If there’s anything more depressing than ageing men in white sweaters trying to flog you some peanuts, it’s removing their final 0.1% of dignity by making them rap while they do it. Or “rap”.
On the plus side, this is 100% amusing and immediately renders any parody rap sketches you subsequently view utterly pointless. Which one’s your favourite?
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And so, the end is here. Or near. Of the year. Clear? For some bands, the end came a little earlier than 31st December, however. And here, courtesy of Stereogum, is an Oscars-style run through those acts who called it a day in 2008. Farewell, “Wolfmother”.
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Did you witness the Spaghetti Cat phenomenon earlier this year? During a daytime TV show on Fox, an inexplicable cutaway to a surprised-looking cat sat at a table with a plate of spaghetti sent people with nothing better to do certain sections of the internetosphere into a frenzy of bewilderment and LOLZ.
It transpired that the cutaway was Fox’s way of avoiding showing inappropriate material, but that hasn’t prevented Spaghetti Cat becoming a meme all over the web. Well, it’s a cat, right? Teh internetz *hearts* cats.
Now, inevitably, someone’s written a song to Spaghetti Cat and made a video to go with it that sees SC photoshopped into various unlikely scenarios (he/she looks right at home on Inside The Actor’s Studio, mind you).
See the original clip and the ode to Spaghetti Cat after the jump.
This is a video of a man called Teletext Alex (probably not his real name) singing Slade’s “Merry Christmas Everybody” on Radio Five Live, with the usual lyrics replaced by the names of footballers.
Why? I do not know. But the overall effect is a bit like hearing the song sung in Klingon. Which, to my mind, is an improvement. And I’m not even a Trekkie.
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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.
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.
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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…
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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?
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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]
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