In what will be a weekly feature, Curbing will announce the top five in whatever category we happen to choose. We may be open to requests.
1)All Things Must Pass - George Harrison (1970)
Although George has passed, this masterpeice lives on to the delight of all things that have not. The unique musical sound produced on this album has not come close to being duplicatd since. The sitar solo on "Isn't it a Pity?" is absolutely heart - stirring. "My Sweet Lord", "Wah Wah", ''Beware of Darkness" - these are just a few of the precious gems that are on this album. The truth is, every song on "All Things Must Pass" is a jewel.
2) White Trash With Money - Toby Keith (2006)
Altough this album won't necessaraly contribute a disproportionately large number of songs to Toby Keith's next greatest hits album, it
assumes a prominent position on this list because of the consistent quality of each song. Standout songs include "A Little Too Late", "Can't Buy You Money'', "Crash Here Tonight" and of course "Get Drunk and Be Somebody".
3)Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles (1967)
Any legitimate greatest album ranking already grants this work a slot in the top twenty, but not until a good few Beatles albums have been listed. "Sgt. Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Rubber Soul", and "Abbey Road" are always listed before this masterpiece. While those masterpieces have their rightful spots among the greatest of all time, MMT deserves even more recognition. Aside from the super smash hits "Hello Goodbye" "Strawberry Fields Forever""All You Need Is Love" and the magesterial "Penny Lane, " this album also contains underrated treasures such as "Fool on the Hill", "I am the Walrus ", and "Baby You're a Rich Man". This just might be the Fab Four's greatest masterpiece.
4) Haneshama Lach - Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach (1959)
As the seminal album of all modern jewish music, this abum deserves more recognition than it receives. Sure, Carlebach himself is a celebrated musician, composer, and vocalist, but this album particularly is deserving of more credit. If "Haneshama Lach'', "Mimkoimcha" and "Ki Lishuascha" do nothing for you then you just might not have a heart. Additionally, the vocal performance on this album is Carlebach's best.
5)Hillbilly Deluxe - Brooks and Dunn
The featured song alone would make this a great album. Toss in ''Believe'', ''Building Bridges'', and '' Play Something Country'' and this album's selection is a no - brainer
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Best performance of a song not by the original artist. Notice the young Dhani who is a ringer for his father George Harrison.
Blessing in Disguise?
SPOILER WARNING - DO NOT READ THIS ENTRY IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END OF THE NFL SEASON
Steelers' second year safety Anthony Smith guaranteed a victory against the New England Patriots. The Steelers were humbled by the Patriots on Sunday evening in a lopsided 31-13 defeat. So, Anthony Smith was wrong, right? Wrong. He wasn't refering to the game played this past Sunday. He was talking about the contest that will be played on January 11th at Gillette Stadium. That's right, folks, the AFC championship game. Anthony was and is still guaranteeing a Steelers win en route to their 2nd Super Bowl in three years. In 2004, the Steelers faced the record-winning Patriots in the regular season before being cheat - I mean beat by the Pats in the AFC title game. The following year, the Steelers lost to the Colts and the Bengals (in their second meeting) during the regular season before manhandling them both in the playoffs. In all these situations the losing team figured out what it did right, what it did wrong, did a little soul searching, came back and beat the previous winners. It would have been nice to ruin Brady's and Bellicheat's perfect season, but even if they do go 16-0 it will make it all the sweeter when we eviscerate them in the AFC championship game in Foxboro. That is not only an Anthony Smith guarantee, but a curbingmyenthusiasm guarantee as well. Enjoy the remainder of the season and playoffs!
(we apologize for the recent scarcity of posts)
Steelers' second year safety Anthony Smith guaranteed a victory against the New England Patriots. The Steelers were humbled by the Patriots on Sunday evening in a lopsided 31-13 defeat. So, Anthony Smith was wrong, right? Wrong. He wasn't refering to the game played this past Sunday. He was talking about the contest that will be played on January 11th at Gillette Stadium. That's right, folks, the AFC championship game. Anthony was and is still guaranteeing a Steelers win en route to their 2nd Super Bowl in three years. In 2004, the Steelers faced the record-winning Patriots in the regular season before being cheat - I mean beat by the Pats in the AFC title game. The following year, the Steelers lost to the Colts and the Bengals (in their second meeting) during the regular season before manhandling them both in the playoffs. In all these situations the losing team figured out what it did right, what it did wrong, did a little soul searching, came back and beat the previous winners. It would have been nice to ruin Brady's and Bellicheat's perfect season, but even if they do go 16-0 it will make it all the sweeter when we eviscerate them in the AFC championship game in Foxboro. That is not only an Anthony Smith guarantee, but a curbingmyenthusiasm guarantee as well. Enjoy the remainder of the season and playoffs!
(we apologize for the recent scarcity of posts)
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Happy Hannukah!
One of the great miracles that Hannukah commemorates is the great military victory that the Maccabees enjoyed over the Syrian-Greeks. We praise and thank God for this in the special prayer of ''viyal hanisim - bimei matisyahu''. It is important for us to look into our own lives and our own victorious battles and to formulate our own prayers of gratitude and praise. In the past 48 hours we have witnessed giboirim (Patriots) byad chalushim (Ravens), rabbim (Browns) byad miatim (officials) timmayim (Rangers) byad tihoirim (Hurricanes) rishoim (Cayotes) byad tzadikim (Penguins) and finally, zeidim (Bengals) byad oiskei soirasecha (STEELERS). True, the Ravens didn't finish the job, and it's not because they aren't chalashim, however, it is only fitting that the Steelers burst Bellicheat's perfect bubble as they did in the 2005 season when the Pats were on their record setting winning streak. There will be more on this matchup later in the week, but for now, Curbing would like to extend happy, healthy, and productive Hannukah wishes to all of our readers and their families.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Saturday, December 1, 2007
New and Notable 1
Celebrity endorsements are not new to politics. Hollywood's elite have long been aligning themselves with Presidential hopefuls.It is no different this year. Barbara Streisand has endorsed Hillary, having been narrowly deemed as beneficial by the Clinton Pollsters. Barack Hussein Obama has persuaded Oprah to campaign and fund raise for him. These have been a mere leadup to the biggest celebrity endorsement yet. That's right - Curbing is officially endorsing former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee for President of The United States and leader of the free world. While this is bound to change the face of the Presidential race particularly for the Republican nomination, it does not as you might think render the contest a mere formality. Voters will not soon forget the AP photo showing a Curbing family member greeting the erstwhile NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
Country music superstar Toby Keith will be performing at the Izod Center (formerly Continental Airlines Arena) on 2/15/08 at seven thirty PM as part of his Big Dog Daddy tour. Unfortunately, that is a Friday night and Sabbath observers will have difficulty attending. Interestingly enough, this is being advertised on the sports talk radio station WFAN.
Mike and the Mad Dog have not been the conventional forum for promoting country music concerts in the past, however, convention has never been a guideline for Keith before. Having announced that he will not attend this year's CMA's it is hardly a shock that his newest smash-hit album ''Big Dog Daddy'' was not even nominated for one award.
Tommorow night's battle between the Pittsburgh Steelers (8-3) and the Cincinnatti Bengals (4-7) is a big one for the Steelers ,and won't be an easy one. ''Big'' for reasons not just symbolic, but practical. Should the Steelers, heaven forbid, lose to the Bengals they could be tied in the standings with the Browns with four difficult games left to lose their tie-breaking lead. There would be no reason to believe that they would go better than 2-2 in the remaining games with New England and Jacksonville left on the schedule - not to mention the Ravens on the road the last game of the season. If they want any chance of a first round bye, losing tomorrow night is not an option. It hardly seems necessary to explain why the game should be difficult for a team that won and lost to the Dolphins and Jets respectively by a field goal. I will anyway. 1) To the best of my knowledge the Steelers have not implemented the suggestions in the post ''Ride Bus -Park Parker?''. 2) Let's just say Carson Palmer is motivated to play against the team that tore his ACL in the playoffs two years ago and knocked his team out of the playoffs just a year ago (in all fairness, this motivation hasn't really helped him against the Steelers in the past). 3) Injuries. Santonio Holmes (knee) will be sitting out the contest effectively removing the Steelers' deep threat. Marvel Smith (back) will also be on the sideline - I don't need to explain the significance of that. On the bright side, Polamalu won't be playing as he is nursing an injury to his hair.
Country music superstar Toby Keith will be performing at the Izod Center (formerly Continental Airlines Arena) on 2/15/08 at seven thirty PM as part of his Big Dog Daddy tour. Unfortunately, that is a Friday night and Sabbath observers will have difficulty attending. Interestingly enough, this is being advertised on the sports talk radio station WFAN.
Mike and the Mad Dog have not been the conventional forum for promoting country music concerts in the past, however, convention has never been a guideline for Keith before. Having announced that he will not attend this year's CMA's it is hardly a shock that his newest smash-hit album ''Big Dog Daddy'' was not even nominated for one award.
Tommorow night's battle between the Pittsburgh Steelers (8-3) and the Cincinnatti Bengals (4-7) is a big one for the Steelers ,and won't be an easy one. ''Big'' for reasons not just symbolic, but practical. Should the Steelers, heaven forbid, lose to the Bengals they could be tied in the standings with the Browns with four difficult games left to lose their tie-breaking lead. There would be no reason to believe that they would go better than 2-2 in the remaining games with New England and Jacksonville left on the schedule - not to mention the Ravens on the road the last game of the season. If they want any chance of a first round bye, losing tomorrow night is not an option. It hardly seems necessary to explain why the game should be difficult for a team that won and lost to the Dolphins and Jets respectively by a field goal. I will anyway. 1) To the best of my knowledge the Steelers have not implemented the suggestions in the post ''Ride Bus -Park Parker?''. 2) Let's just say Carson Palmer is motivated to play against the team that tore his ACL in the playoffs two years ago and knocked his team out of the playoffs just a year ago (in all fairness, this motivation hasn't really helped him against the Steelers in the past). 3) Injuries. Santonio Holmes (knee) will be sitting out the contest effectively removing the Steelers' deep threat. Marvel Smith (back) will also be on the sideline - I don't need to explain the significance of that. On the bright side, Polamalu won't be playing as he is nursing an injury to his hair.
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