Our friends at Postmodern Jukebox have done it again. I’m sure that this is the way that Disney really wanted the 90s cartoon theme to sound, originally. I’ve also included the 1930’s jazz style cover of Wham’s “Careless Whisper” because it’s fun and because if you clicked on the link for this, you’re either bored,…
Video: the Talking Heads live in Syracuse 1978 (full concert)
The wonderful folks at Open Culture have tracked down yet another vintage Talking Heads performance. It’s not clear what venue this was captured at but it really doesn’t matter. The fact that videos like this exist at all, from an era 30 years before people carried iPhones, is a minor miracle. Here’s David Byrne &…
Watch the long lost pilot for Kraftwerk Sitcom ‘Ralf and Florian’
TV networks are usually desperate for stories, but apparently never desperate enough for this. This short video, more of a concept video than an actual pilot, was apparently found in a Dusseldorf car boot sale. It was intended to convince someone that Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider (Ralf and Florian) of legendary German techno-pop group…
The Muppet version of Jesus Christ Superstar
I’m not much of a fan of Christianity. Based on the evidence I’ve seen I don’t even believe that there was ever such a person as “Jesus of Nazereth” – divine or otherwise. However, I’ve always liked Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar and Muppets. Apparently Christo Graham of Lennoxville, Québec feels the same way.…
Smooth jazz version of Game of Thrones theme from Postmodern Jukebox
I’m loving Scott Bradless and the Postmodern Jukebox more and more all the time. They take popular modern songs and rework them into older styles – (jazz, blues, doo-wop etc.). It isn’t really a very complicated idea, but they do it really well. Now, in celebration of the shows return, they’ve teamed up with 9 time…
Check out the aboriginal “powwow step” of A Tribe Called Red
This post is, primarily, for readers outside of Canada. For the last two years Ottawa, Ontario’s A Tribe Called Red has been gaining steam by doing the “impossible” – getting young people in clubs to dance to aboriginal folk songs, some of which are thousands of years old. They’ve taken traditional native powwow songs, and…
Live Talking Heads video from 1980 & why the 70s were the best decade for music
This was posted earlier today at Open Culture. It doesn’t really need much of an introduction, it’s the Talking Heads playing at their pinnacle. By 1980 they were well beyond the small club days of CBGBa but not yet the huge international sensation they’d become with the rise of MTV and their concert film “Stop…
Christoper Walken Dancing in the Movies Mashup
Everybody knows that Christoper Walken danced his ass off in the Fatboy Slim video for ‘Weapon of Choice’. At least I’m assuming that everyone knows that, if you didn’t know that get to the bottom of this page immediately and you’ll see what I mean. As Huffington Post Movie Mashups demonstrates though, Walken basically is…
Iggy Pop + New Order cover Joy Division at benefit show
On March 11, Iggy Pop joined (what remains of) New Order on stage at the 24th annual Tibet House U.S. Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC. Iggy didn’t seem to have much of the energy that has always been his trademark but he still joined in on Joy Divisions ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart‘…
Blondie: Four full concerts of the band at their peak (78-82)
Debbie Harry played a huge role in transitioning ‘new wave’ into the mainstream in the late 70s and early 1980s. Her band, Blondie, emerged out of the same scene in New York that produced the Talking Heads, Patti Smith, the Ramones, Devo and others. Unlike many of those bands though they managed to achieve some…