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posted on 2.23.12

The Ramones. The Simpsons. So great.

via dethtron5000:

“Hey guys, I think they liked us.”

posted on 2.3.12

The Beatles’ “Here Comes The Sun”: the lost guitar solo

Here’s a video of Dhani Harrison (George Harrison’s son), longtime Beatles producer George Martin, and his son Giles Martin fiddling with controls in the studio and finding a guitar solo that never made it to the final version of the song. George Martin says, amazed, “I forgot the matter.”

I love stuff like this, especially from my all-time favorite band.

[via @joethepeacock]

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posted on 1.27.12 I FOUND ICE CUBES ‘GOOD DAY’

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
   “went to short dogs house,
   they was watching Yo MTV
   RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
   Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
   Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
   ”The Lakers beat the Super
   Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where the Lakers beat the Super Sonics:
   Nov 11 1988 114-103
   Nov 30 1988 110-106
   Apr 4 1989 115-97
   Apr 23 1989 121-117
   Jan 17 1990 100-90
   Feb 28 1990 112-107
   Mar 25 1990 116-94
   Apr 17 1990 102-101
   Jan 18 1991 105-96
   Mar 24 1991 113-96
   Apr 21  1991 103-100
   Jan 20 1992 116-110
CLUE 4:
Dates of those Laker wins over SuperSonics where it was a clear day with no Smog:
   Nov 30 1988
   Apr 4 1989
   Jan 18 1991
   Jan 20 1992
CLUE 5:
   “Got a beep from Kim, and
   she can fuck all night”
beepers weren’t adopted by mobile phone companies until the 1990s. Dates left where mobile beepers were availible to public:
   Jan 18 1991
   Jan 20 1992
CLUE 6:
Ice Cube starred in the film “Boyz in the hood” that released late Summer of 1991, but was being filmed mid-late 1990 early 1991 and Ice Cube was busy on set filming the movie Jan 18 1991 too busy to be lounging around the streets with no plans. Ladies and Gentlemen..

The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day
Beepers were commercially sold
Lakers beat the SuperSonics
and Ice Cube had no events to attend was…

   JANUARY 20 1992
   National Good Day Day

-Donovan

This man deserves a Pulitzer.

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posted on 12.24.11

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Samit Sarkar - “The Christmas Song”

Last year, we at Destructoid put our heads together and recorded The Destructoid Christmas Album. It went over pretty well, and my contribution — a cover of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” — turned out fine. (For more details, check out my original post.)

We thought, “Why not do it again?” Fewer staffers contributed this year, but I think The Second Annual Destructoid Christmas Album is just as full of holiday cheer as the inaugural edition. I decided to record a version of “The Christmas Song” — y’know, the one that goes, Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…

The recording process was a bit more ambitious this time around, because I decided that in addition to my singing and guitar playing, I wanted a bass part. Unfortunately, I don’t own a double bass, and my keyboard doesn’t have it as one of its built-in “instruments,” either. So I went with something called “finger bass.” I still didn’t have a better option for recording the guitar part than sticking my Rock Band microphone in front of my guitar’s sound hole, and this year, I decided to use the same mic for recording my singing (even though it doesn’t have a wind screen, which isn’t ideal). I recorded and mixed everything in Audacity.

Basically, what I’m trying to say is that you shouldn’t expect to hear a brilliantly engineered recording when you hit “play.” I’m sure someone could “tweak the levels” to get a better-sounding song, but I don’t really know what I’m doing when it comes to that stuff. Still, I’m not unhappy with the final product.

Enjoy, and happy holidays!

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posted on 6.19.11

daveholmes:

Carve out 10 minutes for this. Jesus Christ.

kaseyanderson:

“Jungleland” from the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ 1978.

Kate Landau just posted this on Facebook. I had a video from 1980 up earlier but this one is hair-raising.

Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is rock n’ roll.

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posted on 5.29.11

copycats:

Little Lion Man by Set Sail
originally Mumford & Sons

via thatgirlpatty:

I saw this band busking on the street in May, and bought their EP after 10 minutes. I don’t particularly like Mumford & Sons, but loved this cover.

Also see: Set Sail serenade Virgin passengers on their way to Hong Kong with Jason Mraz’s “I’m Yours.” (AOL Travel):

That drummer is bad-ass.

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posted on 5.29.11

Weezer - “Paranoid Android” (Radiohead cover)

I liked this a lot more than I thought I was going to like it based on the premise (i.e., Weezer covering Radiohead).

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posted on 4.19.11

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restlesswings:

This is the most gorgeous cover of a Pixies song I have ever heard. Thanks to Bryan for pointing it out to me

copycats:

Where Is My Mind? (solo piano) by Maxence Cyrin
originally by Pixies

Head over to myspace to stream his versions of Arcade Fire’s No Cars Go, Nirvana’s Lithium, and Justice’s D.A.N.C.E.

His record, Novö Piano, includes the above plus Daft Punk’s Around the World, Beyoncé’s Crazy In Love, MGMT’s Kids and more.

[track c/o rollogrady]

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posted on 4.17.11

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the9th:

Introitus - Requiem aeternam [Requiem Mass] - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

True story: sang this (i.e., the entirety of Mozart’s Requiem) with a massive five-school choir when I was a senior in high school — it was a special concert at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University.

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posted on 4.4.11

thedailywhat:

ICWUDT of the Day: “Dark Side of the Loom” by Aldo Cavini Benedetti (with a little light tweaking by Redditor WormSlayer).

[reddit.]

Love this.

(Source: thedailywhat)

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