Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing
An evening pause: Recorded live in 1978.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Rogue Wave – Lake Michigan
A evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Blue Öyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
An evening pause: Performed live October 9, 1981.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Sly & the Family Stone and Prince – Everyday People
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Live from the Flight Deck
An evening pause: The music is by Two Steps from Hell and is called “Victory.”
If you ever wondered why pilots fall in love with flying, this video might give you a hint as to why.
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
Desmond Dekker – Israelites
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Julie Andrews – My Favorite Things
An evening pause: You need to watch all of The Sound of Music (1965) to understand the context that makes the song even better, and explains the way the clip ends.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Russ Roberts – It’s a Wonderful Loaf
An evening pause:
We know there’s order built into the fabric of the world
Of nature. Flocks of geese! Schools of fish! And every boy and girl
Delights in how the stars shine down in all their constellations
And the planets stay on track and keep the most sublime relations
With each other. Order’s everywhere. Yet we humans too create it
It emerges. No one intends it. No one has to orchestrate it.
It’s the product of our actions but no single mind’s designed it
There’s magic without wizards if you just know how to find it
I suspect that readers of Behind the Black will know the answer to this mystery.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Present
An evening pause: A most excellent short animated film.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says
An evening pause: The future, or as I like to say, the coming dark age.
Jane says
I’ve never been in love
I don’t know what it is
Only knows if someone wants her
I want them if they want me
I only know they want me
Hat tip Joseph Griffin.
Brooks and Dunn – Only in America
An evening pause: In honor of what happened today, 48 years ago, when three American astronauts safely landed home on Earth, after walking on the Moon. From the chorus:
Only in America
Dreamin’ in red white and blue
Only in America
Where we dream as big as we want to
We all get a chance
Everybody gets to dance
It will be the American ideas of freedom, individual achievement, and capitalism that will make the settlement of the solar system possible. Other nations will participate, but it will still be these ideas that fuel the journey.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Buckethead – Walk on the Moon
An evening pause: In honor of what happened today, 48 years ago.
Hat tip Insomnious.
Yuja Wang – Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumble-Bee
An evening pause: We started the week with some fast piano playing. Let’s do it again.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Fish trap
An evening pause: Time for some clever engineering.
Hat tip John Jossy.
Townes Van Zandt – If I Needed You
An evening pause: A very simple song. But then, sometimes simplicity is the most beautiful.
Hat tip Kyle Kooy.
Valentina Lisitsa – Chopin’s Minute Waltz
An evening pause: In this case the word “minute” does not refer to time. It is pronounced “my-nute,” and refers to the piece’s small-size, delicacy, and fast-paced shortness.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
I Are Cute Duckling AWW
An evening pause: Two minutes of simple unblemished cuteness, to cheer us all up.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Ryan Adams – English Girls Approximately
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Missing Persons – Words
An evening pause: I think the chorus here describes our entire intellectual society today.
What are words for when no one listens anymore
What are words for when no one listens
What are words for when no one listens it’s no use talkin at all
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
John Williams – Raider’s March
An evening pause: From one of the best films ever made, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). As I wrote about it at the time for a comic book fan group, it recognizes that there is good and evil, and that there is something in the universe that casts judgement on each. Such concepts had and continue to be largely rejected by modern intellectualism, at our peril.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.