I Love the Whole World
- The World is Just Awesome, an ad by the Discovery Channel
- XKCD Loves the Discovery Channel
- The animated version
- Celebrity live action version by Elaine Doyle and Olga Nunes
- A World of Warcraft version
World of Warcraft-themed, Discovery Channel-inspired. Previously
Apple’s list of the most popular iTunes songs is almost all recent music (notably excepting “Don’t Stop Believin’”). Consider that Coldplay, Lady GaGa, and the Black Eyed Peas are all artists from the iPod era, so people are much less likely to have owned them on CD.
Trailer for Rock Band: Green Day. I’ve had a very hard time avoiding the purchase of Rock Band. It’s like Harmonix knew it and designed a game they knew I wouldn’t be able to resist.
See also Newsarama’s interview with MTV Games’s Paul DeGooyer.
Neat set of pictographs about The Beatles. Love this one:
Song Keys
The shape of these pictographs is defined by what keys the songs were recorded in for each album. The relative distribution of keys (with mid-song key changes considered) have been mapped over a graph framework based on the Circle of Fifths. The pictographs are in order of album recording.
Check out Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
This has been going around, but it’s too great not to link to.
Free iTunes LP album. Includes songs by Barry Manilow, Weezer, Stephen Colbert, and Aretha Franklin.
I’ve been very carefully building a Christmas playlist for the past few years. I only add one song a year, and I only listen to the songs on the list between Thanksgiving and the Epiphany. There are now nine songs on the list.
My mom has Bing Crosby’s Christmas album on vinyl. As a kid I used to love playing records, and she has a great collection of Christmas albums. It’s hard to pick, and I already have a Bing Crosby tune on the list, but if anyone is allowed to appear twice on a Christmas playlist, it’s Bing Crosby.
Watch the video. I love how the sounds of the robot operating are like an accompaniment to the song.
This is the sort of beautiful thing you’d like to think the internet makes possible, sharing a short work of art.
Two great Beach Boys Pet Sounds links today:
(Funny how YouTube has made it so easy to share media, people just upload music with static video. Surely there’s a better place to share music, but YouTube is easy and known.)
