Tag Archives: music
Gerry & Pacemakers – Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying
An evening pause: I haven’t posted this band since 2011. Time to do it again. The sound is the from the studio recording, sync’d to this stage performance. I’d rather have seen the live version, but I suspect the sound quality was so poor this is a better choice.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Alanis Morissette – Head Over Feet
An evening pause: Make sure you stick around to hear her comments after the song.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Davy Spillane – Caoineadh Cu Chulainn
Why Modern Music Is Awful
An evening pause: I find it interesting that almost all of the pop stars mentioned in this video have never been posted here as an evening pause. I want and like variety, and the main take-away from this video is the increasing sameness of modern music. Blah.
In sense, this video is an instruction manual for everyone who wants to send me a suggestion for an evening pause. It tells you the kind of music I will likely not be interested in, should you suggest it to me. To put it simply, if it sounds like everything else produced today, then it won’t get cast in the audition.
Mancini – Thorn Birds theme
Snack Attack
The Crying Shame – Camel
BBC’s Proms Hedwig’s Theme
Lobo – I’d Love You To Want Me
The Mavericks – All You Ever Do Is Bring Me Down
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen, who quite correctly notes, “Such an upbeat performance for such a downbeat title.”
The Smothers Brothers – Marching To Pretoria
An evening pause: Performed live in 1963 on the television show Hootenanny, at the very beginning of their career.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Rick Wakeman – Children of Chernobyl
Elvin Bishop – Fooled around and fell in love
Nordic Choir – Sure on this Shining Night
An evening pause: From a James Agee poem:
Sure on this shining night
Of star made shadows round,
Kindness must watch for me
This side the ground.
The late year lies down the north.
All is healed, all is health.
High summer holds the earth.
Hearts all whole.
Sure on this shining night I weep for wonder wand’ring far alone
Of shadows on the stars.
Hat tip Danae.
John Rzeznik – Iris
An evening pause: Rzeznik is from a band called the Goo Goo Dolls, for those who follow such things.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Asia – The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
Henry Mancini – Inspector Clouseau Theme
An evening pause: From the 1964 Blake Edwards film, The Pink Panther. Written by Mancini with the actor Peter Sellers specifically in mind.
Hat tip Danae.
John Sebastian – Darling be home soon
An evening pause: A simple love song, as performed at Woodstock, August 1969. The moment in time is significant.
Go–
And beat your crazy heads against the sky.
Try–
And see beyond the houses and your eyes.
It’s okay to shoot the Moon.
On this day, September 11th, it is worthwhile taking this glimpse at what the American dream stood for, and still stands for — gentle love and allowing each person to follow their dreams to do wonderful things — versus those other extremist ideologies that brook no dissent and have killed thousands, on this day as well as before and after.
Patricia Janečková – Les oiseaux dans la charmille
The Cranberries – Zombie
An evening pause: In watching this passionate 1999 performance of this anti-war song, I couldn’t help thinking that the only zombies present were the audience and the singers, locked into simplistic 1960s messages without thought. Nonetheless, it is a great performance and song.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Camel – Stationary Traveller
Lizz Wright – Reaching for the Moon
Bernie Marsden & Micky Moody – Till The Day I Die
Fat Cat Staying Alive 10 Hours
An evening pause: This pause is a bit more than a pause, since it is ten hours long. I don’t expect anyone to watch it all, as the first three minutes makes the point, quite hilariously, and well worth a few minutes of entertainment. As the filmmaker notes, “Fat cats are always funny…”
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
10cc – I’m not in love
Jerry Goldsmith – Rambo First Blood: “It’s a Long Road”
Pachelbel’s Chicken
Scorpions – Wind Of Change
An evening pause: The video might think so, but not all changes are good. The key is to tell the difference.
Hat tip Diane Zimmerman.
Gabriella Quevedo – Blackbird
An evening pause: This evening pause is partly an experiment. It is embedded not from youtube but from real.video. I would appreciate comments, problems, etc.