#musicwar

[haleydysoncx]

Fighting over Faves

This is when your friends fight over their favorite artists with your best friend and you are in the middle of it

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SONG OF THE DAY: May 10, 2014

MØ: Say You'll Be There (Spice Girls Cover)

I always loved this song. (CB).

[kaitlynambermc]

im sorry but if you've never listened to Fuck it by Eamon and Fuck you right back by Frankee afterwards you've missing one of the best things the music industry has ever given us

[plantgush]

My mom and I are having a music war the only thing is that she's blasting Linkin Park and I'm trying to outblast her with Welcome to the 60's from hairspray. I'm not winning.

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Song of the Day 2: June 28, 2012

Wesley Willis, "Whip the Llama's Ass"

Taking another spin due to a very scholarly discussion with Music War's southern-fried uncle Fred McIntyre about how "Whip the Llama's Ass," a song by Chicago's late, great Wesley Willis, came to be the tagline for pre-iTunes digital media player Winamp.

The short answer is they liked it, but the origin of the "Whip the Llama's Ass" song itself is somewhat complex.  To wit: the phrase had been a frequent line of Willis stage banter, if something "whipped the llama's ass" it rocked, particularly if it was being whipped "with a damn belt."  But the seeds of the song were first sewn on 1994's "Whip a Donkey's Ass," Willis's first recorded instance of ass-whipping, which also invokes whipping a horse's ass.

While "Whip the Horse's Ass" would later appear on 1995's "Fireman Rick" album, "Whip the Llama's Ass" proper wouldn't be released for another four albums, but fortunately that was only a couple of months later.  The Llama would appear once more the following year on "Suck a Llama's Dick."

Other selections from the Wesley Willis ass songbook:

http://www.derekerdman.com/2/wesley_willis.htm

* "Projects Whip Your Ass" (1994)

* "Kill His Ass" (1995)

* "Birdman Kicked My Ass" (1995)

* "Incarcerate My Ass" (1995)

* "Suck a Camel's Ass" (1995)

* "I'm Whipping Your Ass" (1995)

* "Throw My Ass in Jail" (1995)

* "I Whipped Batman's Ass" (1995)

* "I Whipped Superman's Ass" (1996)

* "Bust a Cap In My Ass" (1996)

* "Taste a Panda's Ass" (1996)

* "Kiss My Black Ass" (1996)

* "Lick My Doberman's Ass" (1996)

* "Taste a Camel's Ass" (1996)

* "I Whipped Spiderman's Ass" (1996)

* "Birdman Kicked My Ass 2" (1996)

* "Taste a Doberman's Ass" (1996)

* "Suck a Greyhound's Ass" (1996)

* "Whip the Ram's Ass" (1996)

* "Jug My Ass' (1996)

* "Suck a Horse's Ass" (1996)

* "Tree My Ass" (1996)

* "Dumpster My Ass" (1996)

* "Suck a Caribou's Ass" (1996)

* "Beat My Ass" (1996)

* "Suck My Rottweiler's Ass" (1996)

* "Whip the Race Horse's Ass" (1996)

* "Rock Saddam Hussein's Ass" (1998)

* "I Whipped Robin's Ass" (1998)

* "Lick a Donkey's Ass" (1998)

* "I'm Whipping Your Ass 2" (1998)

* "Taste a Gorilla's Ass" (1998)

* "Taste a Mountain Goat's Ass" (2000)

* "Lick a Bulldog's Ass" (2001)

* "Shut Your Ass Up, Fucker." (2001)

RIP Wesley. (J-Rock)

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Song of the Day: May 24, 2012

Dee Dee Ramone, "I Am Seeing UFO's"

If it were possible to make a Ramones joke that they hadn't already done better in earnest it might sound like this: Didja hear about the good Dee Dee solo song?  Joey sang on it.

Happy belated birthday, Joey. (J-Rock)

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Song of the Day: May 16, 2012

Kindness, "Swingin' Party"

The knee-jerk reaction here is abject horror that someone would attempt a downtempo Replacements cover, but once your inner college radio music director circa 1987 stops gagging all over his Volcano Suns LPs you slowly yield to the fact that most of Westerberg's songs from this period exist on a rarified plane where their charms can be sustained across both blackout drunk bar rock and, say, painfully hip Moshi Moshi cold/synth/whateverthefuck-wave with more than a little mascara. (J-Rock)

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Song of the Day: February 26, 2012

Prince, "She's Always in My Hair"

Chad is the resident Prince scholar here and knows this stuff like the back of his laced glove, but I'm late to the wonderful and frightening world of Prince B-sides and this Around the World-era track seems a clear contender for the jewel in the crown.  Reliably dripping with slow-burn sex (only Prince can make motorik sound horny), it's got a particularly phat jam from the Revolution, the robot funk breakdown, the fractured interstellar guitar solo and the erotically allusive title.  If I were to really split hairs I'd take out that one little fill that sounds exactly like Janet Jackson's "Pleasure Principle," which seems to serve only as Paisley Park branding when you know damn well who it is.  But what it really sounds like is beautiful black people sensuously fucking on a gilded throne, and if that sounds kinda racist it is, but only at the expense of white people, because when they fuck on gilded thrones it just sounds like upholstery repair. (J-Rock)