Hello, here is some vandalism

Today’s morally reprehensible video comes courtesy of Crookers ft Miike Snow. Naughty boys.

Crookers fr Miike Snow – Remedy

Er… that’s all.

"I see a little silhouetto of a clam"

Stop everything you are doing AT ONCE and watch this.

The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody

Merry Crimbo!

Right, this’ll be the last post before I return from my Christmas hols in the magical Winter Wonderland that is Rochdale. Hope Santa brings you everything you asked for, particularly if you asked for the Ladyhawke album or a brand new Domino Rally set.

In the meantime, here’s some Christmassy and not-so-Christmassy reading material to tide you over.

:: The writers behind Mistletoe & Wine, Fairytale Of New York and I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day reveal how the songs came about – and how much they get paid in royalties every year.

:: Meanwhile, The Guardian interviews a bunch of people who are mentioned in pop songs – including the man/woman who inspired Walk On The Wild Side and the record company executive namechecked in Enya’s Orinoco Flow (?!)

:: Just because The Killers film all of their videos in a desert, and Alexandra Burke’s budget only stretches as far as buying 50 candles from Poundstore, it doesn’t mean the music video is a creatively bankrupt medium. Here’s Spin Magazine’s list of the year’s best ones, which skillfully includes Bert and Ernie’s Ante Up lipdub.

:: Speaking of Alexandra Burke, her recording of Hallelujah is approximately the 1,298,388,515th version of the song. Test your knowledge of the others in a quiz I wrote last week.

:: Best bit telly from the last week – Tom Chambers and Camilla “dial her up” Dallerup performing a showdance to If My Friends Could See me Now, from the musical Sweet Charity, in the grand final of Strictly Come Dancing

:: Worst bit of telly from the last week – Girls Aloud slaughter The Loving Kind live on GMTV. Particularly noteworthy is Sarah’s bum note at 3:50. Even Cheryl cringes.

:: The Onion lists its worst films of 2008. Bizarrely, it doesn’t include The Love Guru.

:: Goldfrapp say they’re starting work on a new album. Best. News. Ever.

:: Pedants unite – here’s a Wikipedia list of common misconceptions, which debunks so-called facts like “your hair and fingernails continue to grow after you die”, and “Gordon Brown says he’s a fan of the Arctic Monkeys” (he actually prefers Last Shadow Puppets, fact fans).

:: And, finally, the now-customary silly pet videos.

Number one: Christmas cats

Number two: Dog going mental

Happy bloody Christmas to you all.

Love and mince pies,
mrdiscopop

Teaching kids their DMCs

The recent run of amazing Sesame Street clips has dried up, so here’s the next best thing: Rap demigods Run DMC on 1980s teach-kids-about-books TV show, Reading Rainbow.

“Oh yes, indeed I like to read / ’cause reading’s fun
Not only me (I’m DMC) / but also Run“

Wasn’t it great when it wasn’t only Kanye West who was brave enough to set a positive example rap fans?

Run DMC on Reading Rainbow

LL Cool J ruins childhood for everyone

Now, this is simply not on.

While every other guest star on Sesame Street uses their performance to spread good will, basic maths, triangle recognition and, er, footwear to the masses, LL Cool J goes and spoils it all with needless profanity.

All Elmo wanted him to do was add one and one together.

Oh, wait…

Watch the clip on Youtube (youtube)

This week’s Sesame Street clip

You know, that muppet blog idea I had last week is seeming better and better as the Sesame Street posts stack up…

This week, Neil “Doogie Howser MD” Patrick Harris pops up on the puppet show playing a singing, dancing shoe fairy. (Yes, you read that right.)

The clip’s on Youtube (youtube) – but embedding has been disabled, so you’ll actually have to click on a link to watch it. The horror.

For those of you who can’t bear to leave the site (we understand), here’s an equally brilliant clip of Harris on US chat show Regis and Kelly:

This week’s Sesame Street clip

You know, that muppet blog idea I had last week is seeming better and better as the Sesame Street posts stack up…

This week, Neil “Doogie Howser MD” Patrick Harris pops up on the puppet show playing a singing, dancing shoe fairy. (Yes, you read that right.)

The clip’s on Youtube (youtube) – but embedding has been disabled, so you’ll actually have to click on a link to watch it. The horror.

For those of you who can’t bear to leave the site (we understand), here’s an equally brilliant clip of Harris on US chat show Regis and Kelly:

More muppety goodness

I’m beginning to think I should start a separate Muppet blog, but for now here is the latest instalment of “things that become better with fuzzy puppets in them”.

This week, Feist does 1-2-3-4 on Sesame Street. It’s so appropriate, you begin to wonder whether she wrote the song specifically to meet Big Bird.

Feist – 1-2-3-4

More muppety goodness

I’m beginning to think I should start a separate Muppet blog, but for now here is the latest instalment of “things that become better with fuzzy puppets in them”.

This week, Feist does 1-2-3-4 on Sesame Street. It’s so appropriate, you begin to wonder whether she wrote the song specifically to meet Big Bird.

Feist – 1-2-3-4

Bert & Ernie throw down

What is it with muppet mash-ups at the minute? After last week’s unecessarily censored Sesame Street, here’s Bert and Ernie crunking it up, gangsta rap-stylee.

Bert and Ernie – Hip-Hoppotamus and Rhymenocerous

The soundtrack is Ante Up by MOP, fact fans.