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Olsen 2000: Flaai, baby, flaaaa-aahaiii

Not my kind of music, really, but this song still makes me smile like an idiot! There's something so fundamentally happy about it that I simply can't help it! :D

Lex & Klatten - Hvide mennesker

One of the best performances by Paprika Steen - ever!

Really funny if you speak Danish, but worth watching for her expressions, gestures and drumming anyway. I watched it years ago on TV and laughed my butt off, and today accidentally bumped into this rather low quality version on YouTube. Still funny as hell!

Stein Bagger + Grace Jones = Corporate Cannibal

Corporate Cannibal

Pleased to meet you, pleased to have you on my plate
your meat is sweet to me
your destiny
your fate

you’re my life support, your life is my sport

I’m a man-eating machine

you won’t hear me laughing, as i terminate your day
you can’t trace my footsteps, as i walk the other way

i can’t get enough prey, pray for me
(i’m a man-eating machine)
corporate cannibal, digital criminal
corporate cannibal, eat you like an animal

employer of the year, grandmaster of fear
my blood flows satanical,
mechanical, masonical and chemical
habitual ritual

i’m a man-eating machine..

i deal in the market, every man, woman and child is a target
a closet full of faceless nameless pay more for less empitness

i’ll make you scrounge, in my executive lounge
you pay less tax, but i’ll gain more back

my rules, you fools

we can play the money game
greedgame, power game, stay insane
lost in the cell, in this hell
slave to the rhythm of the corporate prison

i’m a man-eating machine…
i can’t get enough prey
pray for me
corporate cannibal…
digital criminal…

i’ll consume my consumers, with no sense of humour
i’ll give you a uniform, chloroform
sanatize, homogenize, vaporize… you

i’m the spark, make the world explode
i’m a man-eating machine, i’ll make the world explode
corporate cannibal…

Oro Jaska Beana

If I had a daughter, I would like her to be like these girls. No princesses. No Britney Spears clones. No out of tune don't-I-look-lovely blond/pink horror shows. Just girls who ROCK!

In contrast to the rest of the participants in the Nordic MGP 2008, The Blacksheeps went on stage and gave the audience pure, raw talent, a simple and well performed rock-punk tune and a singer with a voice so full that it is difficult to grasp that she's just a preteen.

Either the kids of the Nordic countries have an excellent sense of talent, or their parents voted like crazy this Saturday - I know I did. Whatever the answer to that, The Blacksheeps deservedly won the contest.

Enjoy!

If you liked that, how about this amazing unplugged cover version of Yeah Yeah Yeah's "Gold Lion" (video below)? Listen to that girl!! Talent can be found in the middle of nowhere too...

Welcome back, Miss Jones

It's been about 20 years since the last time she released an album. And now she's back.

I just bought "Hurricane" on iTunes, and Grace Jones' voice is just as superbly dark, sensuous, mysterious and slightly intimidating as it was all those years ago. The Jamaican reggae still influences most of the tunes on the new album, but she has managed to upgrade the sound to a more present feel, without losing the character and intensity that were always her signature.

If you listened to her before, and if you like the hypnotic feel of that low pitched voice, "Hurricane" is a must. It isn't ground breaking, innovative art. But it's a brand new slice of that high quality serving ... Miss Grace Jones.

My life in the Bush of Ghosts

I bought a CD (or whatever you want to call the cyber-version of a CD) on iTunes music store a few weeks ago. I needed some new stuff for my iPod, and decided to buy a record that I have loved since the beginning of the 80's: Brian Eno & David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

I don't know how many hours I have spent listening to this album. Hundreds, maybe thousands. It remains one of my favorite album of all times, and since all my records and my record player is gone, I thought it was time to get a digital version.

When punk - in any interesting form - died, it left a gaping musical void. If you ever doubt how horrible the 80s were in terms of music, try comparing what Bowie did during the 80s with what he's done during the 70s and 90s!

Anyway, I discovered that the American alternative, experimental scene was the only place where anything really exciting was happening. Eno and Byrne were the absolute cream of that scene, which also counted (among others) Talking Heads Adrian Belew, Laurie Anderson, and Robert Fripp.

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was a musical and artistic revolution to me. I think it was the same to a whole generation of musicians who through this album discovered the artistic possibilitites of sampling and using computers for creative purposes. The soundscapes of the album is still unique - and still worth listening to.

Here's a review from DJ and musician Moby:

"'bush of ghosts' was one of my favorite records when i was growing up in the early 80's. i loved (and continue to love) it's remarkable combination of emotional longing and atmosphere and sex and tension. at times it's a very disquieting record ('mea culpa', 'come with us'), and at times it's poignant and delicate ('the carrier')."

If you want a taste, here's a site dedicated solely to the album. Here, you can read about the work, watch the artwork and listen to most of the tracks from the record. Enjoy!

PodLife with Prodigy

I know it's a little dangerous. So please don't bother telling me that. You won't make me stop doing it anyhow.

When I ride my mountainbike to and from work, I listen to loud, wonderful music on my iPod. And I ride fast. In the middle of the hectic rush hour traffic. I love it. It is a perfect way to start the day!   It gets my pulse up from the bike ride and makes my mind spin from the music. And it almost almost always does the trick - if coffee isn't enough to scare the sleep out of my system.

Here's today's playlist:

The Prodigy: You'll be under my wheels
Disturbed: Decadence
Depeche Mode: John the Revelator
The Prodigy: Hotride
The Pussycat Dolls: Don't Cha
Rammstein: Links 234
Missy Elliott: Lose Control
The Prodigy: Get Up Get Off

The new album from The Prodigy (Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned) is really worth listening to! It makes riding through a cold, windy, rainy November morning a lot more fun.

PS. I'm not quite sure what happened to the content in the Recent posts and Recent comments categories in the right side bar. It's just gone ... ??!!? Well, it's probably due to the extensive maintenance work the Typepad team is doing these days.