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iTunes Music Festival

zarq — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:07:04 -0800

For the 2012 iTunes Music Festival, 65 acts (including P!nk, One Direction, David Guetta , Jessie J, OneRepublic, Ellie Goulding, Andrea Bocelli, Matchbox Twenty, Muse and many others) performed at the Roundhouse in London throughout the month of September. 40 performances are available in full online. I listed the acts whose performances aren't available on youtube, in case anyone was curious. 2012 1 September: Usher 2 September: Ed Sheeran + Charli XCX + Rudimental 3 September: Olly Murs + The Milk 4 September: Plan B + Delilah + Ryan Keen 5 September: Emeli Sandé + Bastille (Playlist) + Gabrielle Aplin 6 September: JLS + Conor Maynard 7 September: Elbow + Bat for Lashes 8 September: Jack White + Band of Horses 9 September: deadmau5 + Foreign Beggars 10 September: Norah Jones + Beth Orton 11 September: The Killers + Jake Bugg 12 September: Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds + The Soundtrack of Our Lives 13 September: P!nk + Walk the Moon 14 September: Labrinth + Josh Kumra 15 September: David Guetta + Calvin Harris 16 September: Rebecca Ferguson + Laura Mvula 17 September: Example + DJ Fresh + Hadouken! (Playlist, not the complete show) 18 September: Andrea Bocelli + Laura Wright + CARisMA 19 September: Matchbox Twenty + OneRepublic 20 September: One Direction + Angel 21 September: Jessie J + Lonsdale Boys Club 22 September: Biffy Clyro + Frightened Rabbit 23 September: Robert Glasper Experiment, Parts 1, 2, 3, and 4. (There is an hd version, but the sound cuts out after about an hour. Guests for the performance: Lionel Loueke, Bilal, Lalah Hathaway, Alan Hampton, Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Phonte and MF Doom.) + José James 24 September: Mumford & Sons + Willy Mason 25 September: Lana Del Rey + Benjamin Francis Leftwich 26 September: Ellie Goulding + Haim 27 September: Madness + Reverend and The Makers 28 September: Alicia Keys (Lower quality) + Lianne La Havas 30 September: Muse Previous Years 2010 3 July: Black Spiders 4 July: Two Door Cinema Club 25 July: Europe 2011 4 July: Linkin Park 6 July: Arctic Monkeys + Miles Kane 7 July: Adele 9 July: My Chemical Romance 12 July: The Script 18 July: Rumer 20 July: The Wanted 30 July: James Morrison (playlist)

"Shine Brighter"

zarq — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:19:43 -0800

DJ Earworm has released his annual "United State of Pop" mashup of the year's 25 most popular songs according to Billboard's charts: Shine Brighter. Related * Lyrics Video * Download the MP3 on SoundCloud * Official Site The Videos * Gotye and Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know * Fun - Some Nights * Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe * Maroon 5 - One More Night * Fun. and Janelle Monáe - We Are Young * Maroon 5 and Wiz Khalifa - Payphone (Explicit) * Ellie Goulding - Lights * Rihanna - Diamonds * Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven * Ke$Ha - Die Young * Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) * Flo Rida - Good Feeling * Nicki Minaj - Starships (Explicit) * The Wanted - Glad You Came * Adele - Set Fire To The Rain * Lumineers - Ho Hey * One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful * Flo Rida and Sia - Wild Ones * Phillip Phillips - Home * Bruno Mars - It Will Rain * Katy Perry - Wide Awake * Alex Clare - Too Close * PSY - Gangnam Style * Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together * Flo Rida - Whistle Past Remixes 2007: United State of Pop Previously 2008: Viva La Pop Previously 2009: Blame it on the Pop Previously 2010: Don't Stop the Pop Previously 2011: World Go Boom Previously Previously and Previouslier * Like, OMG Baby * Party on the Floor * Fly Bonus Rewind YouTube Style 2012. The site invited some of their members to star in an end-of-year mash-up. Included here solely for a moment of awesome: at 1:48 Felicia Day parodies "Call Me Maybe"

J-Rabbit

zarq — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:37:22 -0800

J-Rabbit: "Happy Things." (youtube, via) Here's a lower quality version with English subtitles. J-Rabbit are Dawoon Jung and Hyesun Jung. Their first album, It's Spring, was primarily covers, but their second album (Looking Around, released in April) is original songs. KoreanIndie interviewed them in 2011. Additional Videos * '내일을 묻는다' (Google translates this as "Asks 'tomorrow'") * Do You Know? * Falling in Love * Lately You * Let it Flow * Love is so Amazing. (Live) * Medley for Children * Morejo * R U Tired? * Smile * The Hope in My Life * To my love Covers * 바람이 불어오는 곳 ("Windward", original by Kwang-Seok Kim) * All You Need Is Love * Atlantis Princess (Original by BoA Kwon) * I'm in Love * JUMP (Original by Dong-Ryul Kim.) * Love Songs (Medley) * Lullaby of Birdland * Man in the Mirror * My Favorite Things * Oh Holy Night * Overjoyed (Original by Stevie Wonder) * Part of Your World (From The Little Mermaid) * Take 5 * Taking a Chance on Love (Original by Ethel Waters and Dooley Wilson) * Thank You for the Music (Original by ABBA) * Unwritten (Original by Natasha Bedingfield) * White Christmas * 하얀손수건 / 웨딩케익 ("White Handkerchief / Wedding Cake") * Winter Wonderland More YouTube Channel. Website. Generasia: Wiki Entry.

Bazinga!

zarq — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:22:17 -0800

The Big Bang Theory Flash Mob: Short Version. Full Compilation. Tracklist for the full compilation: 0:14 Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe 0:53 Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger 1:36 Beyoncé - Run The World (Girls) 1:50 Jay-Z ft. UGK - Big Pimpin' 2:08 Ludacris - My Chick Bad 2:29 LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem 2:50 Flo Rida ft. T-Pain - Low

Skouteris / PopLove

zarq — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:18:42 -0800

Robin Skouteris is a music and video producer, remixer and DJ based in Athens who creates mashup remixes, (like Deep and Sour and Looking for Sunshine) and a few parodies. His latest remix was released yesterday: "PopLove." * YouTube Channel * Facebook He has 6 albums of remixes/mashups available for free download: * VS1: The Vs Experience, Volume 1 (2007) * VS2: The Vs Experience, Volume 2 (2008) * VS3: The Vs Experience, Volume 3 (2009) * VS4: The Vs Experience, Volume 4 (2010) * VS5: The Vs Experience, Volume 5 (2011) * VS6: Reincarnation (2012) Album Tracklists & Info

G B S

zarq — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:00:22 -0800

A girl upon the shore did ask a favour of the sea;
"Return my blue eyed sailor boy safely back to me.
Forgive me if I ask too much, I will not ask for more,
but I shall weep until he sleeps safe upon the shore."
For nearly 20 years, Newfoundland group Great Big Sea have been creating acoustic Celtic folk-rock covers and interpretations of traditional Newfoundland and Labrador sea shanties, folk, fishing and party songs, which draw from the island's rich 500-year-old multicultural (Irish, English, Scottish and French) heritage. AllMusic: "If you think you've figured out Great Big Sea's formula, you're right: take sea shanties, fishing songs, and the odd original tune that sounds like a folk song and deliver them all with lusty energy on acoustic instruments. If the Pogues had come from Newfoundland and treated alcohol as a peripheral rather than a central concern, and if their singer were big and burly rather than dissolute and disgusting, you'd have something very much like Great Big Sea." WXPN / NPR: Great Big Sea: Sea Shanties Meet Rock, In Studio on World Cafe 10/9/08, Show is 21 minutes, and features front man Alan Doyle discussing historical inspirations behind some of the band's songs. "Our music is of Newfoundland. It would be impossible to do what we do if we were from anywhere else. Our songs come from the sea and the cliffs and the rocks and all the other natural beauties our country provides. Without her we simply couldn't exist." ~Founding member Séan "The Shantyman" McCann. Great Big Sea has released 11 albums (track listings, audio samples and downloads are at their website) and 2 concert DVD's (excerpted videos below). Reference Links * Official Site, including Band Bio, Discography and Video Archive. * MySpace * Wikipedia Official Videos Can’t Stop Falling Captain Kidd Clearest Indication Consequence Free (Also on Vimeo) Goin’ Up Good People End of the World (REM Cover) Everything Shines Feel It Turn Love Me Tonight Mari Mac Nothing But a Song Ordinary Day Run Runaway Sea of No Cares Shines Right Through Me (video available only in Canada, here's a lower quality alt link for everyone else ) Stumbling In Walk on the Moon Walk Right Through Me When I’m Up When I Am King YouTube Album Playlists * Rant & Roar / Official Album Page * Something Beautiful / Official Album Page * Up / Official Album Page In Concert -Bing Lounge- * The Yankee Sailor * Safe Upon the Shore * Nothing But a Song * Good People -Courage and Patience and Grit- (These are tracks from a DVD. Only some of them are available online, hence the weird numbering system.) 1. Captain Kidd 3. Sweet Forget Me Not 5. Concerning Charlie Horse 6. I’m a Rover 8. The Mermaid (originally written by Shel Silverstein) 10 Scolding Wife 11. Old Polina 16. Danny Boy (lower quality) 17. Run Runaway 20. Helmet Head 22. Mari Mac 24. Excursion Around the Bay (alt) 26. Old Brown’s Daughter -Other Live- (At least one of these tracks (Mari-Mac) is from "Great Big DVD") * Concerning Charlie Horse * Excursion Around the Bay * Far From the Shores of England (lower quality) * Forget Me Not * Lukey (volume low) * Mari-Mac * Old Brown’s Daughter * Scolding Wife * The River Driver (At the 2006 Canadian Country Music Association Awards) Audio Only * Bad as I Am * Barque in the Harbour * Beat the Drum * Berry Picking Time * Billy Peddle * Boston and St. Johns * Buying Time * Cod Liver Oil * Company of Fools * Dance Dance * Dancing with Mrs. White * Demasduit Dream * Donkey Riding * Dream to Live * Drunken Sailor * England * Fast as I Can * Ferryland Sealer * French Perfume * General Taylor * Gone by the Board * Greenspond * Haven’t Seen You In A Long Time * Hit the Ground and Run (demo) * How did we get from saying I love you * I’se the B’y * Jakey’s Gin * Jolly Roving Tar * Let It Go * Long Lost Love * Love * Lucky Me * Margarita * Metrobus * My Apology * Nothing out of nothing * Oh Yeah * Penelope * Rant and Roar (“We’ll rant and we’ll roar like true Newfoundlanders....”) * Recruiting Sergeant * Rigadoon * Road to Ruin * Seagulls * Someday Soon * Somedays * Something I Should Know * Something to It * Straight to Hell * Summer * The Chemical Worker’s Song * The Jolly Butcher * The Mermaid * The Night Pat Murphy Died * The Old Black Rum * The Seven Joys of Mary * Time Brings * Trois Navires de Ble * Wandering Ways * What are you at Solo Albums * Séan McCann released a "stripped down" solo album with "delicately arranged lullabyes for his children" in 2010, Lullabyes for Bloodshot Eyes. An appearance at a record store in St. Johns in April of that year has been posted to YouTube: playlist. Also: Peace Among the Bones * Alan Doyle released a solo album, Boy on Bridge this past May. The first track released was "I've Seen a Little": Audio, Music Video, Live Performance on CMT. Also: Mutiny on the Dawn. The CMT clip is from a special called "Live at Revival, Boy on Bridge." See it in full: Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Previously on MetaFilter Music of Newfoundland and Labrador

Howdy neighbor, howdy!

dirtdirt — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:00:01 -0800

It's the Porter Wagoner Show! Starring Porter Wagoner and the Wagonmasters with Speck Rhodes and Norma Jean The Porter Wagoner Show, a syndicated country-music variety show, aired from 1960 to 1981 with 686 thirty-minute episodes produced. Porter, with his trademark Nudie suits, performed on each program.

From 1960 through 1965 the star of the show, other than Porter, was Pretty Miss Norma Jean

In 1965 Norma Jean left the show and was replaced by a then unknown 20 year old from Tennesse - Dolly Parton.

Dolly and Porter enjoyed tremendous success with a series of duets.

In addition to the regular cast, the Porter Wagoner Show was a proving ground and showcase for many country stars. Chet Atkins

Wildwood Flower

Bobby Bare

Streets of Baltimore

Carl Butler

Honkey Tonkitis

Bill Carlisle

Too Old to Cut The Mustard

Skeeter Davis

The End of the World

Guy Drake

Welfare Cadillac

Rusty Draper

Sunshine Man

Lester Flatt (with a 14 year old Marty Stuart)

The Country Boy

Lefty Frizzell

Merle Haggard

The Fightin' Side Of Me

The Hinsons

Waylon Jennings

Jim & Jesse

Childish Love

George Jones

Wayne Kemp

Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper

Walking My Lord Up Calvary's Hill

Loretta Lynn

Magaha & Trent

Ronnie Milsap

the Girl Who Waits on Tables

Willie Nelson

Mark O'Connor (13 Year old fiddle grandmaster)

Tom and Jerry

Jack Palance (yes, that Jack Palance)

Blackjack County Chains

Jerry Reed

Jeannie C. Riley

Harper Valley P.T.A.

Hank Snow

My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans

Red Sorvine

Statler Brothers

Flowers on the Wall

Mel Tillis

Merle Travis

I'm A Pilgrim

Harden Trio

Conway Twitty

Kitty Wells

A Woman Half My Age

Hank Williams Jr

Jambalaya

Faron Young

The show ended in 1981, but reruns are regularly broadcast on RFD-TV - Rural America's Most Important Network.

CGI becomes reality

DevilsAdvocate — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:49:15 -0800

Pipe Dream [2001, CGI (previously)]
Pipe Dream [2011, physical (another video) (yet another)] [MLYT]

Two robots and a sampler

Taft — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:24:47 -0800

House music, particularly French house, relies heavily on sampling bits of material from all kinds of audio sources (i.e disco and classic rock). Find out how it works and where the samples from dozens of house tracks originated in this series of excellent youtube videos.

Ying tong ying tong ying tong ying tong ying tong iddle-i po.

JHarris — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:54:38 -0800

Here is, um, something. Something silly, from the Goons. Here it is again. And here it is from the Muppets. And here it is in a bookstore at a signing by one of the Goons. More nonsense. And more. (← my favorite) And yet more. Okay, just one more. Why it's the Ying-Tong Song! If any of you can find it, one of the very best episodes of The Muppet Show is the one where Spike Milligan is guest.

Erasure

zarq — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:47:35 -0800

While their song Always may be forever enshrined in the minds of a generation of Adult Swim fans as the theme to the online game Robot Unicorn Attack, 80's synth-pop duo Erasure are still around, touring and putting out albums after 26 years.

Their 14th studio album, Tomorrow’s World, was released in the UK on Monday (October 11 in the U.S.), along with an official video for its first released song, When I Start To (Break It All Down). A (better) non-autotuned version labeled "Rehearsal Video" is on YouTube. (An abbreviated history of their work, with official music videos and links to several concerts, can be found within.) (OK, perhaps not so abbreviated.) ;) Background Erasure was formed in 1985, after former Depeche Mode, Yazoo and The Assembly band member Vince Clarke decided to form his own band. Clarke put an ad in Melody Maker (now NME's official magazine for a singer and Andy Bell applied for the job. They are Erasure. "Bell has said being so open about his sexuality meant they only remained an underground dance act in the US telling Spin magazine, "If I'd never said I was gay I think Erasure would've taken off years ago in America." Clarke explained to Kirk of Melody Maker magazine, "It came back to us that people in the record company in New York were saying it was really bad that Andy was making it plain he was gay because they were worried 'it would affect our sales.'"" Music Albums / Released Tracks (The following are a list of all of Erasure’s studio albums and two EP's, and links to their official videos. Audio only or concert performances have been substituted when no official video was created, or locatable online.) Wonderland (1986) * Who Needs Love Like That * Heavenly Action * Oh L'amour The Circus (1987) * It Doesn’t Have To Be * Sometimes * The Circus * Victim of Love (Live) The Innocents (1988) * A Little Respect * Chains of Love * River Deep, Mountain High (Audio Only) * Ship of Fools Crackers International (1988 / EP) * Stop! Wild! (1999) * Blue Savannah * Drama * Piano Song * Star * You Surround Me Chorus (1991) * Am I Right? * Breath of Life * Cho rus * Love to Hate You Abba-Esque (1992 / EP): * Lay All Your Love On Me * SOS * Take a Chance On Me * Voulez Vous ** (Not included, but also an ABBA cover: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) I Say I Say I Say (1994) * Always * I Love Saturday * Miracle * Run to the Sun Erasure (1995) * Fingers and Thumbs (Cold Summer’s Day) * Rock Me Gently (Only released in Germany and the Czech Republic) * Stay With Me Cowboy (1997) * Don’t Say Your Love Is Killing Me * In My Arms * Rain * Rapture (Live) Loveboat (2000) * Freedom Other People’s Songs (2003) * Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) * Solsbury Hill Nightbird (2005) * All This Time Still Falling Out Of Love * Breathe * Don’t Say You Love Me * Here I Go Impossible Again (Audio Only) * I Bet You’re Mad At Me Light at The End of the World (2007) * I Could Fall In Love With You (Background: An official video was created for this song but the band was unsatisfied with it, so “a call was put out for fans to submit pictures or video footage of themselves and loved ones in scenes depicting love or falling in love. These scenes (also including Clarke and Bell) were then edited together into a montage with a "falling in love" theme.) * Storm in a Teacup (Live) * Sucker for Love (Live) * Sunday Girl * When a Lover Leaves You (Live) Union Street (2005) (All songs on this album were previously released on other albums, but had been newly recorded as acoustic versions. Some have a distinct country & western feel. No official videos were released. All listed are audio only) * How Many Times (originally from Wild!) * Oh L’Amour (Originally from Wonderland) * Piano Song (originally from Wild!) * Rock Me Gently (originally from Erasure) * Stay with Me (originally from Erasure) Tomorrow’s World (2011) * When I Start (To Break It All Down) (Official video, autotuned.) * When I Start (To Break It All Down) (Rehearsal video: Non-autotuned) Live Concerts The Innocents Tour (1988) * One * Two * Three * Four * Five * Bonus Tracks The Wild Tour (1989) * YouTube Playlist Wild! Party Live, at the San Francisco Shoreline Amphitheatre (1990) * YouTube Playlist The Tank, The Swan and The Balloon (1992) (nsfw warning: some bare butts in a few of the videos) 1) Siren Song 2) Ship of Fools 3) Chorus 4) Breath of Life 5) Chains of Love 6) Love to Hate You 7) Joan 8) Voulez Vous 9) Take a Chance on Me 10) SOS 11) Lay All Your Love On Me 12) Am I Right? 13) Oh L'amour 14) Waiting For The Day (and Heart of Stone) 15) Stop! 16) The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly 17) Who Needs Love Like That? 18) Stand By Your Man 19) The Soldiers' Return 20) Turns The Love To Anger 21) Star 22) Blue Savannah 23) Over The Rainbow 24) Love is a Loser 25) A Little Respect 26) Sometimes The Tiny Tour (1996) YouTube Playlist Extras Mixes / Audio Only (As a band whose music is frequently played in clubs, Erasure often releases sanctioned remixes and extended versions of their songs as singles and on EPs. This is a small sampling:) * A Little Respect (Big Train Mix) * A Little Respect (Mark Saunders Remix) * Blue Savannah (Razormaid Remix) * Breathe (Erasure Interactive Remix) * Chains of Love (Truly in Love with the Marks Bros Mix) * Chorus (Deep Cut Mix) * Chorus (Youth Aggressive Trance Mix) * Fingers and Thumbs (Cold Summer’s Day) (Tin Tin Out Remix) * The Hardest Part (Extended Mix) * I Love Saturday (JX Mix) * If I Could (Japanese Mix) * Knocking On Your Door (12” Remix) * Oh L’Amour (Extended Dance Mix) * Oh L’Amour (Carsten Kroeyer Remix) * River Deep, Mountain High (Private Dancer Mix) * Runaround on the Underground (12” Mix) * Ship of Fools (Shiver Me Timbers Mix) * Snappy (The Spice Has Risen Mix) * The Soldier’s Return (The Return of the Radical Radcliffe Mix) * SOS (Perimeter Mix) * Star (William Orbit Interstellar Remix) * Stop! (12” Remix) * Supernature (William Orbit Remix) * Who Needs Love Like That? (Club Mix) Acoustic Versions * A Little Respect Live * Always Audio Only * Because You’re So Sweet Live * Breathe Video * Chains of Love Live * How Many Times Live * Oh L’Amour Live * Oh L’Amour, Audio Only * Sometimes Live / (C&W Style) * Stay With Me Audio Only * Sunday Girl, Live Worth A Listen For Die-Hard Fans * Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) (Live) * In the Name of the Heart (Audio Only) * Phantom Bride (Audio Only) * She Won’t Be Home (fan video) * Witch in the Ditch (fan video set to footage from the Wizard of Oz) And finally... * Chains of Love, performed live on the The Rosie O’Donnell Show (Couldn't resist including this one, as Rosie sings backup behind Andy Bell.) Links * Official homepage * Wikipedia: Main Article / Discography * BBC Music * MySpace * Last.fm

Powerglove

zarq — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:23:45 -0800

Powerglove, a speed metal / 'tv show and video game' band, has released an official video to their cover of the Danny Elfman theme from Batman.

Their other covers include: X-Men, The Animated Series (see it mixed to the intro) / Transformers / Flintstones / Simpsons / Inspector Gadget / Power Rangers / Pokemon: Gotta Catch Them All (Live) / The Real Adventures of Johnny Quest / Nightmare before Christmas: This is Halloween / Mario Minor / Legend of Zelda: Power, Wisdom, Courage / Metal Kombat for the Mortal Man / Heffalumps and Woozles and: Tetris (Live) The band's youtube channel includes instructions on how to create a Guitar Hero Synth Controller and their North American Tour Diary includes footage from some of their live performances. Interview with the band. About the "Batman" video.

Color Rabbit

ennui.bz — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:45:37 -0800

Color Rabbit: A Magic World, Drift To Magnetic Pole Shift, Flute Loopin'.[mlyt] bonus old timey nausea fuel

An overload of Mystery Science Theater musical moments

JHarris — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:22:16 -0800

During the show's history Mystery Science Theater did many musical bits. Topless Robot recently linked to the "13 best" Mystery Science Theater 3000 songs. It's not a bad list, although there are some notable exclusions. About those, click through.... But why rely on that Topless Robot list when you have THIS, which is not a complete list of every song or substantial song reference MST ever did, but is the great majority of them. Especially good bits are marked with an asterisk. Many of these are direct links inside MST3K episodes on YouTube; it's up to you to close those when the song is done (or alternatively, why not keep watching, won't you?). COMEDY CENTRAL ERA JOEL YEARS *Clay & Lar's Flesh Barn (104 Women of the Prehistoric Planet, "If you're tired of the same old fare/you've got a friend in Clay and Lar/all our meat is guaranteed rare/'cause we don't cook it!") *Sidehackin' (202 The Sidehackers, "Sidehackin' is one big bash/the favorite sport of cheap white trash") *Only Love Pads the Film (202 The Sidehackers, with Gypsy as backup) *Tom Servo's Ode to Creepy Girl (204 Catalina Caper, the first of many bot infatuations) If Chauffeurs Ruled The World (206 Ring of Terror) Wild Rebels Cereal Commercial (207 Wild Rebels, like getting hit on the back of the neck with a surfboard of flavor) Godzilla Genealogy Bop (213 Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, starring Karl Malden's nose) *Tibby, Oh Tibby (302 Gamera, do you believe a robot just sang a love song to a turtle?) *Idiot Control Now (303 Pod People, a close remake of a scene from the movie, right down to Frank's shirt) *Clown in the Sky (303 Pod People, "Tom, if you don't stop doing your Anthony Newley I'm going to throw you against the wall.") *The Sandy Frank Song (306 Time of the Apes, rumor has it this song was what got Sandy Frank mad at Best Brains and is why we can't get MST Gamera episodes on DVD to this day) The Pants-Up Song (307 Daddy-O, one of two MST songs devoted to the humble pants, this one ends with one of Joel's "vapor lock" episodes) *Fugitive Alien Medley ("He Tried To Kill Me With A Forklift") (310 Fugitive Alien, I've been fascinated with Star Wolf, the show this movie is taken from, for a while, partly due to the excellent music) Celebrity Siblings (311 It Conquered The World) *The Bike Song, a.k.a. The Annoying Cornjob Song (312 Gamera vs. Guiron, "We're gonna ride our bicycles/we're gonna go and have some fun" -- that's just how it starts) Slow the Plot Down (314 Mighty Jack, arrrrr) ***Gamera (312 Gamera vs. Guiron), and more Gamera (316 Gamera vs Zigra, the Gamera theme ruled the show for two entire episodes. The MST take on the song actually originated in the KTMA days!) The Waffle Song (317 Viking Women vs. The Sea Serpent, the capper to an episode-long obsession with waffles) ***Patrick Swayze Christmas (321 Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, one of two MST Christmas songs and gloriously random) *Master Ninja Theme Song (322 Master Ninja, they actually sing this nearly from the moment they emerge from the theater until the end of the credits, including throughout the ritual reading of the letter) Morrissey Sings "Hairdresser in a Coma" (403 City Limits) *Oh, Kim Cattrall (403 City Limits, Crow's remark about Cattrall's dress at the ACE awards, as mentioned by the MST newsletter at the time, comes from direct exposure when the Brains went to the awards after having been nominated -- they lost to Dream On) *I'm a Danger to Myself and Others (406 Attack of the Giant Leeches, about how rednecks are asked to do the dangerous work in the movie) *Tribute to Pants (410 Hercules Against the Moon Men, the other MST pants song, if you want to know what "Deep Hurting" is you'll have to watch the whole episode) Happy Thoughts (414 Tormented, "I'm having Libbyland dinners for breakfast/and King Vitaman for dinner") Gypsy Moons (417, Crash of the Moons, Crow and Tom sing a love song to an irate Gypsy) *What a Failure (422 The Day the Earth Froze, Joel and the bots sing along to the "celebration" song in the film) Gypsy Rose -- Me (422 The Day the Earth Froze, Gypsy's one-woman show) Hired, the Musical (423 Bride of the Monster, "I got a job today/I'm selling Chevrolet/I'm taking home good pay") Look at my Thorax (506 Eegah, tequila.) ***Are You Happy in Your Work? (507 I Accuse My Parents, Joel and co don't actually sing in this but it's still a brilliant bit) *What a Pleasant Journey (509 The Girls in Lovers Lane, this one jumps the rails at the end in more ways than one) *The Turkey Day Song, done for a Comedy Central commercial, which once upon a time was stuck in my head for nearly an entire month MIKE YEARS The Janitor Song (514 Teenage Strangler, one of the first songs with Mike as host) *My Wild Irish Ireland (516 Alien From L.A., proving it's not just the bots who have unhealthy obsessions) ***Toobular Boobular Joy (519 Outlaw, one of their best songs, mildly NSFW) Whispering Christmas Warrior (521 Santa Claus, or "Santa Klaus") *Merry Christmas, If That's Okay (521 Santa Claus, the other MST Christmas song) *Tribute to Doughy Guys (522 Teen-Age Crime Wave, notice in the scroll of doughy guys at the end they playfully add in TV's Frank) Mystos (522 Teen-Age Crime Wave, mockery of Mentos commercials from the time) Endless Frank (523 Village of the Giants, actually a tribute to Frank Zappa -- end credits version) *Servo's Scat (601 Girl's Town) *Cosmic Freight Train (603 The Dead Talk Back, Crow's guitar solo was also played during the end credits of this one) Nummy Muffin Coocol Butter (605 Colossus & The Head Hunters) *Livin’ in Deep 13 and Theme Songs (610 The Violent Years, Tom Servo/Kevin Murphy really gets into this one) ***The United Servo Academy Men's Chorus (612 The Starfighters, one of the most amazing host segments they ever did, Kevin Murphy singing with himself in many-part harmony) Poopy Suits and The Poopy Suit Anthem (612 The Starfighters, a loathsome movie containing a bizarre interlude) *The Bouncy Upbeat Song(619 Red Zone Cuba) *Who Will I Kill? (624 Sampson vs. The Vampire Women, Dr. Forrester's lament for the departing TV's Frank) Gypsy’s Telephone Song (701 Night of the Blood Beast) SCI-FI CHANNEL ERA ***When I Held Your Brain In My Arms (807 Terror From the Year 5000, crooning from the Observers) Servo Sings of the 70s (814 Riding With Death) Sodium! (817 Horror of Party Beach, the solution to the monsters in the movie turns out to be sodium and they won't shut up about it) *Tom Servo's Song About Stock Footage (819 Invasion of the Neptune Men, short but sweet) ***Public Pearl presents "When Loving Lovers Love" (822 Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, a dead-on parody) Where, O Werewolf (904 Werewolf, the guys form a girl band) ***TUSK! (904 Werewolf, this one's sung in the theater) Please Stay (905 The Killer Bees, Pearl and Bobo try to convince Observer to stay with them, among the reasons given: ham. And string.) *The Hobgoblins "Song" (907 Hobgoblins, look out now, you little doodad) *The Canada Song (910 Final Sacrifice, mustn't hate so overtly) ***Aire on a Delta Knight (913 Quest of the Delta Knights, more multi-part harmony with Servo, Servo, Servo and Servo) I Am Sad, with leadup (1002 Girl in Gold Boots, after our draft-dodging hero in the movie sings a sad song, Mike pines away while it somehow rains outside in space) *The Legend of Bobo Creek (1006 Boggy Creek 2: And the Legend Continues, by country legend Hank Brain Guy Jr.) *To Earth (1013 Diabolik, the last musical number, cuts off at the end unfortunately, the last few seconds are in the following video) Just a few random extras: What's the Deal with 'The Pina Colada Song'? - The many names of David Ryder - Orville Popcorn - Mike & company provide some local color - Joel's Diabolical Plan This list would contain Crow's wonderful "Ode to Estelle," (411 The Magic Sword) except that NBC Universal has blocked it on copyright grounds, possibly because it contains a still image from The Magic Sword, which is available on the "OpenFlix" advertising channel. Feh. Of tremendous aid in compiling this: Satellite News, Ward E, MST3K Wiki, and YouTube of course

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zarq — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:10:20 -0800

♪ "I know Darth Vader's really got you annoyed, but remember: if you kill him then you'll be unemployed...." ♫ (ML-Weird-YT)

Nature / Nurture / Talent

zarq — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:51:56 -0800

Vanessa Mae Nicholson is one of Britain’s most successful young musicians. A classical violinist and former child prodigy who self-describes her crossover style as "violin techno-acoustic fusion," her fans praise her modern creativity and frenetic, lightning-fast riffs. But is her talent learned or genetic? Documentary from BBC1 in 2008: Vanessa Mae - The Making of Me: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. About The Making of Me This 2008 series of three 60-minute BBC1 documentaries analyzed 3 famous people who wanted to understand more about their own natures through scientific tests. * Doctor Who actor John Barrowman, who asked scientists to determine why he is gay. DailyMotion: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 * Olympic Silver Medalist Colin Jackson / Article / Video (The only one I could find online) About Vanessa-Mae Mae is the youngest person ever to attend the Royal College of Music, and to record the Beethoven and Tchaikovsky violin concertos. She is also the fastest-selling classical artist ever. But her critics have been quite harsh: accusing her of musical 'incompetence', calling her "a nymphet fiddler in a see-through swimsuit” and likening her to a child prostitute. * Extensive article archive from one of her fan sites * Vanessa-Mae is the violinist classical-music lovers love to argue about. * Vanessa-Mae’s journey from prodigy to performer * On wise women Her Music * Toccata et Fugue in D Minor: Video / Li ve * The Devil’s Trill: Video * Cotton Eye Joe: Live * Storm: Video (sound isn’t quite synchronized with image) / Live * I Can (Can You): Live * Destiny: Video / Live * Classical Gas: Li ve * Red Hot: Vid eo / Live (The video is practically seizure-inducing.) * Reflection (from Mulan) * I Feel Love: Video * I’m a Doun For Lack of Johnnie: Video / Live * Contradanza * Raaga’s Dance (composed by AR Rahman)