music
If you’re suffering from DMARC-related malaise, perhaps this will help you forget about it for a few minutes. For absolutely no useful business reason, I share with you a cover of Feel Good Inc. (originally performed by Gorillaz) being played on a (number of) Stylophones. This makes me smile and I hope it does the same for you. Thanks, maromaro1337, whoever you are!
For absolutely no good reason at all, here’s the video for the song “Sabotage” from the Beastie Boys. This is a single from their 1994 album, “Ill Communication” with an absolutely bonkers Spike Jonez-directed video. Enjoy.
This one is painful. Please allow me to share this pain with you: A Ray Charles/Nickleback mashup. Sure, why not. I believe the technical term is “abomination.”
All this talk of AI lately got me thinking back to the days of Max Headroom, given that he was … almost a pioneer in the realm of computers pretending to be human. Yeah, it was all fake, just a guy in make up, pretending to be AI. But it was pretty cool for 1986. I think.So for this week’s Friday time waster, allow me to present to you: The Art of Noise with Max Headroom – Paranoimia (Official Video). Enjoy.
The other day I was at the corner bar. I guess I’m enough of a regular to have been given the secret main wifi password, so as not to have to try to get by on the slower guest wifi network. While sitting at the bar with my wife, I noticed that the bartender had opened the SONOS app on a tablet behind the bar (oh, what modern times we live in) to fire up a background music playlist, and that, of course, got me thinking. I have a SONOS stereo at home and I’m familiar with the app, and I’m on the bar’s wifi, which means I can pull up a Cocteau Twins playlist on Spotify without anyone knowing. And so I did. I did eventually confess to my sin, as I don’t want any hurt feelings, but we did share an enjoyable walk down memory lane there for
It’s Friday! Let’s get silly. Here’s musician Dustin Ballard, aka “There I Ruined It” with his best effort to compile a song entirely out of singers saying “Yeah.” Here’s a link, if the embed doesn’t work. Enjoy.
Hey, as the weekend approaches, why don’t we celebrate the life of Trugoy from De La Soul, who passed away recently, by listening to the group’s fun song “A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays.” Enjoy.
A friend of mine posted about going to see the bands Charlatans UK and Ride here in Chicago a few days ago. It made me jealous and got me thinking about Ride, a band I used to really enjoy back in the 1990s. Here’s their single “Leave Them All Behind” from their 1992 album “Going Blank Again.” Shoegazing at its finest! Enjoy.
The weekend is almost here. Might it be time to become….lazy? David Byrne can relate.
I can’t wait….for the weekend! Here’s Nu Shooz, from 1986. Hey fellow graphic nerds, doesn’t this video just scream Quantel Paintbox/Quantel Harry? Doesn’t hurt that the tune is very much a catchy one, either. Enjoy.