The Hyper-Male Voice

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Paul Robeson

And unrelated, Remember - Jimi Hendrix

Male Voices

I'm a sucker for a good male voice... Here are a few that make me melt in parts.

Jeff Buckley:
Mojo Pin (thanks to Assaf again)
Can't bring up Jeff Buckley and leave out Hallelujah (by Leonard Cohen)

Day is Done - Nick Drake

Robert Plant (the lead singer for Led Zeppelin):
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Black Dog

Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe

Maybe - Janis Joplin & The Kozmic Blues Band

Monkeys Can Fly

My Old Man - Joni Mitchell

A different version of Sonho Meu (Luiz Felipe Gama on piano, Ana Luiza singing)

Kozmic Blues

Kozmic Blues - Janis Joplin
This song hurts.

Emotions

Normally this song is too fruity for me to stomach. But even I get soft in the kishkes occasionally.
Lo Dibarnu Od - performed by Netanela; music: Matti Caspi, lyrics: Ehud Manor

If I were setting up a playlist for the upcoming Memorial Day, I would follow with this:
Ze Pit'om Nafal Aleyha - Arik Einstein (music by Shem Tov Levi)


To my concerned friends, I'll be back to my judgmental self by morning.

Geurilla Musical

A seemingly spontaneous musical arises among unsuspecting fast food eaters:
Food Court Musical by ImprovEverywhere

If you're into this sort of thing, I also recommend the "musical" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Chava Alberstein, Rachel Shapira, Hannah Guz Benyamini

Chava Alberstein's a capella performance of "Kemo Tsemch Bar" gives me goosebumps. Since I couldn't find it on YouTube to post, I decided to make and upload a video myself. For the visual I used paintings by my late great-grandmother, Hannah Guz Benyamini.

Here it is:
Kemo Tsemach Bar
Lyrics: Rachel Shapira
Music: Nachum Heiman

I posted lyrics with the video for the Hebrew speakers.
Comments are welcome.

April 10 09

Tsur Menti - Yemeinite song performed by Ofra Haza

A producer would be a fun thing to be

My Love - Justin Timberlake
It's really the producer Timbaland who took an OK line and turned out a track as fun as a circus act. I liked this one since we danced to it at the end of a Gaga workshop.

Some people make the raw material, and some are good at recognizing what it could be.

Since I'm apparently on a pop kick, and since this is my blog, here's Beyoncé's Halo.

Products of an all-nighter

Studying chemistry for tomorrow's exam.

Wallowing...
Fathers and Sons, Evyatar Banay

Floating
Fade Into You by Mazzy Star
(Not that I'm particularly grounded under full daylight)

April 1 2009

Underneath Your Clothes, Shakira
No idea why, I just woke up with it.