David Choi sang a cover of "Ben" shortly before Michael Jackson's death. Now he's singing another cover in his memory.
Eclectic Method This is a mashup of various Michael Jackson songs & performances. It's a nice tribute video that brings back some memories.
Heal The World Sarah LaMantia pays tribute to the great Michael Jackson.
Words Stuck I really liked this Jonathan Mann song. I'm looking forward to seeing how he does in the next Song Fu tournament.
Loony Looziana Legislature "Hurricane Chris performs an inappropriate and lurid rap song for the Louisiana State House of Representatives." If I lived in Louisiana I'd move to another state after my representatives let something like this happen.
Lions, Tigers & Bears Jessica Sanchez does a fine job with this Jazmine Sullivan song.
Enter The Dragon "Hip hop artist Spec Boogie, has been mashing up original lyrics with Hollywood's finest motion pics. It's always nice to see someone deliver hip hop with some degree of originality and artistry."
Spintown News: I think I'm having a very bad reaction to some pain killers at the moment...forgive any errors in this blog today.
Stand By Me On June 24, Iranian Superstar Andy Madadian went into an LA recording studio with Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and American record producers Don Was and John Shanks to record a musical message of worldwide solidarity with the people of Iran. This version of the old Ben E. King classic is not for sale - it was not meant to be on the Billboard charts or even manufactured as a CD.....it's intended to be downloaded and shared by the Iranian people...to give voice to the sentiment that all people of the world stand together....the handwritten Farsi sign in the video translates to "we are one". If you know someone in Iran - or someone who knows someone in Iran - please share this link.
Nah Bitch! Hot Ham N Cheese is such a great rap name.
Buzz Aldrin Raps The making of Buzz Aldrin's Rocket Experience w/ Snoop Dogg and Talib Kweli.
Ringo Wants To Sing More Poor Ringo, everybody is always giving him crap.
Spintown News: A lot more videos have came out about Michael Jackson. People are singing covers as tributes, vlogging about how he should be remembered, and even a few new songs have been written about him. Yesterday I featured a few MJ videos, but today that's all I'm going to feature or link to. R.I.P. Michael.
Michael Jackson Is Dead Jon Lajoie calls out the media like only he can.
I Used To Worship Michael Jackson Jonathan Mann makes a touching tribute video to MJ.
Man In The Mirror Gabe Bondoc covers one of my favorite MJ songs.
On The Line The Michael Jackson YouTube channel recently uploaded a lot of songs to the account. Links to other songs will be in the BOTR section.
Spintown News: Michael Jackson the King Of Pop dies! CLICK HERE FOR The Story. The guy was a totally nut case, but the world did lose a great artist yesterday. No matter what the guy did or didn't do in his private life, he was certainly one of the greatest entertainers in history. In the BOTR section I posted reaction videos about Michael's death, along with 4 of my favorite music videos.
Man In The Mirror Chris Cendana remembers Michael by singing his favorite song.
University A Cappella! The Documentary In 2009 Ben Folds released a greatest hits record, of sorts, sung entirely in a cappella. The album, Ben Folds Presents: Unviersity A Cappella! features two tracks performed by Ben himself, but the bulk of the material was performed by various university a cappella groups. Here's a video about the experience.
Apologize Olivia Thai does a great job with this One Repbulic song.
You Came Out This is the official music video for the We Have Band song. Created by W+K creative team Ida Gronblom & Fabian Berglund and Blinkink director David Wilson. The face paint animation film is made up of 4,816 separate stills. Each and every frame was hand-painted, shot, wiped off and redrawn, slightly differently for the next frame in order to create a seamless sequence. This time-consuming process involved the band members lying still for two consecutive days in a studio. In order to animate the singing bit, lip movement was created by animating a painted mouth on the singer Dede. This involved breaking the lyrics into phonetics and giving each sound a specific mouth shape. To make this as realistic as possible all the mouth shapes were painted on Dedes face individually and then shot.
Scratchophone The Scratchophone is a portable Scratch instrument, featuring a turntable, a special tonearm, scratch mixer, and a pair of speakers. It can even be used with a cordeless power supply.
Please Don't Leave Me I never really liked this song, but Alyssa Bernal does an alright job with it. The best part is the good news she has after the song.
Old Guy Dancing For Jesus Make a joyful noise, and dance like a fool.
Esmee Denters This is a short video about how Esmee went from making YouTube videos to releasing her new album.
This collab from ahmirTV & David Sides makes the 207th cover of this Miley Cyrus song that I've featured or linked to.....and yes all 207 were better then the original Miley version.
Press Hop This is a funny remix of Iverson, Mora, Green, Namath, Gundy & T.O. by Steve Porter.
The Boogie Woogie Kid Matthew Ball is my favorite piano playin' YouTuber, and he recently did a TV interview & performance. This first video is the interview, and the next is the video.
You Chose To Be A Dick If you read yesterday's blog you know that 1 of my Song Fu votes went to Steve Chatterton. Little did I know he had a YouTube account, and a video posted for his Song Fu entry.
Balloon Man Skip Banks does a funny dance as a giant balloon. The video starts off slow, but give it a chance.
Harry Potter The Musical This is only Act 1 Part 1, but if you're a Harry Potter fan you can go to this YouTube channel and watch the rest.
Best Of The Rest:
1. Here's another song from Power & White. I think this is the third video of theirs, in the last week, that I've mentioned. CLICK HERE FOR Greenstone Waters
2. David Choi decided to do one of my least favorite Michael Jackson songs. CLICK HERE FOR Ben
Spintown News: The songs from Round 3 of Song Fu 4 are now available, and you can vote on your favorites HERE! My top 5 songs are listed in the BOTR section, along with a few others that I enjoyed this round. Keep in mind that just because I don't link to your song, it doesn't mean that I think you're material is bad. I've had a few people assume that at times, but it just means that I liked other songs more that particular round. There have been songs I didn't like, and I've mentioned some of them in this blog. If I don't call you out, don't assume you know what I think of your music. I appreciate the talent of all the participants, and wish everyone luck.
Ignition John Pascuzzi plays an electronic-ish, rock-ish type groove played on an "igil". The igil is a folk instrument from the country of Tuva, traditionally played acoustically and used to accompany Throat Singing. There's only a single thread on this instrument.
Pole Dancer 'UsLaGirl' is probably the hottest chick on YouTube. This dance was originally danced to "Change" by the Deftones, but the audio was disabled due to copyright issues.
Never Say Never Kina Grannis takes on a song from The Fray.
Use Somebody YouTuber 'singindork888' takes on a Kings Of Leon song.
Best Of The Rest:
1. This was easily my #1 pick for the round. If only real acceptance speeches were this entertaining. CLICK HERE FOR Acceptance by Edric Haleen.
2. In the song they wonder if anyone will miss them, I for one will if they don't enter the next tournament. CLICK HERE FOR Swan Song by His Name Is Legs.
3. I waited for the obvious joke about male stamina, and they finally touched on that near the end of the song. CLICK HERE FOR Minuteman by Gorbzilla.
4. I was shocked at how much I enjoyed this lullaby. CLICK HERE FOR Song by Darrell Maclaine.
5. After reading the title of this song, I was so glad it went in a totally different direction then I had imagined. CLICK HERE FOR You Chose To Be A Dick by Steve Chatterton.
6. This almost made my top 5, the more I listened to it the more I liked it. If I would have waited until Thursday to vote, maybe it would have made it. CLICK HERE FOR Bomb Squad Girl by Godz Poodlz.
7. Reverse psychology never works on me, but I ended up singing along this time. CLICK HERE FOR Don't Sing Along by Caleb Lee.
8. I thought this was a little funny. A little mean as well, which is why it dropped from my top 5. CLICK HERE FOR Inside Jokes by Berg & Jerry.
Yesterday I mentioned that there isn't as many good lip dub videos anymore, and now I'm leading off the blog with yet another lip dub. YouTubers 'moymoypalaboy' show us how a lip dub should be done. It's all about PERSONALITY! There should be a version of American Idol for lip dub videos.
Robocop Again I'd like to mention my strong dislike for Kanye West, but this is a really cool fan video.
Cut It Out It's uncle Joey from Full House, and someone wrote a song about his old catch phrase.
Nathan Wills I hope Nathan does more collabs like this one with YouTuber 'KlassicMaster'.
Spintown News: There's a couple things going on worth mentioning today. First I think I've talked Jonathan Mann into competing in Song Fu 5 whenever that starts. He's another talented song writer that has previosly competed in SongFight.org which is something I plan on looking into. I'll probably start following it, much like I do Song Fu.
Another thing I wanted to bring up is that Steve sent me about 40 seconds of animation for my next video. Looks good, but a couple small changes might need to be made. It's going slowly, but he's doing good work thus far.
Lastly, I've got all the music I need for the next 2 Pain For Laughs videos. The rest is up to me, I started looking for material today, but honestly I can't say exactly how long it'll take me to get finished. I'll try to get a little done each weekend, for a few weeks. Once I feel like I've got enough new material I'll probably spend an entire weekend making just 1 of them. They're relatively simple to make, but more time consuming then you might think. Especially since I'm working on a couple other side projects, one of which I haven't told anyone about yet.
Hey Father Because it's Father's Day, I'll lead off with this Gabe Bondoc song. Personally Father's Day is depressing since my dad passed away some years ago, but I'm thankful I had a great dad when so many have not.
Fannie Mae I think they should have just left New Orleans underwater, and said to heck with it. But I'm glad Grandpa Elliott is still making great music, he should just move to Ohio. :p
Bucket Drummer Here's the latest street drummer to go viral.
Tutting It would be so cool if Moon got on the next season of "So You Think You Can Dance" since Pacman is currently on it. By the way I hope you're voting for Pacman each week.
Spintown News: You knew this would happen. Someone auto-tuned Jay'Z's song "Death Of Auto-Tune". Changing a line to "I got 99 problems but my pitch ain't one" was inspired.
Like A Plumber The Stupid Mario Brothers released another music video this week.
Sham Wow Now YouTuber 'thecomputernerd01' released another scatterbrained rap video on Sunday.
Dancing On Skates At my current job, we take a bunch of kids to a skating rink once a week for the summer. I'm tempted to attempt a couple of these moves, but I don't want to have a 5th knee surgery.
The End Of The Fairy Tale Here's the latest original song from Tommy Knox.
Farewell Son (Swan Song) Here's the latest original song from Frank Bell.
My Baby Here's the latest original song from Derek Cate.
Channel Flow Yet another original song, this time from Gabe Bondoc.
7. If you haven't been watching "So You Think You Can Dance 5" you're missing out. Don't worry though, you can get caught up on things by visiting this great message board. CLICK HERE FOR Idol Forums
Spintown News: Sorry today's post was late. I fell asleep at like 8:00 PM last night. Got up today, and had other things to take care of. The Sunday blog will be on time though, I promise.
Rock That Body Remember when there were viral videos coming out every day of people doing a funny lip sync? Fortunately there are still a few people who haven't quit making them, like YouTuber 'BeenerKeeKee1995'.
Chubby Kid Has Some Moves This isn't as good as Scarlet Takes A Tumble, but it's still funny.
It Is What It Is Here's an original song by Frank Bell.
Free Beats The beatboxer in this video is Chris "Shockwave" Sullivan.
Brazilian Star Wars This is a pretty cool mashup by YouTuber 'FAROFF'.
Be Like That Here's the latest cover from Tommy Knox. I used to play this 3 Doors Down song all the time.
Stoppin' The Love YouTuber 'ScribbleTunes' takes on a KT Tunstall song.
Jack Conte doesn't have to make a VideoSong to be entertaining.
Dad, Thanks For Not Pulling Out! Here's a Father's Day tribute by 'runawaybox' on YouTube.
Last Train To Awesometown This is my favorite Parry Gripp song other than the classic "Hampster On A Piano".
Civilization Civilization (by Marco Brambilla), a video mural created for the new Standard hotel in New York City, depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through modern film language using computer-enhanced found footage. This epic video mural contains over 300 individual channels of looped video blended into a multi-layered seamless tableau of interconnecting images that illustrate a contemporary, satirical take on the concepts of Heaven and Hell.
A Grounding Issue This is an original animated music video by Jesse E. String.
Gentlemen Don't Jenny Suk & AJ Rafael cover a Gabe Bondoc song.
Westboro Hate Music Video I can't think of a group of people I hate more then these freaks. Hopefully you'll agree after watching this video.
5. Sometimes I link to videos because they're just awesome...other times I link to them because they're incredibly bad. CLICK HERE FOR Believe In Eugene
8. Yesterday I posted a video of Scott Bradlee playing this song, but he was interrupted at one point. This is a complete, uninterrupted performance. CLICK HERE FOR Autumn Leaves
9. I have to admit I've never seen a prop like that in a dance routine. This was choreographed by Chris Todar. CLICK HERE FOR Ordinary
10. Jonathan Mann makes an attempt to get people to eat healthier. As a P.E. teacher I have to link to this video. CLICK HERE FOR Vegetables!
I Quit Someone asked Jonathan Mann to write a song that he could use to quit his job. It's a great idea, and Jonathan Mann was up to the task.
You Will Be Loved This is a very simple video, but great original song from YouTuber 'chestersee'.
Can I Have This Dance 2 of my favorite YouTubers, Jen Chung & Gabe Bondoc, team up to cover a "High School Musical" number.
Stuck In Limbo A couple weeks ago I featured a number from a musical called "Double Digits" created by Abby Simons (songsfromahat on YouTube) & Nathan Kersey-Wilson. Here's another number from the musical, and it just makes me want to see the entire thing even more.
Autumn Leaves Scott Bradlee is a sneak & a liar, but I don't care because he can burn up the piano keys.
Ragtime Blues Andrew White (Guitar, Vocals) & Brendan Power (Harmonicas) team up for a great number.
7. I LOVE fireworks, and I enjoy a good time lapse video from time to time. Here's what happens when you combine those 2 things. CLICK HERE FOR Santa Cruz Fireworks
Lena Gabrielle (butterbeerwrocks on YouTube) wrote this song for me to use in a Pain For Laughs video that I'll be making this summer. Go subscribe to her channel, because this chick rocks.
Craigslist I saw Weird Al Yankovic tweet about this video right after I posted yesterday's blog.
Run Or Die This Matt Rach video is the first video I've featured this year that includes a banjo. Lets hope it's not the last.
Happy Father's Day The Perry Brothers sing a special song for their dad.
Playgrounds And Kisses Here's a new original song from Ana Free.
Autumn Story This is a awesome music video from the Firekites, co-directed by Yanni Kronenberg & Lucinda Schreiber. I don't think I've seen chalk animation like this before?
1st Goodbye Jeanine & Alexis Mason do a great lyrical duet together, and if they look familiar it's probably because Jeanine is currently dancing on "So You Think You Can Dance". She made the top 20, and is doing great thus far.
Best Of The Rest:
1. I saw the Nerdist tweet a link to this on Twitter yesterday. The song is by Das Racist remixed by @wallpapermusic. CLICK HERE FOR Pizza Hut/Taco Bell
Spintown News: The votes are in for Round 2 of Song Fu 4. The first thing I noticed is an extreme drop off in the number of people who voted this round. The website claims that there was only 351 total voters, when in round 1 there was almost 1,300. That's a BIG drop off, and I'm guessing a lot of other people besided myself thought the challenge was lame. Berg & Jerry got the victory this round by 8 votes over Tom Milsom. The top 10 vote getters are listed below:
Berg & Jerry - "This Day Shall Be Mine" (68 Votes) Tom Milsom - "March As A Mad Hare" (60 Votes) Ian & Melissa - "Song FUneral March" (50 Votes) Gorbzilla - "March Of The Geeks (Semi-Autobiographical)" (48 Votes) Sara Parsons - "Let's Have An Awkward March" (46 Votes) The Perfect Place - "March Of The Clandestine Ninjas" (40 Votes) Edric Haleen - "Whispered In Your Ear" (38 Votes) Steve Chatterton - "The Only Way I Know" (34 Votes) Denise Hudson - "Anna's Gerbil & The Singularity" (34 Votes) The Scribbles - "The Student's Revenge" (33 Votes)
The Round 3 Challenge looks a little more promising, but when I first read the word 'standard' I got excited hoping they would be creating songs in the style of people like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Nat King Cole.
For your third challenge, you are to write a standard song. I am defining a “standard song” as one with a definite melody and a chorus that repeats at least once (to clarify: the chorus should appear at least twice in the song). However, your song must run EXACTLY 1 minute in length - no shorter, and no longer. You can write on any topic.
In the BOTR section I posted the rest of the Paul And Storm concert that Mike Lombardo recently recorded.
Stop Pain Start Dancing This video was done in conjunction with The Arthritis Foundation and DRJ Group, makers of StopPain. This is just a fun video to remind people to keep on dancing and moving! The video is being used to help promote The Arthritis Foundation's campaign "Let's Move Together to promote their popular walks. So remember! Stop Pain Start Dancing!
Nerds For Life Rapping nerds are always funny.
Twitter Song It's a good thing ijustine is cute, because this song sucks & she can't sing.
Dont Know Much About You Here's the latest original song by Doug Payne.
3. If you follow Song Fu, you'll remember this song from Mike Lombardo. This is the way he originally recorded it. CLICK HERE FOR Rock Song
4. Peter Coffin wrote a song about pirates...if that's not enough to get you to click the link then I don't know what's wrong with you. CLICK HERE FOR Pirate Song
5. Here's an original song from Scott Bradlee. I like his ragtime music better, but this song ain't bad. CLICK HERE FOR Happily Betrayed
Cup Game Has anyone ever played this game? Looks like something a bunch of 3-4th grade girls would do during lunch.
Paul & Storm (Live) Mike Lombardo went to see a Paul & Storm concert. Lucky for us he recorded the whole thing, and has been uploading videos to YouTube. This is the first of 9 videos from the show. (Opening Band, Count To Ten & Mother's Day Song)
7. That's all for Paul & Storm tonight. Hopefully Mike will have the rest of the show uploaded for Tuesday. Until then why don't you take up beatboxing. CLICK HERE FOR Beatboxing For Dummies
Spintown News: Small blog post today. I didn't get around to all my normal Saturday sources yesterday. I'll get caught up later today though, and you should get a bigger selection Monday.
Use Somebody This is a Kings Of Leon cover by Lynzie Kent. This YouTuber (Rafem) is someone I was excited to stumble upon yesterday. He features many different people on his channel, and I hope to feature many of his videos in the future.
Closing Number Neil Patrick Harris sings at the Tony Awards.
Best Of The Rest:
1. Want to hear a classic Disney song in 14 different languages? Sure you do. CLICK HERE FOR Oo De Lally
Spintown News: This is a pretty good post for a Friday, I'm giving myself props so you don't have to. If you really feel the need to, go right ahead though. :p
Arlington: The Rap I love the sense of humor that YouTuber 'GoRemy' uses in his music videos.
Deadline Here's a really cool stop motion music video made from post-its.
Impression This is a great VideoSong from Jack Conte.
I'm On A Boat A Cappella Acquire A Cappella from UC Santa Cruz sings an a cappella cover of the Lonely Island's "I'm On A Boat". Arrangement: Matt Forman & Geoff Trautman Soloists: Mitch Allen, Matt Forman & Anya
Feel This is the official Japanese music video for this Marie Digby song.
Stupid Mario Brothers Theme Song I've been watching these guys for awhile, it's about time they got themselves a theme song.
You're All Right, Isaac Newton I'm going to have to play this video the next time I sub for a highschool math class.
2. I generally don't like group dance routines as much as individual performances or duets. However this routine is definately blog-worthy. CLICK HERE FOR I Surrender
8. Derek Cate isn't my favorite YouTuber, but he's the only country singer I subscribe to so he must be pretty good. CLICK HERE FOR Best Friend
9. I'm so out of touch with popular music & MTV type stuff. I've never heard of Pixie Lott or this song. I know who Rebecca Shearing is though, and I suggest you get to know her. CLICK HERE FOR Mama Do
