Dire Straits – Industrial Disease
An evening pause: Hat tip Blair Ivey.
Tag: music
Bob Dylan – Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man
An evening pause: Performed live at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964.
Hat tip Roland.
Glenn Miller Orchestra Scandinavia – American Patrol
An evening pause: Americans once had brass, and Glenn Miller’s music captured it, both in instruments and in sound. This has a happy defiant exuberance that now seems lost.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Optical Illusion Dance
An evening pause: It is almost impossible to see this as it really is.
The song, Tanz, was written by a German named Hiss. Though the music sounds Cajun, its roots are German.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Iron Butterfly – In a Gadda Da Vida
An evening pause: Hat tip Mike Nelson, who adds this tidbit of the song’s history:
The lyrics are about Adam and Eve living “In the Garden of Eden” but Doug Ingles, the composer, consumed an entire gallon of wine the night he wrote it, and when he sang it to a bandmate to transcribe the lyrics he slurred words so badly it got transcribed as In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida instead, which in the end stuck.
Bluegrass Large Family Band – Foggy Mtn. Rock
An evening pause: Hat tip Tom Biggar, who notes pointedly, “Must be something wrong with this – it looks like a bunch of deplorables having a good time.”
The Hindley Street Country Club – More than a feeling
An evening pause: Nice cover of Boston’s hit song.
Hat tip Saromaya.
Wild Cherry – Play that funky music
An evening pause: Recorded live in 1976.
Hat tip Mike Nelson, who has found a nice alternative video site to Youtube by using the Wayback machine archive to find this video.
Steve ‘n Seagulls – Nothing else matters
A evening pause: Hat tip Sayomara.
FlippinDingDong – Trailer Annie
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who rightly added, “No clue what this means, but I’m certain the student animators had fun making it.”
Fun to watch too. They might have done it on a computer, but it sure has the feel of hand-drawn animation.
Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
An evening pause: Hat tip Cotour.
The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody
An evening pause: I know I’ve posted this song more than a few times previously, but this version is truly unique. I had even posted it previously, back in 2012. More than enough time however has passed, so I think it okay to show it again. As I noted then, “A very talented actor once told me that a great deal of all comedy is based on contrast, on juxtaposing extreme opposites in unexpected ways.”
This does that quite well I think.
Hat tip Frank Kelly.