A list

Songs featuring Bicycles

Dukes of the Stratosphear - Bike Ride to the Moon
Fats Domino - Rockin' Bicycle
Kyuss - Big Bikes
Ray Parker Jr. & Helen Terry - Dueling Bikes from Quicksilver... (I can't believe that people got paid to make this movie.)
Queen - Bicycle Race
Tomorrow - My White Bicycle

No relation

R.I.P. The Noize

Quiet Riot singer found dead in Las Vegas [Reuters via Yahoo!]



Is this a bad time to mention that the band's biggest song is a cover?

Can't recall what started it all/Or how to begin in the end

Queens of the Stone Age playing "Make It Wit Chu" at the MTV awards this year, featuring Dave Grohl on drums, and Cee-Lo on karaoke machine. Watch for it.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill

Some top notch Weird Al clips:

"Another One Rides the Bus" - April 21, 1981
Ghandi II
"I Lost on Jeopardy" (a parody of the Greg Kihn Band's "Our Love's In Jeopardy"
"Interview" with Prince
"You Don't Love Me Anymore"

Some awful Weird Al clips:

"Interview" with Avril Lavigne
"Sue Ya"

The Web is a dangerous place. I have seen things that I wish I never saw. I have seen shit that will turn you white. But this video, Some guy lip-synching along to the Weird Al show theme song,...is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen, and never have I wanted 1.65 seconds back more than after clicking on that link. All I wanted was a couple hilarious Weird Al clips... but GoogleTube suggested that I might like to see that video. I didn't. GoogleTube was wrong. Dead wrong.

The real school of Rock

Brian May to head British University [CBC]

The piano has been drinking

Seemingly, his only video... at least, the only video posted to YouTube. I saw him for the first time tonight. He plays every Sunday night at the Cameron House. Go.

Links:

Kevin Quain @ myspace

Sunday Night Playlist

Matt's Big Day Out

Queens of the Stone Age - If Only
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Philip Bailey & Phil Collins - Easy Lover
The Clash - Train In Vain
Bjork - Crabcraft
The Notorious B.I.G. - Things Done Changed
Bloc Party - Two More Years (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Carly Simon - Coming Around Again
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Hey Hey My My
The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
N*E*R*D - She Wants to Move (DFA Remix)
Queens of the Stone Age - Lost Art of Keeping a Secret
Joni Mitchell - All I Want
Smashing Pumpkins - Stand Inside Your Love
America - Sister Golden Hair
Marvin Gaye - Heard it Through the Grapevine
Chicago - Saturday In the Park
Iggy Pop - Sixteen
Blancmange - Don't Tell Me
Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky
David Bowie - Breaking Glass
David Bowie - Fame
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
XTC - Earn Enough For Us
Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep Mountain High

A list

Songs with 'Telephone' in the title:

Blondie - Hangin' on the Telephone
Sheena Easton - Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)
Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line
The Fall - Telephone Thing (With Coldcut)
New Edition - Mr. Telephone Man
Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator
Sesame Street - Telephone Rock

Na na na na na na na na na na

"The Day the World Went Away" is NIN's highest charting single on the Billboard Hot 100, at #17! Wha... ?! Sometimes you forget. The Fragile famously went to the top of the album chart then disappeared entirely the next week. Few artists have such rabid fan bases.

Here's the Still version of the song mashed with promo footage for the track. An official video was never released, but the visuals were put together with a live performance, and available as a hidden track on And All That Could Have Been DVD. To access: In between "Head Like A Hole" and "Just Like You Imagined", at 16:10, press quickly LEFT, RIGHT, DOWN, UP and then press ENTER. (From Wikipedia, and any DVD Easter Egg site)



Can't find the director info for this video, and mvdbase.com has nothing.

That boy needs therapy

The Avalanches - "Frontier Psychiatrist", featuring a Wayne and Shuster bit as the prominent vocal sample.



Other videos on YouTube claim to be the 'Original Video'... this could be entirely true. Cursory web searches yield little information, and a search for 'music videos shot twice' only turns up articles about rappers being shot and this story. The Avalanches are from Australia, this guy got shot in Australia. Coincidence? Obviously.

mvdbase.com tells us that there were, indeed, two versions of the video, apparently shot within a month of each other. Go figure.

What is it good for?...

Here's Edwin Starr (born Charles Hatcher) and the Funk Brothers with this Billboard Hot 100 #1 from August 29 to September 12, 1970, Gordy 7101, "War".




Compare this to the current #1 single, Kiss Kiss, from the talentless hack Chris Brown and featuring the astonishingly pathetic production and icy, soulless, auto-tuned vocals of Mr. T-Pain.

Week by week we continue to see the proof of the devolution of our popular arts... the difference in the two of these songs in musicality, performance and sheer talent on record is nothing short of staggering.

Hot potato

Get it quick, before he sues.

Drained of colour; what else could he say?

Marilyn Manson, "Great Big White World", Big Day Out 1999:



Marilyn Manson, "Great Big White World", Rock AM Ring 2003:



This guy used to be dangerous. He was the king at causing controversy during his day (though he owes his career to Bowie and Alice Cooper). Somewhere along the way he got soft, and for the most part, it really wasn't his fault. The Columbine thing had to do a major number on the guy... as much as he tried to parlay the whole debacle into devilish credibility, there were just too many people in positions of power that made a point of painting Marilyn Manson (the band, and the character) as an actual danger to society... One can only keep up the shock-rock thing for so long before the artist devolves into pure self parody. I desperately fucking hope this guy doesn't become a bible-thumping-Jesus-loving-joke. (not that there's anything wrong with loving Jesus, I'm all for freedom of choice... but come on, if you make your whole career being anti-Jesus...)

As evidenced in the latter video, he has completely lost his zeal for performance. His latest band incarnation has more in common with the poseur-mock-glam/post-punk of My Chemical Romance than anything resembling the group's former evilness. I've already put my two cents in on the subject of Mr. Warner's retirement. Say... speaking of Warner, remember when Manson and WB joined forces to sell The Matrix? An extremely rare instance of corporate artistry that doesn't go down like an ounce of ipecac.

For all the sentimental fools

Yacht Rock is dead!
Long live Yacht Rock!

Channel 101 - Yacht Rock

Be sure to watch them in order. The host, playing a parody of himself, used to write for AMG.

Couldn't leave his chair if he tried

Robert Wyatt and friends miming along to "I'm a Believer".

The same but different

The Cryin' Shames [UK band]

and

The Cryan' Shames [US band]

And they sign their names with a capital 'T'

Radiohead have mastered showmanship in the 21st century. They excel at every aspect of their craft and performance, from musicianship to marketing - it's no mistake that they've just released their most mature album. In Rainbows is refined, and in the same vein as previous releases, carrying the usual undertones of slick, dark alt-pop just under the surface... this time, that undercurrent bubbles up and rears its ugly head. This record feels a lot like what Year Zero means to the career of Nine Inch Nails. Both acts have been around long enough that even if they put in an undercooked effort, they will still sell a boatload of albums and have all the reason in the world to tour to their respective rabid fan bases. Both acts are also no longer under major label contracts, allowing them to take all the risks that their former bosses wouldn't have the guts to pull off, such as releasing albums for free. It's not like they need the money, right?
It's no coincidence that the Trent Reznor-produced Saul Williams album has been given a similar release format to In Rainbows, save for the "guilting-you-into-buying-intellectual-property" act. I can't shake the feeling that Mr. Williams is a willing guinea pig in testing the waters for an upcoming NIN release.

Something to think about (for about six seconds): YZ clocks in at 63:42, nearly as long as Reznor's longest single LP, The Downward Spiral, and IR comes in as the band's shortest studio LP, at 42:34.

Read:
Trent Reznor, Saul Williams interview

At Ease [#1 Radiohead fan site]