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So before I make this next post, I want to be clear that I personally hate April Fool's Day. The essence of humor is surprise. There is no surprise in April Fool's Day! Everyone's actively bracing for it! April Fool's Day on the Internet has long since stopped being about "jokes" and devolved into a series of exhausting, repetitive, occasionally-cruel pranks, often enacted by the world's biggest corporations against the captive audience of their customers.
But anyway
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What I'm listening to today: "A Divine Proclamation of Finishing the Present Existence", Last Days of Humanity (ft. Sesame Street)
In every art form, we need that *one person* to go All The Way, we need the Merzbow or Malevich or the John Cage who finds and crosses The Line so, lines established, the rest of us can draw within them. "Putrefaction in Progress" is that for metal. 25 minutes of music of uniform, maximal density. You can't go harder than this. We checked.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Fat Cat", Sesame Street
If there's one thing children crave, in media or otherwise, it's being taken seriously. The genius of CTW and the Jim Henson Company is even if they were making disposable TV to teach very small children letters or the concept of "rhymes", they were going to give it their all. Anyway, here's Jim Henson in a rare repeat appearance as "the Mahna Mahna guy", in a song that's so much more of a banger than it needs to be.
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What I'm listening to today: "Hey Ya", Outkast (ft. the Peanuts Gang)
Okay, yes, this got overplayed. But give it a chance. Andre 3000 puts his entire self into this. He performed almost every instrument. The lyrics swerve dizzyingly between literal last-second improvisation about Lucy Liu, and him pouring his heart out about his divorce. This song is so *sincere*.
Here's an exacting shot-for-shot HD remake of one of the earliest videos on YouTube (orig. Mar 30, 2006)
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What I'm listening to today: "God's Away on Business", Tom Waits (ft. Sesame Street)
A funeral dirge for our fallen universe. Listening to this song, the sense I get was Tom Waits was one of those people in the 80s who understood the Reagan administration really was the end of the world and it was all downhill from there. …or so I was GOING to say, but then I looked it up and this album was released in 2002, one year into the Bush administration. Well, same difference.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Ante Up", Mash Out Posse (ft. Sesame Street)
Gangsta rap in a cartoon register but deadly serious, this 2000 breakout hit is so charming it became the favorite rap song of everyone who doesn't listen to rap; it was in last year's TMNT movie and a KFC ad. Meanwhile the song itself is a full-throated endorsement of/how-to guide for street mugging. Here it is being sung by Ernie and Bert.
The government does *not* want you to watch this video
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What I'm listening to today: "Difference", Red Five & Exile + DJ Mickey Finn + Ragga Twins + MC Navigator (ft. Sesame Street)
I have only indirect knowledge of the 90s British hardcore electronic scene. But, Jungle grew out of reggae culture, and tracks we in the states knew only as instrumentals were meant to be spun as backing tracks for improvised vocals.
This short clip was from a party called "Future Winter Session 1998" (full set is on YouTube). This is all live.
Paul Cantrell
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The music on that show…! I mean…
Paul Cantrell
@fishidwardrobe @mcc
Yup, that’s correct!
Fish Id Wardrobe
@inthehands @mcc I once read that the vocals to this are by someone improbably famous. I think The Pointer Sisters?
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