November 2008
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Watch#261: afrika bambaataa and james brown - unity (1984)
this thanksgiving, instead of quarrelling with your families, won’t you please follow the advice of james brown and afrika bambaataa, who tell you to invest in “peace, unity, love, and having fun”? to ignore both the godfather of soul and the father of electrofunk would be like spitting on the pope.
this is the last video...
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Watch#260: dusty springfield - lost (1970)
anything from somewhere between 1968 and 1971 that features three-dimensional florescent cubes and dusty springfield can not possibly be bad.
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Watch#259: dusty springfield - spooky (1970)
someone should make kanye west, or at least lil’ wayne, sample dusty springfield. sure, cypress hill took the slinky opening guitar riff from son of a preacher man (which was video #1, remember?) for a silly song about bong hits, but preacher’s lascivious bassline, not to mention its shrieking horns, could make for three or four spectacular...
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Watch#256: jay-z (ft. foxy brown) - ain’t no nigga (1996)
between the 25-year-old rapper in his backwards hat, his 16-year-old co-star (the one in the bathing suit), the random scenes from the nutty professor, the mellifluous raunchiness of the chorus, and a bassline that sounds like bootsy collins slathered in chunky peanut butter, i’m not really sure why anyone would need to watch any...
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Watch#254: the slits - instant hit (1978)
if rastafarians preferred heroin to spliffs, basements to beaches, and feminism to misogyny, and if their band members had names like palmolive instead of jimmy and sly (incidentally, palmolive dated joe strummer), they would sound just like the slits.
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Watch#251: nirvana - plateau (1993)
on a rainy day, the only thing better than listening to the meat puppets is watching kurt cobain sing meat puppets songs with the meat puppets playing along. you’d think the velvet underground would be the only junkies in furry sweaters who could make heavenly music, but you’d be wrong.
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Watch#247: ringo starr - only you (1974)
sunday evening nilsson special (pt. 2)! john lennon wasn’t the only member of the beatles who got to sit around and ingest industrial quantities of pharmaceuticals with harry nilsson while wearing spacemen suits and bathrobes in mid-70s los angeles. the real question is: were there any drugs left in california by the time nilsson was done making music...
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Watch#245: stereolab - wow and flutter (1994)
living in a country that just elected obama is almost like swimming in a tub full of yellow and orange skittles, the fur of chocolate lab puppies, old the price is right episodes, my late grandfather’s cologne, stereolab, dan flavin’s lights, and margerine.
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Watch#243: the kinks - muswell hillbillies (1972)
the hillbillies and the novelists and the veterans and the rabbis and the welders and the professors and the flight attendents and the divorcees and the bellboys and the dentists and the roadies and the real estate brokers and the guitarists are all voting for change. down with the 20th century’s acute schizophrenia paranoia blues! up with hope!
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“for the rest of her senate campaign and for her presidential race, we instituted...”
– rythmically-vetting strategist howard wolfson in today’s times.
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