And if you're listening up there... you could consider this a prayer...

Once again Paddy McCloon thoughtfully protests to God in heaven.  But for me, when this song came out I had a blast with it.  I was married.  My eldest son was just a little one, and my youngest - just a baby.   My wife would come in and one would be upset and the other started balling.  I'd laugh.  She'd be stressed but I'd be amused.  The words to this song came to mind and I'd just blurt them out in laughter...  "Once more the sound of crying - is number one across the Earth!"

So as you listen to this tune.  Imagine if you have kids how when they cry, you just have tell them.  "Once more the sound of crying is number one across the Earth."  Because if you are a parent, you gotta know, sometimes the tears just come.  Usually because a little one has decided they want something they can't have or just want a bottle.  Call me silly.  It's just how I handled it.  Hey, my kids don't cry now. I think they turned out just fine. ;) 

As for the song.... Great message too.   I wonder if God hears all of Paddy's commentary in music. 



Bonus Vid: If you Don't love me...
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Oh baby this one is a riot.  But look, you need to be an intellectual.  You need to be up on your human events to really appreciate the hilarity of what the Gregory Brothers do in their Auto Tune The News vids. Yes, bagging on Katie Couric is back too!

The musical theme this time around segues from a Latin jig to a soulful church choral. Our buddy the Angry Gorilla returns as does the Junkie Einstein the fictional dope smoking Republican Senator from South Dakota.

This one covers:  Chevez at the United Nations and boy do they make him out to be a ding-dong.  His return cameo loony tunes style at the end cracks me up.  Tun-tun-tun-tun tun tun!  Meanwhile the Gregory Brothers poke fun at the phony love fest at the United Nations, then they bring out Frank McGee (Angry Gorilla) to show us how congress depicts the Republicans hating on the Obama Health Care reform plan and using the poster boy of liberal media Keith Oberman to whine about it.  Then they take on the joke of giving Obama receiving the Nobel Peace prize asking how he got it.   You know... just watch the video...

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Here it is... The White Room.  The bootleg copy made it's way to the web.  It's long so it's in parts.  This the "Road Movie" that didn't see the light of day due to dwindling funds to self finance it. Shot in the U.K. and Spain.  Most who own the CD/album do not realize The White Room was intended as a sound track to this Road Movie film.  While it's riddled with Illuminati references you'd think the album was about the Illuminati.  The Illuminati were a strong reference point in songs and explain much of the reason why the KLF sought out the White Room. After all there is no actual dialogue in the film.  It's really just a long music video. Enjoy Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty's best musical expression.

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So what does Bill Drummond of KLF look like?  Get a look here in Kylie Said to Jason.  This song they released in an effort to help fund their road movie The White Room; which we will save for the end of our featured week of KLF videos....  The footage for this video comes from their road footage in the film The White Room.  The White Room album was meant to be a story of the KLF trying to search out a mystical White Room in an effort to break their contract with time.  At the end of this video they reach the White Room at the top of a mountain top.    Through-out you'll see both Jimmy Cauty (long hair and hooded coat) and singer Bill Drummond (short hair).  The KLF were a sample band.  You can hear the Pet Shop Boys influence from their song "Left To My Own Devices."





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The KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) are Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty.  Bill Drummond was 33 1/3 years old when he decided to leave his job as an AR record company rep and become a musician.  Jim Cauty had previously been in a band and played guitar.  One thing Drummond brought with him from his A&R job was the understanding of how to brand and market your image.  The KLF logo is on everything you see in KLF videos.  I digress...

When forming the KLF Drummond and Cauty shared a common interest in a fictional story by Robert Shea named The Illuminatus! Trilogy.  They don't actually believe in the ancients of Mu or the lost island of Lumuria although Drummond and Cauty did express the values of the chaotic and anarchistic ways of Shea's KLF.  It is for this obvious reason they took the name KLF. No doubt the KLF sold a lot of books for Robert Shea.

Every band that desires the drive of true artistic sound needs a purpose or theme. Few do attempt to make such efforts.  Concept albums always seem to have a longer lifespan than random bodies of music.  Take the Beatles Sergent Peppers Lonely Heart's Club Band or Styx Paradise Theater.  The KLF's theme spanned all their work, not just an album, but they felt that it could only take them so far.   They hold the opinion that bands go flat after a third album if not sooner.  It is why then got out of the music business when they did.  While so many have wanted them to re-enter the music world Drummond and Cauty have for the most part kept to their word of not making records again. 

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This week the KLF is big in our house.  Me and the boys have been having a good time with their music so I thought I'd share the love.  So each day this week, we will feature a KLF video  as video of the day.   For all the answers to the bizarre lyrics in this song... I'll include that after the video segment.

KLF has an amazing story, from their rise to the top of the music business in Europe where they suddenly quit the business in a shocking career ending display on stage at the Brit Awards to their most profound artistic media stunt of burning $1 million, they are truly a storied band.  I'll detail it as the week goes by.  Because there is more to the KLF, much more...

For now enjoy this tune where they feature non-other than the one time queen of country music, Tammy Wynette.  It's a strange mix, but one that epitomizes the manner in which KLF approached music by mixing genre's harmoniously.   I have three "how it was made" videos at the end of the article showing Tammy Wynette behind the scenes, she really enjoyed the experience.  Says Tammy... “As it was, I didn’t understand what some of the words meant. I know about ice cream vans, but I’d never heard of a 99 before. Bill explained it to me and now it makes perfectly good sense. I’m still not sure about justified and ancient though…”  Drummond and Cauty (The KLF) with their Minotaur horns are seen soaking it in a few times.  No doubt this was a life experience for them all.

After the video break I'll include the lyrics and some brief details behind the lyrics including what Tammy reference's ("make mine a 99").




Here are the lyrics and story behind them along with some more fascinating background on the band.  This is not your typical story folks...

Justified & Ancient (Tammy Wynette Version)

All bound for Mu Mu Land
All bound for Mu Mu Land (hey)
(hey aye) All bound for Mu Mu Land (justified)
(hey aye) All bound for Mu Mu Land

They're Justified and they're Ancient,
And they like to roam the land
(just roll it from the top)
They're Justified and they're Ancient,
I hope you understand.
They called me up in Tennessee  ...They said
Tammy stand by the JAMM's
But if you don't like what they're going to do,
You better not stop them cus they're coming through.
(Bring the beat back)

(Hey aye)
All bound for Mu Mu Land (justified)
(Hey aye)
All bound for Mu Mu Land (Ancients of Mu Mu)
Mu Mu Land
Mu Mu Land
All bound for Mu Mu Land

They're justified and their ancient
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I think this is my favorite of all the Auto Tune News vids.  I like them all, they crack me up when I need a laugh. 

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I met a girl many years ago.  She was one of those types you never meet again, were it not for being a bit undependable.  You see she had a boyfriend yet was crazy about me. And I didn't know she had a boyfriend when we met.  I spent a little bit of time trying to get her to make a move.  We kissed, we met a few times for walks outside my office which was out in countryside of Yorklyn Delaware.  As much as I liked her, I wasn't a fool.  I was VP of Marketing for the company I worked for and it offered me the chance to meet new people on appointments.  It was then I met another girl. 

I realized I needed to make a decision and date just one girl as both were relationship types. Ms Undependable was beginning to tell me of how she thought I was the perfect man and that I was that kind of guy every girl waits for to come along.  But... my instinct was dialed to alert.  I just knew if I stuck with her she'd break my heart and wouldn't leave 'the boyfriend'. 

If she wasn't leaving him, I wasn't going to wait for her to get caught and hook up with me because she was left with me. So I thought of the future and told her where my mind was at.  I told her that I had met someone else and that this other girl was someone as dependable as she was kind.  I told her I wasn't going to wait around for her.   So I moved on with my integrity and dignity intact.  Eventually I left the other girl too.  I broke her heart badly but not as bad as I would have if I'd ...   more »

From the why not category, you will enjoy this. Promise.

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Rick Rolling at its best.  Rick Rolling may never be the same after this one...I'm certain you will NOT make it through this entire video. I can't.    more »

Here is a fun pick me up video...

Andrew W.K. sorted out a the weather in perfect style in a guest bit on Fox.  I don't know if he rehearsed it or not, but he nailed each change in the map with a laugh.  You've got to check out this video. 

Who is Andrew W.K.?  He made is splash as a hard core grunge type rocker with no less than 5 party songs with the name party in them in the early 2000's. He had pretty much made a name for himself as a party band singer.   But then something happened along the way.

He began speaking philosophy on the college circuit yet has no college degree and most recently has a show on Cartoon Network, Destroy Build Destroy.  He's one of those guys that to look at him you figure, "Oh no, here's trouble" but he is actually all about positive energy. I could hang with this guy, we both talk positive energy philosophy.  Way cool.  Now just enjoy a laugh...   more »

I'm actually glad this is video without video.  It's one of those songs that no visual could possibly do justice to the words.

I offer you a song of personal passion.  Man Enough by Lloyd Cole.  It tells the story of a man that's basically at a crossroads in his love life.  He's beyond the blase 'been there done that what's next' phase.  And he's also past taking on lovers of no substance.  He wants more and thinks he may have found it.  Blessed is the man that has enough faith in love to make himself vulnerable.



Now that the low life has no meaning
cause you've been there, now you're gone
But your heart wont keep from cheating
It's stringing you along

Stranger to me - well what's the lowdown?
Are you man enough to pray?
For a better way of living
I believe I've lost my way...

Oh may, could you please hold me
I believe I might fall
I believe that I might fall

Could there be a better way of living
Better than the easy way
Could the wretched be forgiven?
Are you man enough to pray?

Wore my heart upon my sleeve
To court the wretched and the free
But if by chance I'd lost my way
Would you help me find it babe?

Oh may, could you please hold me
I believe that I might fall
I believe I might fall

Now that the low life has no meaning
cause you've been there, now you're gone
But your heart wont keep from cheating
It's stringing you along

Wore my heart upon my sleeve
To court the wretched and the free
But if by chance I'd lost my way
Would you help me find it babe?

Oh may, could you please hold me
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I've been waiting a long time for someone to post this song on YouTube.  It's a raging disco tune from a band that really was under rated for their time.  The theme of the song is idealistic.  You got an abusive lover?  Pick up a brick, never knew what hit him.  Now I'm not condoning or advocating hitting a funny little man over the head with a brick, but a woman's gotta do what a woman's gotta do in desperate times.  Of course no-a-days a woman just has to ignore a guy to get rid of him.  Time's are a changin'.



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OK don't call me unfair in not offering up a music video today. This is a very well done video.  It promotes taking pills which I don't endorse but on a whole it helps you understand how vulnerable your arteries are.

Why am I bothering?  I'll tell you why.  And this was astonishing to learn today.  ABC News did a piece on what eating JUST ONE meal at 6100 calories and 187 grams of saturated fat had devastating result in just 20 minutes on test subjects.  A suggested daily intake of 2000 calories and 20 grams of saturated fat is what is recommended by the government.    The test subjects submitted themselves to 3 times the limit of calories and 10 times the limit of saturated fat.  The results? Well in those 20 minutes blood was drawn and tested against their untainted blood.  You could visibly see the fat in the blood as the viles were displayed on camera side-by-side.  What is that fat? It's cholesterol?  It starts building up in you arteries at the age of 18.  That's right.  Not at 30 or 40 or even 50, but at 18! 

Now in this test the subjects ate the heart attack meal right at the lab.  They felt sluggish of course which should tell you anytime you eat wrong, that is your body telling you that you really screwed up.  But the thing that amazed me was the lab technician displaying the two viles of blood and how one was clear and the other visibly tainted with fat.  It was amazing.  Your body doesn't just run it through your stomach and intestines then out.  It goes into your bloodstream and builds up in the lining of the blood vessles.  Watch the video to get a clear illustration.





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Today I give you a song from my true list of favorite's.  What makes a song a favorite for me?  Lyrics are a must.  Matching up or communicating my own philosophy is almost always the case.  Pale Shelter is a classic case and a classic tune.  Back in the day I recall having a fall out shelter sign in my own bedroom.  I slashed out the word FALLOUT and wrote PALE on the sign.  But that really is playing with words.  The fact is Pale Shelter is someone that is false.  Someone that will never be there for you when you need them most.  They are, "Pale Shelter".  I remember Mike Ziegler and I belting out "...And I can't operate on this failure! When all I want to be is... in -- complete command!"  The funny part was when we sang it, we meant it.  I could think of so many young loves...  girls that had come and gone.  Ah the innocence of youth. -- and the wisdom of it too.  I knew what love was worth and I recognized pale shelter when I saw it.  I labeled so many as pale shelter.  



Oh... and Pale Shelter pulls its title from the Henry Moore painting.  On the album it's released, The Hurting, Roland and Curt were steeped deep in psychology.  They vented heavily about their youth, and upbringing.  Pale Shelter was written about their parents, not a girl.  I always thought of Pale Shelter as someone you were meant to be in love with but you recognized they were not someone that was truly there for you.  Pale Shelter is someone you fear drawing close to and know better than to count on.   more »

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Love

Love

Love can come and go
You can change your mind
Many times
Say you just don't know

Giving my heart and my soul
Pleasure comes with pain
I'll be here forever
Don't break my heart again

Can't tell you the way that I feel tonight
(I need your lovin' and I)
Want you to hold me tight
Can't tell you why I feel the way I do
(I know I'm crazy but I'm)
Falling in love with you

Love can come and go
You can change your mind
Be unkind
And say you love me so

Finding a love today
All I get is pain
I'll be here forever
Don't make me cry again

Can't tell you the way that I feel tonight
(I need your lovin' and I)
Want you to hold me tight
Can't tell you why I feel the way I do
(I know I'm crazy but I'm)
Falling in love with you

You can take me for granted
(Treat me like a fool)
Make me lose control
(Lose control of you)
Don't make me lose that feeling
So tell me
Why do I feel this way?

Can't tell you the way that I feel tonight
(I need your lovin' and I)
Want you to hold me tight
Can't tell you why I feel the way I do
(I know I'm crazy but I'm)
Falling in love with you

Can't tell you the way that I feel tonight
(I need your lovin' and I)
Want you to hold me tight
Can't tell you why I feel the way I do
(I know I'm crazy but I'm)
Falling in love with you

Can't tell you the way that I feel tonight
(I need your lovin' and I)
Want you to hold me tight
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Star Trek did not really seem this far off this parody...  I like both. ;)


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Like Neil Patrick Harris in How I Met Your Mother?  Wonder what it would be like to see  Simon Helberg from Big Bang Theory in something else?

Well, this is a hip show that was completely web based. It is NOT what you think.  This is actually VERY good.  Trust me.  Here it starts episode one. The music will make you laugh suddenly and happily.




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This is another one of my true favorites. You could say it's a song that tips its hat to romance.  And for me... I'm in the middle of it.  

I'm talking about The Year of the Cat.  While the transition of various instrumental solos is an ethereal journey of musical emotion, the story is still the mysterious iconic force which draws me to it.  The year of the cat is pulled from Asian astrology the year of the rabbit, as the year of the cat actually doesn't exist.  The year of the cat comes every twelve years and the beauty of that year is it is a time of solace, a year free of stress. The next year of the cat is 2011.  I'm personally looking forward to it with eagerness.  I have my lovely woman in mind... "She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain..."  Imagine that.  Love is like that.  It comes out of the sun -- that blinding force that you can't look straight at.  But imagine love on the horizon with the sun shining brightly behind it.  Man or woman and in this case a woman ...that perfect person walks into your life. 

There are too many verses of substance to quote.   But the story is one of true love, and romance that is rarely found in modern women today.  The love interest he paints in the story is of a woman that is utterly happy with her feminine side balanced by strength of character ... "She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arm in hers."  The Year of the Cat  is  a story of life, with a beginning middle and end.  Inspired partly by the love theme in my favorite film Casablanca, The Year of the Cat follows that romantic logic Rick employed in Paris when he was left standing alone in Paris broken hearted but a man through and through.  On a factual level, the year of the cat stems from what is said to be Al Stewart's life.  He spent a year in Africa finding himself from an unihibited free spirited woman with her own small market stall. He did lose his (tour-bus) ticket and he did stay. 

"Well morning comes and your still with her, the bus and the tourist are gone, you've thrown away your choice-- you've lost your ticket so you have to stay on, But the drum beat strains of the night remain in the rhythm of the new born day.  You know sometime your bound to leave her, but for now your going to stay ...In the year of the cat."