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Drag Ropes – Storm Corrosion

Leave a comment Posted by on February 15, 2013

This is a track from the self-titled album Storm Corrosion, a collaboration between Porcupine Tree‘s Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth. According to Wilson, this album is supposed to be the completion of a trilogy which includes the Opeth album Heritage and Wilson’s solo work Grace for Drowning. (both excellent albums imho)

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The Raven That Refused To Sing – Steven Wilson

Leave a comment Posted by on February 14, 2013

This is the title track from Steven Wilson’s upcoming album due for release on the 25th of this month. The third solo album from the Porcupine Tree front man was engineered by our old friend, the legendary Alan Parsons, and tells tales of the supernatural.

Steven Wilson has worked with several bands I’ve become a fan of including Opeth, Blackfield, No-Man, and Storm Corrosion, to name a few.

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Sita Sings the Blues – Who’s That Knockin’ At My Door?

1 Comment Posted by on February 8, 2013

Sung by Annette Hanshaw in a 1927 recording. This is one scene of the 81 minute animation by Nina Paley based on the Hindu epic The Ramayana.

“Sita Sings the Blues” is based on the Hindu epic “The Ramayana”. Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina Paley is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Ramayana. Set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of torch singer Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as “the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”

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Dont Answer Me – Alan Parsons Project

Leave a comment Posted by on January 28, 2013

Alan Parsons Project has been in my top 3 of bands since he came on the scene in the 1970’s. Formerly the sound engineer for Pink Floyd, Parsons hit my radar hard with his “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” album that interpreted several of Edgar Allen Poe‘s horror stories.

Over the weekend I came across an album I’d somehow missed; released in 2004 A Valid Path is variously rewrites, expands, and re-imagines of some of the APP classics and features artists such as David Gilmour (of Pink Floyd), Parsons’ son Jeremy Parsons, Crystal Method, Nortec Collective, and others. Eric Woolfson also shows up on the album even though this is considered a “solo” album and not part of Alan Parsons Project (an important point there).

Anyways, Don’t Answer Me is from the 1984’s Ammonia Avenue album and is done in a great 40’s style noir animation.

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Get Busy Living – Goldfish

Leave a comment Posted by on January 25, 2013

I don’t know how I missed these guys for this long. Definately going to be finding some of their albums.

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Dust Eater – Blackburner

Leave a comment Posted by on January 18, 2013

Your Friday night (occasional) rogue music video is a dubsteperous biological overview of a viral infection. A lethal viral infection. Featuring a beating heart, red blood cells (erythrocytes, to be precise), an offending virus, and it’s unidentified cellular victim zero, Blackburner shows us the screaming nightmare of every Biologist and Virologist on the planet.

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Hold Me – Delta Heavy

Leave a comment Posted by on January 18, 2013

One should always beware of Laser Cats and the Little Girls that love them.

Video directed by Kristofer Ström. Animated by Kristofer Ström & Erik Buchholtz.

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Switchback – Celldweller

Leave a comment Posted by on January 11, 2013

Yes, I realize this isn’t animated. One look at the vocalist’s hair, however, (and for being a kick butt track) I gave it a pass. If you don’t like it then go here.

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Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Leave a comment Posted by on January 11, 2013

Not quite the Andrews Sisters, but a fun cover anyways.

With the Puppini Sisters, directed by Laurie J Proud

h/t Miss Cellania

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Happy New Year – ABBA

Leave a comment Posted by on January 1, 2013

A bonus for your new year. I’ve been an unabashed ABBA fan since forever. One of my first 45s, back in the day, was ABBA’s Waterloo (b-side was Honey, Honey, as I recall). In all my fandom, however, I’d forgotten this holiday tune.

As an incredibly popular international band they were a huge success, as people they were pretty normal. The ups and downs of the personal relationships and dynamics among the band members were sometimes painfully laid out in their lyrics. Winner Takes It All was one such song and this is another.

The year is 1980 and though the touch stone of the song is one of hope, it’s more of a “persevere out of the ashes” sort of song, possibly wrung out the collapse of one pair’s marriage (Björn and Agnetha) and the impending collapse of the other two’s marriage (Benny and Anni-Frid).

Even so, I have to say that sometimes perseverance is all that’ll get you through. Never discount it.

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