March 08, 2009
One Day Like This
Drinking in the morning sun
Blinking in the morning sun
Shaking off the heavy one
Heavy like a loaded gun
What made me behave that way?
Using words I never say
I can only think it must be love
Oh, anyway, it’s looking like a beautiful day
Someone tell me how I feel
It’s silly wrong but vivid right
Oh, kiss me like the final meal
Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight
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Thank you, Rob K.
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February 01, 2009
Water Music
Jamey Turner plays a selection by Bach on his glass harp. (From Weirdomatic)
Jamey Turner played everywhere: at The Kennedy Center, The Tonight Show, The Lincoln Center, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts… Here he is on flickr
Many more selections on YouTube
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Is there a place on the internets where one can download freely or purchase Sound samples?
Also: Random Colors
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December 01, 2008
Baaaaaaaaaaach
Other musical interludes sung by William Zauscher
(The Home-made split-screen harmony must be a somehow popular genre on the Tube)
From Welcome To L.A.
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November 23, 2008
Drum Circles
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Miriam Makeba demonstrating how click consonants of the Xhosa Language sound in practice in The Click Song. There are only 2 lines to the song:
The Witchdoctor, who is a black beetle
is coming to be in our village
Igqira lendlela nguqo ngqotwane
Igqira lendlela nguqo ngqotwane
ubeqabe legqithapho ahi uqo ngqotwane
ubeqabe legqithapho ahi uqo ngqotwane
(From Language Hat)
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November 01, 2008
Uncle Joker by Jay Chou
Also, 1960s Chinese pop star Nancy Sit performing Herman's Hermits song No Milk Today
Vanity Fair’s 25 Best Songs
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August 30, 2008
Got My Mojo Working
(From Maggie’s Farm)
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August 23, 2008
John Coltrane plays Alabama
Where can I find Melancholy chamber music
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July 15, 2008
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
Its nine o’clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There’s an old man sitting next to me
Makin’ love to his tonic and gin
He says, son, can you play me a memory?
I’m not really sure how it goes
But it’s sad and its sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger mans clothes
Piano Man sung & played by a 7 year old
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July 03, 2008
Touch My Body
Mariah Cary’s Touch My Body (The Green Screen Version) by Oliver Laric
New curse: “May Ry Cooder discover your people’s traditional music”… (By Your monkey called… The more you know...)
Dueling Banjos scene from The Beverly Hillbillies (YT). Many other versions found on wikipedia
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May 31, 2008
Stravinsky Conducts Firebird
(From Uncertain Times)
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May 25, 2008
Shout, Sister, Shout
Rosetta Tharpe (1915 – 1973) was a pioneering Gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist who attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock accompaniment. She became the first great recording star of Gospel music in the late 1930s and also became known as the original soul sister of recorded music
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May 11, 2008
Playing with Wine Glasses
The glass harmonica’s ghostly notes will cause insanity in its musicians and listeners! At least this is what was thought to be true in the 18th century. People were frightened by the harmonica’s sound due to it’s strange interactions with the human brain and ears. Benjamin Franklin invented the glass harmonica in 1761 after being profoundly moved by the sounds of the glass harp
Mark Garufi plays the theme for The Pink Panther On 27 Wine Glasses
Many more unusual tools at the new Oddstrument
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Deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music is about much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrum - How to listen to music with your whole body
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In this dirty old part of the city
Where the sun refused to shine
People tell me there ain't no use in tryin'
Now my girl you're so young and pretty
And one thing I know is true
You'll be dead before your time is due, I know
Watch my daddy in bed a-dyin'
Watched his hair been turnin' grey
He's been workin' and slavin' his life away
Oh yes I know it
(Yeah!) He's been workin' so hard
(Yeah!) I've been workin' too, baby
(Yeah!) Every night and day
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!)
We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do
We gotta get out of this place
'cause girl, there's a better life for me and you...
One of the long list of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks. (Probably a re-post)
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April 06, 2008
Out on the wiley, windy moors
6 other different covers of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights"
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March 22, 2008
You who must leave everything that you cannot control
San Francisco-based Conspiracy of Beards is a 30-member cappella male choir performing exclusively the songs of Leonard Cohen. Inspired by late artist Peter Kadyk and directed by Daryl Henline, the group performs gritty, uplifting renditions of Cohen's songs.
(From Everton)
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March 06, 2008
The morning light
The smoke is rising in the shadows overhead
My glass is almost empty
I read again between the lines upon each page
The words of love you sent me
Pascal Ayerbe’s Toy piano. (From Ample Sanity)
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