Rockin’ sent us this video as a New Year’s gift.
Thanks buddy.
The song Stand By Me performed by many artists in different countries. From Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Category: music
Billboard top 25 tunes 2008 mashup
DJ Earworm’s mashup of Billboard’s top 25 tunes of 2008—called The United State of Pop 2008—will catch you up on the biggest pop hits of this past year in under five minutes.
The poop pop hits of the past year are so bland that they don’t deserve more than 5min. I could only name one song of the bunch on first listen. How about you?
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain – Low
Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
Alicia Keys – No One
Lil Wayne Featuring Static Major – Lollipop
Timbaland Featuring OneRepublic – Apologize
Jordin Sparks Duet With Chris Brown – No Air
Sara Bareilles – Love Song
Usher Featuring Young Jeezy – Love in This Club
Chris Brown – With You
Chris Brown – Forever
Ray J & Yung Berg – Sexy Can I
Rihanna – Take a Bow
Coldplay – Viva La Vida
Katy Perry – I Kissed a Girl
T.I. – Whatever You Like
Rihanna – Disturbia
Rihanna – Don’t Stop the Music
Natasha Bedingfield – Pocketful of Sunshine
Chris Brown Featuring T-Pain – Kiss Kiss
Ne-Yo – Closer
Colbie Caillat – Bubbly
Mariah Carey – Touch My Body
Madonna Featuring Justin Timberlake – 4 Minutes
Pink – So What
Finger Eleven – Paralyzer(via Lifehacker)
Flight of the Conchords
Have you seen the TV show yet?
Here’s a snippet.
Flight of the Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning New Zealand comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Billing themselves as “Formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo”, the group uses a combination of witty observation, characterisation and acoustic folk guitars. The duo’s comedy and music became first the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2006, also called Flight of the Conchords. …
I think I’ve seen all 10 surreal episodes of season one. Interesting, quirky and original.
The boys try to make it BIG in New York City. And fail hopelessly.
Lovable losers.
converting cassettes to MP3 format
I am looking for a way to convert analog tapes to digital.
One device:
Ion Dual Cassette Tape Archiver
Seems you can buy them in Canada at The Source by Circuit City.
Leave a comment if you know of other options.
iPod Touch, microphone headphones
Note to self: buy in October.
Apple In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic – Apple
On Wednesday Apple updated their iPod lineup:
Touch Changes: Minor
The iPod Touch expectedly gets a dramatic price drop that brings it more in line with the iPhone 3G’s pricing, if you want to pay a slightly higher price for a multimedia player that doesn’t have phone capability. The 8GB iPod Touch will sell for $229 ($30 more than a comparable iPhone 3G), while the 16GB model will sell for $299–which means you’ll get double the memory for the price of the old 8GB iPod Touch.
The design of the new iPod Touch remains similar to before, but like the Nano, the Touch thins down compared with its predecessor. The chassis remains contoured stainless steel. The biggest hardware additions: Integrated volume controls on the side, and a built-in speaker (similar to what’s on the iPhone 3G) for casual listening. Jobs said the volume controls were the number one requested feature for the iPod Touch. Also now integrated: Nike + iPod software and receiver; now, you only need to buy the Nike+iPod transmitter for your shoe, and don’t need the extra receiver dongle, as before.
In spite of its thinner profile, the Touch’s battery life is rated for an impressive 36 hours for music, and six hours for video.
The compelling new feature for me is an easy way to leave myself voice notes (when I get the odd flash of brilliance).
The iPhone is OUT for me now.
song of the Summer …
Rachael gave me a copy of Kid Rock’s “All Summer Long”. A nostalgic tribute to summers of youth and wonderful tribute to Werewolves of London and Sweet Home Alabama.
Click PLAY or listen to it on YouTube but don’t bother watching.
Likely the first and last good thing I’ll ever have to say about Kid Rock.
Marilyn Manson – Beautiful People
I’ve pretty much given up on music videos. Not many are very memorable.
A notable exception is this work of art directed by Italian born Canadian Floria Sigismondi. It was first recorded in New Orleans 1996. Filmed in the abandoned Goodenham and Worts distillery in Toronto.
WARNING. It’s creepy like a really scary horror movie. On the bright side, this is the “clean” version.
Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People
Trent Reznor gave Manson the biggest push into popular culture, producing their debut album in 1994.
Manson is one of the few pushing the boundries of music. I admire his intellect. And his willingness to be controversial.
The title of the song comes from Marylin Bender’s 1967 book The Beautiful People, which exposed the world of scandal within the “jet-set” lifestyle of the 1960s, and the culture of beauty as it pertained to fashion and politics. The phrase itself was popularized by Vogue magazine in the early 1960s and was particularly used to describe the Kennedy family, a frequent source of inspiration in Marilyn Manson’s work. …
Calgary Stampede
New website for the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth.
For locals like me, we can now better plan to avoid the whole thing.
Most infamous for terrible entertainment, the musical highlights this year are typical:
The Judds, July 10
Sugarland, July 11
Kid Rock, July 12
James Taylor, July 13
Actually, I would LOVE to see James Taylor. Back in 1976. Where can I find a time machine?
Trent Reznor NIN gives away latest album
Music executives in their plush Board rooms are cursing Trent Reznor.
… Nine Inch Nails is offering its new album, “The Slip,” through its Web site — for nothing.
… the band’s leader, Trent Reznor, said, “Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years — this one’s on me.”
The album … appears to represent the first time a superstar act has distributed an entire album without any opportunity for people to pay for it. Its release comes two months after the band issued the instrumental album “Ghosts I-IV” and allowed fans to obtain a portion of it for free or the entire recording for $5. Before that, the British rock act Radiohead broke with convention by offering its 2007 album, “In Rainbows,” online under a tip-jar-style setup in which people could name their own price — including zero. …
As with the “Ghosts I-IV,” the new album is being released with a Creative Commons license, an unconventional type of intellectual-property license that allows the copyright holder to specify which rights it does and does not reserve. The band is allowing fans to share or remix the music for non-commercial purposes. …
Reznor is on the right track, trying innovative ways to promote and market. I did download one song. Sadly, I don’t enjoy their music.
Great Destroyer – Live. Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (WARNING – you may want to be PAID to listen to this.)
Did you make it through the entire video?
… I didn’t think so.
LIVE it might be life altering.
The only great NIN song was sung by Johnny Cash.
Prince is an idiot. Universal Music must die.
Why do people want Universal Music to die?
This is why …
Prince went on a sue-spree last year, where he decided to go after his fans and a little baby with DMCA notices and trademark infringement suits. In case you missed it, essentially, the YouTube video embedded below was taken offline by YouTube in response to a DMCA notice from Universal Music on behalf of Prince.
Click PLAY or watch the copyright violation on YouTube.
You Should Hide Your Babies from Prince, Just To Be Safe – Mashable
Why not scan YouTube for videos like this and link to them from a Universal Music video channel? Put them on a page with a BUY NOW link to the song?
Universal Music just doens’t get it.
At least the video is back up.
