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The Police, Sly Stone, Interpol, Cutout Bin, Orphan Wallaby   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, July 06, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE POLICE!  Ken King and I just got back from seeing them rock Wrigley Field (where it's usually the Chicago Cubs getting rocked); Sting was booed for mentioning their last gig here was 1983 at old Comiskey Park.  Ken King pegged the show as "highly satisfying, but not life-changing." The material from the band's first two albums and from Synchroncity seemed to play the best -- the former because those songs were written when the trio had to carry everything without any studio elaboration, the latter bacause it was probably written with large venues in mind.  The selections from Spirits In The Material World also held up fairly well, with stuff from the tweener album Zenyatta Mondatta tending to fare worst.  Anyway, you can play Police Concert Home Edition right now; here is your setlist: "Message In A Bottle"  "Synchronicity II"  "Walking On The Moon"  "Voices Inside My Head / When The World Is Running Down" (made a bit too fast and jazzy) "Don't Stand So Close To Me" (choruses sounding a bit limp) "Driven To Tears" "The Bed's Too Big Without You" "Truth Hits Everybody" "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" "Wrapped Around Your Finger" (the former being the first mass sing-along) "De Do Do Do De Da Da Da" (surprisingly the strongest Zenyatta track) "Invisible Sun" "Walking In Your Footsteps" "Can't Stand Losing You/Regatta de Blanc" and "Roxanne." First Enore: "King of Pain" "So Lonely" and "Every Breath You Take", Second Encore: "Next To You" (the last six consistently strong).

THE TOP 25 POLICE SONGS, according to IGN.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED is currently streaming selections from Bryan Ferry, Mark Ronson, Michael Hearst's Songs for Ice Cream Trucks and more...

THE COPACABANA, the inspiration for Barry Manilow's smash single and a staple of Manhattan nightlife since World War II, will close its doors Saturday night as its owner hunts for a new home.

AVRIL LAVIGNE is one of several people named in a lawsuit filed July 2nd that alleges striking similarities between her hit "Girlfriend" (NSFW) and the Rubinoos' power-pop gem, "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" (Unplugged).

CHAIRMAN of the BOARD is a collection of vintage tracks from iconic cult surf films.  You can stream a few, you-know-where.

SLY STONE:  The Vanity Fair interview from which yesterday's item was taken is now posted online.

ELVIS COSTELLO will be glad to expose you to "The Other Side of Summer."

INTERPOL:  The band's Our Love To Admire comes out next Tuesday, but you can stream it all now via MTV.

FLEETWOOD MAC:  A new tell-all book suggests that Linsey Buckingham and awards shows do not mix.

OZZY OSBOURNE wants to help Taiwan become a member of the United Nations.

PETE DOHERTY UPDATE:  The troubled singer has dumped his supposedly sober supermodel fiancee?  That's his story, and he's sticking to it, though London's Mirror has her dumping him for cheating on her.

THE CUTOUT BIN:  This Friday's fortuitous finds on the ol' HM are:  Art Brut - Formed a Band; Cream - I Feel Free; The Raspberries - Go All The Way; Love - Bummer in the Summer; The Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man; Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling; Husker Du - Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely; Teenage Fanclub - The Ballad of John and Yoko; Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York; Danny & Dusty - New York City Lullaby; Neil Diamond - Thank The Lord For The Night Time (Live); Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods - Billy, Don't Be a Hero; Dawn - Knock Three Times; The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight; Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues; ZZ Top - Tush; Joe Tex - I Gotcha; The Dynamics - I Don't Want Nobody To Lead Me On; Van Morrison - Wild Night; Van Halen - Panama; Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band - Roll Me Away; and The Rolling Stones - Waiting On A Friend.

BRITNEY SPEARS has written a bitter poem entitled "Dear Mama" and delivered it to her mother, according to the ever-reliable Star magazine.

LINDSAY LOHAN and the FRENCH HOTEL reportedly reunited for an alcohol free July 4th beach party in Malibu.

NOW SHOWING:  There are not actually any wide releases opening today, because there were early releases this week for Transformers, which is currently scoring 59 percent on the ol' Tomatometer, and the Robin Williams-Mandy Moore "comedy" License to Wed, which is scoring 15 percent.  So go see Ratatouille (96 percent) or Live Free or Die Hard (77 percent).

WHO TOPS THE GLOBAL BOX OFFICE?  Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End has now earned 904.7 million worldwide at the box office, becoming the 9th movie in Hollywood history to make this much money. Pirates 3 is now the most popular global release of the summer and of 2007, beating out Spider-Man 3, which has a worldwide total now of 882 mil.

JACKO has been hunting for real estate on Maryland's Eastern Shore as he searches for a vacation home.

RATATOUILLE:  If you can't wait for the DVD extras, the movie has extras on its own YouTube Channel, including a podcast on how Pixar makes computer-generated food look yummy.

JENNIFER ANISTON has reportedly dumped her summer fling with dodgy British model Paul Sculfor.

ZACH BRAFF and DREW BARRYMORE were caught canoodling at NYC's Beauty Bar last weekend.  Doesn't Drew know Zach is a toxic bachelor?

CBS and ABC fell to their lowest ratings among the coveted adults 18-49 demographic in two decades in June.  NBC's ratings cratered weeks ago.

OLIVER STONE was snubbed and dubbed part of the Great Satan by Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad.  But don't worry; Stone still used the occasion to call Pres. Bush names.

A MIGHTY HEART:  Daniel Pearl's father is worried that the movie falls into a trap Bertrand Russell would have recognized: the paradox of moral equivalence, of seeking to extend the logic of tolerance a step too far.

THE DARK KNIGHT:  SuperheroHype can hook you up with pics of the Gotham Police and the US military cordoning off a bridge near Michigan and Wacker in Chicago, as well as point you to some on-set video and some spoiler-y pics taken at Navy Pier.

COUNT GOTTFRIED von BISMARCK, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.  But wait... there's more!

CANADA:  At least 76 radioactive devices -- some of which have the potential to be used in terrorist attacks -- have gone missing in Canada over the past five years.

FORTY-FIVE MUSLIM DOCTORS threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the US during discussions on an extremist internet chat site.  Investigators have found no link between the chat room and the group of doctors and medics currently in custody over attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.  "Sources" said it was "definitely spooky" that the use of doctors for terrorist purposes was being discussed in jihadi terrorist circles up to three years ago.  However, videos have tried to attract doctors, lawyers and scientists into Islamic extremism for more than a decade.

PAKISTAN:  Fears mounted that women and children were being used as human shields at a besieged mosque in Pakistan's capital today, as hundreds of militant students ignored a plea from the radical cleric arrested while fleeing in a woman's burqa and high heels said Thursday that the nearly 1000 followers still inside should flee or surrender.  His brother remained inside the mosque with followers and said there was no reason to surrender.  ALSO:  The journalist who first uncovered the existence of Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan's atomic weapons trading network told a conference in Washington, DC, last week that Pakistan still using his network to procure materials for its nuclear weapons program.

UK TERROR in the MEDIA:  The Toronto Star reports that "All eight detainees have ties to Britain's National Health Service... but investigators have thus far found scant few common threads in their respective backgrounds in Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, India and Saudi Arabia."  Yet the very same story carries reaction from the Muslim Council of Britain, which is telling reporters it now is ready to set aside quarrels over British foreign policy and directly urge its communities to play a key role in the fight against extremism that operates under the cloak of religion.  BTW, the Daily Telegraph reports that 3 of the terrorists "are members of the same family from the Indian city of Bangalore, while the families of another two were old friends in the Middle East. Several shared homes in Britain."  The London Times reports that two of the terrorists are cousins.  I'm guessing ivnestigators know this.

IRAQ in the MEDIA:  The news of progress in Iraq noted here on Monday was mostly blacked out by the major media -- with events in Iraq falling out of the top stories for the first time in months.  Michael Yon wants to know why the media failed to cover mass atrocities by Al Qaeda in Baqubah; a journalist "whose name you would know" has a theory about it.  OTOH, both the AP and Reuters ran stories claiming that Iraqi authorities found the bodies of 20 beheaded men dumped on the banks of the river Tigris in the town of Salman Pak.  The French press did not run the story, as they could not get confirmation.  Reuters later ran a follow-up titled, "US says report of 20 beheaded bodies in Iraq false", which included the following: "Verifying reports in Iraq is very hard for journalists, who have been systematically targeted by different militant groups and rely extensively on local sources for information."  That caveat appeared nowhere in the original story, natch -- and one of the "local" sources cited was a police officer in Kut, which is some 75 miles away from the alleged killing.  And the headline was still "US says," whereas the original story was reported as absolute fact, instead of the complete hearsay that it was.

AN ORPHAN WALLABY is having to make do with a handmade pouch instead of a mother at the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, IA.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT:  Another squirrel with plague bacteria has been detected, this time near Palomar Mountain in California.

MAN BITES DOG to save his own.

HEY, IS THAT A TICK IN YOUR PANTS, or am I just sexually assaulting you?

GERMAN SHARKS are listening to love songs to put them in the mood.

COWS stare unamazed as they chill out, grow smarter and more productive by listening to music.

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