30 Mar 08 The Toe-Tapping Post

Really, before you read this, you just really need to watch this (pointed here from Mefi). (If you get an echo going, mute one — they’re close enough.)

What’s really cool is that about 30 seconds in, the dance moves start getting pretty close into sync as well. And right about one minute, 47 seconds in — well, it’s just pretty damn funny-cool to see them both doing that particular move perfectly, one going in one direction, one in the other. The kid’s good.

The mom calmly crocheting in the background throughout the whole thing is, perhaps, the best part.

Anyway, a question on Ask Metafilter recently asked for somewhat unknown, but cheerful and upbeat, songs. My response:

Really, don’t watch the video of this link, but Red Sweater, by the Aquabats, is wonderfully upbeat.

I also hadn’t really had U.G.L.Y. by Daphne & Celeste cross my radar.

The Gourds did a cover of Snoop’s Gin & Juice that must be heard to be believed.

Similarly, Hayseed Dixie’s cover of Centerfold is fairly fun.

And Mindless Drug Hoover’s “Reefer Song” is cheerfully hilarious.

And there’s Rabaue’s Pizza Hut.

A lot of mashups of popular songs produce fairly wonderful songs that are not known themselves. For example, “No One Takes Your Freedom” or “We Got the Soulja Boy” (Soulja Boy meets ‘We Got the Beat’). Or one of my most favorite mashups, “The Wild Voodoo Girl Stop“, which takes as its base Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now“, itself wonderfully catchy (but presumably well-known).

Thought I’d post it here since I was listening to (and enjoying) my own answers … finding my feet really tapping along to them. Figured maybe the one or two readers I might have might get a kick out of them …

(Also, I love Extended Copy Menu, which made this very post much more convenient … and the folks at AM who pointed me to it.)