The Jukebox from Hell

[jmyrlefuller]

Hot off the presses today (perhaps a year or so too late): Honey Boo Boo "sings." Or yells, anyway.

Here is "Movin' Up."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqvgoPMd7d8

[jmyrlefuller]

I have no explanation for this.

The song is a cover of 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up?" The artist? I have no idea, nor do I want to know. (EDIT: Found out. It's Tommy Gnall... and apparently this is a live-action re-enactment of a version of this song set to clips from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_1TDrwaMOc

[jmyrlefuller]

Our world's going to Hades, and who's to blame? You guessed it—Frank Stallone.

Here's "Far from Over."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAv500Q6bfA

[jmyrlefuller]

Here's infamous Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan singing about a sex change.

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2003/04/365-Days-Project-04-01-farrakhan-louis-is-she-is-or-is-she-aint.mp3

[jmyrlefuller]

Back about a decade ago when I started getting into this kind of music, this guy had a NSFW piece named "Do It like a Dog." He then had all copies of it scrubbed from the Internet. Then he had a bit of a change of heart recently and started putting some of his songs on the Internet himself. (The version of "Do It like a Dog," alas, is not the same one he originally recorded.) Much of the rest of his music, fortunately for all of us, lives up to the same standard of weirdness.

Here's Dean Milan with a cover of the old song "That's Amore!"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usTWFyrJGcg

[jmyrlefuller]

I have no words.

https://www.facebook.com/Itjustgetsworse/videos/vb.410205179172213/419640088228722/?type=2&theater

[jmyrlefuller]

Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to be Rickrolled by the one and only Barry Manilow!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx6w3j7cWa0

[jmyrlefuller]

Now we know why Santa Claus sneaks down the chimney every Christmas Eve… here's Albert King with "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjc2KwhlrtA

[jmyrlefuller]

You know the TV show The Price Is Right? Of course, when a contestant loses, they run a soundbite called the "losing horns" playing the first four notes of the show's theme on a tuba and a sad trombone sound effect. Well, this guy decided to use some sound editing software and extrapolate the entire theme to The Price Is Right: Loser Horns edition. Perfect for when you REALLY feel like a loser.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSgOx83Fn6I

[Sanguine]

Now we know why Santa Claus sneaks down the chimney every Christmas Eve… here's Albert King with "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjc2KwhlrtA

That one's pretty funky.  I'm diggin' it.

[jmyrlefuller]

All right, I'm kind of cheating on this one because I have already featured one Beatles tune on here, but it was the Pete Best-era Beatles, before Ringo Starr joined.

This piece was originally conceived as a Starr showcase piece; the Beatles tried to make sure every one of the band members sang at least one song on each album (in this case, 1965's Help!). It was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and Ringo obliged in recording it, despite the reservations of guitarist George Harrison, who considered the words "stupid" and the song "the naffest" thing he'd ever heard. Harrison was right: the band decided it wasn't a good song and took it off the album, never to be released. When it did reach the light of day in 1996, critic Ian MacDonald described it as "the only unmitigated disaster in the Lennon–McCartney catalogue." Starr instead recorded a cover of the Buck Owens country song "Act Naturally," which (unusually for a country song in the UK) became a hit.

Here's Ringo Starr with The Beatles and "If You've Got Trouble."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW5kg3Z6X00

[jmyrlefuller]

That one's pretty funky.  I'm diggin' it.

I occasionally put some good stuff in here—as long as it has some sort of weird edge to it.

[jmyrlefuller]

I don't think I've featured this one yet.

First off, some context: Buffalo, New York had one thing going for it in the mid-1980s, a charismatic, relatively conservative mayor named Jimmy Griffin. Not much else, though: the Sabres were in a rut, the Bills were on the brink of collapse, Bethlehem Steel, a major manufacturer, had shut its doors a few years prior, and people were, in general, fleeing in droves. So, how do the PR gurus in Buffalo decide to turn things around? A PR campaign to show the world how peppy Buffalo is!

There was actually a full-length single released with the full version of this song, but until I saw the video of the commercial, and our lead artist's, um, stride, I could not appreciate this piece of local memorabilia for its greatness. Ladies and gentlemen of the Briefing Room, I submit for your consideration into the Jukebox from Hell…Alden Schutte wth "Talking Proud!"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Ive-dRXVo

[jmyrlefuller]

The next presentation is a musical instrument originally conceived by Peter Schickele: the reed of a bassoon (a woodwind instrument) attached to a trombone's body. While attaching reeds to brass has been done before (the saxophone is the best example), in this case, Schickele ended up creating a device that combines the worst qualities of both instruments.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present a demonstration of... the tromboon.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e4x7xZO4YUE

[jmyrlefuller]

Here's country singer John Anderson with "Somebody Slap Me!"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QzqV28LdJ8

[Wingnut]

Here's country singer John Anderson with "Somebody Slap Me!"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QzqV28LdJ8

Man oh man There ain't no lint in her belly button....

[Wingnut]

I could jump on top of the backboard, take off a quarter, leave fifteen cents change


www.youtube.com/watch?v=1er9jyCJI_E&list=RDhxl7-HNDaeg&index=26

[jmyrlefuller]

Here's another one from the April Winchell library.

This piece was composed by the Evolution Control Committee, whose main claim to fame is basically stealing other people's copyrighted work without permission (the ECC opposes copyright law outright) and mashing it up to create weird combinations. This piece is pretty typical of their approach: the tune from our national anthem, set to the jingle from Oscar Meyer hot dogs.

Here is "Star Spangled Bologna."

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/h/mp3/StarSpangledBlogna.mp3

[jmyrlefuller]

The bathroom is so liberating in today's entry in the Jukebox from Hell.

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/h/mp3/bathroom.mp3

[Sanguine]

Here's another one from the April Winchell library.

This piece was composed by the Evolution Control Committee, whose main claim to fame is basically stealing other people's copyrighted work without permission (the ECC opposes copyright law outright) and mashing it up to create weird combinations. This piece is pretty typical of their approach: the tune from our national anthem, set to the jingle from Oscar Meyer hot dogs.

Here is "Star Spangled Bologna."

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/h/mp3/StarSpangledBlogna.mp3

Oh, that's painful....

[geronl]

I'd rather listen to Weird Al backwards than hear that again.

[geronl]

Another one that people will probably think is either brilliant or nuts: Jewish surf music. This group's called Meshugga Beach Party, and they record mostly Jewish themed tunes, in Jewish garb, in the style of Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. (Take a listen to their recording of “Hava Nagila,” which sounds suspiciously like Dale's “Misirlou.”)

Anyway, this piece is from Fiddler on the Roof: “If I Were a Rich Man.”


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQVEPYlK1s

@Meshuge Mikey

[jmyrlefuller]

I'd rather listen to Weird Al backwards than hear that again.

Look a little further up in the thread and you'll find a couple backward tunes. Actually, this whole thread is a goldmine for ear-grating noise... and a few bizarre but awesome-in-their-own-special-way pieces to boot.

[geronl]

These 6 country songs sound like the same song. Music by formula.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o

[massadvj]

These 6 country songs sound like the same song. Music by formula.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o

Cool.