05/29/2008
Jogging For Jesus With Leslie Harris
This is ridiculous. Leslie Harris and The House Of Fire sounds like what would happen if The Trammps were locked in a vacation bible school and forced to listen to exercise tapes on repeat. "Everybody get up! We gonna have a run!" Thanks t ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 05/29/2008 3:24 PM EST in WTF?, Soul, Disco | Permalink
05/28/2008
"Get F*cked!" Say Millie Jackson and Glen Branca
The other day WFMU posted a video from 1984 of Millie Jackson performing her "Phuck You Symphony." She wrote this now infamous song in 1979, just around the same time Glen Branca penned his subjectively similar "Fuck Yourself." I don't know wha ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 05/28/2008 11:18 AM EST in WTF?, 70's Punk, YouTube, Soul | Permalink
05/23/2008
VISUAL NOTES: An Elegy for The Paper Record
The paper Flexi-Record enjoyed a short, albeit popular life before I was even born. Oh Flexi-Record, how I would have loved to witness the advent of your existence! I would have marveled at your grooves, pressed into hot acetate film by origina ...
Read MorePosted by Robin on 05/23/2008 11:17 AM EST in WTF?, Editorial, Visual Notes | Permalink
05/21/2008
Louis Farrakhan is The Charmer
Before Louis Farrakhan became the leader and the Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam, he was known as Louis Eugene Walcott aka The Charmer. A comedic dopplegänger of Harry Belafonte, The Charmer was a regionally popular Calypso musician ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 05/21/2008 1:00 PM EST in WTF?, Voodoo Music | Permalink
05/15/2008
Walruses know music, but did you know they can DANCE, too?
We interrupt your regularly scheduled mp3 blogging to bring you....A Dancing Walrus! Check him out as he gets busy to Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal". [yt]http://www.youtube.com/v/DDg7kWgs5e0[/yt]
Read MorePosted by Finnegan on 05/15/2008 6:59 PM EST in WTF?, YouTube, Pop | Permalink
05/08/2008
Everyone Can Be A Beatle!
Everybody loves The Beatles, right? In fact the four lads from Liverpool had such a powerful influence on music appreciators across the planet, that people can't help but honor them. Here are three of my favorite tributes as perfected by the ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 05/08/2008 12:44 PM EST in 60's Pop, WTF?, Remix, Jazz, Afro-Beat | Permalink
05/01/2008
Darren Finizio Wants To Know Why Men Don't Wear Speedos
If you have paid attention to the music scene in Philly for a long enough time chances are pretty good that you have encountered Darren Finizio. If you are unfamiliar with Darren's musical endeavors, then prepare yourself to experience one of t ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 05/01/2008 12:38 PM EST in WTF?, YouTube | Permalink
04/09/2008
How Does Your Meat Loaf?
The man-titted Meat Loaf and middle aged mall-rat Tiffany have joined forces to hawk AT&T's new GoPhone Light. Sinking to new lows, they commercially bastardize "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" in a way in would even embarrass suburbanite ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 04/09/2008 6:13 PM EST in WTF?, YouTube | Permalink
If N.O.I.A. Asks If You Wanna Dance, Say Hell No and Run Away
Italian electro group N.O.I.A. sure ain't no Moroder. In fact, I find their 1984 S & M, New-Wave, erotic torture, fantasy video for "Do You Wanna Dance" so terribly awful that I have to post it. This is what happened in the early 80s when Ital ...
Read MorePosted by Emily on 04/09/2008 12:30 PM EST in Electronic, WTF?, YouTube, Italo Disco | Permalink
03/28/2008
Andrew WK Sez: Wolf Eyes Rules
Back in 2000, Andrew WK produced a 4-song EP by fellow hard-party dudes, Wolf Eyes. One song on it is by Andrew WK, entitled "Wolf Eyes Rules". The song has a heavy metal rap vibe like Limp Bizkit or some bullshit (which is funny here since t ...
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