Playlists
If playlists are the ultimate currency of coolness, we're your virtual treasury.
8EEZ Playlist: Huey Lewis and the News
Hi-hooooo! Hi-hooooo! Okay, enough of that. Too much "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" on the brain. Time to get back to business - of music, that is.
Carlos GonzalezPublished 7 years ago in BeatSilver Linings Playlist: Lionel Richie
Hello, and welcome back to Silver Linings where I find the positives in maligned pop culture. Success can be very fickle for musical acts, and it can also make absolutely no sense. How can any musician be both successful and despised at the same time? It seems very hypocritical to me, but that's the reality for plenty of people. So I decided to take a look at some of the artists that fit that description, and, when I thought about who fit it the most, one name came to mind immediately: Lionel Richie.
Adam WallacePublished 7 years ago in Beat8EEZ Playlist: Air Supply
G'day mates! As much as my buddy Oates and I enjoy writing about the long crop of 1980s new wave rock artists and the darlings of MTV, we like to explore ALL aspects of music from the 1980s, which will indeed include artists that were still held-over from the late 1970s as the dynamic began to shift slowly, but strongly away from disco and punk, and briefly had a renaissance of the kind of music that was the mainstay of pop in the early-70's.
Carlos GonzalezPublished 7 years ago in Beat8EEZ Playlist: Corey Hart
Hello...I believe that's how it's said in Canada too! The spotlight is on a favorite from my buddy, Calvin "Oates" Cherry, who discovered his true identity with this next artist — Montreal, Quebec native Corey Mitchell Hart. Just Corey Hart will do, though.
Carlos GonzalezPublished 7 years ago in Beat14 Underrated One Direction Songs
I'm not going to lie, whenever I get into a conversation about One Direction and someone utters the words “but they broke up, right?” My body becomes possessed by Ross Gellar and I find myself getting into a lengthy rant about how they aren't broken-up and have every intention of coming back!
8EEZ Playlist: Foreigner
Hello, I've been waiting for a reader like you. Nyuk, nyuk! My buddy Oates and I have received many a positive response for this blog series and we appreciate the feedback and certainly hope to be entertaining you with more artists' playlists — lord knows, there's absolutely no shortage!
Carlos GonzalezPublished 7 years ago in BeatMy Top Ten Sad Songs
We all have our favourite songs that get the tears going, and there's no real set playlist of songs that work for everybody. The songs I'm going to list here are my personal top ten favourite songs to listen to whenever I feel like having a good cry.
The Wordy BirdyPublished 7 years ago in BeatTen of the Dopest Most Head-Splitting Dubstep Tracks that I Know About
I don't know if you've ever listened to dubstep music, ragastep, rapstep, dubtrap, trap, trapstep, or #bass music in general, or if you've been listening since you were knee-high to a duck. One thing I can tell you is, there's little point in presenting my opinions about "goodness" or "bestness" as facts, because the truth is — or at least it should be — as Jack Black sings: "it doesn't matter if it's good. It only matters if it rocks."
Aulos.MediaPublished 7 years ago in Beat8EEZ Playlist: Duran Duran
Hello, music lovers of the world! Another spotlight by me and my best bud, Oates, is on a popular music act from the 1980s UK invasion. They were a five-man band out of Birmingham, England (the line-up has changed since) who mixed it up with glam, punk, new wave, disco, rock and yes, even hip hop, and haven't flinched ever since!
Carlos GonzalezPublished 7 years ago in Beat8EEZ Playlist: Hits of 1987 (30 Years Ago)
Hello and howdy do! So, I've given my buddy Oates a vacay on this 'list as it's actually a reminiscence piece/playlist for me as I go back in my mental time machine and take you all back to when I was a mere boy of 15; a skinny, hairy, gawky and shy kid with acne, Elton John-style glasses and going to the "Fame" high school in New York City. No, I didn't dance up the street, nor did I get that stirring Debbie Allan speech, but it being my sophomore year, all I remember was being quite the wallflower and learning all too fast what anything that was considered hip and cool — wasn't me.
Carlos GonzalezPublished 7 years ago in Beat8EEZ Playlist: INXS
G'day mates! Gone Australian with this 'list and it's a request from my good buddy Calvin "Oates" Cherry who admitted to me that it's one of his favorite rock group. INXS (pronounced In-excess) was a band formed in Sydney composed of three brothers (Farriss), two band members, and a smoking hot lead singer who had a hot, sexual mystique to rival Jim Morrison of The Doors.
Carlos GonzalezPublished 7 years ago in Beat8EEZ Playlist: Eurythmics
Hellooooooo out there! This is the second 'list spotlighting an artist or group from the UK who were part of the burgeoning 80s British invasion. A Scottish woman and an English man who were the rarest breed of group; a male/female duo made up of two different people (NOT a brother/sister/family act).
Carlos GonzalezPublished 7 years ago in Beat