[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnaeImQ0TSg[/youtube]
Just because.
(This is the Swedish trio MOVITS! More info and tracks here.)
Category: Music Page 15 of 29
This first vid – KMD’s Peachfuzz – comes courtesy of a reminder by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has been on fire (with music and other things) lately:
This is Black Sheep’s This or That:
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And Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth’s T.R.O.Y, which will get almost any head nodding:
The hip-hop golden age, for me.
I just can’t leave those awful sounds up there. Here’s some Gangstarr, Code of the Street:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT4jQld_FiE[/youtube]
Is it a successful cover when both the original *and* the cover make you want to jab a pen into your eardrum?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5pLi0huhw[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD1PG_-atgM[/youtube]
It’s a shame, as both of the artists above had/have amazing voices. Utterly and completely wasted on this. Unfortunately, one of them made a career out of it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AsId-qVIb4[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGhxayGDa5Q[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGPhUr-T6UM[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6irXBVuiP0[/youtube]
Covers/mashups will return. In the meantime, a theme:
Jackson 5, ABC
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLxqsZHgAmk[/youtube]
Ladytron, Seventeen (also recommend the Soulwax remix)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncl7New1czM[/youtube]
LCD Soundsystem, Losing My Edge
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON1eRJtoOrg[/youtube]
Now click here.
You’ve seen my occasional grumbling about Warner going out of its way to pull down music videos in which it has some rights from YouTube. Well, it seems they’ve really stepped it up, now:
In early December, Juliet Weybret, a high school sophomore and aspiring rock star from Lodi, Calif., recorded a video of herself playing the piano and singing “Winter Wonderland,†and she posted it on YouTube.
Weeks later, she received an e-mail message from YouTube: her video was being removed “as a result of a third-party notification by the Warner Music Group,†which owns the copyright to the Christmas carol.
[ . . . ]
In addition to Ms. Weybret’s video, family home videos that included a portion of a song playing in the background have been removed, as have any number of videos that use music in goofy ways, from montages to mash-ups.
When a man posted a video of himself using music to teach sign language, the audio was switched off because he lacked the proper copyright clearance to use Foreigner’s 1980s song “Waiting for a Girl Like You.â€
Yeah. Next time you’re tempted to buy a CD or download a track from iTunes/Amazon, check out the publisher/label, and decide if you want to reward this kind of behaviour.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Z7LR8Z9_o[/youtube]
[Nevermind. Disabled hours after I embedded it, despite the fact that it’s been up for a couple of years now. Link here, because I like Outkast, and think you should, too. But don’t ever buy another CD from a Sony label.]
Outkast:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtfBJiVVfo[/youtube]