Bowie on Bolan.
Royksopp angelically on high.
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Pet Shop Boys on the dancefloor.
And… well, I have no idea what the fuck these people are on, but I want some.
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Bowie on Bolan.
Royksopp angelically on high.
Pet Shop Boys on the dancefloor.
And… well, I have no idea what the fuck these people are on, but I want some.
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hilts
“This blog needs more music threads”
Agreed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HISo0r-UcI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOWmvRF-fe0
Poopyman
Hey lady! How ya doin’?
Poopyman
@hilts: Your first link started with a commercial for this product, which I was sure was a joke, but evidently not. (Watch the vid at the link to see what I saw.)
I suppose I’m the last person in the first world to hear about this. I ain’t gonna use it, either.
Anne Laurie
Welcome back, Ms. Sarah!
Steeplejack
@hilts:
“Stolen Moments”! Excellent. Possibly my all-time favorite jazz song. One of my favorite takes is by Ahmad Jamal.
Steeplejack
@Poopyman:
Huh. I didn’t get an ad when I went to Hilts’s link, just straight into the song.
BruceFromOhio
ROD TORFULSONS ARMADA FEATURING HERMAN MENDERCHUK
.. and exactly what does the fox say?
Poopyman
@Steeplejack: Enjoy.
jon
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama cries into his pillow when he realizes he’ll never get a song as awesome as this one written in his honor.
gbear
Sticking with the trolling theme of the last thread, Here’s what happens when Rodney Crowell and Vince Gill decide to completely troll a country music song. They didn’t hold much back.
Steeplejack
@gbear:
Link fail. How about a link to the actual song/video instead of a search page? Is this the one you want?
wasabi gasp
Katarzyna Nosowska & Marek Dyjak – Ognia!
jon
Ace of Spades!
gbear
@Steeplejack: Ahh that’s what I get for stepping away. Yes that’s the song, but the version I meant to post was this one. Having to fix the link kind of wrecks the joke…
OldBean
I’m not sure how many people here would be at all interested in something that can be roughly labeled as post-rock/progressive metal, but if anyone is, Cloudkicker — a one man, home-recorded, independently distributed, non-touring “band” with a pretty significant following for such an entity — recently released a new album called “Subsumed”, and it is no joke. Heavy, dense, intricate, beautiful and just generally fucking impressive music.
http://cloudkickermusic.com/
Steeplejack
@gbear:
Okay, much better.
fuckwit
Hmm, is our resident medical insurance expert around?
I has a question.
I need to have a skin tag removed. Turns out Obamacare doesn’t start on Oct 1, ENROLLMENT starts on Oct 1, and coverage doesn’t start until Jan 1 2014 (California).
So I want to get this skin tag among my eyelashes removed. It’s growing rapidly and it stings and is uncomfortable, feels like something stuck in my eye.
No insurance, of course.
Opthalmologist quotes $200 to remove it. Not bad, I can do that, I mean, it’s my eye, FFS. But then says it might need to go out to biopsy. How much will biopsy cost? THey don’t know, ask the hospital pathology lab. Christ. So I’m waiting for a callback from them. Of course they say “it depends on the medical code”. Christ. Who determines that? The doctor does! SO back to the doctor. Which medical code? I dunno, depends on what it looks like. Christ. ALL I WANNA KNOW IS HOW MUCH WILL THIS FUCKING THING COST AND CAN I EVEN AFFORD IT SOMEBODY GIVE ME A MOTHERFUCKING BALLPARK JEEEEBUS!
So, in the Bay Area, what should I expect to pay out-of-pocket for pathology lab fees to microscopically and expertly examine a tiny skin tag on my eye (probably looking for cancer cells, I’d guess)?
That is, if a biopsy is even necessary. Maybe it won’t be, and I’ll walk out of there all better and only lighter by the cost of, say, a dental filling. I can handle that. But I live in MORTAL TERROR of getting a bill for say $10k or something for some deluxe fancy biopsy I can’t afford.
Any ideas or words of wisdom?
celticdragonchick
The Royksopp song was great.
The “What does the fox say?”…er…thing reminds me of the people from the original “the Wicker Man” after ingesting acid.
Really bad acid.
Suffern ACE
All that love for Zappa in that last thread makes me remember the other music freedom heroes from the 80s.
https://vimeo.com/34255094
celticdragonchick
Post Modern Jukebox knocks it out of the park with a Doo Wop cover of Miley Cyrus…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYWDtXbBB0
srv
Foreigners like Bowie were very influential in their prime, much like Nickelback sets the standard today.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Hello Ms. Proud and Tall! It’s very nice to see you back here. Robert Earl Keen is always fun.
May I bleg for my cause, raising funds and awarenss to help people live better with mental illness? There’s a Team Bella Q, which some commenters have generously supported.
Mike with a Mic
I get the feeling most here are too old and too suburban for my tastes.
hilts
@Poopyman:
No commercial here. Link goes straight to extremely kick ass guitar work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MMye6isvLY
NotMax
Is it just me or does Ted Cruz look remarkably as if he is a clone of a young Pat Buchanan?
Botsplainer
I always want to cry when I think about Jim Croce and how he got ripped from us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcqauC49Xmc&sns=em
Jewish Steel
For those of you two threads down who couldn’t find the lighter to which I was referring:
http://www.auctionzip.com/Full-Image/1879394/fp113.cgi
addizes are hard to come by, I hear.
handy
@NotMax:
If Cruz wants to deport himself, then I’m fine with that.
fuckwit
@Suffern ACE: Indeed. Don’t forget this 80s’ guy either:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0u2vjbrlC1qh7tzmo1_400.jpg
Suffern ACE
@Mike with a Mic: yeah, well not all of us are suburban.
http://youtu.be/0g9nDsFHERM
wasabi gasp
Kat Edmonson – I Don’t Know
hilts
@NotMax:
If you use your imagination, what about the idea of Pat Buchanan being related to Lou Costello?
Botsplainer
Most evil earworm ever. I’ve been trying to shuck this for 3 weeks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVaommgPLU&sns=em
“And the operator said 40cents more, for the next three minutes. Pleeeeease….”
dollared
@NotMax: Actually the Wingnut Clone Program goes back to 1942. Here’s their first model: http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=joe+mccarthy+1950&qs=SC&sk=SC2&FORM=QBIR&pq=joe%20mcmarthy&sc=8-12&sp=-1&qs=n&sk=#view=detail&id=71AB0D8FDFC9CC20C1A69CC702E392CF5288DAFB&selectedIndex=77
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Jewish Steel: I thought maybe it was the CARNIAL LIGHTER before I found the SLIVER LIGFTER. Great fun – thanks.
dollared
Thanks for the Bowie. On that theme, I finally saw Velvet Goldmine and was blown away. Jonathan Rhys Myers is f-in great, and you gotta admire the courage it takes to play that role, er, all the way. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Jonathan+Rhys+Meyers+Velvet+Goldmine&qpvt=Jonathan+Rhys+Meyers+Velvet+Goldmine&FORM=VDRE#view=detail&mid=CB52746F522BE63E57E8CB52746F522BE63E57E8
Higgs Boson's Mate
@dollared:
Here’s why the wingers really love them some Rafael Cruz.
Mike with a Mic
@Suffern ACE:
I know. It was more a joke that my young ass with my electronic music is probably vastly different than the majority here. I’ve seen these threads and what music is posted here before. I’m a young buck with my devil music.
Jewish Steel
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): We trawl the local craigslist for antiques so we have a good collection of absurd typos from the area folks. That was a real treasure trove though.
ellie
That last one. Wow. Just wow.
NotMax
@dollared
Or even further back, to the Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck of his day, Father Coughlin?
hilts
@Botsplainer:
This song is great. I always feel compelled to hear it back to back with Fire and Rain by James Taylor and Father and Son by Cat Stevens because they just seem to flow very well together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOIo4lEpsPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPMnahTtXZQ
dollared
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: broken link..
Steeplejack
@fuckwit:
Here’s my experience, for what little it’s worth:
My last couple of visits to the dermatologist were paid out of pocket, since I’m currently uninsured. I have a history of basal cell carcinoma (the very best kind of skin cancer to get, if you must—slow-growing and almost never malignant!), so I have to go in regularly to get checked. The doctor biopsied a very small discoloration on my leg last autumn, and about three months later I got a bill for the biopsy that was about $300. I can’t imagine a simple skin tag would be much more than that, although in our current health-care system nothing would surprise me.
I will add that this is a perfect example of how fucked up our health-care system is and how it is impossible to “shop” for health care, in any meaningful economic sense. The last few times I have been to the dermatologist I have informed them that I’m not on insurance and need to pay cash. They never “remember” the information—they always have me down as being with the insurance company from my previous job—and it is a huge ordeal for them to come up with the amount I need to pay. And, as you discovered, it’s just as bad trying to get an idea of costs ahead of time.
The last time I went all I had was a simple body scan, where the doctor examines your skin from head to toe to see if there’s anything going on. That’s got to be about the simplest, most basic thing he does, and still it was an ordeal for them to determine the amount owed. It ended up being $155.01—I remember the specific number because the one cent was a ridiculous flourish—and even then a month or two later I got a bill for “unpaid fees” of about $75–100. WTF?
I think their whole model is built around (semi-automated) billing to insurance companies for amounts determined after the fact. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that their bureaucracy billed my old insurance company anyway, it got kicked back because I’m no longer a client, and then the rest of the bill got sent to me as an “unpaid balance due”—even though I had been prepared to pay my total bill on the day of treatment.
Needless to say, I am in the process of looking for insurance under the new Obamacare framework.
MikeJ
DVR Alert: TCM is showing A Boy and His Dog at 10:30.
She certainly had marvelous taste, Albert, if not particularly good judgement.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@dollared:
Try THIS
Suffern ACE
The sad thing is that I had a video that I wanted to add that I knew would drive ms. Sarah wild, and its been so long that I can’t frikin remember what it was.
Also, in terms of sad things, I’m drinking in the dark at home because I enjoy my cocktail, but it turned out pink so I don’t want to admit that I drink pink cocktails, and can’t be seen doing so even when it’s just me and the cat. I think it’s time for talk therapy.
Steeplejack
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
Linky no work. You fix.
ETA: Okay, you fixed.
wasabi gasp
Berlin – Sex (I’m a…) Live
dollared
@NotMax: Awesome. Grandma listened to him, I hear. He was a priest, doncha know, so he had to be right about that Roosevelt guy. As long as we’re on memory lane, here’s my find of the week: photos of the wedding of Urban Van Susteren, later county judge in my hometown. Best Man: Capt. Joe McCarthy. Second Child: Greta Van Susteren. Seriously. http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=47863
NotMax
@Suffern ACE
The faster you down it, the less you’ll have to look at it.
Make sure to take the paper umbrella out first. :)
hilts
@dollared:
I love that movie too and played the soundtrack to death. The opening sequence with this Eno song was sweet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0c20cjbmD4
dollared
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Damn, the fascist strongman haircut is even more prevalent among wingers than the Kennedy wave is among DLC trainees.
Redshift
The Ms. and I saw the Pet Shop Boys last week, and they put on a spectacular stage show as always. Fog machines and lasers and dancers wearing freaky cow-skull masks, yay!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: He went to high school here in Glendale, as did Captain Beefheart(different high schools).
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Mike with a Mic:
I don’t think you can say that without posting a link to some music yourself, so we can all judge you.
BillinGlendaleCA
@wasabi gasp: I saw that live, 30 years ago, this month.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Suffern ACE:
Nice song.
max
It ate my post and there were only three goddamn links. Take two.
@Mike with a Mic: It was more a joke that my young ass with my electronic music is probably vastly different than the majority here. I’ve seen these threads and what music is posted here before. I’m a young buck with my devil music.
Maybe like this? Grendel – Soilbleed Redux (2006) – Soilbleed (V.3)
Sarah: And… well, I have no idea what the fuck these people are on, but I want some.
They’re from Bergen! The Normann are like that. Particularly folks from Bergen.
max
[‘One link, dammit.’]
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Mike with a Mic:
The very best kind. Link pls. Thks.
Omnes Omnibus
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: Eh, he’ll just post some pornstep
max
@max: I’m beginning to gather the impression that WordPress doesn’t like Skinny Puppy, which means WordPress and I must have words.
max
[‘Grrrr.’]
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Redd Kross Blow You A Kiss In The Wind
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Omnes Omnibus:
/checks pornstep is a thing
Crikey.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Junior Murvin Cool Out Son
Omnes Omnibus
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: I went back and added a link.
dollared
@hilts: Loved that. So many songs from glitter were like that – anthems, group identity music. “We like dancin’ and we look divine…”
dollared
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s….awesome. And somehow inevitable…
MikeJ
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: I’ve seen G.G. Allin live. I don’t think a band can shock me.
dollared
@MikeJ: Damn. Loved that movie. Made movie night on a fully coed college campus a raging gender war.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Isn’t that just a modern variation of this…Or this?
Omnes Omnibus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Pretty much. I’ve always liked the Gainsbourg/Birkin one – pretentious git that I am.
MikeJ
@dollared: My college roommate described it as an hour and a half set up to a one liner joke. Thank you Geoff, where ever you are, for renting it. Although he did insist on stopping whatever movie we were watching to make sure we all understood it. It was years before I saw more than 15 minutes of Alphaville at a time.
NotMax
@Mike with a Mic
About as modern as this geezer gets: a favorite by Philip Glass (sadly, the highs and lows in the sound track seem a bit too compressed, but a much better quality audio-only version here.)
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Is this less pretentious or more pretentious? I’m not sure.
Omnes Omnibus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Both? Probably less… Gainsbourg is French, you know.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yeah, there is that.
Jacques Dutronc Les Gens Sont Fous, Les Temps Sont Flous
wasabi gasp
Zula – Poney Girl
nsfw
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@MikeJ:
Fun fact: that is “Tiger” from “The Brady Bunch” playing Blood. The director said he was the best actor in the film and didn’t mean it as a slam on the humans.
Suffern ACE
84-82 was the final football score tonight at one if my former high schools. Omnes, I think Wisconsin teams need to work a bit on stopping the pass.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
The Damned Jet Boy Jet Girl
MikeJ
I’ll contribute a song everyone should love. Not really a Friday night party tune. Kangaroo.
Suffern ACE
Les Cowboys Fringants
http://youtu.be/gtXEe8BfrxA
Beau Dommage
http://youtu.be/AOBB3QgNKDY
Need to catch up on my québécois music scene before my trip next month. Also, I need to forestall Gainsbourg links if I can.
Suffern ACE
@MikeJ: sadly blocked from the us iPhone for copyright reasons.
I could get this kangaroo song, though.
http://youtu.be/_D-LmRNdQiQ
daverave
Did someone say Bolan? Tommy Bolin?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPVM5wiC2H8
NotMax
@MikeJ
You’ve inadvertently given me a task for tomorrow. There was an obscure rock group called Kangaroo in the 70s. Always liked one of their songs, Goin’ Frog Giggin’, and have it on a reel-to-reel tape. Now feel compelled to drag it out and give it a fresh listen.
wasabi gasp
@BillinGlendaleCA: I’m a little jealous either way, but part of me is wondering if you mean that very show.
piratedan
@daverave: here ya go Dave, more of what you’re hankering for….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB6WZu8IAZg
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Suffern ACE:
That’s what I was thinking, too.
The suggestions attached to your link brought this to mind:
Solomon Linda’s Original Evening Birds Mbube
Yatsuno
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: I TOLD you to be careful with that Google thing! Do we want a repeat of the Vanderbilt family tree incident?
Hello dear. You were missed, but I see Portugal is more or less still intact.
@MikeJ: Jeebus. Ya coulda warned the guy with perfect pitch there’d be that much bending in the tune.
MikeJ
@NotMax: Please upload it somewhere we can all hear it. I’m a big fan of stuff that causes people to say, “what the fuck is that?”
trollhattan
@MikeJ:
Jayzuz, that would be weird to see again. Watched the only episode I’ve ever seen of “Southbound and Down” last night and was flummoxed to see Don Johnson and Lily Tomlin. What must he have been when he did “Boy and His Dog”? Fourteen?
Waves to Sarah.
wasabi gasp
Solid Space – Destination Moon
MikeJ
@trollhattan: Made in ’75, he was born in ’49.
NotMax
@MikeJ
Exposing my ignorance, don’t have the slightest conception of how to go about doing that. But I’ll ask some more tech savvy friends at our weekly shindig on Sat. night.
Elizabelle
@MikeJ:
Just settling in to watch “A Boy and His Dog.”
Phoenix leveled by nuclear blast, it’s 2024. Don Johnson and a telepathically communicating dog. Jason Robards in there somewhere.
“They Only Kill their Masters” follows.
TCM was good earlier today. One Joel McCrea western after another. Looked like he used the same wardrobe in 4 of them.
NotMax
@MikeJ
However, Der Google tells me it’s on Spotify.
(Fingers crossed it is the same group/tune.)
Elizabelle
dog to human (Don Johnson): “You’re so funny when you’re sexually frustrated.”
Wonder what our dogs actually would say to us.
Or maybe not.
Spaghetti Lee
I managed to avoid hearing “The Fox” until now. Dayum. It’s like the lyrics came pre-Yankovic’d. The musicians seem nice enough from what I’ve heard about them, although I can’t believe that they had never heard of furries before making that video. I mean holy fuck.
Elizabelle
Good to see you, Sarah P&T.
? Martin
Moneyball is a better movie than you remember.
Spaghetti Lee
And hmm, music. What have I been listening to lately? Well, there’s this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWMSNsiT87w
srv
@NotMax: Alas, just Daydream Stallion and one other on the interutube.
Some other Barbara Keith. That’s a great song.
piratedan
I know that this is a music thread, but just in case this hasn’t been shared yet, this is awesome….
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2013/09/steve-israel-debt-ceiling-parody.html?mobify=0
Suffern ACE
@? Martin: it would have been a much better film if they hadn’t played with the facts to make it ‘dramatic’. They try to make that As team into the bad news bears, and it certainly wasn’t. I found that to be childish.
MikeJ
@? Martin:
Especially in a year when the A’s are vying for the AL crown.
Major League payrolls / records:
New York Yankees $228,995,945 / 83-77
Los Angeles Dodgers $216,302,909 / 92-68
…
Oakland $68,577,000 / 95-65
…
Houston $24,328,538 / 51-109
Looks like there’s a lower bound to moneyball
Spaghetti Lee
@MikeJ:
The Astros are singlehandedly an argument for relegation in American sports. Yes, yes, I get that the trendy thing now is to tank as hard as you can so you get the best draft picks, but they (and the Marlins and the Cubs) are an embarrassment. Somehow, the Cards and Braves have managed to consistently replenish their rosters without stripping themselves bare and tanking for half a decade.
trollhattan
@srv:
Jesus, I actually have that LP; used to play her on the ray dee oh. It was rare even when I first got it. And somehow reminds me of Ellen McIlwaine,
http://www.ellenmcilwaine.com/discography.html
Omnes Omnibus
Holy shit! There is Carol King pornstep. I don’t think it works except as a way of tying together some of what has been posted earlier.
Elizabelle
@piratedan:
The New Yorker piece was funny.
Photo looked a lot like Lindsey Graham.
Spaghetti Lee
@piratedan:
Wow, that is good. It would probably fly over a lot of people’s heads, though.
Suffern ACE
@Suffern ACE: I mean, do they bother to show that other half of the stadium where there would have been banners of Zito, Mulder, Tejada, Chavez and Hudson?
Yatsuno
@Omnes Omnibus: I am sooo not getting out of this damn boat.
piratedan
@Elizabelle: @Spaghetti Lee: author is a Democratic Congressman from NY I believe……yet I found it to be such an intelligent way to portray the situation that most folks could understand
Omnes Omnibus
@Yatsuno: It is basically the original one I posted mashed up with Carol King songs. It really doesn’t work at all.
Spaghetti Lee
@OldBean:
Very eenterestink. I like my music a bit more synth-y (and lyrics-y) but the one-man-band thing is impressive no matter what. Might have to give it a few more listens.
Elizabelle
@piratedan:
Yeah, I think it’s brilliant.
Love that the deadbeats vacationed at “Old Testament Town.”
max
@wasabi gasp: Solid Space – Destination Moon
Whoa. That Did Not Suck.
max
[‘Cool.’]
Gravenstone
This is a teaser, so pardon the chat intercut with the song, but I’m looking forward to seeing where this project goes.
And here’s another three piece all-star project that works pretty well. Although the sound on this track seems a bit compressed to me.
piratedan
@Elizabelle: and the family name “Goplins” lol
Yatsuno
@piratedan: It was fecking brilliant. And will sail right over the heads of the wingnuts.
Punchy
At a Mountain Sprout show. Just tits. Hillbillies can play a fucking banjo and fiddle.
piratedan
@Yatsuno: I agree, sadly concur on the second count. What is so strange, is all of that debt is actually coming down, at least in the ratio between revenues and outstanding spending and despite all of the wingnut claims, the economy is stoill barely limping along although, not so strangely, profits are still managing record highs for those that can afford to own stock, color me unsurprised….
wasabi gasp
Don Rendell – Antibes
Elizabelle
@Yatsuno:
Ah, but will it sail over the heads of the punditocracy and conventional journalists?
Yatsuno
@Elizabelle: It was written by a Democrat. It doesn’t exist in their world, except maybe as a minor bit of conversation at Sally’s next soiree.
wasabi gasp
Triumph – Blinding Light Show / Moonchild
wasabi gasp
White Noise – Love Without Sound
BillinGlendaleCA
@wasabi gasp: Nope, I saw them open for the Police at Hollywood Park.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@fuckwit:
Couple hundred bucks for pathology. Refuse it. A skin tag does NOT need to go to path.
Awk
Kids ripping the shit out of Tool’s 46&2
http://www.antiquiet.com/news/2013/09/watch-children-cover-the-shit-out-of-tools-46-2/