I was starting to worry that I had run out of good misheard lyrics stories, especially now that I don’t listen to a lot of music with dad anymore. But that fear, apparently, was misplaced. I have tears in my eyes right now as I hear from my brother about a conversation he had yesterday. …
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Dirty Deeds Done With…Trees?
Music used in this mashup: Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree AC/DC – Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap As if you need me to say anything else.
Zombie Claus
Here we are, a week into December, and somehow I’m not totally sick of Christmas music yet. Usually the world has that taken care of by Halloween, but I suppose being laid low for a decent bit of November by all the crud going around and a Covid shot might have its advantages after all. …
A Bus Full Of Metal Muffins
These are going on the playlist with Baby Shark and supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. The Muffin Man: The Wheels On The Bus:
Hip To Be The Sandman
Music used in this mashup: Metallica – Enter Sandman Huey Lewis and the News – Hip to Be Square Megadeth – Peace Sells Judas Priest – Living After Midnight
Leaving On A Heart-Shaped Jet Plane
Today in nope, definitely would not have thought of doing that: Singing “Leaving on a Jet Plane” over “Heart-Shaped Box”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjC5sK9AZDI
My New Favourite Tears For Fears Song Isn’t Even A Tears For Fears Song
I don’t know a whole lot about British television, so maybe bands randomly performing in the middle of children’s game shows is a thing that’s odd to no one but me. What I do know, though, is that this is quite the catchy little number. Go on, tell me you’re not walking around humming that …
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Sailor’s Song, By The Decemberists And ChatGPT
Colin Meloy of the Decemberists had an interesting idea earlier this year. What if I were to ask ChatGPT to write a song that Colin Meloy of the Decemberists might have written and then record whatever it spits out? And so he did, chords and all. I can’t embed it, but you can head over …
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Wake Me UP Before You Go Go To The Grave
I have no idea how Bill McClintock does some of these things, but I’m so glad that he does. Music used in this mashup: Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go Go Black Sabbath – Children of the Grave Van Halen – So This is Love
Behind The Weird Music
This is fun. Seventeen minutes of “Weird Al” Yankovic telling stories about his songs and videos. He even explains what the deal is with “Albuquerque”. He decided to make an extremely long, annoying song pretty much as a troll job. Nobody could possibly like this or ever want to hear it more than once, he …