While Marvel Comics fans wait in the hope that Southern Methodist University in Texas will post more Stan Lee video, let’s see what else my new favorite YouTube channel has to offer. Here’s one that’s a sociology lesson all by itself, showing how much American culture has changed over the past 50 years.
If you don’t know what that first tune is, it’s this.
A teen band in Los Angeles, The Linda Lindas, have a viral video.
The girls have been signed to a small record label. They got the idea for their band from Linda Linda Linda, a 2005 Japanese movie.
Schoolgirls are the subjects of countless Japanese movies, anime, and manga. From sweet, innocent and charming, to super-powered, to graphically pornographic, girls in school uniforms are everywhere in Japanese media. I rented Linda Linda Linda back when I had a 3-disc Netflix subscription. The movie is safely at the sweet and charming end of the spectrum. The DVD is out of print, and whoever owns the rights would be smart to make the movie available online as soon as possible.
Are there cybernetic assassin schoolgirls? Of course.
A song in English by a Scottish band really is the theme to the anime series. Here’s the complete recording. It’s one of the most remarkable productions I have ever heard.
I’ve been wasting time watching audio-related YouTube videos, with turntables being a favorite topic. Back in the 80’s, electronics manufacturers did what they could to modernize turntables, while at the same time promoting their CD players. Along with direct-drive turntables and P-Mount cartridges, there were linear-tracking tonearms.
The music that’s played to demonstrate the turntable is by Jeremy Heiden. Something about the first track reminded me of an early 80’s Steve Miller song, with maybe an added splash of the Police from the same era.
The extent of my awareness of SpongeBob SquarePants is pretty much limited to knowing what it is. That changed just a bit when I heard this song on one of my favorite SiriusXM shows, Drew Carey’s Friday Night Freak-out.
It sounds like a song-writing collaboration between Brian Wilson and Margo Guryan. That turns out to not be surprising, because the song was written by former Brian Wilson producer Andy Paley.
How about another square song for kids? As featured in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Hmmm… that album cover looks square.
Bass player musician Guy Pratt and his podcast buddy Gary Kemp chat with George Martin’s son Giles.
The podcast before that one they talked with Bruce Springsteen’s bandmate Steven Van Zandt, aka Miami Steve, aka Little Steven.
