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The worst songs in the world... ever!: "We are the World 25 for Haiti" by Artists for Haiti (2010)
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The worst songs in the world. ever! Saturday, February 27, 2010. We are the World 25 for Haiti" by Artists for Haiti (2010). Well, I've already talked about the aesthetic tragedy that is the 'charity single'. Just to underline the message I feel compelled to repeat again and again, charity singles are for very good causes and are definitely worthwhile things to do. But this record sucks. Big. How does it compare to the original? The whole mess gets going with Justin Bieber. Where you can donate a truly w...
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Understanding Google Trends: Google Insights: top-selling artists of 2003
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Thursday, November 12, 2009. Google Insights: top-selling artists of 2003. I did this search to check on longevity in the music business. Google Insights goes back to January 2004, a time at which these artists would have been, presumably, been popular searches, as they are the artists responsible for the best-selling CDs of 2003 (one reason I chose 2003 instead of 2004 is that it's a more interesting list). To see the stats themselves, the top five selling CDs in the USA in 2003 are:. A bit of random st...
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Poll Vaulting: Canada: Un-Cult of Un-Personality
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Canada: Un-Cult of Un-Personality. Image by John Hansen. Measurable, and I think you could make some good arguments that it's not, support for Michael Ignatieff is abysmal. The man is just not very popular - not even within his own party. I have an EKOS poll. That's a few weeks old that tells much the same story - but check out the partisan numbers:. Nationwide: 43% approve, 26% disapprove, 31% DK/NR. NDP: 69% approve, 11% disapprove, 20% DK/NR. The third question is something on...
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The worst songs in the world... ever!: "Barbara Ann" by the Beach Boys (1965)
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The worst songs in the world. ever! Thursday, August 20, 2009. Barbara Ann" by the Beach Boys (1965). Ah yes, “Pet Sounds”. It truly is. As wonderful as everyone says it is. “Caroline, No” melts your heart into a tiny puddle. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” confirms to you that music can. Bring eternal youth. Even “Sloop John B”, strangely maligned, is in my opinion great. After it. But it wasn’t an embarrassment either. When it stiffed, the record company put out this. The pile of rubbish and drove the single to ...
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The best songs in the world... ever!: "Birthday" by the Sugarcubes (1987)
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The best songs in the world. ever! Saturday, April 24, 2010. Birthday" by the Sugarcubes (1987). Shrug I was the only person in my high school of that opinion, if I can test your credibility by actually claiming that enough people in an Ontario high school knew of the Sugarcubes to hold discussions. The album is far from perfect. It startes to get a bit repetitive towards the end, and of course Einar Örn grates like fingernails on a million chalkboards. It's not a classic album. But this. Reflection of h...
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Poll Vaulting: February 2011
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Thursday, February 10, 2011. A seventh: the Reform party comtended the 1988 election, but as a relatively minor party that took no seats. I don't include the 1988 election, because it ruins the narrative: one of the PC imploding spectacularly and two parties being born as a result, one of which is called Reform. Canadian electoral history is divided into pre-1993 and post-1993. So 1988 is 'old-school'. Irrelevant. If this party just didn't exist, where would the Albertan vote go? High margins of victory,...
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Better as a Single: Better as a Single: "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
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Friday, January 8, 2010. Better as a Single: "Welcome to the Pleasuredome" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It's difficult to imagine a phenomenon so large leaving so little legacy. But from the perspective of 2010, it's all but impossible to imagine just how large. To release a double album as their début. It sold over a million on pre-release. In the UK alone. They had their own video game. Even their t-shirts. Were social signifiers. And then? What did they leave behind? Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
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Blag Network: November 2009
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009. The happy family of inbred blogs that call themselves the "Blag Network" is growing again. kind of like the Duggar Family. There's eight of them now. Let's meet them all in alphabetical order. Presently on hiatus, this is a (ohmigod! A new family member, this silly little blog offers slightly surrealistic weekly advice. It uses, however, all the methodology used by the greats of astrology. In other words, I make it all up. LOST IN GOOGLE TRANSLATION. TORONTO THROUGH GOOGLE MA...
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Blag Network: September 2009
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Saturday, September 26, 2009. The Blag Network is a bunch of blogs that are all friendly with each other. Relatives, you might say. At the moment, there are five. Let's meet them. A 'specialist blog' by any definition, "Pictures of Theo" oves its very existence to the Cosby Show, and a certain iconic picture of Theo Huxtable in a moment of deep thought. This blog simply takes that picture and mutilates it or sticks it in odd places. Over and over and over again. LOST IN GOOGLE TRANSLATION. Like the previ...
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Blag Network: Blag Network
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Saturday, September 26, 2009. The Blag Network is a bunch of blogs that are all friendly with each other. Relatives, you might say. At the moment, there are five. Let's meet them. A 'specialist blog' by any definition, "Pictures of Theo" oves its very existence to the Cosby Show, and a certain iconic picture of Theo Huxtable in a moment of deep thought. This blog simply takes that picture and mutilates it or sticks it in odd places. Over and over and over again. LOST IN GOOGLE TRANSLATION. Like the previ...
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