September 2008
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Watch#215: the bird and the bee - polite dance song (2007)
last week i said that panda bear’s bros video reminded me of tim and eric, though that was only because i’ve been watching so much tim and eric that everything reminds me of their burps, la guyz, and three part vodka commercial. but the bird and the bee’s polite dance song is genuinely tim and eric-ish, because it was...
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Watch#214: mogwai - punk rock (1999)
the first song on mogwai’s second album (which, if you went to high school sometime around the turn of this century, you probably listened to while getting stoned in friend’s attics at least twice) samples peter gzowski interviewing iggy pop. and this genius homemade video synchs the song to footage of the original interview.
the phrase “you see,...
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Watch#213: yellow magic orchestra - tighten up (1980)
i don’t want to say the wrong thing about the ultra-funking, overflowing, overwhelming cross-continental grooviness of yellow magic orchestra’s tighten up—which, by the way, i think should be called (do the) tighten up—so let me just borrow some words from mr. don cornelius’ introduction: “hey there and welcome...
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“inside, outside, willy sends them silly/ with his starshine shimmy shuffle...”
– (the sweet goes for sweet iambic pentameter.)
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Watch#211: gene vincent - you win again (1958)
if you look up you win again on wikipedia, there’s a page for the diabolically awful 1987 bee gees hit, but not the slinky 1952 monolith from hank williams (and then jerry lee lewis or gene “be bop a lula” vincent), which is like knowing about the beatless but not the beatles.
maybe the internet and user-provided content is a failure...
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Watch#209: del tha funkee homosapien - mistadobalina (1991)
the year that ice cube’s death certificate came out (featuring the wrong nigga to fuck wit, i wanna kill sam, horny lil’ devil and the horrifyingly-titled no vaseline), his funnier, smarter, weirder, hipper hippy stoner cousin del tha funkee homosapien came out with his debut, which featured songs about the wacky world of mass...
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Watch#206: pilgrim jubilee singers - ship of zion (1964)
reading a david foster wallace essay, especially one on pornography award ceremonies, lobster festivals, talk radio hosts or pleasure cruises, is just like listening to really old gospel music. it’s so beautiful it sort of makes you believe in god.
and now d.f.w. is gone, and the economy is crumbling, and scientists just discovered that...
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scout niblett - uptown top ranking (2004)
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the beastie boys - adam bomb’s kxlu show...
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Watch#203: pretenders - brass in pocket (1979)
as far as late-night refrains in pop hits go, “i’m going to use my fingers, i’m going to use my, my, my imagination—whoa-a-oh!” isn’t as absurdly saucy as chuck berry’s “my ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling, won’t you play with my ding-a-ling?” but as scarlett johansson’s karaoke scene in lost in...
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Watch#197: todd rundgren - hello it’s me (1973)
this is the music of a one-man glam band playing in an elevator that’s riding up from the psilocybin factory on the second floor up to the human-hair wig wholesalers on the 99th, but gets stuck halfway up and then comes crashing down into the basement’s vaseline factory.
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