Category: MusicMonday

Music Monday – "You were the first girl at school to get breasts/And Martin said you were the best/Oh, the boys all loved ya but I was a mess/I had to work to try to get you undressed."

Pulp's “Different Class” album is a classic, topping many UK “Best of” polls for 1995 in a year when Oasis and Blur were stealing all the headlines.  (Linked

Music Monday – United States of Pop 2009

A mash-up of Billboard's top hits of the year that's probably more catchy than some of the individual songs being sampled…

Music Monday – "But now you do what they told ya"

I've mentioned the annual battle to top the UK pop charts during Christmas week before but this year's contest was especially intriguing.  The main contender was a song

Music Monday – "Whoo-whoot!"

This video is called “A Glorious Dawn” – Carl Sagan ft. Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remix) and if that doesn't hint at how much coolness is in store for

Music Monday – Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra

This is a bit outside my normal Music Monday posts but when I heard about this “orchestra” which plays music using only iPhone apps, I just had to

Music Monday – ThruYou – The YouTube Remix

ThruYou is a project that took clips of amateur musicians that were uploaded to YouTube and remixed them to create new music.  Very cool! 

Music Monday – "I got chills/They're multiplyin'/And I'm losin' control"

The easiest way to make a cover version sound unique is to slow down a quick song.  Dozens of artists use this trick on their own hits and

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