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ECHO

Well this is DMusical Notes... Echoing the Hits of music news past.

I've had a loooong day that included a migraine today so I'm really in no mood to babble anymore... lets get to some news.

Dave Williams dies of Heart Problems
Credit 411 Music

A toxicology report on Dave Williams, frontman of Drowning Pool, who was found dead on August 14, came back negative showing no signs of drugs or alcohol. It is now suspected Williams died of a natural heart problem. Prior to the report, band members and the tour manager had stated that Williams was not into drugs and had not been drinking the night before. Williams fell asleep at 5am while watching a DVD on his tour bus and did not wake up.

Well that's quite a suprise in this crazy Rock N'Roll world. It's almost expected that all Rock Stars that die, go because of drugs... Especially since Dave Williams just seemed a bit on the hardcore side of things. Well sucks that he died. But at least he died while at the top of his game. Though far short of the pinnacle of his career.

Disturbed Hits # 1 on the charts this week!
Credit Mtv News

Chicago rockers Disturbed have upset the Dixie Chicks' three-week run as chart champs, selling more than 283,000 copies of their second album to debut atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, according to SoundScan figures released Wednesday.

The riff-wielding quartet has come a long way in its short career. Disturbed's 2000 debut, The Sickness, while eventually selling more than 2.6 million copies, took nearly two months to crack the chart after its release.

What's even more impressive is that Disturbed's first-place showing came without an unavoidable, playlist-friendly video. The clip for the LP's first single, "Prayer," encountered restrictions because it was deemed insensitive by some in the wake of 9/11. The curbing proved irrelevant, however, as radio embraced the song and Disturbed's camp used well-placed TV ads to show fans portions of the apocalyptic clip, which is included as a bonus on the disc.

There's more to go.

Disturbed is a fantastic band. They debuted around the same time as Linkin Park and they both are probably the most listened to bands of 2000 for me personally. They both are just fantastic. This new album may very well be better than their debut.

Kelly Clarkson is OWNING!
Credit Yahoo News

Kelly Clarkson's march to world domination has begun.

The big-voiced American Idol trophy winner (and onetime Texas cocktail waitress) backed up her TV win with chart supremacy as her double-A-sided single, "Before Your Love"/"A Moment Like This" rocketed to number one in its first week in stores.

Released to radio stations shortly after the September 4 show finale, the single had been languishing on the pop singles chart. A week ago, it was number 52. But that ranking was based on radio airplay alone. Once the single was released in stores on September 17, it took off, jumping 51 spots to number one (a new Billboard record) and selling a staggering 236,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, according to SoundScan figures.

To put Clarkson's numbers in perspective, her single sold nearly seven times as many copies as all the other Top 20 singles combined. Her closest competition, Nivea's "Don't Mess with My Man," didn't even crack 5,000 copies. Clarkson's single even outsold every full-length album last week save one--Disturbed's Believe.

More to go but it's not as important.

Wow... You can't deny that she has a GREAT voice and is a great singer. Maybe in the future she can write her own songs too. But we'll have to see. I bet her full album hits platinum in no time. I downloaded both songs already... great stuff. Sorry I don't buy singles... maybe I'll pick up that full album though. She does deserve it even though she's now RIAA owned and branded.

Yep that's that and then's then. Lets see what we got in the Other News Basket?

Oxford now Geek Friendly
Credit Yahoo News

LONDON (Reuters) - Science fiction's "Jedi" warriors and "Klingon" bad guys have entered the newest edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, along with "asylum seekers," "asymmetrical warfare" and "spin control."

The first new edition in nearly a decade of the short version of the classic word bible will appear Thursday, with 3,500 new entries, from "ass-backwards" to "warp drive."

Britain's prime minister Tony Blair is immortalized with "Blairism," "Blairite," "New Labor," "Old Labour" and the ill-fated construction project, the "Millennium Dome."

New slang terms include "get real" and "badass."

There are also 500 new quotations. Among the writers whose literary citations appear for the first time are best sellers Tom Clancy and Nick Hornby, Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding and, inevitably, Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling.

But although new words from science fiction films like Star Wars and Star Trek have made it, words coined for the Harry Potter books are still too new to appear.

"Generally, a word has to be used five times in five different places over five years, although something like 'text messaging' got in quicker because it became so widely used so quickly," said spokeswoman Claire Turner.

Rowling gets credit for notable uses of old words, such as "beefy" -- an adjective describing Harry's awful uncle Vernon -- and "stump," as in: "Powdered root of what to an infusion of what? Harry glanced at Ron, who looked as stumped as he was."

But "muggle" -- Rowling's made-up word for people who are not wizards -- is still listed only as an early 20th century American slang term for a marijuana cigarette.

Bet you didn't know that.

And I bet you didn't either. British people are F-ing weird... they have a REAL Church of the Jedi... crazy limeys have nothing better to do in their lives I guess? When America starts forming religion out of fictional stories I'm gonna move to Canada. I can at least tolorate "aboots" and "eh"s. My god the horror of it all.

Put me to sleep PLEASE.

Joe

Kelly is cute as a button, I only hope she knows what she got into buy signing that contract.

millions of dollars that she never had before.

and probably never would have had.

CLIMB MARIO CLIMB!

You go, Mario. You just cannot compete with this plumber from Brooklyn

They're crediting JK Rowling for using "stump" as a verb? I didn't even know it was a new word! I have a story I wrote in second grade with the word "stumped" in it. Why aren't I in the Oxford English Dictionary?

Get real, Blairism is going down like a Millenium Dome

Hey, I registered my religion as Jedi as it was the sanest choice on the census forms

Kelly gets munched by the RIAA. Oh well...

Joe, go smoke a muggle peep we do what we do because we can. Heh