Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Beat It: a tribute

Perhaps you missed the former: Tribute to the High Pitched Male Vocalist. It becons you for a visit in a voice that only a dog can hear.

Today we recognize the drum soloist, the one that puts the "mp" in thump; that takes a good song and changes its direction with a meaty pounding of sticks on a cow's hide. But skill alone isn't enough to be in this tribute. Oh no. The solos here are game changers; a major reason a song was ultimately remembered.

3:40 into this video...that's the spot.


You go Phil.

This next one is just in here because...well...because the Ventures were cool, and Mr. Bean shows some leg:


The Ventures covered this next tune while in Japan in 1965, but the original was by the Surfaris. You'll probably recognize it:


Now then, if that didn't wipe you out, this next one is one of my personal faves (love that baseline too).


One more. What would life be without the 80's? Less cheesy, sure, but then again...it would be less cheesy. Where would your mondo jams be then? I love this next song more than any straight man should love a cheesy song. There I confessed it finally.  Wait until 3:23.  No fast forwarding, cheater.

A little anticlimactic? Maybe. Any less awesome? Never.

Well, that's about it for this installment. Time for me to beat it.
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  1. ChrisApril 12, 2010 at 8:54 AM

    No, the correct version is
    Ooh baby do you know what that's worth?
    Yeah, baby, I know what that's worth.

    Geez, Belinda. Get it right.

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