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Sun July 22, 2007
YouTube Video Get your funk on with this awesome medley from Sly and the Family Stone on the Kraft Music Hour in 1970 (2)
YouTube Cool Queen rocks the universe with "Flash Gordon" (3)
Lancashire Evening Post Unlikely From salesman to TV winner to chart topper - all in little more than a month (6)
YouTube Obvious Neil Young shows DMB how to play "All Along the Watchtower" (14)
YouTube Cool Proof the Monty Pyhtonites had great taste in music: Pete Townsend amazes on "Drowned" at 1979's Secret Policeman's Ball (7)
Yahoo Amusing "It's turning out to be like fresh cream, man, like fresh milk from the cow's titty, baby," the Rev. Al Green gushed (14)
YouTube Video Ray Charles gives "Ring of Fire" a twist on the Johhny Cash Show (16)
(Some Guy) Sad The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke insists the band is unlikely to reunite becuase they are too sad (26)

Sat July 21, 2007
YouTube Video 1963 video of Richard Nixon playing the piano. Secret tape recording and missing audio included (16)
Rolling Stone Cool Guns N' Roses album "Appetite for Destruction" is 20 years old today (53)
(Some musician) Followup Clear Channel abandons effort to force artists to give up performance royalties (7)
(some IFC watcher) Cool Thom Yorke playing sad bastard music on the Henry Rollins Show (16)
YouTube Spiffy How about some bluegrass? Here's the Three Pickers singing "The Storms Are On The Ocean" (w/ bonus Alison Krauss hotness) (7)
YouTube Interesting And now for something completely different... the Dave Matthews Band takes on "All Along The Watchtower", live at Folsom Field (31)
Newsweek Obvious Kellie Pickler: Country music star or blonde-haired bimbo? (23)

Fri July 20, 2007
Yahoo Dumbass 50 Cent suing internet ad company for "shoot the rapper game" because it promotes violence against him. The only person that should profit from glorifying violence is him (36)
Rolling Stone Interesting Beck, Page to reunite with Yardbirds for tour. Replacement singer not yet named, but expected to be banned from bath-time guitar heroics (23)
BBC Silly New Order to continue without Peter Hook. If you thought GnR without Slash was unforgiveable, this is on another scale altogether (32)
(A Socialite's Life) Interesting Singer Lauryn Hill apparently nuttier than Snickers bar coated with walnuts and stuffed into a pecan pie (28)
ABC News Video Eric Clapton and John Mayer perform "Crossroads" (43)
YouTube Cool Some things just can't get any better... Marvin Gaye "What's Going On" live in 1973 (16)
Yahoo Weird Rock band Uriah Heep to play concert to aquarium of fish. Fins of the band will be perched on the edge of their seats (37)
St. Pete Times Obvious Rush fans: Loyal, hard-to-please or just plain surly? (43)
(FMQB) Unlikely Tool singer plans unconventional releases for new "music that makes you feel good." Um... huh? (58)
Lancashire Evening Post Interesting Paul McCartney's ex-wife gets a fair idea of the size of settlement -- and she won't be left begging in the street (38)
(Some Guy) Interesting System of a Down play down split reports (17)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Metallica's Hetfield says he wanted Megadeth as their support act for Moscow concert (31)

Thu July 19, 2007
(Some Sweet Emotional Guy) Cool Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler's pending vocal cord surgery to be shown on National Geographic channel. Submitter deeply, deeply regrets getting HDTV (19)
(Some Guy) Cool Last night's Metallica concert in Moscow had only 160 drunken arrests. This weekend's Fark party now has a number to beat (18)
(Some Guy) Cool 4/5 of the classic Guns N' Roses lineup to reunite next week (51)
(Some Guy) Spiffy Barry Manilow's quest to completely drain America's entire testosterone supply continues (5)
YouTube Spiffy Without a doubt, the greatest feedback song ever recorded: Gang of Four play "Anthrax" live (46)
(Stereogum) Followup The White Stripes make-up for playing a one-note show in Newfoundland by playing a whole set on a moving Winnipeg Transit bus (120)
YouTube Cool Undeniable proof that even Sixties hippies could get down and wrestle with the blues: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band from Monterey, 1967 (14)
Stuff PSA Smashing Pumpkins album enters chart at No. 1. Corgan disappointed, was hoping for No. 0 (33)
YouTube Cool Iron Maiden? EXCELLENT (57)
BBC Stupid Rhianna's "song" "Umbrella" "may make chart history" -- anyone who categorizes this song as music is a failure (fail fail feh feh feh) (53)
The Sun Sad Amy Winehouse’s latest breakdown. The Sun is there. With pics (61)

Wed July 18, 2007
YouTube Cool Joe Cocker and John Belushi on SNL: So cool, you'll have to lay down for a minute (25)
YouTube Cool The Reverend Horton Heat preachin' and convertin' circa 1987 (10)
(Some Guy) Cool ZZ Top: "We Learned Long Ago How to Walk Through Mayonnaise" (12)
(Some Guy) Amusing Ozzfest has been unable to fill the seats with free tickets, so they are giving away more free tickets (17)
Starpulse Obvious Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz is not engaged to Ashlee Simpson. Says he just can't commit yet to someone who's always using his eyeliner and nail polish (37)
Yahoo Interesting An infection, or as some believe, the smiting of a merciful God, delays Hootie & the Blowfish's summer tour (7)
(Some Guy) Cool Former members of RATT and Quiet Riot unite to form a swirling vortex of irrelevancy (22)
(FMQB) Stupid New albums by Avril Lavigne, Maroon 5, Linkin Park go straight to platinum (82)
YouTube Cool As laid back and cool as it can get: Bill Withers "Ain't No Sunshine" performing live for TV in 1972 (17)
(Some Guy) Obvious Ten simple rules of concert-going etiquette. Rule No. 1, as always: Don't wear the shirt of the band you're going to see. Don't be that guy (72)
(Yoko Ono Prodigy) Strange Neil Young's wife follows in Yoko Ono's footsteps and releases wailing album. Highlights include an electric sitar solo and moaning. Release the Hoovers (5)
Yahoo Spiffy Crowded House, Squeeze, The Police and Genesis all touring this summer. Break out the leg warmers, Michelle, it's 1986 all over again (36)

Tue July 17, 2007
(Some Yacht Rocker) Spiffy A new 1-10 rating system based on how happy Kenny Loggins appears on his album covers (16)
Starpulse Unlikely Andy Summers wants to record a new Police album after the reunion tour finishes. Stewart Copeland says, "De doo doo doo, de da da da is all I have to say to you" (17)
Washington Post Cool Get off my lawn, you noisy kids, and take your crappy new music with you: AC/DC's "Back in Black" sold 440,000 copies last year (41)
Guardian.com Spiffy Young music fans back in the groove spark a 13% increase in vinyl sales (29)
CBC Amusing White Stripes play free concert consisting of only one note, promise next album will be better (37)
St. Pete Times Cool "When you're down, that's where you stay"? Hardly. Joe Walsh hits the road for summer tour (11)
(Sabbath Fan) Spiffy Happy birthday to Geezer Butler who is getting ever closer to being named correctly (6)
(Some Guy) Silly Original KISS guitarist Ace Frehley is featured in the latest television commercials from Dunkin' Donuts (32)
YouTube Video Genius at work. The making of Steely Dan's "Peg" (36)
Houston Chronicle Interesting Houston, we have a problem (2)
YouTube Cool For fans of love and hope and sex and dreams, here are the rockabilly sounds of the fabulous Bodeans (8)
Newsday Interesting A Billy Joel song will be the one riders hear at a historic carousel. No word if mechanical horses will crash into trees (3)
News.com.au Interesting A pair of wire sunglasses worn by John Lennon are up for auction and could fetch more than $1.5 million (12)

Mon July 16, 2007
(Some Guy) Cool If you happen know the present whereabouts of the the Siamese twins who were on the cover of the 1993 Smashing Pumpkins album "Siamese Dream", go ahead and let Billy Corgan know. Thanks in advance (32)
(Some Guy) Silly Boy George wants to become a policeman (11)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Kelly Clarkson is hardcore (29)
YouTube Video Van Morrison sings "Cyprus Avenue", 1974--absolutely magical (18)
AZCentral Obvious The Dave Matthews Band urges fans to push Congress for better mental health care for returning troops. The first step is not allowing any troops to go to a Dave Matthews Band concert (22)
(Some Guy) Cool Original KMFDM frontman takes over vocal duties in Rammstein (38)
(Some Guy) Amusing GWAR frontman calls Slipknot singer a 'whiner' (40)
(The Stranger) Asinine Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan: “We were once the most important band in the world, and everyone — me, you, Courtney Love — knew it.” (84)
News.com.au Obvious Missy Elliot had dancers round at her pad, but she had no answers when they acted bad. Clothes on the floor and cups in the sink, they abused her welcome and caused a right stink (5)
YouTube Video A Starship Trooper you'll like. Yes, yes you will (27)
(Some Guy) Amusing Foo Fighters announce name of new album, tracklisting. They still suck, but deserve some cred for titling a song "Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)" (54)
(Some Guy) Stupid Does hip hop promote smoking? "Beyonce is holding a cigar on the back of her album cover, and that sends a powerful message to young girls that it's cool to be like me and smoke cigars." (56)

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