about the song.

Hutchence would take his own life in november of 1997 and to those close to him Noel’s remark was said to have humiliated him.

Noel Gallagher seemed to would discuss the incident in 2000, three years after hutchence death telling uncut magazine…. The second night of The Brits [1996]. We didn't know Michael Hutchence was going to present us with an award. It was the first award of the night and there'd been words said before the ceremony in the papers. So when he come out to present the award, we went, 'Right, these cs [Brits organisers] have stitched us up here, because they know what's going on.' So we decided that, every time we hit that stage, we were just going to give it to everyone, and we f***ing duly did…It wasn't scripted or anything like that. We probably wouldn't have done anything if Michael Hutchence hadn't come out and said his little bit: 'I heard Liam wants to fight me.' We were like, 'Don't f***ing try and pick a fight with us, man, because we're the best at giving verbal abuse,' and off we went.

WHile the band’d last album with hutchence wasn’t as commercially successful as their earlier works the title track would peak at number 2 on the alternative charts in America.

Tool: Why MTV Banned The Video For 'Prison Sex' Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

Why MTV banned Tool's music video for 'Prison Sex'

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#tool #mtv #maynardjameskeenan

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I’ve covered a lot of artists whose videos MTV banned including Soundgarden, Neil Young, and Danzig. In pretty much all of these instances their videos either criticized the network, broke their policies or had imagery that was too provocative, but it’s rare that video has no violence, no nudity or criticizes the network and still gets banned. Well that’s what happened to TOOL. Let’s discuss in today’s video.
Formed in Los Angeles in the early 90’s by frontman Maynard James Kennan, guitarist Adam Jones, drummer Danny Carey and original bassist Paul D’Amour Tool would shock everyone with the one two punch of their debut EP 1992’s Opiate and 1993’s Undertow. For the members of the Tool it was important first and foremost to have creative control with guitarist Adam Jones telling Revolver Magazine “When we got signed [by Zoo Records in 1992], the most important thing for us was to have creative control,”
And that creative control extended not just to their music, but to their music videos. In fact before starting the band Tool both Maynard James Keenan and guitarist Adam Jones worked on film productions doing visual effects for several big hollywood films including Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park. In the same interview with Revolver Jones would add “We went, ‘OK, if we take less money can we have control of the music?’ And the label went, ‘Yeah, no problem!’ And we said, ‘If we take even less money can we have final say over the videos.’ And they went, ‘Sure.’”
Of course in theory all this is great, but Tool would soon butt heads with their record label. The second single from Undertow Sober would feature a stop motion video as did the video for their third single Prison Sex. For record labels you don’t just sell the music, but you sell the image of the band and Jones would tell Metal Hammer. “There was a lot of banging heads with the record company, because they still wanted to do things in the traditional way,. “They’d go, ‘Well, if you’re not gonna be in your video, we’re not gonna pay for it.’ And we’d say, ‘What do you mean? We’re supposed to have creative control.’ It was typical, slimy shit, but in the end they gave in.”
Even during the filming of the video the band ran into some serious issues. As filming began with Sober director Fred Stuhr in January of 1994 in Los Angeles the city would be rocked by a 6.7 magnitude earthquake that killed dozens and injured nearly 10,000 people. Jones would tell Loudersound
“We were still there at three in the morning when the ’94 earthquake hit Los Angeles,” “We were on the second floor of this old brick building that used to be owned by [American filmmaker] Cecil B. DeMille, and it wasn’t too sturdy. The rooms started shaking, and before I even know what was going on, Fred ran over to stand in the doorway, because that’s what you’re supposed to do in an earthquake. But the other five of us who were there just ran out and ploughed him over and left him lying on the ground. It was the worst thing that’s ever happened to me, and the best thing. When I looked out I could see downtown Hollywood, and all the transformers were blowing. They were popping, so there were these lightning strikes everywhere and it looked like the city was being bombed. It was just so beautiful.”

The subject matter of Prison sex dealt with childhood trauma , something the video depicted metaphorically. The message of the song is that those who suffere trauma early on in their life are capable of inflicting the same trauma as they get older. It’s been speculated the song was written about Maynard James Keenan’s step father, whom the frontman has repeatedly expressed his distaste for.
The message of the song wasn’t lost on both muchmusic in canada and mtv banned the video after a few plays. Despite this move the video still snagged a nomination for best visual effects. The reason for banning the video was that MTV complained the video was too unsettling. Despite the controversy over the lyrical content the song got airplay in the states peaking at number 32 on the mainstream rock char

Layne Staley’s Final Days with Alice in Chains Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

Alice in Chains: Layne Staley's final days with Jerry Cantrell and the rest of the band resulting in the songs Died and Ge Born Again.

0:00 - Alice in Chains Implosion
2:20 - Boggy Depot
4:05 - Layne Staley Returns To Alice
5:13 - Recording 'Died' & 'Get Born Again'
7:13 - Internal Tensions Leak/End

Alice in Chains Facelift Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShifZejOW_I&t=3s

Alice in Chains SAP Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWLsGm4bR9o&t=295s

Alice in Chains Rooster Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu8NjS5kLwo&t=2s

Alice in Chains Jar of Flies Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjU0uOP0sig

Days of the New Video
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#aliceinchains #jerrycantrell #laynestaley

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I’ve covered a lot of Alice in CHains videos on my channel including their glam days, making of facelift, jar of flies, sap and rooster. Links to those videos are down below. But today let’s take a look at a frontman Layne Staley’s final days with the band in the studio.
Alice in CHains would establish themselves as the first band out of seattles so called grunge movement to have a gold record with facelift. They would be release several big records including 1992’s Dirt, 1994’s EP Jar of Flies and 1995’s Self titled record that would prove to be their final studio album of original recordings. Addiction and in-fighting led to the band stop touring in any major capacity by 1993. Frontman Layne Staley’s addiction to heroin would be the group’s achiles heal and it wasn’t something the singer hid. A lot of their sop****re release 1992’s Dirt captured Layne’s struggle. The band’s last major appearance on the

road would be 1996, a year that saw the band briefly open for kiss that summer and make a few live tv appearances in addition to cutting an unplugged album. It was obvious from layen;’s changing physical appearance by 1996 he was still struggling with addiction. Following that summer alice in chains camp would lie dormant. Layne was hit with devastating news in October of that year when he learned his ex-fiance Demri Parrot had died. It was said by those close to him that he never fully recovered from her death.
By november of 1997 Layne would record guest vocals on the song the things you do for his friend jesse holt. Layne had previously recorded vocals on the track in 1988. In the book alice in chains the untold story, jason buttino who has the recordings would be quoted in the book as saying layne’s voice by this point in time was so quiet and soft his vocal track had to be boosted. Buttino also attributed the change in his voice not just due to his deteriorating health but the fact that the song was recorded a year after Demri’s death, something that obviously was still weighing heavily on him. It was during this time There’d be the odd news story about some running into Layne a lot of which is captured in the books everybody loves our town and grunge is dead. Even MTV reported in August 1997 there were rumors circulating online and on radio stations that Layne had lost several fingers to gangrene. The rumors likely stemmed from a 1996 profile that rolling stone did on the band that highlighted his personal problems. A rep for the band would issue a statement to mtv that read "I visited Layne the other day, and he's fine... and he's got all his fingers."
In October of 1997 the band’s manager Susan would appear at the north by northwest music and media conference and the seattle times would report at the time and i quote “she also hinted with a sigh that a lice is about to self destruct.” It was during this time Silver closed her management business.
A few months after the report came out in late 1997 reports would surface that guitarist Jerry Cantrell was now turning his attention to putting out a solo record. It’s important to note that boggy depot consisted of ¾ of alice in chains minus layne staley. Of course as Cantrell started doing press for his solo effort boggy depot which in April of 1998, the question of alice in chains inactivity continually ca

U2's Long History of Stolen Music - October, Achtung Baby, Pop, Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

U2: Today we take a look at the band's unfortunate history of stolen music.

0:00 - October
1:19 - Achtung Baby
4:12 - Pop
5:24 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
6:30 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

U2 Negativland Feud
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#u2 #bono #theedge

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Within a span of 23F years U2’s music was stolen not one, not twice, not three times, but four times ahead of their album’s coming out. In today’s video we’re going to explore what happened in all four instances.

Story 1

This first story starts in 1981. U2 was in Oregon playing a show when a briefcase was stolen from the band. The brief case contained lyrics that were going to be on their forthcoming album at the time October. As a result of the stolen briefcase Bono had to rewire the lyrics to the album in the studio, something the band members claimed was a terrible recording experience. A few years later when the band returned to Portland Bono appealed to the audience to return the briefcase. He made a similar request in 2001 when the band played Portland again.

Finally, 23 years after it went missing the briefcase was returned in 2004 by a 44 year old woman named Cindy Harris, 44 who claimed she found it in the attic of a rented house in 1981. Harris would claim she had no idea that it was stolen in 1981 and when she finally realized it was improperly taken, she wasn’t sure how to contact the band’s management.

Story 2

In the spring of 1991 ahead of U2 releasing their seven thstudio album Achtung baby the band learned that theirr rehearsal tapes were stolen. The band was in berlin, germany during the recording of the album. While it’s not exactly clear how teh rehearsal tapes ended up in the hands of bootleggers there’s been two theories put forward. One was that perhaps they were stolen from the band members hotel rooms, while another is that they were stolen from the band members cars in Dublin. The LA Times would report that hotelmaids found the tapes in the band members hotel trash can in berlin, but a spokesperson for the band told the paper “It’s impossible to fathom the band leaving these tapes in the hotel trash. They would always be under lock and key.” The bootleg tapes originated from sessions done the previous year in Berlin at Hansa (hanza) studios.

Either way bootleggers around the world started selling the almost 3.5 hours of rehearsal tapes. There would be multiple versions of the rehearsal tapes put out .When U2 learned about this and the mainstream press picked it up, Bono referred to the recordings as and i quote “gobbleygook” and said that he didn’t understand why anybody would be interested in it.

The LA Times would publish a piece in May of 1991 that read “Call it the ultimate underground album. Rock radio isn’t playing it. Record stores won’t sell it. The band’s record company hasn’t even heard of it.” The LA Times would report that one bootleg that was circulating at the time was titled “The New U2: Rehearsals and Full Versions,” with the album being sold with two discs to a jacket promising 30 new tracks including “She’s Gonna Blow Your House Down,” “Sweet Baby Jane,” “I Feel Free,” “Don’t Say Goodbye” and “Don’t Let the Dues Get You Down.”

The Times would interview a fellow named Pete Howard who was the publisher of the international CD exchange newsletter who said “What makes this almost unprecedented is that these are tapes of songs that aren’t even finished yet,” . He would claim he received the bootleg from an anonymous subscriber going on to say “Some of the songs sound close to being final versions, but others are still instrumentals without vocal tracks. You can even hear (lead singer) Bono signaling the band to go into a bridge or chorus.”

The band’s label island records would take out full page ads in the british press threatening lawsuits against any music shops who were caught selling the stolen tapes. The police in London and Germany would catch a few stores selling the bootlegs, resulting in fines according to the Times. The Times would interview the general manager for Moby Disc record store chain in LA who told the outlet that the retail bootleg market in LA isn’t what it used to be and with all the media attention on the U2 bootleg, stores would have to be out of their mind to try and sell it. This wasn’t the only headache to plague the band during the making of the album as the group negativland put out their o

OMI - Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) (Official Video) [Ultra Records] Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

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Insightful Jamaican artist Omi (Omar Samuel Pasley) is bringing his breakthrough story to the U.S., with the compelling sheen of “Cheerleader,” leading the way. The smash dance song has notched more than 90 million Spotify streams, topping iTunes in 14 territories, including Germany, Australia, Sweden and others (Top 10 in nearly 30 other markets). Released in 2012, a cleverly understated remix by German DJ/Producer Felix Jaehn helped power the global momentum building around the infectious track.

“Cheerleader” originally took off in Hawaii, but Omi was getting a larger sense of the song’s ‘stickiness’ where ever he performed it live. “People just gravitated to it, always remarking how it was their favorite.” Felix Jaehn’s 2014 remix added to the combustible nature of the track,” but by deftly imbuing acoustic gestures into the mix – conga, piano, trumpet – embellishing its unornamented feel. “I loved the mix even before it took off,” says Omi. “So calm; And unusual for a remix, it made you want to listen to the words, too.”

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MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - DOWNTOWN (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

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OMC: The Tragic Story of How Bizarre & Pauly Fuemana Hotney 1 Streams • 3 years ago

OMC - The sad story of the song How Bizarre and leader Pauly Fuemana

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Best known for their hit song How Bizarre, OMC’s hit track was inescapable in the mid 90’s.. It would be a number one hit in both Canada and the US, it would reach the top 10 in over a dozen countries and resulted in their lone album selling millions of copies worldwide. The group’s sole album appropriately titled how bizarre would be new zealand’s biggest selling musical export. While How Bizarre was an upbeat song, OMC’s career was not. Drugs, gangs, lawsuits and health issues plagued the group and that’s what were going to explore in today’s video.

Pauly Fuemana would be the brainchild of OMC. He would be born in the late 60’s to polynesian parents in the impoverished auckland suburb of otara. Growing up in a difficult set of circumstances Fuemana was no stranger to the police frequently committing crimes, spending time in youth prison and getting involved with gangs, Amongst all the turmoil in Fuemana’s life he found joy in creating music with his brothers and sister. By the 80’s Fuemana was performing with an R&B group called House Party which included his brothers Phil and Tony and his sister Christine. He would start out as a dancer before teaching himself guitar and eventually singing background vocals for the group.The group would eventually change their name to Fuemana and released an album in 1993 on their own indie label. It would be the same year that Fuemana founded a new group called OMC which stood for the Otara Millionaire’s Club, which featured his brother Paul. Little did they know that in just a few short years that name would ring true, but it would come at a cost.

OMC’s early music resembled the rap that was popular in america at the time and while their early shows attracted some big crowds it was the wrong type of people. According to billboard magazine Otara’s Millionaire’s Club shows to see audience members from US exported gangs including the bloods and the crypts and it was at that point that Fuemana decided to quit the group, take the OMC name with him and start from scratch. His new music would draw on more of his south pacific roots. He would tell billboard in 1997 “we were doing all these gigs and gang members started showing up. In Auckland there is a very bad bloods and crips situation. I just decided to try and steer away from that and go in another direction where i could grow and get more into music that i wanted to make.” Helping Fuemana would be a producer named Alan Janseen who produced an underground New Zealand compilation record called “Proud” highlighting artists from South Auckland. OMC's contribution to the record would, We R the OMC.

Janseen and Fuemana would start writing songs together with the pair coming up with 8 songs in just 4 hours, one of which was How Bizarre. Originally titled Duff It Up, the name was quickly changed to How Bizarre. Author Simon Grigg who wrote a book about Fuemana would explain the origins of the song’s influences telling The Star newspaper “It has the Mariachi trumpets there which Pauly got from listening to Herb Alpert records when he was a kid,”.
“And the acoustic guitar is an Alan thing, from hearing folk rock on the radio, and Pauly’s vocal is almost a hip hop consciousness-style. So it was all these elements mixed together.
“And Alan's wife kept on saying ‘how bizarre’ about things, and we thought ‘that's a good phrase.’ You’d say something to her, and she’d go ‘how bizarre’. So it came from her.”
The day following that marathon writing session, OMC was booked to play big day out festival in auckland where they debuted the song live for the first time. It was a disastrous gig, people walked out on fuemana, but despite their poor live reception Australia seemed to love Paul with Rolling Stone referring to Fuemana”the marvin ****e of the pacific.” By late 1995 OMC would issue their debut album titled How Bizarre on local indie label Huh. It became a massive seller in New Zeland moving about 35,000 units.

The album would be distributed worldwide by major label Mercury-Polygram Records A spokesperson from the label would tell billboard “people here felt strongly about the album and song, but international sales don’t always translate because