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[meganbmoore]

[Poll #1115911][Poll #1115911] ETA: And before everyone instinctively answers, I would just like to ask: How many fandoms like to write about teenaged boys getting it on with 30 foot tall robots? Don't answer, just ponder before clicking.

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[southerndave.livejournal.com]

A bit of quick googling has picked up a couple of possible links: this one, which looks rather dubious - I haven't been able to check due to having a very poor quality internet connection (http://richard-cheese-holiday-in-cambodia-dead--mp3-download.kohit.net/_/339559) - and this listing at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Nightclub-Richard-Against-Machine/dp/B000IOM49I) which doesn't, unfortunately, seem to have any way of actually listening to the songs concerned other than actually buying the disk itself.

I first found out about Richard Cheese and his Lounge Against the Machine two years ago on the regular summer bizarre-music-on-radio show I've mentioned elsewhere; they played his version of "Hey Ya". I was fairly much hooked at that point (I have been an aficionado of thoroughly inappropriate cover versions ever since hearing the Flying Lizards' version of "Money").

This idea of a civil war between rival groups of Civil War re-enactors appeals to my sense of irony; that they would carry out the flamewar in character is just the icing on the cake. People just don't seem to know how to really insult people any more. Nowadays it's all eff this and eff that and no originality at all.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

First link was fine, and oh, I think I love you now! THE JINGLE BELLS! This is quite possibly the most awesome thing since Pat Boone's heavy metal album, or the bluegrass cover of Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice", or the sensitive-70s-acoustic-folk-rock take on "Baby Got Back"...

I wish I'd had that song a week ago; must save a local copy so I can use it to traumatize folks next Christmastime...

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

The show I've been hearing that stuff on is "Matinee Idle (http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/matineeidle)", and has been accused by at least one emailer-to-the-presenters as only having seven CDs, six of which are "The Very Best of Doctor Demento".

That bluegrass cover... wouldn't have been by Hayseed Dixie, would it? I've heard a couple of their songs before (I think they visited the country a couple of years ago and therefore got a fair bit of radio yackety yak time).

I managed to traumatise my sister-in-law just before Christmas dinner by playing her this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfoccRna6I). Last week's was probably the best behaved Christmas the extended family has had since my niece and nephew figured out how to be naughty...

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's by The Gourds (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8njCwGwGwI)...although in the course of looking for that on YouTube I see there's a Richard Cheese lounge version now as well, sweetness!

And Beatles meets Led Zep? Nice. Now I have the urge to haul out the Rutles and Dread Zeppelin...