Tag: music
“Weird Al” Yankovic – Smells Like Nirvana
An evening pause: A parody of “Smells like Teen Spirit,” according to the webpage, but as far as I am concerned it is a very funny parody of most “official” music videos, the kind I generally don’t like to post as evening pauses because, as Yankovic says in the first verse:
What is this song all about?
Can’t figure any lyrics out
How do the words to it go?
I wish you’d tell me, I don’t know
It gets better from there.
Hat tip Alan Hennings.
The Hollies- On A Carousel
An evening pause: Created from “very rare footage of the Hollies recording ‘On A Carousel’ in the legendary Abbey Road Studios in 1967.”
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Ozzy Osbourne And Lita Ford – Close My Eyes Forever
Eivør & Danish National Symphony Orchestra – Trøllabundin
An evening pause: Performed live 2023 as part of a concert dubbed, “Viking.” From the comments on the webpage:
Trøllabundin means spellbound. In the viking age, ‘Galder’ was a kind of magic song that was used in seiðr (magic/witchcraft) practiced by mainly women, and to ‘galdra’ was to affect something by magic singing.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The Guys Downstairs – How Long Has This Been Going On
<An evening paus: A very nice cover.
Hat tip Cotour, who adds “These old guys have this piece nailed down!”
Debby Boone – You Light Up My Life
The 5.6.7.8s – I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield
An evenin pause: Performed live 2022.
Hat tip Cotour.
Sorry this is late tonight. Was too busy doing other things over the weekend to schedule pauses.
Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup
JD ‘FollowCam’ – Just “wing” it!
An evening pause: Another new sport that harnesses technology for fun. The music Bonsaye by Mirages.
Hat tip Cotour.
Lena Haarberg – Fall Into You
Asleep At The Wheel – Roly Poly
Prince – Play that funky music
Melanie – The Nickel Song
Chuck Mangione Quartet – Land of Make Believe
Renée Zellweger – Roxie
Shocking Blue – Venus
An evening pause: Performed live 1970. A real taste of the sixties, even if this took place just after the decade ended.
Hat tip Doug Johnson.
Natalia Osipova and Carlos Acosta – Giselle: Act II
An evening pause: This performance by Royal Ballet and Opera company took place in 2015.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
The Cars – Just What I Needed
The Beach Boys – God Only Knows, a cappella
An evening pause: No visuals, no instruments, just their voices singing to heaven.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Elvis Presley – Burning Love
An evening pause: Taken from the album Viva Elvis, which is the soundtrack remix of Presley’s Cirque du Soleil show. From the youtube webpage:
Viva Elvis features new backing instrumentation on each track in an attempt to modernize the arrangements. This has met with a mixed critical response, with some reviewers praising the production quality and others opining that Elvis’s music is best left untampered with.
Hat tip Cotour.
Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein
Riccardo Cocchi & Yulia Zagoruychenko – 2018 Fred Astaire Cup Latin dance competition
An evening pause: The camera soon focuses on this couple, whose performance eventually won the competition, which apparently was their tenth victory. As noted in the comments, “You don’t understand exactly how great they are until you see them in a roomful of other people dancing the same dance.”
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: The camera soon focuses on this couple, whose performance eventually won the competition, which apparently was their tenth victory. As noted in the comments, “You don’t understand exactly how great they are until you see them in a roomful of other people dancing the same dance.”
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Rodney Crowell – Earthbound
Hans Zimmer – The Battle
An evening pause: From the sound track for the 2000 movie Gladiator. Performed live c2012.
Hat tip Ferris Akel.
Mr. Mister – Kyrie
Taylor Swift – Love Story
An evening pause: Performed live 1989.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman, who felt it was time Behind the Black had a pause by Swift, a performer whose work I have been completely unfamiliar with.
Silvana Mangano – Mambo
Greg Howard – Tomorrow Never Knows/Norwegian Wood
An evening pause: Another unusual instrument producing great music, this time on a “bamboo Chapman Stick“. Performed live 2009.
Enjoy your weekend!
Hat tip Cotour.
Dennis James – Mozart’s Adagio for Glass Harmonica
An evening pause: Performed live 2017. And yes, that is a real instrument, using “a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction.” What is even more interesting is that it was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
An evening pause: Performed live 2017. And yes, that is a real instrument, using “a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction.” What is even more interesting is that it was invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761.
Hat tip Judd Clark.