What are you listening to right now?

[Sally Felds]

My brother says this should go with my partner post.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi6qQieOOew

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Here Come the Girls -- Ernie K. Doe

Here Come the Brides -- Theme

[barracuda]

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, performing her signature number at 62 years of age, consummate and breathtakingly beautiful, vocally perfect, awe-inspiring height off her powers, killer production, what a live performance. Love this video.
Shirley Bassey - Goldfinger

Twenty-five years earlier:
Shirley Bassey - Diamonds Are Forever

Arctic Monkeys - Diamonds Are Forever

Matt Monroe - From Russia With Love

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Fabian - Turn Me Loose

Ricky Nelson - I Will Follow You

And here's Bobby Sherman driving the teeny-boppers out of their fucking minds with his animal charisma.... From the comments section on this one: "this is where Axl Rose got his dance moves... and what the HELL is that thing on his upper left thigh!"
Bobby Sherman - Julie Do You Love Me?

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More difficult than one would think, finding a watchable Bobby Sherman video, isn't it? Mind-reader. That spoonful-of-sugar Fabian (or some, other similar) route is the only option, if one has any self-respect. I was considering the DiFranco Family, but I decided to save them for another occasion.

Another chronic YouTube problem:

Girl Watcher -- the O'Kaysions

It just sounds not as good as it is by, like, four fifths. I don't know why. There is a version that's a tribute to tragic supermodel Gia Carangi, in whom I have a longstanding interest. (I mean it predates Angelina Jolie's performance as her.) She was a Bowie kid in Philly, back in the day and some of her peeps then are some of my peeps now, as they have been since the early '80s. But the sound on the Tragic Gia version is even worse than the norm.

Also, I can't find T-Bone Burnett's "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" online anywhere. And also, I never think of "Girl Watcher" without thinking of:

Give Me Just a Little More Time -- Chairmen of the Board

I do have a reason. But it's not interesting. Have a hidden track instead!

When Loves Go Wrong -- Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe

[Jeff]

Also, I can't find T-Bone Burnett's "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" online anywhere.

Isn't that great? I think I put it up on RI radio, but I haven't listened to my own station in so long I forget the playlist. I love that old Trap Door EP, and Proof Through the Night. They're still fresh to me. Fresher than his '80s stuff (which is often the way with '80s stuff).

The White Stripes - The Hardest Button to Button

The White Stripes - Love Is the Truth (Australian Coke commercial)

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Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Condition

[Sally Felds]

The White Stripes - The Hardest Button to Button

The White Stripes - Love Is the Truth (Australian Coke commercial)

Perhaps some one could make me understand the grand appeal of the White Stripes. To me they are to music what Andy Warhol was to art....not much.

Train in Vain

http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=XYK7bEo1Z4M

[barracuda]

Perhaps some one could make me understand the grand appeal of the White Stripes. To me they are to music what Andy Warhol was to art....not much.

Andy Warhol was the greatest artist of the last 50 years or so. His genius ushered in an era of artwork we are still in the midst of. If you don't understand his work's relevance in today's world, I recommend you look more closely. Although I must say that Warhol would probably appreciate your sentiments, as might be evidenced by this brief (0:35) interview with him recorded in the early 1960's.

Warhol on Pop Art

The White Stripes, a thing of great rarity in rock, a power duo, has shown throughout their catalogue a great deference for the roots of rock and roll combined with Jack White's virtuosity. To see what makes them great, I usuially recommend their Grammy performance wherein White actually rocks the piss out of a Son House song, and he and Meg cover ground that most groups these days require five or six pieces for, as well as overdubs, lip-synching, background singers and dancers, break dance crew, elaborate costumes and staging, etc.

White Stripes - Seven Nation Army & Death Letter

Son House - Death Letter

But you know, it's so hard to love someone who don' love you, anyway.

[Jeff]

The White Stripes' secret shows they threw while touring Canada.

Even if I didn't like the music, I couldn't fail but love them for those.

[IanEye]

4 HMW - CIA Man - Sun City Girls


enjoy?!?!?

[Jeff]

Devo - Secret Agent Man (as creepy as the song deserves to be)

Dock Boggs - Pretty Polly

Emmylou Harris - Satan's Jewelled Crown

Bruce Cockburn in Mali with Toumani Diabate - World of Wonders

[barracuda]

This is Joni performing an orchestral/vocal version of her famous song in 2000, and all I can say is I'm very glad they invented recording equipment, videotape, audiotape, etc., because my life would perhaps be less rich had I never heard this thing happen. They say she has destroyed her voice by a lifetime of smoking cigarrettes, but if this is destruction, let it reign.

Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now

For reference, here's her 1969 performance of the same song on The Johnny Cash Show:

Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now

And here is Joni with what might be the greatest fusion band ever assembled to do her bidding, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, Lyle Mays, and Don Alias playing one of her radio hits around 1980:

Joni Mitchell - Free Man in Paris

And from her 2007 album Shine, an instrumental,

Joni Mitchell - One Week Last Summer

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Skip James - Crow Jane

Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

Skip James - I'm So Glad

Mississippi John Hurt - John Henry

[annie aronburg]

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aX9ONnh4Vw&feature=related]The facts we hate; we'll never meet
Walking down the road
Everybody yelling "HURRY UP! HURRY UP!!"
But I'm waiting for you, I must go slow
I must not think bad thoughts
When is this world coming to?
Both sides are right, but both sides murder .
I give up. Why can't they?
I must not think bad thoughts

The civil wars and the uncivilized wars.
Conflagrations leap out of every poor furnace.
The food cooks poorly and everyone goes hungry.
From then on it's dog eat dog, dog eat body, and body eat dog.
I can't go down there. I can't understand it.
I'm a no good coward & an American too.
A North American that is, not a south or a central or native american
I must not think bad thoughts.

I'm guilty of murder of innocent men, innocent women innocent children thousands of them.
My planes, my guns, my money, my soul, my blood on my hands,
IT'S ALL MY FAULT.
I must not think bad thoughts

The facts we hate you'll never hear us.
I hear the radio is finally gonna play new music you know, the British Invasion.
But what about the Minutemen, Flesh Eaters, D.O.A., Big Boys and Black Flag ?
Will the last American band to get played on the radio please bring the flag?
PLEASE BRING THE FLAG!
glitter-disco-synthesizer night school
all this noble savage drum drum drum
Astronauts going back in time to hang out with the cave people
It's about time.
It's about space.
It's about some people in the strangest place.
Woody Guthrie sang about B-E-E-T-S not B-E-A-T-S.
I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS
I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS
I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS
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