The Victorious Opposition

This week’s link goes out to Cee Lo. I’ve followed him since Goodie Mob, but he’s really just blossomed into a crooner of the highest degree.

How dare they? There are no manners in society anymore. What the hell happened to opening a door for a lady, pulling out the chair for grandma, telling mom you love her?

Here’s the themes for today:

• Loss of civilty
• Getting to the edge
• Going overboard

Cheers, I think this one could be awesome!

Chinese naval warfare, A Muslim president, and an Islamic shrine at Ground Zero; it’s been one hell of a week here at the VO. Since we’re taking in so much Eastern culture, let’s give a little back. It’s only fair, right? Here’s my lineup for this week:

Peppermint Creeps-Turning Japanese

Killing an Arab-The Cure

Beware-Punjabi Mcs feat. Jay Z

Ace of Bass-Cruel Summer (remember, it was in the “Karate Kid”)

Wind Cries Mary-Jimi Hendrix (inspired by Asian hookers in ‘Nam)

As you can see, all it needs is some kind of a link to something Asian, referencing Asian, or has Asian performers.

This week’s hot subjects on the VO included naval strategy and war.  I think it would be a good topic for the DJ thread. 

Know that the unsinkable SS Victorious Opposition will never be obsolete!  I’m issuing Letters of Marque for ye to go raiding yer IPod’s for some music within these Articles of Music Piracy:

1. The Sea
2. War
3. Warships
4. Navel action (yeah, that’s spelled right.  Figure it out)
5. Rum, sodomy, and the lash (any or all)

The playlist is here:

Cruel Mistress by Flogging Molly
Sub Mission by Sex Pistols
Blood Ocean by Dethklok

Last naval cliche for now: “You may fire when ready.”

I simply didn’t remember until, oh, noon that we didn’t post a DJ thread.  My selected theme is to play me some music that sums up how your mood right now. 

For my part, I’m lazy, ornery, and restless today.  The playlist is here:

Tell me how you feel.  The third song is a gift for Hemlock.

I first saw Jewel when she sang the national anthem on TV at some sporting event years ago and I was absolutely blown away, not only was she one of probably 10 of the most beautiful women ever created, but her voice was angelic. For those not aware, she was living out of her van for a period of time before hitting it big. Jewel is one of those rare types of singers that everyone loves. Just my luck, every time I’ve been to a karaoke bar, people that look (and sound) like Cliff of “Cheers” or maybe Rosie O’Donnell were the only one’s singing and even after a few beers, the fact that I can’t carry a tune in a bucket never escapes me.That would of been fun to have been there.

Today’s theme is a home concoction of guilty pleasures that you deny in a heartbeat, songs on your ipod that would embarrass you if uncovered, kinda like taking your girlfriend out and she finds panties in your glove box that are not hers , “How did those get there? I’ve never seen those before, I’ve been set up”. Much like Mel’s telephone conversations with his pinatagirlfriend, stuff on your ipod is not only sacred but private (only you know and appreciate what gets that toe a tapping) but if for some reason it became public knowledge, a “I did not have sex with that woman” denial would blurt out quicker than you can say “Debbie Gibson was an icon”. Anything evoking plausible deny ability will work, honestly, what passes for taste these days, and yes, I have all of these on my ipod,make something of it.

First up:

Shiny Happy People (embedding was denied by request…........bastards) This is embarrassing for a few reasons, it was made in that decade where music really sucked, and the video is something right out of Progressive Land, everyone group hugging in a “we are the world” moment, eck, but I can’t help myself, it’s catchy. Oh, and that lead singer stole my look.

Next up:

Alright,the video is kinda lame (unless you still have acne) but the youngsters can still make catchy tunes. One criteria is when you catch yourself humming the melody during the day.

And lastly:

What can I say, the song rocks.

Some others that qualify, that I brought up in other DJ threads:

Time Of My Life

Don’t Know Much

Yep, they’re on there as well.

OK, confession time, get it off your chest, you’ll feel better and you can think up some lame excuse later.

I’m keeping it simple.  What are some of your favorite albums?  Let’s do at least three tracks from each.

My first choice is Soundgarden’s Superunknown.

The playlist is here:

It was bleak on the job hunt front for me this week—although I did better than Stanley McChrystal in that I still have a job.  Still, I had a most disappointing rejection today and reserve the right to be a tad emo about it.  Increasingly, I’m convinced that calling departments as impersonal and inhuman as Human Resources is the same thing as calling the department in 1984 that tortures people the “Ministry of Love.”  Bitterly ironic, you see.

At any rate, let’s get disgruntled with some music in these categories:

Emo with a A+ ranking on the Anakin Skywalker Scale of Crybaby Pathos
Shitty employers
Unexpected Bad News
Happy-Sounding Music That Actually Makes People Angry
4-Star Quality Misstatements

And if anyone wants to go “anti,” I defy you to try to cheer me up.

The playlist is here:

My father-in-law invited me out to see the KC Royals play tonight.  I haven’t actually been to a professional sporting event in, oh, 20 years.  Nobody ever asked me to go again after my mother took me to a Chief’s game and I took a book to read (The Decline and Fall of the British Empire) and diligently did so during the entire game.  Lots of funny looks that day…

However, in light of this little outing for this game of bases-ball; I say it’s time we celebrate the good sportsmanship that the VO represents with appropriate music.

Give me:

Music about sports
Crowd favorites (na na na, HEY! na na na na na na…)
Music about sweatiness
Music about playing with your crotch
Competition
Injuring other people maliciously
Winning and/or losing
Scoring (take that any way you like)

Go nuts.  You’ve all earned it.  The playlist is here:

We’re 10 years into a 30-year mortgage with a not-bad interest rate, but with now being a single-income family and about to start school, we decided to look into refinancing. We’re working with the same broker who’s done our preview 3 refinances and has done loans for a lot of people we know (we met him through a common friend), and we’re going to get a new 30-year mortgage at right around 5%, with no points and no fees. We should be able to qualify for this; we’ll know shortly. This takes our principal+interest down by about 1/3, and our monthly payment down by about 1/4, which adds up over the course of a year.

So for today’s theme, let’s do tunes about house & home, and the fun of financing your life. The playlist is here:

I’ve come to the conclusion that al-Qaeda isn’t just bombed out, but downright lazy.  Nowadays, it seems like every half-assed terrorist attack that happens anywhere anytime gets claimed by them no matter how bad it gets bungled.  Of course, it still accomplishes its objective of keeping people scared.  How many times in the past month have police been called to check out suspicious packages in Times Square? 

Maybe I should give it a try for our (less evil) purposes.  This week, everyone make your own plots and carry them out.  Choose your own themes (as many as you like), unleash them, and they will have the blessing of the shadowy international VO organization!  Me?  I’m going to start with the 80’s in its androgynous but mostly heterosexual terror.

You’re on your own and the playlist is here:

I agonized over whether or not to make a Memorial Day theme or a School’s Out theme.  Since I couldn’t choose, I decided to do neither and go “full stogy” on it.  Play whatever the hell you like this week since most of us in the US are going to be too busy to listen to music. 

Everyone play all the tunes you’ve been sitting on and waiting to share for a relevant theme that never seems to come.  This is your moment!  The playlist is here:

I apologize in advance for the third video.  It’s just that it’s really cool.

Another entry for the “white folk can’t rap” category:

This week, we had a good conversation on the Discourses in which we discussed whether or not the “supercarrier” is just old and outdated.  Honest people can disagree, but the idea that everything—and everyone—no matter how great, eventually sails off into the sunset one last time is a certainty.  We’ve got a few angles we can follow here:

Artists who continued to kick ass well past the age that most people can never leave the house because they can’t find their damn keys

Has-beens who didn’t know when it was time to quit.  Note that they don’t have to be old, just irrelevant and embarrassing.

Dig up some oldies.  Something you like that came out earlier than most of what you play every week.

Music about getting old, times a-changing, and what little shits today’s youth are.

I’d like to see what you guys can do with this one: artists who were highly talented in a particular genre but that were active when that genre’s time had already passed.  Anybody up to the challenge?

The playlist is here, so finish clipping your coupons, feed your 12 cats, and rub some Icy Hot on your hands (yes, I do have to do that.  Shut up.) and, uh, what the hell were we doing now?  Eh?

Lately, I’ve been mired in the acts of thin-skinned drama queens and obnoxious sociopaths.  There have been too many weird conflicts to list and the details are too pathetic to describe.  Nothing that I couldn’t handle, mind you, but that’s only because I can out-diva all those sorry-assed bitches.

Let’s do one for them.  This thread needs:

The Glorious Divas of Music
The Wildly Overrated
The Stunning Delusions of Grandeur
The Flamboyantly Combative and Irreconcilable

Bonus points: Outrageous Drag Queens

Bring it, girlfriend. The playlist is here:

Worship it, you pigs.