Suffice to say I’ve got a few thoughts on the Rob Ford cocaine video scandal–which will come later–but the first thing that came to mind was this song by The Dickies. Shame they never actually made a music video, though.
Category Archives: Music Video of the Day
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY: You get yer balls to the wall, man!
No, that’s not an Accept music video. But Accept’s not coming to town tonight, either. Instead, we get “The Legendary Voice of Accept,” Udo Dirkschneider, and his band of merry men–otherwise known as U.D.O.–at the Mod Club this evening. I figure the above live video oughtta getcha in the mood. Something tells me we won’t be seeing Doro or the guy from Lordi on stage, though…
U.D.O., Halcyon Way and Axxion @ Mod Club, 772 College St, Sunday, April 14th. First band @ 7:45, Udo @ 9:45. $20.
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY: Methinks Jello Biafra’s a bit bummed out about the election results…
Not that he wanted Romney to win–but the Dead Kennedys frontman isn’t too pleased with the current, and recently re-elected POTUS, either. Case in point: His latest album contains a tune entitled “Barackstar Obummer.” There isn’t actually a music video for it, but here’s some live concert footage from a few months back…
COMMENT OF THE DAY: Clearly, LL Cool J musta listened to his mama…
From:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/23/showbiz/ll-cool-j-burgar/index.html
This just in: You don’t f**k with LL Cool J. The rapper-turned actor foiled a would-be burglar Wednesday morning, sending him to hospital with a broken nose, jaw and ribs. And adding insult to debilitating injury, the crook is now looking at 38 years to life in prison thanks to California’s three strikes law—which ought to give him plenty of time to work on his rap game. (Hey, 50 Cent didn’t get famous until he got shot by Jay-Z, right?) The report mentions that his family was sleeping, but something tells me that LL’s mama musta been awake when this all went down…
This is the jam, right here:
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY: I’m proud to be a Canadian–now pass me another beer!
Nothing says Canadian Pride like the Dayglo Abortions. The politically-incorrect Vancouver Island punk band has been getting held up at the border and kicked outta the States for over 30 years now. Unfortunately, while their classic Feed Us a Fetus album was released at the height of MTV’s heyday, they didn’t have the cash to make a video–not that MTV would’ve played it, anyways. Thus, I give you this live clip from the last days of The Kathedral:
Pretty sure I was at this gig. Well, it was either this one or the nite before…
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY: Mononc’ Serge wishes you the best St-Jean Baptiste with a “fuck you!”
Today is St-Jean Baptiste Day, la fête nationale in Quebec. And yes, it usually takes place one week before Canada Day. While many federalist francophones will take both today and next Monday off, let’s just say that there are a lot more establishments that remain open July 1st in la belle province than within the rest of them. Just don’t go out celebrating tonight if you’re an anglophone, lest they sic the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society on ya. See, St-Jean Baptiste is above all a francophone holiday, albeit not one celebrating the kind of French you learned in school or the sort that they speak on the streets of Paris. It’s really the Jour J for joual, the garbled Québécois dialect that, as one popular French-Canadian singer put it, is like “a diamond made of plywood, carved with a fishing knife.”
That singer is Mononc’ Serge, sort of a Québécois cross between Dennis Leary and John Tard (of 3Tards fame). His new video for “Le joual,” taken from his latest album, Ça c’est d’la femme (Translation: “Now that’s a woman!”), features an obese Quebecker beating on a skinny Frenchman in the squared circle, then celebrating with a post-match victory poutine, natch. It also contains the catchy, sing-a-long chorus “Fuck ceux-là qui disent qu’on parle mal!” (I’ll leave it up to you to figure out what that means, heh heh.) Crack open a Molson Dry and take a gander at it:
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY: Adidas doesn’t need to trash those shoes, they can just send ‘em to George Lynch!
Clearly, the Dokken axeman knows a thing or two about Breaking the Chains. Check out the shackle-destroying action on the guitar solo from their 1983 breakout hit:
Sadly, it seems that the band is wearing K-Swiss in this vid…
Perhaps Newt could turn to Lemmy for his new campaign theme?
Yesterday, the news broke that Survivor, the 80′s pop band that gives thanks to Sly Stallone before each meal and who tried to sue CBS 10 years ago for naming a reality show after them, is now suing ultra-conservative candidate Newt Gingrich, for using their greatest hits single “Eye of the Tiger” as his campaign theme. Apparently it’s not about politics, though. It’s about money copyright. Yeah, I hear ya.
That said, if the man from Fannie Mae is looking for a snappy tune that hasn’t already been used by Stephen Harper, he could certainly do worse than to look to British heavy metal legends Motorhead. While the band’s 1980 hit “Ace of Spades” gets the most airplay, I think the second song from said album, “Love Me Like a Reptile,” would be much better suited to he of the reptilian moniker. Surely a playa like Newt, who’s had three wives (though not all at the same time–his religion doesn’t allow it) could appreciate lascivious lyrics like: “I got no choice, I’m gonna twist your tail/Love Me Like A Reptile, I’m gonna sink my fangs in you” and “You know I’ve got my eyes on you/You’re petrified, gonna stick like glue”…
Furthermore, Motorhead are currently crisscrossing the nation on Gigantour. Well actually, they’re in Canada right now, but they’ll be back on the good ol’ side of the border from Feb 9-14 and the 21st to March 2nd. Perhaps Gingrich could get Lemmy and co to make an appearance? I know I’d vote for that!
NEWT/LEMMY 2012!
UPDATE 2/1: Apparently Mitt Romney is also having his issues with musical endorsements. The Toronto Star reports that His Mittness blasted out K’naan’s ‘Waivin’ Flag” upon winning the Florida primary, to which the Toronto rapper tweeted “Yo @mittromney I am K’naan Warsame and I do not endorse this message.”
Also, if you scroll down a couple times, you’ll see Lemmy’s scowling face on the right-hand side (under What’s Hot) of the article linked above. Coincidence? I think not…
Christmas came a couple days early for me this year!
I mean, it’s not every day that you get a Christmas greeting from a rock goddess…
It turns out that Cherie came across my female rock memoir writeup via Google Alert, and posted it on her Facebook fanpage. I stopped by to set the record straight on a coupla things, and shortly afterwards, I saw the above message in my inbox. Let’s just say I’ve been singing this song for the past 18 hours:
On the other hand, I’ve not yet heard back from Pat Benatar. Hmm…
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY: Macabre commemorates the Montreal Massacre!
Unfortunately, they never actually made a music video for this song, so we’ll hafta settle for a YouTube slide show…
