Dent May, and let us not forget his Magnificent Ukelele, is the type of musician who rides the fence between hipster icon and talented performer. Shit, his music is based around a tiny guitar made popular by Tiny Tim, he wears brown-framed glasses more suited to a perm-wearing 1980s soccer mom, and his videos are digital affairs that feature tiny Eiffel Towers and hearts. I don't think my hipster definition would come as a offense to these Southern born gentleman. On the other hand Dent May creates truly whimsical songs that will lodge themselves in your brain matter [...]
On the ninth day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Nine Ladies Dancing Eight Maids a Milking Seven Swans a Swimming Six Geese a Laying Five Golden Rings Four Calling Birds Three French Hens Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree I gotta try to inject some levity into the season. Everyone – including me – is all stressed about this holiday situation. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.mp3 ~ The Fab Four The Lonely Jew on Christmas.mp3 [...]
Okay, I'm a liar. I know I said I wouldn't do a Christmas/Holidaze post when I reviewed what is now my favorite Christmas album of the year . (If you go to that review , you'll find a few nuggets that aren't in this post.) But I was already a liar when I posted The Raveonette's new Xmas track . So in the spirit of lying, I decided to do some detective work and make a big ol' Holiday post for y'all. Call me a sell-out, call me what you [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales Spinner.com : From the time he got his first gramophone, little Herbert Khaury was obsessed with the earliest days of recorded vaudevillian music. Born, by his own account, in 1932, he got his first break in the 1950s in Greenwich Village, performing, according to... Read more
Tiny Tim: Livin' In The Sunlight, Lovin' In The Moonlight [ purchase ] Wow, I gotta lotta great moon songs. And I thought the sun was going to win this battle. Here's one I wish I had the foresight to post as the transition song this week. God Bless Tiny Tim is a record that I honestly believe should be in everybody's collection. God Bless Tiny Tim .
Tiny Tim's first album 'God Bless Tiny Tim' (1968) is really some of the best sheer wackyness that emerged out of the late 60's. In a way it's the other side of the radical idealism of the counterculture, the indispensible negativity that goes hand in hand with revolutionary thinking. Likewise, the fact that Tiny Tim goes back in [...]
[ This post contains 26 MP3s for the kids after the jump. ] You know a compilation of children's songs has to be good if it features Foetus and Tiny Tim . And honestly, the compilation " Goobers - A Collection of Kid's Songs ", released in 1993 on T.E.C. Tones (who were somehow associated with the Residents' Ralph Records label, as I understand it), is damn near perfect. But what the heck is a "goober"? Urban Dictionary offers several different definitions , among them " chocolate-covered dick " and " [...]
Sometimes when I have the iPod in shuffle mode, I surprise even myself..... Hey Jude - Tiny Tim Green Tambourine - The Lemon Pipers For What It's Worth - Lou Rawls Theme From S.W.A.T. - Rhythm Heritage Music MP3 music
MP3 : FROM ISSUE #2 – December 1980 01 - The Birthday Party - Intro (0:12) 02 - The Birthday Party - Figure of Fun [Demo] (2:12) 03 - The Birthday Party - Interview (9:54) FROM UNKNOWN ISSUE – 1982 04 - Heavy Metal News (4:21) FROM ISSUE #11 – May 1982 05 - The Cramps - New Kind of Kick [Live] (3:27) 06 - The Cramps - Interview [...]
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