This post is inspired by watching Pointless on Thursday evening while getting ready to go out. American stae capitals was the round, with Lincoln being one of the possible answers. I'd barely finished shouting "Nebraska!" at the telly before this song was playing in my head. Yet another reason why Pointless is just about the only thing I watch on telly. I'm not complaining, I love this song. Number One Cup - Divebomb I also knew Sacramento was California because, y'know, bands come from there.
Not only is there something quite nice about 33.22, and it falling on 07/06 (unless you are American), but this is also the 666th published post on Aye Tunes. That doesn't count quite a lot of crap ones that have been published in the past that I've pulled for one reason or another - main reason being they were crap - but as of now there's 666 bits of nonsense by me* on here. That's probably quite a poor return for four years work, but whatever. So, yes, songs. I resisted temptation to make it all metal [...]
GS-33 Plug Adapters. Don't you dare say I don't put any effort into these. Having a wee change of pace today, and killing two birds with one stone. There's quite a lot of good things going on over the next few weeks, and good music out. Rather than revive news & bits, I'll shove a load of it in to this 33 post instead. Stop glaring at me like that. First of all there's GoNorth, taking place in Inverness over the next few days. I'm not going to that [...]
I don't see how six erect firemen help in case of emergency. Less than two weeks of this rambling nonsense to go, you'll be pleased to here. One of the plans was to use these posts to stick stuff on the blog that would normally be ludicrously out of place, hand waving it away by going "it's my birthday soon, sod off" and I think that I've achieved that goal pretty well. Very few of the songs have been new, and only a couple of the days have covered Scottish [...]
My name is Jim. Well, James, but I only ever get called that in something official, or when I'm in trouble. Never call me Jimmy. There, now that we've answered that burning question, let's get to the songs. They all have my name in the title. And I warned you there'd be Menswe@r at some point. Beastie Boys - Jimmy James Mackenzies - Big Jim (There's No Pubs In Heaven) Cuddly Shark - Cuddly Jim Gay Dad - Oh Jim [...]
I'm short on time and brain power today, and I've ran out of pre-written blog posts. As a result, here's something completely thrown together in ten minutes. Apologies if the blog title made you think it would be more interesting than it is. I quite like cover versions, and I cannot think of a more unusual musical pairing than Ani DiFranco and Jackie Chan. But here they are, together at last. Ani DiFranco and Jackie Chan - Unforgettable
Rabbit is disappointed with your bad language. For the love of God, don't listen to today's songs anywhere that swearing is frowned upon. Unlike in real life and elsewhere on the internet, I hardly ever swear on the blog. This post will probably be notable for containing more uses of the word "fuck" than pretty much all the other blog posts added together. There's no real reason for me minding my language here. I'm not on some kind of deluded quest to keep the blog family friendly, few enough people [...]
We're roughly at the halfway point of 33 now. Annoyingly it is a number that doesn't half easily, hence roughly. To celebrate the beer picture is back. Have a drink. I'm not supplying the beer though, you have to bring your own. Anyway, since you've put up with me this far - assuming there are any of you left - I thought I'd turn things over to you a bit. So, what do you think of the songs so far, anything in particular float you boat, or have you looked in and ran off screaming straight away? [...]
I like John Cusack. Older siblings can be very handy. Considering I have five of them that's just as well. Amongst their uses is they buy records and stuff when you are wee, so you get exposed to a lot more stuff than some poor, sad only child, who is stuck with the radio and their parents record collection. (Though if you have cool parents then you might also get lucky with hearing good records) So it was with many things in my house, but the band that came [...]
"If you type 33 in Wingdings it looks like the Twin Towers, OMG CONSPIRACY!" 1997 again, seriously? Yes, seriously. Piss off. I actually completely missed Far first time round, it wasn't until You Already Know covered Bury White on am EP for Record Store Day a few years ago that I heard the song. Heard it, liked it, went and bought some Far records, liked them too. Then Far released At Night We Live, their first album in 12 years, I looked forward to it [...]
I really loved music in the mid-late 90s eh? Today's song comes from 1997, and it's the lead single from Veruca Salt's second album Eight Arms To Hold You. I've got very little chatter to go with this, I just really, really like Volcano Girls. Shouty girls, yay! Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls
This post is absolutely not brought to you in conjunction with The Illuminati. Honest. Promise. It just gets difficult to find new images for these posts. The only New World Order I know anything about is the wrestling one. Hey, wrestling, that's as good a segue into today's song as any. The song references ECW's Grunge and New Jack, giving me a slightly less jarring transition that the plain old "look, a song!" preamble I'd originally planned to go here. Weezer eh? Naming albums after Lost characters, having THREE self titled albums and screwing [...]
Back to the hip-hop today. Fans of white Scottish men talking about hip hop rejoice! Stumbling across DJ Z-Trip was a happy accident. I was living in Watford back in 2001/2002, and took the opportunity to hop into London with my pal to see DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist. Neither of us expected to leave much more impressed by one of their warm up DJs, but Z-Trip was pretty much awesome, and leave raving about him we did. I've never really been into mash ups all that much, but there's something about the way [...]
Alternate title: Where's the Beef? Jeepers, one third of the way through already, so if playing this post on your turntable remember to set it to 33⅓ instead of 45rpm. Anyway, yes, day eleven means I couldn't resist the obvious option of turning the volume up a bit. Here are a selection of some mighty fine bands making lovely loud noises. Also, see, I do like music made post 1998. A Fight You Can't Win - Shout First/Loud Words Black International - [...]
I was going to save this song till the end, since that's usually where it goes when I'm DJing, but I think I'll throw it out there now instead, I've already got enough enough stuff I'm saving for later. Yes. Yes I can. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes I don't fully trust anyone who doesn't dance to Pull Shapes. It even has handclaps and everything! I love songs with handclaps. The image there comes from [...]
You can't get 33:9 on a clock, so you'll have to settle for this. For a change this installment of 33 isn't slipping in just before midnight because I was lazy, distracted, or couldn't be arsed. It's actually being written in advance, on Thursday, since I'll I'll be out galavanting somewhere on Friday night. Pete Wylie is a pain in the arse for anyone who likes to keep their music collection carefully aphabetised. Wah!, Wah! Heat, Shambeko! Say Wah!, JF Wah!, The Mighty Wah! and Wah! the Mongrel, all different [...]
Right then, back to favourite songs today. Good tune, nonsensical lyrics, more fun than a sackful of clowns. Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling Bonus! Other people doing it too. Teenage Fanclub - Take The Skinheads Bowling Manic Street Preachers - Take The Skinheads Bowling
Hello Cleveland! Are you guys ready to rock? Giving these a theme is quite fun, so here's another themed post for today. See if you can guess what it is. Orange Juice - Rip It Up Fun fact: this is the first Orange Juice song that I can remember hearing. Thanks, older brothers with good records! Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away May as well make the blog gloriously NSFW today. Prefab Sprout - [...]
Can you see where this is going? The last couple of posts in the 33 series have been more labour intensive than they might look, meaning I briefly had to use my brain. Now, I don't want to have to do that too often. It's a small small brain, it gets used up quite quickly, and I might need it at some point later. With that in mind while trying to think of what I wanted to do today I looked out the window, typed "sun" into search on my [...]
I reject your claim that I am "cheating" with this image by saying nyah nyah. Let's stick with the only mildly homoerotic "Aye Tunes Hearts Peenko" theme a bit more today. Much like yesterday I blamed Urusei Yatsura for this blog existing, today I blame Chemikal Underground for giving me the stupid idea to promote gigs. Chemikal Underground and beer. "How on Earth can you blame Chemikal Underground for you being a fool?" you ask? Well, I'll tell you. It was back in January of 2010, wandering down the road for [...]
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