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POPSArgument to Beethoven's Fifth Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray doing classic live comedy. Five minutes. No cursing, no bodily functions, no cynicism, no humiliation... Amazingly, it's brilliantly funny anyway!
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POPSJukeFly: access your music collection from anywhere Seems handy. A nice snappy interface that allows you to stream your music collection into any web browser anywhere. Some social features. Built with Flash. I haven't tried it; if you do, leave a comment. Discovered via Twitter.
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POPSLene Alexandra's boobs: they're O.K.!!!! O.K.! So, she's hot. But besides that, she has a sense of humor, and this is hilarious. Alexandra describes this single as "a very deep and reflecting song about my favourite bodypart. Haha." Try to pay attention to the lyrics, they're funny.
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POPSThe Making of Steely Dan's "Aja" Steely Dan is notorious for investing prodigious amounts of time and money into their music, taking as much resources to perfect one song as other bands do entire albums. Never were these efforts more evident than in their beloved 1977 masterpiece, Aja , a perfect album if their ever was one. In these fascinating clips, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen sit behind the mixer and discuss the meticulous planning and execution that went into every element of this 30-year-old classic. Includes interviews with contributors Wayne Shorter and Bernard Purdy.
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POPSMusic video: "Galang," by M.I.A. (a/k/a Maya Arulpragasam) London-born Sri Lankan painter, film and recording artist Maya Arulpragasam (nom de guerre M.I.A.) was Spin magazine's Artist of the Year in 2005. This single came out in 2003. Her music is controversial; her father was connected with the Tamil Tigers and she's expressed sympathy for the PLO. See http://answers.com/M.I.A.
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POPSVideo: Joeski Love's "Pee Wee's Dance," 1986 I used to love this video. This is from back when hip-hop was about being crazy and having a good time, not guns and drugs. Watch it before it's pulled for DMCA violations or something. Check out Ice-T about 3/4 of the way through.
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POPSMassive site devoted to The Band For example: there's a page discussing the song "Tears of Rage" in a long essay, and then there's ANOTHER page of quotes from a long list of critical assessments of the song.
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POPSFree early music recordings on classical guitar (lots) Jon Sayles, an amateur classical guitarist and lover of early music, has recorded a huge number of classic early melodies on his guitar and made all the recordings freely available in mp3 format on his site. Check it out. He is modest about his abilities, but his renditions are certainly competent and, I think, very sensitive and well done.
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POPSJonathan Richman live solo, UC Berkeley, 1981 (3 min. Super 8 video) Jonathan is the master. How can he be so goofy and yet so brilliant at the same time? Quality of the video and sound is horrible, but it's unmistakably Jonathan Richman through and through. He performs the second half of "I'm a Little Dinosaur" and the first half of "New Teller," and it is awesome .
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POPSFifty songs for kids that aren't utter crap A handy list. I've always felt that most music marketed at children -- or, rather, marketed at parents as "stuff your children will like" -- insults the intelligence and taste of children and adults.
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POPSMedieval & Renaissance music - listen online Lots of music here; good selection. Unfortunately it's all RealMedia presentations. But the quality is decent. Update : The links in the clip won't work, unless you're at Columbia. However, if you go to the original page, many of the links further down on the page will work. I didn't notice when clipping that some of the .rm files are protected, but many others aren't.
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POPSSeeqpod: music search engine Post Singingfish.com's demise, this may be useful. It appears to crawl podcasts and other mp3-containing sites. It has an in-page, embeddable Flash player, but it does not make it easy to download the files you find.
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POPSAnother embedded Flash player for MP3s Another tutorial. This is actually my favorite Flash player -- simple, clean, streamlined appearance, no extra features. The one I clipped before (http://snurl.com/19pi0) is a little rougher-looking. Oh -- and -- bonus! I actually tried this out and made it work before clipping it. Imagine that!
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POPSBest way to embed a Flash-based MP3 player in your page A highly customizable Flash player that you can easily embed in your website or blog. Plays MP3 files or RSS/XSPF playlists. This is the player used in the excellent Grazr.com OPML browser. For a quick, easy howto on using these scripts, see this blog post .
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