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Men Without Hats made it very clear in 1982: you can, in fact, dance if you want to. Heck, you can even leave your non-dancing friends behind. What kind of friends are they anyway if they won’t get groovy with you? However, the Canadian synth-pop rockers never said anything about dancing to a dulcimer. As best as we can tell, they never mentioned anything about playing or even listening to a dulcimer. But we don’t need their permission to enjoy this twangy folk-rock cover of their hit song “The Safety Dance.”
It leaves the real version far behind, but it keeps all of the original song’s fun.
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If you occupy one of several specific corners of modern society, you may regularly find yourself discussing Kurt Cobain. The Nirvana bandleader has breached widespread discussion a good deal lately. You may have caught Kid Cudi’s tribute to the late artist on a recent episode of
Saturday Night Live, for instance; and the news of Dave Grohl’s forthcoming memoir no doubt ignited hope of yet unheard stories about Cobain backstage. Well, if you’re already in a Nirvana-centric mindset, you may enjoy this cheeky cover of their (arguably) most famous song.
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain put a crisp new spin on “Smells Like Teen Spirit” a few years back; the tune marks one of many rock and pop hits that the group has rendered anew with their trademark sound. We caught sight of the cover by way of
100 Toy Race Cars Have a Demolition Derby On a Treadmill
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There are lots of things we’ve all done to pass the time during quarantine. That doesn’t mean we’ll ever do them again when things (hopefully) return to normal. Sure, making sourdough was okay when we had nothing else to do. But it’s a time-consuming pain in the a normally. We’ll stick to buying it from our local bakery in the future. However, there are some hobbies that should stick in a post-COVID world. Like the delightful way one Canadian dad and his kids have managed to inject some excitement into pandemic life. They’ve been hosting their own little demolition derbies using toy cars.
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THE SIMPSONS Reimagined as a British Family
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For more than three decades,
The Simpsons have been the quintessential American family. Loving but slightly dysfunctional, Springfield’s most famous residents have always struggled financially. Homer has supplemented his meager income with a never-ending series of odd jobs. If you tried to move them out of the USA it just wouldn’t be the same show. Especially if you sent them across the pond to the United Kingdom. That’s what a fantastic new animated short proves. It shows why a British version of
But not because all British shows only last 11 episodes total. “The Simptsons” would end quickly for a much darker reason.