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Picking up where we left off last year, let’s continue counting down my top 25 Kooky Christmas songs. “The First Noel,” Crash Test Dummies Those of us who remember when MTV played music videos all the time may remember Crash Test Dummies from their hit, “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm,” notable for the extreme low bass …
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King Missile |MTV Music At a party recently, someone made a joke about a detachable penis. I said there was a song by that name. He didn’t seem to believe me, so I said I would look it up. I immediately forgot all about it, until I saw that Syntax of Things posted the video …
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Sit back, boys and girls, and I’ll tell you about a time when MTV not only played music videos, but also played short independent-film-type clips that were strange and wonderful. Over on Syntax of Things, Jeff has posted a clip from that hallowed time, when there were little videos of short stories by Donald Barthelme …
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