Proof that Foreign McDonalds' are Best...

Pharrell throws down in a Paris MacDo, trying to Charm his way into the lunch menu when they are only serving breakfast....

Don't love that I found this on Perez Hilton, but it is a pretty great, if questionably spontaneous, performance. Maybe this is the new I'm lovin' it? Cos I am.
EDIT: Embedding is questionably working right now... so link to it here.

Lykke Li featuring Drake and Mickey Factz

Although she looks perilously Olsen-like here, for some reason, the ladies of Touch My Clickwheel can't seem to get enough of Lykke Li. In a very Scandi show - even by our standards - featuring Sweden's Shout Out Louds and Norwegian Erlend Oye's The Whitest Boy Alive, she is still a stand out.

When the wrong (read: original) version of "Little Bit" made it onto the playlist, we promised to correct our error.

Find Little Bit by Lykke Li feat. Drake and Mickey Factz here.
Buy Youth Novels here.
And, if you really really must, check out the Swedish national anthem here.

We're Baaaaaaaaack!

TMC friends and lovers, get ready.

After weeks of technical difficulties, school vacations, etc., Touch My Clickwheel will return to the radio full force. Be sure to check out WGTB tonight from 8-10. Expect music from some of our favorite Swedes and French(wo)men, a new mashup, and discussion of the geographic anomaly that is Los Angeles.

As a thank you for your patience in the first part of this semester, check out this radiolicious classic from Van Morrison - one of Lauren and my faves while rocking out in southern Colorado last week.

MP3(senduit): Caravan by Van Morrison. Buy Moondance from Insound here.

Berry Gordy is a Musical Genius: Part 2,057

The much more prolific and in-the-know music bloggers over at am.fm.pm recently posted a pretty great Motown story I hadn't heard before:

The same day that The Four Tops' "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" hit number one in 1965, Columbia Records, the Tops' former label, re-released "Ain't That Love" in an effort to ride Motown's coattails to the top of the charts.

Naturally, Berry Gordy was furious. Reaching out to the songwriting crew Holland-Dozier-Holland, Berry decreed that a new Four Tops single was to be released in one day's time. Their solution: reversing "I Can't Help Myself" with the same chord progressions in tact. By the time evening fell, the Tops had recorded the track, now titled "It's The Same Old Song". By 3pm the following day, 1500 singles were in the hands of DJs across the country.

One of pop music's great dodges.

Find the full post - and a fun Four Tops/Kings of Leon mashup - here.

Some Cool Jazz

In honor of our Wednesday jazz test, I give you one of the more enjoyable pieces we've gone over: Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Blue Rondo A La Turk."

Not much to say, but just give it a listen and then perhaps go discover some more jazz. Stay away from Charlie Parker and bebop, friends. It hurts the ears.

Posting Posters

The Ladies of TMC have found their greatest success right here on the World Wide Web, thanks to all of you fine people. Since we are entering our last semester as college radio djs, however, we thought we'd try a new strategy... promoting ourselves at Georgetown. If you have any great, witty ideas, we'd love to exploit them for our own good. Till then we'll be scraping together some money for an epic Kinko's run.