1. Where else were the Upper Tectonic plates going to meet up the moon? Of course they fit together.

2. Where the fuck did all that water come from? And this doesn't explain the fact that it is salty with only a small percentage being of the not salty variety.

3. The earth has tons of space dust land on it every year. Something like 15 tons that's not nearly enough to do any real "expansion" of any significance for something the size of a planet.

4. The earth was covered in water for a great deal of time and it was the first single cell organisms that gave us the oxygen concentration we have now. But they live in salt water so no.

5. Gravity

This fails for more reasons than this. These are just the reasons i could think of right now.

At a concert in London supporting their previous CD, Home, the lead singer said "We're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas" at a concert in London.

This being around the height of Bush's march to war, the right wing in America went nuts, crushing their CDs at rallies, demanding their songs be pulled from radio, and phoning in death threats to the girls in the band.

The album that won 5 Grammys last night, Taking the Long Way, was largely in response to the contoversy, and the video above was the first single and addressed it most directly.

A documentary about the whole affair, Shut Up and Sing, will be out on DVD in a couple weeks.

Last night's Grammy performance of the above song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlqIYSFOSFY

Someone please tell me why this pumping ass version never made it to the album? The album version is shit compared to this! This is my favourite Leftfield song

Leftfield were a duo of electronica artists and record producers, Paul Daley (formerly of A Man Called Adam and the Brand New Heavies) and Neil Barnes, formed in 1989 in London, England. The name Leftfield was originally used simply by Neil Barnes for the first single Not Forgotten but after this Paul Daley was involved firstly in remixing songs and then in the creation of following music[1]. The pair were pioneers in the fields of intelligent dance music and progressive house, being the first to fuse house music with dub and reggae [Release the Pressure (1995)]. They furthermore were among the first electronic musicians to incorporate live guest vocalists, along with The Chemical Brothers and Underworld. Ultimately the duo have been influential on the electronic genre as a whole, with The Crystal Method's Scott Kirkland referring to them in 2005 as "The best Electronic band period."

Their downtempo music style has inspired a genre which has been recognised as simply leftfield, with several charts appearing in magazines such as DJ magazine and Mixmag. The genre is also known as "Chillout".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leftfield

Big up oldschool Canadian massive!

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_Rhyme

"Organized Rhyme was a short-lived Canadian hip-hop group based out of Ottawa renowned for its one commercial hit, "Check the O.R.", and because of the fame later achieved by one of its members, comedian Tom Green.

Organized Rhyme's musical formula consisted of three things: catchy beats, simplistic choruses and clever rhymes. That formula paid off: their first single, "Check the O.R.", was a hit in Canada and was nominated for a Juno Award in 1993 for Best Rap Recording, but lost to "Keep It Slammin'" by Devon.

The group broke up a short time later. Some blame the record label for wanting them to drop the comedic element of the group, but according to members of the group itself, they just couldn't stand each other anymore.[citation needed]

A dance remix of "Check the O.R." was released in 2000. The original music video for "Check the O.R." was included with Green's 2005 rap album, Prepare for Impact."

You like it so far?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane_%28Bring_It%29

"Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)" is the first single from Cobra Starship, the alter ego of Midtown's Gabe Saporta. The song also features William Beckett of The Academy Is..., Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes, and Maja Ivarsson of The Sounds. The song gets its title from the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane, and was featured on the film's soundtrack and during the end credits of the film. The music video premiered in the summer of 2006, aptly in time for the premiere of the movie. The video was a quick hit on both the internet and mainstream media, and is featured in the television commercials promoting the film.

The video shows Cobra Starship (Gabe Saporta) walking through Honolulu International Airport, acting as if they were villains sneaking snakes on board in their suitcase and guitar case. Peter Wentz of Fall Out Boy makes a cameo appearance at the 1 minute and 45 seconds mark, talking on the phone nervously as the band members pass ominously. Samuel L. Jackson also makes a cameo appearance at the 2 minutes 16 seconds mark, lowering his shades and eyeing the band members as they pass, then returning to his 100 Bullets comic. He is also seen wearing the unofficial Snakes on a Plane T-shirt designed by webcomic artist Jeffrey Rowland (with snakes flying an airplane) here. The video ends with a sign for South Pacific Airlines Flight 121 as the band boards the plane, the same flight as in the film.

Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See is the first single by Busta Rhymes from his second album When Disaster Strikes. It is one of the album's party songs but also carries Busta's clever rhymes and speedy delivery. The song also shout-outs The Notorious B.I.G. ("Then I blitz and reminisce on my nigga Notorious"). This song is one of the many that would showcase the speedy delivery of the eccentric rapper.

The video, directed by Hype Williams, features Busta waking up, getting dressed and brushing his teeth (along with his maids). At the chorus is a well choreographed dance routine which is followed by Busta running with an elephant in glowing tribal African make-up and outfit. It is all a re-creation of the opening of the 1988 Eddie Murphy film Coming to America

- More @ Wikipedia

Don't know if anyone else on The Sift will care, but LC is my all-time favorite rock band.

This was the first single off their second album; I'm proud to say that the band is now back together, recording and touring, and are rocking harder than ever.

A side note: the lead singer of King's X is currently standing in for Corey Glover (the lead singer) on tour, because he is playing Judas in the current tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, and is getting great reviews.

Glover was an actor (with parts in commercials and Oliver Stone's Platoon) before lead guitarist Vernon Reid heard him singing "Happy Birthday" to a mutual friend at a party, and rock history was made.

"Go on then, go on report me,
I'm English, try and deport me!"

I have teh biggest crush on Lady Sovereign. I don't think she's a chavette, especially since she's the one who wrote that "Sad Arse Strippa" parody of Jentina's "Bad Ass Strippa". The negative stigmata really affected her career developing in the UK, however she's now Def Jam's first British MC and this was the first single out in the US.

Absolutely love Muse - just saw them play this song live last week.

How can you not love a band with the balls to put together a video this awesome and to have a song with a nice fat 2 minute instrumental intro?

Ninjas, cowboys, holograms, hot chicks, laser pistols. Wild.

OMG - "Hi Fidelity Mono"

Absolutely killer.

Added the vid for the first single, but I think this is so much better.
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=7294

Gnarls Barkley is a musical collaboration between Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo. Their first album, St. Elsewhere, was released by Warner Music on April 24, 2006 in the UK and is set to be released May 9 in the US by Atlantic/Downtown Records.

"Crazy", their first single, has been played on BBC Radio 1 by Trevor Nelson, and Zane Lowe, since late 2005. It was made Record of the Week by Jo Whiley and Scott Mills and also Weekend Anthem by both Sara Cox and Spoony. The song gained some of its popularity due to the use of it on primetime Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe's television advert, and it was also made Record of the Week by Ken Bruce of BBC Radio 2. It was released as a single on April 3, 2006, preceded by its release as digital download and 12" vinyl single in March 2006. On 2 April, 2006, it became the first ever UK #1 based on download sales alone.[1]

In an interview with Observer Music Monthly, Danger Mouse denied that the band's name is a reference to basketball player Charles Barkley, saying "Nope. It's just like everything else on this record. There was no conscious decision about stuff."[2]

They are set to appear at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 30, 2006,[3] as well as at Lollapalooza 2006 in Chicago.

from the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnarls_Barkley

Also the album has a kick ass Violent Femmes cover of Beautiful Girl on it.