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Monday, 10:28 pm in Music

Goddamn it’s like fucking clockwork, isn’t it?  Yes that’s right, kids, get behind those sofas because it’s time for Dee to share yet another batch of terrible songs with you in Music Monday!

41. Rip Slyme vs Hotei, “Funkastic” (watch)

No funk no life (hey)
It’s like that yo!
Kono funkastic oorai?

Like most people, I probably first heard this song in the (internet) famous amulation.  Far from thinking, “Lulz Japanese rap lulz!”, however – having had previous exposure to the genre and all that – I thought, “Holy shit I must have that song!”.  About the same time I decided, for whatever reason, that I would go through and archive my entire mp3 collection on my hard drive.  Previously, I’d always burnt mp3s to CDs, only keeping the songs I really, really liked.  Which had the fun side effect of always changing, meaning I constantly kept losing my favorite tracks.  Anyway, in the end I decided to go through and make one definative archive.  Now, many years ago – back in second year uni, I think – ~wolf [h] had for some reason or other gotten me to backup her PC while she reformatted.  I sneakily kept all her mp3s, and by total chance – in between the ten million Ayu and Dragon Ash tracks – I found this.  Wow, what a pointless story.  My mum digs this track.

42. Nigel Planer, “Hole in My Shoe”

I must be a pretty amazing guy to’ve dreamed all this.
Maybe it’s ‘cause I ate all that cheese I found under the cooker.

So, though we’d gotten out of bad FX flashback land, did you?  WRONG!  This is another one that starts many, many years ago, back when I still had pay TV.  Watching Channel [V] one day I happened to catch a clip of Planer performing this track on TotP or some-such.  Being a mad Young Ones fan at the time, I was all like, “Wow, Neil!” and spent the next ten years looking for this song.  Alas, it was too obscure.  Or so I thought.  Cut forward to last week, when I happened to be going through someone’s external drive of music and – lo and behold, and totally unexpectedly – I find not one but two differently named (but otherwise the same) versions of this song.  Wow.  The ‘chorus’ of this song is really, really infectious; if you’re anything like me you’ll walk around singing it all day.  If you’re really like me, you’ll be doing it badly.

43. Rammstein, “Tier”

Was tust du
Was fuhlst du
Was bist du
doch nur ein
Tier

Ah, Rammstein!  Who doesn’t love a little Rammstein in the morning?*  I remember when we were in, oh, year 11 or so; Rammstein had just kind of ‘broken’ into the quasi-mainstream charts here with, gosh, “Stripped” I think.  Some bright spark went and looked up the lyrics on the internet, and I remember having a discussion in art class with… someone about how outrageous and awesome the band was, and how they could get away with singing about incestuous rape and so forth because (gasp) they sung in German so no-one could tell what the shit the lyrics were about.  Anyway, here is that song!  I didn’t realise it until I actually went and looked the translated lyrics up, though.  Really I just love the lyricality** of this chorus of “Tier”, and the “wooo-EEE-ooo” sound.  I can never remember the name of the instrument that makes those sounds; it’s like this electrified pole thing, and you wave your hand near it to get different notes.  It was the world’s first electric musical instrument.  Mmm, trivia.

44. Queen, “Don't Stop Me Now” (watch)

I’m burning through the skies Yeah!
Two hundred degrees
That’s why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I’m trav’ling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic woman out of you

Last week aside, I don’t think we’ve had a single Music Monday for a very long time that hasn’t had some kind of obtuse (or not-so obtuse) Doctor Who tie-in song.  So this is the one for this week.  For all five of you who’ve seen it, this song was one of the ones David Tennant sings/mimes to in the weird black comedy-cum-drama Blackpool, which I watched quasi-religiously because, well, it had Tennant in it.  The ABC also used it for the promos for the show.  Anyway, who doesn’t love a bit of Queen?*  This is one of those really daggy songs I love listening to really loud, belting out the chorus, driving too fast down Adelaide Avenue… that sort of thing.

45. The Avalanches, “Frontier Psychiatrist” (watch)
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And here’s our Australian quotient for the week.  The Avalanches were a fairly popular, erm, experimental hip hoppy band back when I was in college (which was apparently the last time I actually listened to the radio).  If you only download one song off Music Monday, I suggest you get this one.  I probably scare people off by calling it ‘hip hop’, which it’s not really but I just don’t have a better genre for it.  “Frontier Psychiatrist” is such a beautiful, theatrically eerie track; kind of a cross between an old Western and a B-grade horror film, cut with non-sequitor 50s-sounding sound bytes.  Anyone who can tell me where all the clips come from gets a cookie.  This is not the videoclip I remember for this song; I can only assume it’s an international release version.  Alas, I can’t find the ‘inkblot’ one I remember on YouTube.

Anyway, that’s my five done for the week.  So now be a good bunch of little pirates and toddle off to ~H [h]’s blog to see what remixes he’s pushing this week.

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* Well then GTFO my blog, you haver-of-bad taste you!

** It is so a word!

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