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Star Trek II – The Wrath Of Khan : The Opera

[thanks Graham at Why, That's Delightful]

Perineal cabaret favourite Mr Methane auditioned for the new series of Britain’s Got Talent, and was unjustly sent off to scornful lashings of derision by Mr Cowell.

I mean, they barely gave him a chance.  He didn’t even have a chance to get the talcum powder out.

He’s fartoo good for them anyway.

Anybody who’s got a song stuck in their brain that they can’t seem to get out would be well advised to give this a spin: “Bathtime in Clerkenwell” by (The Real) Tuesday Weld, with animation by Alex Budovsky.

Of course, I haven’t figured out a cure for this yet.

[Nicely recommended, Stonch]

Catching a free ride on the “literal song videos” meme courtesy of The Beatles.

[via PopJam]

80’s TV/movie theme medley by Commodore 64 game tune cover band Press Play On Tape

If your mum thought it was tedious of you to bring home a drum kit one afternoon and proclaim you were learning to play that, at least she could take solace in the fact you hadn’t brought back a pair of high voltage resonance transformers and calibrated them to emit sounds to emulate your favourite TV theme songs.

On the balance of it, it’s got to be said that this would make quite an irritating ringtone.

[Singing Tesla Coils via BoingBoing]

NARWHALS!

[WeeblsStuff]

Australian comedy music outfit Axis of Awesome have assembled this extrapolation on an idea partially explored in 1995’s music teacher centric emotion jerker Mr Holland’s Opus (or probably more correctly, they comedically state something which is blatantly fucking obvious to the rest of us): that most modern rock/pop music centres around the same 4 chord progression.  I must admit, I was a little startled at some of the inclusions…

It’s an interesting development from Tripod’s 1998 revelation on the Australian Cultural breeding ground known as Red Faces.

[via Today'sBigThing]