Why so serious, son?

This must be his secret to the Batman voice...scream at the help until you're effing raw!

NSFW!!



You can download this song for free here.

You're welcome!



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Listening to: CSS - Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
via FoxyTunes

What was that cool song I heard on that commercial?

What's that song on the Adidas commercial? The one with Kevin "The Kid" Garnett, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot, David "Bend It Like" Beckham, Katy "My Song Might Have Been Considered Edgy If I'd Released It, Oh, Maybe A Few Years Before I Was Even Born" Perry, and all the others?



What is that song? Here you go, "Beggin'", by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons:




Who knew Frankie Valli was so cool?

Oh, by the way...

You're Welcome!
/condescension


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Listening to: Nitzer Ebb - Control I'm Here
via FoxyTunes

Et tu, Hum?

Most people hate Michael Jackson due to his connoisseurship of trampy pre-teen boys who were probably just asking for it anyways. Me, I despise him for something he did long before (as far as I know) he developed a taste for the wee lads: selling out to The Man. He really set the ball rolling back when he sold a song he didn't even write to Nike. With all the little child slaves making the latest AirShox, it's obvious that nearly all of the $175 is going to the music publishing company.


Now, though, I will shift away from my perennial favorite target of Nike and onto the current object of my scorn, Cadillac. First they took the joy out of this song:



Now they've taken one of my favorite songs of all time (Stars, by Hum) has been sullied by the perverted corporate hand. Of course, I realize that it does take two to slam-dance, and I would be disusing my scorn if I didn't acknowledge the fact that sellout musicians (I'm looking at you , Gordon Gano) weren't, well, selling out.

I do grant sellout exemptions in certain instances, such as Willie Nelson, who got totally screwed by the government due in no small part to the fact that he's a successful man that loves the weed, and the Beatles, who had nothing to do with the selling of "Revolution" to those bastages at Nike.




And I guess I can forgive the now defunct Hum for selling the rights to their song...at least it's to an American car company. And no one who writes such an awesome song should ever have to have a day job again.

P.S. Screw Nike!

Better know a sellout: Natalie Merchant

Way, way back in the day, when I was a naive schoolboy, I went to my first ever concert and saw 10,000 Maniacs. I was a little surprised at how mellow they were - with a name like 10,000 Maniacs, I was expecting something more Dead Kennedyesque - but overall I was very impressed and even went out and bought their In My Tribe cassette later that week. What I most liked about the band was the way that the musician's instruments intermingled with and accented her unique voice without trampling all over it.

Eventually, of course, she grew tired of sharing the spotlight (as though any of the spotlight was on her bandmates) and split from the group...at least they think she broke up with them. It was around that time that she lost the ability to enunciate altogether, and she uttered to them, "E nucit loppit ralther toe," and she never returned to band rehearsal.

Right after they did their awesome MTV Unplugged version of "Because the Night" , when they reached the peak of their indie cred and power, is when she chose to leave the band that helped her get to the top. Now, you can hear her shooting up the charts in dental offices and soccer-mom minivans across this white, white nation of ours. Way to be, Nat!