50,000 Monkeys at 50,000 Typewriters Can't Be Wrong
A bunch of my friends got together and created a face-meltingly funny holiday musical, called Thanksgiving vs. Christmas. If you like the things I like, boy howdy are you going to like this.
So, here’s an embed for ya:
You can listen to the whole show online for the low low price of free, but you can listen to it whenever you want and support the brilliant creative people who made it when you buy it at Bandcamp.
Enjoy!!
From the most recent Radio Free Burrito’s show notes:
For most people, today is May 1, but for some of us, it’s really the First of May.
(warning: this is all kinds of NSFW)
I came across this punk rock masterpiece on one of my very favorite blogs, Dangerous Minds.
Now, look, I’m going to warn you: it’s the longest 2:27 of your life, and the video is sort of the ancient progenitor to a looping .gif, likely due to budget constraints, and the possibility that the band involved wasn’t particularly into recording a punk song because the band was THE VILLAGE PEOPLE.
Yes, those Village People.
BEHOLD:
Dangerous Minds says:
“Food Fight” is an anomaly in the Village People’s oeuvre: a first and last attempt to cash in on the punk audience from a band clearly grasping at straws, willing to try absolutely anything to stay relevant.
Musically, one can hear the best elements of DEVO, as well as The Dickies, and Hodo’s nerdcore vocals sound remarkably like Weird Al.
“Food fight” plays out like the music you’d hear in an early 80’s teenage T & A movie where there’d be some marginally “punk” band playing on the beach in wrap-around sunglasses and clam-diggers, while a bunch of girls in string bikinis did robot dances in the sand. Yes, it’s that good. The subject matter would seem to indicate the Village People’s new target demographic was middle school children.
I’m super conflicted about it, because on the one hand, it’s pretty epic … but it’s also pretty horrible, and it feels like ten minutes of repetition to me.
But, still, the fucking VILLAGE PEOPLE recorded a song that would have been perfectly at home in Valley Girl, or Night of the Comet, or Midnight Madness, or even on an episode of CHiPs, if they did something about the way old white people thought punk rock and new wave kids acted in 1981.
What do you think?
I made a thing, which I believe is best experienced as ambient background noise, projected onto a bare brick wall. This is not something that you sit down and watch, the way you’d watch a movie or a TV show.
This work was created by combining audio and visual works obtained from the Internet Archive, at archive.org. The visuals are from Panorama Ephemera, which was found in the Prelinger Archives. The audio was remixed and processed in Audacity, and comes from several different sources, also originally found at the Internet Archive.
Everything used to make this video is in the public domain, or is licensed for remix and reuse.
This video is released under a Creative Commons attribution non-commercial share alike license.