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The mightiest mp3 site in the history of the world. Part One. Posted by Gargleman

What every young man should know

WFMU radio’s blog is one of the mightiest repositories of audio goodness on the internets today.

I could quite happily spend all my working week browsing through the variety of audio tidbits and obscure music to be found there, but sadly my pimp needs me back on the street before sundown, so I’ve picked out just three gems to give you an idea of why you should go there now and not leave until tea time.

(1) Old sex education albums

“Not too many years ago, buttocks were taboo as a sexual object. Now with permissive sex attitudes, penetration from the rear and annilingus are considered perfectly normal.”

Well I never. They’ve got everything from “Picking up girls made easy!” to “Sexual Adventures in Marriage”.

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Man the barricades… Posted by Gargleman

…because Gmail is down!

The revolution is here!

Everyone get a shotgun!

Zombies are attacking!

The news that Gmail is down as of 10.20am today in locations around the world has probably baffled millions of people and businesses around the world, who in just a year or so have come to rely massively on the free web-based email and office tool.

It’ll probably come back again soon, but until then I have no idea what I was meant to be doing as my work to-do list is located exclusively on this lovely free web-based system.

Note to crazy sci-fi future self: keep important stuff offline as well.

Anyway, time to nip to the shop and get some biscuits or a bacon butty, I guess.

(p.s. Sorry there’s no picture, but nomadradio’s picture uploader is also broken right now. Coincidence? I think not…)

UPDATE: Gmail is back up. Life can go on. Phew.

I want, I want, I want… Sony’s latest must-have tech gadget Posted by Gargleman

Probably a better than investment than a PS3, or a laptop with an exploding Sony battery.

From The Onion News Network, the only news source where the ticker across the bottom reads stuff like “Myanmar dictator’s spot-on Christopher Walken impression makes up for tyrannical reign”

Hat tip

I want, I want, I want… House of the Dead: Overkill Posted by Gargleman

“They came for brains. You’ll give them bullets!”

House of the Dead: Overkill is a Wii-only railshooter based on the best arcade game ever. It’s also done in a B-Movie/grindhouse style, so is full of swearing, strippers and sleaze, as well as the usual buckets of gore.

The only drawback is that you really need yet another peripheral to truly appreciate it: the mighty Hand Cannon. Sadly this pushes the total purchase price to 35 quid, so I’ll just have to wait until payday, suffering, like G did.

Review: Bass Camp @ Moho Live Posted by Gargleman

That's your mum, that is

Coki from dubstep doyens Digital Mystikz was in town last weekend to perforate Manchester’s collective eardrum at Drum Music’s Bass Camp night.

Newish nightspot Moho Live was an appropriate venue, being cosy rather than cramped, and its effective soundsystem did indeed help Coki, Kutz, Ken Evil & co vibrate the audience into a frenzy.

Or most of the audience. One little corner discovered that you can do medieval dance moves to dubstep.

Meanwhile, in the Whatever the Weather room many finished off the evening with a nice spot of drum & bass. Where it was discovered that medieval dancing is possible to that, too.

Marvelous.

Zombie Valentine’s Day Posted by Gargleman

Zombie Dave says: Rrrrr thrrrrnk grrrrths shrrrrd chrrrrr thrrrr frrrrk rrrrp

Goths: insufferable music, fashions that look good on models (human or plastic) but ridiculous on actual people and awful make-up. But they do get the best Valentine’s cards, like this one from Amalthea’s Attic. (Hat tip)

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Political “fun” with Last.fm tags Posted by Gargleman

Thom Yorke

Today I decided that I needed a change from music I actually liked, for some reason, and decided to play around with tags on last.fm instead.

After some false starts trying to get something good out of rude words (I’m very disappointed that no-one has tagged anything with “anal pleasure” or “watersports” or even “rimming”) I settled on politicians.

Tony Blair, rather appropriately, gave me Electioneering by Radiohead, and Blunkett on Widdecombe by Poison Popcorn, which mixed up some nice samples of the former Home Secretary saying very rude things about Widdecombe. Sadly it also threw up (almost literally) The Thought Criminals’ truly execrable Suicide Bomber, which proves that hatred and mockery alone is not enough to make good music. › Continue reading

Single Reviews – ~ 9th Feb 2009: “Chart Music” Posted by Gargleman

Family friendly hip hop? Shiiiiiiiiit!

This week we feature that guff that you’ll hear if you listen to daytime radio: so-called “chart music”.

Alesha Dixon – Breathe Slow

A dribble of wet R&B that’s everything you’d expect from a former member of Mis-Teeq, this is utterly tedious and sadly already successful. Still, she does writhe around in skimpy clothes in front of a dance pole in the promo video, which is hot. In fact, it would be worth watching one-handed if it wasn’t for the outfit she wears, which has so many sequins that I became snow-blind and convinced she was actually a ladyboy. Shiiiiiiit!

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