Whaaaaat, weezer have a new single out? It’s good? And the video has a bunch of web-celebs in it?

Well now that’s just good news.

Weezer - Pork & Beans

I literally cannot get this song out of my head - the same thing is happening to Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles at the moment and so he feeds my condition by playing it regularly - so I thought I’d share. Anyone else like it? It’s called “That’s Not My Name” and it’s by The Ting Tings.

I really love songs that have a lot going on towards the end - especially if there are contrasting vocal lines playing over each other. I feel like it gets me every time, always a winner - yet the only other example I can think of while here at work away from my ipod is Taking Back Sunday’s “Cute without the e (cut from the team)” which is the only one of their tracks I like, but I really like it. Thursday do it a fair bit too on Full Collapse, I really like that album too.

But enough chatter, here’s the video:

Ah, Bohemian Rhapsody. One of those songs that you probably don’t really like and yet you kinda do all at the same time. If you weren’t as blessed by lady luck as I was as a child, chances are your first encounter with this song wasn’t on an audio cassette mistakenly purchased at a car boot sale - “Queen - Live at Wembley” - and you probably didn’t spend many a weekend stood upon a raised bed lip syncing to words you didn’t actually know while your friend chose to batter away at Scatch pads with chopsticks immitating…err…Queen’s drummer (I’m afraid I don’t know his name. I could look it up and claim to know, but I’d be cheating you and I’d be cheating myself. Actually, Wikipedia to the rescue - it’s Roger Taylor.)

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Cinema-goers in the UK may have noticed a new Pizza Hut advert which ends “Family Fun since 1958″. It’s showing before every U-rated film currently, so I’ve seen it before Bee Movie and Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (both of which I fully recommend).

At each viewing I had the catchy soundtrack in my head for some time after and really liked the song, so I thought I’d have a look around the web to see if I could find out what it was. Thankfully, this post at UTalkMarketing gave the full lowdown and led me to finding the track (”Escribeme Pronto” by Instituto Mexicano Del Sonido) at the artist’s Myspace page.

If you like the track, you can buy the album from amazon.

For non-spanish speakers (of which I am one), Instituto Mexicano Del Sonido translates as “Mexican Institute of Sound”.

I used to love adverts when I was a kid. Apparently I could recite them back at the drop of a hat, which must have been wonderful for those around me. Lately, I’ve not felt much love for the commercial interruptions to my viewing - with the exception of the latest Vodafone advert, “Make work, work around you”. Quite apart from the concept being pretty cool, I love the song in the advert - which for anyone searching to find it, is called “The End” and is sung by Nancy Sinatra.

Take a look at the advert on YouTube.