July 16, 2011

Saturday Night Tunage VI


It's  another Saturday Night Tunage to liven up your weekend!  I'm your party host, DJ Wonderduck, and tonight's Tunage is a special one!  I mean, they're all special, but this one is even more special than usual, for this one... is all Eighties music, all the time!  It's should come as no shock to any of my readers listeners whatever you folks are that I'm a '80s fan... it's the music of my callow yoot, after all.  But there's more to it than that.  For I believe that the '80s were the last bastion of a time where music didn't have to actually mean anything.  It was just there for fun!  No messages, no statements, just a rolickin' good time.  Sure, there were songs that had an underlying motive to them (U2 and The Clash, for example, were rather heavy-handed about that), but the majority of it all?  Go out and have a good time!

So let's get on with it already!

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July 09, 2011

Saturday Night Tunage V


Once more, this time with feeling, it's Saturday Night Tunage with your host, DJ Wonderduck.  I wasn't sure I was going to do the Tunage this week, but whilst at work on Friday the instore music system managed to blow my mind... forcing me to inflict the pain share the joy with you!  I'm sure you'll appreciate the "stacks and stacks of red hot wax" I'll be layin' down for your enjoyment, so lets get started!

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July 02, 2011

Saturday Night Tunage IV


Another Saturday night, another Saturday Night Tunage with me, DJ Wonderduck, spinning the music of my life out into the vast reaches of the intertoobs for the pleasure of you, my readers listeners.  It's almost like I'm back behind the mic at one of the various radio stations I used to work for, with one major difference: I can play what I want!  No more playlists making the music decisions for me, I'm stickin' it to The Man, go crazy folks riot in the streets woo!

Or, y'know, not.  Because rioting in the streets isn't... well... very nice.  And you're likely to be hit by a car.  I don't want you to be hit by a car, and would feel bad if my choice of music made you want to go out into the streets and riot without looking both ways first.  If you do feel an overwhelming urge to riot in the streets after listening to Saturday Night Tunage, please let me know so I can adjust my choices of music to something less riot-inducing.  Saturday Night Tunage may have been in contact with peanuts.  Saturday Night Tunage has been known to cause reactions in people with an allergy to asparagus.  Do not taunt Saturday Night Tunage.  If Saturday Night Tunage lasts for four hours or more, please contact your doctor. 

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June 25, 2011

Saturday Night Tunage III


You've waited all week, and now it's finally here!  DJ Wonderduck is back with the third installment of Saturday Night Tunage, music to either get you in the mood for whatever event you have planned on this first full day of the weekend, or to provide you with a soundtrack for the evening! 

But enough of me jabbering away, let's get on with the tunage!  Maestro, if you please...?
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June 18, 2011

Saturday Night Tunage II


As the motivation to write anything in-depth and interesting seems to have departed my body as of right now, I've decided to do another Saturday Night Tunage post!  Come, be amazed at my myriad musical tastes!

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June 11, 2011

Saturday Night Tunage


No, not "Saturday Night Tuna," tunage!  I haven't done a good music post in a while, and since I don't want to work on the two long anime posts I've got on my mind, this would be a good time!

Click below for an... interesting... assortment of music!
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August 15, 2010

Some Housekeeping and More Music Meme

Okay, so I'm probably not going to be around for a couple of days.  I'm having a tooth pulled Monday afternoon, under general anesthetic.  I'm sure that Monday night I'll be either too drugged or in too much pain to blog.  Hopefully sometime Tuesday I'll be functional enough to update here.

I've had too many bad experiences with dentists to be awake for this.  Hell, I went into shock during a teeth-cleaning once.  It's not the pain, that's nothing... it's the tugging and the pulling and the sounds.  I punched a dentist in the groinacological region once, but that was because he didn't wait long enough for the Novocaine to kick in before he poked at a cavity.  The stabbing pain just caused my right arm to jerk spasmodically; I really didn't mean to.  Heck, until then he was a friend of mine.  We played racquetball the weekend before, for heaven's sake (he won). 

So, yeah, with any luck I'll be back Tuesday.

More Music Meme featuring the letter "P": 

I couldn't believe I forgot these two songs, so I had to do another post to include them.

Bonus 1): Pump Up The Volume, M/A/R/R/S


This may have been the first real hit to have been created out of nothing but samples.  It's also not the song I remember (or have in my collection), but it turns out there's a reason for that.  For example, at 2:14, the lyrics in the video above go "Automatic pushbutton remote control / synthetic genetic command your soul".  The version I remember from my youth, and have on 45rpm single, is "Automatic systematic remote control...".  There's also no samples from Wolfman Jack or James Brown on it.  Turns out the video above is actually the original version of the tune, which was released in the UK.  The version I'm remembering is the US version, which pulled the samples for legal reasons.  Huh, who knew?  Pump Up The Volume was nominated for a Grammy award in 1989 in the Best Pop Instrumental Performance category, and was M/A/R/R/S' only release. 

Bonus 2): Politics of Dancing, Re-Flex

I often feel like I'm the only person in the world who remembers this band and their only (legitimately) released album.  It's too bad, really, for Re-Flex should have been a lot bigger than they were.  This 1983 album (of the same name as the single) is chock full of great beats, blistering hooks, clever lyrics, everything you'd want from an '80s New Wave group.  It peaked at #53 here in the US, #23 in the UK, and the rumored second album never appeared.

Until 2002, that is, when the keyboardist for the band, Paul Fishman, unofficially released Humanication, and announced that a 6-CD boxset, called Re-Fuse, was going to be coming out sometime in 2010.  I'm hoping it's true.

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August 13, 2010

It's Music Meme Time Again

So over at Greyduck's place, it seems that he was tagged by another blogger with the following situation:

1. If you’d like to play along, reply to this post and I’ll assign you a letter.
2. You then list (and upload or link to the video, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Then, as I’m doing here, you’ll post the list to your journal with the instructions.

Of course, GD came through with flying colors.  Also of course, I couldn't resist a challenge of that sort so I requested a letter of my own.  Grey gave me "P".  Below, please find my five songs... and enjoy, won't you?

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