“Q” Bombs: December 18, 2011

Posted on January 1, 2012 by PhilMaq

A “Q” Bomb, like an “H” bomb, will be my term for a music video that I consider to be subpar in music, video, or both. This will be a recurring weekly list that will focus on the worst videos that are currently on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus on solely on current or recent videos.
I hate to be so negative about music, but when an artist takes a “bad” song and then brings more attention to it by creating a “bad” video to support it, it will appear on this list. I honestly hope, and it could happen, that this list will be less than 10 items, but I have serious doubts that that possibility will happen. We are, after all, talking about an industry that uses art for huge profits. The companies can’t help themselves.
However, at this point, I will not do a 10 worst music list. I see absolutely no reason to waste time reemphasizing bad music. Once is enough.

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OK. I’m going to post an abbreviated “Q” Bomb list since VH1 suspended their countdowns until January 7, 2012. Just for holiday flavor, I added a couple of boring Christmas videos………………..

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Worst Videos for the week of December 18, 2011

1. A Baby Changes Everything—Faith Hill
2. Remind Me—Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood
3. God Gave Me You–Blake Shelton
4. Easy–Rascal Flatts with Natasha Bedingfield
5. I’ll Be Home for Christmas—Rascal Flatts

1) “A Baby Changes Everything”—Yes, it does but it shouldn’t make things boring! I really hate the fact that this video comes back every year. Boring song. Boring video.
2) “Remind Me” —Without the competition, this video will continue to get my negative attention………….
3) “God Gave Me You”—I found out that Dave Barnes wrote this song and he has a song on my “Phil’s Faves: Songs” list. Maybe his version is better…………….
4) “Easy”—It doesn’t appear to be……………………………
5) “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”—A double shot of boring from Rascal Flatts this week! I have to laugh (ha, ha) because on the CMT website, these ultra boring Christmas videos that they show are listed under “Mistletoe Jams.” Seriously. They ought to be called “Comatose Christmas” because that’s what you’re in after you watch one……………

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Phil’s Faves: Songs, December 11, 2011

Posted on December 24, 2011 by PhilMaq

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best songs that I listened to the previous week. Most songs will be current, but there are no boundaries. I’ve already stated on this web site that I am obsessed with music. I am constantly hunting it down whether it’s online, on CD, from my personal collection, from a library (Yes, I think the library is a great source of music–especially for music that you aren’t sure about.), TV, or radio. Since most of these sources mostly emphasize new music, the odds are pretty good that most of the songs on this list will be new. But in my search, I don’t use any boundaries for the other sources. I am just looking for good music that I haven’t heard, or happened to forget about. Everyone, including myself, has forgotten way more great music than they can ever remember-even if they are also music fanatics.
Also, there will be no rules concerning songs on this list. A song can show up or drop off a number of times. This will be the most volatile of my lists. It all depends on how much music I am exposed to during the week and what I find interesting. On really obscure stuff, I will try to include the source, if I know it.

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Perseverance pays off as Lady Antebellum finally hits the top! Eric Church makes the good list, too! Maybe it’s the time of the year because another Christmas song enters as well as another Taylor Swift song! Another Taylor Swift song??!!! Can the world handle it……………………..
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Top Ten Songs for the Week of December 11, 2011

1. We Owned the Night–Lady Antebellum
2. Paradise–Coldplay
3. Lonely Boy—The Black Keys
4. Sparks Fly–Taylor Swift
5. The Trouble With Girls—Scotty McCreery
6. Ours—Taylor Swift
7. Drink in My Hand—Eric Church
8. Santa You Can Drive My Sled—The Fab (Beatles Tribute Band from Las Vegas)
9. (I Want To) Come Home–Paul McCartney (From the movie “Everybody’s Fine”)
10. Very Merry Christmas—Dave Barnes

1) “We Owned the Night”—Their long run finally ends at the top! This is the song I probably hear the most right now, and it worked its magic on me!
2) “Paradise”—A very low key song that just sounds so nice!
3) “Lonely Boy”—This one rocks about as hard as anything The Black Keys have ever done!
4) “Sparks Fly”—Taylor moves up another notch again! Is it set to slingshot to the top again………………
5) “The Trouble With Girls”—Such a sweet song about the trouble that most guys hope for………….
6) “Ours”—Another catchy melody from Miss Swift! Watch out……………….
7) “Drink in My Hand”—Hey! What do you know? A song by Eric Church I do like! And considering he’s covering subject matter that’s like a rutted road where the drive shaft scrapes the ground, that’s saying a lot!
8)“Santa You Can Drive My Sled”—I am excited to say that I received a personal copy of this song, a satire of The Beatles’ “Drive My Car,” from The Fab! Santa came early and I can listen to it as much as I want to during the holiday season! Thank you guys and better fasten your seat belts. This sled is pointed forward and ready to move up! Look what they just did on my list: They moved up in front of an actual Beatle! “That would be something/Really would be something………………..!”
9) (“I Want To) Come Home”—It looks like this chart ride is almost finished. I’m sure it won’t be long until Paul returns…………….
10) “Very Merry Christmas”—This is a very cool and slinky little Christmas tune that sneaks up on you! It sounds like it came out of the 70’s instead of last year. A good Christmas doesn’t have to be about some fantastical story. A good chorus and honest feelings works just fine!

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Phil’s Faves: Videos, December 11, 2011

Posted on December 18, 2011 by PhilMaq

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best videos currently available on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus mostly on current or recent videos. For this category, I am also going to include any live performances on talk or variety shows that I see during the week.

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It’s getting on to the end of the year, and that means that there aren’t really many new videos coming out right now. In other words, it’s getting to the point where the focus shifts to year end lists. Therefore, depending what gets broadcast, I may suspend this list and the “Q” Bombs until things start up again………..

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Coldplay and Taylor Swift retain the top two spots for another week. Miranda Lambert jumps right up behind them! There wasn’t much that was interesting this week in the live category, so several worthy videos enter this week’s list……….
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Top 10 Videos for the week of December 11, 2011

1. Paradise–Coldplay
2. Sparks Fly—Taylor Swift
3. Baggage Claim—Miranda Lambert live on “CMA Awards”
4. Red Solo Cup–Toby Keith (Christmas Edition)
5. The One That Got Away–Katy Perry
6. A Thousand Years–Christina Perri from “Breaking Dawn, Part One”
7. Home—Dierks Bentley on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”
8. Ours—Taylor Swift
9. You—Chris Young
10. Lonely Boy—The Black Keys

1) “Paradise”—I like the Chris Martin “elephant” busking to earn money to buy a bike but ends up only earning enough money to buy a unicycle!
2) “Sparks Fly”—What an amazing year for Taylor!
3) “Baggage Claim”—I don’t know if there is another studio version of this video, but I would ride this one out! The music is tighter!
4) “Red Solo Cup” (Christmas Edition)—I moved this one up again because I love the fact that someone took a stupid video and decided to “Christmas it up” with a few seasonal scenes! To me, that is pure stupid genius—and that’s a compliment!
5) “The One That Got Away”—This one’s starting to wear on me. I’m sure it’s the subject matter. However, if you have a warped sense of humor, the impeccable timing of the boulder in the middle of the road is worth a yuck……….
6) “A Thousand Years”—Since this one never really caught on, I’m seeing it less often, so it begins a downward spiral….
7) “Home”—The studio version of this video is almost as good as the live version I had on the list last week! The sentiment in this video just feels right as the Iraq War winds down!
8) “Ours”—A new video from Taylor that, of course, happens to be really sweet! What a shock!!
9) “You”—I think it would be really disappointing to not enter this at least one time for the creative use of black and white and color in this video! The song’s OK, too……….
10) “Lonely Boy”—I can’t be any happier! The video for this very cool song is sooooo stupid! The guy does a great job dancing, but I can’t help but smile or laugh when I see it.
Not as good as the “Tighten Up” video, but it’s close!

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“Q” Bombs: December 11, 2011

Posted on December 11, 2011 by PhilMaq

A “Q” Bomb, like an “H” bomb, will be my term for a music video that I consider to be subpar in music, video, or both. This will be a recurring weekly list that will focus on the worst videos that are currently on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus on solely on current or recent videos.
I hate to be so negative about music, but when an artist takes a “bad” song and then brings more attention to it by creating a “bad” video to support it, it will appear on this list. I honestly hope, and it could happen, that this list will be less than 10 items, but I have serious doubts that that possibility will happen. We are, after all, talking about an industry that uses art for huge profits. The companies can’t help themselves.
However, at this point, I will not do a 10 worst music list. I see absolutely no reason to waste time reemphasizing bad music. Once is enough.

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Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood catapult to the top of the trash heap again for a fourth week based on a resurgence on the CMT Top 20 Countdown. The Civil Wars return after disappearing for five straight weeks! What’s going on? Is Mercury in retrograde or something…………………………….
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Worst Videos for the week of December 11, 2011

1. Remind Me—Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood
2. It Will Rain—Bruno Mars from “Breaking Dawn, Part One”
3. Footloose–Blake Shelton
4. God Gave Me You–Blake Shelton
5. Shake It Off–Florence + The Machine
6. Poison and Wine—The Civil Wars
7. Easy–Rascal Flatts with Natasha Bedingfield
8. Wish You Were Here-Avril Lavigne
9. Let Go-Safetysuit
10. It Girl–Jason Derulo

1) “Remind Me” —This one leaped up nine spots on the CMT Top 20 Countdown???!!! It’s now number 3 again. That’s why it’s at the top of the bomb list. It launched a sneak attack when we weren’t watching it……………………..
2) “It Will Rain”—This one is number 4 on The VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown. I hope it is a “bear” video and will drop fast………..
3) “Footloose”—Viewers are showing some unusual good taste because this song is not catching on and is starting to fall……………..
4) “God Gave Me You”—I’m actually starting to like this song, but the video still looks like one that Nickelback might have done. That is NOT a compliment……………
5) “Shake It Off”—This one actually went up this week on VH1–again. Why??????
6) “Poison & Wine”—I thought this one had run its course. It’s not on either countdown, but CMT is starting to show it—A LOT! That is definitely a cause for concern…………
7) “Easy”— Apparently, falling off the chart is not so “easy”…………………
8] “Wish You Were Here”—Boo hoo! Avril cries a lot and wants us to feel sorry for her. She makes a better crazy chick than someone I should feel sorry for……………………
9) “Let Go”—Please “let go”…and disappear………………..
10) “It Girl”—It finally looks like this one should be gone next week. My fingers are crossed………………

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Phil’s Faves: Songs, December 4, 2011

Posted on December 11, 2011 by PhilMaq

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best songs that I listened to the previous week. Most songs will be current, but there are no boundaries. I’ve already stated on this web site that I am obsessed with music. I am constantly hunting it down whether it’s online, on CD, from my personal collection, from a library (Yes, I think the library is a great source of music–especially for music that you aren’t sure about.), TV, or radio. Since most of these sources mostly emphasize new music, the odds are pretty good that most of the songs on this list will be new. But in my search, I don’t use any boundaries for the other sources. I am just looking for good music that I haven’t heard, or happened to forget about. Everyone, including myself, has forgotten way more great music than they can ever remember-even if they are also music fanatics.
Also, there will be no rules concerning songs on this list. A song can show up or drop off a number of times. This will be the most volatile of my lists. It all depends on how much music I am exposed to during the week and what I find interesting. On really obscure stuff, I will try to include the source, if I know it.

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“Paradise” by Coldplay ends up topping both the video “faves” as well as this week’s song “faves!” The Black Keys enter with a really cool song, and even a Christmas “cover” makes its way on. Of course, it’s the time of year when things like that can happen……………
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Top Ten Songs for the Week of December 4, 2011

1. Paradise–Coldplay
2. We Owned the Night–Lady Antebellum
3. A Thousand Years—Christina Perri from “Breaking Dawn, Part One”
4. (I Want To) Come Home–Paul McCartney (From the movie “Everybody’s Fine”)
5. Sparks Fly–Taylor Swift
6. The Trouble With Girls—Scotty McCreery
7. Lonely Boy—The Black Keys
8. Long Hot Summer-Keith Urban
9. Santa You Can Drive My Sled—The Fab (Beatles tribute band from Las Vegas)
10. Down at the Plaza–Pat Bergeson (featuring Dan Anderson, Tom Roady, and Steve Shapiro)

1) “Paradise”—This is such a great “simbie!” It goes through my head a lot even when I don’t want it to!
2) “We Owned the Night”—A solid song that didn’t seem like it had the legs to hang around this long!
3) “A Thousand Years”—One of the best haunting melodies of the year!
4) (“I Want To) Come Home”—Paul drops from the top spot. Let’s see if I hear it enough to hang around………
5) “Sparks Fly”—Taylor moves up another notch again! You just can’t count her out at any time………
6) “The Trouble With Girls”—This song has a solid chorus that gets under your skin! (Scotty had a little problem, though, with his Thanksgiving Day parade performance. The dude can’t even lip synch?!!!!)
7) “Lonely Boy”—Oh, yeah! The first single from “El Camino” is another solid smash from the boys that brought you the gritty “Tighten Up!”
8) “Long Hot Summer”—Keeping me warm as the weather gets colder!
9) “Santa You Can Drive My Sled”—Not only is this an incredible spot on cover of The Beatles’ “Drive My Car,” but it’s one of the best entries ever of a Beatles song being used as a Christmas song! I heard this one on “Dennis Mitchell’s Breakfast with The Beatles,” and it will stick around on my list—but only if I get to hear it some more. After all, those are the rules………..
10) “Down at the Plaza”—Tom Roady was laid to rest, and unfortunately, this song is also ending its run. I personally hope that Tom is up in heaven playing drums in the best band ever! What would you expect for one of the best?!

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Phil’s Faves: Videos, December 4, 2011

Posted on December 11, 2011 by PhilMaq

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best videos currently available on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus mostly on current or recent videos. For this category, I am also going to include any live performances on talk or variety shows that I see during the week.

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Coldplay leapfrogs into the top spot this week, Britney Spears drops fast, and there were some great live TV moments!
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Top 10 Videos for the week of December 4, 2011

1. Paradise–Coldplay
2. Sparks Fly—Taylor Swift
3. A Thousand Years–Christina Perri from “Breaking Dawn, Part One
4. The One That Got Away–Katy Perry
5. Red Solo Cup–Toby Keith
6. Criminal–Britney Spears
7. Reading Rainbow–Jimmy Fallon on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”
8. Home—Dierks Bentley on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”
9. Baggage Claim—Miranda Lambert live on “CMA Awards”
10. Taylor Swift Interview—“60 Minutes”

1) “Paradise”—How can you not like this video? The elephant reunion is so sweet!
2) “Sparks Fly”—All of the recent attention on Taylor Swift is keeping this video hot!
3) “A Thousand Years”—I watch this video every time it’s on! Bruno Mars’ “It Will Rain” shows up in the “Breaking Dawn” movie while people are still in the theater. Christina’s song plays after it when everyone’s in their car so no one really hears the song! I guess timing really is everything.
4) “The One That Got Away”—I like the drama in the video. This is one time when it works well!
5) “Red Solo Cup”—The parade of cameos start off with Craig Ferguson and Geoff and continue from there! It’s a good place to start! I probably saw this video more than any other video during the week!
6) “Criminal”—This one’s dropping fast. I don’t think it will be around much longer….
7) “Reading Rainbow”—This was the best thing I saw all week! Jimmy’s impersonation of Jim Morrison was so incredible, it amazed and confused anybody I showed it to. It was a recreation of The Doors performing “Light My Fire” on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” The Fallon performance kind of morphed into a combination “The End” and “When the Music’s Over.” It was so good, it almost wasn’t funny, but the ridiculous lyrics and the actual thought of Morrison singing “Good Night Moon” or “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” made a surreal moment side splittingly hilarious! This one is worth hunting down!
8) “Home”—Dierks’ live rendition of this song about war veterans returning home made it even more stirring than the very good studio version!
9) “Baggage Claim”—This live version also captured the song better than the studio version particularly as the stage catches fire! Miranda makes a better angry ex-lover than almost anyone else out there!
10) “Taylor Swift Interview”—Although this isn’t a music video, it showed some interesting behind the scenes footage of what happens at one of her concerts. A comment that I found particularly poignant was when a columnist at Billboard Magazine was asked about her ability as a songwriter because of her youth and beauty. He said that to the contrary, that if she wasn’t so young and pretty that she would be considered an even better songwriter! I wholeheartedly agree!

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“Q” Bombs: December 4, 2011

Posted on December 4, 2011 by PhilMaq

A “Q” bomb, like an “H” bomb, will be my term for a music video that I consider to be subpar in music, video, or both. This will be a recurring weekly list that will focus on the worst videos that are currently on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus on solely on current or recent videos.
I hate to be so negative about music, but when an artist takes a “bad” song and then brings more attention to it by creating a “bad” video to support it, it will appear on this list. I honestly hope, and it could happen, that this list will be less than 10 items, but I have serious doubts that that possibility will happen. We are, after all, talking about an industry that uses art for huge profits. The companies can’t help themselves.
However, at this point, I will not do a 10 worst music list. I see absolutely no reason to waste time reemphasizing bad music. Once is enough.

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“Footloose” stays on top of the junk pile for another week. The good news is that it doesn’t appear to be going much higher. On the other hand, “It Will Rain” keeps moving up. Things may have to switch next week. Three new entries on the list, but I don’t feel that they are all that terrible. I could actually change my opinion about two of them, and the third one, I like the song but not the video. All of this is bad for “Q” Bombs but good for viewers…………….
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Worst Videos for the week of December 4, 2011

1. Footloose–Blake Shelton
2. It Will Rain—Bruno Mars from “Breaking Dawn, Part One”
3. God Gave Me You–Blake Shelton
4. Remind Me—Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood
5. It Girl–Jason Derulo
6. Easy–Rascal Flatts with Natasha Bedingfield
7. Shake It Off–Florence + The Machine
8. I’m Gonna Love You Through It—Martina McBride
9. Tonight Is the Night-Outasight
10. Let Go-Safetysuit

1) “Footloose”—Out of all of the songs that could have been dredged up from the past, why did it have to be this one……………………………..
2) “It Will Rain”—I’d “toss a grenade” at this one if I could. Figuratively, speaking, of course………………………
3) “God Gave Me You”—At least it looks like this one has “plateaued”……….or “planked”, if you prefer………………………………
4) “Remind Me” —Still top 10…….Still annoying………………
5) “It Girl”—Not falling fast enough…………………….
6) “Easy”— Falling, falling, but oh, so slowly……………………….Same as last week……………..
7) “Shake It Off”—This one actually went up this week on VH1. Why??????
8] “I’m Gonna Love You Through It”—The song is fine. I just don’t like it being interrupted by its pseudo documentary style video. I feel bad for just having said that considering the subject of the video is recovering from breast cancer. Sorry…………………………….But it should have been better………………
9) “Tonight Is the Night”—There seems to be a lot of these songs this year……….
10) “Let Go”–Kind of a spastic video….The kind I don’t like………………

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Phils Faves: Songs, November 27, 2011

Posted on December 4, 2011 by PhilMaq

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best songs that I listened to the previous week. Most songs will be current, but there are no boundaries. I’ve already stated on this web site that I am obsessed with music. I am constantly hunting it down whether it’s online, on CD, from my personal collection, from a library (Yes, I think the library is a great source of music–especially for music that you aren’t sure about.), TV, or radio. Since most of these sources mostly emphasize new music, the odds are pretty good that most of the songs on this list will be new. But in my search, I don’t use any boundaries for the other sources. I am just looking for good music that I haven’t heard, or happened to forget about. Everyone, including myself, has forgotten way more great music than they can ever remember-even if they are also music fanatics.
Also, there will be no rules concerning songs on this list. A song can show up or drop off a number of times. This will be the most volatile of my lists. It all depends on how much music I am exposed to during the week and what I find interesting. On really obscure stuff, I will try to include the source, if I know it.

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Not much action this week as my current favorites continue on as my favorites! Paul McCartney stays at the top for another week.  Keith Urban is the only new entry as he nudges onto the list………………
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Top Ten Songs for the Week of November 27, 2011

1. (I Want To) Come Home–Paul McCartney (From the movie “Everybody’s Fine”)
2. We Owned the Night–Lady Antebellum
3. Blood Pressure–Mutemath
4. A Thousand Years—Christina Perri from “Breaking Dawn, Part One”
5. Paradise–Coldplay
6. Sparks Fly–Taylor Swift
7. Down at the Plaza–Pat Bergeson (featuring Dan Anderson, Tom Roady, and Steve Shapiro)
8. The Trouble With Girls—Scotty McCreery
9. Long Hot Summer-Keith Urban
10. Red Solo Cup–Toby Keith

1) (“I Want To) Come Home”—This song seemed so appropriate for the Thanksgiving weekend!
2) “We Owned the Night”—I think this one is continuing to grow on me!
3) “Blood Pressure”—I don’t think this one is getting the recognition it deserves! Sadly, maybe no one wants to “rock out” like they used to…………
4) “A Thousand Years”—Still strong and growing as one of my favorites!
5) “Paradise”—This one is really getting to me! Watch out!
6) “Sparks Fly”—Taylor moves up a notch again! It’s like an “old reliable” song!
7) “Down at the Plaza”—I’m sorry to say that Tom Roady, the drummer on “Hippy Dance,” the CD that this song is from, passed away this week. He played for so many artists on so many records (everyone from James Brown to Bob Seeger), that you know him even if you don’t “know” him. I was just starting to know him and I will miss him every time I discover something that he played on but never knew it……………………..
8) “The Trouble With Girls”—Nice dreamy melody! See, I don’t dislike him. He even gets a smiley face this week………………………….
9) “Long Hot Summer”—This song has been around for quite awhile, and it finally got to me this week!
10) “Red Solo Cup”—A nice little ditty about a man and his cup fixation………………………
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Phil’s Faves: Videos, November 27, 2011

Posted on December 4, 2011 by PhilMaq

This will be a personal weekly Top Ten list of what I consider to be the best videos currently available on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus mostly on current or recent videos. For this category, I am also going to include any live performances on talk or variety shows that I see during the week.

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This week, Britney Spears makes it to the top and Taylor Swift drops to the second slot. Ah, isn’t that what videos are for…………………………………………..

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Top 10 Videos for the week of November 27, 2011

1. Criminal–Britney Spears
2. Sparks Fly—Taylor Swift
3. Paradise–Coldplay
4. Red Solo Cup–Toby Keith
5. A Thousand Years–Christina Perri from “Breaking Dawn, Part One
6. The One That Got Away–Katy Perry
7. In Performance at the White House: The Motown Sound featuring Sheryl Crow, Seal, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Natasha Bedingfield, Gloriana, John Legend, Jordin Sparks, Ledisi, Nick Jonas, Jamie Foxx, Martha Reeves, and Greg Phillanganes
8. (It’s Not My) Baby—Jimmy Fallon as Justin Bieber from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
9. Mr. Know It All–Kelly Clarkson on the American Music Awards
10. Why Can’t We “Unfriend”—War on Jimmy Kimmel Live

1) “Criminal”—I think this one is a “bear song” and the only thing moving it up is the video. I really hate it when they show a shortened version because I enjoy seeing Britney kick her boyfriend in the “nads” after he slaps her! I would prefer not seeing the slap ever, against any woman, but the kick makes me laugh every time!
2) “Sparks Fly”—What can I say about this one that I haven’t already said? I like it! OK?
3) “Paradise”—I like the impeccable timing of the giraffe in the video!
4) “Red Solo Cup”—“Red Solo Cup/You’re not just a cup/You’re my…friend!”
5) “A Thousand Years”—Still only a countdown contender on VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown. I’m tired of waiting for everyone to catch on—if they ever will. I’m moving this one up because I like it a lot!
6) “The One That Got Away”—It seems a drag that the guy loses his life after Katy throws paint on his painting after he rejects her input. A steep price to pay, but a good video anyway!
7) “In Performance at the White House: The Motown Sound—I thought this show was going to be passable karaoke versions of Motown hits and boy was I surprised! This isn’t new and I happened to stumble upon it when I couldn’t sleep at 5AM. I have seen it three times now and I would watch it again!
8) “(It’s Not My) Baby”—Jimmy Fallon’s impressions are sometimes a hit or miss proposition, but this one is incredibly funny! Fallon does a spot-on Justin Bieber— including dancing, as he parodies Bieber’s “Baby” song while denying that he’s the father from the paternity claim brought against him!
9) “Mr. Know It All”—Kelly Clarkson boldly takes a jab at those who try to force her to do things “for the good of her career” by performing her hot new single as a swing variation of Benny Goodman’s “Swing, Swing, Swing!” I usually like Kelly and I even have more respect for her now!
10) “Why Can’t We ‘Unfriend?’”—Another hilarious spoof for Jimmy Kimmel’s National Unfriend Day,” this one performed by War! They do a nice job using their own “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” as the base song!

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“Q” Bombs: November 27, 2011

Posted on November 27, 2011 by PhilMaq

A “Q”bomb, like an “H” bomb, will be my term for a music video that I consider to be subpar in music, video, or both. This will be a recurring weekly list that will focus on the worst videos that are currently on TV. I don’t, as a rule, go searching for old music videos, so that’s why it will focus on solely on current or recent videos.
I hate to be so negative about music, but when an artist takes a “bad” song and then brings more attention to it by creating a “bad” video to support it, it will appear on this list. I honestly hope, and it could happen, that this list will be less than 10 items, but I have serious doubts that that possibility will happen. We are, after all, talking about an industry that uses art for huge profits. The companies can’t help themselves.
However, at this point, I will not do a 10 worst music list. I see absolutely no reason to waste time reemphasizing bad music. Once is enough.

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Footloose stays on top for another week. Bruno Mars may be a serious contender, though…..

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Worst Videos for the week of November 27, 2011

1. Footloose–Blake Shelton
2. Blood Pressure–Mutemath
3. God Gave Me You–Blake Shelton
4. It Will Rain—Bruno Mars from “Breaking Dawn, Part One”
5. Remind Me—Brad Paisley with Carrie Underwood
6. Easy–Rascal Flatts with Natasha Bedingfield
7. It Girl–Jason Derulo
8. The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie–Red Hot Chili Peppers
9. A Thousand Years-Christina Perri on Jimmy Kimmel Live
10. Shake It Off–Florence + The Machine

1) “Footloose”—It’s really difficult for me to even sit through this one…………….
2) “Blood Pressure”—Jim Shearer, the host of VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown, said that the band did this video all in one day. Really. That long………………..
3) “God Gave Me You”—I still feel like this one’s going to be around for a while…
4) “It Will Rain”—I can’t believe that this is the song that people like from the Twilight movie……
5) “Remind Me” —I still watch this one trying to get something meaningful out of it. Nope. It never happens……………………
6) “Easy”— Falling, falling, but oh, so slowly……………………….
7) “It Girl”—Jason goes and rhymes it with “shhh” (sic?). That’s not being good. That’s just being lazy dude………………….
8] “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie”—Oh, if only something interesting happened during this video. You know. Like a video……………….
9) “A Thousand Years”—I was really looking forward to this performance when I heard about it but was disappointed after watching it. Christina seemed very uneasy singing the song and even seemed relieved once it was over. This won’t help the song…….
10) “Shake It Off”—Still hanging onto the list for another week. It won’t be long now….

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