Happy New Year from MyChemicalToilet (and ABBA)
The best way to wish our dear reader a happy new year is via ABBA. Horrendous clothes and a thousand harmonies says that you’ll have a blinding night tonight. See you in 2008. [video brightnights]
USB Mixtape: a great gift idea to forget for next Christmas
Gadgets, Garments, Gifts & Gear
Just under a year until Christmas, folks. So this would be a good time to start thinking of really good gift ideas for next year which you can then forget and beat yourself up about when you find yourself flicking furiously through the Argos catalogue on Christmas eve.
For the old-skool music enthusiast in your life who insists on clinging grimly to the analogue days, this USB Mixtape may prove an endearing waste of cash. Basically just a USB stick with not much memory, it comes in packaging that harks back to those fiddly days when creating a collection of songs required more than clicking and dragging. Aww. I can almost hear Bruno Brookes’ voice being cut off the end of Top 40 tracks as I type.
Available at Turntable Lab
The Onion's list of the Worst Band Names of 2007
A couple of weeks back The Onion, pretty much the funniest website on the interplanet, did a feature detailing the worst band names of 2007. And what a list it is. When you consider that their list covers 2007 alone, it makes you wonder what kind of hellish collection they could compile if they were to cover the last ten years or more.
To mitigate the piss-taking they do link to each artist’s website / MySpace page, so the mentally-monikered do get something out of it. So, to find out who joins Shout Out Out Out Out, The Asbestos Tampons and Chevy Metal on the list, click here.
Hit for 2008? Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Candie Payne
Once upon a time, Shiny Media (who own the ass of this website) had a site called PopJunkie. Around two years ago, I interviewed the Queen of Pop Noir, Candie Payne. Now Candie, stunning and soulful, was doing the sixties torch beat when Winehouse was still pissing about with R’n'B. Sadly, Amy writ large and Candie stayed in the margin. However, with a Mark Ronson friendship and a fistful of dynamite singles, 2008 should see Candie getting a wider recognition. In fact, I’ll stick my neck out and say that Candie is going to be the next big star at the expense of the overrated Duffy. [video DeltasonicRecords]
Sonic Stereotypes - The ridiculous raver
We’ve all seen ‘em. You’re at a club or a house party and everyone is having a gay old time… and then, about 3am, post other party, some moron turns up full of Es hopping around acting all… wacky. While the rest of the room sinks into a funk of too much booze and tiredness, these dummy sucking blockheads charge around asking if anyone has any roaching material and sticking 3000mph cartoon rave music on the stereo.
Worse still, these nocturnal jesters regale you with tales of being in Pacha, coming up on the most amazing Es whilst Carl Cox played some bangin’ chooons on three decks with a live didgeridoo … oh mate, it was sweet… it was well lush… it was quality mate… it was… a quick slap across the mouth should stall them while you make a hasty getaway. In short, these dummy sucking dimwits chase their tails around and around never quite making real friends, which leads them off to Thailand in an attempt to ‘find themselves’. Avoid these people at all costs.
Taxicab Classics - Hopelessly Devoted by Olivia Newton John
I have a confession to make. Normally, musicals make me spit. Grease is the worst of the lot. I’ve wanted to die when I hear the strains of that one that goes rama lama bonk biff boing rama dingly dingo dink bonk tit. However, I shamefully love Hopelessly Devoted by Olivia (eye of) Newton John thanks to a late night with some dark rum and a MW radio station.
The croon of devo-ted fills me with a warming embarrassment. I’ve even learned the tune on my guitar. There’s a bit that goes maw-maw-m’maaaw that I love to the point of fainting. Of course, the mention of medium wave means it’s a bona fide taxi behemoth. Click over, watch and secretly love. Note the cold stare of killer on the face of Olivia in the vid…
Remix Hell: Michael Jackson featuring Kanye West: "Billie Jean 2008"
Boy, there are going to be a lot of people spitting chips over this. “Billie Jean”, like legions of remixed classics before it, didn’t reeeally need any tinkering, but what better way to commemorate 25 years since Thriller‘s release than this? Yeah, just change the beat a bit, put some cutting room floor “uh”s and “yeah yeah”s from Kanye over the top, et voila. “Billie Jean ’08″.
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Britney Spears: "Piece Of Me"
Britney’s choreography now has a distinctly high school flavour about it. I don’t mean in that “Hit Me Baby” jailbait kind of way - I mean her moves come off a little like the kind of thing your sister and her friends came up with for that school talent contest when they were fourteen. But hey, at least she’s upright.
Super Furry Animals: "The Gift That Keeps Giving"
OK, so the big day has come and gone, but let’s not let that prevent us from enjoying Super Furry Animals’ latest single “The Gift That Keeps Giving”. It was released as a free download from their website on Christmas Day. Awww.
[video provided by SpaceshipSteve]
What do Alvin and The Chipmunks really sound like?
We’ve all heard Alvin and The Chipmunks’ Christmas song haven’t we? Poor old Dave Seville has to yell Alvin into action at every turn, with Alvin presumably unable to tear his gaze away from all those presents under the tree. Of course, Simon and Theodore were better behaved… but y’know, easily led.
When the three get together to make a joyous helium-esque racket, it’s easy to think you’re listening to the ‘munks singin’ away… but of course you’re not. So have you ever wondered what the voices on the record were really like? What happens when you slow it waaaaaaay dooooown? Well, you’re left with three very pleasant (but normal) voices. Click over the jump to hear the original version AND ALSO hear the slowed down version.
