Friday Music Night: Now for something completely different

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My son thought it strange to find Daft Punk on my iPod. I guess I’m just too old. Snicker. And let’s just say this is for my son, who turns 25 today.

Don’t forget, there are videos below the fold. As to the rest of Music Night, I think y’all have the idea by now.

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90 thoughts on “Friday Music Night: Now for something completely different”

  7. Christmas coming up fast now, time for a few Christmas songs. Atheist that I am, I still find the story and the promise of someone or something that can make all the pain and suffering and hate go away. I still think we need the magic of that promise, if only to make us look at each other with love, just once. And so at this time for family and goodwill I’ve got a handful of songs inspired by the story.

    This one goes out to all those who won’t be able to be with their families for whatever reason, most especially those who are in uniform. Jonah Lewie and “Stop the Cavalry”. Its such an earworm! “Wish I was at home for Christmas” recalls the Christmas Truce of 1914, when the soldiers in the trenches in France and Belgium, defied their officers and met each other in No-Mans Land on Christmas Day to share greetings, gifts and play football. Friends for a day amidst the horrors of World War One.

    The generals gave orders for shooting to start the following day, and each Christmas afterwards, they made sure it wasn’t repeated. After all, if each side discovered how like the other they really were, peace might break out – couldn’t have that could we?

  9. Observation shows someone is, possibly, suffering from a persecution complex.

    This goes out to a certain poster on TP.
    Although never directed to nor in response to anything he posted – the poster decided it was meant for him – and so here you go mr. personality complex wearer just for you!

  10. Here’s Chris ‘Lady in Red’ de Burgh with a beauty – his interpretation of the Nativity story.

    • I’m loving the music, y’all.

      Even though I could never make myself believe in the Invisible Sky Fairy or his kid, I absolutely loved singing in the choir. Not only did it get me out of actual church and Sunday school, it was loads of fun. I still love Xmas carols.

  16. Ah, what the heck, party on Zoosters! Look at the 70s hair! (Welcome lass)

    Even c***rockers get their Christmas on!

  18. For me this is *the* Christmas song by Alan Hull. He wrote this one over 40 years ago now. The last verse is the one that hits:

    “When the turkey’s in the oven and the Christmas presents are bought,
    And Santa’s in his module, he’s an American astronaut,
    Do you spare one thought for Jesus, who had nothing but his thoughts?
    Who got busted, just for talking, and befriending the wrong sorts,
    When Winter comes howling in”

    (Historical note – Turtle was at this gig)

  23. Four minutes and forty-three seconds from some of the finest forty-three minutes of one of the greatest television series ever broadcast.

    In this season in which we celebrate the birth of redemption and the reality of sacrifice, In Excelsis Deo:

  27. Zooey, a point John Dewey made is that one should not confuse the practice of religions with the experience of the religious. William James wrote a notable and read-worthy book an the Varieties of the latter.

    Most people go to church in order to reinforce the firewall between themselves and genuinely religious experience.

  33. In memory of Blake Edwards (and Henry Mancini, and Sarah Vaughan)… The Peter Gunn theme was turned into a song called Bye Bye sung by Sarah Vaughn. And then a few years ago a mixmaster named Max Sedgley remixed it into this version. Enjoy. One of my favorite versions, actually; but then again the Peter Gunn theme is pretty much always fun to hear.

  35. Good reads for people curious about why religion seems so important in human life, yet who’ve no particular interest in the Flying Spaghetti Monster:

    William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience
    Henri Bergson: Two Sources Of Morality And Religion
    John Dewey: A Common Faith
    George Santayana: Reason in Religion (from the five part series, “The Life of Reason.”)

  36. Deck the Halls – Pomplamoose Style (and at the end, they tell you how to get their Christmas album for free if you make a donation to the Richmond Book Drive. I love these two and their quirky arrangements. (They’re doing Hundyai commercials now.) Anyway…

  39. Okay I was looking for the Buddy Rich version of Sonny Bono’s “The Beat Goes On” and came across this. It’s essentially the same version as the Buddy Rich verison (which I kinda like). But this is from an Italian singer named Mina, and was on Italian TV. It’s like a Laugh-In episode went a bit too far… I don’t know whether to laugh, or cringe at this entire thing. The dancing is… well you just have to see it. lol

  40. Gary, no need to apologize for that. The original is still completely amazing. I was actually going to post it as well (and I’m glad you did), but I got distracted by Pink Panther, Pomplamoose and other a few of my other favorite things. Speaking of which… Pomplamoose’s version of “Favorite Things.”

  42. Hey Raven. I had my best red shouldered ever this year and some other very cool things. I trust you had some quality encounters with cool stuff as well. Gotta run but best wishes to you

  44. Good to hear of you again, dbadass.
    Heading for the Texas Gulf in a week or so to see the whooping cranes.
    Saw a white tailed kite last month.

  49. Nancy Wilson is the main reason I hate Cameron Crowe (fucker married her w/o even asking me … )

    So where were you when you first realized your life looked nothing like what you thought it was supposed to look?

    Almost Famous

  51. A piece of music from one of the silliest pieces of one of most cheerfully silly of episodic TV. Casual searching did not pull up the actual vid. But if you watched the program, you KNOW where this appeared.

  53. My chances at happiness were trampled by stampeding Cape Buffalo after having been gratuitously eviscerated by shards of glass blown out of the windows of a meth dealer’s trailer in Georgia because his attention was distracted by his dog yowlering about getting bit on the nuts by an ant. I just think Nancy is hell on a guitar.

    Since we’re floating odds and ends of Christmas music, thought I’d throw this into the mix.

  57. And let us not forget that this is the season we celebrate the birth of that unabashed revolutionary who promised to set brother against brother and father against child:

  59. Thanks Z. On that note, I will call it a night, and wish you all the best of the season.

    The best, that is, an not merely what is commercially acceptable.

  61. Happy Birthday to Gummitch’s son. Kids are benchmarks in time. 25 years? Where’d they go? I don’t know. Kids. They grow up. I have three: 29, 27, 17. The 29 year old daughter is married and has a two and a half year old son with another son due late January. My 27 year old son and his wife have a daughter, who turns two tomorrow. His first son will be born this Tuesday (December 21) via C Section. The 17 year old is still at home (with no kids that I know of). It’s scary how our babies grow, but as they grow, we must learn to let them go…. but we remember when they were little

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