Music Detectives Gifts

Do you hear what I hear?

STRIP Hambone: Fix it yourself

'Are you sure this is authentic ancient Indian art?'

'Mark my word, Walters, this is no ordinary virus.'

'I think I've found what's been causing my funny buzzing sounds.'

Art Plagiarism

By the year 2500, 1 in 10 academics will devote their entire career to divining the meaning of the word 'sussudio'.

"Honey, check it out — giant porcupine tracks."

"I'd know my tinnitus anywhere and this isn't it."

Children playing percussion instruments.

I spy with my little eye in the sky …

'Wait a minute! I think our line has been tapped.'

"I keep hearing this annoying buzzing noise!"

"Greatest Band?"

'No, it's not the Rapture - The kids next door got a trampoline.'

Today, this humble feature attempts to answer one of the great quandaries of modern times. Is it Louie Louie, oh baby, my hair gotta grow? Wrong! What are the lyrics to the Kingsman's Louie Louie?* *Must be gleaned by listening. No peeking on the internet!

'I can't do it anymore. 54 months of analysis and we're still no closer to explaining why Christian Bale's Batman talk in that awful voice.'

music store

"We don't sell CDs anymore. We sell colorful jackets for the music you download illegally."

The Police Artist.

'Cops and Rubbers.'

"It was just humming right along - then began whistling."

"Your wish has been granted – now there really is a nineties movie called Shazaam starring Sinbad as the genie."

Spyware is easy to see, if you know where to look.

"How can we tell if this old movie poster is valuable?"

We discovered the original background during an x-ray. Ice cream.

'Really, Frank... The late news is so depressing - and it's the same thing every night... Why do you even turn it on?'

Sir Paul McCartney warns UK Culture Secretary of live music s bleak future

Peeping Drone

"Coming up on the news at ten: the new strange-but-true candy bar diet...names of the pets of your favorite YouTubers...plus some stuff about the world."

It began with a beep. BEEEP. What an annoying noise. Where did that come from? BEEEP. Where indeed? Join us the next few days to solve the mystery behind the *beep* as we journey into the soul of modern man. (Oh, the hyperbole!) BEEEP!

"Looks like something was going on in the Stone Age that they didn't want the Bronze Age to know about."

"Bad news. It's a fake."

'Are you sure it's the original?'

Violin Pipe