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Charlotte, N.C. _ Yes, they ultimately won because the Carolina Panthers committed a silly penalty that erased a chance at a winning touchdown and led to a missed field goal that should have tied it, but the Vikings did show some signs of life on Sunday, in their 24-21 victory.
I give most of the credit to the Vikings' first road victory since December to rookie quarterback Christian Ponder, and he's the subject of my Monday column. It's funny how much better the Vikings' offense looks in the second half since Ponder replaced McNabb. McNabb was at his worst in clutch situations - third downs, third-and-longs, fourth quarters - and that's where Ponder has been at his best.
I'm especially impressed with the way Ponder has handled himself throughout his brief Vikings career. Here's a kid breaking into the NFL without the benefit of offseason workouts or tutoring from his NFL coaches, and he's not only played well immediately, he's handled the demands of being an NFL quarterback extremely well. He's smart, he has a sense of humor and he never seems to be overwhelmed by any situation.
I caught Vikings coach Leslie Frazier on his way to the bus on Sunday night, and he is almost giddy, feeling he's found his franchise quarterback.
-Kudos to Percy Harvin for being one of the toughest players in a league filled with tough guys. I don't know how you play football with bad ribs, and I especially don't know how you make spin moves and fight off tackles with bad ribs, but Harvin did it, and his spin-o-rama in the fourth quarter was the key to the game-winning drive.
-Ryan Longwell has been a tremendous kicker and a tremendous professional his entire career. He's yanked two kicks in two games, though, and his miss on Sunday could have cost the Vikings the game.
-Funny how with a smart, mobile quarterback, the offensive line doesn't look so wretched anymore, even with Anthony Herrera out on Sunday.
-Adrian Peterson might be the best he's ever been. I don't know what it looked like on TV, but from the press box, getting to see the entire field, it's remarkable how quickly he is sensing openings in the defense. On his catch-and-run touchdown in the second quarter, most backs would have burrowed for a few yards; Peterson had the vision and burst to veer to the outside for what turned out to be an easy score. The guy is phenomenal.
-The lockerroom was loud after the game, and Frazier walked among his players, slapping hands and hugging them, and he took extra time when he got to Harvin. NFL coaches have to have their guys play hurt to survive, and Frazier had extra praise for Harvin.
-Tim Tebow stinks.
-Erin Henderson made a few key stops. He's acquitted himself well since joining the starting lineup.
-Jared Allen is having an amazing season. He and Adrian Peterson are two of the best players in all of football, which is why talk of rebuilding must drive the Vikings crazy. It's hard to rebuild when you have superstars on the payroll.
-Everson Griffin is an amazing athlete. He's 273 pounds and yet plays gunner on the punt coverage team, and regularly beats double-teams. I don't see why he can't become an excellent pass rusher.
-Upcoming: I'll be on with Reusse and Mackey on 1500espn every day at 2:05 p.m., and I'll join Tom Pelissero a couple of times this week, as well. My twitter handle is @Souhanstrib.
-We're all sitting here writing on deadline and eating really unhealthy food. (Judd doesn't seem bothered by this.)
-My column for the Friday paper focuses on the Vikings' trade of the 30th pick in the draft. Short version: I like the trade. I'm not sure I like who they traded with.
-There is the possibility that the Vikings could take Jimmy Clausen on Friday. I could be wrong, and we'll know soon, but I don't think so. I don't think Clausen is the right personality type for this team, a veteran team trying to win now. And I'm not as impressed with Clausen as the general public is.
At Notre Dame, his teams generally underachieved and faced mostly poor competition, and he had great receivers who could catch anything near them. I'm not sold.
I also think the Broncos are fools. They essentially traded Brandon Marshall for Tim Tebow. Marshall is one of the NFL's two best receivers. I don't believe Tebow will ever be a good NFL quarterback. And you don't spend a first-round pick on a Wildcat quarterback.
-Here's the column I wrote early in the evening, well before the Vikings picked. We in the business call it an ``early.''
Want to know how immensely popular the NFL has become?
On Wednesday, the NFL commissioner suspended a two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback in his prime for six games for a sordid incident involving a bathroom, an underaged girl and alcohol.
On Thursday, the suspension of Ben Roethlisberger only added to the intrigue and suspense _ and thus the popularity _ of the NFL draft. Would the Steelers trade Roethlisberger? Which teams would trade their first-round pick for him? Would Bad Ben molest anyone between the announcement of the suspension and the end of the first round?
The NFL is so popular that it has become the first pro sports league in history to lend truth to the phrase, ``Any publicity is good publicity.''
The draft itself has, over the last couple of decades, morphed from an oddity obsessed over by the kind of geeks who now invent fictitious acronyms so they can sound smart talking baseball into a prime-time television special that promised to garner an immense rating.
I had a buddy tell me he was going to try to put his kids to bed early so he could watch every minute, even though most of the players taken in even the first round of the 2009 draft made little or no impact on their team last season. In fact, looking back at that first round confirms that the Vikings would have been silly to consider anyone other than receiver Percy Harvin, even if they had known then the extent of his migraines.
In 1990, I covered my first NFL draft. I spent two days in the basement of Winter Park, the Vikings' compound in Eden Prairie. The Vikings had traded just about all of their draft picks to Dallas for Herschel Walker (just thought I'd remind you) and it was pretty much a couple of writers, a couple of camera guys and a bag of chips killing an entire weekend.
At the end of each day, the Vikings' draft gurus, Frank Gilliam and Jerry Reichow, would come downstairs from their office, shrug a few times, and say that some of the guys they took had a chance to make the team, but who could tell?
Mel Kiper had not yet been invented or laquered, and everyone's favorite draft analyst was a guy named Joel Buchsbaum, who produced a draft pamphlet that every self-respecting writer treated as a bible, to the consternation of NFL personnel directors.
Thursday night, the Vikings were slated to make the 30th selection in the first round.
This column was written well before the Vikings made their first selection. In this case, you didn't know who the Vikings took to know that their selection probably wouldn't make much difference in 2010.
If they took a defensive back or an offensive lineman, that player was not likely to start Game 1 in New Orleans. If they surprised everyone (or maybe just me) and selected a quarterback, that quarterback would be at least a year away, and perhaps more, from being expected to contribute.
And that is the greatest compliment you can offer the Vikings' braintrust: They have pieced together such a strong roster that the 2010 draft should be seen as a way to bolter future teams moreso than the current squad.
The Vikings have excelled in free agency, adding Bernard Berrian, Brett Favre (yes, he counts), Anthony Herrera, Steve Hutchinson, Ben Leber, Ryan Longwell, Visanthe Shiancoe, Pat Williams and Antoine Winfield since 2004.
Under Rick Spielman, the Vikings' vice president of player personnel, the Vikings have excelled at hitting home runs at the top of the draft.
In 2006, Spielman & Co. took Chad Greenway and Cedric Griffin in the first two rounds. In 2007, it was Adrian Peterson and Sidney Rice.
In 2008, the Vikings traded three of their first four picks for Jared Allen, a brilliant move, and chose Tyrell Johnson _ a starter although not a standout _ in the second round.
In 2009, The Vikings took Harvin in the first round and Phil Loadholt in the second.
All of those move guaranteed that anyone the Vikings selected at the end of the first round on Thursday would play a supporting role.
-Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is complaining about the NFL preempting the NBA playoffs. Way to be a free-marketeer, Mark.
-On 1500ESPN with Joe and Pat at 2:35 Friday, then on at 6-ish with Joe Anderson before the Twins play the Royals. I have tomorrow off from the newspaper.
A video I shot with Mr. Reusse should be up at startribune.com.
You can follow me on twitter at Souhanstrib. If you followed me today, you know I think Jon Gruden is a fool when it comes to draft analysis. If I hear one more ``analyst'' try to tell me that Tim Tebow will be a good NFL quarterback because of his character, I'm going to regurgitate.
Ben Roethlisberger is a jerk, and he won two Super Bowls.
-I'm back to write about the draft Saturday for the Sunday paper, then on Sunday we've got the Gardy Show on 1500ESPN at 9:30, followed by Sunday Sports Talk with myself and Brad Lane. Trying for Twins and Vikings guests.
Sleep fast.
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Osho continues:
"If you have ever tried fasting, you would be surprised. If you try fasting, then for two, three days in the beginning you will feel hunger, and then sometimes hunger will disappear completely. It will come again, it will disappear again, it will come againand you are not eating at all, so you cannot say, 'The hunger disappears because I have eaten.' You are fasting: sometimes hunger comes with great power, tries to overpower you – and if you remain undisturbed by it, the hunger goes. The chakra has fallen asleep – it will awake again in its turn when the day will come; it will fall back into sleep again.
"The same happens with the sex center. You feel so hungry for love, then you have made love – and then suddenly all desire for love disappears. The chakra has fallen asleep. If you try celibacy, without repression, then you will be surprised. If you don't repress your sexual desire, you simply watch it. Try it for three months – just be watchful. When the desire comes, sit silently, let it be there, let it knock on your doors, listen to it, be attentive – but don't be carried away by it. Let it be there: don't repress it, and don't indulge in it. Be a witness – and you will be surprised again. Sometimes the desire comes with such intensity that one feels one may go crazy. And then automatically on its own accord it disappears, and sex becomes irrelevant. Again it comes, again it disappears. The chakra goes on moving: sometimes it is day, then sex arises; sometimes it is night, then sex goes to sleep.
"And so is true about all the six chakras below the seventh. Sleep does not have a separate chakra; sleep has a counterpart with each chakra, except sahasrar. So one thing more to be understood: as you grow higher and higher in your chakras, you will have a better quality of sleep because a higher chakra has a deeper quality of relaxation. The man who lives with the first – muladhar – will not have a deep sleep. His sleep will be very superficial because he lives with the physical, the material."
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
priest, disease, breathe, patient, awareness, deeply, ignorance, disappears, sharda, mallibai
priest, disease, breathe, patient, awareness, deeply, ignorance, disappears, sharda, mallibai

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Earlier today, during a visit to Microsoft's E3 booth, we had an opportunity to play Forza Motorsport 4 for the first time. Turn 10's upcoming racer is being shown on a number of different setups; there are several where you can just play with a controller, a couple where you can play in a seat with a racing wheel and a Kinect set up for head tracking, one with a force feedback seat set up in front of three large screens, and one where you can control everything in the game with a Kinect. While in line for one of the head-tracking rigs, we got a pretty good look at the full Kinect setup, which was mostly being used to show off how incredibly detailed the car models are this year.
Viewing one of the game's many Ferraris inside a nondescript garage, the guy using the Kinect was able to reposition the camera simply by moving, almost as if he were walking around the car. Furthermore, using his hand to control a small icon on the screen, he was able to interact with part of the car. Focusing on one of its wheels, he called up an overlay detailing its specifications, for example, and when he moved around to the rear of the car, he popped open the engine cover to look inside. Later, we saw him open the driver's side door and, by interacting with an icon that appeared onscreen, climb inside. At this point, he was sat in the driving position and interacted with the fantastic-looking interior in much the same way as outside. Putting the key in the ignition lit up all of the dashboard instruments, and when he reached for the steering wheel, he was given the option to participate in a driving challenge, which he accepted. Because we weren't playing the game ourselves at this point, we can't comment on how well the Ferrari controlled using the Kinect, but the driver certainly didn't appear to be having any major problems with it.
What we can comment on is how well Forza Motorsport 4's head-tracking feature works. After sitting down and getting comfortable with the steering wheel and pedals, we opted to drive a Subaru (one of only three cars featured in the E3 demo) around the spectacular-looking Switzerland track that was shown during the Microsoft press conference earlier this week. The car handling was great, though we're pretty sure that a good number of the game's driving assists were turned on by default. The effect of the head tracking was pretty subtle; when we went out of our way to try to look out of a side window, it didn't respond as much as we had hoped. When we stopped thinking about it and just let it do its thing as we subconsciously leaned into corners a little, though, the effect was really good. It wasn't so dramatic that it was distracting, but it was definitely noticeable enough to add to our sense of immersion while using the cockpit view.
Forza Motorsport 4 is currently scheduled for release in October, and based on what we saw of it today, it promises to improve upon its predecessor in more ways than any of us could reasonably have expected. We look forward to bringing you more information on Forza Motorsport 4 just as soon as we can; maybe we'll even swing by the Turn 10 area of Microsoft's booth again before E3 ends.


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Sony Xperia Tablet Z review
The lightest, slimmest and water-resistant-est tablet on the market
By Phil Lavelle
TechRadar's verdict
"The Sony Xperia Tablet Z is pretty much the complete package. A fantastic slender, lightweight design topped off with a great screen and clever features makes it the best 10-inch Android around."
- Really light
- Beautiful screen
- Small apps
- Great keyboard
- Awkward, angular design
- Average battery
- Poor camera
- Charging takes forever


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Creighton beats Villanova with 21 3-point baskets
|Villanova's Jay Vaughn Pinkston (22) tries to get around Creighton's Ethan Wragge (34) in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, in Philadelphia.Creighton won 96-68. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ethan Wragge turned Villanova from unbeaten in the Big East to thoroughly beaten in a blur of 3-pointers.
Wragge tied a school record with nine 3s for all 27 points, Doug McDermott hit five 3s and scored 23 points, and Creighton set a team mark with 21 3-pointers in a 96-68 victory over the fourth-ranked Wildcats on Monday night.
"When you let a team that's a good shooting team get hot," Villanova coach Jay Wright said, "you're in trouble."
The Wildcats played with their highest ranking since they were No. 3 on Feb. 15, 2010. They are not going to stay No. 4 for long.
James Bell scored 19 points for the Wildcats while JayVaughn Pinkston added 11 and Darrun Hilliard had 10.
"We don't pay attention to any of the rankings," Hilliard said. "We just focus on each other."
They should have focused more on defending the 3.
The Bluejays (16-3, 6-1 Big East) topped the school record of 20 3s set in 2005 against Chattanooga. Kyle Korver hit nine 3s against Evansville on Jan. 15, 2003. The Bluejays, in their first year in the Big East, set a conference record for most 3s in a game and beat a top-five team for the first time since 1970.
"Once I get one, they know I'm hunting for two and three," Wragge said. "It's a hard feeling to describe once you get one to go in. You just kind of let it fly and don't think about it."
The Bluejays hit their first nine 3s and never looked back against Villanova (16-2, 5-1) which had romped its way toward its highest ranking in four years. They made 21 of 35 3-pointers and led by as many 41 points.
Wragge hit eight 3s in the first half and Creighton built a 28-point lead.
"By three or four, I kind of knew where I was at," he said.
Wragge, who finished 9 of 14 from 3-point range, tied Korver's record with his ninth 3-pointer with 13:59 left for a 68-45 lead. McDermott followed with his third 3 and Austin Chatman hit one the next time down for the stunning 29-point lead.
"It's tough to beat a team that hits 21 3s," McDermott said.
The Bluejays refused to slow down from 3-point range, with McDermott's fourth 3 extending the lead to 30 and making them 19 for 31.
Oh, and Creighton had 19 3s at the same time Villanova had 16 total field goals.
McDermott, the two-time All-America, tied Creighton's team record with 20 3s not long after, sending the crowd at the home of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers fleeing for the exits.
Jahenns Manigat hit Creighton's record 21st 3-pointer to make it 88-50 with 7:33 left. He made four 3s and scored 19 points.
Somehow, this was the same Creighton team that never led in an 81-68 loss at Providence on Saturday. The Bluejays made only four 3s in the loss.
"Providence did a better job sticking with Wragge and not leaving him," Wright said.
It was the worst loss in Wright's 13 seasons at Villanova.
The Bluejays beat a ranked team for the first time since 2007 and a top-five team for the first time since Jan. 29, 1970, against No. 5 New Mexico State.
"That was one of the more incredible things I've ever been a part of," Creighton coach Greg McDermott said.
Villanova might want to work on defending Wragge in the Feb. 16 rematch.
Wragge took all of six shots this season inside the 3-point arc, and with good reason. He's rarely missed from long range.
Against Villanova, the 49-percent 3-point shooter didn't miss at all, at least on his first seven attempts. His seventh 3 put the Bluejays up 27-8 just 7½ minutes into the game. With McDermott running into double teams, Wragge was all alone, even hitting one in front of Villanova's bench without a defender within 2 feet of him. Even with the hot hand, Wragge hit the bench for a spell — maybe he had a tired arm — to rest up from all those 3s.
"They came one right after another," Bell said.
Wragge's teammates picked up the slack. McDermott, Manigat and Isaiah Zierden each hit two 3s and Creighton finished the first half a whopping 14 of 22 (64 percent) from beyond the arc. Creighton's season high had been 16 against Chicago State on Dec. 29.
McDermott had his usual solid game, shooting 8 of 13 with five rebounds in 28 minutes.
"He hit five 3s, but it's all the passes he makes from inside, the attention he demands," Wright said. "He's a joy to watch. You don't like it when he's doing it to you."
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Buttermilk Baked Chicken
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4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 T. butter
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4. Turn chicken pieces over in the baking dish, and bake for 10 minutes more.
5. Meanwhile, stir together the remaining 1 cup buttermilk, cream of mushroom soup, and mushrooms; pour over the chicken and bake for an additional 10 minutes, shielding with aluminum foil if necessary to prevent excessive browning.
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The Company operates in three primary businesses: building efficiency, automotive experience and power solutions.
I discarded this one from my Stock Advisor watchlist, today. I don't think it's a market-beater, though in some respects it's an impressive company. Here are some notes coming from Brendan Mathews on my Stock Advisor team:Johnson Controls (JCI)$26/share $17.9 billion market cap==Past 1-2 years View==Johnson Controls could benefit from the recovering economy as car sales increase and cap-ex budgets loosen to include more spending on efficient heating and cooling systems. Over the long-term, demand for Efficient Building should grow as energy becomes more expensive and people become more environmentally aware. The company is already large, so it's unlikely to double, but it is fairly like to grow 50% over the next five years. ==Key Recent Developments==Lower European auto production has largely offset recovery in the North American auto markets. Johnson Controls has been forced to restructure its European operations, closing plants and laying-off workers. In the most recent quarter, the company took a large charge to cover the cost of restructuring, which were mostly cash severance payments to European workers. Weak global market for Building Efficiency, including a 10% down turn in the U.S. institutional market.A $447 million charge for to bring its pension and healthcare liabilities into compliance with accounting rules.Management's said that "softening end markets" and a weak Euro will limit the company's ability to grow sales and earnings in 2013==Outlook==The situation is basically the same – the company still has leadership in its three key markets (auto experience, building efficiency, and batteries). Unfortunately, however, those are all competitive, cyclical markets. If we've learned anything over the past year, it's that building efficiency, which the company hoped would lessen its economic sensitivity, is also highly dependent on the general economy. ==Probability of Beating the Market==40%. Coming off the bottom of 2009, Johnson Controls grew revenue near 20% in 2010 and 2011 as the economy rebounded. For Johnson Controls to continue growing there will need to be a strong upswing in the economy, which is certainly possible, but doesn't seem imminent. The company's scale in multiple markets provides some cushion against economic downturns, but ultimately, this company is heavily-levered to the global economy and GDP growth.==Our Motley Fool 5-and-3==5 Potential Green Flags1. Further interest in "Green Buildings," spurred by government regulation or increased energy costs2. Continued growth in the start-stop battery market – expected to grow 5x between 2011 and 20153. Resurgence in the global auto market4. Continued growth in the building efficiency backlog – maintaining a book to bill ratio greater than 15. Additional, smart acquisitions in the efficiency and power solutions businesses3 Potential Red Flags1. Further weakening in the global auto market or residential and commercial real estate markets2. Additional contributions to the company's under-funded pension3. Increase in the company's debt level
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Investing In Commercial Real Estate Or Residential Real Estate
These days, we get to see news regarding property prices, Real Estate market and news about the real estate boom.
Real estate is basically defined as an "interest" on land, held by individual or an entity, with a building on it, along with other natural resources, like crops, soil, etc.
An interest is held in two ways, one by buying the entire land and acquiring complete ownership, and two via acquiring leasehold on the land for a defined number of years as per the agreement.
If you browse through various real estate investor websites, mainly two kinds of real estate categories can be found easily:
The commercial real estate interest rates for mortgage finance are generally higher than residential real estate. But even then, the returns on investment are much better. For example a residential property will give average 6-8% returns every year, as against 10-15% return on commercial property.
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Mostly businessmen, real estate investors and real estate companies invest in commercial real estate. They buy land and build commercial offices for leasing or renting them. This way they are able to earn passive income on a long term basis.
Investing in residential real estate also occurs in the market.
The homes are built on land that is developed and they are sold in the market to the customers, or they are leased or to let.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Genpact Limited (NYSE: G), a global leader in business process management and technology services, announces that its Board of Directors has declared a special cash dividend of $2.24 per share, for an aggregate amount of approximately $501 million, to holders of Genpact common shares. The dividend will be paid on September 24, 2012 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on September 10, 2012.
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maybe a fight in a little place like that was indeed impossible (ie not wanted by oda ^^)Originally Posted by Ayato_kamina
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Hold on, why is the quality like... low or should I say microscopic. If someone made the effort to scan it, then why would he save the pictures to this tiny format??
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Stephens is not out but maybe some other dude has done it.
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This company is overvalued , the optimists are basing their calculations on a strong dollar and weak rupee. Should the rupee gain 10% more which seems very possible in the next couple of years we'll probably see valuation slashed in half.
I agree, but why the heck is this company not diversifying? Has Infosys bought any companies? Even other Indian IT companies are diversifying. What is this company doing with all its profit????? This company will soon be shut out if they do not change their pompous act.
Actually, They use consultants all over the world. As, say, the GBP declines, why can't they use their relatively nimble business model and shift more work to Britain instead of India, perhaps taking on more Indian clients?
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Reissue Theory: Joe Jackson, "Live in Tokyo: The Big World Tour"
Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we focus on classic musical works and the reissues they could someday see. Today, Mike reflects on one of British rock's angriest young men all grown up, and the one weird aspect of the catalogue market that has yet to be greatly exploited.
Like many of you, I've had an angry young man phase. You know the feelings, I'm sure. You're a bundle of emotions and everything is just super-serious. You're insecure but maddeningly self-assured – convinced of how cooler you are than the next hunk that walks down the street. (Some who know me might say this phase isn't exactly over, but that's neither here nor there.)
It's this identification that draws us to music that evokes these feelings and spirits with exacting detail – acts like Elvis Costello or Billy Joel (who wrote a song called "Angry Young Man") or The Knack or Cheap Trick or Ben Folds Five or – you guessed it – Joe Jackson, who kind of brilliantly crystallized and mainstreamed the typical angry young man formula in the 1970s and 1980s. After several albums of hard-charging pop/rock/New Wave (1979's one-two punch Look Sharp! and I'm the Man, 1980's Beat Crazy), the Royal Academy of Music-trained Jackson shifted gears toward straight jazz and jazz-pop with Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive (1981), Night and Day (1982) and Body and Soul (1984). Jackson also began his earliest dabbling in soundtracks (Mike's Murder (1983) and Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)) and classical composition (Will Power (1987)), prefacing the eventual directions his career would take.
But it was a killer time. Jackson, you may have forgotten, was better represented on the charts than most of his fellow British angry young men; "Is She Really Going Out with Him?," "Steppin' Out," "Breaking Us in Two" and "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)" were all Top 40 hits in America, with "Steppin' Out" even garnering a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. And before he crossed over into more esoteric material, Jackson did in fact give one of the best audio documents of his pop evolution: the double-album Live 1980/86, featuring four sides devoted to all his major tours at that time: Beat Crazy and The Joe Jackson Band (guitarist Gary Sanford, bassist Graham Maby and drummer David Haughton); the expanded lite-jazz ensemble from the Night and Day Tour; the full-brass orchestra of the Body and Soul Tour and a new, stripped down rock combo to promote Big World, a 1986 album of new material recorded in front of a silent live audience.
After the jump, keep reading about what made the Big World tour so exciting, and what that could mean for a catalogue title! Read the rest of this entry »
Reissue Theory: Fleetwood Mac, "Tango in the Night"
Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we focus on great albums and the reissues they could someday see. As we welcome one of our favorite ladies in rock back to her famous band, we remember their last album altogether and the pop success it enjoyed.
One of the best pieces of classic rock news to come out of this nascent year is easily the announcement of singer/keyboardist Christine McVie returning to Fleetwood Mac. McVie retired from the band (and touring in general) after the band's incredibly successful The Dance tour in the late 1990s, leaving singer Stevie Nicks, singer/guitarist Lindsay Buckingham, bassist (and ex-husband) John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood to continue as a quartet, but made two surprise appearances with the band in England last year, later expressing her desire to rejoin the band.
While no official plans have been firmed up (beyond the possibility of a full tour), it certainly provokes one to think of the phenomenal albums the quintet have created – in particular, their final set as a quintet, 1987's Tango in the Night. One of the band's most modern (for its time, anyway) productions was also one of its most rapturously received, going triple platinum in the U.S. (and eight times platinum in the U.K., where it was the first Mac album since the Peter Green era to chart higher in England than the States) and spinning off four Top 40 hits. For all its success, though, it's one of two by this lineup of the band (the other being its predecessor, 1982's Mirage) that have not been remastered or expanded by Warner Bros./Rhino.
I think you know where this is leading, of course: after the jump, we'll be looking out for love for Tango in the Night, and imagine what an expanded reissue might look like!
Reissue Theory: "Michael Jackson's Moonwalker"
Welcome to yet another installment of Reissue Theory, where we celebrate notable releases and the reissues they could someday see. On the King of Pop's birthday, we remember one of the Bad era's least-remembered but most captivating pieces of merchandise: Michael Jackson's first feature film.
The past year has seen quite the revival of interest in Michael Jackson's 1987 album Bad. It's hard to imagine an album that sold multiplatinum levels of records and spawned a record-setting five consecutive No. 1 hits might be considered "overrated" or "underrated," but then again, how many albums have to follow up Thriller, Jackson's magnum opus and the best-selling album in history?
In 2012, Legacy Recordings honored Bad with a lavish 25th anniversary box set featuring some intriguing unreleased demos and a captivating solo concert from London's Wembley Arena in 1988. This year, Bad and its gems were featured in two specially-created digital box sets for iTunes, and, to time with a new Cirque du Soleil show in Las Vegas, Legacy released Spike Lee's Bad 25 documentary – shown in edited form on American network television last winter – in full on DVD and Blu-Ray. (As our friends at Popblerd can tell you, it's absolutely essential viewing for fans of all shades.)
With this level of product, it's hard to wish that there could be just one more title to satiate fan desire. But, as is so often the case, there's certainly one more worthy release from the Bad era – and its absence has, it seems, less to do with oversaturating the market and more to do with who has the rights. I'm talking, of course, about Jackson's strangely captivating feature film, Moonwalker.
Intended to tie a bow around the Bad era, Moonwalker is essentially a film-length collection of short-form music videos and longer featurettes. The most present "plot" is in the nearly-hourlong film for "Smooth Criminal," the seventh and final U.S. single from Bad (and its sixth Top 10). In it, Jackson acts as a protector to a trio of plucky kids (one of whom is Sean Lennon, John and Yoko's son) from a group of ruthless gangsters, led by a delightfully manic Joe Pesci (a full three years before his Oscar win for Goodfellas). Car chases abound, Michael leads an elaborate Fosse/Minnelli-esque dance number to "Smooth Criminal" (complete with his newest choreographed trick, the anti-gravity lean) and…well, let's just say you haven't lived until you've seen MJ turn into a robot spaceship.
That one clip could sum up the intense, grandiose art of the Bad album – but Michael's attention doesn't stay that focused. Moonwalker features Michael dancing with a Claymation biker rabbit ("Speed Demon"), lampooning his own image by turning himself into a carnival ("Leave Me Alone"), covering The Beatles' "Come Together" and overseeing a shot-for-shot remake of Martin Scorsese's "Bad" short film starring a cast of children. Add in your usual dose of MJ mythologizing (a 10-minute montage of his accomplishments to date) and you've got a lengthy but rarely boring addition to the Michael Jackson catalogue.
After the jump, we talk why Moonwalker is more or less M.I.A. on DVD, and what we'd add to it if it were available!
Special Weekend Reissue Theory: Madonna, "Madonna: 30th Anniversary Edition"
Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we reflect on notable records and the reissues they could someday see. It's been three decades since one of the most popular and influential performers of the last 50 years released her first full-length album, and a new deluxe edition is long overdue. Here's a look back at the first album by Madonna.
If you'll pardon the anachronism, it wouldn't have been unforgivable to look at Gary Heery's photograph for the cover of Madonna's first album and ask "Who's that girl?" Was this really the face of the girl who'd been filling floors of New York dance clubs with her bubbly, synth-funk jams and distinctive-if-untrained voice? Someone so young, so…white?
Of course, the bottle-blonde hair, the seductive stare and the chunky, bangled jewelry are some of Madonna Louise Ciccone's first visual hallmarks; we couldn't have imagined her any other way in her first few years on the scene. And while we could never really have predicted the astounding upper reaches of pop and art she'd reach in the decades to come from this record alone, Madonna, released July 27, 1983, is an impressively sturdy foundation that certainly bears rediscovery.
What follows, as always, is our Reissue Theory-style look back at the album: its creation, its impact and – finally – what it could look like if Madonna and the powers-that-be ever rolled out a deluxe edition of this album. After the borderline – er, jump – we'll take you back to 1983, where nobody quite knew how familiar they would be with that one-named pop singer.
Reissue Theory: Tears for Fears, "The Hurting: 30th Anniversary Edition"
Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we spotlight notable albums and the reissues they could someday see. Thirty years ago today, one of the best synth-rock bands of the 1980s released their first full-length album – as good a time as any to champion the career of Tears for Fears!
"Is it an horrific dream?
Am I sinking fast?"
- "The Hurting," Tears for Fears
From the beginning of the first side of Tears for Fears' debut LP, it's honestly kind of hard to predict where they'd end up. Maybe that's the secret to their intrigue all these years later – if not the catchy melodies and dense lyrics of their body of work.
On March 7, 1983, Phonogram Records in the U.K. issued the band's first full-length record, The Hurting, and further pushed them down the path to international success. That said, TFF still don't truly get their due as a group – which brings us to this revisitation of the record that started it all, so to speak.
Of course, the TFF story actually begins much earlier, somewhere in the late 1970s in the sleepy town of Bath, England. Teenagers Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith meet and decide to pool their mutual interests in making music. They first join a local group called Neon, who become known far more for what their members would accomplish after the group broke up. (Drummer Manny Elias and guitarist Neil Taylor would work with Tears for Fears throughout the next decade, while principal members/songwriters Pete Byrne and Rob Fisher formed the successful synth-pop duo Naked Eyes.)
Their first fully-formed group, a mod-cum-New Wave group called Graduate, nicks the lowest dregs of the charts and break up during the sessions for their second album. By that point, Orzabal and Smith are far less interested in making straightforward pop/rock and, despite their proficiency with stringed instruments (Orzabal on guitar, Smith on bass), experiment with synthesizers and more overt New Wave styles of production.
Also notable alongside the tonal shift is an increasing interest in psychology and its thematic effect on the duo's songwriting. Orzabal, in particular, whose family life is decidedly non-traditional (his father managed local entertainers before suffering a nervous breakdown), becomes attracted to the works of Arthur Janov, whose primal scream therapy was championed by John Lennon in the immediate aftermath of The Beatles' breakup. Directly inspired by a passage in The Primal Scream, Orzabal and Smith change their band name from History of Headaches to Tears for Fears, and pen songs full of drama and angst but with surprisingly deft musical chops to back it up, combining gurgling keyboard riffs courtesy of keyboardist Ian Stanley with muscular rock hooks and distinctive vocals from the full-throated tenor of Orzabal as well as the more introspective Smith. Elias' strong drumming rounded out the initial lineup, although Orzabal and Smith have long been considered the major nucleus of the band, particularly after Stanley and Elias departed in the late '80s.
Tears for Fears were signed to Phonogram in 1981 and get to work on several singles – none of which you'll easily find on CD. The history behind those tracks – and the ones you know – are after the jump!
Reissue Theory: Duran Duran, "Duran Duran (The Wedding Album): 20th Anniversary Edition"
Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we focus on notable albums and the reissues they could someday see. Today, two decades after its release, we imagine an expanded edition of an album that sent an iconic '80s band flying into the new decade – and back toward the top of the charts.
The bizarre narrative that seems to plague pop music is that, with each new decade, the trends of the last 10 years should be relegated to the past as soon as possible. The psychedelic sounds of the '60s weren't immediately swept away in the '70s, but acts had to adapt considerably, lest they be drowned out by harder-edged rock, glam, disco and eventually punk rock. Those rawer styles (and even – or especially – disco) would find themselves out in the cold come the '80s, a decade of synthesizer-based New Wave and big-haired metal.
Ironically, the secret to Duran Duran's monolithic success in the 1980s hinged on their ability to take several trends that peaked the decade before and put a new spin on them, namely the cleanly-mixed, bottom-heavy disco overtones of groups like CHIC and the minimalist, keyboard-assisted rock approach of Roxy Music. Add a dollop of modern sensibility (namely a focus on physical appearance, served to perfection in scores of music videos for the nascent MTV), and it's no surprise even Rolling Stone gave in to their charms, dubbing them "The Fab Five."
That didn't make Duran's journey through a decade they largely owned any easier, though. By 1986, the quintet was reduced to a trio – vocalist Simon Le Bon, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and bassist John Taylor – and struggling to create music that was both artistically satisfying and commercially successful. (The criminally underrated Notorious (1986) and Big Thing (1988) did have several hit singles, including Notorious' title track and the latter album's Chicago house-call "I Don't Want Your Love.")
Though Duran was anxious to start the decade off right – going so far as to hire touring guitarist Warren Cuccurullo (formerly of Frank Zappa's band and Missing Persons) and touring drummer Sterling Campbell to the lineup, creating another five-piece outfit – they were tripped up by not only their inability but anyone's inability to know which direction to move. Neither grunge nor hi-NRG dance nor Britpop had set in as musical trends, and the lack of general musical direction was twice as harmful to bands struggling to find their footing in the first place.
Whatever the cause for Duran Duran, 1990's Liberty failed to post any hit singles, and the band's decision to forego a tour did them no favors, either. Campbell would drift out of the lineup, and even Taylor – still battling drug addiction and testing out a marriage with model Amanda de Cadenet, who was carrying his first child – debated exiting the band.
The secret to their impending second wind was a most unexpected one, but the rewards were rich indeed. We tell that story – and imagine a reissue to celebrate that era – after the jump!
Reissue Theory: "James Bond 007: The Ultimate Collection"
Welcome to another installment of Reissue Theory, where we focus on classic music and the reissues they may someday see. With 50 years of on-screen action and a new film in theaters, the name is Bond…James Bond, and the music is plentiful!
What else is left to say about Ian Fleming's blunt, British secret agent James Bond? Our 007, licensed to kill, is an international icon of print and, since Sean Connery suavely stepped into Bond's tuxedo in 1962's Dr. No, the big screen. Today, the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall – the third to star Daniel Craig as a rougher-hewn 007 and, by nearly all accounts, one of the greatest films in the series – opens in American theaters, guaranteeing the legacy that film producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli created a half-century ago remains as shaken (not stirred) as ever.
Bond soundtrack fans have had much to enjoy in that time period. From Monty Norman and His Orchestra's brassy, immortal main theme (punctuated by session guitarist Vic Flick's staccato electric guitar licks), to lush scores by John Barry, Marvin Hamlisch, Bill Conti, Michael Kamen, David Arnold and Thomas Newman, to name a few, to the 23 title themes of varying quality but with boundless cultural currency, music is as vital a part of the Bond experience as martinis, girls, cars and guns. And fans have been lucky: in the 1990s, Rykodisc acquired the rights to much of the Bond soundtrack catalogue (in most cases, controlled by Capitol/EMI). In the 2000s, Capitol itself expanded and/or remastered many of those albums anew. And compilations, from 1992's rarity-packed double-disc The Best of James Bond 30th Anniversary Collection to this year's Bond…James Bond: 50 Years, 50 Tracks, have been plentiful as well.
But short of another, even more comprehensive pass at expanding the soundtrack albums to completion (one that seems increasingly like a pipe dream, thanks to the climate of the industry and the varying physical and financial statuses of the scores themselves), one could certainly find worth in a multi-disc box set that would provide the definitive dossier on Bond music. With that in mind, Second Disc HQ's latest mission file is just that – and you can expect us to talk after the jump!