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This comedy song was written by Monty Python member Eric Idle that was first featured in the Python film Life of Brian and has gone on to become a common singalong at public events such as football matches, as well as funerals.
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Tom Waits' Bone Machine was recorded and produced entirely at the Prairie Sun Recording studios in Cotati, California, in a room of Studio C known as "the Waits Room", located in the old cement hatchery rooms of the cellar of the buildings.
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Ugly Duckling is an American hip hop group that formed around 1993 in Long Beach, California. The band decided to take the name Ugly Duckling because they felt like outcasts on the Southern California hip hop scene of the mid-1990s.
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Mark Thomas Griffin was unimpressed by the music he heard while working at an indie record store, so he began his solo career as MC 900 Ft. Jesus and took matters to his own hands.
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Stereopathetic Soulmanure is Beck's second studio album. It shows a strong folk influence, consisting of home recordings, studio recordings, live performances, field recordings, sound collages, and abstract noise experiments.
Daniel Johnston was a fan of Casper, The Friendly Ghost, and wrote about 40 songs about him.
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Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo is the well-known composer for many Tim Burton movies, including The Nightmare Before Christmas (on which he is also the singing voice of Jack Skellington).
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This was the last song recorded for the band’s fifth album Happy Hour and became the band’s biggest hit and signature song. The song found immediate success on not only college radio but commercial FM rock stations as well in LA and San Francisco.
However, the song’s success was both a blessing and curse for the band. While it brought a lot more people to their shows, those people would begin loudly requesting “Detachable Penis” throughout the set until the band obliged. In response, the band began playing it early in the set to get rid of these nuisances, and then play the rest of the show for their core fans.
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Cyndi Lauper wanted kids to think this was about dancing.. we'll tell you when you're older!
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This was heavily influenced by Bob Dylan, especially the way Dylan sang "Subterranean Homesick Blues."
Shortly into their 1980 tour, disc jockey Kal Rudman programmed "Whip It" to be played on several radio stations in the Southeastern U.S., which led urban music programmer Frankie Crocker to push the song at powerhouse WBLS in New York City. Within a week, "Whip It" had become so popular that Devo was forced to temporarily stop its tour to book larger venues because the concerts were selling out too quickly!
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This was the first video to air on MTV. The network launched August 1, 1981, and this provided the first evidence that MTV was going to make it.
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Wall of Voodoo was a rock band from Los Angeles. They gained popularity for the video of "Mexican Radio", which was featured regularly on MTV in the weeks following its release.
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Weird Al's rendition of Michael Jackson's Beat It. The track was both a commercial and critical success, earning Yankovic a Grammy Award. The famous guitar solo, originally performed by Eddie Van Halen, was reproduced by Yankovic's producer, Rick Derringer.
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This track was featured on the MTV show Beavis and Butt-head, becoming popular nearly a year after the album's release.
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After many years of touring, Possum Dixon singer Rob Zabrecky had a life changing epiphany after stumbling into a magic store in Baltimore. In the last 20 years, Rob has become a world-class magician, storyteller and author.
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The Presidents of the United States of America formed in Seattle in 1993. #politics
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For this mash-up, Bill McClintock combined Danzig's "Mother" with Donna Summer's "Bad Boys."
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A little ditty 'bout Jack & Diane
Two American kids growing up in the heart land
Jack, he's gonna be a football star
Diane's debutante, back seat of Jacky's car
Suckin' on chilli dog, suckin’ on a chili dog
Suckin’ on a chili dog, suckin’ on a chi-li dog
Suckin’ on a chili dog, suckin’ on a chili dog
Suckin’ on a chili dog, suckin’ on a chili dog, chili dog
Suckin’ on, a chili dog
Suckin’ on a dog, suckin’ on a chili dog, chili,
Suckin’ on, a chili dog
Suckin’ on a dog, suckin’ on a chili dog, suckin’ on
Suckin’ on, chili dogs
Suckin’ on a dog, suckin’ on a chili dog
Suckin’ on chili, suckin on a dog
Suckin’ on a chili dog, suckin’ on chili dogs
A little ditty 'bout Jack & Diane
Two American kids suckin’ on a chili dog
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"You don't even know what's in your own trunk! And you know what? I think you're afraid to find out!"
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The song's video was one of the first by a hardcore band to get significant airplay on MTV.
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Written by the dutch electronic duo, LA Style, this song is considered a "techno classic."
This 1977 disco instrumental was an adaptation of Beethoven's 5th Symphony for the soundtrack album of "Saturday Night Fever."
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Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the soundtrack was recorded over 8 sessions.
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"King Tut" by Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons was about the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The song was first performed on Saturday Night Live.
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Rolling rolling rolling down the drive...
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“Rawhide” was a western themed TV show which ran for eight seasons in the USA in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The theme song was performed by Frankie Laine. The Blues Brothers' recording is mostly faithful to the original. The song simulates the sounds of a cattle drive.