Sleeping Monkey

This song is freakin’ awesome

The song, which is the origin of the name of this site. And since I am in a giving mood, after the jump I’ll post a bunch more video’s from the same 5-23-00 show

SLEEPING MONKEY

other videos after the jump

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Fuck you, I like this song

This song is fucking awesome, and anyone who thinks otherwise can go straight to hell… the video was kinda lame however

One of my favorite 80s tunes

I love this song.

this video makes no sense. There is no drummer, there is no guitar player (but a bass playing playing the bass like a guitar even though there is no bass in the song). Tons of sounds coming from nowhere.

But GAP Band is still fucking awesome. They are the poor mans Brothers Johnson

Kung Fu Fighting by Bus Stop (who the hell even remembers Bus Stop? They were like the poor mans 3rd Base)

AND he is still touring on the Legends of Hip Hop Tour. If you’re between the age of 27 – 35 you know GODDAMN WELL you had this tape. Everyone did no matter who they were

Back in April of 2008, The Little Buddy and myself went on a road trip down to Penn State to see the Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood concert. Going in I didn’t know much about either of them, my first thought was, ugh country music. But the concert ended up being one of the best shows, out of the 1500 or so I have seen. Underwood tore shit up, and is super hot. I had sort of forgotten about the show, but I just found this video from the concert of her doing Paradise City, which is pretty awesome

From the same show, the Keith Urban guitar melody

Man, I haven’t listened to any Grateful Dead music in red hot minute. It’s seriously been like a year, which for me is weird. But I formatted my laptop yesterday and I was going through putting stuff back on to it, and came across like 20GB of Dead music, so I loaded up Winamp (iTunes can lick my hairy balls I don’t use that shit) and threw on a few Dead shows. First show was Boston Garden 77, and they opened the show with Bertha. I totally forgot how much I love that song. Probably my favorite dead song. All those hippies can have their Terrapin Station, Franklins Tower, Shakedown Street, ect. I’ll take my Bertha and Eyes of the World

Also

Piss up a rope

Another jam I used to rock the fuck out to like 18 years ago

As well as this shit

This was THE JAM like 15 years ago. But most people have probably forgotten

T.R.O.Y

One of my favorite songs of all time

I was cleaning out my room throwing away some shit that should have been tossed out 10 years ago, and while I was doing that I came a cross an old box of Cassettes I hadn’t listened to in at least 10 years. Probably longer. I was going through them, most of them were crap, and then I came across my one of my Naughty By Nature tapes. I had forgotten how goddamn awesome they were. While most people were rocking out to OPP 18 years ago, I was rocking out to this sone, one of my top 100 songs of all damn time

If there is one thing 2009 has brought onto the world, it is that god awful auto-tune bullshit is in ever pop song. God that’s annoying. Why not just say fuck it and do away with the people. You don’t even have to sing, you could have some person just sit there and read lyrics (which is literally what they do in most cases) then just auto-tune it however way you want. It sounds stupid, it all sounds the same and sounds like retarded robots.

I have however found one good thing that has come out of this nonsense, and that is the Auto-Tune the news videos. Here is the one on the Climate Summit

God, am I really that out of touch with what the kids think is hip these days? Last week I showed my complete ignorance towards new music when Rolling Stone had their top 100 songs of the decade. This week they have the top 100 Albums, and it’s just as bad. The #1 Album is “Kid A” by Radiohead. I’ve never listened to the album. That’s right, I’ve NEVER heard Kid A. That’s like some sort of sin around a lot of people. I can’t help it, I thin Radiohead is fucking boring. They are like are like Coldplay, or an upscale version of The Frey. I don’t like Boring Ballads, if I want to listen to slow whiny shit I’ll crack up “Every Rose has it’s Thorn”. Not have I not heard the entire Kid A Album, I haven’t heard a single song of off of it, and have no intention to. Radiohead can go fuck themselves as far as I’m concerned, the only song of their I ever gave a shit about was Creep, and that was like 15 years ago. If I want to listen to a whiny early 90’s Alt Rock band, I’ll listen to Dinosaur Jr. of Sonic Youth. At least they have more than 1 song I give a rats ass about. Anyhow, here is the list

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1 | Radiohead: Kid A

2 | The Strokes: Is This It

3 | Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

4 | Jay-Z: The Blueprint

5 | The White Stripes: Elephant

6 | Arcade Fire: Funeral

7 | Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP

8 | Bob Dylan: Modern Times

9 | M.I.A.: Kala

10 | Kanye West: The College Dropout

11 | Bob Dylan: Love and Theft

12 | LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver

13 | U2: All That You Can’t Leave Behind

14 | Jay-Z: The Black Album

15 | Bruce Springsteen: The Rising

16 | OutKast: Stankonia

17 | Beck: Sea Change

18 | MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

19 | Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

20 | The White Stripes: White Blood Cells

21 | Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head

22 | Green Day: American Idiot

23 | D’Angelo: Voodoo

24 | Bruce Springsteen: Magic

25 | Radiohead: Amnesiac

26 | Cat Power: The Greatest

27 | The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

28 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell

29 | Sigur Rós: Ágaetis Byrjun

30 | Radiohead: In Rainbows

31 | My Morning Jacket: Z

32 | Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III

33 | Daft Punk: Discovery

34 | OutKast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

35 | PJ Harvey: Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea

36 | U2: No Line on the Horizon

37 | 50 Cent: Get Rich or Die Tryin’

38 | Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker

39 | Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak

40 | Kanye West: Late Registration

41 | Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

42 | Elliott Smith: Figure 8

43 | The Killers: Hot Fuss

44 | System of a Down: Toxicity

45 | Kanye West: Graduation

46 | Justin Timberlake: FutureSex/LoveSounds

47 | Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes

48 | TV on the Radio: Dear Science

49 | Fiona Apple: Extraordionary Machine

50 | Bright Eyes: I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning

51 | Spoon: Kill the Moonlight

52 | M.I.A.: Arular

53 | Kings of Leon: Only By the Night

54 | Norah Jones: Come Away With Me

55 | Robert Plant and Alison Krauss: Raising Sand

56 | Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend

57 | Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism

58 | Danger Mouse: The Grey Album

59 | Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights

60 | Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

61 | The Shins: Oh, Inverted World

62 | Johnny Cash: American III: Solitary Man

63 | Kanye West: 808s and Heartbreak

64 | Gillian Welch: Time the Revelator

65 | Manu Chao: Próxima Estación Esperanza

66 | Antony & the Johnsons: I Am a Bird Now

67 | Björk: Vespertine

68 | U2: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

69 | Missy Elliott: Under Construction

70 | Sleater-Kinney: The Woods

71 | Bright Eyes: Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Eart to the Ground

72 | Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand

73 | Coldplay: Parachutes

74 | Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium

75 | Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

76 | Sigur Rós: ()

77 | Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

78 | Sufjan Stevens: Illinois

79 | The New Pornographers: Electric Version

80 | Kings of Leon: Youth and Young Manhood

81 | Ryan Adams: Gold

82 | Queens of the Stone Age: Rated R

83 | The Black Keys: Attack & Release

84 | Eminem: The Eminem Show

85 | Coldplay: Viva La Vida

86 | The Postal Service: Give Up

87 | Gnarls Barkley: St. Elsewhere

88 | Brian Wilson: Smile

89 | Radiohead: Hail to the Thief

90 | Amadou & Miriam: Dimanche a Bamako

91 | The Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious

92 | Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

93 | Johnny Cash: Unearthed

94 | The Libertines: Up the Brackett

95 | Alicia Keys: Songs in A Minor

96 | The Streets: Original Pirate Material

97 | Wilco: Sky Blue Sky

98 | TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain

99 | The Hold Steady: Almost Killed Me

100 | Leonard Cohen: 10 New Songs

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Again, I don’t know who a lot of these people are, and even the ones I do know I’ve never listen to the albums. Out of all of the albums on this list, here is what I have:

The White Stripes: Elephant = meh
The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots = Enjoy Very much
Kanye West: The College Dropout – hate it
Kanye West: Graduation = Love most of it, except for a few songs (hate his other albums)
Kanye West: 808s and Heartbreak = worst album I have heard in years
Manu Chao: Próxima Estación Esperanza = ok if I’m in the mood for some bongos

And that is it. Seriously

This list fucking sucks, at least for me personally. It’s not like I listen to NO new music. But not this bullshit. Albums that I have that should have made the list instead of some of this other crap

Santana: Supernatural
Kid Rock: Devil Without a Cause. Love or hate the douche, it was a well put together album
Blink 182- Enema of The State
B.B. King & Eric Clapton: Riding with The King
No Doubt: Return of Saturn
Weezer: Green Album
Gorillaz: Gorillaz
Kelly Clarkson: Break Away
Black Eyed Peas: Monkey Business
Avril Lavigne: Let’s Go
Carrie Underwood: Some Hearts

So in closing.

Fuck you Rolling Stone