More Music Videos

We're a little late for the Chistmas season, but following up on the video from Skullcrusher Mountain, I found another good one for Jonathan Coulton's Chiron Beta Prime.

Skullcrusher Mountain

This was pointed to me on youtube, and it definitely matches the lyrics...

It Takes Who

Just in time for series three of Doctor Who airing in the UK, a Madison, Wisconsin based parody rap artist Luke Ski has done a new song in tribute to the modern incarnation of the series called It Takes Who. It is available for free on theFump.com.

One of the nice things over the last year or so is that the new Doctor Who series is generating a lot more interest amongst the general community of American science fiction fans than Doctor Who has had in many years. We're seeing that both in Doctor Who recognition amongst the Hugo community and in songs like this.

Sketch

Back in the old days of the 1980s, along with your fifteenth generation copy of Paradise Towers, you'd also occasionally get a clip from some other British television show that had a Doctor Who reference. Now that the TV series is back in production, we're seeing more of them (though they never totally went away) -- but these clips -- which are unlikely to find any other sort of international distribution -- are now showing up on YouTube.

Like this one from The Friday Night Project: