"Jingle Bells" played on 49 microwaves
[video: madeinakqa]
[via Gizmodo]
DJ Earworm mashes Beyonce and Tom Petty up into a smooth, nutritious audio paste
You might be surprised how well “If I Were A Free Fallin’ Boy” works. You might not be. It is the work of a man by the name of DJ Earworm who, wouldn’t you know it, turned out to be a DJ! It’s amazing how many people named DJ then do actually follow that career path. There’s DJ Otzi, DJ Sammy… and others.
Of Montreal busk in a London park for Bandstand Busking
This is an interesting idea:
There are loads of bandstands in parks across London, and most of them are looking fairly tattered from lack of use. When did you last see/hear one surrounded by hordes excited by the sounds? …well we hadn’t so we decided to do what we could to change that, to fill the parks once more (at least for a wee while every couple of weeks) with some talented people capable of carrying a tune or two.
That’s what the folk at Bandstand Busking have to say about their website. Most of the acts on there I’ve never heard of, but they do have The Wave Pictures and Of Montreal, no less.
Check out that Of Montreal song with the title that goes “something something something curse” after the jump.
Every Kanye West sample in one handy video
Forwarding Fodder, Hip-Hop Isn't Dead, Video
This is pretty interesting, although I suspect the people who really care about finding out the samples/interpolations Kanye uses – i.e. trainspotter types – will have done so already. Also, ten minutes is quite a long time to spend watching minute clips of lots and lots of songs, even if there are informative annotations.
Maybe bookmark it and give it a look before the next pub quiz…
[video: lupEND88]
[via Urlesque]
Death Metal Puppy loves Death Metal
Let me just check something…
OK, so in the last few posts we’ve done Lego hip-hop covers, some cheesy crap from the 80s and a woozy Bryan Adams MIDI file. I think that means it must be Death Metal Puppy o’clock?
Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" as a quite possibly drunkenly rendered MIDI file
Forwarding Fodder, Gone To The Blogs
This doozy/doozie/doozee/doozeeeee has reminded me why I need to read VH1′s Best Week Ever blog more often.
They posted this version of the Bryan Adams 16-week number one “smash” the other day under the headline “The Best Worst MIDI File. EVER.”, which pretty much sums it up. They’re asking you to create videos to accompany it, by the way.
If you encounter something funnier than this over the course of today, you have imbibed considerably more LOL juice than you’re technically allowed, you lucker.
[image: Marco Maas' Flickr]
Nas, Method Man, Outkast album covers recreated in LEGO
People like fooling about with Lego, don’t they? Fair enough I suppose, it’s not like there’s anything else to do. Earlier this year Lego themselves unveiled, as part of their 30th anniversary, some special popstar Lego figures. Like all Lego figures, they had quite big thighs.
However, the clever peoples at Formatmag.com have gone to what duty requires me to call “the next level” by Lego-fying a smattering of classic hip-hop album covers. The Outkast one above is probably my fave, but you can see the rest of them here if, as I imagine the creators must have been, you are quite literally bored off your tits.
[via Gigwise]
Joe Cocker's Woodstock performance with LOLsome misheard lyrics
When it comes to those videos that make fun of misheard lyrics, my mindset tends to follow this schedule:
1. Sigh. I can’t be bothered watching this. It won’t be funny.
2. Heh. It’s quite funny, I suppose.
3. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLZ!
And so it was when I belatedly watched this much-viewed version of Joe Cocker’s infamously rabid performance of The Beatles’ “With A Little Help From My Friends” at Woodstock. Subtitles + amusing illustrative imagery = hilariosity.
The Simpsons tackle the Apple iPhone Mapple MyPhone
Film, TV & Radio Goodness, Forwarding Fodder, Video
The Simpsons are arguably a bit late to the party when it comes to taking the wee-wee out of the cult of Apple and its vice-like grip on the minds of young music fans, but this opening to a recent episode does a pretty good job nonetheless…
Click over to see the clip (warning – it’s on autoplay).
