I really like the beat. plus Fountain of wayne is a good group. i mean come on, "stacy's mom" haha. Someone to love is a really good song, plus Demetri Martin is in the video he's a pretty good comic :P
Has everybody long since heard this song by the British Ukulele Orchestra? I was blown away. It just goes to demonstrate the awesomeness of the British Empire, imho.
On the subject of interesting interpretations of movie themes, This guy is amazing. He makes up lyrics and sings movie theme songs.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aCHtdh1snzY
jesss: Yeah, I have the live Orbital version. I LOVE it. I DLed the other song you mentioned a few days ago off of BitTorrent at home, but I've yet to listen to it.
I used to watch a lot of Dr. Who (and Red Dwarf, etc.) but I just recently got my TV hooked up again and haven't taken the plunge to catch up to the new seasons. My brother occasionally takes pity on me and records me selected episodes. Too much TV to deal with. I'm anxiously awaiting the new Battlestar Galactica season.
I listen to a lot of Weird Al, They Might Be Giants, and lately I've been hooked on The Presidents of the Untied States of America. They're an awesome band, especially their Love Everybody album.
I've seen just one episode of Red Dwarf. I just couldn't get into it... Perhaps I should give it another chance? I'm not that into scientific stuff (crazy to say as a JoCo fan, I'm guessing).
I have seen a little Red Dwarf (ordinarily I'd alter that clause to make it sound less ludicrous, but it made me laugh so it stays), and it has very little scientific content. I am no fan of science fiction (I dislike most of it I've tried to read or watch), but I did like RD.
Thanks for not editing that clause. It made me laugh as well.
I'll give the show another go. It could end up being like Strangers With Candy for me. I first saw SWC when it was airing on Comedy Central. Years later, I'm a huge fan and watch the DVDs regularly.
I don't know, I'm not really a science fiction person, if that's what it is.
I used to think that Strangers with Candy was the greatest show ever, but then I saw Arrested Development and I'm pretty sure it would win if the two were to battle, because it is just amazing.
I love Arrested Development as well, although I'd rather have a Strangers With Candy marathon, when given the choice. I'd push both aside to watch The Office though (UK or US).
Red Dwarf is not really science fictiony. It's like a humorous Western or a humorous Robin Hood or a humorous WWII thing. It may start from that point, but essentially the framework is there to support the humor. A number of the actors are great British improv comedians, and it's just fun to watch them do their thing and interact. And if you know cats, the Cat character will just crack you the hell up.
Absolutely, Jinx. Red Dwarf is very much stereotype comedy, but somehow it lasts... what, eight? Nine seasons? Without grinding the characters down to the bones. Whatever you're into, the chances are that Red Dwarf can deliver it - at least some of the time. Especially if you have a cat.
well about other music
metal everykind
like :
aerosmith
scorpions
dio
dragonforce
bon jovi (ye gotten a lots of comments on this one but he is a good singer and songs are good)
my own songs (but they are crap)
well can list some more good metal bands but would just bore you
here is an little link to dragonforce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlkVK0ZVkkw&feature=related
"Red Dwarf is the best TV program ever made. I think it may appeal to JoCo fans. Mass-market-scientific humour."
Agreed.
For any JoCo fans (and expecting to find some here is a long shot, I know) I'd have to recommend They Might Be Giants. But I'm also into other, non-geek music like Matchbox 20, Vertical Horizon and Ocean Colour Scene, to name a few bands off the top of my head.
Another quick note: Has anyone heard of Pandora.com? It's a free service which plays music according to your tastes, and modifies its selection based on whether you like what it gives you. 'Tis very good for finding new music. I listen to my Jonathan Coulton station whenever I'm online.
And since Pandora's started playing more Barenaked Ladies, I've gotten into those guys too.
Thing about Pandora is though, if you're strict with which songs you like, it'll end up playing the same set of songs over and over again. I have no idea how many it plays for me repeatedly, but it's probably around 100. And they're all brilliant. These are the last five songs it's played me - I've heard them all before, but they're all good.
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
Experimental Film - They Might Be Giants
Second Best - Barenaked Ladies
Contrecoup - They Might Be Giants
The Future Soon - Guess who?
Red Dwarf is definitely a staple, I agree. It's one of the few series that was able to go a little weird(er than usual) there at the end without losing its appeal.
I loved Cat walking through the hull of the Red Dwarf with a spray bottle, saying, "This is mine, and that is mine..."
Lister: "I'm not a god. I've just been misquoted."
Rimmer: "So... let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the king of the potato people and you're telling me you're completely sane?"
Some of my friends in college loved Red Dwarf. I only remember watching 1 or 2 episodes.
The only quote I can remember is: "Is that normal?" (showing a picture of his long robot cock to one of the other characters) "No, showing pictures of it to your friends is not normal!"
A Perfect Circle
Audioslave
Blue October
Boysetsfire
Breaking Benjamin
Coheed and Cambria
Jonathan Coulton
Creed
Evanescence
Incubus
Metallica
Alanis Morissette
Nine Inch Nails
Pink Floyd
The Prize Fighter Inferno
Puscifer
Rage Against the Machine
Rammstein
Staind
Stone Sour
System of a Down
Tool
Saul Williams
Wolfmother
Oh Shruti! Just been reading this thread on the assumption that *someone* must list Sondheim. Although the genres and forms are different, I think JoCo and Sondheim actuate the same pleasure centres in my brain ;-) Bloody marvellous and I owe you a drink of your choice.
Me? I listen to anything, including many things that aren't cool at all. My main rule is not to judge a style until you can play it well. I do detest cheap attempts to be "different" though, unless you're the rare genius who can pull it off as a truly creative act. There's a lovely quote Alan Jay Lerner ascribed to his father: "You don't have to be different to be good. Being good is different enough."
Oh thank goodness for this page, having skimmed briefly through page 1 of this thread I was beginning to worry that my musical tastes weren't similar at all to anyones but nineinchneedles has allayed my fears! XD
Put it this way, when I introduce my friends to JoCo (who generally all have similar tastes in music to me) the general comment I get back is "I like the lyrics but the musics a bit folky/country/soft for me" which is really only indicative of their usual music choices. Re: Your Brains generally goes down well regardless though!
Heathens, the lot of them however. I love the music just as much as the lyrics XD
My iPod is fairly varied, because I have this mindset that I *might* one day be in just the right mood that I specifically want to hear Dancing Queen, or Nikita etc but in truth I skip half my playlists.
On current "rotation" are:
In Flames
Dethklok (from Metalocalypse)
Tenacious D
Korn
Tool
A Perfect Circle
System of a Down
American Headcharge
Smashing Pumpkins (an exhaustive collection mostly prized for sentimental value now)
The charts on there aren't entirely accurate when it comes to giving you proper idea of what I like but its a pretty decent indication.
Let me think...
Well first as I've been listening to them the longest there's Polysics this video being the first time I ever heard their utterly brilliant take on J-Pop.
Then there's good old Rammstein who I don't listen as much as I used to but they still hold a place in my heart.
OOMPH! are possibly my favourite artists who I found whilst getting random Rammstein tracks from Kazaa back in the day. This track to be exact.
Бони Нем (Boney Nem) are just rubbish. But so rubbish they're brilliant to listen to. Take their cover of Livn' la Vida Loca or the utterly brilliant Чито Грито Маргалито (10 points for the person who recognises the riff).
Speaking of covers there's the brilliant Richard Cheese. Listen and forever understand the correct way to cover a song.
Currently I've been going for In Extremo, probably because they've got a song called Liam. Don't think there's that many people out there who find a song that shares their name and is utterly awesome. I mean look at this video. Four bagpipes? Check. Playing drums with fire? Check. Utter, utter awesomeness? Good god yes.
And to finish off there's the utterly, utterly awesome Apocalyptica who were just brilliant when I saw them live in December, shame I never got to see them at Eurovision really.
EDIT :: Well that's rubbish, Vanilla doesn't support Unicode. Probably something to do with the AJAX.
Sorted it, encode it with this and it displays fine. Well, it gets inserted into the database fine as that's where the problem lie. I might have a look at why phpBB doesn't have the same issue despite having similar MySQL table structures.
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Blues Travaler
Depeche Mode
Rush
God Lives Underwater
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Simon and Garfunkel
Hum
Milla
Flaw
also, if anyone wants to go to my MySpace 'band' page, you are more than welcome to friend me, and tell everyone you know about it :)
www.myspace.com/brentodell
http://musicjesus.com/song_42167_Fountains_Of_Wayne-Someone_To_Love.html
I really like the beat. plus Fountain of wayne is a good group. i mean come on, "stacy's mom" haha. Someone to love is a really good song, plus Demetri Martin is in the video he's a pretty good comic :P
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V3gp7B8WC4Q
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aCHtdh1snzY
The superman and batman ones are great too.
I used to watch a lot of Dr. Who (and Red Dwarf, etc.) but I just recently got my TV hooked up again and haven't taken the plunge to catch up to the new seasons. My brother occasionally takes pity on me and records me selected episodes. Too much TV to deal with. I'm anxiously awaiting the new Battlestar Galactica season.
I'll give the show another go. It could end up being like Strangers With Candy for me. I first saw SWC when it was airing on Comedy Central. Years later, I'm a huge fan and watch the DVDs regularly.
I don't know, I'm not really a science fiction person, if that's what it is.
I used to think that Strangers with Candy was the greatest show ever, but then I saw Arrested Development and I'm pretty sure it would win if the two were to battle, because it is just amazing.
metal everykind
like :
aerosmith
scorpions
dio
dragonforce
bon jovi (ye gotten a lots of comments on this one but he is a good singer and songs are good)
my own songs (but they are crap)
well can list some more good metal bands but would just bore you
here is an little link to dragonforce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlkVK0ZVkkw&feature=related
Also: Lemon Demon is my life.
I actually was introduced to Coulton by some people on the Lemon Demon forums.
Agreed.
For any JoCo fans (and expecting to find some here is a long shot, I know) I'd have to recommend They Might Be Giants. But I'm also into other, non-geek music like Matchbox 20, Vertical Horizon and Ocean Colour Scene, to name a few bands off the top of my head.
Oh, and Pansy Division, who sometimes make me laugh.
Thing about Pandora is though, if you're strict with which songs you like, it'll end up playing the same set of songs over and over again. I have no idea how many it plays for me repeatedly, but it's probably around 100. And they're all brilliant. These are the last five songs it's played me - I've heard them all before, but they're all good.
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
Experimental Film - They Might Be Giants
Second Best - Barenaked Ladies
Contrecoup - They Might Be Giants
The Future Soon - Guess who?
Sorry, just felt like sharing that.
I was on SkreemR looking at monkey songs and came across this great cover
http://fitsandstarts.typepad.com/fits_and_starts/files/05_shock_the_monkey_don_ho.mp3
I loved Cat walking through the hull of the Red Dwarf with a spray bottle, saying, "This is mine, and that is mine..."
I prefer the books to the series mostly, though.
Cat - "We're deader than bell bottom flares with pockets in the knees!"
"Broke up in the end. Really hurt me. Still got the scars today. They never heal, carpet burns, do they?"
It was with that thought in mind that we started insisting that the baby wear pants instead of just a onesie once he started crawling.
Lister: "I'm not a god. I've just been misquoted."
Rimmer: "So... let me get this straight. You want to fly on a magic carpet to see the king of the potato people and you're telling me you're completely sane?"
Wait.... that's not Red Dwarf. :-P
Not actually identical but unquestionably similar.
(I have no idea what letter to hold down to make that look less ridiculous.)
The only quote I can remember is:
"Is that normal?" (showing a picture of his long robot cock to one of the other characters)
"No, showing pictures of it to your friends is not normal!"
A Perfect Circle
Audioslave
Blue October
Boysetsfire
Breaking Benjamin
Coheed and Cambria
Jonathan Coulton
Creed
Evanescence
Incubus
Metallica
Alanis Morissette
Nine Inch Nails
Pink Floyd
The Prize Fighter Inferno
Puscifer
Rage Against the Machine
Rammstein
Staind
Stone Sour
System of a Down
Tool
Saul Williams
Wolfmother
Me? I listen to anything, including many things that aren't cool at all. My main rule is not to judge a style until you can play it well. I do detest cheap attempts to be "different" though, unless you're the rare genius who can pull it off as a truly creative act. There's a lovely quote Alan Jay Lerner ascribed to his father: "You don't have to be different to be good. Being good is different enough."
I'll take you up on that offer as soon as it's legal. Oh wait, unless you're in England or something similar, in which case it is...But yeah, I totally agree; Sondheim's fantastic, and I think he and JoCo definitely share the fantastically-witty-lyricist gene.
Put it this way, when I introduce my friends to JoCo (who generally all have similar tastes in music to me) the general comment I get back is "I like the lyrics but the musics a bit folky/country/soft for me" which is really only indicative of their usual music choices. Re: Your Brains generally goes down well regardless though!
Heathens, the lot of them however. I love the music just as much as the lyrics XD
My iPod is fairly varied, because I have this mindset that I *might* one day be in just the right mood that I specifically want to hear Dancing Queen, or Nikita etc but in truth I skip half my playlists.
On current "rotation" are:
In Flames
Dethklok (from Metalocalypse)
Tenacious D
Korn
Tool
A Perfect Circle
System of a Down
American Headcharge
Smashing Pumpkins (an exhaustive collection mostly prized for sentimental value now)
The charts on there aren't entirely accurate when it comes to giving you proper idea of what I like but its a pretty decent indication.
Let me think...
EDIT 2 BUD THE EDIT :: Aha, sorted.