The Song Tapper is a neat web application that can help identify a song that maybe stuck in your head, but maybe you don’t remember the name of it. The way it works is to just tap the spacebar to the rhythm of each syllable in the lyrics of the song you want to identify and then the server returns several possible names and artists. It’s fun and surprisingly accurate.
White Stripes Music Video: Denial Twist
Enjoy the neat, if at times extremely strange, special effects in The White Stripes music video Denial Twist.
Flickr Video
A folk/rock singer named Jonathan Coulton has created a really cool music video using Creative Commons licensed Flickr photos. It’ll put a smile on your face.
Jonathan Coulton’s Flickr.mov
Update: here is the big 17mb version Flickr.mov
Jean Baudin Plays Mario Theme on an 11 String Base
It’s impressive that he can play anything on such a huge instrument.
jeanbaudin_mario11.mov (21 MB)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ – Maps – Music Video
I can’t put my finger on why, but for some reason I’m mesmorized by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ music video Maps (45mb mov).
Search keywords: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Maps, music video
Don’t "Steal" Music
I took this screen shot from the help screen in iTunes 5.0 this morning.
It irritates me that Apple doesn’t know the difference between theft and copyright infringement. They are not the same thing – I’m not saying that copyright infringement is ok, but I am saying copyright infringement does NOT equal stealing, and people shouldn’t equate it with theft.
Here’s a little analogy I just came up with – I don’t know how good it is, but here it is: If someone were to steal your homework and hand it in – that would be theft. You would be left without something that you previously had. Infringement, on the other hand, is more like – if that same person copied your homework and handed it in. You might not like it, but you wouldn’t have been robbed of anything. There is a big difference.
Plastic’s Perfect Album: The Follow-up
Two weeks ago I posted about Plastic.com’s story on the perfect album. Some guy has tabulated all the albums mentioned in the comments and placed them online.
The Perfect Album
I came across a thread on Plastic today about the perfect album.
“[The perfect album is one] in which every track is great, each one worthy of being a hit. An album with not a single song I would skip past and nothing mediocre or even average.
Here’s my list of perfect albums (I included soundtracks because though they are not really albums, when I listen to them I don’t hit the skip button once):
- Radiohead :: Ok Computer (such a great album, though I have to admit I have been known to skip ‘Fitter Happier’ on occasion)
- Weezer :: Blue Album
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Soundtrack
- Counting Crows :: August and Everything After
- Smashing Pumpkins :: Siamese Dream
- Garden State Soundtrack
- Barenaked Ladies :: Maroon (I don’t know why I just love this album)
- Led Zeppelin :: Led Zeppelin IV
Any others that you think I missed?
This is How You Remind Me – Someday
Remember “How You Remind Me of Someday”? The Nickelback mashup with Someday on one channel and How You Remind Me on the other? NPR has an interesting interview with the creator.
Can’t get enough? Here’s How You Remind Me of Someday.mp3.
I Heart the Ladies
As promised here is my review from the BNL concert on April 1st in Calgary. It was great! As we were getting seated Anna questioned me about the tickets I purchased, “Do people that sit in these seats really get more nosebleeds?” Very funny. :)
The concert itself was a blast. Jason Plumb and Ron Sexsmith were the two opening acts. They seem like unknowns to me but Anna recognized Ron Sexsmith’s name and apparently Jason Plumb played for the Waltons — which I vaguely recall.
Anyway it was a great concert in which almost every song they played seemed like my favorite. I know I’m a big geek for this Canadian band, but whatever – it was fun. They played:
- Maybe Katie
- Too Little Too Late
- Enid
- Some Adlibing
- It’s All Been Done
- Another Postcard
- Celebrity
- More Adlib
- Never Is Enough
- I Live With It Every Day
- Roadrunner
- For You
- One Week
- Upside Down
- A Bass Solo
- Alternative Girlfriend
- Testing 1,2,3
- Never Do Anything
- Blame It On Me
- Shopping
- Concert Going
- Pinch Me
- War On Drugs
- Beat The Crew
- Shoe Box
- Old Apartment
- Brian Wilson
- Rio
- If I Had $1,000,000
- What A Good Boy
They weren’t planning on playing Alternative Girlfriend but got talked into it when someone in the audience held up a big sign that said quote/unquote Please let my husband drum Alternative Girlfriend with you. So they did. Ed told the audience that if he was at least half decent we should really cheer him on, but that if he sucked then we should beat him to a pulp. He was actually pretty good and it was really fun to watch. It’s stuff like that that makes a concert so memorable.
They had a fun choreographed shopping cart ballet in which they ran around with shopping carts, passed around boxes of cereal and made snow angels on the stage. They did three encore songs, which was more than the last time they were in Calgary, and I must say it was just a perfect concert.
Ed wrote about the concert tour and specifically about Calgary’s show. Ed and Steve are by far my favorite bloggers in BNL – not just because they do the majority of the singing.