Every Saturday in January, the National Geographic Channel is airing a new episode of Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr. You may remember Barr from two years ago when he was famously bitten by a twelve foot long python. Well Barr has had time to recover an in the last episode in the series on January 24, he returns to that same cave again looking for rumored fifty foot pythons.
But before then, tonight Barr is on a journey to find the elusive Sixgill Shark (seen at right, so Spoiler Alert!: he finds them) which scientists have very little knowledge of the Jurassic sharks. Barr sets out to change that traveling to Central America, Puget Sound, Hawaii and 1,700 feet below the surface of the ocean (in the submarine seen at left). To put that in perspective, more people have seen the summit of Mt. Everest that been that far under the ocean.
Then next Saturday, Barr travels to South Africa to put satellite transmitters on crocodiles to see how they migrate after a dam threatens their current habitat and January will be on the hunt for the world’s largest salamanders which can grow up to five feet and eighty pound. I may go into further details about future shows later but until then, head over to the Dangerous Encounters website for these goodies:
"How to be like a gecko" Game: Take the Dangerous Encounters challenge and prove your gecko skills such as eye licking and wall climbing. How gecko are you?
Dangerous Encounters mobile trivia: Get your danger fix with weekly mobile trivia nd learn surprising facts about some of the world's most most menacing – and even some of the world's oddest – creatures!
Dangerous Encounters podcasts: Watch previews of Dangerous Encounters as Dr. Brady Barr travels around the globe on a series of death-defying, hair-raising expeditions to study reptiles and other creatures in their native habitats.
Much apologies for being late on this but it does come before the end of the year. And even a day late, this may not be the definitive list that makes up the playlist on my iPod. To pull back the curtain of the 9th Green, typically I have two or three (or ten) drafts of the best songs of the tear before I am content with the results. I doubt I will ever change this post but maybe sometime in the New Year I will make a playlist somewhere for you to listen the songs and post that here. Until then feel free to dissect this list (and if you want to how all 189 potential songs actually ranked, shout me a holla and I will e - mail you my spreadsheet) and hope to see you all back at the 9th Green in 2009 when I have some major projects planned throughout next year.
1. I’m Yours - Jason Mraz
2. Paper Planes - M.I.A.
3. Shine - Anna Nalick
4. Who’s Gonna Save My Soul - Gnarls Barkley
5. Cath... - Death Cab For Cutie
6. Where I Stood - Missy Higgins
7. Lost! - Coldplay
8. Come on Get Higher - Matt Nathanson
9. Hope - Jack Johnson
10. Strange Times - The Black Keys
11. Love Story - Taylor Swift
12. Going On - Gnarls Barkley
13. Free Fallin’ - John Mayer
14. Fix It - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
15. Love is Noise - The Verve
16. Viva la Vida - Coldplay
17. More Time - Needtobreathe
18. Amen - Kid Rock
19. Always a Friend - Alejandro Escovedo
20. Bottle it Up - Sara Bareilles
21. I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab for Cutie
22. Warwick Avenue - Duffy
23. Picture to Burn - Taylor Swift
24. The Resolution - Jack's Mannequin
25. Nothing Ever Hurt Like You - James Morrison
26. Boys With Girlfriends - Meiko
27. Birthday Girl - The Roots and Patrick Stump
28. Listen - Amos Lee
29. Good Morning - Kanye West
30. Just a Dream - Carrie Underwood
31. I Got Mine - The Black Keys
32. Just Stand Up! - Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Natasha Bedingfield, Miley Cyrus, Leona Lewis, Carrie Underwood, Keyshia Cole, LeAnn Rimes, Ashanti, Ciara & Mariah Carey
33. Girls in Their Summer Clothes - Bruce Springsteen
34. This Is the Life - Amy MacDonald
35. Trashcan - Delta Spirit
36. Rock & Roll - Eric Hutchinson
37. If I Had Eyes - Jack Johnson
38. You Are the Best Thing - Ray LaMontagne
39. Your Song - Kate Walsh
40. Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash
41. You Found Me - The Fray
42. Stepping Stone - Duffy
43. 75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction) - The Roots
44. How I Could Just Kill a Man - Charlotte Sometimes
45. Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution - The Black Crowes
46. Lovebug - Jonas Brothers
47. Move - Q-Tip
48. Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
49. Get Busy - The Roots, Dice Raw, Peedi Peedi, and DJ Jazzy Jeff
50. Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
51. Mercy - Duffy
52. Praying for Time - Carrie Underwood
53. Heartless - Kanye West
54. Us Placers - CRS
55. The Show - Lenka
56. The Truth - Jake One featuring Freeway & Brother Ali
57. What's Been Going On - Amos Lee
58. Dream Catch Me - Newton Faulkner
59. Change - Taylor Swift
60. Gettin’ Up - Q-Tip
61. Right as Rain - Adele
62. The Weight of Her - Butch Walker
63. The World Should Revolve Around Me - Little Jackie
64. Whatever You Like - “Weird Al” Yankovic
65. Fast Car - Wyclef Jean featuring Paul Simon
66. Foundations - Kate Nash
67. Everyone Nose (All the Girls Standing in the Line for the Bathroom) - N.E.R.D.
68. Slow Dance - John Legend
69. Madly - Tristan Prettyman
70. A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
71. Champion - Kanye West
72. Violet Hill - Coldplay
73. You Don't Know Me - Ben Folds featuring Regina Spektor
74. Crack the Shutters - Snow Patrol
75. If I Never See Your Face Again - Maroon 5 featuring Rihanna
76. Love That Girl - Raphael Saadiq
77. Love Lockdown - Kanye West
78. Run (I’m a Natural Disaster) - Gnarls Barkley
79. You Cheated Me - Martha Wainwright
80. Hero - Nas featuring Keri Hilson
81. Dance With Me - Old 97’s
82. Sweet And Low - Augustana
83. The Little Things - Colbie Caillat
84. The Fear - Lily Allen
85. Car Crash - Matt Nathanson
86. Chasing Pavements - Adele
87. Mr Rock & Roll - Amy MacDonald
88. New Soul - Yael Naïm
89. Pork And Beans - Weezer
90. My Medicine - Snoop Dogg
91. Nike Boots - Wale
92. Teenage Love Affair - Alicia Keys
93. Catch My Disease - Ben Lee
94. Broken - Tift Merritt
95. Old Enough - The Raconteurs featuring Ricky Skaggs & Ashley Monroe
96. Gives You Hell - The All-American Rejects
97. Ayyomyman - Tre Hardson featuring Fatlip
98. Beat It - Fall Out Boy featuring John Mayer
99. Seven Days of Lonely - I Nine
100. Stuck to You - Nikka Costa
There didn’t seem to be a bunch of great mash-ups this year, but still plenty to create a list so here are the best that I have found the last twelve months even if some were actually created before 2008. Here is where I usually give my disclaimer of actually ever having or even hearing these songs for legal reasons, but since the RIAA recently admitted lawsuits weren’t the best course of action when it came to illegal downloading and gave up the practice I guess I know longer have to do that. Granted since Blogger doesn’t have a music upload service you will still have to scour Google if you are interested downloading these songs. Of course there are some links on my sidebar to get you started on your search. If you want the unaltered album version of the songs, on the second line I will list the main songs that make up the mash-up (note some have more songs than I’ve listed):
1. M.I.A. Wanted Dead or Alive - DJ Schmolli
M.I.A. (Paper Planes) vs. Bon Jovi (Wanted Dead or Alive)
2. 50 Ways to Kill Your Lover - DJ Topcat
Slick Rick (Women Lose Weight) vs. Paul Simon (50 Ways to Leave Your Lover)
3. No Taylor, No Scar - Norwegian Recycling
The Fugees No Woman, No Cry vs. Jack JohnsonTaylor vs. Missy Higgins (Scar)
4. EasyWall - DJ Lobsterdust
The Commodores (Easy) vs. Oasis (Wonderwall)
5. Get that Rocky Mountain High - DJ Erb
Method Man & Redman (How High) vs. John Denver (Rocky Mountain High)
6. No One to Squeeze - DJ FOX
Alicia Keys (No One) vs. Red Hot Chili Peppers (Soul to Squeeze)
7. Rolling Confusion - Go Home Productions
The Temptations (Ball of Confusion) vs. Rolling Stones (multiple songs)
8. More than on Point - DJ Topcat
House of Pain (On Point) vs. Boston (More than a Feeling)
9. Can’t Tell My Wonderwall Nothing - Clinton Sparks
Kanye West (Can't Tell Me Nothing) vs. Oasis (Wonderwall)
10. If I Were a Free Fallin' Boy - DJ Earworm
Beyoncé (If I Were a Boy) vs. Tom Petty (Free Fallin')
11. Paper Rump - DJ Tripp
Wreckx-n-Effect (Rump Shaker) vs. M.I.A. (Paper Planes)
12. Jude’ll Fix It - Phil RetroSpector
The Beatles (multiple songs) vs. Coldplay (Fix You)
13. Brick My (Explative Deleted) - DJ Magnet
Mickey Avalon My (Explative Deleted)) vs. the Commodores (Brick House)
14. Wicked Wedding - DJ Schmolli
Billy Idol (White Wedding) vs. Chris Isaak (Wicked Game)
15. Duffy Train Running - DJ Y alias JY
Duffy (Mercy) vs. the Doobie Brothers (Long Train Runnin')
16. Jenny’s Superstitious - DJ Lobsterdust
Stevie Wonder (Superstition) vs. The Killers (Jenny Was a Friend of Mine)
17. Hate It Ain’t So - DJ Koochie
(50 Cent and the Game (Hate It or Love It) vs. Weezer (Say it Ain't So)
18. The Pink Jack - Wax Audio
AC/DC (The Jack) vs. David Lynch (The Pink Room)
19. Don’t Let it Be in Anger - DJ Y alias JY
Oasis (Don't look Back in Anger) vs. the Beatles (Let it Be)
20. Funny Bizniz - The Abrahammer
M.I.A. (Paper Planes) vs. Beastie Boys (Body Movin') vs. Nas (I Can)
21. Ghost Busta Rhymes - Ludachrist
Busta Rhymes (Dangerous) vs. Ray Parker Jr. (Ghostbusters)
22. Maggie’s 64 - locK3Down
Mike Jones (My 64) vs. Rage Against the Machine (Maggie's Farm)
23. Sad but Superstitious - Wax Audio
Stevie Wonder (Superstition) vs. Metallica (Sad but True)
24. Reckoner Lockdown - DJ Earworm
Kanye West (Love Lockdown) vs. Radiohead (Reckoner)
25. Looking Back Is a Losing Game - Phil Retrospector
Oasis (Don't look Back in Anger) vs. Amy Winehouse (Love Is a Losing Game)
Every Saturday in January, the National Geographic Channel is airing a new episode of Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr. You may remember Barr from two years ago when he was famously bitten by a twelve foot long python. Well Barr has had time to recover an in the last episode in the series on January 24, he returns to that same cave again looking for rumored fifty foot pythons.
Then next Saturday, Barr travels to South Africa to put satellite transmitters on crocodiles to see how they migrate after a dam threatens their current habitat and January will be on the hunt for the world’s largest salamanders which can grow up to five feet and eighty pound. I may go into further details about future shows later but until then, head over to the Dangerous Encounters website for these goodies:
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