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Music

The “Heavy Metal Band Names” Chart

January 20, 2009

If you’re looking for a name for your heavy metal band, you might find the chart below helpful:
Click the chart to see it at full size. Found via The Triumph of Bullshit.

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“Before the Music Dies”: The Full Documentary

January 2, 2009

In an earlier article, Branford Marsalis’ Take on Students Today, I posted a video in which jazz.funk sax man Branford Marsalis talked about his music students. His first lines in the interview are:
What I’ve learned from my students is that students today are completely full of shit.
That is what I’ve learned from my students. Much [...]

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Vatican Forgives Lennon

November 23, 2008

I think it’s rather sporting of them:
The Vatican’s newspaper has finally forgiven John Lennon for declaring that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, calling the remark a "boast" by a young man grappling with sudden fame.
"The remark by John Lennon, which triggered deep indignation mainly in the United States, after many [...]

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Happy 10th Anniversary, “Baby One More Time”!

November 3, 2008

Before November 3rd passes, I must make it known, that today, November 3rd, 2008, is the tenth anniversary of the release of Britney Spears’ single Baby One More Time. I wonder if Ms. Spears wishes she could take a time machine back to those more innocent days and re-do some of her life choices.
Here’s the [...]

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“Take on Me”, Literally

October 8, 2008

I love this: it’s the video for A-ha’s 1985 hit single, Take on Me, but with lyrics that match what happens in the song’s video to high-larious effect.

This isn’t the first time the video’s been parodied — Family Guy took a crack at it (click the picture below to see the animation):

And for nostalgia’s sake [...]

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“Musical Key to Unlocking Teenage Wasteland”

August 5, 2008

In Australian newspaper The Age, an article titled Musical Key to Unlocking Teenage Wasteland took the results of a study in the most recent Australasian Psychiatry journal and created a chart which seems designed to make parents paranoid about the music their teenagers listen to. I’ve reproduced the chart below:

Your Sounds:
What Studies Say:

Pop
Conformists, overly responsible, [...]

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Music Video of the Day: “New Math”

June 5, 2008

Here’s Bo Burnham singing his nerd-folk/filk song, New Math:

In case you were wondering what the lyrics were, here they are:

What’s a pirate minus the ship? Just a creative homeless guy
And an anteater plus a large hungry mutant ant? An ironic way to die
And what’s domain, domain, range (x, x, y) — a kid with too [...]

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“London Underground”

May 9, 2008

I should’ve posted this video during the recent (and blessedly short-lived) transit strike here in Accordion City, but I remembered it just now. It’s London Underground, a musical rant about Jollie Olde London’s subway system, performed by the team of Adam Kay and Suman Biswas, known as Amateur Transplants. Be advised, it’s pretty sweary:

Here are [...]

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The Crowd at a Rock Show

April 21, 2008

The webcomic Subnormality has done a good job at summing up the audience at a rock show:
Click the comic to see it at full size.

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Ed Force One!

March 18, 2008

If you haven’t yet seen these photos from the Iron Maiden Land in Toronto article in BlogTO, you’re in for a treat: here are photos of Ed Force One, the custom-painted Boeing 757 that Iron Maiden are flying about in their world tour, landing here in Accordion City:
Photos by Tom Podolec. Click the photo to [...]

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“Archie” Comics Meet Pulp’s “Common People”

March 16, 2008

Image from Chris’ Invincible Super-BlogClick the image to see it on its original page.
Back in the mid- to late nineties, one track you couldn’t avoid on alt-rock radio was Pulp’s Common People (from their excellent album, Different Class), a song that pokes fun at the genteel faux-poverty of kids from rich families at art school. [...]

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The Final Countdown, Again

March 5, 2008

Didn’t I just do this?
Once again, it’s my last day at the job, which means I’m cranking that classic of 80’s hair metal: The Final Countdown by Sweden’s gift to rock, Europe.
It’s become a bit of an end-of-job tradition for me that started back at OpenCola, the dot-com that Cory Doctorow co-founded and for [...]

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For Sale on eBay: Pete Townshend’s Camper Van

March 3, 2008

Someone on eBay is selling what they claim to be a VW camper van formerly owned by Pete Townshend of The Who.

Here’s the first part of the description:

TOTALLY UNIQUE. VW CAMPER OWNED AND LOVED BY PETE TOWSHEND AND PARTNER RACHEL FULLER. PERFECT CONDITION. LESS THAN 4500 MILES. MADE IN BRAZIL IN 2005 – SAME [...]

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Happy Birthday, Bob Marley!

February 6, 2008

The mayor proclaimed — and I imagine that he did it “Diamond Joe” Quimby-style — that today is Bob Marley Day here in Accordion City. For contributing to my music collection, my accordion repertoire, my DJ career and to some really good parties, I’d like to salute the late Robert Nesta Marley with this blog’s [...]

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Dada Album Cover Exercise

January 17, 2008

Via David Janes, here’s a little Dada album cover exercise. You can come up with an album cover for a hypothetical band by doing the following:

Use the random Wikipedia article feature — the title of the article that appears is the name of the band.
The name of the album is the last four words of [...]

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