Underunderstood

Brave Dot Com

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How a misfit polka band scored a premium spot on the World Wide Web in 1995.

  • 0:35 - "The Verge is an ambitious multimedia effort founded in 2011 to examine how technology will change life in the future for a massive mainstream audience." (The Verge)
  • 4:05 - More Brave Combo accolades are on their Wikipedia page
  • 4:11 - Bob Dylan's version of Brave Combo's polka arrangement of "Must Be Santa" (YouTube)
  • 6:53 - Domain Name Journal
  • 8:11 - What Brave.com/bo looked like in 1998 (Wayback Machine)
  • 11:23 - Appropos of nothing, here's a figurine of Carl Finch for sale on Etsy. He also has his own Wikipedia page
  • 13:01 - Beer Barrel Polka by Diet Polka (Soundcloud)
  • 13:50 - Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Polka, from Brave Combo album Polkasonic
  • 14:18 - Brave Combo performs the Chicken Dance at a live show (YouTube)

    • Brave Combo songs in this episode (Spotify playlist):

    • "Do Something Different"
    • "The Simpsons Theme"
    • "In Heaven, There Is No Beer"
    • "Ice Machine in the Desert"
    • "Crazy Serbian Butcher's Dance"
    • "Purple Haze (Polka Version)"
    • "The Chicken Dance"
      • ...more
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