Music Video of the Day: Alanis does Fergie

In what is possibly the most unlikely occurrence this side of a successful Van Halen reunion, Alanis and her angsty-ballady self has decided to cover mock the glamorous and tastey (spelled to Fergie's standards) faux-diva and her Black Eyed Peas song, "My Humps." Easily one of my favorite parodies, which is saying a lot considering Alanis songs usually send me into a furious rage. Please enjoy.



Found at The Music Slut

Music Video(s) of the Day: "My Boobs" and "Float On"

First off, I'll have to credit the guys at stereogum for tonight's posting. I found both of these videos on their blog and both were exciting/strange/bad enough that I though they were perfect candidates for Music Video of the Day.
<
Norwegian songstress Lene Alexandra assures us (though after watching this video, I don't think that's necessary) that her "boobs are ok." A few fun things to notice about this video. First, the fact that she repeatedly makes fun of her own intelligence. At least she's honest. Also, she creates the 27th letter of the alphabet, "boo," to make "boobs" a three-letter word. She's an innovator. Third, you gotta wonder how much she paid for those "OK" boobs. Let's see how long it takes for this video to reach TRL.


If I didn't already have enough reasons to hate American Idol, the no talent ass-clowns had to go and ruin "Float On" by Modest Mouse. Whoever decided that this video of the Modest Mouse cover should be based around old-school 90s hip-hop with huge boomboxes and break dancing should be fired and shot. Then again, this is American Idol we're talking about. We can't expect too much. Thank God the clip is only 44 seconds long.

---

Just after writing this post, I headed over to Idolator during my normal music blog browsing and found an mp3 of the Kidz Bop version of "Float On." I thought that American Idol was the worst thing that could happen to Modest Mouse...obviously I was wrong. Is the "YEAH!" really necessary after each line of the verse? And is Modest Mouse just whoring this song out now?? C'mon now guys.

Kidz Bop - "Float On" (mp3) [via Idolator]

Music Video of the Day: Ben Kweller - "Penny On The Train Tracks"

I know it's been a while, but I'm bringing this thing back.

Nothing says a good music video like an 82-year-old woman dancing around in tights at a gym, right? Well, at least Ben Kweller thinks so. This video for his new single, "Penny On The Train Tracks," dangerously toes the line between cute and downright disturbing (especially the commentary at the end). The video was shot by Ben himself and the woman in the video is his grandmother dancing around the gym at her condo. I have no idea who that other woman is.

I'm a fan of the song, but I don't know if I'll ever be able to sit through that video again.

Music Video of the Day: Rock and Roll at Its Best

If you ignore the fact that this has to be set up (or there is one seriously crazy Asian guy running around with a guitar) this is one of the funniest music videos I have seen in a while. Nothing beats hearing "House of the Rising Sun" screamed out with a horrible accent and a, for lack of a better word, interesting guitar solo performed on both knees. If you can't get enough of this music phenom, you can also check out his two other songs from the same "performance," "Country Roads" and some nonsense song I can't understand.

Music Video of the Day: Pulp Fiction

I know this has nothing to do with music by any stretch of the imagination, but I saw this clip and the real movie this weekend, and I couldn't resist putting it up as the Music Video of the Day. If for some reason you're living under a rock and haven't seen this yet, you have to go rent it now.

Warning: this has very bad language and "adult content" (whatever the hell that means), but I figure most of the people that read this blog don't really care. Enjoy.

Music Video of the Day: Beatboxing Flute

This absolutely blew my mind the first time I saw it. Greg Pattillo is a very talented flute player who has apparently been known to play his own brand of beatboxing flute around the Washington Square Park area in NYC. Not only does he do the sweet version of the Inspector Gadget theme above, he also nails the Super Mario Bros. theme, as well as Sesame Street and "Peter and the Wolf." This gives me a whole new outlook on flute players.

Happy Friday, everyone.

Music Video of the Day: "Everytime We Touch" - PK Thunda

My good buddy PK Thunda, or Parker for those who actually know him, created this amazing video to the "hit" song "Everytime We Touch." Fellow crazy-person, Brandon, co-stars in the well produced and wonderfully choreographed dance video.

The two also dabble in the rap world (scary, yes). It's surprisingly good and absolutely hilarious. Check out the mp3 below.

BP - "Hard Life (On the Streets)" (mp3)

Music Video of the Day: "Tea Partay"

This "prepsta" rap song by Prep-Unit is so good and funny that it's easy to forget (or not notice in the first place) that it's a promotional video for Smirnoff Raw Tea. I kind of wish this was a real group. The song has a great groove and, hell, I'd buy the album. Until that happens though, check out the sweet video.

Music Video of the Day: "You Tube (A Love Song)"

This is just too funny. Guitarist and singer David Choi has written this wonderful little ditty about his favorite website, YouTube. As much as I enjoy roaming around the site and finding random videos, like this one, I don't think it's healthy to be as obsessed as these lyrics claim: "When I wake up in the morning, YouTube/When I dream at night, YouTube/In the middle of the day, YouTube/You consume my life, YouTube." And my favorite line: "I like the founders/Some Asian and some white dude." In all seriousness though, David is actually fairly talented. You can check out some of his other music at his Myspace.

I'd like to dedicate this song to fellow blogger, Andy, the resident YouTube whore.

Music Video of the Day: "Good Vibrations" - Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

These are the kinds of videos that I wish we could forget. Just think, at one point this was popular. The video is of the 1991 smash hit "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (great name, I know). You may know Marky Mark by his real name: Mark Wahlberg. That's right, the actor famous for such movies as The Departed, I Heart Huckabees and Planet of the Apes was a one-hit-wonder white rapper and leader of the Funky Bunch.

Trust me, you'll never look at "Marky" Mark Wahlberg the same again.

Music Video of the Day: "While My Guitar (Ukulele) Gently Weeps"

The extremely talented and very accomplished Jake Shimabukuro performs an amazing version of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" by The Beatles on ukulele. It's amazing how fast his fingers move and how talented this man is. Usually you see ukulele players just strumming along, but this guy is way beyond that.

This is even more impressive for me since I just got a ukulele and am trying to learn how to play it. At least now I have someone to idolize.

Music Video of the Day: "Time After Time" - Stacy Ferguson

Does that name sound familiar? Take a look again at the video, then at the last name. Got it yet? That's right, before she became a Black Eyed Pea, created new adjectives for the world to use, and taught prepubescent girls everywhere how to misspell "tasty," F-to-the-E-R-G-the-I-the-E was a cute little girl singing Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" for Kids Incorporated, a company that specializes in having young kids butcher classic songs.

I especially love the flashbacks and thought bubbles with the little boy (who looks like that asshole I hated in elementary school). Ah...young love.

Music Video of the Day: "Stairway to Heaven"...on Sousaphone?

This may be unbelievably sacrilegious, but as a sousaphone player (yeah, I'm not afraid to admit I'm a band dork) and a Led Zeppelin fan I had to post this video. The sound quality is really bad and his tone isn't the best, but that's mostly because he is using multi-phonics (sounding two notes at the same time), which is incredibly hard to do. You'll notice the multi-phonics when he plays the two guitar parts. There are also videos of him doing other songs, like "Don't Bring Me Down,"
in which he uses the multi-phonics to play the main melody and the vocals at the same time.

You have to give the guy credit, he has some talent.

Music Video of the Day: JT - "Dick in a Box"

Before you jump to conclusions (every time I say that I think of Office Space...) and say "We've seen this video so many times!!! It's so yesterday!!" please hear me out. There's a very good reason to make this today's Music Video of the Day.

In Justin Timberlake's Madison Square Garden concert last night, JT brought on a very special guest to close out his show.

Via People:

Though Timberlake kicked off a raucous set at 9 p.m. that had audience members including Donald and Melania Trump on their feet, the real fun started at 11:20, when an announcer appeared to introduce "a new band" that had "the most watched video on YouTube." He ended with, "Can [this concert] get any better than this? Hell yes it can!"

Then Samberg and Timberlake took the stage – in their Color Me Badd-style costumes and facial hair from the SNL sketch and, of course, presents attached below the belt. To wild cheering they sang "D--- in a Box," changing the holiday lyrics from "Christmas ... Hannukkah ... Kwanzaa" to "Valentine's Day ... Flag Day ... Kwanzaa."

I've got to wonder how the parents of the thousands of young, teenage girls felt about this display by the former 'NSync heartthrob. Either way, this is one of the very few things that JT has done in his career that I can stand to watch (the other being his part in Alpha Dog; he plays the pansy-ass gangster part really well).

Music Video of the Day: Lily Allen's "Alfie"

I have a confession: I am obsessed with Lily Allen. Her cute British accent infectious and her music is so damn catchy catchy that I can't help but play this video over and over. She is also a babe (schwing!).
Her new single, "Smile," is already on MTV (if you happen to catch the channel when it remembers what "MTV" means). This is a video for her song "Alfie," which has a bad ass groove and a puppet that plays the part of her pot-smoking, porn-reading little brother, Alfie.

If you like this, check out her video for "LDN."

Music Video of the Day: "Love Shack" - The Family Version

While browsing around YouTube yesterday, I suddenly felt the need to hear B52s "Love Shack" (don't ask). So I popped into the search box and finally found the video. While dancing like a maniac, I looked at the "Related" videos section and found this little gem.

I can't help but to feel bad for these kids. If they only knew that Dad (or Mom...but probably Dad) was going to post this on YouTube for the whole world to see. I know that they'll be proud of this in about 5 years. Thanks, Dad.

If you need a B52s fix like I did, here's the link to the original "Love Shack" video.

Music Video of the Day: R.E.M. on Sesame Street

I couldn't resist posting this wonderful video as the "Music Video of the Day." This is an exciting adaption of "Shiny Happy People" entitled "Furry Happy Monsters." I bet Michael Stipe regrets doing this even more than writing the original song (and that's saying a lot). I really like the puppet singing Kate Pierson's (of the B-52s) vocal part. I wonder why she didn't jump at the opportunity to perform the song on the show.

My favorite line of the recording: "Come on monsters, you don't have to cry. We can be happy!!!"

Please enjoy.