Let’s try to write a Song of the Day post and forget that my head feels like it’s going to burst open! Yay! Today the weather changed drastically here. It went from early Spring pleasant to fucking South Pole blizzard in about an hour. And my head feels bad. :( But never mind that. Here […]
This song came up in conversation while I was getting a ride home from my friend Uncle Furry. I asked him if he had ever heard of Kow Kow Calqulator, to which he responded “no”. That, I’m guessing, is what most people would have said. But onward I pressed. “Did you know,” I said, “That […]
First version Album version This is a song about Ronald Reagan… mostly. For those of you not old enough to know who Ronald Reagan was, he was a B-Movie actor. He was also a douchebag supreme. Also, a real prick. But he was physically strong. Anyway, Dead Kennedys […]
Okay, I can’t find this song on YouTube, so as a consolation, the less quirky but catchier “Hypnotizin’ Boogie“. I bet most people have never heard of David Wilcox. There’s an American folk singer named David Wilcox, but he’s his own man. I’m talking here about the wacky, off-beat, talented Canadian blues-rock guitarist. He is […]
YouTube link, before I forget to mention it again. First, a joke! Hooray! Q: How do you castrate a Catholic priest? A: Ë™ÊÉɾ Çɥʇ uı ÊŽoqɹıoɥɔ Çɥʇ ʞɔıʞ Ha! If hell existed, there would be a special place in it for Christian pedophiles. But thinking and talking about this makes me extremely angry, so I […]
Demo version, that is. I reckon. You can’t talk about things from “The South” without saying “I reckon” every now and then. I reckon. I only know the demo version of this song. The YouTube search results tell me that there is a version of this song on “Street Survivors”. Determining the veracity of that […]
Wow. I’m really surprised that this song is on YouTube. You would think that the avaricious and corpulent scumbag lawyers would shake their greasy and cash-stuffed fists at anyone who dared upload a cultural gem like this song to a publicly viewed website. Fuck I hate lawyers. Copyright lawyers are bad people. Anyway… happy thoughts… […]
Wow! 311 is today’s date! No, it’s not actually. I was thinking of posting about a 311 song yesterday. So I missed by one day. Here’s a video for the song, which I’ve never seen until just now. 311 is one of those bands that you almost hate to admit to liking. Their lyrics are […]
YEAH!!! Man, this tune takes me back. All 18 minutes of it. See, I’m one of those weirdos who really likes long Progressive Rock songs. That might stem from all the symphonic Classical Music I listened to when I was growing up. It might also stem from the fact that I’m just a weirdo. I’m […]
Here’s a live version… which is decent. How many of you out there have the album “Zaireeka” from 1997? No one? Zaireeka is an oddity. It’s actually 4 CDs, but they’re meant to be played all at once start-to-finish. Yep, that’s right. The album is spread out over 4 discs, meant to be played on […]
Now this is some pure, uncut rock. No, not crack cocaine. I’d even say it’s some excellent 70s rock, but it’s actually from a 1969 album called “Grand Funk” Now, some of you might have heard some Grand Funk Railroad on the radio. They did have some hits. If you have heard those hits, then […]
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Today’s “Song of the Day” post is about…. Sorry, I have to make a childish joke first. “Dong of the Gay”. Heh. Derp. Okay, this post is about how sheltered and naive I used to be. When I was growing up, my parents were very strict about everything. […]
You gotta love this guy. THAT’S AN ORDER!!! If you don’t feel like reading my prattle, my twaddle, my blabber, my chatter today, just check out this link: http://geaky.com/262-David-Lee-Roth-SoundBoard.html While all the children are playing at the above link, I shall now gather the responsible adults around me, and we shall rationally discuss the merits […]
“Starless” (part 1) “Starless” (part 2) My favorite song. No, actually my second favorite song, right after “Paranoid Android” by Radiohead. I think. That’s variable. One of my faves for sure. This song is fucking amazing. I know I’ve described songs as awesome and amazing before, but lets just do something here for a bit. […]
Cheer the fuck up! I think this one‘s about how everything seems to suck but you need to get your shit together and carry on living anyway. And if it’s not, that’s okay. The Drummer for this band, Paul Hester, didnt’ take that message to heart. He hung himself in a park around the turn […]
I just went hunting in Rhythmbox for a song to yap about, because the one that I heard on my way home is a little to long for a “Song of the Day” post. That song, over 47 minutes long, is actually an entire album played live. The band is Camel, and the album is […]
Oh, that Peter Hammill! Always running about with a crazed look in his eyes and his half-beard. You see, he was born with a full mustache and beard on the right side of his face. And pointing his thumbs ever outward. No, that’s not true. This is a good song, however. It’s about how The […]
This YouTube link sounds pretty good. And I feel pretty good. I’ve got some Chef Boyardee cookin’ in the microwave, and I can eat it again without getting headaches! I also feel pretty good because I have another headache and the codeine is kicking in. Codeine is a narcotic, as some of you may know. […]
Believe it or not, Megadeth was once good. Fuck that, they were once FUCKING BRILLIANT. Okay, actually, if were counting by albums, they were thrice brilliant. Here is my version of the Megadeth story… taken as far as I stopped giving a fuck about Dave Mustaine: Dave Mustaine, one of Metallica’s key songwriters and their […]
Please excuse the low quality of this video’s sound. The song is really excellent, trust me. The low bitrate here doesn’t do it any favours. If you have the album “Dimension HatrÁ¶ss”, pop that in your stereo/player/whatever now. I SAID NOW!!! I don’t know who that old dude is. I just Googled “Insistence” for a […]
Grab a tall cool drink, and sit back and relax. This will be your new favorite song. Alternatively, you can grab a short hot drink, and stand up to stretch. I guess. I’m enjoying a beverage myself. It’s a cup of delicious, piping hot Earl Grey tea. Liking the song? Like Salsa? I’m not talking […]
A song from Bruce Dickinson’s solo career (no, really, it is), “Fire Child” is one of those songs that speaks from the perspective of a Native American. Reminds me of all the other similar songs that I have on my iPod. Right now I can only think of “San Jacinto” by Peter Gabriel and “White […]
Today’s song is from an interesting album. You see, the story of “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” is a story about how the “Music Industry” is populated by out of touch business people who wouldn’t know good music if it stood up and smacked them in the fucking head. The album was recorded from the Fall of […]
So I borrowed a CD from a friend today. I listened to it on my way home. Not bad. Not original. Not going to listen to it again or get it for myself. The band is called “Big Elf”. Now, at first I thought that Ronnie James Dio had “bulked-up” as they say… taken a […]
Yes, THAT Bob Seger. Apologies, for I can’t find a YouTube link for this song. This isn’t the kind of music that your everyday Bob Seger fans like. This is some Midwestern Psychedelic Rock from back in 1969. Good lord, does it sound different from what he did later! Bob Seger System – White Wall […]
Paddington Bear fucking LOVES this song! No wait… that’s MARMALADE he likes. Onward. But first… isn’t the world of Winnie the Pooh a little ridiculous? This is more like it. Anyway, this song really takes me back. Back in 1992, when I started listening to “Classic Rock”, Steve Miller was among the first artists to […]
Now here’s an interesting album cover: I had only heard this song by this band when I bought that album back in 1996. Yes, I bought it on the strength of the one song and the nice image of a girl dressed up to look like a robot. She sure looks like a robot to […]
I just read a Wikipedia article about what this song is about. I can take that or leave it I guess. To me, this song is about oppression. I can hear “Who’ll stop the reign” in that chorus too. That’s one of the reasons I like this song. It can be interpreted in different ways. […]
Looky here! Today’s song of the day is not just meaningless rambling and bad jokes propped up by a YouTube link! No-sirree-Jack! Today, you will be able to download this very song and add it to your music collection! All legit and all for free! Thanks go to the good folks in Slim Cessna’s Auto […]
The album “Beelzebubba”, released in 1998, is one of the best albums ever made. I make that statement without hesitation and with the fervor of one who knows what’s inside the album’s grooves… the cassette’s magnetic tracks… the CD’s track-shaped-bits and the mp3’s 1s and 0s. Man, is this a great album. I don’t know […]
Some things I have just found out from Babelfish: This band’s name translates as “Court of the Miracles” The song title translates as “And L’ Will come; Man” Things I knew before: This is an awesome, majestic, dynamic, emotive song The band is from Italy The lyrics are in Italian, and I have no idea […]
Meet Roxy Epoxy. She is an android. At least that was her stage persona back in 2002 when The Epoxies self-titled album came out. And this song, which popped up on my iPod today, is about her being a female android! Yay! Read the lyrics. I’m not making that up. This band has, sadly, broken […]
Hippie dreams, the passage of time, changing of seasons, and the inevitability of aging. Weariness. This song is one of a few that made me want to get a blog and yap about em. Yap. Bark, even. For that (Bark) is the title of an album released in 1971. An album released by Jefferson Airplane. […]
So fucking sue me. I’m a huge INXS fan. But I must qualify that statement. I’m a huge fan of the albums they made from 1980 to 1985. Everything after ranges from “great” to “will-these-greedy-fuckers-let-the-past-rest-in-peace-finally”. I mean “awful”. It’s a simpler word. I honestly have never heard a single putrid note of anything the remaining […]
How could a technosexual such as myself not eventually notice a band called Ladytron? I do believe someone on Fembot Central mentioned them many years ago, and that’s how I first heard of them. When Ladytron first came out, they had a kind of “Kraftwerk” look going for them. They’ve long since abandoned that gimmick, […]
Tonight, I give you (as far as my iPod will generate by itself) a mashup. Cryptorchid (live version of) Elektrik These two songs came on one-after-another as I walked home from Wal-Mart. There are no other stores. All glory to Wal-Mart! (Click me!!!) I have a smattering of Marilyn Manson on the iPod. I honestly […]
The 70s. Power Trios. Mustaches. I know a lot of people have heard of The Eagles. I know a lot of people have heard of Joe Walsh. I know that a lot of people have heard of The James Gang, but these three numbers diminish next to each other. If I remember my rawk history, […]
More to come when I’m not nauseous, when my head isn’t pounding and when all I can do is fall asleep. (Later…) I just slept for 17 hours. Yikes! Zounds! Egad! Gadzooks! ZOMFGBBQWTF! That beats my previous record of sleeping for 16 hours when I was a kid. I had a fever. I still have […]
!!! Pronounce THAT! HA! It’s actually pronounced this way: clench your teeth (not tightly) move your tongue to either the left or the right side of your mouth, and push it forward create suction with your tongue, compressing the air underneath and behind it release your tongue, pulling it back and away from your teeth […]
Ah, memories. This song is full of em for me. Or maybe it’s me that’s full of memories when this song is nearby. Most Canadians above a certain age have heard of I Mother Earth, and plenty of them know many of the songs from 1996’s “Scenery and Fish” off by heart. This album came […]
It’s time that we sat down and had a chat about Bob Marley. Today, while I was one of about only seven fucking people at work, I decided to play some music. Normally I can’t do this because I need to hear my name being paged, delivery trucks arriving and stupid people asking for help […]
Wow… GROOVY man! Time to dress like Austin Powers and summon the Fembots, because it’s SWINGING TIME!!! I’m sure lots of you know Deep purple from their international hit “Slow Walking Walter”. You know the one. The song goes “Slow… walking Walter… fire engine guy.” That was from 1972. This song is from 1968. Two […]
God dam those half-Japanese girls indeed! From Weezer’s 1996 album “Pinkerton” comes “El Scorcho“, which is about this chick Rivers Cuomo met at Harvard or something. The lyrics reveal ol’ Rivers to be a depraved creep. Well, at least he was in 1995. Look at him on the cover of The Red Album and you […]
It’s been a very Midnight Oil couple of days for me. I’m in the process of getting all the Oil I have onto my iPod. I had to go through many backup DVDs to get it all together… and I’m Mikeifying them as I go. Some of them I’ve had for so long, I’ve got […]
From a concept album… A CONCEPT album from a progressive rock band! Who Knew! From 1972’s “Three Friends”, which has kind of a tedious and lame concept, comes one of Gentle Giant’s best songs. And I know that if anyone is reading this typical post on this shitty blog, you will no doubt be saying […]
Well, it’s December 25th again. I personally don’t’ give two shits about Christmas. Aside from the extra time off I get from work, this time of year pisses me off. Christmas is all about greed and hypocrisy. Bah fucking humbug. Today’s Song of the Day is a “holiday” song… one about bells and the Winter […]
Sivs and peas. I read a bit about this song on the interwebs a while ago… actually… I do believe it was a “multimedia” presentation on the Elephant Rider’s CD itself… but somehow this song was inspired by tales of witches and pilgrims back in the early days of the American colonies. Alien colonoscopies are […]
I get some strange shit pop up on my iPod from time to time. That’s thanks to the wide variety of stuff I like, so sometimes shuffle play can be a little jarring from one song to the next. Today’s song of the day is one of my favorite Steve Earl songs, from his most […]
Ah… the 80s. I think it was inevitable that all those great bands from the 70s looked around at each other in the 80s and said “Well, we’ve got all this great new recording technology. Recordings can sound better than they ever have. New advances in even stereo equipment and vinyl pressing can make everything […]
Ah, what a song. And what an album. I don’t know how many people have even heard of Kula Shaker, but their debut album, 1996’s “K” is one of my top 10 favorite albums of all time. I’ve let some friends of mine hear it, and I’ve played it at work, and it gets rave […]