@nicheinterests
Founder of @mistfunk, half of the @accordionnoir tag-team, onetime frontman of the #CreakingPlanks. Formerly UnwashedMass on the birdsite. Interests include vintage computing, #InteractiveFiction, cognitive dissonance, and free-reed aerophones.
For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, here's something a little more romantic than the song I shared for Valentine's day earlier this month - #BrandiCarlile's #TheStory. (sorry about the clams in the solo!)
youtu.be/01kaPmmj8kI
Valentine's Day kind of snuck up on me, but I should be sharing more #StupidAccordionTricks love songs in February, and they start with this improbable 2003 #Goldfrapp banger, #StrictMachine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLc...
I couldn't do Superbowl headliner Bad Bunny justice with my Duolingo Spanish, so today's #StupidAccordionTrick celebrates the openers #GreenDay with 2004's #AmericanIdiot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUkn...
For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick -- RIP to Catherine O'Hara, who famously lip-synched to this calypso standard while possessed in a kitchy retro moment of indulgence in Beetlejuice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG4y...
Either #JesseWelles is really going against the stream with his recent composition #JoinICE or possibly it is not intended in complete sincerity.
youtu.be/DxcwDDPph0c
When things started spiraling the drain I queued up this song in my to-cover list and hoped I wouldn't have cause to record it, but here we are today with #NeilYoung's 1970 Kent State shooting protest song #Ohio.
youtu.be/zCrkyAoKlYI
And one final #StupidAccordionTrick for 2025, to ring out the stupid old year and ring in the stupid new year, here's my very unlikely squeezy take on #KoolAndTheGang's 1980 occasion-agnostic groove #Celebration. Come on!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4IB...
The last Dionne sister died on Christmas Eve, so I pay tribute to those five Canadian heroes by recording this song from 90 years ago in which they are name-checked, #ILikeBananas (Because They Have No Bones).
youtu.be/l3ui_BrGPOs
And in case you find you somehow can't get enough of this stuff, I have a playlist of all the wintery songs I've made videos of over the years over at www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOyD...
With 13 hours left on the clock before the winter solstice, I finally record a winter song for 2025 with The #LegendaryPinkDots' bizarre and sarcastic 1984 #GovernmentHealthWarning at www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvRV...
It's been maybe a month since I got any new #StupidAccordionTricks recordings together -- but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to celebrate #DickVanDyke's 100th birthday with #FidelityFiduciaryBank from 1964's #MaryPoppins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsgh...
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I didn't cover Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck", but Bobby Sands' song "Back Home In Derry" which shares its melody:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlI...
As part of my #RemembranceDay duties, I have diligently recorded an antiwar song for last week's #StupidAccordionTrick: #ElvisCostello's 1984 #Shipbuilding, a look at the Falklands War.
youtu.be/ZWxtEPTYPNs
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Other than playing #StupidAccordionTricks in my basement I'm practically retired as a musician. But: I have a gig coming up to tell you about, a benefit for @accordionnoir.bsky.social 's parent radio station #CFRO taking place the night of Wed Nov 19 at the WISE Lounge, beneath the WISE Hall.
Good morning 😊
Yes, Sir Clive hated that the Spectrum was popular because of the games and a C5 could never go this fast, but I had a lot of fun making this tribute to Sir Clive Sinclair ZX Spectrum 👍
Animation made in Blender, sountrack made in Studio one
#zxspectrum #retrogaming #8bitgaming
To preserve the great balance of things, after I record a seasonally-appropriate experimental electronic anthem by Aphex Twin, I have to compensate for it by sharing a tenuously relevant Backstreet Boys hit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Jh...
There, there it is, my sweet spot, right there! When you put it that way, I can't _not_ cover #ComeToDaddy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_eW...
While thinking of dark, disturbing songs for the Halloween season, this abrasive #AphexTwin classic floats to the top of any such list. But surely it would be sheer folly to attempt to reproduce it on an acoustic instrument, especially one as inherently whimsical as the piano #accordion?
Part scary, part silly, all #StupidAccordionTricks: here's my take on the ghostly 1934 music-hall standard #WithHerHeadTuckedUnderneathHerArm
youtu.be/ydLoOdtSBMw
Donkey Kong has fallen from the top of a blue girder structure onto his head. Mario and Pauline celebrate. Pink girders in the middle spell "NO KONGS". The image commemorates the "No Kings" protests on 10/18/2025.
Time to kick October into high gear with some creepy tunes! This is the late #TomLehrer's 1956 #TheIrishBallad, a gory tale of woe!
youtu.be/lHSIHOF9t_0
The Chimney Swallows are playing in Chilliwack tonight, almost certainly too late for me to spur any of you on to go catch them, but ... nevertheless, I have recorded their call-and-response anthem "John Solomon" in promotion of their rare appearance: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Fc...
I was stuck circling an unenviable setlist of bleak antifascist dirges, but thankfully Jane Goodall died so I can break free from my holding pattern and send her off with King Louis' song from #theJungleBook: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT0p...
I got a bigger response from my latest shrewd #StupidAccordionTricks selection than I expected & was a bit nervous about failing to read the historical moment & following it up with a dud. Sadly, this one is proving evergreen: the Italian partisan ballad #BellaCiao.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glm1...
I'm a little young to have fond memories of Robert Redford's greatest movies, but nevertheless I was struck by Disney's acumen in tapping him for oldschool "classic suspense movie" vibes in Winter Soldier.
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
Becaus this isn't my first rodeo, I already knew that if I posted it to Tiktok I'd have to call it "the day the national socialist unalived"
For no particular reason, here's my #StupidAccordionTricks cover of #Chumbawamba's 1994 antifa anthem #TheDayTheNaziDied
youtu.be/s21IF7OWo8E
RIP #MarkVolman! I never had much occasion to tap this classic tune prior, but now for this week my #StupidAccordionTrick will be sending him off with #TheTurtles' 1967 #HappyTogether
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iEd...
That isn't entirely correct: we also had the 1979 edited re-release (Winds of Change) of Sanrio's 1978 Greek mythology showcase Metamorphoses. But this was definitely easier to draw!
