Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days

When I was in high school, HBO used to show what they called "guilty pleasure movies". And what these movies usually consisted of were some third rate action star(Dolph Lundgren, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Jeff Speakman) who takes on some type of gang of criminals. At some point he meets a hot female who sometimes gets naked, but always falls in love with the star. And oh yeah, lots of shooting, kicking, and limbs being broken. These movies were stupid and kind of boring, and yet I would sometimes watch them for no good reason. Well this is the musical equivalent to these movies. It's Wang Chung's dance hall days. Yes, that wang chung. I am not generally a fan of 80s synch pop and I don't like Wang Chung. I can't explain why I like this song, but I do. On the plus side, the video is realy stupid. Just think of this like you would the movie "Stone Cold" starring The Boz, Brian Bosworth.

Ukelele Solo!!!!

Here is something for all of you ukelele enthusiasts on the board...

My parents went to Hawaii and brought me home a ukelele and a cd by this guy. His name is Jake Shimabukuro. This song may be familiar to some of you.

Turtles - Elenore

In keeping with Aaron's last song, here's another underrated song from the 60s. Apparently the record company wanted a hit single and the singer was so mad that he wrote what he thought was the most generic and bad song to prove the record company wrong. And he ended up writing this song. Look at the outfits and the haircuts. Also, the drummer is definitely trying to steal the show and failing.

Full disclosure: The two singers went on to sing with Frank Zappa so Dave please tell me I only like it because of Zappa. Also, Zappa said this about the two singers: "I regard Howard as a fine singer and Mark as a great tambourine player and fat person." You figure out which one is which.

Pick up the Phone

Here's another song. The video is kind of bland, but the song is real good. My chum from work told me about these guys (incidentally, he's the one who knows Brent Mosser).

p.s. to be fair, I didn't even make it through the whole video.

Hocus Pocus

I haven't put up anything on here in a while and I found this video using Stumble. This song rocks pretty hard.




Yes, I know it's live.

Kinks - Sunny Afternoon

Holy shit did i find a goldmine in this video. Everything about this is hilarious; the dogs at the start, what is probably the first flying V ever made, some of the ugliest british dudes you've ever seen, a huge turtleneck sweater, and the last 20 seconds of cut shots and slomo. take your pick, this video has it all.

My sister told me about this song 4 or 5 years ago and i've loved it ever since. thank you janine.

Real Country

I know that there are a lot of people out there who say "I like real country music, not that fake ultra pop country crap they play on CMT." I am one of those people... Sort of... See, I don't like everything Willie Nelson has ever recorded. I don't have a stockpile of Johnny Cash records in my basement. But, this song by Lyle Lovett is a beautiful example of what I like about country music. It's called "If I Had A Boat".

Hum - Green to Me

There are about 20 songs that i listened to tonight before i decided on this. I was going to put up a song for Bri, a song for Osman and a few that i thought might appeal to the constituents of this blog in general, but in the end i decided to please myself.

Hum - Downward is Heavenward is my favorite CD of all time (Gould, even your cynical ass has to admit i've been consistent with this since i've known you). Everyone knows the song Stars by them (she thinks she missed the train to mars, she's out back counting stars). That was on the previous album. This album is approximately 200 times better.

They broke up in '99 or 2000 i think. Before i knew they were perfect. We decided on monday to go to the Winter Classic in chicago for New Years this year. Well, about 20 minutes after making that decision over going to Tampa I found out Hum are playing a reunion show on New Year's day in Chicago. So, in conclusion, 1/1/09 will be the culmination of my being. I'll watch the magic that is Henrik Zetterberg on the ice during the day, then reach Nirvana through the majesty of Matt Talbot's searing guitar riffs (I would love to write for columbia house).

After a lot of indecision it was obvious to choose Green to Me off of this album. For one, some of the best songs don't have a video. But also, this song epitomizes what is so great about them. The sheer enormity of the guitars in all of their songs is incredible. Listen to this with headphones, not shitty laptop speakers. There are at least 5 guitar tracks layered over every part. And his voice is so amazingly calm over all of it.

Monty Python: Counter Point

I know quite a few of you out there are staunch Kids In The Hall fans. This is just a counterpoint.

Hey My Hey My

Here's some videos of a crusty old bastard who I think is the Godfather of something or another rockin out like only a Canadian can. He still likes playing with toy trains.

When The Sun Hits

Aaron mentioned Slowdive so I had to post my favorite Slowdive song. Can't hurt to keep up the shoegazer/dream pop trend. I found Slowdive through a recommendation by Rhapsody around 5-6 years ago, so I came a little late to the party. I debated for far too long whether to post Alison or When The Sun Hits. Ultimately WTSH won, since I feel like its a bit dreamier and darker than Alison. You can find the US and UK Alison video on youtube but there's not much for WTSH... Anyway, here's the video...



* Emmons, you might like Alison better

Axl Attacks

Hey there.... Ok, so, I was originally gonna post some Axl Rose clips. But there are just too many good ones, so, I will just tell you that you should all go on youtube and search for "Axl Attacks" "Axl gets pissed" or something to that affect, and you will not be disappointed. One thing I can tell you, he's not afraid to stop a song on behalf of chewing somebody out.

Instead, first, here is a clip of Kurt Cobain getting lit in the face, after escaping a crowd surfing incident gone bad. The guy who punches him actually looks like the Security guard too. If anybody can tell me what that guy was thinking, I would sure like to know....



Next, we have a quick clip of Keith Richards taking his guitar off, and whipping it at some guy who comes running up from the left. Meanwhile, Mick Jagger is still singing with a U.K. flag wrapped around his body like some sort of makeshift bathrobe....




Here is a little taste of Axl...

The first video is labeled "Axl is Fuckin' Possessed", and rightfully so. Most notably at about the 1:00 mark. He doesn't yell at anybody in this one though...




Finally, one last Axl vid. Apparently this incident caused riots...

Please like this

After you posted a BRMC video, my brain will blow up if you say you don't like this.

OAS Rarities, Vol 1

Steve mentioned something below about obscure music. It doesn't get much obscurererer or radicaler than this. Here's an ultra rare video of Kurt Cobain and Neil Young covering "One Find Day" while freebasing crack.

God bless who ever put this on YouTube!

Mew - 156

Well fuck it, i'm just going to use this page as a method of self-fellatio and to keep all of the videos i like in one convenient spot.

There are probably 35 pertinent things to say about Mew, but i'll try to limit myself. First of all, if you combined all of their best material it would be the greatest album ever recorded by man or woman. I can probably only narrow down my favorite song to 6 different options. This shit is so dreamy. And...they have the added bonus of saying 'Thank you Chicago!' to a crowd of 25-30 people at St. Andrews in April '07. The show was still incredible. The singer looks like a timid schoolboy who's still dressed by his mom. He held the mic to his face the whole time and kept his other arm rigid at his side. He didn't speak once the whole time. It was the Matt Dillon in There's Something About Mary-looking guitar player with the Chicago shout-out.

This video has the huge advantage of being the funniest thing i've ever seen in my life. Please enjoy it.

My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

Alright, so we've all obviously heard the hype about the album Loveless "greatest album ever written", "more beautiful than Dave Emmons" etc. I never really understood the hype until right now. I just listened to the song Only Shallow about 10 times in a row. This song is so fucking cool. Oh man. I'm overwhelmed right now.

Mojave 3 - Breaking the Ice

This is such a beautiful song by Mojave 3. I wish i had some better information about them, but all i really know is they used to be in Slowdive (i'm sure Osman could tell us all about them) and this is off Mojave 3's 5th album. So, this dude was in a pretty popular indie band (slowdive), then churned out 5 albums and still managed to write a gem like this.

It's pretty shocking the first time you see his face in this video. He reminds me of a slightly more housebroken version of Mankind from WWF.

Rock Band

I'm not really into those video games that involve simulating playing music so you can score points. I would rather make real music on my theremin. There will probably never be a game called "Theremin Hero". ANYWAY, for those who are into that sort of thing: Rock Band releases several Dead Kennedys and Mission of Burma tracks for download on Xbox 360. Dead Kennedys pack includes "California Über Alles," "Holiday in Cambodia," and "Police Truck". Mission of Burma pack includes "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," "Mica," and "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate".

Die hard fans will probably note that Jello will not be making a dime off of these and it will be part of the continued slash'n burn sell out of the name by his former band mates.

Johnossi - Man Must Dance

Alright, so my crush on this band - and this song specifically - borders on pathetic. I heard this on my girlfriend's XM radio while we were in the Wendy's drive-thru in brighton (i was going to get drunk at my friends house and i wanted to stock up on jr. cheeseburger deluxes because i didn't trust him to have enough fat guy food at 3am). We ended up sitting in the parking lot of wendy's and rewinding this song endlessly because you can't rewind it after you turn the car off.

The lyrics to this song are great. They're basically telling you to stop taking yourself so seriously and have a good time. I love the guy's voice and the little guitar ditty. The entire CD is fantastic, but this is easily the best song.

I'd say that if i could make a list of the songs i've listened to the most in 2008, this would definitely be in the top 5, and possibly #1 (Cracker - Low and Ween - Your Party would also be in the top 5. I can't figure out what other 2 songs would qualify).

Oh yeah, and they're swedes but they have really clever lyrics written in english. I think that's enough gushing for now.

Minus the Bear - "Pachuca Sunrise"

originally told me about this song, but since he is too scared to post anything on here I'm going to post this song.

The beginning of this song is definitely the reason why I like it so much. Extremely dreamy and something I can easily fall asleep to. It turns into more of a rock song after the intro which is OK with me, but I wonder what the song would sound like if they had just stayed with the really dreamy feel in the intro.

We heard this song live when we saw them at Bonnaroo, Surma. I can't remember if Gould went to see them or not. All the songs they played ran together with them and while I do remember them playing this song, it did not have the effect for me that it usually does when I listen to it.