Old Hip Hop Triple
Three videos of some old hip hop music. Remember: old hip hop music is the best type of hip hop music. Double XX Posse – Headcracker Tuff Crew – What You Don’t Know King Bee – Back By Dope...
Die Antwoord Triple
Last week we popped up to London and watched Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie perform at the O2 arena. It was a good gig from Mr Manson. It was a stunningly, incredibly, wonderfully awesome gig from Mr Zombie (I’m saying that I liked it). Since I quite regularly post three related music videos on this site in an attempt to convince the world (okay, Google) that I haven’t given up on the whole maintaining my own site lark you might be forgiven for thinking this would lead me to an easy Manson or Zombie video selection. However, I’m not going to do that. Prior to the gig there was a short rock DJ set. We got to listen to Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, and numerous other tracks in keeping with the feel of the night to come. But in amongst those songs was something I’d never heard before; something I’d not heard, yet liked. I listened out for some words, noted them down in OneNote on the phone and then… forgot about it for a few days. Eventually, however, I did remember and did a bit of searching. The result was a South African group called Die Antwoord. The music style is called Zef. The song I’d been attracted to was called Fatty Boom Boom. The videos are deliciously fabulous. I bought the latest album, naturally. Fatty Boom Boom Enter The Ninja I Fink U...
The Sundays Triple
Often (well, as often as I remember to update this site) when I’m trying to think of a subject for the very nearly regular music video triple posting I’ll think of one thing which makes me think of something else leading to something else, something else, something else, something barely related, and so on. Today, I thought to myself: “I wonder what subject for the music triple I can come up with on this fine-looking Sunday.” “Often” does not mean “always”. The Sundays – Summertime The Sundays – Here’s Where The Story Ends The Sundays – Can’t Be...
Girls Aloud Triple
Seven years ago (holy heck! Seven? Holy. Heck.) I wrote about Girls Aloud in what turned out to be quite a popular post. Since then much has happened (well, it would as that was seven years ago (seven!)) in the lives of Nadine, Cheryl, Kimberley, Sarah, and Nicola, although you’d be hard pressed to remember any of it other than the Cheryl stuff. I certainly can’t. What I do know, though, is that Girls Aloud are reforming for one of those album releases and mini tours that a lot of bands do when they’re a bit down on their luck after splitting to go their own way. No blame is attached to that statement. It’s what bands do. If I were a girl in Girls Aloud (probably Nicola because she’s pale and strange and I can respect that) it’s what I’d do. I’m not going to write about Girls Aloud now though because I don’t tend to write much on the site these days. However, I do try to keep the site ticking over with content occasionally and one of the ways I do this is through the power of crappy, formulaic updates such as three music videos on a theme. Girls Aloud? Three music videos on a theme? What could possibly be coming next? You’ll never guess. Seven years! Seven! Girls Aloud – Something New Their latest track, with hints of that LMFAO/PSY that’s popular with the kids these days. Girls Aloud – Long Hot Summer I grudgingly admit that this is my favourite Girls Aloud track. Yes, that’s right: I have a favourite Girls Aloud track. I never thought that happen. Or that I’d tell anyone. Girls Aloud – Something Kinda Ooooh It’s the video with the sexy hopping dance in it. Okay, it’s got a hopping dance in...
Witchcraft Triple
My sister-in-law has popped over from the states for a week and bit to visit (we’re returning the favour next month) and decided to bring an early anniversary present with her: candle holders in the form of a skeleton groom and bride. We are Tim Burton fans but that’s not the reason for the present; our wedding anniversary is actually Halloween. Anyway, that got me thinking about spooky things and that led to this theme for this weekend’s trio of music videos; the macabre, the scary, the decidedly witchy. The Rattles – The Witch I only discovered this track a couple of months ago; I can’t stop playing it. Wonderful production and pschedelic overtones. The Cult – The Witch I bought a CD of the Cult’s greatest hits many years ago from a second hand music store. I know it’s not a fascinating anecdote but I thought I’d share anyway. Kate Bush – Waking The Witch Fan-created video for a song not released (well, it was from the Ninth Wave, the second side of the Hounds of Love album (this is back when music had sides you crazy kids these days with your NB3s and your iTracks), so didn’t have much of a chance); it took me a while to get into the Ninth Wave but I love its concept and this is my second favourite track from...
Scary TV Themes
Everyone likes list posts! Everyone! And everyone likes videos! Everyone! And everyone likes coming up with a simple way to update the site without putting massive effort into it! Me! So… some television themes that I find scary, eerie, unsettling, or any of the other words that Mr Roget saw fit to lump together in his best-selling novel. This isn’t to say that these particular bits of intro (or outro (is that even a word?)) music belong to programmes that are actually scary, but rather that they send a little tingle up my spine. Perhaps it’s the mix of deep bass and high-pitched notes, or perhaps it’s because it stirs a memory of childhood when everything was so much more terrifying than it is today. Except spiders. Those things have got worse as I’ve got older. It’s all the radiation from the satellites, I’m sure (*). I’ve dithered. I do that. Let’s take a look at what makes me uneasy. (*) Note to future historians of the early intarwebs: it’s probably not the radiation from the satellites at all; more likely it’s the radiation from the fusion-powered drones that patrol the skies monitoring us. The Tomorrow People Not a terrifying theme exactly – especially now that I’ve listened to it again – but the programme itself was not the most warm and cuddly. But then again, it was a kids’ programme from the seventies shown on ITV; they were all pretty much horrific for some reason. This show featured children developing weird powers and, well, I’m not really sure what else. The thing about British families in the seventies was that you tended to be either a BBC child or an ITV child when it came to watching TV after school. I was the former. Occasionally you’d switch to the other side but then you’d just end up watching a bit of a frightening science fiction show and you’d have to return to the safe embrace of Blue Peter and John Craven’s Newsround. The Box Of Delights Now this was a BBC programme and it still gives me a small sense of dread hearing it now. This one ticks all the right boxes starting with the title imagery: scary doll face, tramp, priest, wolf, that Victorian gothic/creeping terror. And the music too: high notes (on a harpsichord perhaps?) against a slow, violin backdrop leading into a Christmas tune that brings with it the sudden feeling of the cold and early, dark evenings. Shiver time! The Tripods Another BBC programme and a short and sweet intro that has decided to hold the sweet and then slide it into the bin...
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