No idea who made this, but it is very funny:
Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category
(This is the 3rd in an occasional series of Music I Hate That Everyone Else Liked – guaranteed to make you want to hit me with your record box. Enjoy!)
If there’s one word that can describe a lot of UK house music from the mid-90s, it’s flaccid. Whilst European ravers pummelled their ears with the massively tuned kick-drums of gabber, British clubbers bopped apologetically to beats that wouldn’t burst a paper bag. Leading this Charge of the Wet Brigade were The Bucketheads and their tedious anthem The Bomb!
Kenny Dope presents The Bucketheads – The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)
Another grand example of house glued together with irritating sound-effects, The Bomb!‘s repertoire comprises some kind of alarm noise and a clipped sample of some yelping ladies, presumably excited by the tune’s unique percussive stylings of a haddock being slapped against a clothes-horse. It’s the 9-minute version from the Positiva Classics series that’s forever etched on my brain; it’s not so much the eternal build-up that’s galling – though it’s bad enough – but the let-down when you get there. 4-or-so minutes of wiggling to a frenzied yet random arrangement of the aforementioned three samples should be paid off with a little more than a man with a bugle, and then some more of those three samples. Not even a vocal lifted from Chicago can lift it for me, guys. Sorry. Even after recent listening, why people ever liked this remains beyond me.
It’s not all bad news. Michael Moog took the basic melodic idea, chucked out all the FX, added some more sensitive percussion and released a more satisfying albeit cocktail-loungey version in That Sound. It has a chunkier if typical Full Intention remix-by-numbers on the flip and is generally worth seeking out if you’re desperate for some of this riff in your life.
I wandered past an advert for the Sony Ericsson Jalou the other day. Here’s a picture:
I can only assume that if you collect all 8 phone colours and get 50 text messages you’ll go bright yellow, your hair will stand on end and you can run around for the rest of the day making people explode until your battery runs out.
This is an excellent strip which I occasionally find myself coming back to. Almost invariably it’s funnier, darker or just more bizarre than the originals themselves. Nice to know that Jim Davis approves of the idea too, rather than blindly suing the pants off the author for using his original work.
The moment of schoolboy mirth below is an excellent example of why you should read it.
(Couldn’t find the original strip, sadly.)
It’s hard to shed a tear for the demise of GeoCities, even though I should as it started my web design career. It’s difficult to mourn that which is long-forgotten, though – it’d be like becoming upset about for my cat who died years ago.
The truth is that I once had a GeoCities site, but all I recall about it was that the background was black, the URL was impossible to remember, the web FTP interface was unbelievably bad even for those days, and they had some Javascript that stuffed a shuddering GeoCities logo into the bottom-right corner. I have no idea what it was actually about, and slipping peacefully away into history is the best thing for it.
The Archive Team are to be applauded for their efforts, though. They’ve rescued all the under construction GIFs that they could possibly find and whacked them on one eye-bleeding page for posterity. I haven’t seen so much irritating crap in one place since I was last in a Starbucks, so naturally I picked out a few of my faves and archived them here too, y’know, just in case…
“More updates to come once I’m back from primary school”
“Who turned out the lights?”
Nothing says class like a 3D rotating construction sign (with only one side)
Nothing says “we’re not quite sure what we’re archiving” like saving ancient Javadoc .gifs for posterity
Hey, quit ruining my childhood memories!
This is just a little bit like that Catchphrase episode.
I seriously have absolutely no idea what is meant to be going on here.
Believe it or not, this was actually about as reliable as Mac OS 9 dialogs got in my experience.
Achtung! Awful designen!
Actually, I know a couple of people who could use this.
