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How long can you hold it?



Opera 101: Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
Opera 101: Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera

How long can you hold it?

No, we’re not talking about how long can you go without peeing (although we have seen that there can be issues, such as the infamous Hold Your Wee for a Wii contest that resulted in a competitor’s death).

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Quiz time: What do Nickleback, Justin Bieber, and Lady Gaga all have in common?



Nickleback: Here and Now
Nickleback: Here and Now

The question was asked: “What band can you really, REALLY not stand?”

You know, those artists who – at the very drop of the first note from any of the songs – just make you want to dive for the clicker/keyboard/volume control and just turn that crap off?

For instance, Web Watch can’t stand listening to the Rolling Stones.  Sure, we appreciate what they’ve done in the history of rock. We get the whole Mick Jagger, Keith Richards thing.  But after a year spent with a roommate who’s ONLY consideration for music was the Stones’ discography, we grew quickly tired of hearing All Stones, All The Time and since then have lost all interest in what the Stone have ever done.

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Video Fun: A Peanuts Musical Montage



Peanuts Holiday Collection Deluxe Edition (It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown / A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving / A Charlie Brown Christmas)
A Peanuts Holiday Collection

It’s that most wonderful time of the year, where CBS (and Fox, it seems this year) roll out their perennial ratings grabbers, the Charlie Brown specials.

But, thanks to some fancy editing, we bet you’ve never seen Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and the gang like this:

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The Most Relaxing Music in the World



Marconi Union: A Lost Connection
Marconi Union: A Lost Connection

Web Watch is often asked about the best ways to relax.

Some people like to go to a spa, others like to go to the beach or pool and just lie there doing nothing.

Some watch TV, others read books.

And then there’s the group that like to relax by listening to music.

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Coversmart: The Album Cover Art Quiz



The Art of the Album Cover
The Art of the Album Cover

How well do you know your album covers?

Maybe not as well as you thought, especially if key components of said cover have been Photoshopped out, just like we’ve seen with the INVISIBLES game a few years ago – you remember that one, where people were digitally erased out of movie scenes and you had to guess what the film was?

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Want a hit song? Then you might as well sing about sex



Let's Talk About Sex
Let’s Talk About Sex

If you want to be a songwriter, they say that you should write about what you know.

And if you want to be a successful songwriter, it ends up that you should WRITE SONGS ABOUT SEX.

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Video Fun: Sing If You Can



Karaoke Revolution
Karaoke Revolution

Karaoke can be a fun.

Karaoke can be even more fun when it’s made into a game.

KARAOKE REVOLUTION was just the start, but there’s no danger in singing with friends in your living room.

Then came DON’T FORGET THE LYRICS and THE SINGING BEE (both regular and country versions), and KARAOKE BATTLE USA.  Sure, those games were fun… but again, where was the danger?  The risk? 

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The Top Ten TV Theme Songs, 1980 through 2011



Favorite TV Theme Songs
Favorite TV Theme Songs

Kids growing up today have absolutely no idea what a true TV theme song is. 

Now, they turn on any of the CSI shows and get a song from The Who.  They turn on Law & Order and get a “bum-bummmmm”.  They turn on Survivor and, depending on the intricacies of the episode plotline may either get the long-form, short-form, or some variation in-between of the show’s intro.

Web Watch was having lunch the other day with a group of people that included a woman who had recently moved to the United States after having grown up in a number of foreign countries.

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Video Fun: Britain’s Got Talent’s BRETT DOMINO TRIO



Keytar
Buy a KEYTAR costume

If you’re one of the millions of people watching AMERICA’S GOT TALENT (and let’s face it, you don’t get to be the number one TV program by not having millions of people watching), then you’ll know that AGT is a little lame compared to it’s older sibling BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT.

BGT has given us Susan Boyle, among other talented artists.  Overall, BGT is just more… fun… than what we get here in the States.

So here’s a little video fun from a former BGT contestant BRETT DOMINO.  Sometimes he performs as a duo, sometimes as a trio.  The important thing is that he owns a keytar and isn’t afraid to use it.

Let’s take a look:

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The secret to having a hit record is all about “Treating the radio guys nice.”



Hey Mr DJ I Thought You Said We Had a Deal by They Might Be Giants
Buy this TMBG album for the song
“HEY MR DJ, I THOUGHT YOU SAID WE HAD A DEAL”

Rock band THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS wrote a song all about what it allegedly took to get a song on the radio, aptly entitled Hey Mr DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal.  In it, the lyrics read, in part:

I struck a bargain with my radio DJ
I said I’d like this song to be number one
He said I’d really really like to help you my son
And then I knew that I would have him to thank
Because he asked me how much I had in the bank

He said the record wouldn’t have to be hot
And no one ever seemed to care if it’s not
It would depend on something else that I’ve got

Hey Mr. DJ, I thought you said we had a deal
I thought you said, You scratch my back and I’ll scratch your record
And I thought you said we had a deal

And while it may appear that TMBG is talking about PAYOLA – paying money to a DJ to get a song on the airwaves — what they could be talking about is just THE BUSINESS OF MAKING MUSIC.

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Video Fun: Rebecca Black FRIDAY Mashups



   Saturday (A Parody of Rebecca Black's FRIDAY)
Saturday (A Parody of Rebecca Black’s “Friday”) – Single

It’s Friday, Friday – Gotta get down it’s Friday!

Here are some FRIDAY mashups you may not have heard yet. And while you’re listening to this songs, why not pop over to BENNI CINKLE’s website “THAT GIRL IN PINK” and say “hi”.  Be nice to her – she’s written a book on cyber-bullying that all parents should know about.

Who’s Benni Cinkle?  She’s the girl dressed in pink in Rebecca Black’s FRIDAY video.  Yeah, the one who’s dancing.  Gotta give her credit for making something out of what was probably just a “hey, this sounds like fun thing to do”.  Good for her.

Crappy Friday

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Flashing your boobs at a concert can get you in trouble



FLASH! Bars, Boobs, and Busted: 5 Years on the Road with Girls Gone Wild
FLASH! Bars, Boobs, and Busted: 5 Years on the Road with Girls Gone Wild

Canadian music fan Andrea Irwin has an incident on her permanent record , just for attending a Kid Rock concert.

It’s not unusual for people to be arrested at a Kid Rock show – it’s mostly out-of-control drunks and the occasional fight in the pit.  Web Watch has seen it first-hand — Rock puts on a great, entertaining and engaging show.  He’s a showman. His fans really get into it.

But to kick Andrea out of the building for merely enjoying herself and getting caught up in the moment?  That’s not right.

So what did Andrea do that was so horribly, horribly wrong that got her in trouble at a Kid Rock show?

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If you can read this, you’re old



Over the Hill Party Songs
Over the Hill Party Songs

Web Watch wants you to feel old.

That’s why we get so much amusement out of this list of 40 THINGS TO MAKE YOU FEEL REALLY, REALLY OLD.

It’s like that line from the TOO MUCH JOY song, TRAIN IN VAIN: “The Playboy centerfold is younger than me.. I don’t think I can ever feel the same again...”  Yeah, this list of things to make you feel old is kinda like that.  Let’s take a look at some of those 40 different items, shall we?

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Overthinking the Death Star, Ke$ha’s Tik Tok



Star Wars Death Star PEZ
Star Wars Death Star PEZ

You know how you and your buddies all sit around on lazy Sunday afternoons just drinking a few beers and watching the game when one of you comes out with some random-ass deep thought about some TV show or movie or something, and it makes complete total sense to everyone else in the room where everyone says, “yeah, why is that, Dude?” and you all nod your heads in agreement but when it comes the next day nobody remembers what the hell you guys were talking about in the first place?

Then OVERTHINKING IT is a website for you.

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The official Royal Wedding album to be released May 10



The Royal Wedding - Official Album
The Royal Wedding – Official Album

If you spent this weekend watching your TiVo’s recordings of The Royal Wedding, then you can rest assured – the entire audio program is being released on CD, vinyl, and as a digital download on May 10th, 2011.  That’s a pretty impressive, fast turnaround time for something that was watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.

Those of you who are into vinyl may want to splurge – that edition will include a special collector’s booklet.

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