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This is hilarious and scary at the same time. No wonder the youth of America rebelled in the 60s if this is what they had to endure.

Now we have tablets and televisions. Don't know what's worse

I'd say iPhones and facebook.

People of a certain age may remember this ad from 1979. I certainly do, but I was too young to notice what the blonde (Karen West, 1980 Pet of the Year) was almost wearing.

Who the fox thinks like this...

This has quite a back story to it. There was a relatively obscure 1980s Japanese TV series called X-Bomber, which was dubbed into English under the title Star Fleet. It was very much inspired by Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds but with elements inspired by Japanese anime. The English version had a theme song by British musician Paul Bliss. Brian May was with some friends in a studio in Los Angeles and happened to mention the series. It turned out some of them were fans of it too. They started to jam and recorded a version of the theme with very minimal engineering and mixing. This was the result, which was released 9 months later on an EP. It was credited to "Brian May + Friends". The "friends" are some very big names as far as musicians go, including Roger Taylor and Eddie van Halen.

Being in a land far far away can put up challenges to everyday things.

A follow up as a result of a private message, this is the B side to Star Fleet. Blues Breaker was written by Brian May, Eddie van Halen, Alan Gratzer, Phil Chen and Fred Mandel.

Here's some music you won't hear on the radio: Huun Huur Tu, Throat Singers from Tannu Tuva.

I've heard examples of throat singing before, but I'd never heard it arranged with traditional instruments.
It goes for a bit over an hour. I thought I'd listen to a bit, then found myself listening to the entire thing.