The Dancing Thumb (aka: music recommendations)

[Joflar]

Oh man! Tomorrow The Tom Lehrer Collection comes out. Its a bunch of hilarious songs accompanied by piano, you can listen to a lot of his work on youtube:

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This is one of those things that my cool and also weird uncle sent me

[James]

My dad had a habit of getting me cool comedy tapes when I was younger, and I'd listen to them in bed before going to sleep. One of them was a Tom Lehrer collection, of which I was very fond. Parts of it are so ingrained in my mind that, on reading the phrase "spring is here" on another forum, my immediate thought was this:

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[ysbreker]

I'm sorry Mr wobble, your son is dead:

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[Joflar]

My dad had a habit of getting me cool comedy tapes when I was younger, and I'd listen to them in bed before going to sleep. One of them was a Tom Lehrer collection, of which I was very fond. Parts of it are so ingrained in my mind that, on reading the phrase "spring is here" on another forum, my immediate thought was this:

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Heh, that mirrors my exposure. He was an awesome lyricist and always chose fantastic vocabulary words. It makes me happy to know that other people have listened and enjoyed him too

[syntheticgerbil]

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DANCE THUMB DANCE

[ysbreker]

Some friends of me made this:

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[doodle_robot]

for all you that like prog. these guys are great you should check em out. i skipped ahead in the first one but you gota hear it.. long songs and very diverse.

reminds me a harder YES.

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here's some snippets of some songs so you get a better idea..

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one of my favorites..

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Edited April 21, 2010 by doodle_robot

[James]

I think I saw them support somebody live. I didn't pay them a great deal of attention, but was surprised when somebody when a friend later directed me to a cover they did of Eat it Up Worms Hero by Cardiacs. Sadly I seem to have lost it forever. It was pretty good.

DISCLAIMER: I might be mis-remembering the band and the song.

[Thompson]

I love Tom Lehrer!

But a really good band is The Cat Empire.

It's an Australian indie, rock, ska, jazz, latin, reggae, alternative rock band; their early songs are the best, recently they've been doing some pretty crappy stuff.

[Wrestlevania]

I've started collecting some of my favourite bits of music on Blip.fm, including Progressive, Dubstep and other styles of Electronica.

What's nice about Blip.fm is that the tracks auto-play, newest to oldest, like a personal mix tape. Which is great, assuming you like what I've put in the pile.

[Sleepdance]

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P.S.:Anyone knows any simple to use programs to record your gameplay?

[Nachimir]

Fraps on Windows, Snapz on OS X.

It's election time here in the UK, and the press have gone extra-super-mental and vicious for this one in the face of their own decline. Someone made this to take the piss out of the Conservative leader, which isn't a new idea, but is probably the best I've seen:

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[Wrestlevania]

"Support the rich guys, and fuck the yobs."

Tis indeed most excellent.

[Wurtsi]

These guys are adorable. video games a cappella with ukuleles!

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[Scrobbs]

Clubroot. *very* good.

[Garple]

These guys are adorable. video games a cappella with ukuleles!

It's not a capella if there are ukeleles.

[Nachimir]

It's not music, but really intersting in the context of music and games: Dance DJs and musicians that currently have the goal of making people cry on the dancefloor.

It's an excellent and funny post, and the implication that people are asking "Yes but can dance music make you cry?" is quite horrific. I wonder if, like moral backlashes, this is another existential phase types of media go through. Did people used to ask "Yes, but can a novel make you cry?"

[Thompson]

It's not music, but really intersting in the context of music and games: Dance DJs and musicians that currently have the goal of making people cry on the dancefloor.

It's an excellent and funny post, and the implication that people are asking "Yes but can dance music make you cry?" is quite horrific. I wonder if, like moral backlashes, this is another existential phase types of media go through. Did people used to ask "Yes, but can a novel make you cry?"

Yes, but games make you cry?

START THE COUNTDOWN TO TEARS!!!

[syntheticgerbil]

I'm going to recommend Electric Six for like the fourth time in this thread.

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[chummer]

Went to Coachella and saw Jonsi (new band by the Sigur Ros' front man), and am greatly enjoying their "Go" album- they make excellent noises.

[Sleepdance]

First class shit. Don't watch it just puke on it!

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Also, you don't want to know what this song is(at least in contexst to this interpretation).

[chummer]

I also really enjoyed the music in "Digital: A Love Story"

Go play and listen: http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/

[Moelman]

I can't ever pass up the opportunity to show anything Chris Cornell-related:

Soundgarden performing in 2010!

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I would have willingly sacrificed almost any of you to see them (hopefully I'll get a chance sometime this year).

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[chummer]

I would have willingly sacrificed almost any of you to see them (hopefully I'll get a chance sometime this year).

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A chance to see Soundgarden, or sacrifice us.....?

[enterthewumpus]

I dunno if anyone's ever heard of Ludo, but they made a fantasic Rock Opera and put it out as a 5 song. CD (EP? LP? DS?)

It's called Broken Bride, and it's magical.

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The rest of their stuff is pretty good too.