http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnNK4Alwbsw I went looking for Jim Brickman songs, as I thought I recognised the name, but apparently not: This is the kind of musical tripe I stay far away from, and does nothing to reform my view of Christian country music as sentimental glurge with white Republicans (a redundant phrase, I know) as the target […]
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The Devils In The Phone Booth Dialing 911
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gco6E-2zIPQ Random thoughts: * Nothing says boogie woogie like plaid shirts and lyrics read off index cards. * When boogie woogie was first popular, these women would’ve been protesting against it. * Thank God for the warning: I won’t let my children watch anything with hand clapping or foot stomping. Them’s the devil’s work. Thanks, […]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JRtGMBUz0 Eurovision: Championing mediocrity for, what, fifty years now? Crap music, crap visuals, crap staging – no wonder Father Ted was able to make it to the finals. The only good thing that has come out of the competition since Abba (and there are many who would argue them out as well) is Tim Moore’s […]
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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ypycpKQxXR0 Much has been made about (and laughed at) the new Microsoft software train wreck, SongSmith. The idea is to sing to the software, which then sets your word to music. The results are – predictably – awful. Or are they? A YouTube wag seems to making a series of what can only be described […]
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http://www.megaswf.com/view/ae5be0fc5f3cc7b1ca122edffe6489b1.html Proof that Nickelback is without any inventiveness at all comes at a high price: Having to listen to two Nickelback songs at once. The reality is, anyone who’s had to two Nickelback songs at any time, simultaneously or not, would have had the same realisation. Nickelback is one of those “likes” that make me […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_en_ot/mccain_foo_fighters_2 The Foo Fighters have asked John McCain to stop using one of their songs in his campaign. While I’m for even the slightest setback to the apPAlLINg Republican campaign, I must roll my eyes a bit at the offense of the lyrics being “perverted”: I’ve long found their lyrics among the least enthralling in […]