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Pan Flute Version of Unchained Melody

Your today's musical weird was created by Joshi and Cesar Espinoza.

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According to Wikipedia: Unchained Melody is "by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages. In 1955, North used the music as a theme for the obscure prison film Unchained."

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Drive Thru Orders: The Musical

Like a real life Flight of the Conchords episode, this comedy duo of Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal (even their names are sort of similar to the HBO show characters) musically order their food at a couple fast food drive thrus. The ending of the Taco Bell one, which they swear isn't scripted, is particularly awesome. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uwY3sjqYX0&fmt=18]

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SUNfiltered Update

Hello. Is it me you were looking for? I can see it in your eyes.  I can see it in your smile. You're all I've ever wanted, and my arms are open wide...but I've been busy blogging at Sundance Channel's blog SUNfiltered. If you haven't visited (please do), here's what you've been missing. Check them out as well as the other great entries there.

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Icy Drum Set

The performance: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix_11UeGwYY&fmt=18]

And the making of video:

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Tom Hanks and Dan Akroyd Rap

A rap video starring Tom Hanks and Dan Akroyd from their movie Dragnet. Wow, Tom Hanks is really terrible here, but I like the synchronized dance sequence with the female officers of the law around the 2:24 mark. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT_QRKfv8H4&fmt=18]

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Flash Mob Dance Party

Synchronized flash mob dancing in the popular Shibuya area in Japan. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_hEVKYdafI&fmt=18]

While all the way on the other side of the planet, central station in Antwerp, Belgium comes alive with the sound of (house techno) music.

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See how music unites? Less nukes, more jukes!

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Hair FAIL

Musical schadenfreude. It gets good around the 0:15 mark. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CATCw1jPrfU&fmt=18]

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Anti-Chris Brown Song

Chris Brown Should Get His Ass Kicked: A post-Rhianna anti-Chris Brown song set to a house beat. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW_MoEe5ryQ&fmt=18]

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G20 Thug Life

Amazing transformation of a photo taken at the recent G-20 summit meeting that recalls the OGs of Death Row records. g20rappers

Relatedly, there's also this familiar photograph of Queen.

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Easy Listening Sunday

You know what I'd like to see? The pyramids around the Nile and although this one is a bit vague, I'd also like to observe the sunrise from the tropic isle. Any isle will do so long as its in the tropic, especially during New York's damp and chilly spring. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXMRa8wJyY8&fmt=18]

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The Murray Hill Song

Update: And finally the official (amusing) music video with the accompanying visual references for "Ode to Murray Hill!" [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eylKBJiDNeM&fmt=18]

Manhattan neighborhood Murray Hill, or as the New York Observer called it "Murray Hell," conveniently located generally between East 29th and 38th streets, has a particular reputation among locals for its homogeneous uniformity.

The stereotype runs something like this: Arriving in the City for jobs in the predictable areas of finance and PR, recently graduated affluent coeds--hair blown brunettes in skinny jeans and frat boys in seersucker shorts--from Syracuse and Penn swarm into dorm like luxe apartments (Windsor Court, Apt. 11F) and spend their nights at local bars such as Joshua Tree.

I'm surprised it took this long, but there's finally a song that pays homage to this neighborhood and its denizens, titled "Ode to Murray Hill" by DJ Lubel.

My world is wide open and I'm free as a bird But I've got to live on 34th from Park to Third. U Mich, Emory, Cornell--If you didn't go to one of these, Go away because you're poor!

Listen to the song here.

Confession: Although my residency there was a short New York minute, my first apartment in this city out of college was in Murray Hill, the Habitat to be exact. My roommate was a Bear Stearns banker from Penn.

[Thanks Sarah!]

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