Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

pop roches

the roches - no shoesit's the holidays and i've decided to catch up on the quirky and arty and underrated films i haven't had a chance to watch yet....

one such film is "please give", the opening of which is a montage of several women's breasts - in all manner of shapes, sizes, colours, and volumes - all being plopped and squished down by a glass plate for mammograms. the funny thing is, the best part of the montage isn't the breasts. nope! not at all. it's the song they play over this mammary montage: a quirky tune called 'no shoes' by the roches.

the band is comprised of three sisters who started their musical journey by singing christmas carols in their new jersey neighbourhood while in high school back in the 1960s. 'no shoes' is taken from a recent release called "moonswept".

with about 15 records under their belt (more if you count them individually or in duos), along with their lovely harmonies, quirky lyrics, immense stage and recorded presence, the roches managed to somehow fly under my radar. until i watched 'please give' the other day. i literally had to pause the film and shazam the thing.

so here's my christmas carol to you this year! hope you like.

the roches - no shoes:


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get this at theroches.com

Sunday, August 10, 2008

sheep get their groove on

this is what it sounds like in my head....
sheep beats

yes it's true. now you can compose your very own funky sheep beats. and the sheep play it for you!

no, they don't go 'baaa' during the track. slight oversight on the developers' part, so there are no vocal samples, but!! they blink and lick their lips. and actually play their instruments in time. another do-it-yourself music program, like hifana's fresh push...

i have a sheep-less sequencer like this on my mobile phone. a bit more sophisticated so it doesn't just loop after four bars. the reggae ringtone i composed is twelve times longer than sheep beats. and for anyone who's heard it, you know it's funkier than a sheep's...

feeling creative? check out sheep beats. got the 'grindin' back beat in my head. looks like i'll be counting sheep beats to sleep tonight...

Sheep Beats - Sheep get their groove on

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

4.0 bill cosby and quincy jones - hicky burr, sargeant pepper's lonely hearts club band

what's better than jello pudding or an episode of fat albert? bill cosby singing hicky burr and sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band… the second album cover slays me.

bill cosby and quincy jones - hicky-burr:


bill cosby - sargeant pepper's lonely hearts club band:


and totally unrelated...