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Madonna's Ass Gets a Special Mention In Her Billboard Awards SpeechWetpaintThank you, Madonna, for slipping in that sly mention of your ass into your acceptance speech. Without it, we wouldn't have known who that person standing on stage in fishnets and a leather leotard was. We kid, we kid. Check out Madonna's acceptance ...

Earlier this week I started live-blogging the May 15, 1971 edition of American Top 40. Now, on with the countdown. 18. “I Don’t Blame You at All”/Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Another genius production by Robinson, “I Don’t Blame You at All” is put together like a Swiss watch, the kind of thing that rewards repeated listening just as “Tears of a Clown” does. 16. “What’s Going On”/Marvin Gaye. This is the easiest groove Marvin ever got into, so much so that it undercuts his intention to write a protest song. 12. “Love Her Madly”/Doors. The death of Ray Manzarek this week reminds us, as a friend puts it, “We’ve reached the age my mother warned me of,” when the losses begin to multiply. The Doors will be popular as long as teenage boys feel alienated, but they were essentially a singles band. If I’ve got the six they charted in 1967 and 1968 plus the two from L.A. Woman, I’ve got all the Doors I need. “Love Her Madly” is the purest radio pleasure of the lot. 10. “Chick-a-Boom”/Daddy Dewdrop. “Chick-a-Boom” was originally written for the kids’ TV show Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies, which is more evidence that kids’ TV in the 70s was awesome, and it’s performed with a crazed glee that entertains me still. 8. “Stay Awhile”/The Bells. What I said about this song in 2007 still holds: “Meanwhile, back in the fifth grade, I cannot say precisely why I like ‘Stay Awhile,’ but I do. The tune is simple enough to hum. The girl singer sounds kind of sweet; the guy sounds a little weird, but if he’s managed to get the attention of a sweet girl, he’s doing better than I am. Every time the song comes on, it gives me this odd, warm feeling inside, and I think that whatever they’re singing about sounds like it might be a pretty nice thing to do. All these years later, it still does, and I still do.” 7. “Bridge Over Troubled Water”/Aretha Franklin. In which Aretha takes the Simon and Garfunkel original to church on the purest gospel recording to hit the Top 10 this side of “O Happy Day.” 3. “Put Your Hand in the Hand”/Ocean. Casey remarks on the large number of songs in the countdown this week mentioning Jesus, and says that the religious message of “Put Your Hand in the Hand” is applicable to everyone no matter what they believe. (Perhaps.) The irony is that Ocean had no particular interest in religion, they just wanted to make a hit song, and they did—but they never had another. This edition of AT40 is geek-notable for how it handles network commercials—ads sold by the production company, Watermark, to air on all of the stations carrying the show, as distinct from local spots aired by local affiliates. Today, the practice on most syndicated shows is to group the network commercials with the local ones. But on the May 15, 1971 edition of AT40, there were six “avails” for network ads, and each one played in the middle of a program segment, including one directly before the #1 song. (The recent rebroadcast of the show edited out all but two of them.) Back in the day, AT40 had a lot more commercial breaks than it does now—remember that every time you hear two jingles back to back, that’s where a break would have been originally—but the breaks would have been shorter than such breaks are now. The May 15, 1971 show looks to have allowed 8 1/2 minutes per hour for local inventory, and it would have been parceled out 60 to 90 seconds at a time. 1. “Joy to the World”/Three Dog Night. Imagine a bus full of grade-school kids, all singing this song at the top of their lungs, every afternoon on the way home, which is what we did that spring. If the 1970s are the country I grew up in, then “Joy to the World” is the song of my people. Filed under: A

Kim Kardashian made headlines earlier this month when she posted a picture of herself with pop icon Madonna at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute Gala in New York City. She captioned the shot, 'When we first MET Madonna' - but as it turns out, it wasn't the stars' first meeting after all. As the Material Girl revealed to Extra's Jerry Penacoli, the two were actually introduced a long time ago, before Kardashian was famous in her own right. 'I met her years and years ago when she was a little girl, believe it or not,' Madonna, 54, told Penacoli after accepting the Top Touring Artist prize at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 19. 'She told me she was a huge fan of mine, and it was during the time I was wearing all of the rubber bracelets on my arms,' she continued. (The singer famously sported an armful of black rubber bangles in the mid-1980s.) 'I took off all of the bracelets and gave them to her, and then I completely forgot about it. She reminded me when I saw her the other night. Now she's a pregnant lady!' Of course, that's not the only thing that's changed in the last couple of decades. Though Madonna can still rock a bodysuit and thigh-high tights onstage (as she did at the Billboard Awards), her offstage life now includes four kids: Lourdes, 16, Rocco, 12, David Banda, 8, and Mercy James, also 8. 'I try to find the right balance between being there for them and guiding them, and also being an artist,' she told Extra of how she manages both fame and family. 'I'm trying to find enough time in the day to do those jobs well.' 'I try to be very clear with them. This is my persona for work,' she added. 'What we aspire to do is to work and to be good people. If you don't have those two things, fame is nothing, so I try to drill that into their heads.' From www.usmagazine.com

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Comic book superheroes have been stirring imaginations for almost a century at this point, but it’s only been since the dawn of rock and roll that costumed do-gooders have regularly been immortalized in song as well. And while some superhero-inspired tunes have become pop culture treasures, many have fallen into the musical memory hole. Here are ten examples spanning genres from surf rock to thrash metal that stand out as particularly memorable and — in some cases — are almost as beloved as the creations that inspired them. Note: I am not including songs specifically written for comic book movies or TV shows, no matter how good they may be. Sorry, “Batdance” fans. “Flight of the Batmobile” (Jan and Dean, 1966) Jan and Dean, one of the pre-eminent surf rock groups of all-time, weren’t content to release just one song inspired by the Caped Crusader — they released an entire album. Released in 1966, Jan and Dean Meet Batman alternated between silly but fun rock homages and scripted comedy skits of questionable quality. Here’s an interesting little ditty that combines the two, “Flight of the Batmobile.” “Nobody Loves the Hulk” (The Traits, 1969) When you think of Marvel music in the Swingin’ ’60s, the first song that probably comes to mind is the theme to the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon. But this is every bit as great, albeit less groovin’ and more rockin’. The Traits, an obscure garage rock outfit from New York state, wrote a sympathetic tune to Dr. Bruce Banner’s alter ego. It’s appropriately aggressive, naturally, and was apparently a big enough deal to be advertised for sale in comic books. Poor Bruce Banner Was working in his laboratory When he saw Rick Jones About to go up in a blaze of glory. Well he saved the boy But what a change. The explosion made him feel so strange for his molecules had been rearranged into The Hulk! The Hulk! The Hulk is a monster who is Ugly, oversized and green. His strength is fantastic And his disposition’s mighty mean. And whenever people see him All they do is run around and scream ‘Cause Nobody loves The Hulk! Nobody loves The Hulk! Nobody loves The Hulk! (’Cept you and me) We don’t allow no green skin people in here! The Pentagon announced that the Hulk has got to be destroyed. They shot at him with H-bombs but The Hulk only became annoyed. All he wanted to do was settle down and get employed. But Nobody loves The Hulk! Nobody loves The Hulk! Nobody loves The Hulk! “Captain America” (Jimmy Buffett, 1970) This interesting tune from Jimmy Buffett’s debut album, Down to Earth, sounds more like Bob Dylan than it does the breezy, so-called Gulf and Western style that the King of the Parrotheads built his musical empire on. Nonetheless, it’s a clever and bouncy bit of folk rock that pays tribute to the hero who will “guard you against everything from atom bombs to rabies.” “Ghost Rider” (Suicide, 1977) Something about the spooky, droning arrangement to “Ghost Rider,” the first song on Suicide’s self-titled debut album, just feels right. In mind I can picture Ghost Rider, skull ablaze, riding a lonely, dark highway in search of evil. And as the pulsing synthesizers threaten to wash over me, I can almost forget that those horrible Nic Cage movies even existed. “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due” (Megadeth, 1990) If Megadeth was going to write a song about any comic book character, it only makes sense to write about one who is not afraid to do whatever it takes — kidnapping and murder among them — to fight his one-man war on crime. And so it was that Dave Mustaine wrote about the Punisher on the second half of the opening track to 1990′s Rust in Peace album, and created a thrash metal masterpiece in the process. “The Ballad of Barry Allen” (Jim’s Big Ego, 2003) There a

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