Posts Tagged ‘Music’
Lara Croft gets her sweat on!
Yeah so today I got into a big debate about love and sexy scientists (I guess). And in the middle of the debate one of the guys says: “Oh, you reminded me of the thing I was TRYING TO GRAPH!”
- I need you all to go in there and help me. I think I might be losing.
- Final Destination 5 – so someone had to review that movie. Why not this guy?
- Bachmann-eyezed! – Damn that’s creepy. Creepier than Steve Buscemi, maybe.
- Liquid Lapdance — Liquid Lapdance – 1 Pair – I don’t know if I want this or not. I didn’t dare to read too far in case someone was looking at me.
- Give and get free stuff in your local community – Sure, take someone else’s crap in exchange for your crap. Crap!
- After the jump you can see a kid do a Rubik’s cube in like, 7 seconds. Too bad that they don’t make bombs that can only be defused by doing a Rubik’s cube really fast. If they did that kid would be set.
- Soothing Music – Yeah, I like this kind of thing. And yeah, I’m manly. VERY manly.
Last game was well fought and it turned out to be JD from Thrifty Ninja who got the song first. It was “My Best Friend’s Girl” by The Cars. So the clue in the last pic makes sense now, yes? This time the song and the clue are more obscure. If you get this one, you are special! And I will figure out the scores soon, too. No kidding. I will. I need that intern!
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So, I woke up to an invite from Google for their Google Music Beta this morning.
Some of you are probably asking what the hell Google Music is and why you should care. To that I say:
It’s a cloud-based (ooooh, buzz words) music service, a bit like Apple’s upcoming iCloud.
You upload your music library to it and then can take it everywhere with you, by connecting to the cloud. [Note: Whenever I say cloud imagine a rainbow and hallelujah playing.]
It took about two weeks or so for my request for the beta invite, which I’d honestly forgotten about, so it was a pleasant treat to wake up to. So, if you want to try to get in on it go here.
I’ve got just over 17,000 songs to upload (the limit is 20,000) so it’s gonna be a while. My upload speed isn’t the fastest, only 1.5 up; I’m at about 1700 or so songs up as of 4:17 pm. Editor’s note – i forgot to publish this and I don’t know what day it was from. Hopefully Kyle will update us. And yes, I’m a jackoff.
So far the little I’ve used it it’s seemed alright. The sound quality (which is a huge issue for me) is excellent, the playlist editor is easy to use and their auto-playlist generator is nice. It’s similar to the Genius Playlist in iTunes, while not being half as annoying. You click a song and tell it to make a 25 song playlist based off that one song. So far the mixes it’s made for me have been pretty good.
I’ll write a longer post with more impressions once I’ve had a bit to play with it.
The competition is really heating up. Hot action, that’s our stock and trade. Every time I look through my weird collection of songs on iTunes I get all giddy about the things I can choose from. Great job by PelvicBoogie in game three. Obviously he has wonderful musical taste by knowing the ring tone was from Medicine Show by Big Audio Dynamite. Or maybe he got lucky because he has an album of all the songs in the world that sample The Good The Bad and the Ugly (I’m including the video below). Nice to see that people are starting to catch on that they can get points by piling on to the winner’s guess. It always amazes me how long it takes. Even the regulars don’t figure it out right away even though I explain it. Sad.
- First correct answer in the comments gets 5 points.
- Every other correct answer in the comments gets one point until I say that game is closed.
- One random person from the post with the correct answer (who didn’t win) will get 5 points instead of 1. Just so it doesn’t become a runaway.
- First one to 100 will win something.
New standings, the video and a HINT after the jump!
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While she may only have one studio album out, Kim has two lovely EPs as well.
The first of which is this, the 31 Songs in 31 Days album. Writing, recording and producing 1 song a day for the entire month of January 2009, even taking requests for songs.
Starting with the beautiful song ‘Underwater’, a slow piano number that slowly build, singing about the viewpoint of an octopus who fell in love with and accidentally drowned a woman, only wishing to kiss her. While it may sound silly, it’s a gorgeous song.
Kim’s voice throughout the album is haunting, accompanied by her use of keys, accordion, guitar, synth and ukulele and other instruments. Her lyrics are sometimes fantastical, sometimes somber and sometimes moving. It’s a strong first showing for what will hopefully be a long and beautiful career.
Tracks of note are Underwater, Mannequin, Bicycle, All That I Have and End of The Line.
The ‘First The Bees…’ is a small, 5 track EP.
Starting off with The Organ Donor’s March, an upbeat accordion and percussion song about a heart transplant recipient’s life and thoughts about the donor’s gift (or sacrifice depending on view point). It continues through First The Bees, More and More, The Day We Met, and Hurts Like Hell.
The Day We Met is a particularly beautiful song, soft keys and near whispered vocals. Directly after is Hurts Like Hell, a very misleading title for an upbeat song about her desire to learn as much as she can about the world.
Tracks of note are, well, all of them. All 5 tracks on this EP are lovely.
The Impossible Girl is Kim’s first studio album, it is lovely.
Starting off with The Impossible Girl #1, music is only claps, the lyrics are wonderfully upbeat and fantastic.
Overall the album seems sporadic, but not in a bad way. Kim has a lot to say, and has many ways of saying it. Her range, from somber, dark songs, to fantastical upbeat tunes, to bluegrass songs about Sex, Drugs and Nuclear Physics, to slightly bluesy numbers like Big Easy, her music speaks to nearly everyone in one way or another. I can’t recommend buying this album more.
Tracks of note are The Impossible Girl parts #1, #2, #3, and #4, Rainbows and Unicorns, Stalker, Gypsy, Anyone At All and Big Easy.
You can find her album here. It’s only $5, though I’d suggest paying more (which you have the option to do). Help this wonderful woman keep making music.
Lollapalloza, Seinfeld, Winona Ryder, Bill Clinton – what didn’t the 90′s have? The heyday of generation X brought prosperity to everyone thanks to the invention of the Internet, and gross smelling Patchouli oil to baja-wearing hippies. Never before was a decade defined by such extremes. The “we are women hear us roar” power of the assorted chicks from Lilith fair, the painful, angst-ridden genius of Nirvana combined with a shit-ton of boy bands, some of the best rap ever written and Will Smith’s “Getting Jiggy With It” made sure everyone had something.
Every Friday we give you something from that glorious decade. The list is below and it’s just going to keep growing. I’m not even close to tired. X-Files Forever!
- 02/04/12 – White Town – Your Woman
- 01/27/12 – DMX – Party Up
- 01/20/12 – Soul Asylum – Runaway Train
- 01/13/12 – Wyclef Jean – We Trying To Stay Alive
- 01/06/12 – Technotronic – Move This
- 12/30/11 – Shawn Mullins – Lullabye
- 12/23/11 – Barenaked Ladies feat. Sarah McLachlan – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- 12/16/11 – Jessie – Joshua Kadison
- 12/09/11 – Sheryl Crow – Strong Enough
- 12/02/11 – Londonbeat – I’ve Been Thinking about You
- 11/25/11 – Red Hot Chili Peppers – Scar Tissue
- 11/18/11 – The B52′s – Roam
- 11/11/11 – Wilson Phillips – Hold On
- 11/04/11 – Toad the Wet Sprocket – Walk on the Ocean
- 10/28/11 – Hootie And The Blowfish – Only Wanna Be With You
- 10/21/11 – P.M. Dawn – Set Adrift on Memory Bliss
- 10/14/11 – Madonna – Vogue
- 10/07/11 – Bonnie Raitt – Something to Talk About
- 09/30/11 – Weezer – Buddy Holly
- 09/23/11 – Savage Garden – Truly Madly Deeply
- 09/16/11 – House of Pain – Jump Around
- 09/09/11 – Primitive Radio Gods – Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth
- 09/02/11 – Meat Loaf – I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)
- 08/26/11 – Sixpence None the Richer – Kiss Me
- 08/19/11 – Coolio feat. L.V – Gangsta’s Paradise
- 08/12/11 – Vengaboys – We Like to Party
- 08/05/11 – Annie Lennox – Why
- 07/29/11 – Billy Idol – Cradle of Love
- 07/22/11 – Blackstreet – No Diggity
- 07/15/11 – Skee Lo – I Wish
- 07/09/11 – Fiona Apple – Criminal
- 06/30/11 – 4 Non-Blondes – What’s Up
- 06/24/11 – Radiohead – Creep
- 06/16/11 – Céline Dion – It’s All Coming Back To Me Now
- 06/10/11 – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Impression That I Get
- 06/03/11 – Denis Leary – Asshole
- 05/27/11 – U2 — Mysterious Ways
- 05/20/11 – R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
- 05/13/11 – The Prodigy — Breathe
- 05/06/11 -Dionne Farris – I Know
- 4/29/11 - Jay Z — Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
- 04/22/11 – Tracy Chapman – Give Me One Reason
- 04/15/11 – Shawn Colvin – Sunny Came Home
- 04/08/11 – Right Said Fred – I`m Too Sexy
- 04/01/11 – Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U
- 03/25/11 – Concrete Blonde – Joey
- 03/18/11 – Warren G – Regulate ft. Nate Dogg
- 03/04/11 – Puff Daddy & Faith Evans featuring 112 – I’ll Be Missing You
- 02/25/11 – The Counting Crows – Round Here
- 02/18/11 – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Into the Great Wide Open
- 02/11/11 – Richard Marx – Hazard
- 02/04/11 -Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe
- 01/28/11 – Guns ‘n’ Roses – November Rain
- 01/21/11 – Deep Blue Something – Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- 01/14/11 – Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch – Good Vibrations
- 01/07/11 – Naughty by Nature – O.P.P.
- 12/31/10 – Oasis – Wonderwall
- 12/25/10 – Bob Rivers – The Restroom Door Said Gentlemen
- 12/17/10 – Bob Rivers – Walkin’ ‘Round in Women’s Underwear
- 12/10/10 – Bush – Glycerine
- 12/03/10 – R.E.M. – What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
- 11/26/10 – Alanis Morissette – Thank U
- 11/12/10 – Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight Tonight
- 11/05/10 – Cher – Believe
- 10/29/10 – Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hell
- 10/22/10 – Primus – My Name is Mud
- 10/15/10 – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
- 10/08/10 – Butthole Surfers – Pepper
- 10/01/10 – Metallica – Enter Sandman
- 09/23/10 – Green Day – When I Come Around
- 09/17/10 – Los del Rio – Macarena
- 09/10/10 – LFO – Summer Girls
- 09/03/10 – Bruce Springsteen – Streets of Philadelphia
- 08/27/10 – C + C Music Factory – Things That Make You Go Hmmmm
- 08/20/10 – Blind Melon – No Rain
- 08/13/10 – Chumbawumba – Tubthumping
- 08/06/10 – Spin Doctors – Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong
- 07/23/10 – Prince – Sexy MF
- 07/16/10 – Barbie Girl – Aqua
- 07/09/10 – Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner (DNA REMIX)
- 07/02/10 – No Doubt – Spiderwebs
- 06/25/10 – Sugar Ray – Fly
- 06/18/10 – Divinyls – I Touch Myself
- 06/11/10 – Sophie B. Hawkins – As I Lay Me Down
- 06/04/10 – Digital Underground – The Humpty Dance
- 05/28/10 – Ace of Base – The Sign
- 05/21/10 – Annie Lennox – Walking on Broken Glass
- 05/14/10 – Ini Kamoze – Here Comes The Hotstepper
- 05/07/10 – Dave Matthews Band – Crash Into Me
- 04/30/10 – Joan Osborne – One of Us0
- 04/23/10 – Erasure – Always
- 04/16/10 – They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse In Your Soul
- 04/09/10 – Barenaked Ladies – One Week
- 04/02/10 – Marcy Playground – Sex and Candy
- 03/26/10 – Tupac – Changes
- 03/12/10 – OMC – How Bizarre
- 03/05/10 – George Michael – Freedom ’90
- 02/19/10 – Marc Cohn – Walking in Memphis
- 02/12/10 – Merril Bainbridge – Mouth
- 02/05/10 – Beck – Loser