MORE SENSELESS ACTS OF BLOGGERY

Or at least as long as it takes you to download it and queue it up on yr media device. At which point you will be sampling tracks from our official Best Music of 2011 list.



( Track listing enclosed! )

You can download the podcast here. [100MB]

And if you prefer the individual tracks for yr MP3 listening device, we have made them available here. [89MB]

All links good for as long as Mediafire says they are. Or until the FBI does to them what they did to MegaUpload.

PRODUCTION NOTE: Image courtesy of VectorJungle.com

DISCLAIMER: Team Def podcasts are illegal under every law the RIAA can think of. Downloading entails a risk of disproportionate fines, jail time, confiscation of all electronic appliances in yr home (whether they can connect to the Internet or not) and forfeiture of Internet access and driving privileges for the rest of yr life. All penalties will apply to you, yr family, neighbors, pets, anyone on yr friends list on any social networking site, and the salesperson(s) who sold you yr computer. You will pay, or you will burn. Because no one steals from the RIAA and gets away with it. No one.

Bombs away,

This is dF

Well, maybe not But it will give you a taste of Team Def’s favorite albums of 2010 (as seen here).



( Here’s what you get! )

You can download it here. [70.5MB]

And if you prefer the individual tracks for yr MP3 listening device, we have made them available here. [99.53MB]

All links good for as long as Mediafire says they are.

PRODUCTION NOTE: Opening speech and cover image from the film Mister Freedom.

DISCLAIMER: Team Def podcasts are illegal under every law the RIAA can think of. Downloading entails a risk of disproportionate fines, jail time and forfeiture of Internet access and driving privileges for the rest of yr life. All penalties will apply to you, yr family, neighbors, yr pets, anyone on yr friends list on any social networking site, and the salesperson(s) who sold you yr computer. You will pay, or you will burn. Because no one steals from the RIAA and gets away with it. No one.

Look into my eyes,

This is dF

Because there are no losers in the TFI Music Vault – whichis to say, just because an album didn’t make the Top 20 list doesn’t mean there’s nothing worth listening to on them – Team Def is proud to present at no additional cost a bonus podcast of music we enjoyed in 2009.

Terribly Frog Productions presents:



( Track listing and recommended playing order enclosed )

For a folder of individual DRM-free MP3 files + artwork [MB], click here.

For an exclusive Def Mix MP3 + artwork [ MB], click here.

Offer expires in seven days (or whenever Mediafire deletes them). Feel free to circulate among friends, relatives, work colleagues, teammates, neighbors, pharmacists, personal trainers and schoolchildren.

The usual caveats and govt warnings apply.

CREDITS

Song links by Johnny Cash (from this album)

Artwork stolen from Gil Elvgren

Man on fire,

This is dF

It’s the Mid-Autumn Festival today, a.k.a. the Moon Festival. We’re not doing anything special for it, as the bridal unit isn’t well.

So here’s what I’ll be listening to.

I'LL SHOOT THE MOON

DISCLAIMER: All songs may be limited to 30-second clips. They are for me. I’m not sure if it’s because of my geography (i.e. the reason I can’t watch Hulu or numerous YouTube music videos). YOU, on the other hand, may be able to listen to the whole thing.

If so, enjoy.

If not, blame the lousy stinking greedy record companies. That’s what dEFROG does.

Moonbeam monkey,

This is dF

The good news: many of you have a three-day weekend coming up.

The other news: it kicks off with Valentine’s Day. Whether that’s good or bad depends on whether you (1) recognize it as a legitimate holiday, and (2) have Someone Special to share it with.

If you fit (1) and (2) and love everything VD stands for, good for you. But please look away now.

Because for everyone else, it’s time for Team Def to bring balance to the Force with Beautiful Valentines For Ugly People, our annual critique of Valentine’s Day – in the form of an illegal music podcast full of songs that aren’t written by Dianne Warren. Because it’s tradition. And because it’s not fair to let bedsitter23  do all the work.

PRODUCTION NOTE: You don’t have to hate Valentine’s Day to enjoy this comp. But you do need a sense of humor. I genuinely dislike VD personally, for reasons I have already posted, but I try to keep these things entertaining too. I mean, it’s not like I’m holding teddy bears hostage or anything to get my point across.



Download now and you’ll get 19 fabulous songs full of heartbreak, adultery, treachery, public humiliation, divorce, confirmed bachelors, crimes of passion, rented affection and guilt-ridden cowboys! With bonus Droopy Dog and information on how Christianity makes girl-watching more meaningful!

( Here's what you get! )

As usual, you have two download options available:

For a folder of individual DRM-free MP3 files + artwork [78.31MB], click here

For an exclusive Def Mix MP3 + artwork [59.57 MB], click here

Offer expires in seven days (or whenever Mediafire deletes them). Feel free to circulate among girlfriends, boyfriends, spouses, mistresses, paramours, lovers, mailmen, secretaries, neighbors, marriage counsellors, divorce lawyers, disgraced Congressmen, defrocked priests, sex robots and whoever else you deem necessary.

FBI WARNING: If you download these files, the music industry will die and millions of people will be out of work. And it will be yr fault. Just you think about that. We’ll be by for urine samples in about an hour.

DEDICATION: For Lux Interior.

I can make love disappear,

This is dF

Just like it says.



Apropos of nothing, except that I’m really into The Trucks at the moment, and one thing led to another and ...

Well.

Just press play,

This is dF

Whereas:

1. There’s an apocalypse due, like, any minute now, and

2. I owe puffdoggydaddy a homework assignment that involves Ronnie James Dio, and

3. Dio is the kind of person you'd want singing in the Apocalypse

It is resolved that I’d better get this posted before it’s too late.


BONUS TRACK: Ronnie James Dio’s Oscar-winning cameo in Tenacious D: The Pick Of Destiny.


METHODOLOGY: Really, whatever Imeem had available, otherwise you’d have some more Sabbath and maybe a Rainbow track (though honestly, I was never big on Rainbow, regardless of who the singer was at the time).

Falling off the edge of the world,

This is dF

It’s been pouring rain the last few days. Thunder serenaded me all night along and this morning alone we had a Black Storm Warning (i.e. it’s raining so hard the govt advises you to stay inside) for three hours. Results: the North Lantau Highway was washed out with mud, HK Island was flooded from Sheung Wan all the way up to Hennessy Road, and two people are dead after a mudslide buried them in their shop off Castle Peak Road.

And it’s still coming down, though not as hard as this morning.

Anyway, of course all this got me to thinking about how many songs have been written about rain. And I’ve been looking for an excuse to try out my Imeem account, so let’s give this a shot.



PRODUCTION NOTE 01: Track 5 is "April Snow" by Faye Wong, which may or may not display right in yr browser because of the Chinese characters. And yes, I know it says "Snow" and not "Rain", but trust me, this is a rain song.

PRODUCTION NOTE 02: It's likely the songs may be limited to 30-second samples. Which sucks, I know. Imeem claims you get the full version once you finish the list but I have my doubts. Let's find out.

PRODUCTION NOTE 3: In trying to put this thing together, I’ve worked out that Imeem, Seeqpod and MixTape are not designed for people with eclectic tastes. If you listen to nothing but Top 40, urban or classic rock, you’ll probably find everything you need. But if you need something like, say, The Wipers’ “Voices In The Rain” or Johnnie Ray’s “Just Walkin’ In The Rain” or something, forget it, Jim. And while some sites have some of those songs, none of them have the full list of songs I want.

True, I could upload them myself. But if I wanted to take it that far, I could just make my own damn mix on my MacBook and upload that to MediaFire or something. Which I tried, but too many of the songs I wanted to use won’t import into my music editor. Because God hates me, I think.

And so much for that idea.

Anyway, if yr wondering why some obvious choices aren’t there, that may be why. The other reason is that I tried to avoid the obvious choices whenever possible.

Blame it on the rain,

This is dF

EDITED TO ADD (a few minutes later): Looks like you just get the samples after all. Which makes Imeem absolutely fucking useless. Yes. Although maybe it'll play the full tracks in yr area, if it thinks yr IP address is within the permissible play zone. In which case Imeem is STILL fucking useless. Fuck you, Imeem. I'm canceling my account.

About a century ago, I hosted a radio show called “Beautiful Music For Ugly People”, which was basically two hours of me playing whatever I figured I could get away with playing on a college radio station in a conservative military town. One annual feature of the show was, of course, the special Valentines Day edition, in which I would play songs that weren’t exactly in the spirit of the holiday. Songs like “Love Hurts”, “Love Kills”, “Love Is Pain”, and so on.

Because Jesus, SOMEBODY had to.

Anyway, after enjoying bedsitter23’s excellent Plastique Valentine series last year (and this year), which expresses the same sentiment, I decided this year to share my hate with you all in the form of a totally illegal podcast/comp thing.

And here it is.



Like before, Team Def gives you a choice of download options.

For the continuous mix (personally remixed by Def Fr0g himself), go here [70.59MB].

For the file of individual tracks, go here [89.33MB].


Enjoy. Or not.

The smell of burning leather,

This is dF