Comments on: Everything’s Better With Massive, Heart-Defibriliating Drums

By: God

God — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:15:44 +0000

ok- that was….stupid.

By: Skar

Skar — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:30:59 +0000

Holy goats that was awesome.

I know nothing about the technical aspects of music, and rap generally leaves me cold. I know what I like though, and I liked that.

By: Nikita

Nikita — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:56:52 +0000

Scalzi you disappoint me. If you want a rap song with overwhelming, defibrillator drums, you need to root out Oukast's B.O.B. Here it is on youtube in case you forgot. For those of y'all that find all that rapping a little too harsh and you know young, forward it to 3:00 and get your crunk on!

By: Manny

Manny — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:11:53 +0000

Why buy happiness retail, when you can get it in bulk from the supplier?

http://yachtrock.com/

By: Christopher Hawley

Christopher Hawley — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:48:03 +0000

@14:

Anybody up for: The Who In Cincinnati?
http://www.ktvb.com/video/index.html?nvid=195337

There’s a guy who suspiciously looks like John Scalzi at 5:01

Christian – I believe you misspelled “a passel of idiots and poor crowd management in Cincinnatti” in the sentence above. Please to reserve the Who-dissing for when it’s appropriate?

Has anyone besides Christian been able to view this? Not that I care to see frenzied consumerism in all its stunning shades of ugly, but: a) I’d like to see their faces, in case I ever encounter them; b) not being able to access it gets me p*ssed off. (Hint: neither a browser nor an OS be teh problem.)

Perhaps it’s a case of “Tens of ~~Thousnads~~Thousands of Intartubes Surfers Smush Server in Boise”?

By: Dr. Phil

Dr. Phil — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:22:57 +0000

Ooh, Christopher — many thanks! I blogged about the happiest 1980s pop video e-vah here. I obviously didn’t dig down deep enough in YouTube — finding only covers by others and anime cut videos. (grin)

And in case anything thinks I’m joking, I included mention of Katrina and the Waves – Walking on Sunshine because of the Sunshine connection. I am not putting it up as an annoying song.

Your mileage will vary. Carry on — nothing to see here.

Dr. Phil

By: refugee

refugee — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:15:54 +0000

An excellent demonstration of what happens when you add a real musician to rap or whatever the hell the original was. Still doesn't fix it, but the drums utterly overwhelm what little else there is. Oh, and "WMD of annoying songs"? Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" At the very least, a toxic spill of schmaltz.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:56:50 +0000

I’m sorry, I thought this thread was about people adding their own styling to a song so as to improve upon the original…

By: Maeg

Maeg — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:24:36 +0000

Miko: The song was… chunderous. The guitar solo made me sad – so much grandstanding, so little… well… music.

The video reminded me of my childhood, where I would really get into the hairband tunes of the day — until I SAW them for the first time.

That guy’s hair COULDN’T have been real.. could it?

By: Miko

Miko — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:51:58 +0000

..look, if we're trying to find the worst piece of music now (and not counting novelty comedy stuff like The Birdie Song) there's only one choice: Nitro - Freight Train I dare you to watch until the part with the explosion and the guitar solo and not either laugh or weep hysterically.