I heard the version I was looking for on the radio and managed to catch enough of the words to google it.
Prince Igor - Warren G feat. Sissel Kyrkjebo
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Sadurday, June 7 - tuning into the force of creativity
You Don't Know Me (Caetano Veloso) - flipped the switch. From the album Transa: wonderful, forceful, lovely craziness.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Late May Songs
American Boy (Estelle feat. Kanye West) - on the radio all day long.
I got a sudden hankering for Walt Disney's "Fantasia", which I haven't seen since I was a kid (I won't post a video - get the DVD).
I watched it without a thought or a doubt buzzing in the background, engrossed, with such rich pleasure I might have been five years old.
It also reminded me it was my childhood dream to be a Disney animator. It must have been marvelous in those days (before they sold their souls to computer graphics).
"Va, Pensiero" from the opera Nabucco (Guiseppe Verdi) - I sang it in choir in 9th grade. It's a great shower song too. I haven't sung in the shower probably since 9th grade.
Here is another favorite shower song from back then: "Bring Him Home" from the musical Les Miserables. (We sang a medley of Les Miserables songs in the same choir.)
One more from my 9th grade choir: Jabula Jesu (Zulu folk song/arrangement). I love youtube for this.
The Ballad of John and Yoko (The Beatles) - "The way things are going, they're gonna crucify me," I thought.
I got a sudden hankering for Walt Disney's "Fantasia", which I haven't seen since I was a kid (I won't post a video - get the DVD).
I watched it without a thought or a doubt buzzing in the background, engrossed, with such rich pleasure I might have been five years old.
It also reminded me it was my childhood dream to be a Disney animator. It must have been marvelous in those days (before they sold their souls to computer graphics).
"Va, Pensiero" from the opera Nabucco (Guiseppe Verdi) - I sang it in choir in 9th grade. It's a great shower song too. I haven't sung in the shower probably since 9th grade.
Here is another favorite shower song from back then: "Bring Him Home" from the musical Les Miserables. (We sang a medley of Les Miserables songs in the same choir.)
One more from my 9th grade choir: Jabula Jesu (Zulu folk song/arrangement). I love youtube for this.
The Ballad of John and Yoko (The Beatles) - "The way things are going, they're gonna crucify me," I thought.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
It followed me home...
and it was so cute, I let it stay. Though generally I loathe Greek music.
Pitzirika (Eyal Golan & Trifonas)
Pitzirika (Eyal Golan & Trifonas)
Saturday, May 17, 2008
A Train of Songs
The search for "Valerie" took me on an associative journey from performance to performance:
Son of a Preacher Man (Joss Stone) - originally Dusty Springfield. Wow. The girl generated enough raw energy doing this song to light up London. It sounded oddly misdirected to me though - she screams her heart out on the words "son of a preacher man!" as though she is screaming for the dying children in Africa, or the hopelessness of the human condition, at the very least.
Joss Stone and Melissa Etheridge singing a tribute to Janis Joplin - Joss's performance is skillful but flat and soulless here to my taste, but Melissa ROCKS. I admit I clicked on the video because of the image of her bald head.
Bruce Springsteen and Melissa Etheridge, Thunder Road. It looks like an indoor performance but I can smell the grass and dusty night air.
Son of a Preacher Man (Joss Stone) - originally Dusty Springfield. Wow. The girl generated enough raw energy doing this song to light up London. It sounded oddly misdirected to me though - she screams her heart out on the words "son of a preacher man!" as though she is screaming for the dying children in Africa, or the hopelessness of the human condition, at the very least.
Joss Stone and Melissa Etheridge singing a tribute to Janis Joplin - Joss's performance is skillful but flat and soulless here to my taste, but Melissa ROCKS. I admit I clicked on the video because of the image of her bald head.
Bruce Springsteen and Melissa Etheridge, Thunder Road. It looks like an indoor performance but I can smell the grass and dusty night air.
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