Thursday, August 24, 2006

Eeeerie.

Okay, unless you've been living under a different rock than me, you've probably seen Joel Veitch's (no relation) "Viking Kittens", in which a pair of cute, helmet and battleaxe-equipped felinelets "sing" Led Zeppelin's "The Immigrant Song." Behold, if you will, the eerie cosmic coincidences unveiled when that video is synched up with Jonathan Coulton's "The Ikea Song":


This is like the new "Dark Side of the Rainbow.

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Vaaaaaaaaaaan Gaaaaaaaaaaaaalen!

Calgary's very own Chad VanGaalen brings the awesome with "Flower Gardens." Not only the music, that is, but the psychedelic animation as well. Let's see you top that one, A-Ha.



(P.S., the video's not broken, it's actually supposed to be more-or-less black for the first 15 seconds or so.)

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Dead music legends of the world, unite!

Ray Charles on the "Johnny Cash Show":


[via telescreen]

Now if anybody's got video of Johnny Cash doing "Mess Around" or "In The Heat of the Night"...

Strum it like a polaroid picture

Matt Weddle of Obadiah Parker finds the bittersweet acoustic centre of the Tootsie Roll that is OutKast's "Hey Ya":


Ladies, I didn't blog this thing for nothin'. I wanna see y'all on your baddest behaviour. Lend me some sugar, I am your neighbour.

[via mefi]

Also, for those of you whose minimum daily requirement of F-bombs has not been filled, Nina Gordon (formerly of Veruca Salt) Lilithises NWA's "Straight Outta Compton":


And now, Interweb, I command you to cover Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" in the talkin' blues style a la "Bob Dylan's Dream".

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Stephen says you're on notice!


Behold the glory that is the Colbert Report "On Notice Board" generator... and tremble, ye mighty, before its wrath.

[via xoverboard]