The George Lite Zone

I was playing about with Last FM last night. Last FM is an application that keeps track of the last tracks you played on your PC, then allows you to display them on social networking sites such as Facebook or on blogs, such as this one. This is done via plugins to popular music players such as Windows media or Win Amp.

Sampling some of these goodies I’ve added, two music quilts on the right hand side of this blog. Far better than the sort that Grandma used to make, these cycle through the pictures of album covers. I created two. One for Hawkwind and one that cycles through the bands listed in my MySpace profile.

I also added a radio widget which allows you to play bands in my favorites or that are similar in nature. Hit the play button on this to get some quality music to listen to while you surf the net.

Finally I’ve added an RSS feed from the site to display the last five tracks I’ve played.

Check it out, I’ve got a feeling that Radio Motörhead will be appearing on a blog in the near future.

It’s Friday night so it must be time for a double bill of gratuitous music videos. Yet another way to get stiff.

Now that’s what I’d call Grindhouse!!!

First Lemmy shakes his blood with the Suicide Girls while Dave Grohl does what he does best and plays the drums.

I still rate him as one of the finest drummers in the world. Shame he didn’t guest with Zeppelin at the recent O2 gig.

From the album Probot

Then Nick Cave and the Raga Girls bring it on.

I actually had the idea for that video, in the sense that the video maker Johnny Hillcoat said, “What do you want to make a video about?” and I asked him, “What do videos looks like on MTV these days?” and he said, “They look like a lot of black girls wiggling their arses at the camera,” so this is basically what we ended up doing, really.

Nick Cave in an interview for BBC Stoke January 2003

A much better quality version of this video can be seen on Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Abattoir Blues Tour [2006]

I saw Nick live in Edinburgh last year and he was superb. This DVD captures him at his best live. All that and the Bring It On video. Quality !!!

There’s nothing like a top music list to stir up a bit of controversy. In this case I stumbled on this list of the Top 25 Live Albums on IGN.COM

Gaping omissions for me are Hawkwind’s - Space Ritual, Motörhead’s - No Sleep Till Hammersmith and Thin Lizzie’s - Live and Dangerous.

If anyones got any other great live album suggestions that you think should have made the grade, feel free to post them.

TOP 25 Live Albums

1. 801 - Live (EG, 1976)
2. U2 - Under A Blood Red Sky (Island, 1983)
3. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison (Columbia, 1968)
4. Neil Young - Live Rust (Reprise, 1979)
5. Boogie Down Productions - Live Hardcore Worldwide (Jive, 1991)
6. Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York (DGC, 1994)
7. The Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is The Talking Heads (Sire, 1982)
8. The Who - Live At Leeds (MCA, 1970)
9. James Brown - Live At The Apollo (Polydor, 1963)
10. Jane’s Addiction - Jane’s Addiction (Triple X, 1987)
11. [TIE] Peter Gabriel - Plays Live (Geffen, 1983) and Genesis - Seconds Out (Atlantic, 1977)
12. The Quintet (Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell, Max Roach) - Jazz At Massey Hall (Debut Records, 1953)
13. The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert (ABKCO, 1970)
14. The Band - The Last Waltz (Warner Bros, 1978)
15. Cheap Trick - At Budokan (Epic, 1979)
16. Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum (Astralwerks, 2005)
17. Blue Oyster Cult - Extraterrestrial Live (Columbia, 1982)
18. Rush - Exit Stage Left (Mercury, 1981)
19. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live! (Tuff Gong, 1975)
20. Iron Maiden - Live After Death (Capitol, 1986)
21. Sting - Bring On The Night (A&M, 1986)
22. The Roots - The Roots Come Alive (MCA, 1999)
23. KISS - Alive (Casablanca, 1975)
24. The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead (Warner Bros., 1969)
25. Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive (A&M Records, 1976)

Honorable Mentions

Isaac Hayes - Live at the Sahara Tahoe
Cypress Hill - Live at The Fillmore
Donny Hathaway - Live
Marillion - The Thieving Magpie
Rage Against The Machine - Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium
Gov’t Mule - The Deepest End
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live Alive
Miles Davis - Live - Evil
Marillion - Real To Reel
Miles Davis - Live @ The Plugged Nickel
Al di Meola, John McLaughlin, & Paco de Lucia - Friday Night In San Francisco
Supertramp - Paris
Live Phish - 11/30/94
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
Ween - Live @ Stubbs
Grateful Dead - Reckoning
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971
Matisyahu - Live at Stubbs
DMB - Live at Red Rocks
Bob Dylan -Bob Dylan Live 1966, “The Royal Albert Hall Concert”
Wilco - Kicking Television
John Cale - Sabotage
BB King - Live at the Regal
Dave Matthews Band - The Central Park Concert
Ozzy Osbourne - The Randy Rhoads Tribute
Yes - Yessongs
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Live at Carnegie Hall
Van Morrison - Too Late to Stop Us Now
Jimi Hendrix - Live at Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore East
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
The Clash - Live: From Here to Eternity
Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin
Angra - Rebrith World Tour: Live in Sao Paulo
Iron Maiden - Death On the Road
Metallica - Binge and Purge
Pink Floyd - Pulse
Otis Eedding - Live at the Monterey Pop Festival
Frank Sinatra - At The Sands
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. - Summit: In Concert
Woodstock
Wattstax
Derek and the Dominoes - Live at the Filmore
The Band - Rock of Ages
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Muddy Waters - Newport
Violent Femmes - Viva Wisconsin
Sam Cooke - Live in Harlem
Duke Ellington - Newport
Wes Montgomery - Smokin’ at the Half Note
Oscar Peterson Trio - Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard