Woody's Place

Ulrich Schnauss "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow"

Vote Newt Music Video!

Hat tip to Anomaly Central.

Fleetwood Mac "Hypnotised"

Many people are unaware that there was a Fleetwood Mac before Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham joined. This is from that period when Bob Welch was leading the band.

Good stuff. Love that jazzy style and laid back vibe... Cool video too.

Hope y'all are having a great weekend.

Curve "Fait Accompli"

Man I really miss the 90's.

And goth chicks.

 

The Cardigans "Erase/Rewind"

YouTube is really handy for finding all those cool videos that came out after MTV stopped playing music.

Love this band.  I like a lot of bands with female singers actually... Why is that?  Hmm... something Freudian I'm sure.  Or perhaps it's because the chick singers are hawt?

Nitzer Ebb "I Am Undone"

I got this CD For Christmas and I think I've played this song almost every day since then. I can't get enough of it, so I figured it should make an appearance on the blog.

Leather Hands "Vertical Lines"

Most critics tout Michael Jackson's "Thriller" as the best music video ever made, but I think we may have a new contender... 

Great tune, great casting, great camera work... It's got everything you can ask for right?

Hat tip to Where Are My Keys.

Bomb The Bass "Milakia"

Feeling kind of melancholy today... like this:

Not necessarily a bad thing though. I kinda like it.

Ok Go "White Knuckles"

Found this little gem over at Where Are My Keys? today.

All the Ok Go videos are like this, super creative, fun and funky, perfectly choreographed, and usually filmed in a single take. And dogs rock, so this one is a win win.

If you like this one check out their YouTube channel.

EXIT QUESTION: Is it just me, or does this sound like Prince circa "Sign Of The Times"?

P.S. Did you spot the goat?

Ulrich Schnauss "Shine"

Jedi Knights "May The Funk Be With You"

It's Friday night people.  Enjoy your weekend, and "may the funk be with you".

Damn that's funky!  Love that groove starting at about 2:45.

Depeche Mode "Enjoy The Silence" On Top Of The World Trade Center?

Whoa... this gave me goosebumps when I stumbled across it on YouTube. 

My favorite band filmed a promo clip for a French TV show on top of World Trade Center Tower 2 and I'm only learning about it now?  That's the creepy kind of coincidence people usually talk about.  Then again I don't know any other Depeche Mode fanatics.

Led Zeppelin "Ramble On"

There's something about Led Zeppelin that just says "summer" to me...  Maybe it's all the accoustic guitars, maybe it's the occasional flute, maybe it's Plant's evocative imagery?  I'm not sure, but I'm always in the mood for this stuff when the weather turns warm.

Y'all enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Pomplamoose "If You Think You Need Some Lovin"

I'm in a funky mood today... so here's a funky tune. 

Great group.  Love their whole concept of recording the video as they record the song itself.  Very clever.  They have lot's of great originals and cover versions on their YouTube channel. 

Enjoy what's left of your weekend.  I'm going offline.  

8 Bit Version Of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon"

This may be the coolest geek thing I've seen all year.

Hat tip to Brad Smith for truly going where no man has gone before!

I just downloaded all the MP3's.  They are going in my collection and on my Zune.  Can't wait to play that for my mom on our next road trip.  She'll REALLY trip!

Recoil "Allelujah"

Something a little abstract and melancholy to start your weekend off?

Suits me fine as of late.

P.S. Yes, I am aware of the trite leftist imagery in the video, and no I don't hold the same views. It's just a cool tune that I've been enjoying as of late. 

FYI: The Song Used In The NFL.com Ads During The Super Bowl Is...

All during the Super Bowl last night they kept running short promotional ads for the NFL.com website using slow motion video of fans and players and some cool music.  I searched all over the web and couldn't find mention of it, but then this morning I remembered hearing it a movie trailer and viola!

Wake Up - Arcade Fire

You've gotta love the instant gratification that the internet provides... can you imagine how hard this would have been to accomplish back in the old days?  What would you do?  Just keep asking everyone you meet?  I guess maybe the guy at the record store would know... but they're all out of business now.  Grrr... damn that internet!

Yes "I've Seen All Good People"

Sungha Jung "Hotel California"

The force is strong with this one.

I didn't hear one wrong note!  The kid's got a real gift.

 

Vince Guaraldi "Cast Your Fate To The Wind"

Here's an appropriate track for my first music post of 2010.

Starts out slow and a little melancholy, but then it gets a little bit of a happy swagger.  Let's hope 2010 is the same way, a little thoughtful at first and more optimistic around the beginning of November.

Cygnus "Carol Of The Bells"

Here's a special holiday treat.  It's a Christmas tune I recorded back in '97 (I think) when I used to noodle around with keyboards and musical equipment.  My musical project (not really a band per se) was called Cygnus and focused on electronic music, usually with some kind of space or sci-fi vibe. 

I'm not going to win a Grammy for this, but I think it came out pretty cool, and made a nice little Christmas day blog post.

It was taken from a casette tape, so the sound quality isn't the greatest at times, but it's all I've got.  I'm not even sure I could recreate it if I tried.  I think I've forgotten how to hook up all that stuff, much less operate it and play chords and notes and things. 

(This is also my first YouTube video.  Woo hoo!)

Hope you guys all had a wonderful holiday. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Kay Starr "(Everybody's Waiting For) The Man With The Bag"

Here's one of my favorite Christmas tunes:

What a fun uptempo song.  Beats "White Christmas" anyday IMHO.  

Dean Martin "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm"

One of my favorite Christmas tunes.

You gotta love you some Dino!

Coldplay "Viva La Vida"

Coldplay made a second video for this song as a tribute to Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence" video by Anton Corbijn.

Pretty cool.

The Muppets "Bohemian Rhapsody"

A truly awesome cover courtesy of Hot Air.

I grew up on the Muppets, and they never get old to me.  If you dig 'em too you should also check out Manahmanah before you go.  Their best work IMHO.

Depeche Mode "Fragile Tension"

U2 "Magnificent"

It took a little while, but the latest U2 album is finally beginning to grow on me.

Wonder Girls "Nobody"

I've been a little busy of late, so this week instead of a seperate babe post and music video I'll kill two birds with one stone. 

Sexy Korean chicks dancing around to a catchy pop tune?  What's not to like? 

Dave Brubeck Quartet "Take Five"

I'm feeling kinda jazzy lately...

...must be the weather.  I bet tomorrow when I'm washing my pickup truck in the driveway and 50's jazz is blasting out of my garage I'll get some odd looks from the neighbors. 

 

Roxy Music "Love Is The Drug"

Carl Sagan featuring Stephen Hawking "A Glorious Dawn"

I loved Cosmos when I was a kid.  After Star Wars came out I'd watch anything space-related and be thrilled, even PBS documentaries.  My mother gave me the Cosmos book for Christmas when I was ten, and I thought it was the coolest thing I got that year... Yes, I've always been a geek.

Imagine my geeky surprise when I found two of my geek heroes were combined into this pretty sweet music video!

It's actually pretty good.  I'll probably even go hunting for an MP3 file later.

UPDATE: This was created by Color Pulse Music, and you can download the MP3 on their website!

Muse "Starlight"

Speedy J "The Oil Zone"

Here's a great electronica track from Dutch techno producer Speedy J's 1995 album G-Spot.

If you like this one you should also check out "The Fun Equations" and "Fill 17" from the same album.

Frank Sinatra "(Love Is) The Tender Trap"

One of my favorite Sinatra tunes:

The man was a giant.

Toby Keith "Courtesy Of The Red White And Blue"

I usually post a music video on Fridays, and what tune could be more appropriate for September 11th?

Awesome.  Almost good enough to make me forget Toby Keith endorsed Obama...  almost. 

How backward is that?  Keith writes a song praising the men and women who are fighting and dying for this country.  The same country who Obama's pastor of 20 years (1,040 Sundays) said deserved the attacks of 9-11, just "America's chickens coming home to roost".  The same country who Michelle Obama was never proud of.  The same country Barack Obama appreciates so much he thinks it requires "fundamental change". 

Toby Keith supported a candidate for President who is now cutting the military's budget, and eliminating crucual weapon systems, while at the same time flirting with dictators and communists across the globe.  A President who went on a worldwide apology tour groveling before foreigners begging for forgivness as if freeing the people of Iraq and Afghanistan was wrong.  A President who bowed down before the king of Saudi Arabia, the land that spawned most of the 9-11 conspirators.  A President who three weeks ago traveled to New York just to honor Walter Cronkite, but today did not travel to New York to honor the victims of the World Trade Center attacks, choosing instead to demonstrate America's resolve by painting walls at a housing rennovation project.  Is that the kind of "boot in the ass" you were singing about Toby? 

Just goes to show you that 99% of celebrities are naive fools, even the ones who seem like they've got it together. Toby Keith... you sir, are a dumbass for helping elect Jimmy Carter II.

Still a great song though.

 

Table Tap Rap

I don't care if you like rap music or not, this kid's got some talent to be creating all that sound with just two pens and a tabletop!

Can't really understand the words though... he might try to enunciate a bit, then again that's not very "street" is it?

This reminds me of my 12th grade English class where me and some kids on the other side of the room would battle back and forth with different beats whenever the teacher left the room.  I was pretty musical, but none of us were as good as this dude...

Hat tip to H8torade.  Welcome to my Guilty Pleasures list.

Steely Dan "Deacon Blues"

Everything But The Girl "We Walk The Same Line"

Today was the 18th anniversary of my first date with my wife, so here's "our song".

Kinda cheesy, kinda cute... kinda like the two of us I guess.

Meat Beat Manifesto "Radio Babylon (Version Galore)"

Back in 1990 this was the hottest alternative club track around, and it still holds up well.

Great band.  Check my Music section for some other great stuff by MBM.

 

I'm In Lust... Zune & Zino

Wow.  I'm starting my Christmas list today.

Microsoft is releasing it's sexy new Zune HD portable media player on September 15th.

Zune HD features a 3.3" OLED screen, 720p video playback (you can stream it to a TV), HD radio, WiFi and the best feature of all is that it's not an Ipod.  Ipod's are for hipster doucehbags... and you don't want to be one of those people do you?

And as if that wasn't enough, this fall Dell is shipping their first purpose built theater PC, the Zino HD.

Ooooh... Aaaah.

I'm currently using a small desktop PC to run our home theater now, but I may give that to my wife and upgrade the theater to this unit.  Maybe get one for the living room too?  We'll see what the price look s like i guess...

Ulrich Schnauss "Shine"

Orgy "Fiction (Dreams In Digital)"

George Shearing Quintet "Swedish Pastry"

I love me some cool jazz... That classic swinging sound of the 50's and 60's from guys like Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Vince Guaraldi, Art Pepper, Cal Tjader, Arnett Cobb, and of course George Shearing.

Shearing was one of the great (the greatest?) piano man of the golden age of jazz, and his band was always tight and in sync.  And check out the locked piano chords, a Shearing signature sound. 

You hip cats dig it?

Meat Beat Manifesto "Acid Again"

OMG! Rick Astley Nirvana Mashup

A heady combination of two things previously thought to be uncombinable, by some guy named DJ Morgoth.

Wow...  That was really well done, but...  was it good?  I can't decide.  Is it appealing just for the sheer craziness, or is there some musicality in there?

Cheap Trick "Dream Police"

Hat tip to RT.

Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls"

This song has great atmosphere.

I love me some 80's tunes!

50 Cent "Hate It Or Love It"

You can hate it or love it, but this rap tune's got a really great groove to it and sounds like a nice way to coast into the holiday weekend to me.

Embedding on this clip is disabled by YouTube, so you'll have to click through to watch it.

Keep an ear out for the last guy complaining about people "throwing babies in the garbage" and thanking his mother for not having an abortion.  These guys aren't ALL bad... just mostly.

Meat Beat Manifesto "Mindstream"

Never mind the goofy name or the cliché anti-establishment lyrics, this band can really groove.

This track is from their '92 Satyricon release, which is still one of my favorite albums of all time.  If you like this one you should check out Edge Of No Control too while you're at it.

Yes, Jack Dangers may be exactly the kind of liberal douchebag who would wear a Che Guevara t-shirt, but he's also an incredibly talented musician who broke a lot of new ground in electronic and industrial music, and whose work laid the foundations for the entire musical genres of drum & bass, big beat and trip hop.

I bow to his immense creativity.

 

UPDATE: I was involved in the music scene back then and I got to hang out with the band for a short while when their tour stopped in my area.  I was able to get some fairly decent photos from the press gallery to the side of the stage, so I'll post them here in case any MBM fans out there want to check them out.

Michael Jackson "Billie Jean" Live At Motown's 25th Anniversary

Damn, we lost Farah Fawcett today and now The King Of Pop has passed away.  Crazy... Here he is at his peak moonwalking and everything.

Sure he got a little nutty later in life, but he was an incredible talent in his day, and that's the Michael I was a fan of.