The NOVEMBER'09 soundtrack!

Μετά από μια μαρτυρική εβδομάδα χωρίς υπολογιστή, να'μαι πάλι!
Και πως να λείπω από τα γενέθλια του blog:-) Αισίως κλείσαμε τα 2 πρώτα μας κεράκια! Ευχαριστώ πολύ όσους με διαβάζετε, πραγματικά χαίρομαι όταν λαμβάνω μηνύματα στο mail μου, στο blog, στο facebook, και μου δίνετε μεγάλη δύναμη για να συνεχίσω και να δίνω όσο μπορώ τον καλύτερο μου εαυτό, γι'αυτό που αγαπώ όσο τίποτε άλλο, τη μουσική!
Καλό μήνα να έχουμε παιδιά! Τα Χριστούγεννα κοντοζυγώνουν, κι αυτή τη φορά τα περιμένω πως και πως μιας και τους τελευταίους μήνες συμβαίνουν όμορφα πράγματα στη ζωή μου!
Και μην ξεχνάμε: Beyonce στις 8/11 στο ΟΑΚΑ! Φυσικά θα είμαι εκεί, και φυσικά τις επόμενες μέρες θα σας γράψω την γνώμη μου για την μεγάλη συναυλία!

BEST SONGS OF THE MONTH

# AGNES I need you now (UK radio edit) <-----POP SONG OF THE MONTH

# AIR Be a bee

# ALEXANDRA BURKE The silence

# ALPHABEAT The spell

# ANNIE I don’t like your band

# ANOUK For bitter or worse

# ARCHIVE Pills

# ASHER BOOK Try

# B.E.D. feat. CHLOE MYERS Before I leave (Freemasons club mix) <-----CLUB SONG OF THE MONTH

# BACKSTREET BOYS Bye bye love

# BEBEL GILBERTO Sun is shining

# BEYONCE Video phone

# BRETT ANDERSON The hunted

# BRITNEY SPEARS 3

# CASCADA Evacuate the dancefloor (Cahill remix)

# CHERYL COLE feat. WILL.I.AM 3 words

# DEAD CUB FOR CUTIE Meet me at the equinox

# EDITORS You don’t know love

# GOSSIP Love lockdown

# IDA CORR Bring the beat back

# INNA Amazing

# JACE EVERETT Bad things

# JADE EWEN My man (Cahill club mix)

# JET She holds a grudge

# JOSS STONE Could have been you <-----SOUL SONG OF THE MONTH

# JULIE THOMPSON What will I do? <-----ELECTRO SONG OF THE MONTH

# KATE RYAN Babacar

# LADY GAGA Bad romance <-----TOP SONG OF THE MONTH

# LAURA PAUSINI Con la musica alla radio

# LEONA Do it too

# LEONA LEWIS Happy <-----BALLAD OF THE MONTH

# LIGHTS Second go

# LILY ALLEN Who’d have known

# LINDA TEODOSIU Reprogram my heart

# LITTLE BOOTS Earthquake

# MARIA MENA I was made for lovin’ you

# MICHAEL BOLTON feat. LADY GAGA Murder my heart

<----COLLABORATION OF THE MONTH

# MICHAEL BUBLE Haven’t met you yet

# MICHAEL JACKSON Xscape

# MIKA Blame it on the girls

# MORANDI Colors

# MUSE Guiding light

# NATURI NAUGHTON & COLLINS PENNIE Get on the floor <-----R'N'B SONG OF THE MONTH

# NEK La voglia che non vorrei

# NELLY FURTADO & ALEX CUBA Mi plan

# OCEANA Cry cry

# PALOMA FAITH New York <-----RETRO-POP SONG OF THE MONTH

# PAROV STELAR Promises

# PIANO MAGIC On edge

# PINK MARTINI Ninna nanna

# RIHANNA Russian roulette

# SERGE DEVANT feat. NADIA ALI 12 wives in Tehran

# SKUNK ANANSIE Tear the place up <-----ROCK SONG OF THE MONTH

# SUGABABES About a girl

# TAIO CRUZ Break your heart

# THE KILLERS A white demon love song

# THE SATURDAYS One shot

# V FACTORY feat. NATURI NAUGHTON Get up

# WITHIN TEMPTATION feat. CHRIS JONES Utopia

# ΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗ ΗΛΙΑΔΗ Χαμογελώ και προχωράω

# ΑΝΝΑ ΒΙΣΣΗ Από μακριά κι αγαπημένοι (Alex Papaconstantinou remix)

# ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΣΑΜΠΑΝΗΣ Σαν τον κλέφτη

# ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΚΟΡΓΙΑΛΑΣ Δεν ξέρω αν υπάρχει

# ΕΥΡΥΔΙΚΗ & ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΚΟΡΓΙΑΛΑΣ Όσο υπάρχει ο κόσμος αυτός <-----GREEK SONG OF THE MONTH

# ΕΥΡΥΔΙΚΗ Τρέχω σε σένα

# ΚΑΤΕΡΙΝΑ ΚΥΡΜΙΖΗ Του Αιγαίου το χρώμα

# ΧΡΥΣΠΑ Μόνο για σένα

BEST ALBUMS OF THE MONTH

# Skunk Anansie SMASHES AND TRASHES (rock) (9)

# Ευρυδίκη & Δημήτρης Κοργιαλάς ΕΤΣΙ ΕΙΝΑΙ Η ΑΓΑΠΗ (pop) (8.5)

# Michael Buble CRAZY LOVE (jazz/easy listening) (8.5)

# Soundtrack THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (rock/alternative) (8)

# Piano Magic OVATIONS (rock/electronic) (8)

# Lady GaGa THE FAME (UK SPECIAL EDITION) (pop) (8)

# Paloma Faith DO YOU WANT THE TRUTH OR SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL? (pop/soul) (8)

# Alphabeat THE SPELL (pop) (8)

# Nek UN’ALTRA DIREZIONE (pop/rock) (8)

# Michael Bolton ONE WORLD ONE LOVE (pop) (7.5)

# Alexandra Burke OVERCOME (pop) (7)

# Linda Teodosiu UNDER PRESSURE (pop) (7)

# Kate Ryan FRENCH CONNECTION (pop/dance) (7)

# Bebel Gilberto ALL IN ONE (bossa nova) (7)

# Britney Spears THE SINGLES COLLECTION (pop) (7)

THE REST

# Annie DON’T STOP (pop) (6.5)

# Brett Anderson SLOW ATTACK (acoustic/rock) (6.5)

# Jann Arden FREE (acoustic/rock) (6.5)

# Dulce Pontes MOMENTOS (fado/folk) (6.5)

# Leona STRUT IT! (pop/r’n’b) (6)

# Pink Martini SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (latin/jazz) (6)

# Χρύσπα ΜΕΧΡΙ ΕΔΩ (pop) (6)

# Julie Thompson FEELING FOR CORNERS (house/club) (6)

# Cheryl Cole 3 WORDS (pop) (6)

# Archive CONTROLLING CROWDS PART IV (rock) (6)

# Editors IN THIS LIGHT AND ON THIS EVENING (electronic/rock) (6)

# Joss Stone COLOUR ME FREE! (soul) (5.5)

# Claire Voyant LUSTRE (dreampop/darkwave) (5.5)

# Barbra Streisand LOVE IS THE ANSWER (easy listening/jazz) (5.5)

# Air LOVE 2 (electronica/lo-fi) (5)

# Soundtrack FAME (pop/r’n’b) (5)

G.T.P.K. (Gia Ton Poutso Kavala)

# Taio Cruz ROKSTARR (pop/r’n’b) (4)

# The Saturdays WORDSHAKER (pop) (4)

# Giusy Ferreri GAETANA (pop) (4)

# Natalie Imbruglia COME TO LIFE (pop) (4)

# Shakira SHE WOLF (pop) (2)

Martorial elegance # 35

What's up with the past couple of days being hot? It's nearly november and whiggaz got caught out there in a parka yesterday, which saw us sweating out the contents of the Thames Estuary during the 3 minutes we stood in McDonalds waiting for a mate who'd gone to take a piss. So, we'll be glad to see the back of summer '09 to avoid any further inappropriate attire caused perspiration catastrophes, but we'll also be glad to see summer casually amble away into the distance like John Wayne at end of The Searchers so we won't have to suffer the slight of guys in pedal pushers :



On the plus side, at least this guy didn't go for the denim variety (worst item of male clothing ever? Name me something worse than jean pedal pushers on men and I'll paypal you a fiver), but tucking his shirt into them and adding a beanie as the cherry on top of this shit sundae of an outfit really isn't helping the pro-PP cause. And what's with the whole beanie 'n' shorts look favoured by the type of male who primarily shops in either Top Man or Jack Wills, anyway? If it ain't as bad as teaming knitwear with tracksuit bottoms then it's the closest stylistic clash of a combo.

Someday a real winter wind will come and blow all the pedal pusher & beanie wearers off the streets. By sunday would be good.

Beanie Sigel - Get Down



Still the best song Beanie to date.

Not moved by chickens

Turned on my phone saturday morning to find an excited text from a friend telling me that the Clipse & Cam'Ron tune vaguelly themed around chicken had leaked and how it's the best song of the year blah blah blah, so I checked teh internet where the message board kids were referring to it with emoticons of awe, which got me expectin' Comedy Central X What Happened To That Boy but what greets me when I play it? I'm Not You

You're all batshit crazy. Song's alright but Curren$y's Scared Of Monstas is still a better Clipse song than any of the actual Clipse songs released this year, and, frankly, I'm more excited by Cam in a plaid shirt with his hair grown out into a Apollo Creed-ish 'doo in the video than I am by the song itself :



Can Cam'Ron even eat chicken with his I.B.S? Isn't him barely eating due his unfortunate bowel condition what made him lose all the weight inbetween S.D.E and his emergance as Dipset Cam/Rico in Paid In Full? Streetz need to know.

Edit : ok, this shit has grown on me like neckhair. Both thumbs up.

Greatest movie scenes ever # 19

Not quite sure where about The Wrestler will feature in my top ten movies of '09 as of yet (somewhere below both Mesrine movies, District 9, and Inglorious Basterds but above Drag Me To Hell, Moon, Watchmen, The Hangover and Bronson) but, although the great Matt Dillon made a good fist of it in Factotum 5 years ago, Mickey Rourke's depiction of Henry Chinaski in Barfly remains my preferred Bukowski picture, just ahead of Ben Gazzara's Tales Of Ordinary Madness.

The highlights come thick and fast in Barfly, from Chinaksi's many pontifications on life ("Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth") to Hip Hug-Her by Booker T. & The M.G's soundtracking the end credits, but the movie's key scene is Rourke's second fight with his Itchy-esque nemesis Eddie The bartender, played by the one and only motherfuckin' Frank Stallone. Less badass bartending alpha-male and more 80s Liverpool squad member, Eddie finally gets his comeuppance for humiliating Hank in their previous altercations throughout the movie when Hank reverses his whipping-boy status to unleash an almighty can of whup-ass on his Mark Lawrenson circa 1984 resembling foe :



Of course, there has to be some sort of tenuous link to the rap here and, predictably, it's going to be the one to MF Doom. Not because Doom's Born Like This was based around a Bukowski poem, but because Doom's hunched bumbling in his early videos is wholly reminiscent of Rourke's stooped lumbering in Barfly :

MF Doom - Dead Bent



MF Doom ft. Kurious - ?

Cheerleader Takes Flu Shot & Can Only Walk Backward!

This is so sad. All she did was take a flu shot. And it screwed her over big time. Seriously? It's the simplest things in life that can scar you forever. I'm just . . . baffled.

Sharam feat. Kid Cudi 'She Came Along'

Not something you would hear from the Kudmeister. Which makes me love it even more. Can you say DOWNLOAD?

TIDBIT: Love the western feel to the video.

What Boothe would call 'cism

We got mad love for Turks here at The Martorialist, but, with all due respect to da gawdz, Turkey isn't exactly the most progressively minded country with regards to multiculturism. Sha Deezy recently returned from a trip to his motherland with a couple of packs of the Turkish version of the oreo and, well, take a gander yourself :



Since we no longer ride with chocolate we can't give you our own verdict on them, but according to our mate Suzanne and Sha Deezy himself, who wolfed down an entire pack in under 20 minutes, they're quite nice. Still, such racial insensitivity won't be tolerated around these parts so we're breaking out our Kufis and African medallions to fight the power as we post a video of Lakim Shabazz performing Pure Righteousness on some TV show called Nightmusic. Possibly the only time you'll ever witness the words Lakim Shabazz and Jon Bon Jovi together in the same sentence :



See, this video is a prime example of what's missing from modern conscious-rap : the fun. P.E had Flav adding colour contrast to Chuck's steely righteousness; Brand Nubian had Puba who could flick from a Wake Up to a Who Can Get Busy Like This Man? at the flick of a Polo tag; Common was just as comfortable talkin' flagrant as he was exploring his introspective side in the Sense days; Lakim and YZ had backup dancers who did variations on the running man; and what Poor Righteous Teachers lacked in humour they made up for in sheer dopeness and blokes doing badman Raggamuffin voices on their hooks :



What's Kweli got exactly, other than a catalogue of songs ruined by his lithpy voice, irksome worthiness, UGHH.com netcee board quality punchlines and painfully awkward habit of cramming in too many words per bar just to get to the end of an aforementioned shit punchline? Motherfucker could make a song where he rapped every joke from Airplane! in quick sucession and it'd still end up sounding like a strained post-match interview with Thomas Vermaelen set to music.

Halloween's A Brewing? Who are you pursuing?

HALLOWEEN IS IN TEN DAYS! IDK what I'm doing, but all I know is that I haven't dressed up for Halloween since I was thirteen, and it was bad. I was a devil. And my red dress was too tight. Kept riding up. Ew. So this year, I plan to be . . . DRUMROLL!

A black Rosie the Riveter! I was going to be Nefertiti since I have a guilty pleasure for anything Egyptian, but my bestie is going to be an Egyptian Queen, so two Egyptians just destroys our diversity in our minds. So I chose Rosie. I'm in search of my costume, but I know I can do my hair fine. AND . . . I've got my make-up tutorial under my belt! Check it out!

Nice, huh?! CANNOT WAIT!

What are you going to be? If you're being anything, of course.

the perfect thing for cold weather

1) it will heat up your apt from using the oven
2) it will help you get your winter coat (aka extra 10 pounds to stay warm during winter)
3) it gives you something to do b/c outside is too cold

pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese icing. mmmmmm.

the perfect thing for cold weather

1) it will heat up your apt from using the oven
2) it will help you get your winter coat (aka extra 10 pounds to stay warm during winter)
3) it gives you something to do b/c outside is too cold

pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese icing. mmmmmm.

Speaking of seamless links into rap..

After a torpid start, the second series of Are You An Egghead? has begun to heat up with the return of quiz heavyweights Pat Gibson, Mark Kerr, and the Shanker kid from series one over the last few episodes, but it's been most notable so far for real quiz aficionados for Kevin finally replacing his trademark £4.99 digital watch with a tasteful black leather strapped timepiece and CJ shearing off his fanny-parted curtains to bring back his Boosie-ish ol' flat-top fade :



Lil' Boosie - Fresh Cut



So, what better time to revisit a couple of old Boosie favourites?



Boosie ft. Max Minelli - Feel Lucky



The Concentration Camp click (Young Bleed, C-Loc, Lay-Lo/Max Minneli etc) were mostly known for Country-Rap with a New Orleans twist, but Boosie's first effort for them was more indebted to traditional late nineties Cash Money Records style rap. If your rap nerdom doesn't quite stretch to differentiating between the varying styles of N.O rap then lemme translate for you : this shit bumps like some old Mannie Fresh produced track for Juve', B.G or Wayne from '97 - '00 as Boosie loosely riffs on Clint's maxim from Dirty Harry.



Lil' Boosie & Webbie ft. Pimp C - Finger Fuckin'



Boosie was adept at more traditional Country-Rap too, though, as a mere 3 years later he offered up proof he could hang with genre heavyweights like UGK on his Pimp C presented first Trill Entertainment release with Webbie. For my money this is still one of the best albums he's been a part of and I'd sell my prized Corey Fedman signed copy of The Lost Boys VHS tape for another Boosie & Webbie album helmed by Pimp C which features a song which makes an accordion sound like country-raps most obvious ingredient about fingerbanging chicks whilst said fingers are adorned with large diamond rings and dripping with pussy juices. Pity they recorded so few songs together before Pimp went and snuffed it.

Martorial elegance # 34

There were 3 main reasons to cop Kerrang in the very early 90s : their resident metal Mystic-Meg bird Fire (she had that whole rock-gypsy type look down pizzack and can lay claim to being the source material for one of my very first legitimate wanks), the Mike Gitter reviews of various reissued hardcore classics which were being released on cd for the first time (as essential a guide to the history of American hardcore as issues of MRR and Thrasher), and the highly titillating letters pages. Always a source of amusement, the zenith of the Kerrang correspondence section was the tsunami of angry dispatches the mag would receive every time a metal musician fessed up to batting for the other side (the explosion of Nirvana somehow led to various metal musicians finally feeling comfortable enough to admit that they were partial to the cock), with tearful metal fanboys denouncing their love of the band the guilty musician was a member of and concluding that, since the gay band member in question enjoys cock up his arse, he'll probably enjoy the feet of disgruntled fans next time the band play live too. Sock it to 'im, boys.

Faith No More's aptly named Roddy Bottum was the first musician to step out of the closet and into the metal sin-bin, but the least suprising case had to be Rob Halford from Judas Priest, the Cliff Richard of metal in speculation about his sexuality terms, admitting he was gay. A declaration which clearly brought the O Rly Owl fluttering out of its nest :



You might expect a mature gentlemen such as Rob would only sport get-ups like the one above when morphing into Priest-mode nowadays, but, nope, even a saturday afternoon trip to B&Q is deemed worthy to yield the full metal jacket, chaps and leather cap outfit :



He may have a pair of Lee Coopers under his chaps but, according to Barratt, there was nada under that waistcoat other than 2 harnesses on some MC Eiht & CMW type shit :

MC Eiht & CMW - We Come Strapped



Bonus beats :

Since we're reminiscing about metal at the turn of the 90s, the law of Sodom dictates that we have to pay bumfluffed lip service to the provincial metal diety that was Chris Needham and his glorious BBC2 video diary In Bed With Chris Needham, a show which the BBC can forever use to justify the TV licence fee :



Authenticity is key, which is why the ironic mullets sported by twats during the last decade lack the natural bouffant/lank synthesis of Needham's Herculean mullet. Parts 2 to 6 can be found in the related video links on the 'tube.

Love sux, but Linda noooo:-)

Ο λόγος για τη ολόφρεσκη pop τραγουδίστρια Linda Teodosiu που μου'χει κλέψει την καρδιά τελευταία! Thanx φίλε μου Πέτρο που μου τη σύστησες!!!

* Η Linda Angeline Teodosiu γεννήθηκε το 1991 στην Γερμανία!!! Τζίζας! Αν την δείτε στις photos μοιάζει τουλάχιστον για γυναίκα στα 25 και άνω.
* Είναι μισή Γερμανίδα και μισή Ρουμάνα! Όλοι νομίζουν ότι έχει και ελληνικές ρίζες αλλά δεν βρήκα καμιά πηγή να το επιβεβαιώνει! Κρίμα, γιατί είναι κλάσης ανώτερη απο την κρυόκωλη Katerina Avgoustakis και την Sofia. Δεν μπορεί, αν ψάξω στο γενεαλογικό της δέντρο σίγουρα θα έχει κάτι ελληνικό με τέτοιο επώνυμο!

* Πήρε μέρος στο Γερμανικό μουσικό talent show "Η Γερμανία ψάχνει τον επόμενο superstar" σε ελεύθερη μετάφραση. Κατέλαβε την τρίτη θέση στα ημιτελικά, όμως η καριέρα της δεν σταμάτησε μιας και σχεδόν αμέσως υπέγραψε συμβόλαιο με την Sony Music.
* Την άνοιξη κυκλοφόρησε το debut single της "Love sux", το οποίο έφτασε μέχρι το #24 των γερμανικών singles charts.
* Αρχές Σεπτέμβρη κυκλοφορεί το δεύτερο single της "Reprogram my heart" το οποίο κατέλαβε το #28 των charts στη Γερμανία.

* Τέλη Σεπτέμβρη κυκλοφόρησε το debut album της "Under Pressure". Ένα συμπαθέστατο pop album με υπέροχες μπαλλάντες όπως το εκπληκτικό "Don't be a stranger", "Ready to fly" με την απίστευτα σαγηνευτική της ερμηνεία, "All that remains" το οποίο κάνει μπαμ για single, καθώς και αξιόλογα pop and dance numbers όπως τα δυναμικά singles, το "Good at it" και "Love is like a drug".
* Ένα από τα highlights της σύντομης μέχρι τώρα πορείας της, είναι η Beyonce η οποία την επέλεξε ως supporting act για τις συναυλίες της σε Γερμανία, Αυστρία και Ελβετία.
* Εκτός από τραγουδίστρια είναι κι ηθοποιός.

Δεν ξέρω αν ήρθε για να μείνει, το μόνο σίγουρο είναι ότι η κοπέλα είναι ιδιαίτερα όμορφη, φρέσκια, (και κυρίως) με πολύ καλή φωνή κι ένα καλό feel-good pop album. Go Linda gooooo :-)

LOVE SUX

REPROGRAM MY HEART

still no pants

As made perfectly clear, I pretty much despise lady gaga. I hate her dumb, attention grabbing "art," and I hate even more that she is basically our generation's madonna, not that I even like madge that much in the first place. I hate that she isn't going to disappear in a year, I hate that she started a pantsless trend, and I hate that I'm starting to lose my active hate for her and it's morphing into more of a back-of-my-mind don't-really-care-hate.

fuck it, if you can't beat 'em, be 'em for halloween. lady gaga halloween costume ideas.

Gaga for Gaga Hairbow by Imagined, $14 at Etsy.com.

Motorcycle hat (comes in a set with gloves on page two), $14.99 at Ricky’s; sunglasses, $45 at Screaming Mimi’s; sleeveless denim vest, $25 at H&M; Silence and Noise zip-up bodysuit, $14.99 at Urban Outfitters; spandex fishnet panty hose, $9.99 at Ricky’s.

Totes purse umbrella, $15 at Target; cavalier hat, $19.99 at Halloween Adventure; sunglasses, $45 at Screaming Mimi’s; black bustier, $17.80 at Forever 21; jacquard blazer, $90 at Topshop; wide three-buckle belt, $7.80 at Forever 21.

Black aviator sunglasses, $45 at Screaming Mimi’s; studded motorcycle vest, $37.80 at Forever 21; long-sleeve one-shoulder tunic, $36 at Topshop; leopard-print hip-hugger briefs, $16 at Victoria’s Secret; Susie plain stretch thigh-high boots, $39.99 at Ricky’s.

still no pants

As made perfectly clear, I pretty much despise lady gaga. I hate her dumb, attention grabbing "art," and I hate even more that she is basically our generation's madonna, not that I even like madge that much in the first place. I hate that she isn't going to disappear in a year, I hate that she started a pantsless trend, and I hate that I'm starting to lose my active hate for her and it's morphing into more of a back-of-my-mind don't-really-care-hate.

fuck it, if you can't beat 'em, be 'em for halloween. lady gaga halloween costume ideas.

Gaga for Gaga Hairbow by Imagined, $14 at Etsy.com.

Motorcycle hat (comes in a set with gloves on page two), $14.99 at Ricky’s; sunglasses, $45 at Screaming Mimi’s; sleeveless denim vest, $25 at H&M; Silence and Noise zip-up bodysuit, $14.99 at Urban Outfitters; spandex fishnet panty hose, $9.99 at Ricky’s.

Totes purse umbrella, $15 at Target; cavalier hat, $19.99 at Halloween Adventure; sunglasses, $45 at Screaming Mimi’s; black bustier, $17.80 at Forever 21; jacquard blazer, $90 at Topshop; wide three-buckle belt, $7.80 at Forever 21.

Black aviator sunglasses, $45 at Screaming Mimi’s; studded motorcycle vest, $37.80 at Forever 21; long-sleeve one-shoulder tunic, $36 at Topshop; leopard-print hip-hugger briefs, $16 at Victoria’s Secret; Susie plain stretch thigh-high boots, $39.99 at Ricky’s.