From one of my absolute favorite bands, an absolute amazing music video.

I couldn't help my self, I had to share this with you guys. This music video for "It Had to be You" from Motion City Soundtrack is just so cool. I'm not going to say anything else, because I don't want to ruin it. Check it out.

PS - For you fellow MCS fans: you probably know this, but I checked out their site and it said that they are currently writing and recording songs for their 4th album!

PPS - If you're not an MCS fan... BECOME ONE!

Change of Pace

While the majority of this blog will be devoted to shame songs you hate to admit you love (or I love, really... who knows if you love them too), horrible covers, and just flat out bad songs that should have never been produced, let alone given any fame, there will be times like this one where I'll switch it up, and talk about really good songs, bands, or in this case, songs that I feel have fallen to the wayside and need to be revisited.

(By the way, I hope none of you are big sticklers on grammar because I realize that last sentence was one hell of a run-on. If it bothers you, I apologize.)

The song I want to talk about today is a song called "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" from a 90s Canadian band, The Crash Test Dummies. What makes the Dummies a really unique band, is that their lead singer was this weird looking skinny guy with some interesting facial expressions and a realllly deep baritone voice.

I just love this song. The novelty of his voice is really great, but more importantly it's kind of a pretty cool, yet touching story within the song itself. Also, the music video is, in my mind, pretty rad. I don't know what it is about music videos in the 90s, but some of them were just so simple and brilliant. Some others I would suggest checking out would definitely be Blind Melon's "No Rain" (the Bumblebee Girl... so iconic for the 90s) and Beck's "Loser".

So there you go. Check out those videos and get in touch with your inner 90s self.

Papa should have preached more about not going into a singing career...

Because Kelly Osbourne lackluster try at singing was just flat out bad. Her cover of Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach" was just a bad idea from the start. By the way, that's how this song got stuck in my head; I heard the Madonna version playing at a bar, and unfortunately it reminded me of Kelly's version.

Now granted, Ozzy isn't the greatest singer in the world, but there's a few things that he does better than his daughter, mainly, well singing for starters. Secondly, he has been able to be a constant rock icon for like 4 decades, and through that whole time, he hasn't changed his image. He's just become more likable because he's becoming more senile.

Anyways, I guess the point I'm trying to make about his daughter, is that a.) she can't sing, and b.) when she was trying to be a pop star, her "pop-goth" look just made her look like she couldn't make up her mind. I mean in her music video, shes shopping for clothes and doing an awkward white-guy dance, while trying to maintain her Hot Topic-like edge. I just don't buy it. In fact, I don't even buy that that's her real voice. Stand aside Ashlee Simpson.

But I have to give it to Kelly. Just like all of the other songs I've written about, she got one thing right. She made her cover just catchy enough where it gets stuck in your head and it doesn't make it out for a very long time.

Damn it, I'm singing it in my head right now and I hate it.

After New Kids On The Block, and before NKOTB....

Jordan Knight was busy for about two weeks in 1999 with his solo career. A career which, while (un)fortunately short lived, produced an absolute masterpiece of a shame song in "Give It To You." No joke, this is one of my all time "I know this song is horrible but I can't help loving it" songs. Complete with all the hottest dance moves, his Abercrombie & Fitch turtleneck sweater, and surprisingly raunchy lyrics, Jordan Knight's "Give It To You" has been a staple on my dance playlists for years.

"Give It To You" Video

Just as a side note kids, if any of you have some horribly great songs that get stuck in your head and you feel the need to share them, feel free to leave a comment or get in touch with me and I'll give credit where it's due. I know this blog is but a baby, but from the feedback I'm getting it sounds like you guys enjoy, so the more songs I can write about, the more you can remember how much you hated them or embarrassingly loved them.

Also, shout out to Jamie Ward, who loves Jordan Knight as much as I do.

UB40 makes me want to clean my sink.

So I was brushing my teeth the other day, and noticed a bit of rust around my drain, and for some reason that made me think of the 1983 hit by UB40, "Red Red Wine."

This song is one of those songs that, while on the surface doesn't seem to pack that much of a punch, really finds its strength from behind the scenes. I mean, obviously the most striking feature of the song is that it's a reggae song, sung by a skinny, ugly white guy. What I like about this even more is that the music video cleary is trying to make you look past that obvious blemish due to the front man hanging out and being chummy with a bunch of Bob Marley-esque Rastas.

Anyways, "Red Red Wine" isn't a bad song, but it isn't a great song either. However, few can disagree that it is quite a parasitic song, and one that is most definitely hard to shake once it's in your head.

Cults+National Geographic Channel =

"I Wanna Sex You Up" by Color Me Badd.

I'm not lying to you guys when I say the most random songs pop in my head. This one came to mind when I was watching a show on the National Geographic Channel about the Strong City cult, and this guy who has made like 50 people believe he is the messiah.

I don't know what is stranger: the cult leader himself, or the fact that I thought of Color Me Badd while watching a show about him. You decide.

Check out a live performance of "I Wanna Sex You Up" on The Arsenio Hall Show! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! WOOF! (Two birds with one stone that time... got the song in your head AND made you do the arm pump! HA!)

Ok, so most things Will Smith does is solid...

... on the other hand, "Wild, Wild West" is not one of them. I mean, save the giant mechanical spider-tank thing, I can't remember a damn thing about that movie. But somehow, after watching a commercial during the Cavs/Magic game that mentioned the words "wild west" that winner of a song came to mind.

Now, granted, most of Big Willie's songs could be grouped into a category of "novelty-at-best*" music, "Wild, Wild West" takes the crown as the worst of all due to the movie that tried to make me believe that pioneers in the gold rush era had enough time to peel away from panning rivers and binging on whiskey to bulid high-tech weaponry.

Wild Wild West Video


*This does not include any music made by The Fresh Prince, which is classic in my mind. Nightmare on My Street anyone?

Intro

Hey kids -

So I just wanna tell you the premise of this blog....

It started about two weeks ago when I was sitting at work, and out of nowhere, "It Wasn't Me" by Shaggy popped in my head. I had no idea how or why it did, but there it was. A few days later, "How Much is That Doggy In the Window" popped in the ol' noggin. WTF! I thought, what is going on? I then realized that my brain is like a jukebox; a horrible, hilarious jukebox. Sure, I have normal, decent songs in my head most of the time, but every so often, a real gem gets stuck in there and I can't get it out.

Flash forward to you reading this right now. Instead of letting these songs go to waste, I thought I would share them with you. I've started to keep a notebook with me lately, and when I get a song in my head, I'll write it down, and hopefully be able to trace the stream of coinsciouness as to why it got in there. Then, I'll post it on my blog, and you can see what songs my inner sountrack is playing!

So here is my hope: if nothing else, I can share songs with you that will make you laugh, make you say "oh man I haven't heard that one in forever!", and most importantely make you get them stuck in your head so that you curse me for the rest of the day! Because in doing that, you'll never forget me.