Filed under: childhood nostalgia, Music | Tags: cartoon, catchiest pop song, gummy bears, john lennon, Music, Paul McCartney, song, the beatles
Ladies and Gentleman I’d like you all to take a quick moment to start off your day with the catchiest song EVER written. The Gummy Bears theme song-I’d pretty much put this up against any Beatles song-Sorry Lennon-you guys were good and your songs were infectiously catchy but you had nothing on The Gummy Bears!!
Filed under: Music | Tags: Best, Music, puppet, puppet themed, rock, supergrass, video
Ok so here’s a quickie today once again dealing with puppets in music videos! Today we’ll be checking out Supergrass’ “Pumping on Your Stereo” which features some pretty fucked up puppet horseplay! It’s not a half bad song either-but once again adding the whole puppet angle into the mix makes this track rock that much harder! More to come and if you got any good puppet themed vids in mind please send them my way!!!
Filed under: Music | Tags: beavis & butthead, Best, genesis, land of confusion, Music, package theif, puppet, superchunk, themed, videos
Ok so I think we can all agree that puppets pretty much rule. Hands down. So I was thinking here at Universal Dork that I’d start doing a little research and find the BEST music videos featuring puppets-because really if you add a damn puppet to a music video it suddenly becomes the shit! Seriously even some songs that otherwise suck get ten times better when a mother fuckin’ puppet pops up in the video. So today I will start it off with a couple of my faves and one of which is an obvious choice for quite possibly best music video featuring puppets! It’s seriously gonna be hard to top the puppetry genious of Genesis’ “Land of Confusion”.
I have a feeling that it just may be the best puppet themed video of all time-but we’ll really just have to put it to the test as I will sporadically post them over the next two weeks to finally see who reigns supreme as the ultimate musical master of puppets! So stay tuned. First though check out the video I have a feeling no one can touch….
Pretty fucking genious huh??? If you remember these puppets were originally featured on a popular 80′s tv show called Spitting Image-apparently Phil Collins lost his shit when he saw the tv show the first time and called the creators of the it to ask them to make puppet versions of the whole band. Must be nice to be Phil huh??
Next check out this unique puppet video for the song “Package Thief” from one of my all time fav bands Superchunk! (more…)
Filed under: bad movies | Tags: action, bad movies, Horror, metal, Movies, Music, review, sequel
Prequels, like good taste, are often not required for viewing sequels. DEATH WISH 3? Perfect example. Relishing in Bronson’s unhinged scum-stomping rampages requires no getting-to-know-ya handshake. TURBULENCE 3-HEAVY METAL also requires no teaser. Just, maybe a chaser?
The premise is pure support for the subtitle pun “heavy metal”. Self-proclaimed antichrist rock star Slade Craven has decided to film his final concert en route a pastel-upholstered, pretzel-lobbing airplane (which transcends any definition of metal that I can think of). But not all is rosy in hell. Rutger (BLADE RUNNER) Hauer, with a notably larger face, plays a devil worshipping pilot and believes Slade Craven is the “fake messiah”. He and globby-eyed VJ (top model Monika Schnarre) think Craven’s party should be crashed into a church in Oklahoma. This opens the seventh gateway to hell, unleashing the true satan.
(OK, I’ve seen THE BEYOND and thought this hellgate was in Louisiana?!) (more…)
Filed under: Creeps, Dork Science and Technology, Info, Misc, Useless Information | Tags: Air Pressure, Audio, Brookstone, Device, Head Massage, Heat, Magnetic, Music, OSIM, Sound
Alright, I will admit it, I buy weird shit sometimes. Who doesn’t? You just see something on TV and it clicks with you. Like it is the long lost piece of your life and it will solve a good percentage of the problems that ale you. In fact, at times I pride myself in being the head of research and development for some of the crazy stuff out there. For example…the finger mouse, to replace your mouse on your computer, well that was not exactly a breakthrough product. So imagine my surprise when I came across this dandy…yeah, OSIM uCrown 2 Soothing Head Massager with Music.
Filed under: Horror Whore, Info, Misc, Movies, Music, Useless Information, World's Best Horror Music Videos | Tags: Angela, Covenant, Dancing, death metal, Demons, metal, Morbid Angel, Movie, Music, Night of the Demons, Rapture, Vengance is Mine
Nothing tops the sweet sounds of a good heart jolting death metal tune, and it is hard to beat awesome b-horror movie action. So why not combine the two into what should be the ultimate culmination of sight and sound. I guess that is my ideal experience. Not sure if there are any dorks out there that agree…well, I take that back, there have to be a couple. More specifically, how about Brian Trenchard-Smith and his magnificent creation Night of the Demons 2! If you want to see a classic horror movie with a touch of some metal, please read on and also watch an uber classic scene from Night of the Demons 2 featuring Morbid Angel!
Filed under: Awesome Music Videos, Music, World's Best Horror Music Videos | Tags: Horror, Music, pet cemetery, ramones, stephen king, video
No the contest is not over!! Or at least the compilation of rad or terrible horror themed music videos. So today i want everyone to remember The RAMONES and their awesome song and video for “Pet Cemetery” they made for the movie in the 80′s. Have a an amazing saturday every one!!
Filed under: Awesome Music Videos, Fantasy Classics, Movies, Music | Tags: Artax, Atreyu, Awesome Music Videos, fantasy, Kajagoogoo, Movies, Music
I have to thank our local weekly paper’s music blog (The Portland Mercury’s End Hits) for reminding me of this gem from my childhood. I probably watched The Neverending Story about one zillion times when I was a kid. The adventures of Atreyu (not the lame band) and Artax (and later Falcor) really boostered my imagination as a kid. And, I think this video helped out. It’s the guy from Kajagoogoo. I always thought that big turtle guy looked like E.T.
Filed under: Awesome Music Videos, Music | Tags: Awesome Music Videos, chirs dane owens, dragons, fantasy, Music, music video
Wow, recently I was turned on to a great music video by some guy I had never heard of named “Chris Dane Owens“. A friend of mine sent me this video as a joke and I have to say it is pretty funny. But then I took a closer look at it and all of a sudden I was really into it and borderline obsessing over it. I watched the video over and over. The catchy faux funk baseline over some epic, drawn out guitar lines and vocal melodies had me hooked. But what had me more hooked was the story-line, A FANTASY ADVENTURE starring himself, a lady, a Dr. Doom type villain, several groups of 3 hot ladies, his knife throwing buddy, another buddy, an older buddy, and a fleet of fire welding dragons. Take a look for yourself.
This video now gets me all stoked like watching Lord of the Rings. But what can I say, I’m a sucker for fantasy adventure stories, especially when they involve medieval funk grooves. Who is this “Chris Dane Owens”? I did a little research and this is what I found out. (more…)
