I’ve been playing with this for a little while. Blip is like Twitter only with music tweets or ‘Blips’. You can search and add tunes to your own list of music. You can also add your own or other Blippers tunes to playlists. Tunes are shared around users by Re-Blipping and giving ‘props’ to music you like. The more props you get the more you get to give. Follow? No? Just go have a look and start BLIPPING!
Social networking meets being your own DJ – yes, I’m a total wanker.
I’m not keen on the video but I like the lyrics and the tune. Lilly Allen – The Fear
If you don’t own any Mr Scuff in your music collection then I’m questioning if it’s really a music collection. Yes, I am that opinionated. Anyone who can put such a great track to such a terribly awesome video is a winner in my book. I asked Cameron to watch it and his response?
“JESUS only 5p for melons?”
I found these two videos on Vimeo this morning and I wanted to share them.
The first is a recording of Weezer (by Dave Allen) hosting an event in Portland, Oregon where they have invited loads of local musicians to play along with them. This is a video of them doing a cover of Radioheads ‘Creep’. I’m biased anyway because I love both Weezer and Radiohead but even if you don’t you have to appreciate the awesomeness of being one of those people in the room with an instrument and it must give you goosebumps to watch it.
No? Then you have no SOUL.
The second is this stop motion clip created by Kirsten Lepore. It must have taken ages to put together but I think its brilliant and who doesn’t love the game of Guess Who anyway?!
I’m off work for a couple of days during the school half term break to be with Cam only he’s reminded me this morning why doing this Mother/Son quality time DRIVES ME NUTS!
If repeated plays of this by your kid doesn’t make you reach up and tear your own ovaries off their branches I don’t know what will!
And to think all I had to be frustrated about today was Gordon Brown.
Suburban Mum tagged me and here is the deal:
The rules:-
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.
First I had to have a little chuckle about the line ‘shaping your spring’ as the only thing currently shaping my spring is the unbelievable amount of sodding bind weed slowly strangling the life out of everything in my garden. But that’s by the by – moving on to music, if I find 7 songs that are doing it for me right now I’ll be amazed… Here goes.. (links will open in a new window)
Fiona Apple – Paper Bag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB4Al0l6Cu
Fiona Apple has been around for years but she hasn’t released any albums that I know of for quite some time. The last album I have is from around 1998 and its one of those ones that you can play from start to finish without forwarding through any of the songs.
High Contrast – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang:
This is on my iPod because it really motivates me on the treadmill in the mornings.
Quantic – Life In The Rain:
Could be mistaken as the theme tune for living in the UK. I have three Quantic CD’s in my car because they are chilled out happy tunes perfect for driving. This particular track has been used on The Collective Moutain Bike DVD and therefore incorporates some stunning video footage and mountain biking.. if you don’t watch it all the way through – there is something a bit wrong with you.
System Of A Down – Chop Suey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdRd3k4CIAg
I am NO lover of rock but there is a reason for my liking this tune and that reason is my lovely man who has on regular occasions jumped out of bed, set this track in the cd player and stood at the edge of the bed in his boxers jigging around miming the words to me in my face, occasionally poking the air with his index fingers to punctuate the end of each sentence and then finally breaking down for the drum session in the style of someone with a bee in their hair. So see..you don’t have to love rock to appreciate some good early morning weekend humour courtesy of a scantily clad fit young man and a band full of tattooed beardy weirdies. Always gets me laughing.. right before I eject my foot swiftly out from under the duvet and straight into his cods.
Weezer – Island In The Sun:
The other day I was looking for clips of a movie I saw some time ago called The Station Agent. This song was one of the tracks feature in the movie and I was reminded of it while I was watching a clip of the movie the other day.
Tube & Berger feat. Chrissie Hynde – Straight Ahead:
This is another treadmill song but it also has a fantastic video. I’m not sure what I like more – this video or Wils version of it, usually carried out in the kitchen when he’s donning the marigolds!
Radiohead – Karma Police:
I love this track – its what I call a repeater. A track that I have on my iPod or PC and listen to it on repeat for 20 or 30 mins at a time… There’s no better way to get depressed!
I hate items that force me to use them in a predetermined way when there could be another option. itunes just about made me vault myself through the ceiling when it rearranged my entire 30GB music collection and stuffed everything in little files of it’s own. It was like having your mother in law come over and tidy up your knickers drawer for you while you’re at work.
It managed to further enrage me when it refused to allow me to play some music put on my machine from another friends ipod so I went on the hunt for an application of some sort that would allow me to use my shuffle just like a USB. I found many complicated methods of doing this – some of which made rocket science look a breeze but then I found this website where I downloaded a tiny little application, stuck it on my ipod shuffle and now life is good.
Unleash your iPod Shuffle here!
Wil sent me the link for this the other day and now I have to play the first and second choons in the player at least once a day..
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