Category: Video blog
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Micky Dolenz saves Shiny Happy People
Shiny Happy People is a song that even R.E.M. has disowned, so to hear Michael Stipe – the band are happy to wear their Monkees influences on their sleeves – praise this cover by Micky Dolenz is high praise indeed. And yes it works in the frame of the Monkees psych bubblegum pop, and there’s…
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The Ten Rules of Techno
“You’ve invented educational techno” goes the first comment on this video, and pretty much sums it up, Oscar from Underdog goes through the rules in under 5 minutes with a banging acid track. I wish all music lessons were this much fun! Video makes me think oddly of Adventures in Success by Will Powers…and the…
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Cursed Heidi AI
I’m going to have nightmares so shall you about this Heidi AI trailer recreation. Although I suspect it didn’t invent the cows and sheep at the cinema..then again who would watch a sugary alpine film except them? Something almost creepily cyriak about this film. PEEETAARR! PEEEETAAAARR!! Oh the badly dubbed 80’s version was horror enough.…
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90’s Revival Is In Full Skippety Swing
At the pub on Tuesday getting some dinner I noticed that the internet radio stream, many of the house tracks sampling late 80’s to early 00’s pop, big beat, house and r’n’b, but mostly around the sweet spot of the mid-late 90’s. From FLO and Sk*ill*x bringing back Missy Ellott for that bomp-a-bomp bomp, to…