I haven’t pitched up a weird song in a while.

I dug this one up tonight while on a manic binge in iTunes to trash tracks I have never liked (or even listened to) and no idea how I got (or from whom**) and that I really don’t want (and spare my poor little 3G iPod the burden of bearing).

Mr Man won’t let me buy stuff like frilly panties because I’m not getting work or have a job but sure is eager enough to buy FIVE whole albums (Three of Boston, 1 older Foo Foghters, 1 new David Gilmour) on iTunes with my ipod skins royalty money in MY paypal account. I’ll remember to throw this back at him later when it’s most advantageous, of course.

In other news, you ever heard what a CD burner sounds like when you accidently place two cds in at once because you’re tired and not paying attention and let her fly? I do! I thought it was gonna blow up! What was I burning? Mr Man’s new and hideous music (since he doesn’t have an ipod) of course! If it blew up I wouldn’t be allowed to buy another you know.

(** I probably got them from you losers in one of the music swaps.)

Whoever gave me the linked track, thanks it’s odd enough I’ll keep it for now!

“One little Christmas Tree”
by Stevie Wonder
Click Santa to Listen

I love this song. I think it’s my favorite christmas tune of all time, just the way Stevie sings I sometimes feel like I’m gonna burst a tear or something.

I’ve become reaquainted with Mr Wonder as of late, I bought a bunch of his songs on itunes and have been just jamming on them. I liked far more of his songs than I ever thought.

Speaking of Christmas trees, or Channukah shrubs or Festivus Poles for that matter.. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours! Put them in the VBB flickr group!.

That I am just throughly enjoying the new OKGO album? FunkyBlue and I saw them a few years ago in concert opening for TMBG. They were still a pre-record deal group and I thought they had a lot of potential. They finally signed with Capitol and I have to say their second album, Oh No, is the best thing I’ve heard in a while - from anyone. I just can’t stop playing it. It even broke my new Duran Duran album spell of 10 weeks.

They’ve really grown into a rocking little group and seem to be everywhere right now. I got the album on itunes, and it’s quickly made it in to my speakers at least a few times a week. You definitely should check it out… cough indecipherable muttering cough.

Hell, they even have a podcast if you are into that sort of thing. #4 is quite entertaining.

Anyway, I thought in absence of anything else, I’d plug it and give it a big ole thumbs up for it’s pure jammablilty. Especially this song in this video it’s made them pretty famous as of late. It is behind them becoming viral gods on the intarweb and as a result getting invited on MadTV and the Tonight Show to dance it.

They are also Chicago boys. Midwest represent!

Just when I say i need to delete some songs… Ikea by Jonathan Coulton who has many other cute little songs on his site , like A Laptop Like You which is a love ode to a powerbook. Sniff. So beautiful, sniff.

To my friend Broom, who is, well let’s just say he’s a big boy today!

He also:
– loves that his birthday is on Cinco de Mayo and half of North America celebrates his birthday
– asks pretty strangers to kiss him because “it’s my birthday!” (or used to anyway)
– has a cheesy mustache
– needs some cheering up!

In his honor, a toast! And two songs:
Arrogant Worms: The Happy Happy Birthday Song
And, since he loves Christine Lavin: Happy Birthday

Brazilian samba, boss nova and other loungey music styles of the 50s and 60’s. Lots of mp3’s to download.

The german one. Here it is. Be amazed. and thankful those of us from Germany don’t have to get this on TV and radio every 30 minutes.

Dave reminded me last week I always start out with Red Sovine’s Faith in Santa, the world’s most depressing Christmas tune ever… he’s right, so this time around you get two.

Red Sovine: Faith In Santa
Right Click Santa to save please!

And for comedic relief…

Space Ghost and Friends: The 12 Days of Christmas
Right Click Santa to save please!

The last few years I’ve been posting non-traditional, novelty or swining 50’s xmas tunes. Since I mentioned BandAid below, we’ll start there.

Ladies and Gents, the one, the only…
BandAid 1984: Do they Know it’s Christmas?
Right Click Santa to save please!

Today a feature of a much maligned genre, Disco. There is some disco that does in fact kick some some major bootay.

I will freely admit I design best to disco, I’m not proud of that, it’s just a fact. Maybe it’s because disco was the music of choice during my early formative years, maybe it’s just the dancy beat to it all, who knows. One of my last employers learned that if disco was coming off my headphones to leave me be a while as I was jamming out something good.

This song should be on every bedside clock as the alarm sound - if this can’t get you moving, nothing will. Also the first song on any roadtrip mix CD. It may be shallow, but damn it has a beat and one of the best opening bass riffs - ever. And don’t forget the cowbell. As if you could!

In honor of El Presidente Cacapantalones being in my local area (2 exits down and shutting off the exits and I-75 for 6 hours - gee thanks!) for a campaign stop. Too bad the stench from AK steel doesn’t blow quite that far way.

He stops in Cincinnati usually a couple times a year to do a couple high’dolla snob dinners at Stan Chesley’s house and slip him some presidential tongue and mess up the highways then too.

After this stop the moves under an hour away to my hometown (where Kerry has been twice as I wrote about here to HUGE crowds of about 8,000) to a application/invite only crowd of 4,000 butt sniffing event and shut the traffic on I-70 down. Springfield hasn’t had a presidential candidate for over 50 years, then we get BOTH in one year - hrmmm… Hope they don’t expect this kind of attention from here on out.

I hope they’ve fixed the sound in the new expo-center at the fairgrounds since the premiere of the building at the fair this year where it was little better than a megaphone with half dead batteries.

Nah, I don’t hope they fixed it just yet. And I hope it still smells like horse poop from being the horse judging venue during the fair.

Anyway, in “honor” of Bush messing up the entire Southwest Ohio traffic situation and just generally existing…

Copy, Right? is a blog about cover songs. Bad bad cover songs.

After you listen to the train wreck that is the Hole cover of Duran Duran’s “Hungry like the Wolf” calm yourself down from wanting to scream and run into the street with Telly Salavas’ sleep apnea inducing cover of Bread’s “If”.

He at least ‘talks the song’ better than Shatner ever could have.

Elvis Costello - Tramp the Dirt Down [Lyrics]

Sheriff John - Put Another Candle on my Birthday Cake

Feel free to buy me something.

Having just gotten the new They Might Be Giants album “pine” I have to say it KICKS ASS!

It’s very old school TMBG, a nice reminder why you loved them to begin with. Experimental Film especially reminds me of the Apollo 18 album.

If you love TMBG go to their site above and download the tracks direct from them for 99cents each. (That means they get ALL the money, not just a tiny portion, and thats a good thing.)

Ok, folks, sign up in comments for “100 songs about you. As mentioned previously, it should be 100 songs that mean something to you, even if it’s your top ten worst songs ever.

You can build you 100 songs list anyway you want. You can artfully work them into the ultimate mix disc or just slap on 10 “top ten” lists.

Deadlines:
Sign up: by May 1
Mailing out: June 1

What to do:

– Comment that you are in. Jen will contact you closer to time for you addresses.

– You need to have a blog of some sort. ANd you need to live in the US, so some folks are screwed with international postage and actually having to go to the post office and fill out a customs form - that sucks!

— Make THREE identical cd’s with your 100 songs (Mp3 format, please folks! No lame WMV crap) You need to include your name, and blog url with the cd.

– If you have your track comments done before mailing the cd, feel free to throw it on the cd in text format (give them a heads up it’s on there) or in print form. Track comments are completely optional. You don’t have to ANY. If you want to just comment on five or six, thats fine too. These are completely optional.

– Wait to be given you three addresses to mail your disks to.

– *After* you send your disk out, blog your 100 list track titles and artists. You can of course comment on your choices and reasoning (if any) for the tracks you chose, if you like. It at least HAS to contain the titles and artists (iTunes makes this a cinch, ask Jen how if you don’t know how)

– Let Jen know when you blog your list, so she can post that you’ve posted your list and your disk partners can go read it. You will be told who you are getting disks from when you are given your mailing addresses.

– When you get the disks (and listened to them) post that your observations, reviews or just mental evaluation and proposals for counseling methods of your sender.

This should be fun.

FREE TOMMY CHONG!

Last year, I posted some rather “odd” xmas songs. I intend to do it it this year as well, but I want to open the song season off just as I did last year, with Red Sovine’s “Faith in Santa”.

Click Santa for the most depressing Holiday Tune ever!
Right Click to save please!

Found this online earlier and being the Swanky music gal I am, thought it was a GREAT version of this old standard. Being it’s a modern rendition, I chose to put it under Music Fix versus Swanky.

Now, I know it’s Steven Page from Barenaked Ladies singing the Male lead vocal, I do not know if the rest of the band are the ones playing the music. Regardless it’s a must have for those who love BNL.