Corcovado, Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz:
Dance Me to the End of Love, Madeline Peyroux (covering Leonard Cohen’s original):
Feeling Good, Nina Simone:
Not safe for work, nor for some ears (whether working or not), but catchy as hell. Love me some Cee Lo:
Stopped being interested in Usher a long (long) time ago, but his OMG isn’t a bad pop tune for the dance floor:
Ida Maria’s Oh My God? More on my plane:
Daft Punk’s Around the World, something that takes me right back to the late 90′s:
And a cover you won’t expect:
(The cover video is clever, if you recall the original Daft Punk video.)
Just picked this up from Boing Boing. Love it:
There are few things I find more viscerally offensive than being told I’m not allowed to cross an arbitrary line.
Don’t Fence Me In. One of my favorite songs, no irony required.
The original author was Cole Porter, but the earliest recording that I can find is by Roy Rogers, in 1944:
Later that year, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (for whom I have a weakness) tried it out:
And then there’s Ella, tho’ honestly, it just doesn’t work for me:
And in modern day, David Byrne has a go at it:
