The "Let's Enjoy YouTube While We Can" Thread

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As featured in today's SFGate, enjoy Gov. Arnuld Schwarzenegger in "Conan the Barbarian - THE MUSICAL" (sounds like one of Billy Crystal's Academy Awards musical sendups):
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=66977

[urth]

A friend posted this on FB and I had to share it here. A really fascinating look at how this song was created in the studio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2WksiotTjw

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Update: a friend said she saw the same group on BART recently performing the Beatles "With A Little Help From My Friends."  Again, wonder if they truly need the $$ or just doing it for the summer?

Musicians on BART playing the Beatles "Norwegian Wood" 7/15/10.  I wonder if they're just performing/practicing or if its a family that really needs the money? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikPAAxay6E

[Tinka Cat]

Update: a friend said she saw the same group on BART recently performing the Beatles "With A Little Help From My Friends."  Again, wonder if they truly need the $$ or just doing it for the summer?

Musicians on BART playing the Beatles "Norwegian Wood" 7/15/10.  I wonder if they're just performing/practicing or if its a family that really needs the money? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikPAAxay6E

looks cultish ... and sounds pretty bad, frankly. 

ok, seriously, the kids are cute, it's really awesome that they seem to be related and are a family, but it didn't sound that great to me.  It could be the BART track whining in the back ground (and, really, how effing loud does it get in the Transbay Tube?  Any time I take BART I cover my ears in that tunnel), and face it, playing there doesn't allow for mych musical nuance. 


 

[Wayback]

Update: a friend said she saw the same group on BART recently performing the Beatles "With A Little Help From My Friends."  Again, wonder if they truly need the $$ or just doing it for the summer?
Musicians on BART playing the Beatles "Norwegian Wood" 7/15/10.  I wonder if they're just performing/practicing or if its a family that really needs the money? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikPAAxay6E

looks cultish ... and sounds pretty bad, frankly.  ok, seriously, the kids are cute, it's really awesome that they seem to be related and are a family, but it didn't sound that great to me.  It could be the BART track whining in the back ground (and, really, how effing loud does it get in the Transbay Tube?  Any time I take BART I cover my ears in that tunnel), and face it, playing there doesn't allow for much musical nuance.  

This is a family literally singing for its supper.  Hope they get into a more stable situation.

[Tinka Cat]

Update: a friend said she saw the same group on BART recently performing the Beatles "With A Little Help From My Friends."  Again, wonder if they truly need the $$ or just doing it for the summer?
Musicians on BART playing the Beatles "Norwegian Wood" 7/15/10.  I wonder if they're just performing/practicing or if its a family that really needs the money? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikPAAxay6E

looks cultish ... and sounds pretty bad, frankly.  ok, seriously, the kids are cute, it's really awesome that they seem to be related and are a family, but it didn't sound that great to me.  It could be the BART track whining in the back ground (and, really, how effing loud does it get in the Transbay Tube?  Any time I take BART I cover my ears in that tunnel), and face it, playing there doesn't allow for much musical nuance.  

This is a family literally singing for its supper.  Hope they get into a more stable situation.

your previous posts implied some question about that.  if they really need the money, in any case (my edit)  then more power to them, b/c at least they are expending some effort to entertain.

another edit:  I don't want you to think I'm unfeeling about folks who are on hard times.   My first post about them sounding bad musically did come off like that.  There's a bigger picture here that I ignored in my first post, to my detriment.  (anyway, the bongos are what make it sound "cult-y" for me!)

[RGMike]

an oddity from Radio de Sebb: an artist called Ben l'Oncle Soul doing a Gnarls Barkley-ish cover of the White Stripes' "7 Nation Army" -- he also does a cover of Barkley's "Crazy", coincidentally enuf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4XKNNl31Gc

[RGMike]

Ron Livingston, I  (heart) you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu0qtEwb9gE&feature=player_embedded

[sundaygal]

Looky who dropped by Alejandro Escovedo's recent show at The Stone Pony (ok...wild guess!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBPDqtZBFeg

[RGMike]

OMGWTFLOL-of-the-Week: ignore the cheezy animation and concentrate on the lyrics -- this was recorded in 1966!. And actually charted as a single before folks figured out what it was actually about. The Rainy Daze, "Acapulco Gold":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=832gxTtFIB8

[ggould]

OMGWTFLOL-of-the-Week: ignore the cheezy animation and concentrate on the lyrics -- this was recorded in 1966!. And actually charted as a single before folks figured out what it was actually about. The Rainy Daze, "Acapulco Gold":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=832gxTtFIB8

it was on the radio out here.

[RGMike]

OMGWTFLOL-of-the-Week: ignore the cheezy animation and concentrate on the lyrics -- this was recorded in 1966!. And actually charted as a single before folks figured out what it was actually about. The Rainy Daze, "Acapulco Gold":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=832gxTtFIB8

it was on the radio out here.

Wow -- love the line about the "streets are paved with bricks (har har) of Acapulco Gold".

[Gazoo]

OMGWTFLOL-of-the-Week: ignore the cheezy animation and concentrate on the lyrics -- this was recorded in 1966!. And actually charted as a single before folks figured out what it was actually about. The Rainy Daze, "Acapulco Gold":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=832gxTtFIB8

it was on the radio out here.

Wow -- love the line about the "streets are paved with bricks (har har) of Acapulco Gold".

Very cute.  And the writer went on to pen the lyrics to "Incense and Peppermints."

[RGMike]

another OMGWTF: Ace Spectrum, mid-'70s NYC soul outfit best-known for their swell mid-charting early-disco "Don't Send Nobody Else", doing a soul cover of Wacky Sedaky's "Laughter in the Rain"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJzHZ1WXVug

even WTF-ier: it's from an LP called Low-Rent Rendezvous -- yes, they do a soul cover of the Amazing Rhythm Aces "Third-Rate Romance" (sadly, not on the Tubes of You).

[RGMike]

a couple years old, apparently, but NTM: Miss Shirley Bassey covering Pink.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqNcyFNMfLM