Tag: music
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.
The Kempters – The Orange Blossom Special
An evening pause: What makes this fun is that the whole front row of fiddlers is actually 14-year-old Chris Kempter, competing against himself for top spot on the band.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Neil Young – Cinnamon Girl
Rossini – Overture to The Thieving Magpie
An evening pause: Boian Videnoff conducts the Mannheim Philharmonic Orchestra.
And no, this was not written for Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971).
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Eric Clapton – Tears In Heaven
An evening pause: Hat tip Danae, who suggested a different performance that I posted back in 2015. I also posted a third version in 2011. No matter. There is something very heartfelt about the song and every Clapton performance that makes it worth watching again and again. The song was written following the death of Clapton’s four-year-old son, Conor, after falling from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment on March 20, 1991.
Anna Nalick – Breathe (2am)
Dan Hill – Sometimes When We Touch
Hoagy Carmichael & Lauren Bacall – Am I Blue?
An evening pause: From the 1944 Humphrey Bogart film To Have and Have Not, which was also Lauren Bacall’s unbelievably spectacular screen debut. “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.”
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Avi Avital – Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concerto in C Major
An evening pause: He starts out by very carefully placing a score before him on his stand, but then never opens or looks at it during the entire performance. Instead, he plays the whole thing from memory, wielding his mandolin as if it is part of him. And he and the entire group is clearly having a great deal of fun doing it.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Johnny Cash – Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
Alison Krauss & Union Station – Man of Constant Sorrow
Dire Straits – Your Latest Trick
Tzvi Erez – Chopin Nocturne Opus 55 #1 in F minor
Billy Preston – Nothing from Nothing
Dale Watson – Texas Armadillo
An evening pause: As we sit in the depths of the summer, this song about of all things roadkill somehow seems fitting to me.
Hat tip Robert Pratt of Pratt on Texas.
Verdi’s Il Trovatore – Anvil Chorus
An evening pause: I know very little about opera, having never been much of a fan, but I must admit that the old woman’s song here is most intriguing, and seems to lay the foundation for a good tale.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
David Gilmour & Richard Wright – Comfortably Numb
Tom Rush – Making the best of a bad situation
An evening pause: I think we all would benefit, especially America’s Democrats, if we took this song as some solid advice.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.