it’s friday, april 6th. and, yes, in two days it’ll be april 8th - easter sunday. but more important than marshmellow peeps and chocolate rabbits, april 8th is biz markie’s birthday. yes! so happy birthday biz markie! the diabolical biz markie was born marcel hall in harlem, new york, way back in 1964. i am a sucker for biz markie’s goofy, ill, silly, real, semi-retarded, happy style, humor, and vocals. makes me smile & dance every time. seriously. if you disagree, then perhaps it is time you had a heavy dose of vitamin biz via a rather swell rendition of ‘benny & the jets‘ or the super silly and equally great ‘just a friend’ video. so good. nobody beats the biz, especially not the easter bunny. so april 8th give a happy birthday shout biz markie! please enjoy the embedded vids and mp3s below.
ye mighty track list:
Biz Markie - Just A Friend Biz Markie - Nobody
Biz Markie - Make The Music With Your Mouth Biz
Biz Markie - Benny And The Jets
Biz Markie - Spring Again
it’s friday. time for a music comparison, with the same song sung by two vocal heavyweights. the song? ‘It Was A Very Good Year‘ (links to lyrics). the singers? only the finest. frank ‘chairman of the board’ sinatra VS william ‘james t kirk’ shatner. for mr. francis albert sinatra, the song comes from his great 4-disc complilation album the reprise collection. for bill shatner, the song is one track from his experimental album titled the transformed man. powerful stuff, yes. but who will win? i leave that for you to decide (in the comments, if you please)…
it’s friday. end of the week. i hope you are wearing a half-shirt today. yes, it’s time to turn gay. yes, truly. and giantmonster wants to help! how? simple (way more simple than you think!). apparently & according to love god’s way ministries you can put all this pent up heterosexuality behind you and turn hella gay by listening to specific bands & music that will make you a gay. amazing. elton john is so gay he’s mentioned twice. and very little disco. wow - who knew? well, not just ted haggart, but donny davies too. donnie seems to know a thing or two about gayness. if this offends anyone, please just relax, let the spirit of andy kaufman fill your heart and say ‘meet the new borat.’ and, if you like, you can also bolster your heterosexuality by listening to non-gay ( a.k.a. ’shitty’) bands too. save that for later. for now, just access those music mix below (sorry, no elton john) and get onto turning gay! you’re welcome.
track listing:
Bjork - All Is Full Of Love
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart)
Queen - Play The Game
Judas Priest - Turbo Lover
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
Interpol - Not Even Jail
Le Tigre - Deceptacon
the mash-up kings and queens over at club bootie have released their 2006 best of bootie cd. just like last years 2005 best of bootie mix, their 2006 selection is also free (yes, free) to download as either one lumped together zip file (108 megabytes), or track by track. so nice! 21 tracks total (bonus tracks on their website). they even threw in some lovely cd cover art too! thank you D from bootiesf for the heads up!
ho ho ho & happy holidays from giantmonster! give the gift this year that keeps on giving: the gift of creepyness. it truly is ever-lasting. sure, a ceramic crying clown figurine music box will do just that. but this year, it’s time to go much farther! feel free to re-gift the gift i am giving to you: it’s Fabio’s album After Dark. oh no, you are welcome. yes, fabio does have an album. and we here in the romance division of giantmonster really want you to have that album. so get the greatest dose of cheese to ever be pressed to vinyl using the link below. the zipped album archive includes cd art work (front & back & more) and all 17 tracks in mp3 format at 192kbps. so don’t be afraid to set the night on fire this holiday season!
sample:
Fabio on Films
update: (5/2008)
i pulled the download link to the file due to the many jackasses biting on this hella original post & hotlinking to the file. yeah, totally. but if you are that much in need of some cheesy music via a fabio album fix, please feel free to contact me and maybe i can help you out. peace!
the ever funny & always powerful musical comedy genius duo known as tenacious d will be playing a concert in san francisco this month. their last show in SF was in 2002 at slims i believe. the D is on tour for their new movie tenacious d: the pick of destiny. (check out the trailer - it’s got sasquatch in it!). tickets for the SF show are still on sale too! the show is monday november 20th at the bill graham civic auditorium. and tickets are not cheap - $50+ after taxes & fees (hence the not sold out part). go & i’ll see you there! meanwhile, enjoy the D below.
the mighty iTunes mp4 protection has been cracked! from seidai software comes FairGame, software that will convert the songs you purchased on an iTunes store to an unprotected format - keeping all original metadata, artwork, lyric, and album information intact. fairgame has several pre-requisites before it can be used, like having iMovie HD installed and enabling ‘access for assistive devices’ in the universal access control panel. only works on a mac with OSX. but nice to see this happening. buying music from the apple store is like buying a CD that will only play on one specific type of player. kind of nuts, and also kind of a recipe for a monopoly. doesn’t everyone know that the archos media players are worlds better than any ipod (thanks tony!)?. i’m serious. linky via boingboing via thornography.
Also, adrienne sent in this report the other day from BBC, titled itunes copy protection cracked. as music downloaded from an itunes store can ONLY be played on an ipod, the code that prevents music downloaded from Apple’s iTunes store being played on any portable player other than an iPod has been “cracked”. this reverse-engineering has been done by Jon Lech Johansen. his company DoubleTwist hopes to distribute the cracking code to other media player producers. that is great news.
it’s friday, and i’m still working on my costume. waaay behind schedule. but a quick time out to post some songs ranging from possible to definite for including in your halloween mix. there’s also a great halloween mashup mix posted at the bride of the monster mash website. so get your fill of tunes! save all the files by clicking on the handy folder link below.
ye mighty track listing:
Beck - Devil’s Haircut
Halloween - Misfits
Deadbolt - VooDoo Curse
The Specials - Ghost Town
Gnarls Barkley - The Boogie Monster
DJ Shadow - Giving Up the Ghost
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi Is Dead
Skin & Bones - Fear Of Music
Michael Jackson - Thriller
belated birthday wishes to the jazz greatness of john coltrane on what would have been his 80th birthday. john coltrane was born on september 23rd, 1926. a quick search on youtube will pull up a lot of coltrane vids. posted below is a performance of the heavy song alabama, written by coltrane in 1963 after the bombing of the 16th street baptist church in birmingham, alabama. also below are a few tracks posted (right-click & save-as, please) from the albums Standard Coltrane, Giant Steps, and Impressions. happy birthday, mr john coltrane, and many many thanks for your music!
you know those semi-retarded questions people sometimes ask to get a conversation going, such as ‘if you were stranded on a desert island, what albums would you like to have with you?’ well, even though that gilligan’s island scenario would never happen, i do know one of the albums i would bring: james brown’s funky people. easily the one album i’ve listened to the most and never find it tiring. full of heavy funk & soul hitters such as maceo parker, lyn collins, and fred wesley. there’s also a mighty part 2 and part3. below are five fantastic feeling tracks from part 1. please enjoy.
ye mighty track listing:
JBFP - Pass The Peas
JBFP - Gimme Some More
JBFP - Think
JBFP - Damn Right I am Somebody, part 1 & 2
JBFP - (It’s Not The Express) It’s The JB’s Monorail, part 1
… you are A #1. so i haven’t posted anything about my trip to new york city. and how damn great it was/is (both new york and the trip). so many things to like about new york city. man, it was fun. i miss it! i will have to post up some pics and experiences soon. for now, i hope these tracks/soundbytes from the escape from new york soundtrack will suffice. enjoy!
ye mighty track listing:
Escape From New York - Snake Plissken
Escape From New York - You Are The Duke of New York
Escape From New York - The Duke Arrives / Barricade
Escape From New York - 69th Street Bridge
Escape From New York - The Name is Plissken
it’s still friday darn it. 11pm-ish. i can still post something up in time for friday! what to post? i’m gonna default to music on this one. please exercise your right-click-save-as skills if you wish. i’m just posting up some songs that have been on heavy rotation at the luxurious giantmonster corporate headquarters these last few days. enjoy!
Gary Newman - Cars
Giant Drag - Everything’s Worse
The Pixies - Hey
Beck - Missing
Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
Broken Social Scene - Shampoo Suicide
The Skatalites - Guns of Navarone
Billy Nayer Show - Mama Hen
The White Stripes - The Air Near My Fingers
Turbonegro - Imorgen Skal Eg Daue
man, there’s something really good about listening to van halen - david lee roth with van halen - that makes me smile. maybe it’s dave’s voice with the ever-ready ‘eagle cry’ scream. yes! or is that the whole band sounded soo damn great when they were young & raw & strung out on drugs? yes to both actually. then i read a news story saying that a david lee roth re-union with van halen is inevitable. say whuut? crazy. anyway, posted below with much respect and love for the lovely raw powerful rockingness that is van halen are some tracks from the albums van halen, van halen II, women and children first, fair warning, and diver down. it’s friday - you should be rocking out (my bandwidth pending, of course). enjoy!
ye mighty track list:
Running With The Devil
Jamie’s Cryin’
Eruption + You Really Got Me
Ice Cream Man
Unchained
Dance The Night Away
Intruder + PrettyWoman
And The Cradle Will Rock
it’s friday. end of the week. time for laughter. thought i’d post (& link to) some funny sound files of louis c.k. doing stand-up. these are taken from his cd titled Louis C.K. - Live in Houston. it’s really funny - you can buy it direct from louis c.k.’s site if you like. or you can just listen to the samples below. (warning - these mp3s contain swear words & appropriate comedic yelling so be sure to turn the volume WAAAAY up for your co-workers to hear). enjoy!
lately i’ve been digging the music of the doves. lovely sounding stuff. so i thought i’d post some of their songs up to share. you can check out their website too. anyway, please enjoy. here’s just a few …
it’s friday, april 6th. and, yes, in two days it’ll be april 8th - easter sunday. but more important than marshmellow peeps and chocolate rabbits, april 8th is biz markie’s birthday. yes! so happy birthday biz markie! the diabolical biz markie was born marcel hall in harlem, new york, way back in 1964. i am a sucker for biz markie’s goofy, ill, silly, real, semi-retarded, happy style, humor, and vocals. makes me smile & dance every time. seriously. if you disagree, then perhaps it is time you had a heavy dose of vitamin biz via a rather swell rendition of ‘benny & the jets‘ or the super silly and equally great ‘just a friend’ video. so good. nobody beats the biz, especially not the easter bunny. so april 8th give a happy birthday shout biz markie! please enjoy the embedded vids and mp3s below.
it’s friday. time for a music comparison, with the same song sung by two vocal heavyweights. the song? ‘
Frank Sinatra - It Was A Very Good Year
William Shatner - It Was A Very Good Year
ho ho ho & happy holidays from giantmonster! give the gift this year that keeps on giving: the gift of creepyness. it truly is ever-lasting. sure, a ceramic crying clown figurine music box will do just that. but this year, it’s time to go much farther! feel free to re-gift the gift i am giving to you: it’s Fabio’s album After Dark. oh no, you are welcome. yes, 
it’s friday, and i’m still working on my costume. waaay behind schedule. but a quick time out to post some songs ranging from possible to definite for including in your halloween mix. there’s also a great halloween mashup mix posted at the 
belated birthday wishes to the jazz greatness of 
it’s still friday darn it. 11pm-ish. i can still post something up in time for friday! what to post? i’m gonna default to music on this one. please exercise your 
it’s friday. end of the week. time for laughter. thought i’d post (& link to) some funny sound files of louis c.k. doing stand-up. these are taken from his cd titled Louis C.K. - Live in Houston. it’s really funny - you can 
