New Public Enemy track/video just dropped:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73F3S5uNe9s[/youtube]
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Corcovado, Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMX6E68qJAg[/youtube]
Dance Me to the End of Love, Madeline Peyroux (covering Leonard Cohen’s original):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl-cVgAU8K8[/youtube]
Feeling Good, Nina Simone:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tuTSi6Sck[/youtube]
Not safe for work, nor for some ears (whether working or not), but catchy as hell. Â Love me some Cee Lo:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0XrbEwNc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRqI5R6L7ow[/youtube]
Stopped being interested in Usher a long (long) time ago, but his OMG isn’t a bad pop tune for the dance floor:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzmpYRmOOpw[/youtube]
Ida Maria’s Oh My God? Â More on my plane:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naQSB1Ozyds[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdSkr9kRBmY[/youtube]
Daft Punk’s Around the World, something that takes me right back to the late 90’s:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Vt3E1SBgI[/youtube]
And a cover you won’t expect:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1u0VIBUfUI[/youtube]
(The cover video is clever, if you recall the original Daft Punk video.)
Just picked this up from Boing Boing. Â Love it:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1g0yxLu2Zk[/youtube]
Some music just endures:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfWPDGWP568[/youtube]
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. Â 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:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLoYFvbR0XY[/youtube]
Later that year, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (for whom I have a weakness) tried it out:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMnLoOnrwbg[/youtube]
And then there’s Ella, tho’ honestly, it just doesn’t work for me:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw1KdIDRwww[/youtube]
And in modern day, David Byrne has a go at it:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14l75vz-R9w[/youtube]