The above video is from Radiohead's blog.
Here is the original song by Portishead.
I love it when an artist I really like is a fan of another artist I really like (or something like that).
My friend, Cristen, is fluent in Portuguese and plays the guitar. She loves the song, "Fragile", by Sting. Sting did a Portuguese version ("Fragil") of the song, too, and that is the one that Cristen is singing here ...
I have had the song, Amnesia, by Control Machete in my head a lot lately. It's a very relaxing, hypnotic song. It is a cover of a Jose Jose song by the same name, and it is featured on a tribute album to Jose Jose called "Un Tributo".
Here is the song ...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/30/music.radiohead.prince.ap/index.html
The above article is about how Prince performed Radiohead's song, "Creep", at the Coachella music festival. Some fans put videos of the performance on YouTube. Prince's people complained and got the videos taken off of YouTube, but the song is not his. Radiohead has no problem with the song being on YouTube so there is no copyright violation going on. The article will explain it better than me, but it just goes to show how dumb artists look when they try to protect their music way too much. It makes me think of how annoying Metallica was when the band members were complaining about their music being on Napster back in the day.
Here is the song, Creep, by Radiohead. I was in love with the song when I first saw the video for it way back in the early 90s. I think I watched the video on MTV's great show, 120 Minutes. It would be nice if a show like that one was still around.
Radiohead - Creep
Here is the video ...
Here is a cover of Radiohead's "Karma Police" by Tori Amos (I may have posted this before) ...
Here is Radiohead's version ...
In other news, Madonna's "Give It 2 Me" video is out and about on the internet now. Here it is on YouTube, but don't be surprised if this video gets taken down since it has already has been taken down numerous times ...
The quality of that video is awful, but I am sure a high-quality version will be uploaded to YouTube sometime soon. I am not crazy about the video, but it's not that bad. People probably wonder why Pharrell Williams is all over the video, but the "Hard Candy" album is almost more his than Madonna's. I think he produced the majority of it, and his voice can be heard throughout the album (along with the voices of Justin Timberlake, Timabaland, and Kanye West).
I was listening to Madonna's album, Hard Candy (I know, I need to move to another album ... I promise I listen to a million other things at the same time), and I noticed how the song, "Incredible", has the line, "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone", which has been a famous line in music history.
I think the line originated in Joni Mitchell's song, "Big Yellow Taxi" ...
Then, the line was used as the title of Janet Jackson's song, "Got 'Til It's Gone", and Joni's song was sampled, too ...
Here is Madonna's song which puts the line in one of the verses ...
In other news, I watched the Woody Allen movie, "Scoop", on HBO today. It stars Scarlett Johansson (2 t's and 2 s's) and Hugh Jackman. It came out in 2006, and Woody Allen's other Scarlett Johansson London-based movie about murder, "Match Point", came out in 2005. The movies are not alike at all, though. Scoop is more of a comedy, and "Match Point" is pretty serious. They do both explore class in London, though. Here are the trailers ...
The last couple of Sundays I have gone to a club/bar in Austin called Elysium with some friends for their 80s music night. The music is usually very good, and the crowd is very eclectic. Here are my two favorite songs they play ...
Real Life - Send Me An Angel (this is the 1989 version, I think)
The original 1983 version of "Send Me An Angel" did not feature as much clapping in the background so it is less fun to dance to. Here is the video for the original version ...
The other song is also from 1983, and it is "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling ...
Here is the video for the song ...
I'm surprised that I have never posted this song before. Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" is one of my favorite songs ever, and it was mentioned in the Stephen King/Peter Straub novel, "Black House" (which was a sequel to "The Talisman", which King also wrote with Peter Straub), and I looked it up after reading about it. It's a very calm, laid-back oldie, but it has tons of charm and class. Here is some info on Hoagy Carmichael. There are tons of covers of this song.
Hoagy Carmichael - Stardust
The above photo comes from NASA's image gallery.
Tori Amos will always be my favorite singer/musician/songwriter/artist (or whatever you want to call her). Her music has carried me through less-than-pleasant times in my life. Today I was really tired because I stayed up too late last night working on a short presentation for my job, and I got up really early this morning to finish it. Therefore, I am totally drained right now. It's funny how I will wake up tomorrow and be rejuvenated just because of 8 measly hours of sleep. I love the process of sleep and its effects.
Anyway, I had a few Tori songs in my head that I have not posted here before, and here they are ...
Tori Amos - Hurt/Caught A Lite Sneeze (in concert)
The "Hurt" part that Tori sings right before "Caught A Lite Sneeze" is based on the song, "Hurt", by Nine Inch Nails.
Tori Amos - Famous Blue Raincoat (cover)
"Famous Blue Raincoat" is a Leonard Cohen song.
Tori Amos - Ain't No Sunshine (cover)
"Ain't No Sunshine" was originally done by Bill Withers in 1971.
I've posted one video from her before, but I thought I would post another since she does a lot of good covers of songs I like.
Here is her cover of Feist's "My Moon My Man" ...
She has a lot of Regina Spektor covers (she also has original songs), too, on YouTube, and she has a page on MySpace.
This was on the M.I.A. Fans message board, of course.
It is a cover of M.I.A.'s Paper Planes by this guy named Jacob M. Ruefer. It's pretty cool.
Here is a link to the blog post about this.
You can download the cover here, or you can go to Jacob's MySpace to download it.
I was watching a bit of The Simpsons tonight, and it was an episode where Bart and Lisa cause the power plant to shut down so the lights will turn off, and everyone can experience night again. They played Don McLean's "Vincent (Starry Starry Night)" as the characters watched a meteor shower in the night sky. It reminded me of Tori Amos' cover of this song, which I have always liked ...
Tori Amos - Vincent (Starry Starry Night) - a cover of Don McLean's song that Tori did in Austin, TX at The Backyard on April 26, 2003.
I have been wanting to listen to my Benny Benassi(Hypnotica) CD lately. My favorite song on the album is "Love Is Gonna Save Us". The song is romantic and sad at the same time, and it has this part that I call the "wind" part that is just perfect. For some reason, I thought the song would fit with the movie, "Edward Scissorhands".
My second favorite song on the album is probably "Time", and I thought a scene from the 1980 Christopher Reeve movie, " Somewhere in Time", could best sum up the concept of time(his best movie besides the first Superman).
While I was searching for my Benny Benassi CD, I came across one of my Tarkan CDs, and I thought, "Oh, I need to revisit Tarkan". Therefore, to be completely random, here are my three favorite songs from Turkey's own Tarkan(from his self-titled album) ...
Tarkan - Simarik
Tarkan - Ölürüm Sana
and Tarkan - Sikidim (Hepsi Senin Mi?)
Finally, here is a short clip of what XR2 is supposed to sound like on M.I.A.'s next album, Kala. I don't know how correct this is, but the quality sounds better than all the other versions that I have of XR2 ...
That is the fake cover of Kala that some fan made, and I got it from http://miafans.co.uk, of course.
Here is an image of M.I.A. on the cover of URB that I also got from that message board ...
Oh wait, I thought of one more thing ...
I really hope Rob Zombie's version of Halloween(probably my favorite movie ... ever ... ok, one of many I guess) turns out to be good.