The year in review.

Music is about love. Usually about someone and someone, but sometimes about someone and something.

Given that here's the music jerk's 2006 in review:
My girl thinks our song is "Me & U" by Cassie.
I believe it to be "Number One" by Pharrell featuring Kanye West.

That's it. Year in review.
Wait...
Buy Sting's new album, the one with the lute. If you're into rap cop Game and Nas's new album. Spock rock kids? Grab Holy Molar's new album. Adult contmpo? Buy The Fray album, you know you want to anyway. It's been a bad year for straight-up rock. If that's your jam, buy as much Glass Candy as you can. Even if it's old it's the best you're gonna get in these times.

Mr. Cowell and Nasir Jones - two true gangstas.

So American Idol is back. As always I watch until one of my favorite things on television happens. This is of course when some small headed no-talent questions Simon's knowledge of music. This season it came in the forms of "Opinion's don't mean nuffin'" and "Wat 'chu know 'bout muzic?" This girl's intelligence was mind-bogglingly low.

Song of last month? "Who Killed It?" by Nas. The entire song is rapped in a 1930s/1940s gangster movie voice. You know, like "yeah, see, yeah. You're never gonna catch me coppa!" It weaves a wonderful tale of a P.I. trying to determine who killed hip-hop who, in the story, is a "skirt" that's been around since "slaves were rhyming."
This is a song you have to hear to believe. Great song and his voice will make you chuckle.
"If you really love me, I'll come back alive."

What the hell is going on?

Johnny Marr has joined Modest Mouse for their new album. Yes, that Johnny Marr.
Let's get this straight Johnny. You can join a vastly overrated college rock shit band, a band that reminds you of sandles, lacrosse and everything else terrible that goes on at college campuses. Yet you can't bury the hatchet with one of the top three lyricists in the last 30 years to reform the most important band of the 80s.
I've always sided with Morrissey, but I've always had great respect for Marr. But now? Marr is an idiot. Modest Mouse? Really?!?!

In other "what the hell is going on news" Chris Cornell (lead vox for Soundgarden and Audioslave) has announced that his second solo album will contain a cover of "Billie Jean." Yes, that "Billie Jean." What?!?!