17 posts tagged “youtube”
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 downloaded a high-quality version of a new trailer for "The Dark Knight". I uploaded it to YouTube just to make sure everyone had access to it. I love the Batman franchise, except for the Joel Schumacher movies ("Batman Forever" and "Batman and Robin"), which were awful. The first two Batman movies were great because Tim Burton directed them, and he always has a quirky, whimsical vision when he makes movies. They were also very dark, unlike the Joel Schumacher movies which had the color setting turned way too high.
When Christopher Nolan took over the Batman franchise with "Batman Begins", he restored Batman's dark personality. "Batman Begins" was everything a Batman movie should be, and it was even better in some ways than the Tim Burton versions. Christopher Nolan (who also wrote and directed the amazing movie, "Memento") now brings us "The Dark Knight", which promises an amazing performance from Heath Ledger, which I have actually seen 6 minutes of (when the beginning of the movie was leaked onto YouTube).
You can watch the normal YouTube video of the trailer, or you can go to the YouTube page of the video and click on "watch in high quality" to see a better version of the video.
The movie stars Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, and Aaron Eckhart, and it comes out on July 18th.
I just saw this video on the Austin music channel (ME), and I thought it was really cool and trippy. The song reminded me of Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love". I saw that the song was by Of Montreal, who did a cover of M.I.A.'s "Jimmy", and that made it all the cooler.
Here is Of Montreal's "Gronlandic Edit" video on YouTube ...
Here is the video for Goldfrapp's song, "A & E". I wanted to post it because it gets taken down a lot, and I wanted to see if this one gets taken down, too, from YouTube.
Here it is again for posterity ...
There are two videos on the internet that show Alicia, the daughter on the 1/2/08 episode of ABC's reality show, "Wife Swap". Alicia is portrayed as a spoiled princess who doesn't have to do chores or homework. Her mother does her homework for her. She also complains to her mom about breakfast cereal being bad, and she is rude to the wait staff at restaurants.
Here is the YouTube video ...
Here is a video from The Huffington Post website (it will be the first video that comes up) ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/04/this-weeks-must-see-vide_n_79615.html
The video is pretty outrageous and hard to believe, but I think it is true for the most part. However, they left out some important parts of the show. Alicia's mother switches with a very feminist mother who homeschools her children. The feminist mother actually gets along with Alicia in the end, and Alicia learns how to cook and she does her own homework. Therefore, it may be Alicia's parents who have the problem, not Alicia. Also, the feminist mother is not perfect. She kind of shelters her children from the real world by keeping them at home all the time. She does give in a little at the end, though, and lets her young daughter dress up like a beauty queen. The top two videos are still pretty funny, no matter how much they leave out. You can download the entire episode if you want. Just search for "wife swap torrent", and make sure you have a program on your computer like bittorrent. When the search results come up, look for the "season 4, episode 1 wife swap" or some kind of result like that. You can find a torrent of just about anything if you search enough.
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.
I am usually very apolitical, but I really liked Obama's win in Iowa tonight (well, I guess it is early Friday morning as I type this, but you know what I mean). I thought his speech was really good. I watched it on CNN and actually got chills watching it. I hope he does well in the other states, too.
Toomorrow is a musical that came out in 1970, starring Olivia Newton-John as a member of a band whose music attracts the attention of aliens or something like that. I got the DVD a while back from Ebay (it came with Japanese subtitles that you can't remove), and I decided I would upload it to YouTube since I am a big nerd and a fan of Olivia's. I divided up the movie into 11 parts. Most people have never heard of this movie so it will be neat to have the entire thing available on YouTube for very bored people out there to watch. I haven't even watched the movie all the way through, but I think the best part of the movie would be when they play the song, "Happiness Valley" (video #6).
Here it the Toomorrow YouTube playlist (11 videos) ...
I will update this later. I have to get ready to go out for New Year's Eve now.
Update ... Here are all the Toomorrow videos that I uploaded to VOX for posterity ...
If you just want to watch a short video of "Happiness Valley" from the movie, you can see it here ...
I found some songs from "Toomorrow". Here they are ...
Happiness Valley
Taking Our Own Sweet Time
You're My Baby Now
I Could Never Live Without Your Love
Toomorrow (Instrumental)
In 1976 Glen Campbell and Olivia Newton-John had a TV special called "Down Home, Down Under" (according to Wikipedia). I would actually pay money for a high-quality DVD of this show, but I don't think it's available (I will look on Amazon later). Olivia sang one of my favorite songs of hers, "Greensleeves", during one segment of the show. Greensleeves is an extremely old song, of course, and it has been done by tons of artists, but Olivia's is my favorite version. The scenery in the video is pretty nice, too.
Here is the YouTube video of it ...
The funny thing about that YouTube video is that it was just uploaded yesterday by an Olivia Newton-John fan. The video was available over a year or two ago on YouTube, but it was taken down for some reason (as if people can purchase it somewhere else ... which they can't as far as I know). I have a feeling it will be taken down again so I will post it again below for posterity ...
Update ... There is another good video of Olivia Newton-john on YouTube that was uploaded by the same person who uploaded the "Greensleeves" video. The video is Olivia singing the song, "Amoureuse", at a 1974 Nana Mouskouri concert. The video, along with Olivia's look and expressions, has that quintessential 70s look that reminds me of movies like "Carrie". The song is good, too.
Here is the video again just in case it gets deleted from YouTube (which happens a lot!) ...
I know there is a German version of "Xanadu". It's by a German singer named Irene Sheer. I used to have it on my computer, but I don't anymore. I really need to archive this kind of stuff somehow so I don't lose it.
Here is M.I.A.'s video for Paper Planes ...
Edit ... OK, I had another version of the video above before that did not sound like the album version of the song, Paper Planes. However, I found the official version of the video on YouTube, and that is what you see above now. It's good.
Here is just the song, Paper Planes ...
In other news Tori Amos got royally pissed off at two "fans" that were sitting in the front row at her concert. The two annoying people were leaving their seats to wander off and come back as they please, talking on their cell phones, taking pictures of themselves, etc. I don't know if all of that is correct, but they were doing something to annoy Tori and the people around them. When Tori kicked them out, everyone around them started applauding. It's a great scene, and it happens around 2:28 in this video ...
This post was severely edited by me. Ha! ;)
