Mega Man: Fully Clothed, Still Badass

Sally Shapiro free Johan Agebjörn remixes Mega Man 2.

Mp3 Johan Agebjörn / Mega Man 2 (Remix)

And someone had enough free time to make a video...



And someone had the time to make a mash-up video for Girl Talk's "Shut the Club Down'... and the rest of the tracks on Feed the Animals (not included, but all on youtube).

Bathtubs for Jeremy (Unfortunately Without Rod Stewart) Complete With Prostitutes

Anglo-Iranian electronica maestra Leila's rendition of a British sitar song about a British wood named Norwegian featuring, presumably, an Italian man. From Blood Looms and Blooms (great album, great title).

Mp3 Leila feat. Luca Santucci / Norwegian Wood (Beatles Cover)

Great story around the song (from Wikipedia). Maybe Lennon and McCartney can compete with Rod in the sleaze challenge:

The lyrics of the song sketch an encounter between the singer and an unnamed girl. They drink wine in her room and talk into the night. However, at 2 A.M. the unnamed girl ceases their flirtation, which the speaker may have been hoping to end in consummation, declaring "it's time for bed", leaving him to crawl off to "sleep in the bath" alone.
"Norwegian Wood" refers to the cheap pinewood that often finished the interiors of working class British flats. The last verse states that the singer lights a fire, the implication being that the singer in fact sets fire to the girl's flat, presumably as revenge for not sleeping with the singer.
McCartney himself states the final line of the song indicates that the singer burned the home of the girl. As he explained:

Peter Asher [brother of McCartney's then-girlfriend Jane Asher] had just done his room out in wood, and a lot of people were decorating their places in wood. Norwegian wood. It was pine, really, just cheap pine. But it's not as good a title, is it, "Cheap Pine"? It was a little parody, really, on those kind of girls who, when you'd get back to their flat, there would be a lot of Norwegian wood. It was completely imaginary from my point of view, but not from John's. It was based on an affair he had. She made him sleep in the bath and then, finally, in the last verse, I had this idea to set the Norwegian wood on fire as a revenge. She led him on and said, "You'd better sleep in the bath." And in our world, that meant the guy having some sort of revenge, so it meant burning the place down....

This exchange took place in a press conference in Los Angeles:

Reporter: I'd like to direct this question to messrs. Lennon and McCartney. In a recent article, Time magazine put down pop music. And they referred to "Day Tripper" as being about a prostitute...

Paul: Oh yeah.

Reporter: ...and "Norwegian Wood" as being about a lesbian.

Paul: Oh yeah.

Reporter: I just wanted to know what your intent was when you wrote it, and what your feeling is about the Time magazine criticism of the music that is being written today.

Paul: We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, that's all.

And, as for the Beatles, Ringo is still the sexiest.

Covers Theory #3.33333333

Is a song a cover when it has the same title as one of the most well known (and most frequently covered) songs ever written? Even if it has seemingly nothing to do with the song? I ask you, Cornelius, twice.

Mp3 Cornelius / Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan, etc. Not Cover?)

God Only Knows that God Only Knows...

Mp3 Cornelius / God Only Knows (Beach Boys Not Cover?)

Creole Computer Candy Love

If Italians do it better, then why do they do German and Creole (both in English)? Does anyone do it better than Kraftwerk? Is covering doing it better? Glass Candy attempts to answer all and none of these questions...only Jack Schmidt knows the truth.

Mp3 Glass Candy / Computer Love (Kraftwerk Cover)

Mp3 Glass Candy / Iko Iko (James "Sugar Boy" Crawford Cover "Jock-A-Mo"

Patient Pre-Room Buffer Area

MP3 Seam / Heroes (David Bowie cover, 1999)

Seam's take on "Heroes" is very eldritch, which the dictionary claims is a real word.

The beeps sound like an EKG. That's a noise you can download for a small fee. Gimme "Hospital Transit-Lounge Beeps" at $4.95, thanks.