20 March 2013 - Young MC - Bust A Move

I always thought the lyrics in this tune were so absurd.

"Food is served and you're stone cold munchin'"

Seriously?!!  Seriously?!?!

Still, this was, and still is, a fun, mindless dance jam... and Young MC had serious hip hop chops.  I want you to seriously listen to this song, but ignore the lyrical content.  He's not just lazing through the tune.  This is a high speed, high tempo song, with four verses (which isn't common in this day and age).  And he used a lot of big words not commonly used in hip hop, even in old school days.

Plus, Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers plays bass on the song and appears in the video.  So, bonus.

19 March 2013 - They Might Be Giants - Icky

I'm fairly certain that everyone at some point in their high school days was a They Might Be Giants fan. Most of us made it through those years with fine memories and can probably still recite every lyric on records like Lincoln and Flood. Many of those fans though, likely moved on. I know I certainly did. I do think it's cool that they are still making fun music that can be enjoyed by kids and adults alike. Their new album Nanobots came out earlier this month and while I likely won't be picking it up, the first song fits quite nicely in their extensive catalog. Check it out.

18 March 2013 - The Darkness - I Believe In A Thing Called Love

A song written expressly for the point of being a guilty pleasure?  Well, why would it not be on this blog?

Formed in a post-grunge era - in the year 2000! - The Darkness were a glam rock band and a throwback to an earlier era.  And these guys really understood glam rock, with the over-the-top guitars, the screaming vocals, and the sweet-ass costumes!

Here's their biggest hit.  Enjoy!



The band reformed in time to do a Super Bowl comercial in 2012..... They hadn't lost their touch.  Or their glam rock sensibilities!

15 March 2013 - Swedish House Mafia - Don't You Worry Child

And with this, we complete our Swedish trilogy, with our Neneh Cherry and ABBA posts. It's fortunate that this one also happens to be a big current hit.

This is a little different than other music we've heard out of Sweden in the past.  Sure, we've had dance music, but such electronic sounds normally come from the New York, LA, Toronto, and London clubs..... not Stockholm.  But these three DJs indeed did meet in the clubs of Stockholm, and together have developed a huge following and interesting, progressive yet mainstream music.

This has been their biggest hit so far worldwide - currently at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100, after a peak position on #6 - but they are on their last tour together.  Here's hoping these three gifted DJs bring us more exciting music individually.

14 March 2013 - Kate Bush - Pi

Today is Pi day. I was going to post about the significance of pi, but I can't really explain what it actually means (I think it has something to do with circles . . . math is hard). Needless to say I scrapped that idea. Then I thought about going with a dessert joke and posting a Cake video. But I really don't like dessert (or Cake for that matter). So instead, here's a fan-made video (that's actually pretty good) for Kate Bush's song Pi off of her Aerial album.

13 March 2013 - ABBA - Gimme Gimme Gimme (with an Amanda Seyfried bonus)

It just occurred to me that we haven't featured enough ABBA on this blog.  And who doesn't love ABBA?

Sure, lots of people don't love ABBA, I know.  I do love ABBA.  I love typing ABBA.  I love listening to ABBA.

And this song, which is a little darker fare than you might be accustomed to from ABBA, is my favorite ABBA song.  Frida and Agnetha (who takes lead vocal on this with her huge voice) harmonize so perfectly, and Benny and Björn provide an energetic musical background.  Even though the band was starting to implodie by this point, you can still see the significant chemistry that they all still had on stage.



Anni-Frid.  Her name wasn't really Frida.  That's the other A.

This song is so good, it even sounds good when actresses (who have significant singing talent - let's be honest) perform faithful covers.  By the way, I strongly recommend the movie Mamma Mia for those of you who love ABBA's music as I do.



(Yes, loyal readers of Totally Covered, we did feature this song over there in October 2012. We just needed an excuse to post Amanda Seyfried again)

12 March 2013 - Britney Spears - Oops!...I Did It Again

So last year I had the awesome idea (aren't they all?) of sending Tony a special birthday video treat here at Wicked Guilty Pleasures. I thought it was brilliant and very tasteful. Or not. Whatever. Well today, Tony's one year older, so he gets another Britney video which was incidentally a year older than the one I sent last year. Happy Birthday Tony, hopefully within the next year Brit will make a curling related video!