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An In-Depth Look At The “Super Mario Bros.” Theme
Video game blog Kotaku just posted a thorough (and thoroughly interesting) piece on the famous theme from “Super Mario Bros.” and how it’s been altered for the recent “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” soundtrack. All you music theory/classic gaming nuts out there will really dig this one. Mad props to author Cruise Elroy for assembling this great article.
In other news, DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA…DUNNA DUNNA DUNNA…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
In honor of our Irish brethren, here’s the video for “On Point” by House of Pain. I’ve always felt this track (and the rest of HOP’s 1994 release Same As It Ever Was) was criminally underrated. As for the video, it kind of looks like it could be a subplot from a direct-to-DVD rip-off of The Departed.
So many great lines in this one. “I’ll leave ya sulkin’ like Macaulay Culkin!” “Why? ‘Cause I rock shit like Ronnie Dio!” Those two are hall of famers for sure, but the one that really gets me is the rhyme about being “super like Schnieder.” Even in 1994, a “One Day At A Time” reference was stretching it. Nowadays, no one in the Western Hemisphere remembers that show. They phased those reruns out with “Mannix” and “Mayberry R.F.D.”
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, readers. Please drink responsibly, and if you all seen the leprechaun, say YEEEEEAAAHHH!!!!!!!
Get Your Industrial Dance On With //TENSE//
Texas-based //TENSE// is making the world safe for moody goth body-movers again. Check out their latest joint, “Turn It Off”, below. Remember when industrial dance was fun, simple, and innocent? Not like now, where you see Al Jourganson in Baby Gap commercials!
Check out more //TENSE// at their Myspace.
What’s The Gayest Riff Slash Has Ever Played?
Last week, former Guns n’ Roses guitarist Slash took a moment during his Canadian Music Week keynote speech to set the record straight about his rumored involvement with Michael Jackson’s 1991 hit single “Black or White”. Turns out the top-hatted rocker had nothing to do with that song.
“If you listen to [the hook], that’s gay,” Slash explained. “I’d never play that.”
Indeed, the hook in “Black or White” is quite gay, by which of course Slash and I both mean happy. “Black or White” is an extremely happy song (even the part where MJ “gets real” and starts listing all the stuff he’s SO OVER). Is “B/W” possibly the most upbeat guitar-driven rocker of Michael’s career?
That’s a debate for another day. What really needs to be determined right now is the gayest riff Slash actually has played in his multiple decades of rockin’. Peep a list of candidates after the jump.
Probable Reasons MTV Banned Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Video
News broke over the weekend that MTV may have banned the ridonkulous Lady Gaga music video “Telephone” from their reality show-choked airwaves. No less than CNN picked up on the story, which MTV has spent hours denying on Twitter. The original blurb, posted on Mediaite.com, is rather scant on details. This might be a rare instance in which the world owes MTV an apology instead of the other way around (still waiting on that Pauly Shore mea culpa).
Let’s say MTV did ban Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” music video. What would their reasoning be? Perhaps one of the following:
- “Telephone’s” drunken Jersey trash quotient too low
- Lady Gaga is neither 16 or pregnant
- Nine minutes is too long to go without a commercial break
Feature Interview: J. From White Zombie: More Genial Than Human
Jay Yuenger is best known to rock audiences as the fingers behind the thunderous heavy metal riffage on White Zombie’s two most famous albums, 1992’s La Sexorcisto and 1995’s Astro-Creep: 2000. Yet Yuenger’s life has been quite colorful on both sides of the Zombie rainbow. The musician got a peak at life behind the iron curtain before he hit puberty, bopped around Chicago’s hardcore punk scene in the early ’80, and even graduated from the same high school as Mandy Patinkin. Since WZ imploded, Jay’s been living in the Big Easy and working as a record producer for bands like 11 Blade, Puny Human, and Fu Manchu. The artist formerly known as J. from White Zombie was gracious enough to take some time out of his day recently to speak to Crawdaddy! about life in New Orleans, the challenges associated with record producing, and (of course) White Zombie.
Crawdaddy!: You lived in Moscow as a kid. What was that like?
Jay Yuenger: [Laughs] Well, that’s a very rock ‘n’ roll question! I was in kindergarten at the time, so I only have the vaguest memories. My father was the Moscow bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune. At the time, Russia was still heavily communist, so we lived in a building with all these foreign families. All my friends were kids of other newspaper people and embassy representatives. I do remember we had state-assigned servants who were believed to be reporting all our actions to the KGB.
Crawdaddy!: Weird. So what drew you to New Orleans?
Yuenger: It’s the most unique American city. There are only few truly unique cities left in this country. Sante Fe is one, Vegas is another, and then there’s New Orleans. It’s not really a part of the US. It’s its own country. Plus, it’s surrounded by music. You’ll literally look out your window and see a group kids going by playing trombones. It’s cool and old; you can have no money and live in a mansion. The downside is that it’s really crazy here, nothing works, everyone’s corrupt… so, you know.
Crawdaddy!: You once explained your “Silver Surfer” production style, wherein you envision the Silver Surfer breakdancing and try to imagine the music he’s dancing to. Do you have any other styles that involve superheroes dancing?
Yuenger: [Laughs] No, I have no other dancing hero styles of production. That particular record, that artist, Odoms, just always made me think of the Silver Surfer flying through the cosmos. You know, all those great, old 1960s Jack Kirby comics. And the Surfer eventually stops and finds a disco to get down in.
Relive The Glory Days Of American Idiot With Green Day: Rock Band
[via Joystiq]
June 8, 2010: the day Harmonix shall unleash the insanity that is Green Day: Rock Band upon this island we call Earth. A trailer was recently released for the game; watch below and gasp as Tré Cool’s obnoxious facial expressions come to life and leap right out of your computer screen!
Green Day: Rock Band will feature 47 delicious Green Day songs (all exportable, except on the Wii) and the same harmonizing deal thingy that made everyone cream their pants over Beatles: Rock Band. You can click the Joystiq link above to get all the pertinent platform pricing info. Surprise: this game will not be available for Turbografx 16.
Let the debate over Green Day’s relevance/video game worthiness begin.
Marty Friedman In Japanese Fanta Commercial
[via Metal Injection]
Here’s former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman shilling for Fanta in Japanese. Can’t understand what he’s saying, but it’s good to know the guy who shredded so hard on Rust In Peace can still get crazy endorsement deals.
Did you know Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany? It’s true. Coca-Cola stopped shipping their formula to Deutschland during World War II, and the people running the Coke plant there had to come up with some kind of alternate product so no one would lose their job. A thoughtful employee came up with the idea of fruit-flavored beverages, and Fanta was born. I’m not even lying. Read for yourself.
P.S. – Don’t know who that other band is in the clip, but I think we can all agree they dress awesomely.
Chuck Biscuits “Could Not Care Less” You Thought He Was Dead
Last October, I erroneously reported the death of drumming powerhouse Chuck Biscuits on my personal blog. I did this not because a friend texted me the rumor or because I read it somewhere on a punk rock message board. Nay, I posted that obituary because I had spent the previous six months communicating with a party claiming to be a cancer-ridden Chuck and his wife, Lauren, and the latter half of said duo contacted me on October 27 to inform me Chuck had finally succumbed to the disease. As I’ve stated infinite times before, I had no reason to believe these people were anyone but who they said they were.
That belief was shaken like a crack baby mere hours after the obituary I wrote went viral on October 29. E-mails starting pouring in from friends and former band mates who claimed they knew nothing of Chuck’s cancer or resulting demise. Surely I was mistaken or had been duped. The chorus of doubters grew louder and louder until Chuck’s estranged brother, Bob Montgomery, contacted me. He was especially dubious until I showed him a few scraps of evidence, including various e-mails sent from biscuitschuck@hotmail.com and the now famous (in my mind) “James G. Is A Kid Toucher” photo. Bob, a resident of Vancouver, was skeptical enough to drive three hours south to Seattle where Chuck currently lives to investigate for himself. There he found his brother, Chuck Biscuits, alive and well but reportedly tight-lipped about the big death hoax.
Bob phoned me after this physical confirmation and laid out all he knew. The person in the photo was his brother, Chuck Biscuits. Chuck’s wife’s name was indeed Lauren. The e-mail address biscuitschuck@hotmail.com also belonged to Chuck; there seemed to be no question I was communicating with the actual Chuck Biscuits of Danzig/Black Flag/Circle Jerks fame and his wife, not some kind of strange impostor (a third party quickly confirmed for my paranoid mind that this Bob Montgomery was also the genuine article). The only question that remained was why? Why would Chuck Biscuits and his wife want to hose me and the rest of the world into believing he was dead? Bob could offer nothing beyond the fact his brother had a history of being a little nutty. That, it seemed, was that—until now.
Nixon Or Axl?
by: James Greene Jr.
See if you can determine who spoke the following quotes—our 37th president Richard Milhaus Nixon or Guns n’ Roses wild man Axl Rose. Answers after the jump.
1. “Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates.”
2. “By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.”
3. “We take it for granted we know the whole story. We Judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.”
4. “The press is the enemy.”
5. “I’d just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have serious physical problems with them.”
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by: James Greene Jr.
published: March 18, 2010
in column: What Goes On
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