Neatorama » pop music http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:26:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lady Gaga or Jem? http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/lady-gaga-or-jem/ http://www.neatorama.com/2012/01/17/lady-gaga-or-jem/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:59:08 +0000 Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/?p=59225

Who was it: Stefani Germanotta or Jerrica Benton? These singers are better known as pop star Lady Gaga and ’80s cartoon rock star Jem. In today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you’ll be given twelve statements, and you decide which diva it applies to. Believe it or not, I scored 75% without knowing anything about either of them! How did you do? Link

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DJ Earworm’s annual mashup of the biggest hit songs of the year is appropriately called “World Go Booom.” You can download the tune at his site. Link

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Sam Tsui and Kurt Schneider perform a medley of the pop songs of summer 2011. If you didn’t know the individual songs, you’d think this all belonged together. The mp3 is a free download. Link -via The Daily What

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If you can dance while wearing a marching band uniform with a drum strapped to your belly, then the world is pretty much your oyster. In this video, the Ohio University Marching 110 perform “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO. -via The Daily What

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Almost every sound in rock and pop history that’s caused your ears to prick up, or your eyebrows to raise, has been sampled or digitally reconstructed for our music-making convenience. But these sounds all started somewhere; a musician or a producer made a noise – often by mistake – and someone in the studio piped up and said, “Hey! Actually, that sounds quite good!” And so the palette of rock and pop music was formed – a series of happy accidents, developed, refined and combined, mixed down and presented to us. Here are some of the most distinctive and, in no particular order, the records that best showcase them.

The Word magazine has a list of 40 of those sounds, with the story behind each and samples for you to hear. Link -via the Presurfer

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Paul Dateh sings his own harmonies and accompanies himself on the violin. This performance is a medley of recent Top 40 hits from Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, Rhihanna, and Usher. -via I Am Bored

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The Axis of Awesome analyzed all the pop music hits, and came to the conclusion that you only need to know 4 simple chords to make a good song! Sounds easy enough… check out the medley.

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DJ Earworm has another masterful mashup, this one covering the entire year of 2008. This video features the top 25 songs of the year, according to Billboard Magazine. A list of the songs used are at his website. Link -Thanks, John “Widgett” Robinson!

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