I'm still cracking up to "Horse Outside" by Rubberbandits. It's my first encounter with them but apparently they're a comedy hip-hop duo from Limerick. 1.5M views on YouTube so far and they're trying to get the song to #1 on the Irish and British charts by xmas. Warning: NSFW language
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Spidra Webster - Dec 15, 2010 8:26:12 am PST #3929 of 6436
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
tommyrot - Dec 15, 2010 11:17:06 am PST #3930 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The ultimate 1980s scifi and fantasy movie mixtape
Science fiction and fantasy films of the 1980s were filled with a ton of memorable, iconic, and patently ridiculous music. Here are 30+ of the decade's finest (and most painful) movie tunes for your listening pleasure.
The page has a video for each of the songs.
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The Rock and Rule soundtrack (1983)
Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and Earth, Wind, and Fire in a bizarre Nelvana film about mouse people or something.
Um... what?
Jon B. - Dec 15, 2010 11:25:09 am PST #3931 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
25th Anniversary Edition available on Blu-Ray DVD! [link]
Tom Scola - Dec 16, 2010 5:41:46 am PST #3932 of 6436
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
From the NYT Year in Ideas: The Guitar That Stays in Tune
In October, an engineer and a musician named Cosmos Lyles began selling EverTune, a guitar bridge that keeps the instrument from going out of tune no matter how hard its strings are strummed or bent.
EverTune is a purely mechanical spring-and-lever system: when a string stretches or slips, the springs apply the opposing force necessary to compensate for the shift, thus maintaining the correct tension and tuning.
Spidra Webster - Dec 16, 2010 6:59:59 am PST #3933 of 6436
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
If that works, that's amazing. But he needs to make one for ukes. Ukes go out of tune if you breathe wrong.
Polter-Cow - Dec 16, 2010 8:19:47 am PST #3934 of 6436
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Daisy Jane - Dec 17, 2010 7:30:21 am PST #3935 of 6436
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I think I'm either missing something or not as smart as I think I am [link]
Jon B. - Dec 17, 2010 10:31:55 am PST #3936 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
This is still my favorite Andrewe Kuo chart.
Jon B. - Dec 17, 2010 12:44:34 pm PST #3937 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Captain Beefheart, a.k.a. Don Van Vliet, dies at 69 [link]
DavidS - Dec 17, 2010 2:26:11 pm PST #3938 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Shit.
Oh, Captain, my captain, you were the outer edge of my record collection for a long time. There stood Trout Mask Replica and I would listen to it periodically, and even enjoy certain songs. But I knew I wouldn't go beyond that marker. I needed a little less chaos in my music.
But then when I was writing the Tom Waits book I had to go back and study you further and there were so many other parts to your music. Of course, all your early stuff is amazing garage rock with your inimitable bellow, truly one of the great rock voices. But Spotlight Kid and Lick My Decals had a lot more going on. Some grooves I could hang onto. More of your fantastic lyrics.
I think I'll go listen to "Grow Fins" now.