Today in nope, definitely would not have thought of doing that: Singing “Leaving on a Jet Plane” over “Heart-Shaped Box”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjC5sK9AZDI
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My New Favourite Tears For Fears Song Isn’t Even A Tears For Fears Song
I don’t know a whole lot about British television, so maybe bands randomly performing in the middle of children’s game shows is a thing that’s odd to no one but me. What I do know, though, is that this is quite the catchy little number. Go on, tell me you’re not walking around humming that …
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Sailor’s Song, By The Decemberists And ChatGPT
Colin Meloy of the Decemberists had an interesting idea earlier this year. What if I were to ask ChatGPT to write a song that Colin Meloy of the Decemberists might have written and then record whatever it spits out? And so he did, chords and all. I can’t embed it, but you can head over …
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Wake Me UP Before You Go Go To The Grave
I have no idea how Bill McClintock does some of these things, but I’m so glad that he does. Music used in this mashup: Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go Go Black Sabbath – Children of the Grave Van Halen – So This is Love
Behind The Weird Music
This is fun. Seventeen minutes of “Weird Al” Yankovic telling stories about his songs and videos. He even explains what the deal is with “Albuquerque”. He decided to make an extremely long, annoying song pretty much as a troll job. Nobody could possibly like this or ever want to hear it more than once, he …
KW Concerts: An Easy Way To Find Out About Upcoming Shows In Waterloo Region
Thanks to one handy website (the TL;WR weekly Waterloo Region events guide), I’ve just discovered another handy website, kw concerts.ca. There’s a lot of music around here, happening in places big and small. This is one person’s attempt to gather up as much of it as possible in one place so that it’s easy to …
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A Very Good Cover Of Ripple
I suppose it maybe isn’t that much of a stretch to think of the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple” as a country song, but apparently when you really lean into that style it works rather well. This is Logan Ledger, who as often happens with these covers I had never heard of until right this moment. According …
If You Randomly Hear Me Singing “Kiss a Wookiee, Kick a Droid”, I haven’t completely lost it.
I need to put this in your head, because it’s in mine. And I’m not even that big of a Star Wars fan. But somehow, I never noticed that the Indiana Jones theme slid into Star Wars too. For some reason, when I’m trying to get somewhere, and the route is tricky, I get the …
Every Red Hot Chili Peppers Song, Basically
Red Hot Chili Peppers has always been one of those bands that I can take or leave. They have a couple songs I like (Soul To Squeeze, Under the Bridge, My Friends), and everything else ranges from meh it’s fine to it’s not fine but I’m not close enough to change it so whatever. Because …
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Secret Secret, I Got A Secret
I need to confess something, because the TV is slowly driving me insane. There’s this commercial that keeps playing “Mr. Roboto” by Styx, and every time it plays, I want to hide. Here is why. Seven years ago, I was at one of the Toronto accessibility conferences. I attended a session about considering the elderly …
