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2 years ago
Final Tumblr Post
Thanks Tumblr, that was fun. But now I’m off to to the bigger, badder, more customizable Wordpress. AWDIMPAWL will still be here though, only now kickin’ it from http://punsandlists.co.tv/
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Notes: 10 / 2 years ago[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Today, you get a double whammy: a song AND a pun! Keep that in mind as you’re listening to the excellent track In Mind by the up-and-awesome band Power Pirate.
As for the song, some info:
Title: In Mind
Arsist: Power Pirate
Album: Plane Ticket
Links: http://www.power-pirate.com
http://facebook.com/powerpirate
Now, as for the pun,
Yesterday at dinner, I notice that there are nacho mixins out, so I grab a plate and make some nachos and bring them to the table, for the table. My friends are appreciative of this. Now, my friend who is a vegetarian decides to make some nachos herself sans meat. When she gets back, she says “Nachos were a good idea.” Nachorally, I respond: “Just remember whose idea it was first: NACHO’s.”
Hilarity ensued.
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Notes: 3 / 2 years ago
Greatest Album of All Time
An Open Letter to Pitchfork.
Dear Pitchfork,
Fuck you.
Sincerely,
Bill
P.S. This letter is preemptively written. I’m writing it preemptively in case you don’t end up giving Power Pirate’s album Plane Ticket a favorable review.
P.P.S. I am sure that you will either give it a poor review or no review at all, just because it’s not Radiohead.
P.P.P.S. But most of all, dear Pitchfork, I’m writing this letter to you, but mostly to my readers. I want them to feel my preemptive heart burn. I want them to thirst. I want them to love. I want them to rage. I want them to lust. But most of all, I want them to Listen.
You see, Pitchfork, what you haven’t (yet) given a fair shot, I have. I have listened to Plane Ticket more times than you’ve been alive. I’ve heard this album on loop, for days, and not once has it been repetitive, boring, or stale. I have listened to Plane Ticket, and I hear newaunces of glory each time.
Greatest Album of All Time
1. Plane Ticket — Power Pirate
To start off the review, I’ll grab a quote from a truly excellent Blog (in a truly Capitol Lettre sense of the word), District of Sound.
The foundation of something great is ever present with this band’s music and as they complete their [debut album Plane Ticket ,] they are primed for success.
“Primed for success” indeed, District of Sound. “The foundation of something great.” In fact, Brightest Yong Things calls them “very talented.” Not to be a total awesome, or anything, but NBC lauds them as “about to become world famous”.
And so, I present to you, Power Pirate’s debut album, Plane Ticket.
The album starts off with the refreshing Infecting Us. Infecting Us sends a clear message about the album’s mission statement: to create Electronic Rock music. No, guys, this band is not Daft Punk. Infecting Us, while it has moments of tribute to Daft Punk, makes you realize how dancecentric Daft Punk is. This isn’t electro-rock that’s really techno disguised as rock. This is rock that is also electronic.
Next comes In Mind. By In mind, it’s apparent how singer Pakulski uses lyrics. Without dominating the song, they give it purpose and direction, colour and perfection. However, listening to the non-lyrical parts of the song, the impression comes out that, had they chosen that path, Power Pirate could have made a great instrumental band in the vein of a rock-electronic Ratatat.
The next track, Bring Them Back, is of a slightly different type. Where In Mind and Infecting Us were fast, techno-danceable tunes, Bring Them Back takes a slightly more epic approach: patterns change, develop, and coalesce to create a song excellent, then break down and re-emerge as a tune part thoughtful and tasteful and introspective and part dance-tune.
Party’s lyricless beats thump out and say: “Why aren’t you dancing?”. They hook and, in their hooking, reveal again the technostrumental side of Power Pirate: vocals, when unneeded, are unnecessary and distracting. Let’s get to dancing.
Alone follows Party with a introspective song about Pakulski’s teenage troubles and parental problems. that helped them win 3rd place in the NAMM show in Anaheim, CA. This song is excellent.
So there are a lot of tracks, and that’s a lot of writing. I might get to some more later, but for now I’ll offer some selected tracks. But really, this album deserves a sit-down and a listen.
Selected Tracks:
Alone
Infecting Us
In Mind
Carpe Noctem
Down
tldr: Buy this album.
I’m out,
Bill
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Notes: 1 / 2 years ago
Migrating to Wordpress
If you’ll excuse me for a couple days, I’ll be back after I finish migrating to wordpress. After that, another round of Flashbacks!
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Notes: 1 / 2 years ago from mpgarate
What % of Valentines Day Candy Tastes What % better?
1. 90% off Valentines Day candy tastes 90% better.
Thanks, mpgarate.
Posted originally by mpgarate.
Listed by Bill.
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2 years ago
AWDIMPAWL Series: Band Names
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for several people to bind themselves together in the Most Perfect Union known to man, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel their fusion.
And so, with the end of creating Beauty, revealing Truth through sound, I have joined a band. That’s right people, today marks the first in a several-part series of the AWDIMPAWL Series: Band Names, Episode I: Band Names — List 1. To showcase some of the creative genius that went into the naming process, I will start off with a list of rejected band names that I came up with (mostly) by
myselfDivine Revelation. Each episode will showcase a band name that I was actually in, thus, the “winner.” And Now, withawt farther addiew, we hold these truths to be self-evident:AWDIMPAWL Series: Band Names, Episode I: Band Names — List 1
The World’s Greatest
Encore
Feminem
The Mixing Bowls
Steel Chairades (like charades, but misspelled for effect)
Marco Solo
Atlas of World History
The Washington Most
Coordinated Attatcks
Pakistan
Europe Objects
Flirtations in Butterfly
Jungle Troll
Shgreen Shday
Employment
In Case They’re Worried
Philip’s Glass
The Night at the Muzum
Reflections in Tritone: A Trilogy
Untitled
Self-titled
Spell Check
The Doctor-Donnas
Hard Kor3
Night of the Giving Head
Undead Reawakening
Apocolaypse Infinite
Satan’s Scepter
CD EnclosedAnd the Winner is: Pink Unicorns of Doom
You can’t use that one, I already have. It’s taken.
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Notes: 1 / 2 years ago
Top 16 Rap Songs of All Time
An Open Letter to the Reader
Dear Reader,
It is clear to me, the author, that you are of a special kind — those qualified to frequent such a distinguished website as this clearly exhibit a brilliancy of mind of a caliber until now unseen in the history of the universe. As such, it is up to me to congratulate you on your mental finesse and power and offer you a beacon of truth in the dark world that is “rap.”
Upon hearing a copy of the new 50 Cent album Before I Self Destruct, I was reminded of an important saying thatI once made upa great friend once told me: “Rap as a movement peaked with the release of the album “Get Rich or Die Trying” by 50 Cent and specifically with the song “Patiently Waiting” by Eminem and 50 Cent.
Thank you, that is all.
Sincerely,Yours, Truly.
And Now, the Top 16 Rap Songs Of All Time, rated out of 10.
Top 16 Rap Songs of All Time
16. Blood Hound — 50 Cent feat. Young Buck [6.42/10]
15. Poor Lil’ Rich — 50 Cent [6.43/10]
14. High all the Time — 50 Cent [6.441]
13. If I Can’t — 50 Cent [6.4991/10]
12. Heat — 50 Cent [6.5/10]
11. Back Down — 50 Cent [6.56/10]
10. Gotta Make it to Heaven — [6.6/10]
9. Like My Style — 50 Cent [6.7/10]
8. Don’t Push Me — 50 Cent [7.3/10]
7. What Up Gansta — 50 Cent [8/10]
6. Intro — 50 Cent [8.3/10]
5. Many Men (Wish Death) —50 Cent [8.8/10]
4. P.I.M.P — 50 Cent [10/10]
3. 21 Questions — 50 Cent [11.5/10]
2. In da Club — 50 Cent [12/10]
1. Patiently Waiting — 50 Cent feat. Eminem [∞/10]
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Notes: 1 / 2 years ago
Top 7 Versions of Windows
Dear Reader,
Whether you’re comfortably opening this letter by the fireplace while sipping on an iced brandy or parousing this blog via twitter on your iPhone in an airplane after cleaning up your neighbor’s spilled Coke from all over your new scarf, you’re doing so through a computer. If you have any brains at all, you’re using a Windows machine, or better yet, a Linux or FreeBSD-type setup. However, you might have at some point said to yourself: “Self, you’re an intelligent guy, but I’ve always wondered — What is the best operating system?” Now I don’t claim to offer an answer just yet, but I, in my infinite wisdom, have compiled (!) the Top 7 Versions of the Windows branch of the Operating System Tree of Life. In fact, I’ve done more than that: I’ve produced it for you right here! Now you’ll never have to question which version of Windows is supreme ever again.
You can thank me.
And nao, the Top 7 Versions of Windows
Top 7 Versions of Windows
7. Windows ME
6. Windows NT
5. Windows NT (Server Edition)
4. Windows XP
3. Windows Vista
2. Windows 7
1. Windows 3.1Signatories:
Bill, List Creator and Publisher
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Notes: 1 / 2 years ago
The 10 Best Songs of All Time
Dear Blogosphere,
Today I’m writing you because I’ve seen a trend in the AWDIMPAWL Lists, and that trend must not continue. You see, blogosphere, we here at AWDIMPAWL actually compose lists, not just repost old ones. In fact, some of the freshest, most raw, most unadulterated lists were so excellent that they overceded the previous incarnation of AWDIMPAWL. And thus, I present to you, A List, of The 10 Best Songs of All Time
The 10 Best Songs of All Time [With Track Rating in Brackets]
10. Karma Police — Radiohead [2.3]9. Freebird — Radiohead (Lynyrd Skynyrd cover) [2.7]
8. Everything in its Right Place — Radiohead [3.1]
7. House of Cards —Radiohead [3.11]
6. All My Friends — LCD Soundsystem [3.13]
5. 2+2=5 — Radiohead [5]
4. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi — Radiohead [5.001]
3. Parnoid Android — Radiohead [5.3]
2. Bodysnatchers — Radiohead [6.9]
1. Idioteque — Radiohead [∞]
Posted, and List, by Bill
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Notes: 1 / 2 years ago
Flashbacks: Best of AWDIMPAWL
Dearly Beloved,
I am writing you today to give you some sad news. I hate to bring such a glorious time to an end, but this post will (probably) be the last in the Flashbacks: Best of AWDIMPAWL series. However, it’s not for seaworthy, We (I) will be back with some more, fresh lists. This is not the end. The end is just the beginning. And so, without delay, I present to you, the Beginning!
Flashbacks: Best of AWDIMPAWL, Episode Cuart: The Internet
THE TOP DISPLAY OF UNABASHED ARROGANCE ON THE INTERTUBES
1: Conservative Bible ProjectList by Donald
Posted by Bill
