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Musical Musings… Bands Named After Sports Jargon

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He used that card to pick out his shirt color at Sears.

 

With all the brouhaha about the World Cup (and the brew-ha-ha’s over funny beer cups), I started thinking… hey, the band Yellowcard must have gotten their band name from yellow cards.  Since I got the soccer-referenced band name out-of-the-way, let’s move onto some others: 

FOOTBALL

Not this kind of nickel back...

 

Nickelback is a Canadian band named after a position in an American sport.  They claim their name is in reference to change band member Mike Kroeger would return to customers while working at Starbucks, but that’s suspect.  Under this pretense, the band could have been named Sixcentsback or Buck-O-Nine.  I’m sticking to the football ties. 

Helmet could fall under football… or baseball… or hockey… or bicycling… but I tend to believe their moniker derives from Vikings… if Vikings were condoms. 

HOCKEY

When you only got 100 years to live, you don't need to see crap like this.

 

You wouldn’t think a guy with a high-pitched falsetto would be a hockey fan, but John Ondrasik must be enough of when to name his band himself, Five for Fighting.  I was going to let this be a standalone entry, until I came across a mention of The Zambonis.  “Who they hell are they?” I said to myself.  “I won’t include them if I never heard any of their music.”  Turns out, I did.  Hockey Monkey was the theme song to a short-lived show I enjoyed (and forgot to include on this list) called The Loop: 

BASEBALL

Alfred Hitchcock meets Christopher Lloyd and Tony Danza in "Birds in the Outfield"

 

Are you ready for the battle of the one hit (baseball pun!) wonders? 

One of my all-time favorite songs from the 80’s has to be Your Love by The Outfield, my primary entry for the All-American Rejects Sport.  On the other hand, Fastball’s The Way has to be one of the most annoying songs from the 90’s (mostly courtesy of overplay… but still). 

BASKETBALL

Bill Berry traveled from the Chicago Bulls to the Washington Wizards, but he's only one guy.

 

This sport was the toughest one.  I was hard half-court pressed to think of a single entry here.  And suddenly there were two (courtesy of my boss/friend Paul): 

  1. Blues Traveler (FYI and off subject – John Popper was hilarious in Z Rock)
  2. Travelling Wilburys

Stretches?  Both yes.  But basketball players are usually very tall… 

BONUS SPORTS, a.k.a. OVERTIME

RUNNERS UP

HONORABLE MENTION

Huey Lewis and the News for having albums entitled Sports and simply, Fore!

InASense, Lost… The Toy That Got Away

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This post is inspired by two items:

  1. This Geek Dad article from Wired about classic toys and their modern equivalents (fear not – it’s geeky)
  2. This scene from Hot Tub Time Machine

Waxing nostalgic is always a risky endeavor, but sometimes, it’s worth the heartache.  Case in point – here’s the one that got away, my great white buffalo… my childhood dream of becoming a director, molded in flimsy plastic and recorded on audio cassettes’ magnetic tape…

Fisher Price’s PXL 2000

It’s quite honestly the only Christmas wish list item that I can recall the pining over, like a forgotten summer crush.

There’s one CD cover I can think of that captures that similar sense of adolescent longing, now long lost.

Like a Polaroid from my mind...

Otherwise there’s this video of Whitney, filmed in Pixelvision, courtesy of the PXL 2000:

Man, I feel bummed out… save me President Taft (for no particular reason)!

Worth 1002 Words… A Business Card Worth Having Edition

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Handy Crap

Some alternates (image source):

  • Enterprising Idea
  • Maaco Move
  • Business Car
  • SGotta Hertz

A Handful Of… Bad Rap Songs From Movies Still Stuck In My Head

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I would never call myself a fan of any specific genre because, hey – if it’s good, it’s good.  If it’s catchy, it’s catchy.  If it’s kitschy, it’s kitschy.  This handful of soundtrack “rap” songs remain in my noggin to this very day… mostly filed under the kitschy label.

Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh – Spirit from Ghostbusters 2

Partners in Kryme – Turtle Power from – what else? – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie

MC Hammer – Addams Groove from The Addams Family

Amanda Ingber (?) – Top That! from Teen Witch

This one isn’t really a rap song, but it still gets stuck in my head…

Shampoo – Trouble from Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Movie

The Sh– To Just Sh–ty… The Idea This Drunk Guy Had

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Nobody was hurt in the making of this video… except the bush and the bike.  Srsly.

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more about “Apparently, beer turns your bones int…“, posted with vodpod

These college kids must have followed the same guidelines as these folks did with their dog:

Could have helped this kitten too:

JusWondering… Do You Believe In Pop Culture Perfect Storms?

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Unlike real-life perfect storms, pop culture perfect storms are fun.

What entails a weather-based perfect storm:

  • warm air from a low-pressure system coming from one direction
  • a flow of cool and dry air generated by a high-pressure from another direction
  • tropical moisture from a hurricane

What entails a pop culture perfect storm:

  • video from long ago
  • containing someone out of their more (in)famous context
  • that features products either lost to time, or some ironic reference

The first example is this:

The ingredients (of the PCPS, not the McDLT):

Another example would be Ghostbusters 2, partly due to this sequence:

The breakdown:

  • This 21-year-old movie (yikes… it can legally drink!)
  • containing a cameo from Whitney Houston’s bad boy, Bobby Brown, as well as this theme song
  • that features not only the Sony Walkman shown in the above clip, but this adapted NES Advantage game controller:

And then there’s always this old commercial featuring Glenn Beck (you can find irony on your own… just like the Ghostbusters):

So, Duh! Pop Quiz… Song Remakes Rated By Movie Remakes

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Remakes are hardly better.

With all the remakes leaking out of Hollywood like – oh, I don’t know – an unstoppable oil spill, I started thinking about song remakes… how they don’t happen as often, and when they do, how they tend to be worthy updates or at least interesting spins (outdated pun!) on the original.

That’s when I decided to present a So, Duh! Pop Quiz that will have you match a song remake with a comparable film remake.

1) Anberlin’s version of New Order’s True Faith

    a) Psycho
    b) Fame
    c) Alfie
    d) Bedazzled

2) Cake’s version of Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive

    a) Friday the 13th
    b) Clash of the Titans
    c) Dawn of the Dead
    d) Nightmare on Elm Street

3) Eddie Vedder’s version of Indio’s Hard Sun

    a) The Ring
    b) The Karate Kid
    c)  The Taking of Pelham 123
    d) The Wicker Man

4) Flo Rida’s version of Dead or Alive’s You Spin Me Round (called Right Round)

    a) Who’s Your Caddy? (Caddyshack)
    b) My Baby’s Daddy (Three Men and a Baby)
    c) Soul Plane (Airplane!)
    d) All of the above

5) Shinedown’s version of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Simple Man

    a) The Fly
    b) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
    c) The Hills Have Eyes
    d) The Parent Trap

BONUS: To check out My Top Ten List of 80’s (Music) Remakes, click here.

(Answers… or opinions, I guess… after the jump…) Read More

Happy Find… Yacht Rock

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This isn’t so much of a Happy Find as it is a Happy Discovery…  But wait… I guess a find is a discovery, so never mind that.

Yacht Rock tells the untold stories behind the ignored sub-genre of smooth music that hit the radio waves between 1976 to 1984.  Hosted by “Hollywood” Steve Huey, the collection of twelve shorts explains the mysterious origins of as many songs, starting with The Doobie Brothers’ What a Fool Believes:

The remainder of the videos can be found on JD Ryznar’s YouTube Channel, or more conveniently at Channel 101.

Sailing… Takes me away to where I’ve always heard it could be… Just a dream and the wind to carry me…
And soon I will be free…

Hibbidy-Wah?! Please Keep My Kittens Single-Faced!

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This video promised to be cute:

Aaaaaaah!  Quick!  Clean the palette!  Clean the palette!  (Video auto-starts so I moved the too-cuteness to after the jump) Read More

In My Brain While Sleeping… Cartoon Island (And Possible Equine Lust)

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They probably could have just called it ImagiNation.

This booze-induced dream is not the first “other format” brain leak I’ve ever had.  I’ve dreamed in cartoon before (as well as comic panels), but each of those had more of a narrative.

This one was… odd… to say the least.  Particularly for the fact that I remember very little of it.  I know there was an island full of cartoon characters, not unlike (<—I hate when people write that) South Park’s Imaginationland.

Actually, I have to be honest.  I only remember one thing.  And though I’m loathe to admit it, here we go:

Rainbow Brite's horse named Starlite, was being "courted" by...

...BraveStarr's horse named Thirty/Thirty.

I’m hoping this happened in my subconscious because I saw two squirrels chasing each other yesterday, and not for any other deep-rooted,

mane-flowing,

silky muscular reasons.