Category: Music

See the animal in his cage that you built,
Are you sure what side you’re on?

These are the “tour visuals” that were projected during live performances. Incredibly haunting.

What a fantastic song. Some will take issue with it being inspired by Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, but to my mind it has, like all great art, a universal message.

Its performance on Real Time with Bill Maher, where I first heard it, is probably the best solo performance I’ve had the pleasure of listening to in a long while*. So good I got his album Evolver, though I don’t like modern soul music. Unfortunately I find the album version overproduced, and so I consider this the definitive version.

* – I guess since Chris Cornell’s live @ O-baren in Stockholm bootleg. It is available on the torrents, so fire up your client, ladies and gentlemen.

A harrowing, brilliant cover of Heartbreak Hotel.

I was never a fan of Mario Bros (never did own a gaming console), but I am a big fan of Django Reinhardt, and this rendition of the Super Mario Bros. 2 theme by Adrian Holovaty in the gypsy jazz style is brilliant. Monstrous technique. Check out his other videos too.

On a side note, he is one of the lead developers of the Django framework.

Elvis can sing anything and make it sound great.

This was recorded during a rehearsal in 1970.

Whatever Lou Reed had in mind when he wrote the song, it definitely wasn’t this interpretation by Asbjørn Tejdell.

Great imagery, and I love the animation style.

Take me up to higher lands
Higher lands, I go

Saigon Kick is probably best known for Love Is On The Way off The Lizard, but the follow-up Water is arguably the superior album. The title track is a highlight, the gospel choir bit never gets old. I am a sucker for gospel choirs in rock songs though.

On the whole, I think it’s a decent list, but come one, there are only 57 singers better than Christina Aguilera, ever?

I also take extreme issue with Mike Patton not being in the list, and Frank Sinatra, and Edith Piaf, and Jon Bon Jovi… oh sorry, that was the 12-year-old in me talking.

Such is a nature of a democratic list.