Please vote in the Song vs. Song poll. We're doing Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" vs. Paramore's "Misery Business." https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-vs-46188144
Please catch any errors and tell me about them.
Please for the love of God let me find the ability to sleep.
Thanks, everyone.
2021-01-16 17:20:55 +0000 UTC View PostFirst off, please vote in the Song vs. Song poll on the other Patreon, we've got a big one this week! "Freak on a Leash" vs. "Nookie"!!! You must vote in this!! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-freak-45405296
But anyway: If you just ignore these, every month I write up a song I have strong feelings about, which is available at the $4 level under "Ramble On." As an enticement to get people...
2020-12-31 20:18:21 +0000 UTC View Post
“i have a really long, beautiful infatuation about this song. so i've been grounded. for about two months. and this boy i've been snekaing out wiht sends me snippet sof this song in texts rather often. i am his bonnie and he is my clyde. i am the belle to his serbastian. and i told him im on the holocaust diet (lots of soup) and so we always play up the nazi camp story, how was the soup today, the factory was rather cold, etc. and i love this song for it. and it describes my situation perfe...
2020-12-30 19:03:41 +0000 UTC View Post
As always, you guys are my eyes and ears, because my actual eyes and ears and bleeding and broken. Let me know if you catch any mistakes. Merry Christmas.
I am putting the finishing touches on the Worst List as we speak, it should be done within the next couple days. But! In the meantime, if you care about music released this year, we need some more votes in the Song vs. Song poll, where we have put DaBaby's "Rockstar" against Post Malone's "Rockstar." The regular voters seem to know very little about either of these songs and I figure some of you on this Patreon, where I occasionally talk about modern songs, might have more interesting thought...
2020-12-19 21:53:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I know what boys like. They like a nap. I'm so tired.
As always, please vote in the Song vs. Song poll. It's our Christmas episode!! We take on "Do They Know It's Xmas" vs. "We Are the World"! Donate your votes now! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-do-they-44312420
And as always, if you see any errors let me know
2020-12-01 06:33:42 +0000 UTC View Post
“This ain’t comin’ from no prophet… just an ordinary man…”
This might seem like false humility; Garth Brooks can think of himself as an ordinary man but he’s certainly not an average man. It’s easy to forget how big he was, as he’s mostly stayed within the realm of country music these past couple decades (though he’s still massive there; he’s won Entertainer of the Year repeatedly in years he didn’t even release new music). But in the ‘90s, he wasn’t just a s...
2020-11-24 01:37:14 +0000 UTC View Post
"I Hope" you guys catch any mistakes on here, as always.
Also, please vote in the Song vs. Song poll! This week we're doing "Celebration" vs. "All Night Long." A wedding DJ showdown! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-vs-all-43866607
2020-11-20 07:40:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Halloween, everyone!
As always, help me out and look for errors, and as always, please vote in the Song vs. Song poll! This one will be a lot more indie than usual, it's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel vs. "The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields. If you know what those songs are, please vote! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-in-over-43295126
2020-10-30 04:48:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a strangely large number of trans friends and acquaintances – more than a straight man as asocial and boring as me should be expected to have, at least. I don’t claim to be educated about trans issues beyond whatever I glance at online, but I do probably think about it more than the average cis person. I actually only just learned that Heloise “Chris” Letessier, lead singer of the now-possibly-misnamed Christine and the Queens, came out as genderqueer last year. (Her pronouns d...
2020-10-26 03:08:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I think I started this series just to eventually get to this episode.
Anyway, please vote in the Song vs. Song poll, we're doing a Halloween episode, "Ghostbusters" vs. "Men in Black"! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-vs-men-42790606
And as always, be on the lookout for any errors, I do tend to drop the ball
2020-10-21 09:29:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I live in California now and it’s fucking great! Love it. So long, New York City!
So yeah, that’s what I was doing my month off. Time well spent! And to prepare for my move I spent most of my time listening to nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sublime, Snoop Dogg, Best Coast, Jon Daly’s “Abracadabralifornia” and of course the Beach Boys. I won’t be going to any beaches anytime soon but it put me in the right state of mind. And once again I find my thought...
2020-10-01 05:27:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Just an obscure song I'm into right now.
As always, please vote in the poll. It's "Dirt Road Anthem" vs. "Cruise" and it's almost certainly going to get less votes than normal so I need all the votes I can get! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-cruise-41972670
And as always, please catch any mistakes I made!
2020-10-01 04:17:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Been a long time, shouldna left you
Well anyway, I'm back! Let us not forget to vote on the Song vs. Song poll, where we are doing "Mo Money Mo Problems" vs. "California Love"! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-love-vs-41531543
And of course let me know all the horrible errors I didn't catch!
2020-09-19 05:27:56 +0000 UTC View PostI am done with my hiatus and it has been an *extremely expensive* month and I seriously need to get right back to work, hard at it, so don't worry, I'll be making new videos soon. But in any case, I need some last-minute votes in the Song vs. Song poll, where we're doing "Torn" vs. "Stay (I Missed You)"! Please vote! Vote twice!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-stay-i-40893929 2020-09-07 15:08:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a quick plug for my other project, which is still operating. This week: "Crazy Train" vs. "Back in Black"! Vote away! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-back-in-40378215
2020-08-22 01:04:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I don’t talk much about the alcohol. I don’t really need to, it ramped down a long time ago, I never needed to go to AA or anything. I’ve been kickin’ back with a cold one most nights during this lockdown and it’s not a thing. It used to be a thing though. I’m not a fan of the “personal memoir disguised as a review” review so I’m not gonna go into it, let’s say it’s a phase of my life I’m glad to be past.
It was never so bad that I was ho...
2020-08-01 01:31:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This one's not going up on YouTube right away while the sponsors approve the ad (you Patrons get it ad-free). As always you guys are my editors and fact-checkers so let me know if you caught any problems.
And as always vote in the Song vs. Song poll! Better '60s love song, "I Got You Babe" or "I'm a Believer"? https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-i-got-39601002
2020-07-28 06:27:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This one was difficult. If you have any corrections, please let me know.
Oh and of course please vote in the Song vs. Song poll! "867-5309" vs. "Centerfold," that one's more fun to talk about. https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-867-vs-39122362
2020-07-14 05:57:37 +0000 UTC View Post
One of Weird Al Yankovic’s late-career masterpieces is “Skipper Dan,” a power-pop portrait of a once-promising acting prodigy reduced to telling bad jokes as a guide for a chintzy theme park attraction. Since most of Al’s originals are homages to other artists, people immediately started guessing which act it was based off of; Weezer and Fountains of Wayne were the most common guesses. Both made sense; the riff is very similar to Weezer’s “Pork and Beans,” the...
2020-06-30 03:27:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh man, this took me so long that I didn't have time to put up the poll link! Please vote in the poll, it's real last-minute and we're way too low on votes! Better blaxploitatoin theme: "Theme from Shaft" or "Superfly"?! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-theme-38078754
Also, as always if you see any errors, please let me know
2020-06-22 22:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
As always, don't forget to vote in the poll, this week it's "Bye Bye Bye" vs. "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)". https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-back-vs-37585831
And as always, if I fucked anything up (which I probably did), lemme know
2020-06-01 03:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I really ought to like Charli more than I do.
It’s cool to like Charli XCX, cooler than not liking Charli, at least. Charli is cool. She exudes coolness from her pores, or she would if she does normal things like sweat, which I’m not sure she does. Charli XCX is at the forefront of a newish phenomenon that I saw someone at Slate call “beta pop” (we will not be calling it that, awful name). In short it’s just any pop singer who’s won more hearts than ...
2020-05-31 16:47:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Two hops this time.
As always, lemme know if you spot any problems with the video.
As always, vote in the Song vs. Song poll! Tal Bachman's "She's So High" vs. Wheatus's "Teenage Dirtbag" https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-shes-so-37070440
A clarification: This is April's Ramble On. I got so overwhelmed with finishing the last video that I forgot to post it, but I swear I had it done on time. That's two deadlines missed now but oh well. Enjoy!
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2011 is not, in my memory, an especially apocalyptic year. That’s easy to say during an unprecedented global pandemic, granted; not many years would seem like the end of the world in comparison to this current moment in time. Also, my memories of Obama’s first ...
2020-05-01 17:48:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, I'm posting this at 4:30 a.m. The sleep schedule (and work schedule) has taken a hit these past weeks (shocking!). As always: Please lemme know if you see any errors, especially since I'm posting this super last minute.
Also as always please vote in the poll! "Eye of the Tiger" vs. "Another One Bites the Dust"! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-eye-of-36288194
2020-05-01 08:28:48 +0000 UTC View Post
As always, don't forget to vote in the poll! This week's matchup, Pharrell's "Happy" vs. Justin Timberlake's "Can't Stop the Feeling!" https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-happy-35783382
Oh and this is almost certainly riddled with editing mistakes, as always please catch them for me you Patrons are my eyes and ears
2020-04-18 00:13:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Normal service continues! OHHHHHH YEAHHHHHH. Chicka chickahhh.
And as always don't forget to vote in the Song vs. Song poll! "We Didn't Start the Fire" vs. "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"!! https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-poll-we-fire-35260370
2020-04-01 06:09:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Liza Minnelli once performed “Copacabana” on an episode of “The Muppet Show.” The pairing is almost too perfect; Liza, like Lola, was a woman out of time. Eternally linked to the Hollywood Golden Age via her mother Judy Garland who she greatly resembled, she found her calling in showtunes and gaudy stage and screen musicals, during a time when both theater and film were shedding the glitz of Old Hollywood. Her biggest role was in 1972’s “Cabaret,” a movie abou...
2020-03-24 01:06:58 +0000 UTC View Post