Posts Tagged ‘The Final Countdown’
“Now everybody’s sampling”*…
Long-time readers will know of your correspondent’s fascination with the world’s fascination with “The Final Countdown” (Original music video here.) See, for example, here, mashed up brilliantly with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and here, performed on the Kazookelele.)
Today, another entry: Pawel Zadrozniak a.k.a. “Silent” has programmed the electronic orchestra of sixty-four floppy drives, eight hard disks and two scanners contained in his wonderful Floppotron to play an incredible, if not slightly eerie version the classic…
Via Laughing Squid.
* Missy Elliot
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As we get down, we might recall that it was on this date in 1967 that the UK’s first national pop radio station, BBC Radio 1 was launched in the UK. It was an effort by the BBC to take over from the very successful pirate radio stations forced off-air by the Government. Former pirate DJ Tony Blackburn (from Radio Caroline) was the first presenter on air; The Move’s “Flowers In The Rain,” the first record to be played.
The Sincerest Form of Flattery, Part Three: Got You Covered…
Readers will recall Europe’s “The Final Countdown” (brilliantly mashed up with “Smells Like Teen Spirit”); now, via Cover Song Archive (“a collection of songs you know, by people you don’t”)…
As we limber our fingers, we might wish an orderly Happy Birthday to agronomy pioneer Jethro Tull; he was born in Basildon in Berkshire on this date in 1674. While probably best remembered for inventing the horse-drawn plow (around 1701), he is arguably more important for his promotion of sowing seeds in rows rather than “broadcast” (simply throwing them around), so that weeds could be controlled by hoeing regularly between the rows. To this end, Tull invented a seed drill, which could plant three rows at a time: a rotary hopper distributed a regulated amount of seed; a blade cut a groove in the ground to receive the seed; then the soil was turned over to cover the sewn seed. Because of its internal moving parts, the seed drill has been called the first “agricultural machine”; in any case, its rotary mechanism became standard for all sowing devices that followed.
source: Royal Berkshire History
The Journal of Radical Juxtaposition: Battle at the Top of the Charts…
What happens when the avatars of Grunge, Nirvana, meet their rough contemporaries, the Swedish Hair Metal band Europe? Australian video producer and musician “Tom,” purveyor of marvelous mash-ups via Wax Audio, mixes two signature tunes– both multi-platinum hits– to give us a peek: “Smells Like Teen Spirit” vs. “The Final Countdown”…
As we struggle to regain our equilibrium, we might recall that this date marks a singular moment in the history of sibling rivalry. On November 2, 1991, as “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Nevermind, the album it led, were climbing up the charts to displace Michael Jackson’s Dangerous at #1, Jermaine Jackson released “Word to the Badd!!,” an anti-Michael song. Jermaine went on to make history as the first housemate to enter the Celebrity Big Brother UK house in 2007.
Jermaine and Michael in happier days (source)
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