Yup, it’s back! I had so much fun rattling on about the new music I had found last week that I decided to do it again this week.

Not that I plan on making a “thing” of this, like the Science Roundup or Foobles, it’s just that I have such enthusiasm for the music that one edition of the Grooveshark roundup was simply not enough to contain it!

So if music be the food of love, or love be the eater of music, or music be just plain fun cool and awesome, let us play on. What’s up this week?

Turns out, I have been doing a lot of exploring various artist’ works, and finding new fresh gems that way. Here is some examples.

Funkhauser by Hard and Phirm. I discovered this little comedic (and musical) gem when exploring the works of Hard and Phirm, a comedy group primarily known (if at all) for their absolutely mesmerizing song about Pi that makes the rounds amongst us nerds now and then. Turns out, they are pretty damn good, as evidenced by the hilarious and brilliant song I have linked to here. Taking the old saw of the song where the singer calls in each instrument and taking it to such delightfully absurd extremes is sheer genius. That is the kind of comedy writing that I really enjoy, original and fresh and funny as hell. They deserve an award just for the phrase “Take a dead rat… and throw it at a bus. ” Also check out the magnificently nerdy Carbon Cycle and of course their Pi Song as well.

Jack Sparrow by The Lonely Island. For those who don’t know, The Lonely Island is the name of the band made up of SNL players that produced such hits as Dick In A Box, Mother Lover, and Threw It On The Ground. I decided to check out more fo their stuff, and found this hilarious song. Never thought I would hear Michael Bolton swear, but even more so, I never thought I would hear him threadjack an entire song. I am also very fond of this marvelously disturbed high production number Great Day , and the satirical look at youthful pretension and geriatric orgies that is known merely as Boombox .

Teeth by Lady Gaga. Inspired by my recent passionate love affair with her epic awesome smash hit tribute to self-acceptance and diversity Born This Way, I decided to check out more of Lady Gaga’s work, and most of it was not really to my taste. Pretty much just fairly average electronic dance numbers. But this kinky little number immediately leapt out at me. Now that is something different. I love that stripped down nasty primal beat and while I have never considered myself particularly kinky (perverted as hell, yes, but not kinky), I have to admit, I find the song pretty damn hot. So if one song was going to break from the back and get my attention, it was going to be this one. Icy cool, Mother Monster.

Demons by Fatboy Slim. WARNING GENRE BIGOTS : This song takes the music form of a soul/spiritual fusion type song. This might remind some people uncomfortably of religion, but the song is not really religious, or at least, it’s thoroughly nondenominational. Myself, I love it, but if you don’t, you can check out a few more of my faves from Fatboy Slim’s amazing oeuvre, like Punk to Funk (very old-school synth and experimental) or their original smash hit The Rockafeller Skank, which you might well know as “that song where he goes ‘right about now, funk soul brother, check it out now, funk soul brother’ a million times. ” Personally (back to Demons), I am a big fan of the sort of feel-good non-religous spirituality it represents. The world desperately needs to rescue the inspiration from religion, and learn to feel good without having to obey anyone or believe nonsense. This is how we move on, folks!

I Need A Doctor by Eminem. Surprise! I am ending with Eminem again. I checked out more tracks from this latest album of his, and he continues to blow my mind away with just how real he can make it. Every time I listen to this song, it draws me into the raw emotion it expresses. I had no idea Dre and Eminem had drifted apart. And the stuff he talks about in Changes and 25 to Life is just as rugged, raw, and real. Fuck all that gangsta bullshit, it’s all just fucked up fantasy, give me more of life lived hard.

That’s all for this week. More later? Maybe.