Archive for the 'Music' Category
Posted: Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 @ 2:13 pm in Music | 2 Comments »
Kanye West’s “The College Dropout” was overpraised and overrated. Let’s face it, readers — it just isn’t that good of an album. It’s got enough self-indulgence to make a typical Led Zeppelin album seem like a model of restraint and minimalism. Even by rap album standards, it’s got a hell of a [...]
Posted: Friday, April 13th, 2007 @ 10:12 pm in Music, Political | 4 Comments »
What could be worse than MC Rove?
How about this, readers — Michael Savage performing a rap song entitled “If She’s Got Ten Toes She’s A Ho.”
You will need a Quicktime plugin for your Web browser in order to listen to the mellifluous tones of Michael Savage performing this “Satire” rap song.
Posted: Thursday, April 12th, 2007 @ 12:49 am in Music, Political | 16 Comments »
Perhaps the most frightening thing ever caught on video.
(via The Poor Man)
Posted: Friday, May 26th, 2006 @ 1:47 pm in Music | 2 Comments »
Led Zeppelin, “The Battle of Evermore” (1971): “The apples turn/ To brown and black/ The tyrant’s face is red.”
This line, readers, makes “The Battle of Evermore” one of the fifty greatest conservative rock songs of all time.
See, the tyrant’s face is red. Red, get it? Red, as in:
“It’s hard to miss the [...]
Posted: Monday, March 20th, 2006 @ 4:26 pm in Music | 2 Comments »
Girlies wanna ride with a brother like me,
Cause they be hear me gettin’ funky frequently
–LL Cool J, “The Boomin’ System”
That’s right, chers lecteurs — it’s your chance to cruise like Dumpendebat. Today you’re getting eight MP3s, if you want them, of some of my favorite car music.
Like many Americans, I spend a fair amount [...]
Posted: Saturday, February 11th, 2006 @ 12:36 pm in Music | No Comments »
Here are three versions of the classic track “House of God,” by DHS.
1. The original, or canonical, version (5.86 MB, 06:24) — from the “Reactivate Classics” double-CD compilation (REACT CD 114).
2. Here’s what Luke Slater did with it (2.05 MB, 02:14) on his “Fear and Loathing” DJ-mix CD (REACT CD[2]210).
3. And here’s [...]
Posted: Saturday, January 14th, 2006 @ 11:12 am in Music | No Comments »
A “Random Ten”? Why not, readers? Everybody else is doing it. I’ve even ripped a couple of MP3s for you to download if you want to. (They’re the songs whose titles are links you can click on.)
1st Bass, “Slam Me Down” (from Disc 1 of Luke Slater’s DJ mix “Fear And [...]
Posted: Saturday, November 26th, 2005 @ 12:15 pm in Music | No Comments »
No particular theme, no unifying motif, just a few random tracks from the extensive Dum Pendebat Filius library for you to download and enjoy on a weekend in late November, beloved readers.
1. T. Raumschmiere — “Monstertruckdriver” (3.25 MB, 03:32) — From the 2003 LP “Radio Blackout” (Novamute CD 3079-2). Impossible to classify taxonomically, [...]
Posted: Saturday, November 19th, 2005 @ 12:55 pm in Music | No Comments »
You haven’t gotten any MP3s in a long time, readers, so it’s high time I rectified that omission.
What’s going on these days in the world of “breakbeat”? A couple years ago, some sub-subgenre called “Tampa Breaks” seemed to be very popular. I tried some of it and wasn’t very impressed.
Recently, I came across [...]
Posted: Sunday, October 30th, 2005 @ 1:46 pm in Music | 2 Comments »
Last Sunday’s MBM offerings don’t seem to have been especially popular, but a few of you downloaded all of them. I’m offering you a special treat this Sunday: the 1993 “Peel Session” EP (Strange Fruit Records CD DEI8356-2), in its entirety. These tracks were performed on BBC Radio One on 13 December [...]