Showing posts with label Music Video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music Video. Show all posts
Friday, 22 April 2011
Saturday, 11 December 2010
The Girl Can't Help It
There are plenty of reasons to watch this again; Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Fats Domino and the Platters; not to mention Jayne Mansfield in the stunning red Lincoln convertible.
It's about how to make a talentless good-looker into a recording star (before Simon Cowell).
Julie London's version of 'Cry Me a River' is compelling.
Friday, 10 December 2010
Saturday, 6 November 2010
Mavis Staples & Jeff Tweedy
Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy worked together on her new album "You're not alone".
This is a live acoustic version of the title track. Amazing to think that she is 71...
You can listen to the Album version by using the mp3 player below -
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This is a live acoustic version of the title track. Amazing to think that she is 71...
You can listen to the Album version by using the mp3 player below -
Friday, 29 October 2010
Running up that hill
Kate Bush - who could write, perform and dance... and she was properly pouting a long time before Facebook...
Mayer Hawthorne
Mayer Hawthorne's first album -
is not what you would expect - not if you rely on the cover.
Here is a taste -
You can read more about him here
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
"Rehab" Mento version by The Jolly Boys
I was thinking it was time to give up all hope of an alternative career in music, but then...
Tom Waits - "Clap Hands"
This live performance was from Big Time, a show and later a film and an album.
Tom Waits (1988): "What we tried to avoid is having a concert film that felt like a stuffed bird. I tried to film it like a Mexican cockfight instead of air-conditioned concert footage. Some of it felt like it was shot through a safari rifle. You forget about the camera, which is what I was trying to do. But when you see yourself in concert, it rarely looks like the way you feel when you're up there. I thought I was much taller. I thought I looked like Robert Wagner ... if we had more money, we would have done the Rangoon gladiator sequences. And the shot of the audience holding up their matches and all that. We could have gotten the underwater ballet sequences, but it really would have been a different film, I think ... Now that it's completed, I would not have had my underwear coming out of the back of my pants like I did, but there's always something you want to change after it's over.
The idea was, you put the film out there, the film can go on the road, and I can stay home. That was the idea, but then I end up having to go out and do interviews. [Big Time is] getting mixed reviews. I guess that's what they call it - mixed reviews. One reviewer said, 'Piano teachers will be shocked,' which is one of my favourite reviews. Another guy said it looked like it was filmed in the stomach of a very sick animal. Now those were the good reviews. I recommend it."
Sunday, 15 August 2010
Ramona Falls
Ramona Falls "I Say Fever" from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.
You really should watch this on Full Screen - great video.
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