I’ve only been to one Rural Alberta Advantage concert but I have to say, I love that band. They’ve got this great music video for their new song, ‘Stamp’, which I think you’ll enjoy:
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Aggressively Happy Music
Mefi user Rory Marinich asks the community for suggestions of “aggressively happy music”.
The kind of music that punches happiness into you no matter how much you don’t want it to be there. The sort that explodes into spiky neon flowers.
My first thought was this gem by ELO (made famous to me from the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack): Mr. Blue Sky
The list is full of songs that will demand you cheer up immediately.
During my “Music of Quebec” workshop at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres in the Explore program, together with almost 100 students, we created this “lipdub” music video. Students from the Summer 2010 session of the workshop participated in the video singing along to the song “J’taime comme un fou” [I love you like a fool] by Robert Charlebois.
OK Go’s new video, “This Too Will Pass” is centred around a rube goldberg machine and even if you’ve watched the entire 30 minute movie, “The Way Things Go” (wikipedia) and feel like you’re rube goldberged out, this is still totally worth watching.
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass – YouTube
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Number of the Beast Compressed 666 Times
Cory Arcangel took the mp3 version of Iron’s Maiden’s The Number of the Beast and compressed it 666 times.
If you have ever wondered what Iron Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast” would sound like compressed over and over as an mp3 666 times…here’s your chance..and if u r wondering, YES it does lose quality each time it is compressed.
Personally, I couldn’t get all the way through it.
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When asked by host Huw Wheldon what he wanted to do after schooling, Page says, “I want to do biological research [to find a cure for] cancer, if it isn’t discovered by then”.
Instead he went on to form one of the world’s greatest rock bands, Led Zeppelin.
Led Zeppelin in 1969. From left to right: John Bonham, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones.
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Paul McCartney on the “Paul is dead” rumours:
The conspiracy theory began in October 1969, when a Detroit-based DJ claimed that the three other Beatles — Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison — had recruited a lookalike replacement for McCartney after he died in 1966.
He argued that because the man “posing” as McCartney on the cover of the Beatles’ 1969 album “Abbey Road” had bare feet meant it represented a corpse, and that the number plate on a car in the photograph was LMW 28IF — denoting McCartney’s age, if he had lived.
“It was funny, really,” McCartney, 67, told MOJO music magazine in an interview. “But ridiculous. It’s an occupational hazard: people make up a story and then you find yourself having to deal with this fictitious stuff.
“I think the worst thing that happened was that I could see people sort of looking at me more closely: ‘Were his ears always like that?'”
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Stairway to Heaven on a Harp
[Stairway to Heaven on Harp | YouTube]
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I’m off to see Pearl Jam and others at the 2008 Virginfest in Calgary. I’m having the busiest summer in memory so posting will continue to be light for the next while.
Update: Here’s a photo of the crowd at the Pearl Jam concert. I’m right up there, second from the front.
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