April Winchell

30 responses so far ↓

• 1 creeto // Feb 4, 2008 at 9:50 am

  This is better than Pat Boone’s version.

• 2 zudenfabriken // Feb 4, 2008 at 10:15 am

  Well…i thought this was pretty snappy though its a real hack and slash job, fun to look at nonetheless.

• 3 Turntablist // Feb 4, 2008 at 10:27 am

  This was awesome until the vocals kicked in.

• 4 black harry elizabeth // Feb 4, 2008 at 12:44 pm

  How lovely. Really. No shit. Thanks for properly jump-starting my day.

• 5 jim // Feb 4, 2008 at 1:50 pm

  Agreed.

  Especially the guy showing off his tonsils with so much gusto – yow – Smells Like Samurai Spirit.

  The Code of Bushido requires a warrior going into battle to anoint his helmet with fine incense, so that he might honour his opponent with its pleasing aroma when he’s decapitated … but even a whole ten-gallon-hat full of “Hai Karate” won’t atone for THAT crazed yowling.

  But man – those kotos are really whippin’ it out, eh?

• 6 Speedy Cerviche // Feb 4, 2008 at 5:16 pm

  Terrible Music? Excuse me.

  I agree with Turntablist, it was pretty sweet until the gree crub started in with the caterwauling. But man, those far-east instruments really bring a certain something to the Purple.

  If you liked the first minute as much as I did, then I would suggest that you check out the Yoshida Brothers. They’re a couple of samisen wunderkinds who do rockabilly and R’n'B on their ancient Japanese banjos. Fun stuff.

• 7 JohnnyBoy // Feb 4, 2008 at 7:47 pm

  L’Chaim !

• 8 creeto // Feb 4, 2008 at 9:02 pm

  April won’t be truly happy until they play “Smells Like Teen Spirit”.

• 9 pal Jacky // Feb 4, 2008 at 9:11 pm

  It actually sound like many of the compositions of that dreary fraud Phillip Glass, singing included. Again, it is best kept for after a party is over and those few hangers on just won’t leave.

• 10 gary // Feb 4, 2008 at 10:10 pm

  I think it rocked .
  A couple of things:
  1.The John Barry brass and wind arrangement was pretty sweet.
  2.I can just see the middle aged ladies clapping on the one and three.

• 11 bnaivar // Feb 5, 2008 at 4:54 am

  Lock on!

• 12 Doug // Feb 5, 2008 at 10:57 am

  Like most of you, I was digging it until they started singing. They should release it as an instrumental.

• 13 JohnnyBoy // Feb 5, 2008 at 12:43 pm

  Wholeheartedly agree with Doug.

  “You see this knife? I’m gonna teach you to speak English with this fucking knife! ” – Bill the Butcher – Gangs of New York

• 14 Stretch // Feb 5, 2008 at 3:10 pm

  WING!! WING!!!
  where is she when you need her

• 15 Saddle Magic // Feb 5, 2008 at 4:46 pm

  That was truly powerful stuff.

  I just can’t figure what kind of stuff it was.

• 16 pal Jacky // Feb 5, 2008 at 5:01 pm

  It is utterly grotesque. Did you people start banging on pots when you were five and then never matured farther musically? At least listen to some carl orff and pretend.

• 17 JohnnyBoy // Feb 5, 2008 at 5:33 pm

  “It’s the shington ! “

• 18 coasterboy // Feb 5, 2008 at 8:05 pm

  I just loved the retro microphones.
  Fabu!

• 19 pal Jacky // Feb 6, 2008 at 4:18 am

  they are making a big thing about Britney’s new manager grinding up her meds and feeding them to her in paste form. Jeeez, If I had her money I’d hire a middle eastern man to do the same thing for me.

• 20 Stretch // Feb 6, 2008 at 12:56 pm

  …since when is Crystal Meth a med….IM JUST SAYING!!

• 21 JohnnyBoy // Feb 6, 2008 at 2:27 pm

  Isn’t that a powdered drink mix thing?

• 22 pal Jacky // Feb 6, 2008 at 3:07 pm

  crystal meth has been a med ever since Robotussin DM has been a energy drink. (make sure its the DM, now, the CF does nothing) Which brings me to my newest favorite show VH1’s ‘celebrity re-hab’. don’t let the term ‘celebrity’ fool you, it is really more like ‘the surreal life’ with nurses. A bunch of has beens including a Baldwin Brother. It would be perfect if that yapping Dr. Drew would just quit moralizing. Having gone through re hab myself, I’ll tell you. It really is close to the real thing. Except no one has been taken away by african american male psychatric nurses to the ‘penthouse’ ward.

• 23 JohnnyBoy // Feb 6, 2008 at 6:06 pm

  I’m surprised we haven’t seen a realty show about the writers and what they’re doing now that they’re not writing

  Oh, and for any Stern fans out there, I found out that the writer that Sal asked all the wacky questions to was Peter David

• 24 inerror // Feb 6, 2008 at 6:12 pm

  You’ll never see that show. They’ll all be fighting about who should write it. Then every time something is depicted that too much resembles a real life writer, law suits will fly and union stewards will be summoned to uphold obscure confidentiality agreements. I say good riddance to most of those writers. TV is largely a wasteland, especially the writer-intensive sitcoms (bubblegum for the mind.) They need to decide if waiting tables is their career of choice or get some other real job. They want to write – get a blog. Maybe TV programmers will find something more worth watching in the time slot of the mind-rotting serials. Static or a test pattern would be an improvement in most cases.

• 25 pal Jacky // Feb 6, 2008 at 6:13 pm

  all the britney crap going on and Delta burke getting committed coupled with the success of ‘celebrity rehab’ I say its time for ‘Celebrity Psych ward’. They can have kathy griffin drive the clown car like she did for ‘the surreal life’ . and carrot top can be dressed in hospital whites as they pick up celebs like Sean Young and cart them off. Could anne Hecht or margot kidder really be so stable that carrot top with a hype of thorazine and a net won’t send them back over the edge? Furthermore, all it requires is to find some sleaze doctor to sign off on a 5150 and anyone can be committed for 72 hours . It doesn’t even have to be a shrink. How about the Kanya west’s mom’s plastic surgeon? He’s got to have free time on his hands and I’m sure he would be honored to be a part of ground breaking televison.

• 26 inerror // Feb 7, 2008 at 12:26 am

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  Onde é o mister K?
  Où est Monsieur K ?
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  ¿Dónde es el señor K?
  Πού είναι ο κύριος Κ;
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• 27 pal Jacky // Feb 7, 2008 at 2:20 pm

  faye dunaway has shit in the shrubberies again. more shock treatments. jimmy walker is pretending to be a psych nurse. wrestle him to the ground and get him in a straitjacket. Here comes Doctor laura. she thinks she’s in charge. one injection and it is the thorazine shuffle for her. No knives for you george wendt. Food is all cusinarted anyway.The winner of this game show is america.

• 28 pal Jacky // Feb 7, 2008 at 10:53 pm

  todd bridges is in the corner. He’’s a blithering idiot now. Babbling gibberish and having all of america ask “What ‘chu talking about willis?’ Long forgotten Ronee Blakey is our newest cast member. She’s been in and out of institutions since her breakdown on the set of the first ‘nightmare on elm street’. This academy award nominee was discovered by none other than bob dylan and was once married to german director Wim Wenders, now she can do nothing but make paper mache out of toilet tissue and her own spit.

• 29 Mean John Dean // Feb 11, 2008 at 12:53 pm

  And tonight’s secret ingredient is . . . FISH
  Mean John Dean

• 30 Mavis // Feb 11, 2008 at 2:17 pm

  I got though 38 seconds of the video before I had to stop it for humanitarian reasons.