Brave Dot Com

Underunderstood

English - December 03, 2019 12:00 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 507 ratings
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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"