I am absolutely guttered, and I am listening to pop music for some reason. I’ve played this three times in a row, and I do, in a drunken stupor, one fucking amazing falsetto:
It won’t be long before I crank this:
So, give me your best. Not listening to the Stones or Floyd or Zeppelin or the Dead tonight. It’s all trash.
Link them and I will listen.
some guy
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=538489
List of victims of Israel’s assault on Gaza
Published yesterday (updated) 17/11/2012 22:03
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinians killed in the Israeli offensive as of Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012.
Wednesday, Nov. 14
1. Ahmad al-Jaabari
2. Muhammad al-Hums
3. Ranan Arafat (child)
4. Omar Mashharawi (child)
5. Isam Abu al-Miza
6. Muhammad al-Kaseih
7. Hiba Mashharawi Turk (pregnant woman)
8. Mahmoud Abu Sawawin (elderly man)
Thursday, Nov. 15
9. Habis Masmah
10. Wael al-Ghalban
11. Hisham al-Ghalban
12. Rani Hammad
13. Khalid Abu al-Nasr
14. Marwan Abu al-Qumsan (elderly man)
15. Walid Abadla (child)
16. Hanin Tafish (infant)
17. Uday Jamal Nasser
18. Tareq Jamal Nasser
19. Faris Basyouni (child)
Friday, Nov. 16
20. Muhammad Iyad Saadallah (child)
21. Ayman al-Abid Abu Warda
22. Tahrir Suleiman
23. Ismail Qandil
24. Younis Kamil Tafish
25. Muhammad Suleiman
26. Amjad Abu Jalal
27. Ziad Abu Jalal
28. Ahmad Abu Jalal
29. Hasan al-Heilma
30. Khalid al-Shayer
Saturday, Nov. 17
31. Ayman Salim
32. Ahmad Abu Masmah
33. Mukhlis Udwan
34. Abdul-Rahman al-Misri
35. Muhammad al-Lolahi
36. Awad al-Nahhal
37. Ali Abdul-Hakim Manama
38. Osama Abdul-Jawwad
39. Ashraf Darwish
40. Ahmad al-Atrash
41. Muhammad Yasin
42. Osama al-Qady
43. Ali Bin Iseid
44. Muhammad Aydat
45. Samahar Qidih
Karmus
Juice up, dude!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6gSSsCdFeA
Beulahmo
Wish I could hear you sing along with this:
http://youtu.be/TNAQ8LLptUo
some guy
Art of Noise, Close (to the edit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-sFK0-lcjGU#!
Bruce Baugh
John, if you don’t know about Rock Sugar, you need to. This may be the best music to sing along with while snockered ever. Viz:
Don’t Stop the Sandman
Any Highway You Want
And lots more where that came from.
TheMightyTrowel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIDJFwse-aI
Young and Dumb – great Aussie rap/pop
Also: just spent the last hour picking a fight over email with a Discover Mag blogger about his snide treatment of archaeologists in a blog post about Neanderthal genetics. It’s fun making scientists squirm.
redshirt
How about the Beatles? ;)
Topic: Best “rock” band of all time. Use any metric you wish to measure. I’d argue there’s a handful in the discussion – Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin… who else?
I’d say that cultural impact should weigh as heavily as quality of music. By this measure, The Beatles are the clear number one. But if you judge by quality, I don’t see anyone at any time better than Zeppelin.
Politically Lost
You asked for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiKVjS3gR88
Violet
Please record yourself singing along to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-u5WLJ9Yk4. And then post it for us.
MikeJ
How did you know if I never told?
You found out, I got a crush on you
Drummer standing up, everyone dancing together, keytar, the video is as great as the song.
Justin Morton
Drunk also. Just went through the Top 40 UK Songs. Loving the Swedish House Mafia song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1MN4pR5wXM
srv
@some guy: That is the craziest video with a little girl getting showered with saw sparks. Always loved it.
And the sampling of her voice lives on, even in comedy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbn5F23tV5k&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Politically Lost
Although, I think I’m more partial to this right now.
SHOUT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caF0Ii9qhaU
Bob In Portland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axLRUszuu9I
The Dangerman
Must not be an Alabama football fan or you hate early Christmas gifts.
Fuck, another SEC Champion likely (Notre Dame is not for real, but Barkley is done for the year, so USC is toothless, along with many Alabama fans). That sucks.
Richard
Genius…
Buster Keaton Ukulele
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu3p6PBix64
With Buster is Cliff Edwards, who was the voice Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio.
Wag
Richard covers Britney
Maude
Anything by Al Jolson.
That’s who Jerry Lee Lewis had as his idol.
If you haven’t heard Jolson sing, you haven’t lived,
Slamhole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_2JWC_losg
MikeJ
@Wag: Ahmet & Dweezil.
Yutsano
@TheMightyTrowel: Kylie has a new album out where she re-makes all her hits but with an orchestra. I’ve only heard snippets but it’s fecking brilliant.
C Nelson Reilly
How about some country:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJvvxEs1_pE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
TheMightyTrowel
@Yutsano: I only ever like Kylie when I’m drunk or at the gym. Stupid kidney issues mean I can’t get drunk anymore, and I’m not sure orchestral Kylie and the free weights will go together. Need examples. Post them!
Wag
Off topic, and not to go all Godwin so early in a thread, but a great Downfall video.
Hitler finds out Obama won re-election.@
Wag
@MikeJ:
Prince Warren
Anoniminous
Keeping with the Female Singer Sonja Aldén: Här Står Jag
Diwali is over but here’s a cool song. Actually only part of a song, can’t find the rest of the darn thing.
Gwangung
@The Dangerman: yeah, yeah…blame us Snodfart fans….
Michael G
Macklemore, Thrift Shop
http://youtu.be/QK8mJJJvaes
If you can’t be happy listening to that, you just can’t be happy.
Wag
@Bob In Portland:
Joe is King
Violet
Don Dixon, “Praying Mantis” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VOwoWlyDpE
mikefromArlington
Vintage Trouble. Just saw em open up for The Who
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fbMmrDItSg&sns=em
freelancer
V.A.S.T. – Touched.
90s emo-electronica that seems to be popping up everywhere right now.
piratedan
Here’s a cover by a WV local for JC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLH62O6hg50
CT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAEFnVZVOs
Wag
@Michael G:
That IS fucking awesome.
piratedan
@Violet: I cut my teeth on this at school (UNC)…
I think it’s one of his favorite songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw76DZDkoK8
MikeJ
@Violet: His best of album, “If I’m a Ham, You’re a Sausage” is awesome. Includes Praying Mantis, “Teenage Suicide” (The Big Fun song he did for Heathers), and the dBs Song Bad Reputation close to the finest three minutes of pop perfection ever.
TheMightyTrowel
@Michael G: I was rocking out to this in the car yesterday. Hot!
Alison
@freelancer: Oh man, I hadn’t heard that song in forever…
ETA: Though I do prefer this track of theirs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOZ6ptqcbUc&feature=related
Wag
I think all the music in this thread is going to make me happy and alter my images
Narcissus
Is this the George Michael video with the nipple? I remember being like 8 years old and my best friends was all like “Dude, turn on MTV! There’s a video with a boob!”
wasabi gasp
Plastiscines – Barcelona
James E. Powell
We’re talking pop music, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHjT3CHvg-c
Radio One
I hope that since we got rid of Mitt, that we cold also do away with the phrase “if you will.” I’ve puzzled over Mitt Romney’s claim to eschew big game hunting in order to hunt small rodents and rabbits and he he says “small varmints, if you will” fucking twice. After he lost the election, in his phone conference to his GOP donors, he uses “if you will” so frequently that it seems like he thinks it’s a serious talking point; that the only reason he thought he lost is because he didn’t say it often enough.
Brian
Death Cab for Cutie, I will follow you into the Dark.
Sappy as hell, but it still gets me every time.
Joeyess
This isn’t schmaltzy, but it is so filled with longing…… http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=liR9bW5hm2c
max
But I generally don’t listen to what used to be called Top 40/Bubblegum, dude!
Royal Headache – Surprise (2011) – 1:32
But now that I think of it: Tokyo Jihen – Atarashii Bunmei-kaika (Brand New Civilization)(2011) – 4:38
…because I dig the whole mocking Americans thing.
max
[‘Do it for the win.’]
Alison
Man, and now I’m getting sucked down the YouTube rabbit hole of music from my old G/I clubbing days…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZiJQL9OLqI
#gothshuffle
MattR
You down with O.P.P.?
Whoomp, there it is
freelancer
@Alison:
I’ve heard it four times in the last few months. What with Revolution 30 second spots, the Danny Boyle movie The Beach, and Jason Derulo, it’s everywhere.
Wag
@James E. Powell:
Crowded House meets Dr Dre
Howard Beale IV
Train: Ramble On
Howard Beale IV
Charlotte and Johnathan’s first performance
FlipYrWhig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epvADV9Vr2s
? Martin
@Michael G: Awesome song.
Alison
Seriously, I’m getting misty-eyed over these memories. God, what is wrong with me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeJGATZ8Yx4
FlipYrWhig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKUp2oOEFP8
Yutsano
@TheMightyTrowel: Not exactly gym music. But definitely not her typical pixie pop music either.
TheMightyTrowel
@Yutsano: It’s a conspiracy. That song is geoblocked. Where’s my tinfoil hat?
ETA: found another upload. Stupid geoblocking.
freelancer
Pure schmaltz, but if you’re gonna go to 11 on pop and drop shame, Panic at the Disco is my guilty pleasure.
And if I’m +11, and shame is a meaningless word, they might come up in round two or three of karaoke if I’d already butchered Pearl Jam’s Yellow Ledbetter, or Weezer’s Say It Ain’t So.
Porco rosso
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pRa4ZEOOABM who can cook who can clean who will paint the fence?
No need for falsetto to sing that lyric
patrick II
Speaking of falsettos, Chris Izaak, Wicked
TheMightyTrowel
@freelancer: For schmaltz and guilty pleasures don’t ever forget Scissor sisters
Laura: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-0d3cjgfLg
Take your mama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od7-fyGa9DQ
Howard Beale IV
Jefferson Airplane: Crown of Creation
Judy Collins: Fires of Eden
Head East: Never Been Any Reason
Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mine
Split Enz: I Hope I Never
Freudiana OST: Don’t Let The Moment Past
Shii’s Song (original source song here)
Cowboy Bebop: Blue (starts at 0:45)
Comrade Mary
My honest to God most joyful song of the moment: Ke$ha’s Tik Tok, but only if it’s the Star Trek mashup version. It’s just so giddy and wonderful to see a bunch of fictional adults (and aliens) playing out a song whose original video just made me sad.
Beulahmo
Unknown Hinson’s Psychobilly King of Country Western Troubadors
http://youtu.be/lkU79ryokRY
Howard Beale IV
More covers:
Pearl Jam: Last Kiss
Fergie: Barracuda
Celine Dion: It’s All Coming Back To Me Now
Meatloaf: Left In The Dark
Polar Bear Squares
Washed Out – Belong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSrnziapXmo
Oh btw. Sorry about Big Ben’s injury.
Polar Bear Squares
@Polar Bear Squares: Retro ’80s electro-pop, new wave influenced
Howard Beale IV
Even More Covers:
BBMak: Ghost Of You and Me
Meatloaf: No Matter What
Rod McKeun: Seasons In The Sun (OK, this is the original, I’m sparing the Terry Jacks cover)
Comrade Mary
@Michael G: Holy crap, that WAS great!
amk
Great tweet.
Polar Bear Squares
Toro Y Moi – Still Sound
More ’80s influenced pop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gqh4e1S6j0&feature=relmfu
Yutsano
@amk: Everything is Obummer’s fault. Duh.
Kris Collins
Christina is amazing, but that is a painfully terrible song, I can’t stand to listen to it for one second. George is always fun, but I watched SNL tonight partly for Jeremy Renner, but mostly for Adam Levine, pop doesn’t get ay better than that! Don’t know how to link anything, but I’m sure YouTube has tons of Maroon 5.
Howard Beale IV
Some electronic…
Bill Nelson: Empire of the Senses
KMFDM: Juke Joint Jezebel
Darude: Sandstorm
Kraftwerk: Home Computer
Comrade Mary
@Brian: I love that song, too.
Have you seen the storybook version of the video? Gets me right there.
fuckwit
Hey, I just saw Marco Rubio starting his 2016 presidential run!
This is it! Karl Rove has listened to the people! He’s looked at the demographics! He has run the numbers!
What the people want, is a brown candidate! Someone with a name with lots of vowels in it, and who knows how to roll his “r’s” properly. Someone, ideally, right-wing and Cuban… and beholden to the Bush family.
Here he is! Marco Rubio, the Rethug darling of 2016, on his way!
amk
@fuckwit: Nope. The pasty whiteys are gonna freak out over brown just as they freaked out over blackity black.
Gravenstone
Ain’t pop, but fuck it, I needed a brain cleanse after that “Thrift Store” horseshit.
The Real Folk Blues
chicodude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv9fNPjgk
Howard Beale IV
@Gravenstone: Yoko Kanno can take 1:15 to rip ones heart out and then put it back.
Yutsano
@Howard Beale IV: TANK!!
Morbo
Start the impeachment proceedings. Good remedy for the pop.
Jewish Steel
Best of the 80s pop genre? I say yes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmoHQ2DC3zo
Howard Beale IV
@Yutsano:
Blue is still a stunner-especially when shown with the final credits.
PurpleGirl
@fuckwit: Marco Rubio ain’t brown. He just isn’t. He’s pasty white; probably doesn’t tan, just burns if he’s the sun for any length of time.
Yutsano
@PurpleGirl: Rubio is most likely descended from the blancos who were the aristocracy of Cuba. Spanish are considered dark in Europe but to us they’re just as white as Germans.
@Howard Beale IV: Still my fave Bebop track. But she really shone in that whole soundtrack.
piratedan
@Howard Beale IV: and while YK is indeed a master, there’s boatloads of other anime tunes that also kick ass….
this is one of my faves….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfsV6oZyFds
Xenos
@TheMightyTrowel:
I wandered over there and the relevant comments seem to have been deleted. A shame, as I would have enjoyed reading that…
(oops, you said ’email’, not comments. so of course it was not visible. need more coffee…)
PurpleGirl
@Yutsano: Yup. I dated one of them in college. Rubio reminds me of that guy.
(The family still had the 300 year old handmade Spanish lace wedding gown the “original” bride brought with her from Spain.)
Mike G
Australian/Kiwi power pop from the early 80s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rewnT81bf2g
JGabriel
Ross Douthat:
And more in the Democrats-Only-Win-Because-Their-Voters-Are-Loser-Sluts-And-Slurs vein.
Thank, Ross, for continuing the fine tradition of insulting voters into the Democratic Party.
Seriously, these guys never fucking learn. It’s really kind of astonishing.
.
Howard Beale IV
@piratedan: Ah, yes, The Pillows. My alarm on my phone is this, with perhaps the most selfless line ever in a anime title song, sung in english by Hyde:
? Martin
Our infrastructure needs aren’t just roads and bridges.
Really interesting article.
wasabi gasp
Nine Horses – Wonderful World (Burnt Friedman Remix)
TheMightyTrowel
@Xenos: think he’s going to post some of the email exchange. unclear what or how exactly
PurpleGirl
@JGabriel: Gee, Ross, talking about hollowed out communities, who did much of that hollowing by moving our industrial base to China… could it have been Republicans like Romney?
Based on your own history, Ross baby, would you have been prepared to marry the woman you wanted to have sex with during college until you found out she was using birth control had she gotten pregnant? Huh, huh, well, Ross baby?
Ross baby, you’re a creep.
Thlayli
Ironic thing about that video: for a song called “Beautiful”, Aguilera herself looks awful.
***
My ringtone
Smithereens
PurpleGirl
@? Martin: At the same time, there are blocks in Alphabet City (the Lower East Side), like around Avenue C and 13th St., which lose just regular phone service after it rains at any time. Verizon just can’t seem to fix the wiring.
JWR
Don’t have time to watch all the posted videos, but I came across this a while back and it stuck in my head.
GIRLS’ GENERATION-TTS_TWINKLE
I’ll take Korean girl bands over American “pop” any day.
JWR
@redshirt:
Ahh, you’re after me own heart ;-)
Anne Laurie
@JWR: Might’ve been right here you first ‘ran across’ it! :)
cmm
@Michael G:
loved it! just listened to it 3 times in row. now i want to shop…
cmm
@Xenos: @TheMightyTrowel:
“i’m a time traveler, I point and laugh at archaeologists.”
sorry, couldnt resist…
cmm
@JGabriel:
haha “darker trend”…i saw what you did there, Ross…
TheMightyTrowel
@cmm: and yet you could argue river had the last laugh. archaeologists play the long game, you know.
JWR
@Anne Laurie: It may very well be that I was first turned on to “K-Pop” right here. And since you’ve posted it again, I guess I’ve no choice but to listen to it again!
hep kitty
Thread needs grit
and blood
hep kitty
And how do you improve on Tom Snyder and some feverish Clash?
Patricia Kayden
@JGabriel: I work, am married, have no children, make a good amount of dough. Yet I’ve always voted for Democrats. Must be because I’m Black though. Y’all know that Black folks are cursed. Thank you Repubs for letting me know why I pathologically always vote for the Democratic Party.
slightly_peeved
For songs that make me smile, because I have the mentality of a 12 year old: ‘Yo Mama’ by Butterfingers
Well, that’s the official title, but the full line from the song is ‘Your Mama’s on the top of my “things to do” list’.
PoliticalHack
You want pure ear candy slash junk? Just go to Youtube and hit up Glee, and watch video after video. Sure, your mind may be mush after an hour or two, but once in a while going down that Youtube rabbit hole can be fun.
Want a slightly more complex experience? Look for Heart’s “Dog and Butterfly”, then jump to Rufus Wainright’s version, then continue again down the rabbit hole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-NB0GiPvh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djehpOUI1IM
russell
here’s a little church for y’all on a sunday morning.
roy and d’angelo bringing it deep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmhJ78Co-g0
let danny tell you about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSdglxtW8Lg
aretha sings some stevie, gotta make you smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pggNbtCivBo
Porco Rosso
Autotune? we don’t need no stinking autotune.
http://youtu.be/luShSj0JGT8
Kane
http://vimeo.com/18667898