Been a while since my last post, and a lot of crap has happened since then. The Bruins advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals, which starts tonight, after they finished off a sweep of the Flyers, of course that was not without it's issues as Patrice Bergeron suffered a concussion and is out indefinitely. So, while the Bruins exercised the demons of what happened last year with the Flyers, the Flyers did leave their mark on the Bruins, but hopefully Tyler Seguin can step it out and the Bruins can take care of the Lightning and get to to Stanley Cup Finals. Tampa Bay Lightning definitely have their fair share of offensive power, Lecavlier, St. Louis, Stamkos, Gagne is back and he killed us last year when he came back for the Flyers in that series. The one matchup that I do really like, Tim Thomas vs Dwayne Roloson, got to say, Dwayne Roloson has played well, but he doesn't scare me and doesn't really impress me, probably shouldn't say that though, cause I'm sure he'll probably end up standing on his head and prove me wrong. I like the Bruins chances in this one, but they got to come out and win these games at home, not that they can't get it done on the road, but they have to ride the momentum they are on, which could be tough to do given they haven't played in over a week, but neither has Tampa, so it should be a good series.
On the other side of the coin, the Celtics, well they got beat by the Heat, not really sure what to say about this series, they were in every game, first 2 in Miami, they had their chances to get into the games and steal them, but they couldn't. Game 3 they fed of the crowd and willed their way despite Rondo's injury to a victory, but Rondo's injury ended up being their downfall, which makes sense, he runs the offense and with only one arm, kinda hard to do that. Took the Heat a while to figure out just what to do with a one armed Rondo in game 4, but eventually they figured it out, and where able to get the game to OT, thanks in part to the Celtics botching the final play of regulation, and they controlled OT and the game was over and going up 3-1 and sending it back home, pretty much ended the series. Celtics had their chance in game 5, but ultimately down the stretch, thanks in large part to Rondo's injury, the offense got stagnant and Heat took over and game over, series over, see you next year. Next year should be interesting, we know Doc will be back after signing a 5 year deal, and obviously Pierce, Allen, Garnett and Rondo will be back, or will they? I don't think anyone though Perk was gonna get traded, so you never can be too sure what's gonna happen. The biggest questions I think will be who's coming back, will Shaq be back, he's got another year, but after this year, if he walks away, not like he's walking away from a ton of money or nothing, will Jermaine O'Neal be back, I feel like he showed some signs of life in the playoffs, and he's got some more money to come back to, so I would guess he'll probably be back. What about Jeff Green? Big Baby? Delonte? Kristic? I would assume the likes of Troy Murphy, Sasha Pavlovic , Carlos Arroyo, Von Wafer are probably not coming back, but who will replace them, what free agents will they sign, will there be any trades, what will the they do with their draft picks. Then again this is all assuming that there is a season next year, the CBA is up, and we are probably headed to some sort of Lockout, will it shorten the season, what kind of changes will be make, will there be a hard cap? So many questions to be answered, but I'll just say this, there's a decent chance that we won't have any Football or Basketball next fall, could get interesting.
So, we are 2 episodes removed from the end of the Michael Scott era on The Office, and while the last 2 epsidoes were good, of course the first one had Will Ferrell still in it, so clearly that was gonna be funny regardless, but this past week, it was good, but ultimately it just felt like it was missing something, which was clearly Michael. I still am not sure where they are going with this, after this past week, I don't think Dwight works as the manager, it could still end up being him I guess, but I don't know, I just feel he needs to be not the manager, cause then his whole dynamic with Jim doesn't work, part of his whole gimmick is that he pretends to have more power then he does and always threatens to fire Jim, but if he ends up actually having the power, then why wouldn't he just fire Jim? Ok, so, then who, will it be someone already on the show? Andy doesn't make sense given that they have spend the last few years trying to show that he is terrible at his job, Jim doesn't want it and I don't think that would work, noone else really makes sense, it's not gonna be Creed. So, are they bringing in someone new, they have a bunch of guest stars coming in for the Finale next week, and out of all of them, only 1 makes sense to join the cast, Will Arnett, his show got cancelled, he has nothing else going on that I know off, he works well in a ensemble, so that could work, not sure if that is actually happening, but I tell you one person that it won't be, Ashton Kutcher, cause he is replacing Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men, for what I can only assume is gonna be the last season of that show. Well, anyway, the Finale should be good and can't wait to see what happens.
Speaking of Finales, last night was the Series Finale of Smallville. If you haven't seen it and plan on watching it, I won't ruin it for you, but they did a pretty good job of ending it, don't think I'm spoiling anything by saying they end it with him becoming Superman, obviously. Interesting what they end up doing with Lex Luthor, although they had already alluded to it earlier in the series, but I always hate that will Finales, cause now I want to see what else happens, sure I know the story of Superman through the other series and movies and stuff, but it would be interesting to see where they were gonna take it with this version. Oh well.
Last time on the Bliggity Blog, I talked about 1990 on MTV, but I kinda left out a couple things, 1990 MTV took a couple chances with some new stuff, actually this first one technically started at the very end on 1989, but didn't really pick up right away, and that was MTV Unplugged, during the 90's anyone who was anyone was doing Unplugged, and it really took off, but we'll explore that later on in the countdown. The other thing that got started in 1990 was MTV's Rock N Jock, started off with Softball, they would get sports stars, music stars, movie stars and play a game of Softball that usually had some funky rules and craziness, they would later add a basketball one, but it started with Softball:
Moving on to 1991, 1991 was a pretty huge year for music, and it was a very interesting year, cause the bands and style that would define the 90s really started to emerge, but there were also a lot of groups that had been big in the 80s had to rediscover themselves a bit and try and stay ahead of the game and keep things fresh of the 90s, cause there were a lot of groups that didn't make the transition. Then of course there were as always some one hit wonders mixed in. So lets get things started with what your mama said:
And less not forget some home cooking, Boston's own Extreme had their big hit this year:
Bryan Adams had a huge year thanks to Robin Hood:
Of Course 1991 was not without it's one hit wonders, and it's Unbelievable that these guys only had 1 hit, who would have thought that would happen:
Same can be said about these guys:
Ok, these next group of videos all come from groups that had success in the 80s, but were now changing it up a little for the 90s, first up, Ozzy, was big in the 70s with Black Sabbath, then went solo and was big in the 80s, but what did the 90s have in store, supposively retirement, and in 1991 he release what was gonna be his last album, and it might have been his best:
Not to be outdone, U2 had to do there best to follow up Joshua Tree, and while Rattle & Hum held some people over for a little while, people wanted something new, and they got it:
In a similar situation, Guns N' Roses had the tough task of following up Appetite For Destruction, and while Lies held people over for a little bit, GNR didn't disappoint releasing not just 1 but 2 albums, and also did the smart thing of having 2 different versions of their first single one on each album, which ultimately helped when the albums were release and set the record for highest selling albums in their first week of release, this record wouldn't last all that long though. Anyway, the first of what would end up being a trilogy of elaborate videos:
Another band that had been big in the 80s, but more so with a specific audience was Metallica, and while they had just recently entered the world of Music Videos with One, things were about to change, and Metallica was about to take off, and released the biggest selling album that year:
Similar to Metallica, this next group had been very popular in the 80s with a specific audience, but in 1991 it expanded:
The same thing could also be said for this next group, who from a music video standpoint had the biggest success of any of these group, as they would win the 1991 VMA for Video of the Year for this song:
1991 also mark what I would consider the beginning of the end for this next individual, and while it started off with a bang, a crazy event which had the debut of his video being simalcast on MTV, VH1, BET and Fox, and it was quite the event, Michael Jackson was back with the oddly titled song Black or White, point of the song was I guess to get all the people of the world no matter if they were Black or White or whatever together, but really it was just confusing, cause people were just thinking, wait, Is he black or white? The Video also created a lot of controversy, and the whole race thing would fall on deaf ears as 6 months later there was riots in LA from the Rodney King verdict. But here's the video:
Now, it's interesting to note that this wasn't actually the original version, after it first aired, people were disturbed by the 2nd half the video, specifically the crotch grabbing and the violence, the did change it in this version, digitally adding the racist comments and stuff, which not originally there, I guess to seem like there was a reason for the smashing everything. I also don't really understand what he's dancing too, there's no music, what the hell. Now, I know Michael Jackson did a lot of other stuff after this, but this was really the end of him being The Guy, sure this album did well, but it wasn't that good and nothing else he did was ever very good or did well.
The Michael Jackson video would become kinda a joke, and not too long after another group who were ending their run, took a little shot at him at the end of their video:
But really, you can not talk about 1991 without talking about the emergence of Grunge music and the whole Seattle Alternative scene, the big 4, as I'll call it all made their marks this year. Alice In Chains:
Soundgarden:
Pearl Jam:
and at the time the ring leaders and ultimately because of what happened, more or less the Poster Child for the whole era, Nirvana:
Just to point this into perspective, and not to jump the gun too much, but after Michael Jackson's album came out and went to #1, in early 1992 when it was bumped from the top of the charts it was Nirvana's Nevermind that took that spot, and to further this point, the previous 2 times that Michael Jackson had release an album, Thriller and Bad, Weird Al had done a parody of Beat It with Eat It and Bad with Fat, so when it was time once again for him to make another album and a Michael Jackson album had just come out, would have made sense for him to do another, but instead he chose to go in another direction:
Yup, that pretty much tells you how the landscape was changing. Also kinda weird the lyric that is the title of this post, from Smells Like Teen Spirit, seeing how Michael Jackson's album was called Dangerous, I don't know, just saying.
One last video from 1991 to throw out there, it was big at the time, and I liked it, looking back, seems a bit stupid, but hey, he's still around today, so didn't hurt him too much:
Bart Simpson - Do The Bartman by ernsthemingway
You all know that you were doing the Bartman back in the day
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