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Dancing in the Street

drizzit12 — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:00:38 +0000

The reason why you should not be dancing in the street. First off, he just looks ridiculous, and second, he just ruined that ice cream van driver’s day. Who is going to give the kids their ice cream now? What a selfish jerk.

Trombone Flamethrower

drizzit12 — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:00:57 +0000

This is absolutely, ridiculously tight. They turn a trombone into a huge flamethrower, able to spit flame over 21 feet. It’s good that you don’t need to be a good trombone player to make this work, as he can’t play at all. Still a very sweet piece of work, though.

Source: Gizmodo

Daft Punk Mashup Visualization

drizzit12 — Tue, 24 May 2011 22:22:27 +0000

Check out this tight visualization of a bunch of Daft Punk songs mashed up. It shows the timeline of when each song is playing at the bottom, and the pieces of each song in the circles around the time. Pretty amazing visualization tool, and some good music also.

Source: Daft Punk Mashup

Wow… This Nerd Can JAM

xcar27 — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:02:56 +0000

This fellow goes by the name of Ronald Jenkees. And he can JAM. He’s released two albums, and is currently working on number 3. His music is all created on an electronic keyboard, using a variety of layering tools and synths. He can’t even read sheet music! He just plays by ear, and creates awesome songs that seem so different than his nerdy on-camera personality. Click below for an additional Ronald Jenkees song — Throwing Fire.

Dancing Typography

drizzit12 — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:28:14 +0000

A very entertaining flash animation of Rick Astley and his mad dancing skills. What a hilarious guy.

Ketchup Bottle Music

snarfer — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:20:32 +0000

A cool beat made by combining sounds created only from a Heinz Ketchup bottle.

Album of the Week: Shwayze

drizzit12 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:45:32 +0000

This is a fairly recent album, and I only found it after it came up on a friend’s Pandora radio stream. If you don’t know what Pandora is or have never used, finish reading this and then go look up Pandora, because I guarantee it will blow your mind. Many “professional” reviews have bashed the album over stuff that I don’t understand. Maybe they just don’t understand that the music is supposed to be relaxing and just flow, unlike other hardcore rap. Listen to “Buzzin’” below, and see what you think.

How can you not enjoy that music? I can understand somewhat if you don’t like rap, but even some of our friends who strongly dislike rap think Shwayze’s music is tight. Just goes to show you that the so called pros aren’t right all the time, especially in the case of rating music. My other favorite songs are “Roamin’”, “Lazy Days” and “Polaroid”.

The one aspect I don’t like about the music is the similarity between certain songs. Some of them have a basic guitar line with soft, southern singing over it that can get monotonous. However, if you break the songs up in a playlist, they go really well with most other genres of music and are great for chill parties with friends.

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“Stand By Me” Played Around the World

snarfer — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:00:14 +0000

The album from the documentary “Songs Around The World” can be found here.

Album of the Week: Monkey Business

drizzit12 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:11:46 +0000

Monkey Business has some great dance music, and since that’s what’s on my mind right now, it’s the album of the week. Wouldn’t necessarily call it rap, but it’s still fun to listen to both by yourself and at parties, and can get any audience excited. Well, maybe not really old people, but you never know.

Black Eyed Peas make amazing music, as can be seen on many of the tracks on the album. Most of the songs have good solid rhythms, making for a great dancing atmosphere. Many a friend has started dancing ridiculously and singing along to “Pump It”, one of the most popular songs on the album. Others include “Don’t Phunk With My Heart” and “My Humps”, both solid songs. The music video for “Pump It” is below. The sound is very quiet and the quality not so good because it’s the only video that will actually let me embed it into the site, so you can go on YouTube yourself and search for the song if you want the highest quality version.

Their next album comes out June of this year, and I’m quiet excited for this new release. It’s been a long time since Monkey Business, their last album, so hopefully they will have some more super tight music to enjoy. Also, check out their songs “Where is the Love?” and “Let’s Get it Started”; both are great tracks and deserve a listen. Enjoy!

Album of the Week: Offspring Greatest Hits

drizzit12 — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:20:29 +0000

Once again, I’m venturing into the vast genre of rock for this week’s featured album. I know many people don’t consider Greatest Hits compilations true albums, but there are so many great Offspring songs spread throughout their CD’s that this was the only way to do them all justice.

I really enjoy listening to The Offspring because they manage to pull songs together perfectly. They have an upbeat drum beat, tight guitar solos and background and the lyrics for the songs are very catchy. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid” stick in my head. Of course, after writing that, I’ve managed to ingrain the chorus of the song into my brain, once again.

It’s difficult to pick a couple of songs out of the mix, but I enjoy listening to “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid”, “Self Esteem” and “The Kids Aren’t Alright” the most out of all the songs on the album. That’s not to say there aren’t other brilliant songs on the album, but those are my favorites. The video for the “The Kids Aren’t Alright” is below, enjoy!

Next week we’ll be going back to some more rap music because that’s what I mostly enjoy. Until then, peace.