Alles Neu by Peter Fox. In German, but it shouldn’t hurt you. With monkeys, drums, and batter.
via filthy internet jesus
Many Moons by Janelle Monae. Android funk. via little. yellow. different.
Going on by Gnarls Barkley. Interdimensionally Jamaican, signed version courtesy of a cease-and-desist by Warner, apparently. Thanks, corporate!
As you can see, without the joy of internet, I would probably still be living under a rock listening to Barry Manilow, apparently.
The curious rise of tentacle sex in manga
Well, and this one took me the better part of two hours to post. Thanks a ton for getting all corrupty, website. Hope I remember all the new passwords I set up…
Optimistic about:
Malta: Vodka
Cyprus: Femme Fatale. Gets a nice Greek rockabilly feel around the chorus.
Bosnia: PokuÅ¡aj. I’m a little rusty, but it sounds almost like Arcade Fire, but Slavic.
Latvia: Wolves of the Sea seems to be a deliberate reference to 2006’s We are the Winners (of the Eurovision Song Contest)
Likewise, Finland is going for metal again: Missä miehet ratsastaa. Hey, at least it’s in Finnish this time, but it’s no Lordi
UK: Even If. Finally, the British have decided to stop ruining Eurovision for the rest of us. I am not even going to bother linking to Scooch.
Man, every oncet in a while I think of something brilliant and original to write in here. Then, of course, I forget it along the way, and I just end up posting a bunch of youtube links instead. This is another of those days.
James Earl Jones: This is ABC
Stevie Wonder, a vocoder, and some muppets: 1, 2, 3, Sesame (see also Superstition)
Johnny Cash: Nasty Dan with Oscar the Grouch, and Jackson with Miss Piggy, Dirty old Egg-sucking Dog with Rowlf, and a VERY CHANGED version of Don’t Take Your Guns to Town with Big Bird
I love trash, and Subway
Finally, a new generation of puppets live even further north: Be Joyful, featuring Nanalan
Thank you, and good night.
charlie bit me, via
Happy New Year
Happy Christmas, my ass:
Fairytale of New York
December was a crap month to end a fairly lovely year. I’m hoping that 2008 goes a bit better.
drambuie research in Australia
Jon, your thoughts?
rehab. I finally understand why people actually care about amy winehouse; this song, at least, sounds to me like someone else misses there being no new Motown for the past 30-odd years.
new Orangina ad campaign is all about furries. Stripper furries.
I cannot begin to express how weird this is.
Man, everything I post now is a video link. What am I doing, just watching TV all day? Anyway:
We are the cyclists; the intermediate stage between humans and pure energy. (via JORT)
How the Edwardians Spoke. Interesting BBC doc; German recordings of British POWs in WWI are virtually the only source of vernacular regional speech patterns from before the talkies. The Scottish accents don’t sound that different to me, but I was surprised at how distinct Oxfordshire was; apparently the Oxbridge crowd and the townies didn’t mix much.
Wuthering Heights (orig. by Kate Bush)
The Good the Bad the Ugly (orig. by Ennio Morricone)
life on mars (orig. by David Bowie)
see also: (Mic Conway’s Whoopee Band performing God Save the Queen, featuring only one uke)
How to draw Octopus Pie, a short film by Meredith Gran
Some Flight of the Conchords for you:
Prince of Parties (the lads do psychedelia: Ravi Shankar!)
Foux da fa fa (the lads do Scopitone: baguette!)
Frodo, Don’t Wear The Ring (the lads do LOTR: bling!)
The Humans are Dead: (part one) part two: binary solo
The importance of marching bands in foreign pop (an unexhaustive two-part survey):
Emanuela by Fettes Brot
Matadorby Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Tom Baker swear-o-tron
(see also: Tom Baker outtakes
Manic Depressive With Blinky Device Saves London, Again
daleks go bollywood. Well, okay, only for the first 15 seconds or so…but it was stuck in my head for days. Now, stuck in yours!