That must be out of style now...

Blasphemous yet funky.

Back when Music Videos were really great.

Charles, take another spin on your bike. I think oxygen deprivation is at work.

Wow, MC Puppet, the most recognized face in the music biz.

Let's hear some Flobots

Was that Annette Benning?

Whoa, World Trade Center at 3:27?

Charles, a few months back you completely floored me by listening to Melt-Banana - now you're "bustin' out" with MC 900 Ft. Jesus. You are truly a man of varied tastes!

re: #8 wrenchwench

Whoa, World Trade Center at 3:27?

I know, very weird, isn't it. With a cartoonish plane/spaceship flying by. The video was produced in 1989, so it's not a reference to 9/11.

Frontier Psychiatrist

re: #8 wrenchwench

I saw that too & wondered for a second what the space ship was going to do.

Evening guys...The work is good, it just doesn't excite my ear buds. Weather alarm just went off, we had a big thunderstorms an hour ago. Knocked down my Internet connection...

Much appreciated! Fuzzy memories of a younger era before MTV became game show central...

MC Puppet looks a little too much like Charles Nelson Reilly

I still can't touch this, can I?

I don't know if Mark Griffin's stage name was inspired by this:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Charles -

From that ERA - I preferred "MAX HEADROOM!"

-S-

Now for some music!

Makes me feel like Mr Hand

re: #18 Dr. Shalit

If I know which "era" you're talking about...then it was a pretty good era. (;

re: #20 lifeofthemind

Makes me feel like Mr Hand

OH! NO!

re: #19 jcm

Now for some music!

Upding!

Charles:

Another obscure artist whom I think you will like just as much for his unique brand of neo-soul/jazz is Lewis Taylor.

Truly amazing stuff.

Start with Lewis Taylor...then go to Lewis II.

I KNOW...from one musician to another...that you will labsolutely love his stuff.

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

This was like a bad drug...I just couldn't stop.

Truth Is Out Of Style...Barry is that you?

re: #19 jcm

Brilliant!

Chopin:

ONE MILE FOR EVERY SERVICE MEMBER KILLED
IN OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM.

Beginning Flag Day, June 14, 2008, a dedicated team of runners will run across America from Fort Irwin, CA to Arlington National Cemetery, one mile for every Soldier, Sailor, Airmen, and Marine killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. For ten weeks, team members will mark each mile with an American flag and signcard in an apolitical reflection of remembrance of each service member.

Use the links below to follow the team as they travel across America, to learn more about the lives of our service members, and to find out how you can run one mile for the fallen.

re: #27 Archimedes

Brilliant!

Chopin:

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

Marvelous!

I saw them at FSU around '91.

Enjoyed the show except for the preaching about "White Male Guilt." First time I had heard that. Then some skins started tossing nazi salutes. Then someone asked why they were wearing leather nikes if they were vegans. Then a girls said she was bi and just wanted to dance.

So they shut up and sang. It was a good show when the played and shut up.

re: #27 Archimedes

even better

re: #26 willowone

[Link: www.youtube.com...] love ray charles with this

I saw him at Atlanta Centennial park about five or six years ago. A very pleasant evening with my ex and friends, of course he played "Georgia". A totally classy guy. God Bless Ray Charles!

I though the name came from the televangelist who had a big Jesus threaten to kill him in a vision.

The things you think you know.

re: #11 Killgore Trout

Frontier Psychiatrist

That's some pretty weird shit, Maynard.

re: #31 Shug

Sweet.

Rachmaninoff himself Playing Chopin:

Beat that! :)

One of my favorite piano pieces, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata the Third Movement:

re: #35 Archimedes

Sweet.

Rachmaninoff himself Playing Chopin:

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

Beat that! :)

WOW!

How about a 60 ft Jesus.

The standard bearer

Best MC 900 ft. Jesus lyric evar!

"Suppose I accidentally got my shit together"

re: #38 saberry0530

How about your own Personal Jesus?

/Cash style

That was way cool!

re: #32 LoFlyer

i would have given tons to have seen him

re: #41 Sharmuta
Not bad
prefer this one more

re: #42 UncleSam

Jesus was way cool

I'll see your weirdness and raise.

GORILLAZ - Rapture Riders (In A Geep)

(Blondie / The Doors mashup)

re: #35 Archimedes

Sweet.

Rachmaninoff himself Playing Chopin:

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

Beat that! :)

I accept your challenge.

And the blasphemous and hilarious

God will f**k you up!

Last Train home

re: #43 willowone

i would have given tons to have seen him

He did a good show, It was free concert sponsered by who knows? I thought he was quiet dignified and while past his prime, he could still belt it out. I wish I had seen him 30 years earlier. On second thought I am just glad I saw him perform. It was a fun night...

Fun and funky. Not fresh anymore though.

re: #48 jcm

Heh. I have a neighbor who holds regular bluegrass jams. They do a great version of that.

re: #35 Archimedes

Rach playing Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

re: #52 Killgore Trout

Heh. I have a neighbor who holds regular bluegrass jams. They do a great version of that.

Co-worker does those he has a fiddle and real pricey banjo, just spent big bucks on the banjo getting some work done it.

I know zip about instruments.

How can we forget this one

re: #47 Occasional Reader

I accept your challenge.

Wish I was still 18...Never saw that before. Reminds me of "soft-porn"!

re: #55 saberry0530

Nice!

re: #50 LoFlyer

he was my mothers quiet spot. she would send us to bed and play his albums fond memories for me

re: #55 saberry0530

As long as we're doing the classics: Presence of the Lord

re: #47 Occasional Reader

I started watching Generation Kill. It's pretty good. The attention to military detail is damn near perfect.

/some of the character caricatures, not so much

re: #58 willowone

he was my mothers quiet spot. she would send us to bed and play his albums fond memories for me

Cool! I find it amazing that most of our fondest memories are innocuous family events...

re: #61 LoFlyer
true

re: #60 Killian Bundy

The attention to military detail is damn near perfect.

I thought it looked well done from that angle, but of course I didn't serve so I wouldn't know first-hand.

I am tempted to link a certain Slayer vid, but I would likely be stoned for it.
//T.G. is likely the only Lizard who would dig it anyway

re: #59 Killgore Trout

THE SPACE POPE IS BACK!whoopie!

I've had this one rattling around my head for a few weeks now...

re: #59 Killgore Trout

As long as we're doing the classics: Presence of the Lord

Excellant, but like Steve better on this one

re: #64 Slumbering Behemoth

Wuss

re: #68 Dan G.

Yep.

My favorite number!

re: #69 Slumbering Behemoth

;)

re: #60 Killian Bundy

I started watching Generation Kill. It's pretty good. The attention to military detail is damn near perfect.

/some of the character caricatures, not so much

One of web sites I hang out at was advertising it. I knew from the title it was going to be a "Typical Hollywood stereotyping" portrayal of our troops. Our boys and girls could defeat global warming and North Korea simultaneously, and Our MSM and Hollywood would portray it as pitiful defeat..

re: #67 saberry0530

The 80's was pretty much a musical void for me.

Yep, HBO is a waste. I canceled it months ago. The John Adams series was an exception. Still pissed about the Sopranos.

re: #61 LoFlyer

Cool! I find it amazing that most of our fondest memories are innocuous family events...

My most fond memories were times when us kids had no adults around and did all sorts of fun stuff...

re: #47 Occasional Reader

Haha... That was back when Britney was a sweet girl.

Change of pace.

JANIS JOPLIN - ME & BOBBY MC GEE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMy762W3RcM

re: #53 Dan G.

Unbelievable. You can always tell the difference between the very good and the great when you hear the great perform.

re: #73 Killgore Trout

The 80's was pretty much a musical void for me.

Same here, lived in Japan during the best part of the 80's missed most of the tv and radio.

This one used to do something for me

Janis Joplin... maybe this will work...

re: #67 saberry0530

Excellant, but like Steve better on this one

Ah, one of my favorite misheard lyrics... "Bring Me a Pile of Love".

re: #74 LEGION

Yep, HBO is a waste. I canceled it months ago. The John Adams series was an exception. Still pissed about the Sopranos.

Just set to start watching John Adams, via DVD rental, with dinner tonight.

haunting. beautiful.
one of a kind

re: #80 Occasional Reader

HAHAHAHAHAAA!

I will link this one in honor of our evolutionary cousins, though.
/monkey related, not Slayer

A non-musical note before I vanish offline for the night, from Powerline, Obama and the Palestinians:

Anatomy of a Delusion

Fighting continues in Gaza between rival gangs. Earlier today, Hamas thugs killed a number of members of a "clan" that is said to be loyal to Fatah.
...
The upshot was that 150 Palestinians associated with Fatah fled Gaza for civilization; that is to say, Israel. The Israelis opened the border to take them in. The photo below shows a wounded Fatah loyalist being taken to an Israeli hospital:
...
Like many liberals, Barack Obama takes it as an article of faith that the first order of business, should he become President, will be to solve the problems of the Palestinians. Only this, Obama says, will enable us to make progress on the broader front of the Middle East and the Arab world.

This is exactly backward. Of all the twisted and corrupt Arab cultures, the most dysfunctional, by far, is that of the Palestinians. This is because, for more than a half-century now, the Palestinians have been used by their fellow Arabs and Muslims as political tools.
...
Of all the backward countries of the Middle East, Palestine will be the last to be reformed, not the first.

re: #82 Shug
what a wonderous voice

Fatboy slim does Darwin

re: #73 Killgore Trout

The 80's was pretty much a musical void for me.

What missed classics like this?

re: #75 slokat

My most fond memories were times when us kids had no adults around and did all sorts of fun stuff...

And the really cool thing is that when you get in to your fifties, you can tell your parents what you did, and then they tell you what they did as teens. Try it...People don't change much, just the times.

Talent knows talent, Louis and Danny

re: #88 Kaptain

Fatboy slim does Darwin

Killgore should totally link that in his nic!

Oh, wait.

re: #82 Shug ...On a lighter note...
after the first 17 seconds

re: #84 Slumbering Behemoth

I will link this one in honor of our evolutionary cousins, though.
/monkey related, not Slayer

I don't know if these monkeys evolved.

re: #93 swamprat

Sounds like an Obama campaign song

re: #72 LoFlyer

One of web sites I hang out at was advertising it. I knew from the title it was going to be a "Typical Hollywood stereotyping" portrayal of our troops. Our boys and girls could defeat global warming and North Korea simultaneously, and Our MSM and Hollywood would portray it as pitiful defeat..

I've only watched the first two episodes so far but it's not that bad. The portrayal of the Sgt. Maj. and one Cpt. seem a bit over the top, but hey, I wasn't there.

/apparently, most Marines that have seen it seem to like it

re: #89 jcm

JCM, Disco inferno was from 1976, not the 80's. Your kung fu needs work grasshopper

re: #97 saberry0530

JCM, Disco inferno was from 1976, not the 80's. Your kung fu needs work grasshopper

*hangs head in shame*

Pardon me musical ignorance is showing!

re: #82 Shug

I have a recording of him singing that song. Very emotive. Opera at its best is the most emotive music.

This amateur singer, Paul Potts, surprises everyone in a contest in Britain, where Simon Cowell is also a judge. He sings opera, which is clearly not the thing most people sing in these things, but check it out:

re: #99 Archimedes

That's always a fun one to watch. The change on the faces of the judges as they react to his singing is remarkable.

OK, two musical works by David Peel:

Up Against The Wall M***F***
(lyrics incomprehensible)

Obama For President
(politics incomprehensible)

Good Night, Lizard America!

Karadzic protected by US until he broke 'deal': Belgrade report

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his "deal", the Serb newspaper Blic reported Saturday, quoting a US intelligence source.

The newspaper claims Karadzic was secretly granted immunity in return for keeping a low profile.

"Karadzic, indicted for genocide and war crimes, was under US protection until 2000, when the CIA intercepted his telephone conversation that clearly proved he personally chaired a meeting of his old political party," the daily quoted a "well-informed US intelligence source" as saying.

/why would we do that?

re: #99 Archimedes

I have a recording of him singing that song. Very emotive. Opera at its best is the most emotive music.

This amateur singer, Paul Potts, surprises everyone in a contest in Britain, where Simon Cowell is also a judge. He sings opera, which is clearly not the thing most people sing in these things, but check it out:

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

Made the hair on the back of my neck stand up in a good way.

re: #99 Archimedes

powerful voice and great performance.

does the NHS cover dental work? My God, does everybody in Britain have messed up teeth?

re: #104 Shug

powerful voice and great performance.

does the NHS cover dental work? My God, does everybody in Britain have messed up teeth?

yes and, yes ,and, yes and yes

And now for something completely different.

I didn't know anybody else had heard of MC 900 Ft. Jesus? "The City Sleeps" is one of my favorite songs. You have to give props to a guy who can make arson sound entertaining.

re: #104 Shug

powerful voice and great performance.

does the NHS cover dental work? My God, does everybody in Britain have messed up teeth?

Orthodontia seems to have been outlawed.

re: #104 Shug

The teeth look bad. I guess he can get those fixed.

re: #105 saberry0530

Oh, I dunno. How about this Brit's grill?

/that ones got something for the fellas and the gals

re: #106 Truck Monkey

And now for something completely different.

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

...I like this better

I saw an article (don't have a link) where some Brits were forced to pull their own teeth because it was almost impossible to get in with a dentist there.

re: #113 Cartman

but it's free

/

re: #113 Cartman

I saw an article (don't have a link) where some Brits were forced to pull their own teeth because it was almost impossible to get in with a dentist there.

Brit Dentists have a quota, they don't get paid for doing more than the quota. The dentists quit for the year when the quota is filled. Leaving millions waiting for care.

Boy is it slow in here. Must be date night!

re: #115 jcm

Man, that just ain't right.

re: #113 Cartman

I saw an article (don't have a link) where some Brits were forced to pull their own teeth because it was almost impossible to get in with a dentist there.

A long trip to the dentis

A recent survey by the Citizens Advice Bureau found 7.4million Brits had tried and failed to find an NHS dentist in the past two years. And a third of the population have not been for a dental check-up in the past year.

Horror stories of people pulling out their own teeth with pliers have multiplied.

/Lord Obama wants to bring it here

re: #113 Cartman
Military Intelligence. British Dentistry. German Daintiness. Japanese Frankness.

Getting ready to launch
90 seconds...

re: #114 Shug

but it's free

/

So are your teeth. Free range teeth, roaming the countryside, fending for themselves.

60 seconds...

I like it. Rock and Roll

re: #117 Cartman

Man, that just ain't right.

Another story out of Britain, ER's are required to process incoming patients in a certain amount of time. Because they are so overworked they hold patients in the ambulance, because the clock doesn't start until the patient comes in the doors.

Welcome to National Health (s)Care.

re: #124 jcm

but it's free

/

re: #73 Killgore Trout

The 80's was pretty much a musical void for me.

"K-T" -

The "80's" were not as great as "60's"and/or "70's" for those of us who were there - AND - still there was - RUSH, The POLICE, Duran Duran, Men at Work, Flock of Seagulls, Madonna, U-2, etc. et. al.

-S-

Web cam fucked up!

re: #127 Killgore Trout
Ok on my side

re: #125 Shug

but it's free

/

Well in that case, quotas, waiting lines, unavailable procedures are a small price to pay for FREE!
/

re: #102 Killian Bundy

Karadzic protected by US until he broke 'deal': Belgrade report

/why would we do that?

"K-B" -

Does the name "ADMIRAL DARLAN" mean anything to 'ya?

-S-

re: #128 swamprat

Did it launch? I'm still seeing images with the weird smoking hoses attached.

Well boys and girks, i am going to bed.

I took some ambiebn, and my haead and armns areheavn nooew.

re: #130 Dr. Shalit

Does the name "ADMIRAL DARLAN" mean anything to 'ya?

Well, I can Google.

/not sure how he relates to Karadzic

re: #131 Killgore Trout
Bummer, heard audio but no video for me.

re: #131 Killgore Trout

Looks like a dud. They had the countdown down to 10 seconds then the cam froze. They just anounced they may try again in 10 minutes...

re: #135 Killgore Trout

do you have a link ?

re: #135 Killgore Trout

What are they launching, a satellite into orbit?

re: #131 Killgore Trout
sorry, was bring in the groceries. No. they put the gantry bak up. Cam says "hold" with a running live count.

re: #137 Archimedes

It's a private civilian company launching some stuff for NASA. I think this is the first time it's happened.

re: #138 swamprat

The hold time says an hour and a half. Light the F*ing candle and let's get on with it!

re: #136 Shug

Here

uh, guys, the gantry is still up

Something dropped. Wasn't that the gantry?

re: #143 Archimedes yep

re: #143 Archimedes
Not sure of proper term

Lift off! Yeay!

The vocalist is so bad it reminds me of Leo Kottke, except that Leo Kottke is such a spectacular guitar player his singing is inconsequential to the quality of his music. In this case there is nothing to compensate for the crappy singing, so I give it a thumbs down.

Another recommended MC 900 ft Jesus song, "If I only had a brain".

re: #36 Archimedes

One of my favorite piano pieces, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata the Third Movement:

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

That was awesome! Thanks.

re: #148 Cog

Another recommended MC 900 ft Jesus song, "If I only had a brain".

...or the extended grooves of "I'm Going Straight To Heaven" and/or "UFOs Are Real". ;)

But dead in the arms of the night they lay.
Their dreams sprout wings and fly away.
-While the City Sleeps

The bass line is actually from Weather Report's Cucumber Slumber.

Funky :)

re: #33 jones

I though the name came from the televangelist who had a big Jesus threaten to kill him in a vision.

The things you think you know.

Back in the 80's, Oral Roberts claimed to have a vision of a 900 ft. Jesus who told him that he had to collect money to build a medical center or else God would "take him away".

The MC900 Ft Jesus name comes from that Oral Roberts claim.

Thanks for that video!

It's a shame he only did three albums. Welcome to my Dream is one of the best albums of the decade, hands down.

Al-Jazeera theme song.