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Topic: New Segments For Mad Music Show #163 - "Is It Dementia?"
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Started by: Stavro Arrgolus
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fiogf49gjkf0d This show is now complete. - www.madmusic.com/playlist.aspx?show=MMS-163
All 3 new segments have been added to make the first complete Mad Music Show in 7 months.
Show 164 mentioned below is also complete.
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fiogf49gjkf0d This is why I make no promises. This week's household tasks took everything out of me and the murderous doctor/specialist/dietitian ordered specialized diet didn't help. Though losing 18 20 pounds is still nice. It's like a bowling ball is gone from my gut. Consequently, no segments could have possibly been recorded this week.
I'm going to try to get a segment or two done this weekend to finish this show and then move on to the Christmas in July episode. If I screw around with MMS-163 too long, July will be over. 164 will give me a chance to clear out the Xmas requests from last year as well.
Yes, I'm pushing back completion of MMS-157. I have half a mind to save it for actual Halloween. Why am I wasting such a good, nearly complete show in summer when I could wait a bit and kick off the new H'ween season this year with the first 3 hour Mad Music Special? It makes no sense.
So, to review: I'll add what I can manage to MMS-163 this weekend and make a Xmas Mad Music hour next week.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Segment 4: "Um, Drugs Are Bad...Mmmkay?" A segment with a theme within a theme. A musical 'trip' goes from 'mellow' to 'terrifying' in a single segment. And YOU still have to work out if the songs are dementia or not.
Segment 5: "I Wonder What's Happenin' In Da Clean World?" A line from Blazing Saddles. Hmm...I wonder if there'll be a Blazing Saddles song in the segment?...
In this segment, I go out of my way to have squeaky clean songs in it - since there's been so much nastiness in the show of late. Even though most of this show was rather clean to begin with.
You can still request songs for this half of the show if you like.
Coming pretty damn soon. Or not.
If one isn't up to making a full 2 hour show a week - milk the hell out of what you can make for all it's worth. Sneaky.
Maybe it really is all about the product promotion. Now I'm plugging 21 minute segments!? Oh, well...
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fiogf49gjkf0d Note: This show isn't done yet! As stated (maybe too many times) below, 3 more segments are in the works and, if the coding allows, will be added to the completed show over the next week or so to make a full MMS.
Be sure to check this thread and the show's page for new segments every few days. It'll be like having a new show in days instead of months (for a change).
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fiogf49gjkf0d Almost done. Part of one segment to go. Post upon completion - some time tomorrow.
The show starts very dirty (it's the new songs that are nasty) and becomes squeaky clean very fast. Well, reasonably fast.
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fiogf49gjkf0d "Come over here; I'll gum ya!" - www.madmusic.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=4197
"Make up your mind, Dr. Frankenstein..."
This show appears to be winning the recording race to be posted first - mainly because the H'ween show is so much longer.
The remaining segments (4-6) to be added at a later date which will make it a full Mad Music Show aren't assembled and are subject to adjustment. If you have more requests for songs that may or may not quite be dementia, now would be a good time to get them in.
163 has more requests than any other of these "new" shows made recently. Many of these are for new songs in the 1st segment. It would be nice if they could fill out the main theme more - since 'new' is more what Emi does and Wayne intended TMMS to be more theme driven as do I.
And if the bgm starts to sound familiar, it'll be because I'm using the (1st) FLCL OST.
Expect MMH-163 on or before Monday.
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fiogf49gjkf0d If you can't chew it, then you might be able to gum it.
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Stavro Arrgolus:
Then I'll remember to never to bite off more than I can chew again.
The worst part? I can't even remember if I said that last part sometime in the past or not.
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fiogf49gjkf0d I just noticed that it's been almost a month since this project started. It's taking too damn long. (Oh, you're just noticing this NOW, old fart?!)
I've overreached again.
Screw it. I'm going to rerecord a ending sequence of a completed segment to make a releasable show that I can add segments to later and post some form of either MMS-157 or MMS-163 after the holiday and this weekend. Then I'll remember to never to bite off more than I can chew again.
The worst part? I can't even remember if I said that last part sometime in the past or not.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Just because it's on hold doesn't mean it's not still being assembled.
Today, having recorded...a certain complex aspect of MMS-157 (no, it's nowhere near finished), I spent the day watching the latest trial of the new century and snagging lots and lots of songs for this show. It does no good to have them on the playlist if you don't have the damn mp3s now, does it?
Looking back on it all, I'm having trouble believing that any '70s songs weren't dementia of some kind. Drowning dogs, kung-fu, cannibalism, cavemen dancing with giant fat women...did I mention the drowning dogs?
There's got to be a reason today's musics sucks so much. It's not like people smoke any less weed or anything. There's just no joy in the silliness now. There's anger and idiocy, that's it.
We need a Bertha Butt Boogie for the new millennium.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Sensible decision wins out
This show will be on hold for the amount of time it takes to make MMS-157, the lost Halloween show. Among other things, this will plug up a gap in TMMS' show order which has a hole in it I left last year just for the making of this Halloween show. It's about time I made it. It'll take a week, maybe a bit more to make a full 2 hour holiday show.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Yes, they do. The 'who's online' page has people & search bots looking at our holiday song pages and shows constantly. I should just make Xmas and H'ween shows all the time. Or more sensibly, snag licensing & assemble, make art for & sell unique downloadable compilations. But then, do people still buy music these days?...
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Tim P. Ryan:
Make the Halloween show. People listen to them all-year. Just ask DrD.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Make the Halloween show. People listen to them all-year. Just ask DrD.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Looking at the playlist, this is turning into a less and less Mad Music Hour. The nature of the theme is making it mundane. Fortunately, I have a new show feature that sorts those things out. This time, it won't be so bad to give away what the feature will/might do if it might benefit the production.
There's so much I want to put in this show that it may have to made into an actual...Mad Music Show. That's right. A full 2 hour production. But that will take me an extra week.
My basement is under the flood waters, I'm forced to shop for horrible, expensive "health" (actually just death avoidance) food and I still want to make a full MMS for f*ck's sake. What's wrong with me? ...channeling my mother there...
Oh, yes, before I forget...and I will...I know my DJ-ing was repetitive announcing songs last week and thoroughly devoid of song detail in places. I'll try to add more variety to the patter in the coming shows. BUT...
I'm still not going to announce artist sites - and not just because I constantly forget to. With you kids today and your modern times and your mobile thingies, you can JFGI. Emi says it's a proper courtesy and perhaps she's right, but I think you can work out how to find an artist's site on your own - within seconds - and you don't need a croaky old fart reminding you. Besides - I announce it at the end of every show anyway. The script's heavy enough now without adding such a redundancy to every DJ sequence. That thing's to help me remember what to say. It's in a massive font size and the less of it to scroll through, the better.
In the Halloween show thread, I've just given listeners the choice of which show they would want me to make first, this one or the Halloween show. That one could be made faster, but it would be relegated out of play for seasonal reasons rather quickly and wouldn't be listened to very often. Not a good fate for a new show. Maybe I should just wait a few months to make it, stop being lazy and make this show from scratch. What do you think?
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fiogf49gjkf0d Did any one song break up Styx? Dennis DeYoung was grandstanding long before 'Kilroy Was Here'.
Expect this show next week. These shows will be bi-weekly (as MMS-162 was) unless otherwise posted. That's all I can manage for now. Maybe if I get a bit better, things will speed up a bit. This is a more complex show, so it would take a bit longer anyway. It might have an extra segment. Just because.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Anyone know if Mr. Roboto was the song that broke up Styx?
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fiogf49gjkf0d Yup, those fit the theme just right, too.
I wonder if you can add segments after you release a show without screwing everything up. I'm toying with the idea of expanding a MMH into a full MMS. Slowly.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Mr. Roboto - Styx
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
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fiogf49gjkf0d Fair warning: In the upcoming weeks, I've horrifying hospital visits pre-scheduled involving cancer ultrasound scans and specialist visits that will determine whether I will need more radiation treatments (or not). These visits take place before the holiday.
All this will slow the show making process just a bit for a while.
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fiogf49gjkf0d Of course, on my MMS, most edits and all censorship = sacrilege, but I'll play GMF (the uncensored version) for you. Full disclosure: GMF was on the playlist anyway, but it can count as a request - my show, my rules.
Speaking (or typing) of that, here's one of Wayne's unwritten request rules that I abide by. I may play more than one of someone's requests but I can mention them on the show only once, just like he did. "Fairness for all"...or something.
Most of the songs that appear on this episode will be very much NOT NOVELTY and simply make you question whether or not they are. [This ep. favors the country, pop and oldies genres - and less nastiness after the last show]
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jmanforever:
As long as I'm here, I may as well add a few novelties that were hits:
If successful radio edits count, then how about:
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GMF - John Grant
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fiogf49gjkf0d You're correct. I didn't bother to check.
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fiogf49gjkf0d As long as I'm here, I may as well add a few novelties that were hits:
If successful radio edits count, then how about:
My Ding-a-Ling - Chuck Berry
Fuck You - Cee-Lo Green
GMF - John Grant
and if country hits count, then what about:
Red Solo Cup - Toby Keith
Don't Touch My Willie - Kevin Fowler
Elvira - The Oak Ridge Boys
It's Hard To Kiss The Lips At Night (That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long) - Notorious Cherry Bombs
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fiogf49gjkf0d And I'm positive it was. My mother was obsessed with that song in the '60s and would whistle it incessantly. It would drive me bananas.
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jmanforever:
Did Harper's Bizarre do that too? I'm pretty sure it was done by John (Carter) Shakespeare and The New Vaudeville Band.
Harper's Bizarre's claim to fame was a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "59th Street Bridge Song" (Feelin' Groovy).
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Max DeGroot:
Winchester Cathedral -- Harper's Bizarre
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fiogf49gjkf0d Did Harper's Bizarre do that too? I'm pretty sure it was done by John (Carter) Shakespeare and The New Vaudeville Band.
Harper's Bizarre's claim to fame was a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "59th Street Bridge Song" (Feelin' Groovy).
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Max DeGroot:
Winchester Cathedral -- Harper's Bizarre
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fiogf49gjkf0d It all fits together (How I thought of it)
Last week, I was on an enforced multiple mile health/death walk (damn doctors) listening to my iPod and what was playing was "Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive" - the song David requested (from the 1982 Men at Work album "Cargo") and I thought, "Is this song dementia? "Down Under" certainly is with its Vegemite sandwiches and 'fried out combies' and such, but is this?
Answer came there none, but an idea for an Mad Music Hour immediately emerged. There are assloads of songs like this. As editor of this site, I often hear songs and think, "This song is a bit f*cked. Is it dementia? Does it belong on the site?" If it does, it gets added.
That's the kind of song I want for this show. A song that makes you scratch your head and think, "WTF was going through their heads (besides cocaine) when they wrote this?"
A "regular" song that makes you wonder if it's dementia or not.
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fiogf49gjkf0d You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too -- The Statler Brothers
The Little Black Egg -- The Nightcrawlers
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fiogf49gjkf0d Yes, that's the stuff. Some of these were on the list already.
...no one said 'playlist complete'...
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fiogf49gjkf0d Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It) - Daddy Dewdrop
Shazam! - Jim Nabors
I Couldn't Spell !!*@! - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
Lonely Clone - Tesseract
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fiogf49gjkf0d The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Dr. Hekyl and Mr. Jive - Men at Work
Too Much Blood - Rolling Stones
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fiogf49gjkf0d Muskrat Love -- The Captain and Tennille
Porcupine Pie -- Neil Diamond
Zilch -- The Monkees
Winchester Cathedral -- Harper's Bizarre
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fiogf49gjkf0d You've got the right idea with these.
They fit the theme just right.
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What will ultimately be played will be "mainstream songs that you aren't quite sure are dementia or not". By definition, many of the songs won't be in the archive.
AND...if they're not quite dementia, no song page will be made for them and they won't be added to the archive - even if they've been played on the show...hint, hint, nudge nudge, say no more.
...but if it turns out certain songs actually ARE dementia, they get a page after all. Go figure.
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fiogf49gjkf0d i would like to hear this songs
please and thanks
Ballad Of The Boss Bug Rex Miller HD
Ballad Of Chappaquiddick The Quidnuncs HD
Smokum Hokum Lee Alden & Jack Barron HD
Mickey Mouse And Minnie's In Town Don Bestor & His Orchestra HD
I Faw Down And Go Boom Harry Smith HD
Homophobic Dream #24 Barnes & Barnes HD
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fiogf49gjkf0d I hope that I've convinced at least some of you that I'm not screwing around and that TMMH will now be made on a regular basis again. I've no desire to have to relearn Audacity again. With that in mind...
There are far too many songs in the archive that are not dementia, but Wayne won't let me eliminate them as they were played on Dr. D at least once. This used to be a Dr. D fansite, remember?
This MMH will be about songs that are borderline..and try to let this go if I mentioned this idea before..I just woke up..
We all know mainstream songs that were written to be novelty, but with these songs, you're not quite sure. TMBG and Barenaked Ladies write these tunes all the time. Country music is full of them as well.
To me, this show writes itself, but I'd rather play your ideas. A show like this needs many opinions to give it variety.
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