Tag: The Muppets
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Acid Sesame
Sesame Street was always a little surreal and psychedelic early on, but did Sesame Street have a tripped out LSD for kids episode in 1969? Reason I ask is I’ve just found in the first series they covered The Beatles ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ which despite the band’s protestations is definitely lysergic. According…
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The Count Sings Gogol Bordello
An amazingly accurate edit of The Count from Sesame Street singing ‘Start Wearing Purple’ from Gogol Bordello. Works perfectly, and I know as someone who has created a few of these how much work goes into it! And Happy 50th Sesame Street – and RIP Caroll Spinney who was the puppeteer and voice for Big…
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Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
50 years ago today a kid’s program debuted in the United States which was to change the lives of millions of children worldwide – Sesame Street. A mix of muppets and modern educational psychology, the idea was to reach urban kids and those who weren’t getting good early schooling with basic lessons to give them…
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RC 299: Running Away Into The Sunset
From Sunset to Sunrise, from Metal Muppet Baby Shark to Catching A Godlike Pussy, we take a trip into the far blue yonder soundtracked by disco, northern soul, electronica, punk, heavy rock, ska, pop, hiphop, indie, hi-nrg, indie and a small shedload of queer artists. We talk about social media, avoid Br*x*t, Time passes…, My…
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The Swedish Chef Sings
After the amazing sight of Swedish Chef doing Rapper’s Delight on the new Muppets TV show this week, we really NEED a ‘The Swedish Chef Sings’ album. I’d buy it! Here we have BrockBaker doing Swedish Chef doing Sia’s Chandelier as ‘Chandelifer’, if you follow that: (via Dunproofin)
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DJNoNo Crumplstock 2 Disco Sickness mix
If you missed the DJNoNo mix from Crumplstock 2 – it’s on Mixlr or over at Mixcloud and download with slightly better mastering – I’ve left it as rough as it was, mistakes included! What you missed was 3 – COUNT ‘EM 3 – unreleased DJNoNo exclusives – never heard anywhere, not even on my…