Foreign Language Songs Rendered In English For Your Convenience.

These foreign language tunes make so much more sense now that someone has transliterated them into English. Rock on!

Here's Dschinghis Khan's big German hit "Moskau":


Meanwhile, this Dutch kids' show presents us with what is now the highly inappropriate "Fart in the Duck":


However, there are some things that just can't be translated. Take this clip from Norwegian TV, which is sung in the international language of WTF:

Flashback to the Future.

Hey you! No, not you kids... I mean you, in the 30-40 year old demographic reading this blog. Do you remember these? Don't they make you all nostalgia-y or something for your GenX childhood and majestic VHS?



Here some more, so you can really OD on production company bumper goodness:

It's a Chonga World. We Only Pay Rent.

Why, it's positively chongalicious! Word!

Bollywood Monday: Too-Early-In-The-Week Edition.

I'm having a Garfield-quality Monday so far, which makes this clip strangely appropriate. It's one of those kitschy '60s things of indeterminate origin that YouTube is littered with, so I have nothing of substance to share with you. But hey, it's Bollywood and it's fun, so that'll have to do.

Jukebox Friday: Old Folks Rock.

What is with all these retirement home choirs coming out of the woodwork, trying to prove their hip by singing old rock songs?

First off, from Britain comes the Zimmers, doing The Who's "My Generation" (which is old enough that it might have actually been written about their generation):


Then there's the American group Young@Heart, the subjects of a forthcoming documentary, who specialize in 20-30 year old indie/punk hits. Here they are doing "Schizophrenia" by Sonic Youth:


And here they are again, with an actual music video for their version of the Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated":

More Japanese Whimsy.

This is what the world needs more of -- old men playing songs on a leaf while balancing on a wine bottle.



[via JapanProbe.]

Barrels A-Plenty.

Here, just because they can, some guys make a live-action version of "Donkey Kong."