Talking Heads – Burning Down the House
An evening pause: Performed live in Los Angeles in 1983. Somehow, everything about this song symbolizes to me the entire sixties generation.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: Performed live in Los Angeles in 1983. Somehow, everything about this song symbolizes to me the entire sixties generation.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: This appears to be a youth orchestra, but unfortunately everything on the webpage is in Portuguese, so I’m not sure.
Hat tip David Nudelman.
An evening pause: I should have scheduled this for January 27. Diane will understand why.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: Performed live 1981, with what I think is one of the strangest background dance line-up ever.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: My brother Jon sent this to me today as a birthday present. I like it so much that I decided to reschedule my pauses to air it tonight.
An evening pause: Stay with it, it gets better and better, as she triples herself in the second half.
Hat tip Sherman LaViolette.
An evening pause: Performed by Perspectives Ensemble using the original 1944 orchestration.
Hat tip Diane Wilson, who admits that “it’s long-ish, but this is a superb performance of purely American experience set to music.” I agree. You will be refreshed and enlightened by it.
An evening pause: Good comedy never depends on crudeness. Sometimes good timing and a willingness to be silly is all you need.
Has tip Edward Thelen.
An evening pause: From left to right that Robbie (14), Jonny (10), and Tommy (15) Mizzone, brothers from New Jersey.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
An evening pause: There is something both inspired and silly about this performance by this South Kitsap High School vocal group in Port Orchard, Washington.
Hat tip Martin Kaselis.
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar, who writes, “I finally figured what’s wrong with my playing – I need to get a pair of jammies like his.”
To me, this illustrates the awesomeness possible from each person, especially the young, who don’t yet know they can’t do it, and so they do.
An evening pause: Performed live 1985 in Japan. Stay with it. They just don’t want this performance to end.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
An evening pause: Performed live in 2004 by Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others.
Hat tip Cotour.
An evening pause: A nice way to start the new year. And yes, that is Bill Anders’ voice, recorded during the Christmas Eve broadcast from Apollo 8 in 1968 in orbit around the Moon.
An evening pause: The instrument is a medieval portative organ. The music is not medieval but was written in 2014 by American composer Carson Cooman.
Hat tip Diane Wilson.
An evening pause: Somehow to me this seems more appropriate the day after Christmas.
Hat tip Cotour.