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Flight Of The Conchords (album)
''Flight of the Conchords'' is the debut full-length studio recorded album by New Zealand folk parody duo Flight of the Conchords, released 21 April 2008 by Sub Pop. Two songs, "Business Time" and "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)", have been released as downloadable content for the video game ''Rock Band''. Track listing Personnel *All songs written and performed by Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie *Sara Johnston - vocals on "Foux du Fafa" *Robin Lynn - keys on "Foux du Fafa," "Think About It" and "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)" *Gus Seyffert - bass on "Think About It" and "Business Time" *Danny Frankel - percussion on "Think About It," "The Prince of Parties" and "Business Time" *Mickey Petralia - drums on "Ladies of the World" and "Leggy Blonde;" percussion on "The Prince of Parties" and "A Kiss is Not a Contract" *Mark Lewis - drums on "Ladies of the World" and "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)" *Kyle O'Callaghan - co-writer and guitar on "The Most Beaut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flight Of The Conchords
Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand musical comedy duo formed in Wellington in 1998. The band consists of multi-instrumentalists Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. Beginning as a popular live comedy act in the early 2000s, the duo's comedy and music became the basis of the self-titled BBC radio series (2005) and, subsequently, the HBO series '' Flight of the Conchords'' (2007–2009). Most recently, they released the HBO comedy special '' Live in London'' in 2018. The special was concurrently released by Sub Pop as their fifth album. The duo's live performances are a combination of skits, audience-interactions and songs while they continue to tour periodically. They were named Best Alternative Comedy Act at the 2005 US Comedy Arts Festival and Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and received a nomination for the Perrier Comedy Award at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They have been twice-nominated for a Grammy Award—winning Best Comedy Album in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mugged (Flight Of The Conchords)
"Mugged" is the third episode of the HBO comedy series ''Flight of the Conchords''. It first aired in the United States on Sunday, July 1, 2007. Plot synopsis Bret and Jemaine are mugged and chased by two thugs. During the pursuit, Jemaine's clothes get caught on a fence. Rather than helping Jemaine, Bret leaves him to fend for himself. Consequently, Jemaine injures his arm and spends two days in jail with John, one of the muggers. While in jail, Jemaine bonds with John, who is also dealing with the pain of having been abandoned, as his partner in crime ran from the scene when the authorities arrived. In his efforts to reconcile with an angry Jemaine, Bret decides to get Jemaine's camera-phone (which is a phone glued to a camera, rather than a mobile phone with camera abilities) back from the muggers. Songs The following songs are featured in this episode. "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros" [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Video
A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. These videos are typically shown on music television and on streaming video sites like YouTube, or more rarely shown theatrically. They can be commercially issued on home video, either as video albums or video singles. The format has been described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip", "film clip", "video clip", or simply "video". While musical short, musical short films were popular as soon as recorded sound was introduced to theatrical film screenings in the 1920s, the music video rose to prominence in the 1980s when American TV channel MTV based its format around the medium. Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flight Of The Conchords (TV Series)
''Flight of the Conchords'' is an American sitcom that was first shown on HBO on June 17, 2007. The show follows the adventures of a struggling two-man band from New Zealand, as its members seek fame and success in New York City. The show stars the duo of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, who also perform as real-life musical comedy act Flight of the Conchords. In the series, they play fictionalised versions of themselves and their band. A second season was announced on August 17, 2007 and shown from January 18, 2009. On December 11, 2009, the duo announced that the series was not going to be returning for a third season. Throughout its run, ''Flight of the Conchords'' received positive critical reviews, with its second season scoring 80/100 on Metacritic. The show received 10 Emmy Award nominations, including "Outstanding Comedy Series" and "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" for Jemaine Clement, both in 2009. Plot The series centers on the day-to-day lives and loves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beautiful Machine
''Beautiful Machine'' is the seventh studio album by Shihad and was released on 21 April 2008 in New Zealand and 17 May 2008 in Australia. The album is much softer than previous Shihad releases, including many electronica elements and '80s backing rhythms - to the point where lead singer Jon Toogood has called some tracks "dance songs". The lead single "One Will Hear the Other" was released early January 2008, where it peaked as the second most played Kiwi song. "Vampires" was the album's second single and surpassed "One Will Hear the Other" in airplay, peaking as the number one most played Kiwi song shortly after its release. ''Beautiful Machine'' entered the New Zealand Music Chart at number 1, going Gold Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a brightness, bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal ... on its first day of r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shihad
Shihad were a Rock music, rock band formed in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1988. The band consisted of founders Tom Larkin (musician), Tom Larkin (drums, backing vocals, samplers), Phil Knight (lead guitar, synthesiser, backing vocals) and Jon Toogood (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), who were joined by Karl Kippenberger (bass guitar, backing vocals) in 1991. The band were known as Pacifier between 2002 and 2004. Six of Shihad's studio albums have peaked at number one–''The General Electric'' (October 1999), ''Pacifier (Shihad album), Pacifier'' (September 2002), ''Beautiful Machine'' (April 2008), ''Ignite (Shihad album), Ignite'' (September 2010), ''FVEY (album), FVEY'' (August 2014) and ''Old Gods'' (October 2021). They share the honour for most number-one records for any New Zealand artist with Hayley Westenra. As of 2014, Shihad had the most Official New Zealand Music Chart, Top 40 New Zealand chart singles for any local artist, with 25; three of these reached the top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard 200
The ''Billboard'' 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Sometimes, a recording act is remembered for its " number ones" that outperformed all other albums during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, acquiring its existing name in March 1992. Its previous names include the ''Billboard'' Top LPs (1961–1972), ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), ''Billboard'' Top 200 Albums (1984–1985), ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums (1985–1991), and ''Billboard'' 200 Top Albums (1991–1992). The chart is based mostly on sales—both at retail and digital – of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, the tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bret McKenzie
Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie (born 29 June 1976) is a New Zealand musician, comedian, music supervisor, and actor. He is best known as one half of musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Jemaine Clement. In the 2000s, the duo's comedy and music became the basis of a Flight of the Conchords (radio series), BBC radio series and then an oft-lauded Flight of the Conchords (TV series), American television series, which aired for two seasons on HBO. Active since 1998, the duo released their most recent comedy special, ''Live in London (Flight of the Conchords album), Live in London'', in 2018. Primarily a musician, McKenzie has worked as a songwriter and music supervisor for film and television since the 2010s. He served as music supervisor for two The Muppets, Muppet films, ''The Muppets (2011 film), The Muppets ''(2011) and ''Muppets Most Wanted ''(2014), the former of which won him an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "Man or Muppet". In the 2000s, McKe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jemaine Clement
Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement (born 10 January 1974) is a New Zealand actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker. He has released several albums with Bret McKenzie as the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, and created a comedy TV series titled ''Flight of the Conchords'' for both the BBC and HBO, for which he received six Primetime Emmy nominations. He has had featured parts in films including '' Eagle vs Shark'' (2007), '' Gentlemen Broncos'' (2009), ''Men in Black 3'' (2012), '' People Places Things'' (2015), '' Humor Me'' (2017), '' The Festival'' (2018), '' Avatar: The Way of Water'' (2022) and '' A Minecraft Movie'' (2025). He has also done voice work for '' Despicable Me'' (2010), '' Rio'' (2011) and '' Rio 2'' (2014), '' Moana'' (2016) and '' The Lego Batman Movie'' (2017). In 2014, he made his directorial debut with '' What We Do in the Shadows'', which he also co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in with Taika Waititi, and later adapted into a show for the FX t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowie (Flight Of The Conchords)
"Bowie" is the sixth episode of the HBO comedy series ''Flight of the Conchords''. The episode first aired in the United States on Sunday, 22 July 2007. After a photo session, Bret develops body image issues and gets some dream advice from his idol, David Bowie. Jemaine plots to cheer him up and Murray tries to get one of the band's tunes used for a musical greeting card. Plot Bret starts suffering body image issues after Murray accuses him of being small during a photo session. He then gets visited in a dream by a Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie (performed by Jemaine, whose resemblance is acknowledged by Bret) telling him not to worry about his body image and advising him to get an eyepatch. Murray announces that he has arranged a meeting with a company who are interested in using one of the band's songs in a musical greeting card. Jemaine visits Mel and asks her to cheer Bret up complimenting him next time she sees him. Later Jemaine tries to cheer Bret up himself by singi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Returns
"Sally Returns" is the fifth episode of the HBO comedy series ''Flight of the Conchords''. It first aired in the United States on Sunday, July 15, 2007. This episode received an Emmy Award nomination in 2008 for "Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series". Plot synopsis After a chance meeting at the laundromat, Jemaine reconnects with Sally. She is interested in resuming their relationship but tells him that they have no future while he remains roommates with Bret. Jemaine immediately announces that he is moving out but refuses to tell a perplexed Bret that it is because of Sally. At a band meeting, Murray announces that he has started a "band investment portfolio". He has been creaming a bit off the band income and has purchased some real estate — three stars for fifty dollars each. Bret is pleased but Jemaine thinks it's a waste of money. Later in the episode they learn that Jemaine's star has gone supernova. Jemaine takes Bret and Murray to see his new apartment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally (Flight Of The Conchords)
"Sally" is the Television pilot, pilot episode of the American television sitcom ''Flight of the Conchords (TV series), Flight of the Conchords''. It first aired on HBO on June 17, 2007. In this episode, New Zealanders Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie of the band Flight of the Conchords have moved to New York City to try to make it in the United States. At a party, Jemaine falls for, and subsequently begins dating, Sally—Bret's former girlfriend. As Jemaine's attentions focus on Sally, a lonely Bret is forced to deal with the advances of Mel (Kristen Schaal), the band's obsessed—and only—fan. Meanwhile, Murray (Rhys Darby), the band's manager, helps the band film their first music video, although they cannot afford decent costumes or proper video equipment. "Sally" received largely positive reviews from critics. According to Nielsen Media Research, "Sally" drew over 1.2 million viewers. Several of the songs from the episode, most notably "Robots", "Not Crying", and "Most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
