Few songs captured the intensity of early Smashing Pumpkins quite like "Geek U.S.A.". Performed at Rock am Ring in 1994, the track came from Siamese Dream, an album created during a notoriously difficult recording process that placed enormous pressure on the band and particularly Billy Corgan.
Never seen this before - Neil Young in rehearsals for the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Celebration doing "Forever Young" solo on pump organ and harmonica. Wow!
(When the camera zooms out at the end you can see a young Eddie Vedder looking on)
Club music rarely translated this well to television. Performed on Later... with Jools Holland in 1997, “Insomnia” showcased the track that helped turn Faithless into one of the defining dance acts of the decade. Later included on the album Reverence, its mix of driving beats and Maxi Jazz’s spoken word delivery made it a global anthem.
What began as a tongue in cheek parody of American alternative rock became one of Blur’s biggest global hits. Released on Blur in 1997, “Song 2” lasted barely two minutes but its explosive energy helped introduce the band to a much wider audience beyond the Britpop scene.
They will look you dead in the face and say J6 rioters with guns, poles, bats, etc were patriots, but an ER Nurse with a camera and a registered firearm was a domestic terrorist.
Rod Stewart is demanding an apology from Donald Trump after he disparaged the UK troops.
"Hi there, I may just be a humble rock star. I'm also a knight of the realm. And I have my opinions. I was born just after the war and I have great respect for our armed forces that fought and gave us our freedom.
"So it hurts me badly, deeply when I read that the draft dodger Trump has criticized our troops in Afghanistan for not being on the front line. We lost over 400 of our guys. Think of their parents. Think about it. And Trump calls them almost like cowards. It's unbearable. So I'm calling on you, Prime Minister Starmer and Farage, please make the draft dodger Trump apologize, please."
Immortality. Bridge School.
I’ve seen this ten times in a row right now.
Mike’s solo here is so incredible that I actually like his solo on the actual studio version even more because of it - it sounds SO good in an intimate setting like this.
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I don’t want my taxes to pay for masked thugs to roam our streets & terrorize our communities... She was trying to get away. He shot her 3x in the head. Murdered in cold blood. They’re trying to tell us not to believe what we see. FUCK ICE.”
(H/T @MarcoFoster_)