Morning Music Notes – Cut Macca Some Slacka

Hurricane Sandy Concerts Blows Everyone Away….is an Example of an Inappropriate Headline

The rumours were true – I am the world’s greatest lover we got to see a “Nirvana reunion” with Paul McCartney subbing in for Kurt Cobain. After tweeting letters all day and forcing fans to spell, the Foo Fighters front man finally revealed what they were spelling and what it meant. They played a new song called Cut Me Some Slack, which is going to appear as a proper studio track on the Sound City – Real to Reel documentary that Dave Grohl has been working on for some time. So no Beatles tune, no Nirvana tune.

The track is a heavier track than what Paul typically plays, and has a bluesy, uptempo feel to it. You have to love how happy Pat Smear seems to be during the entire song. And bassist Paul plays a guitar – how about that. Paul also throws down when he’s down the song, emphatically saying “Oh yeah?!” Check it out below.

What are Courtney Love’s thoughts on the matter? She’s not happy according to TMZ. But why the fuck should she care? It’s not like they played Nirvana tracks.

Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear – Cut Me Some Slack

Other Hurricane Sandy Concert Highlights

In case you didn’t tune in last night, other things you missed:

– Kanye West wearing a pleather skirt (ala Axl Rose from back in the day)
– Bon Jovi wearing a black turtle neck
– lots of collaborations, such as Michael Stipe with Chris Martin, Eddie Vedder with Roger Waters, Diana Krall with Paul McCartney, and so on (see full setlist below, via Billboard)

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
“Land of Hope and Dreams”
“Wrecking Ball”
“My City in Ruins” › “Working on a Building” › “Jersey Girl”
“Born to Run” with Jon Bon Jovi

Roger Waters
“Another Brick in the Wall”
“Money”
“Us and Them”
“Comfortably Numb” with Eddie Vedder

Adam Sandler with Paul Schaffer
rewrite of “Hallelujah”

Bon Jovi
“It’s My Life”
“Wanted Dead or Alive”
“Who Says You Can’t Go Home” with Bruce Springsteen
“Living on a Prayer”

Eric Clapton
“Nobody Loves You When You’re Down and Out”
“Got to get Better in a Little While”
“Crossroads”

Rolling Stones
“You Got Me Rocking”
“Jumpin Jack Flash”

Alicia Keys
“Brand New Me”
“No One”

The Who
“Who are You”
“Bellboy”
“Pinball Wizard” › “See Me, Feel Me”
“Baba O’Riley”
“Tea & Theatre”

Kanye West
Abbreviated versions of:
“Clique”
“Mercy”
“Power”
“Jesus Walks”
“Run This Town”
“Diamonds From Sierra Leone”
“Touch the Sky”
“Gold Digger”
“Good Life”
“Runaway”
“Stronger”

Billy Joel
“Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)”
“Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)”
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
“New York State of Mind”
“River of Dreams”
“You May Be Right”
“Only the Good Die Young”

Chris Martin
“Viva la Vida”
“Losing My Religion” with Michael Stipe
“Us Against The World”

Paul McCartney
“Helter Skelter”
“Let Me Roll It”
“Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five”
“My Valentine” with Diana Krall
“Blackbird”
“Cut Me Some Slack” with Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear
“I Got a Feeling”
“Live and Let Die”

Alicia Keys
“Empire State of Mind”

Justice Announce New EP

Justice haven’t followed up last year’s awesomely named Audio, Video, Disco with a new full album, but they’ve done the next best thing – they’re giving away free candy! releasing a digital-only EP called Helix (via Consequence of Sound). The EP is out on January 9, and is perfect for all of those belated holiday gifts. There are 5 tracks, including a Gesaffelstein Vision and Domenico Torti’s Headspin remix of the track, plus tracks Presence and Ohio. You can check out Domenico Torti’s Headspin remix below.

Justice – Helix (Domenico Torti’s Headspin remix)

Google Reveals Top 10 Searches Related to Everything in 2012

Google have compiled a whack of lists for 2012, since everyone goes ape shit over lists. Don’t worry, our Top Songs and Top Albums lists will be out next week – promise. The top 10 Performing Artists searched for in 2012 are:

1 Whitney Houston
2 Michael Clarke Duncan
3 One Direction
4 Donna Summer
5 Lana Del Ray
6 Carolina Dieckmann
7 Dirk Bach
8 Carly Rae Jepsen
9 Michel Telo
10 LMFAO

So I guess some of these aren’t singers – wtf Google? It looks like dying really helped your Google Search Results. I should try that sometime. The top 10 searches overall were:

1 Whitney Houston
2 Gangnam Style
3 Hurricane Sandy
4 iPad 3
5 Diablo 3
6 Kate Middleton
7 Olympics 2012
8 Amanda Todd
9 Michael Clarke Duncan
10 BBB12

What the fuck ever happened to that Kony 2012 guy / story? We killed him, right?