Archive for the ‘music’ Category
Incredible Green Excitement
As build up for the release of the new movie tomorrow the SciFi network has been running a marathon of that cheezy Incredible Hulk TV series from the 70s.
Unlike other Superhero icons that I remember liking as a kid Hulk has this air of sadness that fits my mood right now. Bixby who played David Banner in the TV show had one of the saddest lives filled with deaths, divorce and cancer (Bill Bixby - Wikipedia)
and the Theme song to the TV show, while often comically parodied is sad and melancholy. Have a listen:
Found on http://www.elite.net/~gurpal/tv/
Hitler’s Greatest Hits
Proving once again that on a rainy day YouTube is your best friend I found this small meme revolving around remixing film footage of Hitler to make it appear that he is singing or dancing along with pop songs. I wont subject you to the sub-meme of Hitler as an emo-kid.. I’ll leave you to find those for yourself.
Videos:
Hitler Plays the Banjo and Sings [link]
Hitler Sings the Darkness [link]
Hitler Sings I Saw her Standing There [link]
Hitler Sings ‘The Jeffersons’ Theme [link]
And for good measure: Spongebob als ‘Der Füherer’ [link]
I’ll probably rot in hell for this
Archie vs. Common People - Popped Culture
Popped Culture has a post about taking the song “Common People” by Pulp and setting it to Archie comics: “Archie vs. Common People” [link]
For a taste check out this youtube video:
Proto-Punk and Ethio-Jazz
ncooperta.muxtape.com liner notes:
Ultra Orange & Emmauelle, Don’t Kiss Me Goodbye - I fucking love this song right now. So I first heard it in a movie? That’s where I find my best music now adays. Plus I think I’m in love with Emmanuelle Seigner
The Clash, White Riot - Quintessential Clash, raw punk fits in nice with this protopunk bunch. According to Wikipedia its their first single. I remember this song from the trailer Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten. Still have yet to hear the song yet.
Marie Laforet, Paint it Black - Laforet helped popularize Dylan in ‘60s France. I like her guttural rendition of the Stones Classic.
Plastic Bertrand, Ca Plane Pour Moi - I like this part of the Wikipedia page on the song: “The lyrics are full of 1970’s French slang, and are very difficult to translate exactly into English. Even native French speakers disagree on the exact meaning.”
Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Blank Generation - It must have been hard to be the follow-up house band to the Ramones while in Television at CBGBs its also a bit weird to think that Hell shared the stage with the Talking Heads. Quite a different sound.
Mulatu Astatqe, Kasalefkut hulu - Ethio-jazz virtually invented by Astatke. Good wine drinking music.
The Kinks, Victoria - The Kinks are sometimes referred to as proto-punk. If there is a lineage to be drawn between the group and punk a decade later then I think this song best exemplifies the sound.
Jaco Pastorius, Kuru/Speak Like a Child - “The greatest bass player who ever lived”
Presenting…Mister Disc!
[link] more retro technology becomes portable. (via kottke.org)
MP3 Cassette Player | gadgettastic.com
[link] Wow. This is just too cool. Too bad I ditched all of my cassette players a while ago.
Drum Machine Loop
cool video. way to go tj.
via http://tjnelsonjr.tumblr.com/
Mike Relm Write up
Here’s an interview with Mike Relm. Awesome DJ. Interesting guy.
Love this:
“1. Mike Relm’s music should be filed between:
Bernard Herrmann and the Chemical Brothers.”